City of Inglewood, CA 2022 Council Meetings, 1 Feb 2022

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02-01-2022 City Council Meeting

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Pledge of allegiance raise your right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance.

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To the flag of the united states.

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Of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Madam clerk, could you call the roll yes.

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Mayor corm is present for the city council, successor agency, housing authority, finance authority, parking authority and joint powers, authority.

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All right for members of the public for public comment, you may listen and make oral public comments telephonically by dialing for the open session 888-251-2949.

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Six 215-861 zero, six, nine four: the access code is nine, two six zero six one, two pound wait three seconds and press pound again operator. Are there any callers.

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And just a reminder to our callers to press pound two. If you wish to enter the queue.

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Alright, we do have a caller in the queue.

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Go ahead call her.

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Hello, my name is nancy hanna. I am. I work with better neighbors la we're. A coalition of southern california hosts tenants, advocates hotel workers and community members, and I'm calling in to comment on council initiative number one about adopting an intermoratorium on the establishment of short-term rentals in the city of los angeles in the city of englewood.

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Better neighbors la believes that home sharing must be regulated to be sustainable. Regulations must ensure housing continues to be available to long-term residents and protect affordable, rent-controlled housing from being used as dedicated short-term rental units. The englewood planning department first recommended the city of inglewood prohibit unhosted short-term rentals in 2018..

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This recommendation was to protect housing and residents safety. Since then, inglewood has changed its proposed ordinance to not only allow unhosted short-term rentals, but also allow for vacation rentals to take housing off the market completely. This is a step in the wrong direction.

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Unhosted short-term rentals, including vacation rentals, are the most likely to take housing off the market and be turned into dedicated tourist housing. Accelerating gentrification and raising rents for all unhosted short-term rentals are often used as party houses. They cause noise disturbances, create trash monopolize parking and, as sadly illustrated this past weekend, unhosted short-term rentals pose a threat to public safety.

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The city of englewood should require all short-term rentals to be a primary residence. All short-term rentals must have a host on site throughout the rental to ensure that guests are supervised. The city of englewood should prohibit all short-term rentals in any rent, controlled housing unit to ensure affordable housing is used for tenants and not tourists. Thank you so much.

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Thank you, caller.

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I've heard of any of the callers.

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We do not have any callers in the queue at this time.

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Mayor we did have a public comment regarding um the initiative and we did pass that out from marvin mccoy. um It was passed out to our council members.

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All right, then, uh with that we'll close public comment um item.

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Just one second.

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Item one csa2 and h1.

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Want register second.

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Madam city clerk.

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Council, member successor agency members and housing authority members dotson all right, padilla aye.

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Aye fox, I mayor chairman, buds aye.

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Consent calendar.

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Items two through four: don't.

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Move city clerk.

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Council members, dodson padilla aye.

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Mayor buds, aye, dr1 staff.

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Report recommending approval of amendment 6 to agreement number with nasiman llp increasing the blended rate from 485 dollars per hour to 545 dollars per hour.

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Adam city clerk council.

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Members dodson aye padilla, aye morales, faulk aye mayor butts.

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All right, a1 and csa3.

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Thank you, mayor as2 a1. There was two three closed session items csa1 and csa. Csa-1 is to that there was a discussion held and direction given to staff regarding the real property negotiation.

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Cs2 is the closed session regarding kenyetta taylor field at all versus city of englewood. As to that matter, uh the status on the case was provided to the city council and direction given to staff.

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The final item was cs3, which was bertha carmen aceves versus this casa de la cafe, bakery as to that a status report on the matter was given to the council and direction given to staff and as to a2. There's no reports from the city attorney's office.

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I think you're going to pull your mic closer to your mouth.

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Okay cm one. Thank you mayor. There's no reports from st matters office cc one yes,.

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Mayor, thank you. First, I would like to thank the residents for participating in the redistricting workshop that was held this saturday this past saturday, I'm sorry uh january, the 29th I want to thank miss elsa moreno and the gis department for her contribution to our workshop.

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She was great also would like to give a big shout out and thanks to our ic itc department and thomas bunn and the media team for providing excellent uh service that day as well, uh also mayor today's marks black history month, and so we want to pay homage to those that have paved the way for us this month and also mayor or. Lastly, I would like to congratulate our rams on winning the nfc west championship and making it to the super bowl super bowl 56. Let's go rams.

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Thank you mayor. Thank you. So much.

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I like that I like that so.

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It's love month as well, mary, so we'll be wearing pink this whole month. All.

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When will you be starting, I.

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Have it on my feet.

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Initiative by mayor james t butts junior requesting that the city council enact an uncodified interim ordinance imposing a temporary moratorium on the establishment of further short-term rental use in the city of inglewood, the prohibition of party houses and the establishment of requirements for host platforms to immediately remit, transit occupant tax taxes to the city for all short-term rentals operated in the city. As of january 1. 2022. now.

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How are we going to go about this? Do do we want to make the following findings first, uh mr city attorney, or should we move to make the motion away further here really.

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Thank you. Yes, you should make the findings.

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First, okay, um as for.

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Do we read them out? How do you want to do it.

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You can read them out or take them as to provide it into the staff report and the ordinance.

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Yeah then, I will move to accept uh as findings item one a b and c. Okay. Second,.

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Before we take the vote, is there anyone that wants to make a comment? I would like to all right, um councilman morales.

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Thank you and, uh first of all mayor thank you for putting this on the on the agenda. We we all know of the tragedy we're here within our city that happened at a short-term rental.

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We've all also been working on our own in regards to how we're going to deal with short-term rentals in the long run, as we all know, um having a temporary moratorium imposed, gives us the opportunity to freeze and really think about how we want to address this in the long term for the safety of our residents, but also for the happiness of our residents and the best use of of any property that is deemed worthy of of being a short-term rental.

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uh But at this point, knowing that we have a big event coming, knowing that we have a significant number of events coming here in the near future.

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I agree 100, that the responsible thing to do is to take this pause and establish the fact that we look into this short-term rental ordinance and and do the right thing for everyone. So, mayor again, uh thank you. I just wanted to say that, because I've been getting some calls in regards to this, and I wanted to establish my opinion now- thank you. Councilman.

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Any other council comments.

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um Great, thank you and again I just want the public to know and anybody listening. I know the young lady that spoke and called in earlier.

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This is something that we have folks have been approaching us on for for a long time, and uh so this is not something just an overnight decision that we're just you know flying off off the cuff.

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This is something that certainly has been thought out really has been discussed in in our own discussions with whoever we want to talk to whether it's the public or anybody else, and so you know this is important for our community to have something at least right now.

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You know so that we can also do some more assessments as as we move forward. As we know, this city is growing, it's moving quickly, and so I just want to thank the mayor and again staff for working to put this together. It's a lot of work, but we did it and it's done, and so I appreciate the mayor.

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Thank you. um I'd like to councilman.

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Mayor uh for this, because I've been getting so.

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About this situation, you just don't know- and I am so grateful for the staff and the mayor for putting this on our docket. So thank you all very much. Thank you.

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And I may or if you don't mind, I also want to echo the sentiments of of you all, as um it was very unfortunate what happened. This is a timely matter that you know. I think that we need to to handle- and I want to thank the mayor for initiating this, and it is it's time for us to be uh take a pause like council member morales said, and get this straightened out, so that we can work for the best benefits of our residents at the end of the day.

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That's who we are working for, and so we need to take this pause and make sure that we get this right this time. Thank you, mayor.

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You know- and I just like to say you know there was a time when no one would have ever imagined that people would want to do short-term rentals uh in the city of englewood and then, as we have evolved as a community as we have evolved socially, uh we have people that want to live here that would never have considered england a housing option.

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We have people that want to recreate here because of all the things.

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Available now we want our residents to be able to benefit for sticking with us during this time and they should be able to use their homes as short-term rentals. But what should not happen should not happen as there should not be party houses.

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There should not be party houses, there should not be a proliferation of short-term rentals that are enacted by llcs that buy residential units and use them strictly as an economic benefit, and the incident that happened sunday before last, uh where four people lost their lives to a short-term rental that was rented out for a party.

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The renters were people from this county with gang affiliations,.

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And there was an ambush, obviously they discovered who was going to be there from social media, and so the city has no idea. What's going on, the owner of the property is not resident on the property, and so we intend, after this vote, to enact a very strict, short-term rental ordinance that will be developed during this moratorium and we intend for what happened sunday before last to never happen here again.

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It's a responsibility of the city council to have regulations for the uses.

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Of property, they could have a detrimental impact on neighborhood integrity, meaning the ability for people to enjoy the homes that they've lived in for so long and paid for for so long, and it's our responsibility to ensure there is a level of safety involved, and that's why I asked the housing protection people and the coordinator of the short-term rental division to work with me in putting together the staff report, they'll be working with the city attorney's office to come up with a comprehensive ordinance that will regulate and control this use.

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And so I want to thank the council for their comments and with that, madam city clerk, I'll call for the vote.

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Okay, council members, dotson aye padilla all.

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Aye mayor budz.

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Aye mayor, would you like to introduce and move for adoption.

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I would like to introduce and uh and moving for adoption.

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We need a motion to uh wait for the reading.

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I made that motion before but.

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We'll do it again motion right for a leading second, okay excuse.

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Me we did, what did we just vote.

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What you voted on was um the findings, a b and c okay. Yes, sir.

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And and councilman morales's move.

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Waive further reading off second, okay.

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Do you want to vote on the motion.

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Okay, council members, dodson all right, padilla morales.

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Fox aye, mayor budz.

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Aye and uh uh move adoption second and introduce and move it up.

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Okay, mayor council members, dotson all right.

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Padilla all right.

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Morales all right fog, aye, mayor budz,.

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Approval of the minutes of the meetings held on december 7th 2021 and december 14 2021 move.

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Approval second, madam city clerk successor.

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Agency members dodson.

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Morales fogg chairman butts.

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I will join the successor agency, um h2 approval.

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Of the minutes of the meetings held on december 7, 2021 and december 14, 2021.

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Madam city clerk.

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Housing authority members dotson.

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Padilla morales.

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Fog aye chairman butts.

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Aye h3 staff.

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Report recommending approval of the revised california tax credit allocation committee, lease rider agreement by and among inglewood housing authority, pacific rim, preservation, lp and the california tax credit allocation committee for pacific rim. Apartments located at 230, south ravilla avenue, inglewood, california, 90301.

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Second, madame city clerk.

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Housing authority members, dotson, padilla morales fog, chairman buds.

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Aye will adjourn the housing authority, f1 approval.

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Of the minutes of the meeting held on december 14, 2021.

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The second city clerk finance.

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Authority members dotson.

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Fogg, chairman buds.

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Approval of the minutes of the meeting held on december 14 2021.

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Madam city clerk.

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Parking authority, members, dotson, padilla morales fog, chairman buds,.

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Aye will adjourn the parking authority, jpa1 approval.

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Of the minutes of the meeting held on december 14, 2021.

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Approval second, madam city clerk joint.

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Powers authority members, dotson.

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Aye morales aye fox and chairman butts. I.

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Will adjourn the finance authority and the gpa uh now we're on to public comments, as there are no appointments to board the commission.

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There is an appointment, you.

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Were like keeping it a secret man, you made me I didn't want to. I don't want it to lose you to lose it right. There.

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Your organization bomb on.

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Counseling council, member eli morales nominates and I appoint alex munge to the housing authority commission. I move.

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Concurrence second,.

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Madam city clerk.

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Council members dodson.

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Fox aye mayor butts aye.

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Comment persons wishing to address the council on any matter connected with city business not elsewhere considered may do so at this time operator. Are there any callers.

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And just reminders to your audience: do you press pound two? If you wish to make a comment.

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I do not see any comments in the queue at this time.

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Mayor, we did have comments come through via email, and so those have been passed out to our mayor and council uh from susan jensen.

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All right, okay! Thank you very.

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Much you're welcome.

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There's no further comment operator.

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uh We do have a hand raise in the queue now.

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All right go ahead.

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I call your lines immediately. Please go ahead.

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uh Good afternoon everybody um I wanted to make a comment about the incident that did occur like we're talking about maybe two weeks ago, with the shooting and everything it was an unfortunate situation, and I don't know maybe for a comment. You know. Maybe I know you have the ink with police. Maybe they can. You know patrol on the different streets that they feel that are that have short time rentals.

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You know to make sure that they're not having parties- and you know- they're- not you know getting affiliated and that they're, not oh, not going by the rules of the short-term rental. So if they do see that occurring, then you know they could call for backup, and then they can tell the people. Okay, everybody has to you know, leave uh the premises. You know immediately because you can't use these short term rentals. You know four parties because we want to make sure our neighborhood is safe.

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You know for our community for our children, especially you know the stadium is built, the forum is there, you have people coming in out of town that are going to be going to the games and concerts and we want to make sure our neighbors and community is safe, as well as people traveling to our community to enjoy these functions.

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Thank you so much alfred. Are there any other callers.

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I do not see any additional comments in the queue at the sun.

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Okay, with that, we will.

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Close public comment: um are there.

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Any council comments.

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Thank you, mr mayor. um I feel like I'm just repeating what I see the clerk had to say, but it's uh it's very important that we understand black history month. It starts today um and we need to learn more about that history, so that that is american history.

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You know things that were done here in america by african-american.

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People should be part of uh american history. So um take the time to see what you can find out about some particular hero, and uh can you continue is going on? um I also want to make an announcement that uh we're doing our threading event february 19th 9, to 12 at 2901, manchester boulevard.

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We received a lot of calls about this, so now I have committed we're going to do it and we're going to do it.

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February, 19th, that's really at the archive center, so the other thing I want to say is how about them rams and I wish them all the success in the super bowl.

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Thank you very much. Thank you, sir councilman padilla district 2.. Thank.

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You mayor so you know the young lady that just called talked about the police department patrolling our police department, patrols, they're out there. I see them all the time they they they work hard. They're we're asking me to do so. Much with you know, you know with whatever they can and then right now in preparation of the super bowl. They're they're, really, you know working hard.

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They were out there in force this past sunday at the rams game, and you know working with other local agencies to support our public safety efforts, and so uh you know kudos to our englewood police department and the rest of city staff. That is out there all the time I mean working together to make sure that our community continues to be safe, and so I want to touch on um the super bowl.

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So you know it's a it's humongous right, everybody around the world is going to be watching the game and knowing that it's here in our community in inglewood- and so you know we are, you- know working with all our local state and federal partners to ensure we have a safe event.

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That being said, we count on the public, see something say something if it doesn't look right, call the police department so that we can go out there. They can go out there and take a look at it.

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There's nothing wrong with that right, the more eyes that we have on target the better off we're going to be to address any situations that may come up, so it doesn't just rest on the shoulders of our police department every not only resident, but if you're out there visiting the city of england, you see something say something right: we all have a vested interest to ensure that all the folks visiting from everywhere they have fun, and I want to thank some of our restaurants that have stepped up and they've prepared and they've got some delicious food at different eateries.

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Here in the city of england, you don't have to go outside the city. We got it all right here in inglewood, we got shopping. That folks can come and do here in inglewood.

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You know and guess what there's going to be traffic hello, it's a huge event right, 80, 000, plus folks, showing up you know to the city of inglewood, and I tell folks come to englewood, spend your money. Man I mean come on right, buy whatever you want to buy, go visit, all our restaurants, let's you know improve our our economic situation and let everybody benefit from this and so plan.

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Accordingly, if you're coming to the game or if you're going to be out and about on super bowl sunday, no there's going to be traffic, take advantage of our public transportation system. Carpool do all that stuff and one more thing mayor just 30 seconds. Absolutely the sid nella project talk about planning in advance, so I've got this setting ella project.

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Thank you to public works, the city manager, everybody that they helped us get this thing going, there's going to be some inconveniences because we're out there improving, setting ella from la cienega all the way to florence, and so just know that we're working on it. I hear your concerns about the sidewalks are being torn out. Traffic is being diverted or this you know this is a a project it's going to take several months and so bear with us so that you know we can continue to improve inglewood.

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If you want to know more about this project- and you want to get on my newsletter, because I put information on my newsletter, you can call my office at two 310-412-8, six, zero one and or you can send me an email at a padilla city of inglewood.org, and just so you know any city, employee just put their first letter and their last name at city of inglewood.org.

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All right with that go rams.

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Oh rams, that was two minutes and 35.

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Them up counts, council, one uh fault district, four.

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Thank you mayor, so I'm, like everybody else, so super excited that our rams are gonna, be in the super bowl whose house rams house. I am very excited about it, and um this is just a historic time for our city. I mean who would ever thought super bowl would be here in inglewood. That's just amazing! So with that um I just want to just put that warning out there.

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With our district 4 residents, there will be traffic just expected kind of like councilman predia said just know that there's going to be a lot going on, we have taste of inglewood happening the few days right before super bowl in downtown englewood. It's going to be a lot going on.

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I want everybody to just pay attention to probably all of our social media, but also you can get um up-to-date information by going to city of inglewood website clicking on how do I, on the top right hand, corner, and then you want to click on the alerts, notify me and you will be able to get notified of anything happening, any traffic jams, street closures. So we want to make this a great event for the city of inglebootwood, but we also want it to not be painful for our residents.

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So for more information go to my my webpage, I will have some information up for everybody to get signed in to notify me so that they can get up-to-date information, but we're gonna have a great time uh the week of super bowl looking forward to it, and one more thing I just want to acknowledge before I'm done- is that our assembly member autumn burke has um issued a her resignation effective today, and um I just wanted to take this time to acknowledge her commitment and dedication to uh the 62nd district.

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I was with her from her very first election 2014. That's that middle picture to the very left. That's when she was um first uh her first day at the assembly. We, a group of us, went up to celebrate her and she did uh swear me in right here.

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When I took my seat for the city of inglewood city council district. Four, we will miss her she's been a great assembly. Member and she's done great work. She's been a great assembly member. We will miss her. Thank you, mayor, okay,.

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You know before I go to councilman morales. I I have to note that um councilman padilla has been such a bad influence on all the council people. With these pictures I mean everybody's got pictures not with me everybody and you me and you we.

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Don't have any pictures, I'm going to draw one right now.

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Council morales.

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I think it's great and congratulations to something with burke who's been great for all of us. um You know a little more of the same, the the uh congratulations ram. It just feels good to be part of something that the city uh uh has seen so many positive images about on tv. I know everybody's excited every employee in here uh that played a role should be, uh you know to should feel part of it.

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uh It's amazing how you know our our planning department, our city manager, our our public works, everybody who did their part we're not used to building stadiums, but they made it happen, and that should be commended equally. You know this. The the city has grown exponentially in so many ways, and yet our police department has not grown but they've uh handled everything. So more of what alex said, uh it's amazing to me when there is all this going on in the city on any given sunday, and you could still call them and get a response.

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I've seen it. It's happened in the neighborhood and uh they should be commended. So part of it is just kind of understanding. I guess how it works, and these two gentlemen of course know how it works, but it's also, you know the fact that we have such experienced leadership over at the department that can just absorb all this extra stuff and just identify what needs to be done. um So that being said, I just want to uh thank everyone uh for for their role, in that I did want to mention.

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I know councilman dodson mentioned black history month and it's amazing. You know I I, since I grew up here in inglewood. You know I thought everybody had uh classes uh that heard about black history month in classes heard about martin luther king during their days, but not everybody did, and you know uh I can tell you that. That's why I think it's so important uh that these months are recognized. You know uh so that being said, an important city in an important month having an important things happen. So that's awesome. Thank you mayor. Thank you.

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Wanted to acknowledge um assemblywoman burke, the entire city council was here for her when she first ran. I don't know if it's 2014 2015.

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and um you know she got elected right off the bat non-incumbent and we're very proud of her, we're very grateful for the things that she has done for the city. She was heavily involved in us getting an 8.5 million dollar grant to redo market street, which we are in the planning phases. Right now, I wanted to say that, uh after 50 years of service, public service, three different cities- this one twice that this moment this moment in time- is the ultimate of of my career.

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I walk in the morning in the last two days, people stop roll down their window. They talk about how proud they are to live in inglewood.

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They are grateful to the council, for you know what we've done, but the reality is is that this is a an organization of about 785 people now and we all we all in the city of england family play a role without most of us. I can't say all of us, because you know we have a few, but most of us without most of us- we're not where we are today, and it becomes even more important when you get the big things that you take care of.

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What are the little things that let the residents know that you care.

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We have worked so hard on renewing the infrastructure over the last eight years when we saved the money to do it, and you know I have to give a lot of kudos to the public works department. I was in the basement with three of the guys uh coming up this morning and they were talking about how proud they are to work for the city of inglewood and.

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I do like that street pole every day when I walk to the gym and, like I said, 30 people stopping where usually it's like five and two of them want to complain about their driveway hasn't been fixed, but their neighbors was and we're talking about 30 people, that's a great street pole and after we took care of the neighborhoods after we trimmed the trees.

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After we did the sidewalks, then we started working on manchester and then you know you have some people say well you're only doing that because of the super bowl, we're saying no, we've done everything else, and now we're about to have 20 000 people a day, walking down manchester and we don't need them tripping and breaking their ankles and suing the city.

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When you uh have people over, you usually clean up the living room.

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So we're cleaning up the living room, everybody- and um I just want to tell you I'm grateful uh for the city council, I'm grateful for the employees, our executive staff, for making this the time of my life and with that we'll close. The meeting in the memory of conchita cox who worked for the city for over 21 years in the rsi department and with that we're adjourned.