07-14-20_Action with CommentsANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL
ACTION AGENDA
JULY 14, 2020
SPECIAL NOTICE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
On March 4, 2020, Governor Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency in California as a result of the
threat of COVID-19. On March 17, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-29-20
(superseding the Brown Act-related provisions of Executive Order N-25-20 issued on March 12, 2020),
which allows a local legislative body to hold public meetings via teleconferencing and to make public
meetings accessible telephonically or otherwise electronically to all members of the public seeking to
observe and to address the local legislative body. Pursuant to Executive Order N-29-20, please be
advised that the Anaheim City Council will participate in this meeting telephonically.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: Pursuant to Executive Order N-29-20 and given the current health
concerns, members of the public can access the meeting live on-line, with audio and limited video, at
www.anaheim.net/councilvideos and on Cable Channel 3. In addition, members of the public can
submit comments electronically for City Council consideration by sending them to
publiccomment@anaheim.net. To ensure distribution to the City Council prior to consideration of
the agenda, please submit comments prior to 2:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. Those comments,
as well as any comments received after 2:00 P.M., will be distributed to the City Council and will be
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or cityclerk@anaheim.net with any questions.
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ORDER OF BUSINESS: Public sessions of all regular meetings of the City Council/Successor
Agency to the Redevelopment Agency/Housing Authority/Public Financing Authority/Housing and
Public Improvements Authority begin at 5:00 P.M. Public hearings begin at 5:30 P.M. unless
otherwise noted. Closed sessions begin at 3:00 P.M. or such other time as noted. Closed sessions
may be preceded by one or more public workshops. If a workshop is scheduled, the subject and time
of the workshop will appear on the agenda. Not all of the above agencies may be meeting on any
given date. The agenda will specify which agencies are meeting. All meetings are in the Anaheim
City Hall, Council Chamber, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805 or such other location as
noted. Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2(a)(2), no action or discussion by the City
Council shall be undertaken on any item not appearing on the posted agenda, except to briefly
provide information, ask for clarification, provide direction to staff, or schedule a matter for a future
meeting.
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www.anaheim.net. Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the City Council regarding
any item on this agenda (other than writings legally exempt from public disclosure) are available at
the Office of the City Clerk, located at 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., 2nd Floor, Anaheim, CA 92805 and by
contacting the office by phone, 714-765-5166, or email to cityclerk@anaheim.net.
ADDITIONS/DELETIONS: Items of business may be added to the agenda upon a motion adopted
by a minimum 2/3 vote finding that there is a need to take immediate action and that the need for
action came to the attention of the City or Agency subsequent to the agenda being posted. Items may
be deleted from the agenda upon request of staff or upon action of the Council or Agency.
CONSENT CALENDAR: Consent Calendar items will be acted on by one roll call vote unless a
member(s) requests an item(s) be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Calendar for
separate action.
Harry S. Sidhu, P.E.
Mayor
Stephen Faessel
Mayor Pro Tem
District 5
Denise Barnes
Council Member
District 1
Jordan Brandman
Council Member
District 2
Dr. Jose F. Moreno
Council Member
District 3
Lucille Kring
Council Member
District 4
Trevor O’Neil
Council Member
District 6
200 S. Anaheim Blvd.
Anaheim, CA 92805
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ANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
JULY 14, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Call to order the Anaheim City Council. 4:01 P.M.
ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO CLOSED SESSION:
City Attorney Robert Fabela announced Closed Session Item No. 1 related to a claim from Ms. Lyons
regarding a slip and fall at Harbor Boulevard and Disney Way.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON CLOSED SESSION ITEMS: None
Recess to closed session. 4:04 P.M.
4:00 P.M. - CLOSED SESSION 4:04 P.M.
1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of the
California Government Code Section 54956.9: One potential case
2. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT
(California Government Code 54957(b)(1))
Title: City Manager
Reconvene the Anaheim City Council. 5:17 P.M.
5:00 P.M. 5:17 P.M.
Invocation: Council Member Lucille Kring
Flag Salute: Council Member Jordan Brandman
ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA: None
PUBLIC COMMENTS (all agenda items): City Clerk Theresa Bass reported that a total of 46
public comments were received via email prior to 2:00 P.M. (Total of 49 public comments received
via email). – See Appendix.
(Submit comments electronically for City Council consideration by sending them to
publiccomment@anaheim.net. To ensure distribution to the City Council prior to consideration of
the agenda, please submit comments prior to 2:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. Those comments,
as well as any comments received after 2:00 P.M., will be distributed to the City Council and will be made
part of the official public record of the meeting.)
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CITY MANAGER’S UPDATE:
Interim City Manager Greg Garcia referenced an earlier announcement by the County regarding a new
COVID-19 testing center opening at the Anaheim Convention Center on July 15, 2020. He reported the
site would provide testing for people with symptoms, healthcare workers, first responders, residents and
employees of skilled nursing and other group living facilities, and essential workers including grocery,
food supply, utility, and public employees. He referred to the City’s website for additional information.
He congratulated the Anaheim Public Library for receiving the prestigious 2020 John Cotton Dana
Library Public Relations Award and looked forward to formally recognizing the entire team at a future
meeting.
Council Member Moreno inquired about the timeline for Council discussion regarding the Angels
Baseball development and community benefit agreements. Mr. Garcia responded that the negotiating
team was working on this and would present a recommended package for Council consideration, but a
timeline has not yet determined.
5:00 P.M. - CITY COUNCIL 5:25 P.M.
Items pulled for discussion:
Council Member Moreno: Item Nos. 03, 04, 13, 14, and 15
Council Member Barnes: Item Nos. 06 and 12
MOTION: ___LK/SF___ Waive reading of all ordinances and resolutions and adopt the consent
calendar. APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
CONSENT CALENDAR:
1. Receive and file minutes of the Cultural and Heritage Commission meeting of November 21, 2019
and the Parks and Recreation Commission meetings of December 4, 2019, January 22, 2020,
February 26, 2020, and June 16, 2020.
2. Accept the bid from S. C. Yamamoto, Inc., in the amount of $48,925 plus applicable tax and a
20% contingency, to perform trash, litter, and debris removal services for the Anaheim Resort
Maintenance District’s Caltrans areas for a one year period with four one-year optional renewals;
and authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute the renewal options in accordance with Bid
#9445.
3. Accept the bids from Dana Safety Supply, West Coast Lights & Sirens, Inc., Lehr Auto Electric,
and Adamson Police Products, in a combined not to exceed amount of $177,185 plus applicable
tax and a 15% contingency, for public safety vehicle equipment for a one year period with four
one-year optional renewals; and authorize the Purchasing Agent to exercise the renewal options
in accordance with Bid #9435.
Item No. 03 Discussion. MOTION: LK/SF APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
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4. Waive Council Policy 4.0 and authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a master agreement to
FLIR Surveillance Inc., in the amount of $59,276.25, for service maintenance to the FLIR Star
Safire 380 HD camera system used by the Police Department for a one year period with four one-
year optional renewals; and authorize the Purchasing Agent to exercise the renewal options
subject to budget appropriations.
Item No. 04 Discussion. MOTION: TO/DB APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
5. Award the construction contract to the lowest responsible bidder, Hot Line Construction, Inc., in
the amount of $2,925,748 plus a 10% contingency, for the construction of the Underground
District No. 68 Eucalyptus and Direct Buried Cable Replacement Project; authorize the Director of
Public Works to execute the contract and any other related documents, and take the necessary
actions to implement and administer the contract; determine that the project is categorically
exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Sections 15302(c), 15302(d),
15303(d), and 15303(e) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations; and authorize the
Finance Director to execute the Escrow Agreement pertaining to contract retentions.
6. Approve the Cooperative Agreement with the City of Buena Park, in the cost share amount of
$250,000, for the funding, design, construction, and maintenance of the Western Avenue
Pedestrian Traffic Signal Project and amend the current Public Works budget to allocate
restricted transportation funds for this project.
Item No. 06 Discussion. MOTION: DB/TO APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
7. Approve an engineering services agreement with Nichols Consulting Engineers, CHTD, in the
total amount not to exceed $142,230, for a Trench Cut Fee Study, and authorize the Director of
Public Works to execute the agreement and other related documents, and take the necessary
actions to implement and administer the agreement.
8. Approve a license agreement with BNSF Railway Company, in the one-time license fee amount
of $7,400, for a fiber optic communication line crossing at Orangethorpe Avenue and Kellogg
Drive; and authorize the Public Utilities General Manager, or designee, to execute the agreement
and related documents and take the necessary actions to implement and administer the
agreement.
9. Approve the Environmental Waste Management Services Agreement with Ocean Blue
Environmental Services, Inc., in a total amount not to exceed $350,000 with a 15% contingency
for extra services, for as-needed environmental waste management services for an initial three
year term with two one-year optional extensions; authorize the Public Utilities General Manager,
or designee, to execute the agreement and related documents, and take any necessary or
advisable actions to implement and administer the agreement; and authorize de minimis changes
that do not substantially change the terms and conditions of the agreement, as determined by the
City Attorney.
10. Approve an agreement with C.R.&A. Custom Apparel Inc., dba C.R.A. Custom, Inc., in the
average annual sum of $341,287 with a 15% contingency for extra services, for Public Utilities
graffiti abatement services for an initial three-year term with two one-year optional extensions;
authorize the Public Utilities General Manager, or designee, to execute the agreement and
related documents, and take the necessary actions to implement and administer the agreement;
and determine that the planned graffiti abatement services are categorically exempt from the
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California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Section 15301(b) of Title 14 of the California
Code of Regulations.
11. Approve an agreement with the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), in an amount paid by
OCFA to Anaheim equal to 65% of the secured Structural Fire Fund revenue generated in the
service area, allowing the Anaheim Fire & Rescue Department to provide fire and medical service
support to a small unincorporated area in southwest Anaheim for the period retroactive to July 1,
2020 to June 30, 2025.
12. Approve the First Amendment to the Agreement with JMH-Anaheim Foundation Inc. dba Love
Anaheim, increasing the agreement amount by $120,000 for a total not to exceed amount of
$360,000, to expand the project Better Way Anaheim to coordinate resources, bridge
organizations, provide homeless participants with service projects, and a skills development
program for the term ending June 21, 2021; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to
execute and administer the First Amendment.
Item No. 12 Discussion. MOTION: DB/SF APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
13. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-077 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM authorizing the destruction of certain City records more than two years old (City
Administration, City Clerk, Community & Economic Development, Community Services,
Convention, Sports & Entertainment, Finance, Fire & Rescue, Human Resources, Planning &
Building, Police and Public Works).
Item No. 13 Discussion. MOTION: LK/TO to approve as presented.
SUBSIDIARY MOTION: JM/DB to amend the motion to remove Exhibit J of the resolution
from consideration. ROLL CALL VOTE: 2-4-1 (AYES: Council Members Barnes and
Moreno; NOES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Faessel, Kring, and O’Neil; ABSTAIN:
Council Member Brandman). Motion failed.
MOTION: LK/TO ROLL CALL VOTE: 6-1 (AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members
Faessel, Barnes, Brandman, Kring, and O’Neil; NOES: Council Member Moreno). Motion
carried.
14. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-078 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM authorizing the Director of Community Services or designee to submit an
application to the California Natural Resources Agency for grant funds for the California Climate
Investments Urban Greening Program for the North La Palma Green Promenade and Paseo
Project and if awarded, authorizing the acceptance of such grant on behalf of the City and
amending the budget accordingly (grant funds, in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000; for
improvements to North La Palma Parkway and La Palma Park).
Item No. 14 Discussion. MOTION: JM/SF APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
15. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-079 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM ratifying the submission of a grant application and the acceptance of a grant on
behalf of the City of Anaheim for the Fiscal Year 2020 Alcohol Policing Partnership Grant,
authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to execute all required grant documents, and
amending the budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21 accordingly (grant funds in the amount of $73,900).
Item No. 15 Discussion. MOTION: JM/DB APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
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16. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-080 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM approving the donation and title transfer of city equipment to The Salvation Army
(2006 Taylor Dunn utility cart, model B2-48).
17. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-081 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM vacating a Public Utility Easement located at 2691 West La Palma Avenue
pursuant to California Streets and Highways Code Section 8330, et seq. - Summary Vacation.
(ABA2020-00401).
18. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-082 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM accepting certain deeds conveying to the City of Anaheim certain interests in real
property (City Deed Nos. 12384, 12385, 12386, 12387, 12388, 12389, 12390, 12391, 12392,
12393, 12394, 12395, 12396, and 12397; 420 South Beach Boulevard, 3650 East Miraloma
Avenue, 370 South Peralta Hills Drive, 355 South Avenida Margarita, 5131 Crescent Drive, 4950
East Crescent Drive, 4521 Cerro Vista Drive, 5120 Crescent Drive, 1701 East Katella Avenue,
9381 West Houston Avenue, 1030 West Katella Avenue, 707 South East Street, and 2691 West
La Palma Avenue; in connection with the provision of utility services).
19. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-083 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM accepting certain deeds conveying to the City of Anaheim certain real properties or
interests therein (City Deed Nos. 12403 and 12404; 445 N. Mariposa Place; in conjunction with
the construction of an Auxiliary Parking Lot in accordance with grading plan number GRA2016-
03175).
20. ORDINANCE NO. 6489 (ADOPTION) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
amending Chapter 18.52 (Density Bonuses) of Title 18 (Zoning) of the Anaheim Municipal Code
and finding and determining that this ordinance is exempt from the requirements to prepare
additional environmental documentation per California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Guidelines, Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3) because it will not result in a direct or
reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment and it is not a project, as
defined in Section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines (Zoning Code Amendment No. 2019-00168)
(DEV2019-00174; to reflect recent changes to the State Density Bonus Law and to facilitate the
development of affordable housing; introduced at Council meeting of June 23, 2020, Item No. 24).
Item No. 20 During discussion of Item No. 15, Council Member Kring clarified she wished
to register a “no” vote on Item No. 20 for consistency with her vote on the introduction of
the ordinance on June 23, 2020. ROLL CALL VOTE: 6-1 (AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council
Members Faessel, Barnes, Brandman, Moreno, and O’Neil; NOES: Council Member Kring).
Motion carried.
21. Approve minutes of City Council meetings of September 24, 2019 and October 22, 2019.
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END OF CONSENT CALENDAR 6:37 P.M.
22. ORDINANCE NO. 6490 (INTRODUCTION) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
adding Chapter 4.110 to Title 4 of the Anaheim Municipal Code (Syringe Exchange Programs)
prohibiting syringe exchange programs from operating in the City of Anaheim and finding and
determining that this ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
because it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment because there is no possibility it will have a significant effect on the environment and
it is not a project pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2), 15060(c)(3) and 15378.
or alternatively:
ORDINANCE NO. (INTRODUCTION) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM adding Chapter 4.110 to Title 4 of the Anaheim Municipal Code (Syringe Exchange
Programs) to regulate syringe exchange programs within the City of Anaheim and finding and
determining that this ordinance is exempt from the requirements to prepare additional
environmental documentation pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Guidelines Sections 15301 (Class 1; Existing Facilities), 15303 (Class 3; New Construction or
Conversion of Small Structures) and 15311 (Class 11; Accessory Structures).
Item No. 22 Discussion. MOTION: HS/TO to introduce the first ordinance prohibiting
syringe exchange programs from operating in the City of Anaheim. ROLL CALL VOTE: 5-2
(AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Faessel, Barnes, Kring, and O’Neil; NOES:
Council Members Brandman and Moreno). Motion carried; ordinance introduced.
23. Update on the City’s response to COVID-19.
Item No. 23. Discussion. No action taken.
5:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 8:27 P.M.
24. This is a public hearing to consider participation in the Statewide Community Infrastructure
Improvement Program of the California Statewide Communities Development Authority.
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-084 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM authorizing the City to join the Statewide Community Infrastructure Program;
authorizing the California Statewide Communities Development Authority to accept applications
from property owners, conduct special assessment proceedings and levy assessments within the
territory of the City of Anaheim; approving form of acquisition agreement for use when applicable;
and authorizing related actions as provided for in the resolution.
Item No. 24 Mayor Sidhu opened the public hearing. 1 public comment received via
email. Mayor Sidhu closed the public hearing.
Discussion.
MOTION: LK/TO APPROVE VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
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25. GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 2020-00530
MISCELLEANOUS CASE NO. 2020-00729
(DEV2020-00043)
PROJECT LOCATION: Citywide
REQUEST: This is a City-initiated request to amend the Circulation Element, Green Element,
and Appendix B “Bicycle Master Plan” of the General Plan to reflect modifications to the planned
Nohl Ranch Multi-Use Trail Project, also known as the Nohl Ranch Open Space Trail Project, and
to reflect implemented bicycle infrastructure since the May 23, 2017 adoption of the Bicycle
Master Plan. Modifications to the Nohl Ranch Open Space Trail Project include a minor re-
alignment of the Class 1 bicycle infrastructure segment number 21 (Bike ID No. 21) and an
addition of a Class 1 spur route along Imperial Highway.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The City Council will consider if an Addendum to the
previously-certified Program Environmental Impact Report No. 330 (PEIR 330) and Supplemental
Environmental Impact Report No. 346 (SEIR 346), together with the Mitigation Monitoring
Program No. 360, is the appropriate environmental document for this project and that none of the
conditions set forth in sections 15162 or 15163 of the State CEQA Guidelines calling for the
preparation of a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report or a Supplement to PEIR 330 or SEIR
346 have occurred.
ACTION TAKEN BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION: Approved and recommended City
Council approval of General Plan Amendment No. 2020-00530 and Miscellaneous Case No.
2020-00729 (DEV2020-00043). VOTE: 7-0 (Chairperson Lieberman and Commissioners
Armstrong, Keys, Meeks, Mulleady, Vadodoria, and White voted yes) (Planning Commission
meeting of April 13, 2020).
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-085 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM amending the General Plan of the City of Anaheim to update the Bicycle Master
Plan and making certain findings in connection therewith; General Plan Amendment No. 2020-
00530; Miscellaneous Case No. 2020-00729 (DEV2020-00043) 2017 Bicycle Master Plan Update
(modify the planned Nohl Ranch Multi-Use Trail Project; reflect changes to the City’s bicycle
facilities since adoption of the Bicycle Master Plan).
Item No. 25 Mayor Sidhu opened the public hearing. 1 public comment received via
email. Mayor Sidhu closed the public hearing.
Discussion.
MOTION: TO/LK APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried.
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26. This is a public hearing pursuant to Anaheim Municipal Code Section 4.73.100.030 to consider
the termination of an existing nonexclusive taxi franchise for Yellow Cab Company of Northern
Orange County, Inc. dba Yellow Cab of Greater Orange County due to the company’s ceasing
operations and inability to comply with the terms of the franchise (180 taxi-cab permits).
ORDINANCE NO. 6491 (INTRODUCTION) AN UNCODIFIED ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM terminating the non-exclusive franchise of Yellow Cab Company of Northern
Orange County, Inc., dba Yellow Cab of Greater Orange County, for the purpose of operating
taxicab service in the City of Anaheim.
Item No. 26 Mayor Sidhu opened the public hearing. 1 public comment received via
email. Mayor Sidhu closed the public hearing.
Discussion.
MOTION: LK/DB APPROVED VOTE: 7-0. Motion carried; ordinance introduced.
Land Use - Zoning
Report on Closed Session Actions: None
Public Comments (non-agenda items): None
Council Communications/Agenda Requests:
Mayor Pro Tem Faessel requested the meeting adjourn in memory of 20-year District 5 resident Isabel
Rojas. He requested a future recognition of Yellow’ Cab’s 75-year Anaheim history, concurred by
Council Members Kring and O’Neil. He congratulated the Library for receiving the John Cotton Dana
award and commended staff for providing library services during these difficult conditions. He reported
his attendance at the opening of the Buena Park homeless shelter, various food and milk donation
events in impacted neighborhoods, a 95th birthday celebration for Herb Bound, and donation events at
the Miraloma Family Resource Center. He thanked Joe Baldo for his work increasing the Higher Ground
campus at Lincoln Park, for all the great work of the volunteer staff, and looked forward to a hopeful re-
opening date of August 13.
Council Member Barnes thanked all those who have been serving others across the City, referred
residents to her newsletter available via www.anaheim.net, welcomed Southwestern National Bank to
west Anaheim, and acknowledged the recent passing of Community Services Board Member Tierra
Wilson. With the hot weather, she noted Anaheim Public Utilities was offering attic fans and related
discounts. She congratulated City Librarian Audrey Lujan on the award and thanked her for all the work
in the community. She hoped everyone had a nice Fourth of July and looked forward to the opening of a
dog park at the end of summer.
Council Member O’Neil echoed comments regarding Larry Slagle and his company’s commitment to the
community and wished him well in retirement.
Council Member Moreno extended thanks to the many people working across neighborhoods to help
others. He congratulated Audrey Lujan and the Library team for their award and for providing quality
library services to the community with limited resources. He thanked the County for working to address
the effects of the pandemic in Anaheim and Santa Ana. He requested an agenda item for July 28 to
discuss and place on the November ballot a $1 gate fee at large entertainment venues in the Resort,
Stadium, and Arena to address deficits and balance the budget with a sunset when infrastructure bonds
were paid off, concurred by Council Member Barnes (request failed for lack of second concurrence). He
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asked the public to contact him with any ideas of ways to help and looked forward to working with the
community.
Council Member Kring announced mosquito control measures at the Anaheim Cemetery running
Tuesday through Thursday by the OC Vector and Mosquito Control, with more information available at
www.ocvector.org. She encouraged residents to tip and toss standing water, fix screens, wear long
sleeves and pants, and use spray with DEET or Natrapel to combat West Nile Virus. She thanked all
those fostering shelter pets at this difficult time. She congratulated Audrey Lujan and Library staff on the
award. She announced the Westin Anaheim Resort and Wincome Hospitality were hiring for 400
positions via job fairs with a potential opening in October, more information available at
www.westinanaheimjobs.com. She asked her colleagues to review the consent calendar upon receipt of
the agenda on Thursday and ask staff questions prior to the Council meeting.
Council Member Brandman addressed Governor Newsome’s rollback of re-opening and asked everyone
to do their part and take the restrictions seriously to allow the medical and scientific communities to
develop a vaccine and effective therapies. He shared a family member had survived COVID and District
2 and its large senior citizen community were anxious. He asked people to stay home, and if they have
to leave, to wear a mask. He acknowledged the partnership with Orange County to start mass testing on
July 15, with more information available at www.anaheim.net/coronavirus. He recognized the City staff
team for outstanding work and providing needed services to residents. He announced it was still a
Census year and encouraged everyone to complete the census form to help determine the federal
funding Anaheim would receive, with more information available at www.anaheim.net/census.
Mayor Sidhu echoed his colleagues’ comments, thanked staff for their continued hard work, announced
the testing site in conjunction with Orange County, and encouraged everyone to take health and safety
precautions for themselves and others.
Adjournment: 9:23 P.M. in memory of Isabel Rojas
Next regular City Council meeting is scheduled for July 28, 2020.
All agenda items and reports are available for review in the City Clerk’s Office and www.anaheim.net.
Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the City Council regarding any item on this agenda
(other than writings legally exempt from public disclosure) will be available at the Office of the City Clerk,
located at 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., 2nd Floor, Anaheim, CA 92805 and by contacting the office by phone,
714-765-5166, or email to cityclerk@anaheim.net.
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Public Comments Distributed to the Anaheim City Council
July 14, 2020 Council Meeting
Updated 4:00 P.M. – Wednesday, July 15, 2020
From:Rayan Soueidan
Subject:[*** INSERT UNIQUE SUBJECT LINE ***]
Date:Saturday, July 4, 2020 2:17:27 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Rayan Soueidan and I am a resident of AUHSD. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the
greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected
Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Sent from my iPhone
From:Anthonak K
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Date:Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:43:17 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Anthony Kyriakakis, and I am a resident of Glassell Park, District 1. I am writing
in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than
clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at
the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown
residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest
military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the
world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law
enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim
Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were
unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of
LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars
of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any
future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve
"Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that
money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a
concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our
community.
Thank you,
Anthony Kyriakakis
Los Angeles, CA
From:
To:Public Comment
Subject:Anaheim Public Comment for July 14, 2020 Council Meeting
Date:Thursday, July 9, 2020 11:55:04 PM
Attachments:July 14, 2020 comments.pdf
Attached Public Comment for the July 14, 2020 Council Meeting.
Anaheim Council Pubtic Comments, July l4,2020,Agenda ltems # I & #23.
VIA EMAIL TO: publiccomment@anaheim.net
FROM: Home Owners Maintaining our Environment
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The Anaheim Police Department should investigate City of Anaheim
political council candidates (such as the present City Mayor or a Parks and
Recreation Commission member) concern violations of Federal Crimes. The
APD should certify such alleged criminals over to the respective Federal
Authorities. Impersonating a United States Military Officer is not a crime by
itself, but to do so for Financial Gain, such as being elected to the Anaheim Cify
Council, is a Federal Crime.
At the Anaheim Hills Fourth of July Parade prior to the Last Anaheim
Council Election, Anaheim present Mayor Sidhu illegally wore (for financial
gain) the uniform of an UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICER and rode in an
open military vehicle at the parade. The sponsors of the parade, the Disneyland
Chamber of Commerce (AKA Anaheim), falsely made known that Sidhu was a
helicopter pilot in the First Gulf War. It is estimated that hundreds of Anaheim
Hills voters who falsely believed that Sidhu, who never served in the US mititary,
had been a Military Officer, mistakenly voted for Sidhu as mayor.
At the recent Fourth of July Celebration earlier this month, because of the
COVID-l9 situation, there were no parades in Anaheim. However, one
candidate for the November Anaheim City Council eleciion, District One, placed
six thousands flass on West Anaheim residents front lawns with notices to vote
for him as the Anaheim City Council, District One Council Member. If this
individual, a present member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, is
attempting the same disgraceful crime as the present Anaheim Mayor did to get
electedo (by impersonating an US MILITARY OFFICER for financial gain), the
Anaheim Police should investigate the matter immediately as a criminal act.
From:Nicole Giambastiani
Subject:A Step in the Right Direction
Date:Friday, July 3, 2020 8:51:15 AM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Nicole Giambastiani, and I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim
community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must
take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents
and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Nicole Giambastiani
From:kur uop
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:An urgent message to Anaheim.
Date:Friday, July 3, 2020 5:17:23 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It
has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim
has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to
an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have
the largest military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized
police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget
allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community
development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016,
Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and
nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths
caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is
74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend
$700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police
brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I
also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to
improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that
benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members.
We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to
further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
A concerned citizen who’s tired of seeing harmful violence being taken priority
over our community.
From:jena angra
Subject:Anti-Black Police Department
Date:Tuesday, June 30, 2020 6:28:39 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Jena Angra, and I am a resident of Anaheim. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater
Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community
health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and
Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Jena Angra
Anaheim, CA 92801
From:Jamie Reeves
To:Jamie.
Subject:Caring for Anaheim"s Black Residents through Budget Reallocation
Date:Thursday, June 25, 2020 10:45:18 PM
Hello,
I am writing today to advocate for my neighbors and my community in saying: we must fund our community
services at a greater rate to benefit and advance our oppressed communities. To find these funds for our opressed
and specifically Black communities, we must defund the police.
This money must be taken away from the police because policing as an institution is inherently violent towards
Black people and other marginalized groups. I do believe we must develop a model of safety that do not involve
police, because police do not promote public safety.
Please let me know what you are using your power to do specifically, to make sure our marginalized communities
are advanced and cared for. Please let me know specifically, how you are reallocating funds within the city budget
to benefit our Black residents.
Sincerely,
Jamie Reeves
From:sam crane
To:Public Comment
Subject:Confronting Systemic Racism
Date:Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:35:25 PM
Hello,
This is a message to say I have not given up. I have called for tangible changes to end
systemic racism. I am not along yet many of our calls are either ignored or not met with
action. So, I will say it again, please do your part to defund the police. THe, REALLOCATE
those funds to organizations that uplift voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color as
well as the LGBTQ+ community. This includes but is not limited to health care, education,
afterschool programs, food stability aid, small business aid, affordable housing, mental health
services, creative opportunities, and additional aid. We need to reform the emergency
response system to include not only police but also professionals trained in de-escalation,
domestic abuse intervention, community relations, mental health, and substance abuse
intervention. Finally, we need to implement routine checks to root out systemic racism and
inequality towards LGBTQ+ people wherever it can be found.
Thank you,
Sam Crane
Voter in 92651
From:Jeannie Yang
Subject:DEFUND THE POLICE - ADOPT PEOPLE’S BUDGET
Date:Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:05:49 AM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Jeannie and i am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has
become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the
local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must
come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Jeannie
Sent from my iPhone
From:The One
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Defund the police now!
Date:Saturday, June 27, 2020 4:26:27 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Melissa and I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim
community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has
disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest
military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the
world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law
enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim
Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were
unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of
LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars
of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any
future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve
"Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that
money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a
concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our
community.
Thank you,
Melissa Kane
From:Salem Younes
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:DEFUND THE POLICE
Date:Thursday, June 25, 2020 8:14:13 AM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Salem Younes, and I am a resident of Anaheim. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the
greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected
Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Salem Younes
From:Maddy Sando
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Divest in Police, Invest in Community
Date:Saturday, June 27, 2020 12:27:43 PM
Anaheim City Council,
My name is Madelyn Sando, and I am a lifetime resident of Orange County. I am writing in
deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear
that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the
local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown
residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest
military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the
world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law
enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim
Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were
unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of
LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars
of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any
future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve
"Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that
money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a
concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our
community.
Thank you,
Madelyn Sando
From:Edgar Arellano
To:Police Review Board; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Public Comment; Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno; Jordan Brandman;
Trevor O"Neil; Lucille Kring; Stephen Faessel
Subject:Does PD uphold public safety? Define public safety
Date:Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:54:49 PM
Again, your officer's inefficiencies continue to reflect Anaheim PD at large with their reckless
violation of speed limit laws, it is still highly evident with the fact that there is an option
available to report speeding police, but also since I am still using not even a full quarter since
your officer's last were caught violating speed limit laws.
This time I caught on tape the constant driving well past the 85% enforcement speed limit on
Broadway going southbound, unit "05" on the roof, "8-805" on the bumper,
Several times I set my cruise control to a few mph over the posted speed limit, only to witness
squad car "05" travel well past the speed limit & again encouraging speeding down a very low
speed corridor. It's set for 35 mph because it's squadalso a school zone, yet car "05" led the
traffic to travel at upwards of 45mph. Do better! You are supposed to set the standards to
better provide public safety.
Your chief states that he likes to think of PD as Mind, Body, Heart.
Mind - Your collective PD Mind seems to be rittled with inadequacies.
Body - your collective PD Body is immensely inefficient as you wear out your equipment
recklessly to tear through our communities.
Heart - your collective Heart is full of fear & deception as your officers overreact to young
people of color with brutality & undue violence, then fill our streets with deception as you try
to covor for your fellow hang members in "blue"
I'm embarrassed to witness your department as it seeks for validation. You don't deserve it. Do
better
From:
To:Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Public Comment; Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno; Jordan Brandman; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:IN DEEP CONCERN
Date:Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:05:09 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Mary Sapigao, and I am a resident of the Santa Clara County. I am writing in deep concern for the
health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of
policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately
affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
From:Alejandra Gudino
Subject:Look at this
Date:Thursday, July 2, 2020 4:32:51 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Alejandra, and I am a resident of Anaheim, CA. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the
greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected
Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
[YOUR NAME]
Alejandra
Sent from my iPhone
From:Gwen Dahncke
To:Public Comment
Subject:No on Resolution 5,19 & 30
Date:Thursday, July 2, 2020 12:47:34 AM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Gwendolyn Dahncke and I am a resident of Yorba Linda. I am writing in deepconcern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear thata radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the locallevel. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residentsand that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largestmilitary budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in theworld. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to lawenforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, AnaheimPolice Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them wereunarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that ofLAPD, NYPD, and San Francisco PD and is 74% higher than the average for police inCalifornia, according to a 2017 study by the ACLU.
WE DEMAND that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and thatany future projects related to surveillance be halted. We also DEMAND that the council notapprove "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. We DEMAND
that the city council not approve "Resolution 30" proclaiming the continuing existence of alocal emergency regarding civil unrest, which will continue to criminalize peacefulprotestors. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich thecommunity especially during a global pandemic.
We are calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as aconcerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize ourcommunity.
Sincerely,
Gwendolyn Dahncke
From:Emily Chao
Subject:Please act now.
Date:Thursday, June 25, 2020 8:01:02 AM
Please act now to confront and strategically disassemble modern
systemic white supremacy and anti-black racism and their
lingering historic effects.
Please help to:
Criminalize anti-black racism.
Process all police corruption, brutality, and racism cases without
bail.
Get a reparations for Black slavery Act passed.
Add blatant historic and systemic modern anti-black racism,
white supremacy, and privilege into public school k-12
curriculum. Please include in historic education the Black
massacres and Black lynching stories with the alleged
accusations that sparked them. Please include the long term
psychological and social impacts and their connection to internal
bias.
Please.
--
Emily
From:Sean O'Connor
To:Sean O'Connor
Subject:Police Reform
Date:Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:04:36 AM
We the people with the Movement for Black Lives demand the following reforms immediately:
1. Suspend the use of paid admin. leave for cops under investigation: this reduces police funding, challenges the
notion that the administrative costs of policing violence are essential to safety, & reduces the overall support for
policing by removing the financial support.
2. Withhold pensions and don’t rehire cops involved in excessive force: this decreases police funding, challenges the
notion that police killings are exceptions rather than the rule, and reduces the ability of the police forces to re-engage
with cops known for their use of violence.
3. Require cops to be liable for misconduct settlements: this saves community budgets a lot of money, rejects the
notion that the costs of policing are essential to safety, and creates financial pressure for police to be accountable for
their actions.
4. Cap overtime pay for military exercises and withdraw participation in police militarization programs: this saves
our communities money, rejects the idea that we need cops trained for “counterterrorism”, and stops police from
increasing their capacity/reach over our daily lives.
5. Prioritize spending on community health, education and affordable housing: defunding police decreased their
resources. This creates space for us to learn about resources that create well-being. Decreasing police funding means
decreasing the size, scope and capacity of policing.
All of theses steps work to reduce the size of the police force and minimize the role it plays in our society, which
gives us more space and resources to invest in Black communities.
Thank you,
Sean O’Connor
From:Jamie Reeves
To:Jamie.
Subject:Reallocate Police Funds
Date:Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:43:30 PM
Officials,
It is essential that you take budget money away from the police and reallocate that money into community services
that in turn, will reduce crime, as everyone's needs will be cared for.
Defund the police. Reallocate the funds into community services. Our police our grossly overfunded.
Sincerely,
Jamie Reeves
From:Vivienne Zenteno (vizent)
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Reform in Anaheim!!!
Date:Thursday, July 9, 2020 9:41:01 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Vivienne Zenteno, and I am a resident of California. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the
greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and
community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected
Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some
of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020
budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed
33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related
deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average
for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on
surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted.
I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles.
Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community
refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Vivienne Zenteno
Sent from my iPhone
From:Emily Vavrek
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Reform is not enough
Date:Friday, July 3, 2020 9:12:12 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Emily, and I am a resident of Buena Park. I am writing in deep
concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more
than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health
must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has
disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an
end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have
the largest military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized
police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget
allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community
development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016,
Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and
nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths
caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is
74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend
$700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police
brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I
also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to
improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that
benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members.
We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to
further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Emily
From:Margot Pierrong
To:Public Comment
Subject:Request referring to July4th Fireworks
Date:Thursday, July 9, 2020 5:24:14 PM
I would like to request that the Anaheim city council really mull over the
decision to ban ALL fireworks – the selling AND the setting-off in
Anaheim. This year was the worst for irresponsible behavior in setting
off fireworks – even the legal ones….I am asking that if the people
cannot act responsible, then the privilege should be taken away. I don’t
care if people feel pent up because of the virus - that is no excuse to
exercise bad behavior - & this year was totally horrible !
Thank you.
Margot Pierrong
Anaheim –
From:Esha Suri
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Request to Prioritize Community Wellbeing
Date:Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:51:40 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Esha Suri, and I am a resident of Irvine, California. I am writing in
deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become
more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community
health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has
disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an
end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have
the largest military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized
police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget
allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community
development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016,
Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and
nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths
caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is
74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend
$700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police
brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I
also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to
improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that
benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members.
We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to
further terrorize our community.
Thank you,
Esha Suri
From:Jamie Reeves
To:Jamie.
Subject:Specialization and Domestic Violence
Date:Sunday, June 28, 2020 1:16:09 AM
Greetings,
In a study of abused women, over 80% said they would not call the police again because they were scared that their
abuser would only get a "slap on the wrist," and that they would come back and hurt them. Seeing that abused
women do not feel safe calling the police to help them escape situations of domestic violence, should we cater to
these women and create a new task force? The answer is yes.
We need specialized teams to respond to issues of domestic violence, that are not police. Police simply do not have,
and cannot receive the extensive, rigorous training that specialized experts on deescalating domestically violent
situations and helping victims escape their abuser require. This takes years of training and education, it's one of
many issues that police are simply not fit to handle, like they are expected to today. And I don't just want to see
woman officers respond to these calls, because they are still police officers who are not fit to deal with these
situations, in terms of the training and education they have.
Defunding the police is about more than the safety of our Black neighbors, which is absolutely vital in itself. It is
about making women more safe by ensuring their issues are cared for in a specialized way by trained professionals.
Are you willing to help victims of domestic violence?
Thanks,
Jamie
From:Michelle Schumacher
To:Michelle Schumacher
Subject:TCA Toll Roads - South Orange County is in trouble
Date:Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:18:00 PM
Good evening,
I hope you will take the time to watch these videos and look at the truth in
accounting report. It is time the TCA toll road boondoggle ceases as hard
working taxpayers deserve better.
On March 12, 2020 the TCA Board passed a resolution to not extend the 241
toll road past Oso Parkway due to the devastating environmental, economic,
cultural, and societal costs to South Orange County communities.
Taxpayers deserve better, please see this video that shows the TCA should not
be even contemplating building anything given 30 years of failure. Shawn
Nelson, former Orange County Board Supervisor, who was also on the
OCTA and TCA Board can be heard in this video that is very telling of the
ineptitude of the TCA that he has witnessed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qhd-N-
Wmg0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3vQJmnuXLfASHJyYQXQsiJQGbIS
oUx12Syi2SeWnnUBjmYseJklLZFhNU
Truth in Accounting’s Financial State of Orange County’s Transportation
Corridor Agencies (TCA) was just released last week. This report is a
comprehensive analysis of Orange County’s Transportation Corridor Agencies
and their analysis showed for the fiscal year 2019 audited financial reports that
the TCA has a combined debt of $4 billion.
The TCA only has $828.3 million available to pay $4.8 billion worth of bills.
The outcome is a $4 billion shortfall. Users of the tollways and property owners
will be paying this debt and associated interest for years to come, which has
only been exacerbated due to COVID-19. Report can be found here
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/TCA-2019-2pager.pdf
Here is a video of the 241 toll road near Oso which essentially shows how
underused this asset is and that it is criminal so much money has been
wasted by the TCA, including the $706,000,000 of Development Fees they
collect for new construction and many remodels in Orange County, the
tolls and hefty penalties.
https://www.facebook.com/NOTMYTOLLROAD/videos/262486125176625/
LA Times Article March 11, 2019 "While you sit in traffic, these toll way
consultants charge the public $185 an hour for reading news”
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-toll-road-consultants-20190311-
story.html
Orange County Grand Jury issues a Solvency warning regarding the TCA.
http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher/Agenda03_22_2016_files/images/O006
16-000294A.PDF
"While some JPAs have relatively modest levels of debt, others have very
significant debt. The Foothill Transportation Corridor Agency and the San
Joaquin Transportation Corridor Agency have a joint debt level of over $4.5
billion, which is about 63% of the total debt reported by all the JPAs in Orange
County. This level of public debt on the citizens of Orange County is very
significant. These two transportation agencies only have an income level of
$292 million per year. With this extreme debt burden, the Grand Jury questions
their ability to pay off the principal and interest, based on their current revenue
level."
The Foothill Transportation Corridor Agency and the San Joaquin
Transportation Corridor Agency have a joint debt level of over $4.5 billion.
The Grand Jury has determined that this debt level is excessive based on
their revenues, and it threatens to render them insolvent.”
Pacific Research Institute Report said the TCA’s business model has been
unsustainable from the start https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-
content/uploads/2017/06/OrangeCountyTolls_F.pdf
San Clemente has had La Pata and Del Rio and the 5 freeway widened in the past
few years we have done a great job assisting with mobility in the County and are
open to mobility solutions, what we are NOT open to is a toll road on top of 6
schools where it was NEVER intended to go or wiping out homes, business and our
precious remaking open space. La Pata and Los Patrones provide a alternative to
the interstate 5 freeway.
We have OCTA and Caltrans we do not need this redundant wasteful government
agency.
Thank you
Michelle
From:Riley Mcmackin
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:URGENT: ATTENTION REQUIRED
Date:Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:26:43 PM
To the Anaheim City Council:
My name is Riley McMackin, and I am a resident of Orange County. I am writing in deep
concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that
a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local
level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents
and that must come to an end.
The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest
military budget, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the
world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law
enforcement and only $1 million to community development.
Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim
Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were
unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest-related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of
LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California.
I demand that the city council not approve “Resolution 19” that would spend $700,000 dollars
of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti-police brutality protests and that any
future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve
"Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that
money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global
pandemic.
I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a
concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our
community.
Thank you,
Riley McMackin
From:Edgar Arellano
To:Police Review Board; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Public
Comment; Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes
Subject:When will you define public safety?
Date:Friday, July 3, 2020 5:50:51 PM
Seriously, what is your protocol in returning to the precinct. This is the second time in one
week that I catch a squad car speeding back to base. this continues to happen along corridors
that are set for 35 million miles per hour.
Today at 5:36 p.m. July 3rd going southbound on Ball road I witnessed squad car "9 - 855"
speeding app probably 45 miles per hour through a 35 mile-per-hour school zone then to the
continue going that speed leading the rest of traffic to also take that speed. Y'all are doing
nothing to uphold public safety and are encouraging regular folks to also break speed limit
laws.
PD Chief keep saying that they are efficient and efficient department but in reality you are
reckless and you encourage others in our community to break laws and deteriorate trust in our
own governance. How many times will I have to catch you breaking the law on video? Now
more than ever, PDshould become more effective and a better standard for the community to
entrust their safety in.
Do better
Edgar Arellano
Resident & business owner
District 2
From:Kelly Green
To:Public Comment
Cc:Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Lucille Kring; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Stephen Faessel; Trevor
O"Neil
Subject:Proposed Needle Exchange Program: YES
Date:Friday, July 10, 2020 11:43:25 AM
Dear Representatives and legislators,
I am a voter. I live at 92804. I am in favor of 'safe and sane'
needle exchange programs. Please approve this bill.
I canvassed other people who know about these programs and got these comments:
Realistically anything that reduces the spread of AIDS, HEP-C, etc. is a benefit tosociety in reducing the cost of treatment for these diseases long term. Hardcorehaters for these programs call it “enabling”, which I and most addictions professionalsI know disagree with. If you NEED your fix you will find a way to get a needle. New,old, clean, dirty. These programs are important to help stop the spread of disease.Even a bad program is usually better than no program.
Brian J. Hunt
Assistant Director Addictions Counselor Certification Board of Oregon 1992-2016
Senior Certification Specialist Mental Health and Addictions Certification Board ofOregon 2016-present
As well as the more general comment:
What you'd to avoid is first, basic money wasting, second that the program does notbecome the source of a nuisance in its own right, and third that the program havesome kind of victory condition. Some way to say it is making things better andeventually coming to a close. Realistically there will always be drug addicts, but is theprogram doing "activities" that minimize the people getting hooked, staying hooked,having life problems while they are hooked.? And not doing it in pathological ways tocook the books, like sharing toxic needles that kill the clients.
And:I"m in favor. Will save me as a taxpayer money treating Hep and AIDS. Less reason forneedles to be found in public parks and alleys. Nobody's gonna start shooting upbecause of free needles.
I've seen some comments on NextDoor about 'dirty addicts' and 'dangerous homeless' andthe other way around. Our duty as responsible humans and as government representativesis to help those people in need.
Please approve this bill.
Thank you,Jude-Marie Green
From:Ailene Ortiz
To:Public Comment
Subject:Disneyland Opening
Date:Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:12:04 PM
To Whom this May Concern:
I am writing as a concern Anaheim resident over COVID—19 and Disneyland’s reopening. I believe the city of
Anaheim needs to pause Disneyland’s reopening because it puts many Anaheim residents and Disneyland cast
members at risk of being infected with COVID-19. The city of Anaheim needs to put the health of Anaheim
residents before the city’s finances. With Disneyland’s reopening, it will be detrimental to the health of thousands of
Anaheim residents and cast members. Please, I ask city council members to put a pause to Disneyland’s reopening
and prioritize Anaheim resident’s health.
From:Edgar Arellano
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Lucille Kring; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Denise Barnes; Stephen
Faessel; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:No on Item#s 3 & 13
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 1:36:37 PM
Hello again councilmembers,
I write to you again with disdain for the agenda. Again you will be considering more than
$200,000 to policing in our city. This is after you have already committed more than $1
million to policing since the police murdered George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, &
continued to injure hundreds more some fatally.
I've been writing to you for weeks as I capture dashcam evidence of Police speeding in our
neighborhoods. Over the years, our community has noticed the reckless ways they use
equipment to 'dominate' our streets, particularly their constant speeding in small
neighborhood streets. I also am not fond of the constant low flyovers by both APD & OC
Sheriff's in the West Anaheim district, they constantly endanger & disrupt the habitats & lives
of our local falcon, sparrow, finch, & occasional eagle visitors; the need for maintenance of a
Camera that can be used strategically for Search & Rescue is of value and gives just enough
merits for your vote.
I ask that you vote NO on Item 3 because it will further encourage the misuse of vehicles due
to police recklessness. The staff report states that only a few Fire & Rescue vehicles would
benefit from this Item. Item 3 is another incentive for policing in our city to remain as is. Our
community has been vocal in our disdain for our bloated police department. Our police force
may be the largest owner of vehicles both for work & personal use. They are destroying our
climate with so much vehicle use & release of carbons into our neighborhoods.
I demand that you vote NO on Item 13 because it diminishes community trust and
transparency into the Police misconduct that happened in between 2009 - 4/30/2015. These
have been some of the deadliest years in our city & sparked community actions that reached
the national news. During those actions, APD escalated the situations to put our very own
abuelas, mamas, & families in danger. APD is reckless & they are trying to erase that history
in this records destruction item. Exhibit J shows 25 lines of records they'd want destroyed.
Among these there are: Pursuit Critiques (2016-2yrs), Monthly Statistics (2016-2yrs),
Suspension Notices (2017-2yrs), OSHA Inspections & Citations (-2014-5yrs), Internal
Affairs Investigations / Disciplinary Files / Complaints / In-Custody Deaths, Major
Incident Response Team (MIRT), and Officer Involved Shootings (2009-4/30/2015-5yrs).
What incentive would the Police Department request to destroy 5 years worth of records of
our most violent period in our recent history? While there are many other lines of records that
may merit destruction due to storage issues, it is paramount that our city retain documents that
will help steer our city towards a more educated & just community.
Finally, I want to remind you that you are still violating our 4th & 5th amendment rights with
your vote in favor of resolution 19 on the June 9, 2020 council meeting. The ACLU continues
to condemn the abuse of for-profit contracts to overrule citizens privacy rights as afforded by
the 4th and 5th amendment. There is no accountability nor transparency in the APD's use of
this technology equipment, and they actively refuse inquiries due to non-disclosure
agreements. The answers provided by Chief Cisneros are not satisfactory in the slightest, the
doubt was loud in the ways which staff, the city manager, & police chief jave avoided the
privacy violation questions. If PD is reckless with their squad cars, then I have no confidence
in their ability to have good judgement in using the "stingray" surveillance technology.
Do Better,
Edgar Arellano
Resident & business owner
District 2
From:Tamara Jimenez
To:Public Comment
Subject:Fw: Item #22-Strong Support-BAN
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 11:56:09 AM
Attachments:3. Letter (Orange County Recovery Collaborative)26440.pdf
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Tamara Jimenez
To: ssagert@anaheim.net <ssagert@anaheim.net>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020, 11:47:23 AM PDT
Subject: Fw: Item #22-Strong Support-BAN
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Tamara Jimenez
To: tbass@anaheim.net <tbass@anaheim.net>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020, 11:46:45 AM PDT
Subject: Item #22-Strong Support-BAN
Good afternoon,
The Orange County Recovery Collaboration is in full support of a complete ban of syringe exchange
programs at this time. The attached letter arose out of city staff coming to our meeting on November 5,
2019 to discuss the issue of needle exchange and which components would be absolutely unacceptable
and absolutely necessary for success IF the city was forced to allow their operation. On November 6,
2019 we submitted our recommendations of these unanimously agreed upon components. That letter is
attached for your reference. Let us reiterate, our professional opinion is that the best option for the city at
this time is an absolute ban, however should that not pass then the only other option we will support is
what staff has outline in their report as is.
Thank you,
The Members of the Orange County Recovery Collaboration
From:Tamara Jimenez
To:Public Comment
Subject:FW: Item #22-Strong Support BAN-1st option
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 11:58:19 AM
Attachments:SB 689 Binder.pdf
From: Tamara Jimenez
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 10:49 AM
To: tbass@anaheim.net
Subject: Item #22-Strong Support BAN-1st option
I have attached a binder that I personally put together to support a bill that John Moorlach had
introduced SB 689 that is currently a 2 year bill. This binder is a compilation of local city and county
responses, public comments/constituent letters- which begin on page 64, business letters, pictures
of needle debris, maps & the CDPH approval which was overturned in your recent lawsuit. I have
carefully read through the staff report and Lighthouse is in full support of a BAN at this time. As a
member of the Orange County Recovery Collaboration, we are also in agreement with their report in
the event that the ban does not pass. But we would like to be very clear that at this time, especially
without SB 689 on the books, we strongly support a full BAN of needle exchange in any form and will
only support a regulation should the ban not be passed. If the ban is not passed, the only item we
will support at that time is the regulation that staff has prepared in their report exactly as is.
Have a great day,
Tamara Jimenez
Community/Government Relations Manager
Anaheim Lighthouse
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From:Benita Gagne
To:Public Comment
Subject:From Benita Gagne - I do not want a Syringe Exchange Program in Anaheim
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 6:20:51 PM
As we have noticed with our homeless population, build a shelter and they will come.
The same is highly likely to occur if we provide free public services to addicts.
Also, I am a diabetic, currently obtaining my 3-4 syringes a day through my health insurance.
Would I, and every other diabetic be allowed to exchange used syringes?
Also, we are already in a budget crunch, with no end in sight. This will cost us no matter who pays for the program.
Please vote against such an exchange program.
Benita Gagne
30+ year resident
From:Bob Johnson
To:Public Comment
Subject:Item 22 - To Ban
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:58:33 PM
I urge our Councilpersons and Mayor to please pass an ordinance to ban any future Needle
Exchange Program within our city.
--
Bob Johnson
From:KATHY CHANCE
To:Public Comment; Loretta Day
Subject:Item 22: 7/14/2020 Syringe Exchange Program in the city of Anaheim
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:10:54 PM
Item 22: 7/14/2020 Anaheim City Council agenda
PLEASE ENTER INTO THE RECORD:
I am in FAVOR of PROHIBITING ANY type of a needle exchange program from operating in the city of Anaheim.
I am AGAINST ANY type of program to regulate syringe-exchange in the city of Anaheim.
Kathy Chance
From:Janet Potter
To:Public Comment
Subject:Prohibit Needle Exchange Programs!
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 7:04:28 PM
Dear Mayor Sidhu and Anaheim City Council Members,
Please consider prohibiting any needle exchange program from operating in the city of
Anaheim! We have enough problems as it is. I do not want city resources spent on promoting
illegal drug use.
Respectfully,
Janet Potter
Anaheim, CA 92804
From:Pat D
To:Public Comment
Cc:Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno
Subject:Comments for July 14 meeting
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:18:01 PM
To members of the City Council
It is infuriating and probably illegal to not be given access to the meeting room with our
voices or even have our words shared. The Governor’s Executive Orders related to the Brown
Act were not meant to cutoff public participation. You could set public access up so easily
with the technology at hand. But that would also mean you would need to be
visible/accessible to those of us watching/ attending.
You continue to make decisions through the most narrow lens that comes from the current
majority of this conservative Council. That will change! Unfortunately you are further
damaging our City while we wait to vote most of you out!
These are my comments for the following items:
Agenda Item 20
While obligated by law to make this change in the Anaheim Municipal Code to reflect recent
improvements to the State Density Bonus Law, I do hope you will apply it to truly facilitate
the development of low and very low affordable housing development. In years past while
members of the Council have been aware of need for low and very low income housing little
has been done to do so. Our city does not take the RHNA numbers seriously. We do not need
more moderate housing while doing nothing for the most needed categories.
If ever going to reach our housing goals, every current and future building project approved in
Anaheim must include these truly affordable units NOT a buyout that amounts to no units. A
mere drop in the profit margin. Building units elsewhere is not acceptable. Your giveaways
continue to harm our community.
Item 22 - Needle Exchange – Science supports the need for a harm reduction program.
Anaheim has reacted from a place of fear and judgement. Alliances have been odd to watch. It
concerns me to see some objections come from those benefiting from no program. Build a
program that works. Gives all safety and serves the community need which is primarily in
those housed - not those on the street as you often play that narrative.
Item 23 – COVID response
Anaheim is once again behind and as a result people are dying or suffering resulting lifelong
chronic health problems. The Coronavirus is out of control throughout Orange County with
Anaheim in the lead, thanks to your ill-informed and dangerous lack of leadership.
Watching the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning and seeing the Mayor take credit for
doing anything right was nauseating. He did not move the testing set up forward in any timely
way. Using the word “quicker" several times did not make that true. The mayor continues to
use “my" to describe various departments and services. You do not have ownership though the
way you have set up the decision making structure and agendizing items to show how you are
trying to “own" our city. And you opened Downtown Disney and failed to enact a mask
requirement. None of this is to protect the most vulnerable. Obvious pandering to your donors
and minions.
We finally see you in masks as the Governor graciously calls you out on the need to “comply”
for the funds to continue to flow. County funds as well. Had you adopted a more science based
approach to masks, distancing and closures, we would not be the standout community in this
deadly pandemic. Not supporting Dr Moreno’s proposals adds to your failure. People are sick,
many with resulting long term health concerns, while more are dying. Whatever you do now
will be key to the toll our citizens continue to experience. Surely you have people who tell you
the truth in your role. If not – shame on you. If you do - please listen. Your life may depend on
it – but wait you can get access to tests and top drawer healthcare. The rest of our city
residents – NOT so lucky. Testing needs to be as available to all as we know asymptomatic
folx do pass it on.
Will be listening tonite for more examples of your narrow thinking by the majority members.
Pat Davis
District 1
Pat Davis
Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos.
From:William Camargo
To:Public Comment
Subject:Items: 3, 4, 12, 13, 22
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:58:52 PM
To all City Council your on these times, we are watching you we will take these protest to
your front yard, and that's when you will call the cops to come and save you because you will
be scared of Black and brown people and call us criminals.
Item 3,4: Again during a pandemic putting more money into APD the killer cops and pigs,
while ignoring the communities of color you serve, we will vote you down in the upcoming
election. If ya'll give so much money to the cops and still can't get this meeting on zoom with
public comment, because we know you are not reading our emails, because they are hurting
your feelings while our people keep dying.
Item 12, 22: Give better programs to houseless folks, and by limiting and excluding syringe
programs in Anaheim is outright inhumane, ya'll don't have shit to worry about when you are
in your fancy-ass houses. While again our people bare the burden of the policies all of you
push through city council.
Item 13: This definitely shows what side you are, you haven't digitized the city records and we
demand you make them public, including all the documents on police abuses the dumb APD
has committed, again we will come to your houses and demand you to listen! Ya'll think this is
a game? Mayor Siduh you incompetence is a slap in the face to everyone in this city and every
single puppet you have with you in the council, especially the racist ass Trevor O'neill we see
you and we will not forget everything you have done! You owe it to the families that have
suffered through the abuses of APD!!
Ya'll can fuck off!!!!
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William Camargo Claudio
Visual Artist/Educator/Organizer/Arts Advocate
Commissioner of Heritage and Culture, Anaheim
Teaching Artist, ARMORY Center for the Arts
Claremont Graduate University, MFA '20
NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute '20
Sonneman Photography Prize, CGU
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery(upcoming), Los Angeles Origins & Displacements, (postponed), East Gallery, CGU
Time & Space, (postponed 2021), Cal State Fullerton
From:Noah Juliano
To:Public Comment
Subject:Absolute No on Items 3, 4 and 13
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:59:07 PM
Dear Anaheim City Councilmembers,
First and foremost, thank you for taking the time to actively listen to your community
and to critically observe what our true needs are during this unprecedented time of
uncertainty.
Please do NOT spend $177,185 on public safety vehicle equipment advancement for the
police in Item 3, or $59,276.25 on increasing police surveillance in Item 4 in order to
further the continual fear reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham’s barbaric 18th-century
panopticon. That is tax payer money and should not be used to fund their own
oppression.
Instead of giving $175,155,129 dollars to the Anaheim Police Department, you need to
re-allocate those funds to grassroots organizations and non-profits that know, love and
truly weave this community together.
I approve of the $360,000 allocation to Better Way Anaheim in Item 12. This is where
you should be putting our tax paying dollars.
I absolutely abhor the passage of Item 13. The destruction of City records older than two
years old just for the sake of clerical efficiency is absolutely shameful. In-Custody
Deaths, Officer Involved Shootings, Disciplinary Files, Complaints, Major Incident
Response Team reports, and APD Internal Affairs Investigations older than two years
should NOT be destroyed. Those are crucial figures and we need to hold the police
officers liable to their violations of human and civil rights committed against US citizens
and immigrants seeking refuge. Abolish ICE as well please and thank you. They are
deplorable and you all know it.
Anaheim and Santa Ana are the most densely populated cities and most severely affected
by covid 19 in Orange County.
Instead of giving millions of more dollars to the police department, you should reallocate
your tax payer dolllars towards health care, education, distributing free masks, funding
mental health care service providers and victim/survivor advocates, implementing non-
armed officer disppachment for non-violent 911 calls, buying anti-racist books to place
into our K-8 classes to plant positive seeds early on, aiding food banks and soup
kitchens, getting nurses and social workers in schools and after school day care centers
funded, buying foreclosed motels or condos in Anaheim to convert into housing for the
homeless, or literally anything other than more rubber bullets, batons, riot shields and
TEAR GAS used against tax paying Anaheim citizens during a global RESPIRATORY
pandemic. Please reconsider fighting violence with more violence.
Police reform is proven to not work and the prison industrial complex is rotten at its
core. The officer who killed Rayshard brooks had just completed de-escalation training
of April 24, 2020 and deadly force training on January 9, 2020 and still brutally killed
Rayshard. Body cams are very expensive and only document their killings. Qualified
immunity needs to end for real reform and you all know it.
If defunding the police departments is not enough, then remove yourself out of your own
compartmentalized viewpoint and zoom out. What you should really be doing is
reaching out to your OC buddies then to your LA colleagues to call Newsom, and urge
the Pentagon to defund and reallocate their $740+ billion dollar military budget to help
our citizens on the homeland. If the police pepper spray children and shove old men to
the ground while the entire world is watching, what do you think our military does to
impoverished POC communities abroad when no one is watching?
We should be investing our tax-payer dollars to peace, education, health care and new
clean energy job creation on the home front rather than more missiles, tanks, guns,
bombers, nukes, and submarines abroad.
There were 33 APD arrest-related deaths in 2003-2016. Your police officers killed 33 people
in 13 years. That is absolutely way too many deaths at the hands of the ones sworn in to
protect us. It’s a blue shirt and badge, not a blue life. Brown bodies don’t get to take their
melanated skin off to safely drive home to their family after their shift is over. Who polices the
police? They must be held accountable for their actions. Racist officers and “the good apples”
alike have been encouraged to fetishize a “firearm” as an extension of their own bodies for far
too long.
Vincent Valenzuela, Christopher Eisinger and so many more did not deserve to have
their lives taken. What happened to “innocent until proven guilty?”
How have you normalized an instantaneous death penalty sentenced by the police with
no repercussion?
We should not live in a world where trained professionals with a gun on their hip get to
panic and react on impulse while innocent civilians must remain calm and collected with
a rifle pointed in their face.
A high school degree and a few weeks of training is an abysmal requirement for such an
array of important responsibilities that the police are woefully ill-equipped to handle.
Norway, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Japan and so many other countries have
EXTENSIVE training and requirements for their officers, and their low In-Custody
Deaths prove their efficiency. However, you cannot add anything to a full, White
Nationalist Supremacist glass of water.
Follow Los Angeles and San Fransisco City Council’s and push to replace armed police
officers with non-armed responders for non-violent 911 calls. We need nurses, social
workers and psychiatrists in schools, not armed cops arresting our teenagers through the
school prison pipeline.
Please zoom out and see the big picture. Black Brown Latinx Trans Disabled Queer
Incarcerated Immigrant Impoverished Lives Matter. All Black and Brown Lives Matter.
Choose love and defund the police.
Please vote Yes on Item 12.
Hard No on Items 3, 4 and 13.
Thank you for your time today.
Love and Light,
Noah Juliano
From:Brianna Meli
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille
Kring; Trevor O"Neil
Subject:Book Recommendation
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:13:56 AM
Hello council members,
After tuning in to the last city council meeting, I wanted to recommend that you read the
book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About
Racism by Robin DiAngelo.
In your last meeting, I witnessed the overwhelming amount of white fragility, white
silence, and white solidarity that took place in your discussion of voting to pass the
city's resolution in response to Black Lives Matter (BLM). You failed to propose a
meaningful response to the BLM movement, and instead, openly refused to
acknowledge or reconcile with our city’s fundamental and current history of racism
and white supremacy.
The mayor and council members’ dialog on passing a city acknowledgment of BLM
proved to be very disappointing. I recall one council member actually playing the “I’m
Italian” and I have experienced prejudice card. Personally, I am a child of Sicilian
immigrants (who also endured lots of prejudice), so it was infuriating to hear this kind
of comment. The book that I recommend you all read specifically details why this kind
of comment is problematic when talking about race. I interpret that this elected official
is simply uneducated on how to talk about race, or that they used their comment as
an excuse for their inability to hold themselves accountable (as they motioned to
strike down proposed edits to the resolution that would move the city towards
acknowledgment and reconciliation). This kind of comment also took the focus away
from the Black residents and communities who really need your help and support.
This wasn't a moment to make the situation about all of YOU and your own struggles
with race. I thought the resolution was to respond to US, who have been in the streets
and in your emails demanding that you all DO BETTER.
There are more council member comments and actions that I can also refer to from
the last meeting as moments of extreme disappointment, but you all know what you
have said. Every council member (except the one who brought up the proposed edits
to this resolution) displayed and participated in white fragility, white silence, and white
solidarity. This proves that you do not have to be "white" to uphold racism and white
supremacy. You do not need to be "white" to continue to educate yourself on anti-
racism. We must all do this work.
Your resolution to acknowledge Black Lives Matter does not contain any actionable items that
our city can be held accountable to. You have chosen to uphold, rather than challenge, white
supremacy in the City of Anaheim. The resolution that you passed is performative and
disingenuous. Our city will benefit from having elected officials who are able to have
substantial conversations about race without becoming defensive and/or silent. At this moment
in time, your inability to have mature and meaningful conversations on race is not benefitting
your constituents.
At the very least, please read the book mentioned above. Educate yourselves; I am
demanding that you do better.
Respectfully,
Brianna Meli
District 2 Resident (who also works in Anaheim)
From:Phillip Wolfgramm
To:Public Comment; City Clerk
Subject:Policing in Anaheim
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 10:20:03 AM
Dear City Council Members,
My name is Phillip Wolfgramm. We have lived in West Anaheim for over 2 decades. We have raised,
and continue to raise our children here. I am also a member of the Anaheim Police Review Board.
With all of the voices demanding to "de-fund" the police, I raise my voice against this demand.
As a voting citizen of the city, the number one service that the city can provide me and my family is our
safety - this is why you should be in office, and where you should spend our tax dollars.
Your next priority is to provide the city infrastructure (school facilities, electricity, water, roads, trash
pickup) that best allows us to continue to live, and to raise our children in this city.
These two priorities are timeless and foundational for city government.
While I recognize the need to re-evaluate the city's policing policies, training, and goals, I ask you to resist
the urge to enact ordinances and policies in response to agitators' short-sighted, unsafe, anti-american,
and chimeric demands.
From:Stephanie Wade
To:Public Comment
Subject:Public Comments for Tonight"s Council Meeting
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:17:31 PM
Good Evening Mayor Siduh, Council Members, City Manager Garcia and Chief Cisneros,
My name is Stephanie Wade, I live in Councilmember Moreno's 3rd District. Two weeks ago,
I submitted comments in support of and was very gratified that the Resolution Against Racial
Injustice and Declaration that Black Lives Matter passed at the city's last council meeting. I
know that there were many, including me, who wanted the resolution to go further in
addressing the city's own history of systemic racism and the implicit bias in local government,
a history that still permeates much of our city government including in policing. But I wanted
to thank all seven members of the council, including Council Member O'Neil who ultimately
obtained, for their good faith efforts. While we all hope for less acrimony and more
reconciliation as we continue to address these issues, I am proud to be from Anaheim and glad
that the city's leadership is committed to these "difficult conversations." And it is in that vein
that I would like to introduce myself to the city as a candidate for the city's Police Review
Board.
I have had a long standing civic interest in policing and submitted my application to the City
Clerk on May 5th of this year. I realize that the "at large" seat on the board will be filled by
lottery among applicants judged to be qualified for the position. But I wanted to say that as a
former Marine infantry officer, longtime public school PE and social studies teacher in
underserved, majority-minority schools, as a current staffer with the U.S. House of
Representatives, as a transgender woman and most of all, as a proud, civically minded resident
of the city, I hope I will be found to be qualified and lucky enough to win the lotteried
appoinment. Like you, I want to serve this city by being an honest, fair and civil participant in
one of the most sensitive areas of our government.
Thank you and good evening.
Stephanie M. Wade | She, Her, Hers
"Progress is Not Future: It is Keeping Up with the Present
-Patti Smith & Richard Hell, Poem #2, 1978
From:vanessa denny
To:Public Comment
Subject:Rape in Anaheim
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:23:56 PM
Dear Anaheim City Council Members
I would like to address you regarding my concerns about Sexual Assault Victims. On Mother’s Day weekend my
mother contacted Anaheim Police Department to request an officer to come to our home at Rockwood Apartments
unit#221 to report me being raped by a neighbor by the name of Marcos Martinez. The officer who took my
statement was inexperienced and asked me questions that were not relevant such as “ were you sexually active prior
to being sexually assaulted?” I’m a minor and at 14 years old I need my mother by my side however they would not
let her. Detective Jason Carney was assigned to my sexual assault case. This detective did not make me feel safe nor
showed me the slightest compassion, instead he revictimized me and used words such as “pussy” and “fucking”
when referring to my private parts and the sexual abuse. I felt so afraid and ashamed in results of his inappropriate
behavior. He then continued to pressure me to say the my rape was consensual. Anaheim Police did not arrest the
perpetrator even though he was on drugs, probation and was on house arrest previously for probation violation. The
District Attorney Geraldine did not file charges either. Both the DA and Anaheim PD we’re blaming each other as to
why this person wasn’t incarcerated. Now my mother Elisabeth Rios is facing child abuse and neglect charges for
protecting me. How could this happen? How is the perpetrator that raped me free and my mother has to appear
before a judge in the OC Superior Court. To make matter even worse Anaheim House Authority has refused to
honor the Choice Voucher they guaranteed my family would receive so we can relocate. My mother submitted a
VAWA application to AHA along with a Reasonable Accommodation for my mental health disability and the
physical, emotional and mental trauma I’ve experienced. Anaheim Housing Authority denied it! Victims of sexual
assault deserve to be treated with dignity. Victims of sexual assault deserve to have their Mental Health disability be
a priority . Victims of sexual assault deserve an Emergency Transfer Relocation to a safe place as far away from the
perpetrator as possible. Please Anaheim City Council Members don’t fail too at proving justice to me.
#justiceforvanessadenny
PS
I am Protesting outside of City Hall peacefully.
Sent from my iPhone
From:Maria Ceja
To:Public Comment
Subject:Rockwood Apartments and the assault of 14 year old Vanessa
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 11:29:29 AM
To the Mayor and City Council,
I find it incomprehensible that you are doing nothing to assist the family of Vanessa and her
mother Elisabeth Rios after the horror they’ve been through and continue to face. Vanessa was
raped by her neighbor and the Anaheim Police Department victim blamed a CHILD and made
derogatory comments of her body. They sought help for the city to hold the police accountable
for their irresponsible approach to this situation which you have ignored and turned away from
this family who is close to being unhoused. Why are they close to being unhoused? Because
they no longer want to be the neighbor of the man who raped Vanessa. I ask that you find the
appropriate and suitable home for this family or assist them with a hotel room until they find a
safe place to live. I demand that you hold the police accountable for what they did to Vanessa
and acknowledge how they further traumatized her. I ask that you respect the family’s wants
for what they deem is justice for them and what they’ve been through. Listen to the family and
respect their wishes, they’ve been through enough! Do your job!
Thank you,
Maria Ceja
From:Roussan Collins
To:Public Comment
Subject:SB 1152
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:28:09 AM
A homeless man recently died after being released from an Anaheim hospital with no
apparent follow up to make sure he was put into shelter or some form of housing as
required by SB 1152. What will you be doing to make sure these hospitals are being
kept accountable?
I spoke with Federal Judge David Carter and he also is very concerned and is
planning to get involved in this issue as I explain in this video.
https://youtu.be/r4K0obsZchc
From:Lorraine Salas
To:Public Comment
Subject:sexual assault in Anaheim
Date:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 10:59:17 AM
Please read the following public comment during time that is set aside for the public to be
heard:
I am writing in regards to a very alarming and disturbing incident that occurred a few weeks
ago in the city of Anaheim. A few of my friends shared a statement that was written on a
gofundme page that outlined specific details showing institutionalized victim blaming by the
police and willful neglect by the Anaheim Housing Authority.
Some of us get to sit back in the comfort of our own homes during this COVID pandemic
crisis and there are methodical plans in place to ensure everyone's safety while out in public.
Protocols and safety measures in businesses and institutions are being implemented. But what
about victims of abuse and rape? Are they also not afforded the same safety and security
when they go to the police to report and press charges? Is it typical protocol to have a victim
of rape be placed on a 48 hour notice especially during this pandemic, when the chances are
significantly higher to transmit COVID while sharing a living space? Is it typical protocol for
the Anaheim Housing Authority to deny a victim's request to be relocated away from their
assailant? The safety and security of rape victims is not ensured in the city of Anaheim at this
moment in time and I hope each and every one of you take the time to understand that any
neglect on your part with regards to Vanessa's case will have detrimental effects to the safety
of the residents living in Anaheim. Every single council member, including the police chief,
need to read and listen to Vanessa and her mother and the horrifying situation they have had to
experience caused by agencies that are meant to keep them safe. Take the necessary steps to
fix this problem immediately by relocating the victim and her family. I am also requesting
that the police chief overview policies with police staff, officers, and detectives on how NOT
to treat victims of rape, sexual assault, and harassment. Please look up the terms victim
blaming and victim shaming and go from there. You are hurting the residents of Anaheim by
not taking this seriously.
From:
To:Public Comment
Subject:Public Hearings Comments
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM
Attachments:Public Hearings Comments.pdf
Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting.
From:
To:Public Comment
Subject:Public Hearings Comments
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM
Attachments:Public Hearings Comments.pdf
Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting.
From:
To:Public Comment
Subject:Public Hearings Comments
Date:Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM
Attachments:Public Hearings Comments.pdf
Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting.