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From YouTube: 2016 Inglewood State of the City with Mayor James Butts
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Featured guests include Mayor James Butts, Stan Kroenke, Jerry Jones, Fred Roggin, and Jim Hill. Topics addressed include the NFL, the Rams, The Forum, Residential Sound Insulation, and many more.
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Before
I
bring
forward
our
emcee
for
the
afternoon,
I'd
like
to
simply
thank
a
few
of
our
sponsors,
our
title
sponsors
who
have
helped
make
this
event
happen
since
another
Hospital,
the
forum
sky,
posters,
Hollywood
Park,
pearl
TPT,
global
tech,
United,
Rentals
and
I'd
like
to
thank
the
Robert
group.
These
companies
will
receive
the
token
of
our
appreciation
today.
A
Special
thanks
also
goes
to
our
gold
sponsors,
our
silver
sponsors,
our
bronze
sponsors
and
our
table
sponsors,
without
whom
this
could
not
happen.
I'd
like
to
now
introduce
someone
who
needs
no
introduction
once
upon
a
time,
I
used
to
refer
to
him
as
a
young
man,
but
now
I
just
refer
to
him.
As
my
good
friend,
he
has
someone
that
I
have
known
for
more
years
than
I
care
to
count.
His
bio
is
before
you
in
the
program.
A
He
really
needs
no
introduction,
but
he
is
one
of
our
favorite
broadcasters
he's
been
on
CBS
for
so
many
years.
He
played
football
with
my
father
back
in
the
day
and
I'm
just
so
proud
to
have
him
committed
to
our
city
committed
to
our
mayor,
along
with
his
star
on
the
Walk
of
Fame
and
all
of
the
accolades
that
he's
been
given.
None
of
those
things
adequately
describe
our
MC
for
the
hour.
Please
join
me
in
welcoming
our
very
own
Jim
Hill.
B
B
B
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
a
fine
round
of
applause
for
all
of
those
wonderful
people
that
are
here
with
us
here
with
us
today
and
now
I'd
like
to
bring
to
the
podium
an
individual
who
is
the
vice
president
of
here
at
the
Forum,
and
he
has
a
very
special
presentation
to
make.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
please
welcome
to
the
podium
mr.
Nick
spampinato
Nick.
C
Hello,
everyone
I
consider
myself
very
lucky
when
we
first
talked
about
doing
this.
Building
I
had
leadership
from
Jim
Dole
and
Irving
Azoff,
Shelli,
Azoff
and
and
their
vision,
and
they
gave
me
the
tools
that
I
needed
to
you
know
create
what
we've
created
here.
Another
big
part
of
that
was,
as
we
all
know,
the
mayor
and
what
we'd
like
to
do,
and
it's
tough
to
keep
a
surprise
for
the
mayor,
is
show
you
a
little
bit
of
our
gratitude.
So
take
a
look.
I.
C
D
D
D
B
Remember
when
this
whole
thing
started-
and
there
were
a
lot
of
doubters
but
the
one
who
was
in
the
front
who
believed
right
from
the
very
beginning
was
mayor,
butts
and
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know
the
mayor
has
a
long
long
history
with
the
city
of
Inglewood.
He
goes
back
to
when
abdul-jabbar's
was
playing
in
this
building.
So
he
is
everything,
that's
good
about
this
city
and
about
what
we're
trying
to
do
in
our
city
today.
B
Don't
laugh!
Now.
Let
me
finish,
you
see
what
happens
when
you
give
a
sportscaster
a
microphone
and
no
time
limit,
there's
no
telling
what
may
happen
right,
but
I
am
I.
Am
a
he's.
A
good
friend
he's
everything,
that's
good
about
what
we
do
in
our
profession.
Please
welcome
from
KNBC
channel
for
their
sports
director,
mr.
Fred
Roggin
Fred.
F
F
F
Now
you
saw
the
presentation
of
the
forum,
which
basically
has
transformed
the
city.
You
know
that
the
stadium
and
the
development
is
going
to
go
in,
which
is
going
to
make
this
would
far
more
important
than
Hollywood,
but
the
thing
that
I
believe
is
the
most
telling
that
the
city
has
turned
it
around
four
and
a
half
years
ago,
near
bankruptcy.
Today,
the
programs
on
your
table
are
printed
in
color.
So
you
see
things
definitely
have
turned
around
here,
not
talking
about
these
little
fliers
in
black
and
white,
we
hand
out
anymore.
F
F
To
each
and
every
one
of
you
in
this
room
that
has
a
stake
in
inglewood
or
a
belief
in
Englewood
mayor
butts
lives,
Inglewood
24
hours
a
day.
He
is
only
concerned
about
the
people
in
his
city,
improving
the
quality
of
life,
improving
your
quality
of
life.
I
do
want
to
tell
you
a
quick
story,
while
the
NFL
relocation
process
was
going
on
I.
F
Many
of
you
may
know
that
I
had
communicated
with
the
mayor.
Occasionally
our
conversations
oftentimes
would
be
at
5:30
in
the
morning
at
6:15
in
the
morning,
and
one
night
I
called
him
and
it
was
a
little
after
midnight
and
I
said.
What
are
you
doing?
He
goes
well
I'm
just
getting
into
bed.
He
said,
but
I
can
call
you
back
in
an
hour
and
a
half
I
said
that'll
be
like
1:45
in
the
morning.
What
are
you
talking
about?
He
goes.
F
Oh
I
only
sleep
in
our
in
45
minutes,
I
get
up
and
read
the
paper
in
the
middle
of
the
night.
That's
the
kind
of
commitment
he
shows
to
his
city
and
to
each
and
every
one
of
you,
one
of
the
finest
people
I've
ever
met.
I
have
to
tell
you,
knowing
him,
has
been
one
of
the
greatest
moments
of
my
life.
He's
a
great
leader,
he's
a
good
friend
and
I'm
thrilled
to
introduce
the
man
that
has
helped
transform
this
community
into
one
of
America's
foremost
cities.
The
mayor
of
Englewood,
James,
teapots,.
D
You
know
Here
I
am
I'm
supposed
to
talk
and
and
Nick
and
Shelley
got
me
ready
to
cry,
and
you
know
and
Fred
does
that
before
we
get
started,
though
we
had
a
presentation
we
wanted
to
make
and
could
could
we
bring
that
check
up?
We
want
to
give
out
a
check,
and
this
is
from
the
mayor
and
the
City
Council
to
one
of
our
local
scholars
and
she
doesn't
know
this
is
going
to
happen.
I
don't
think.
D
H
Just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Mayor,
but
since
everybody
that's
just
been
there
with
me
throughout
my
whole
time
in
high
school
and
I
just
want
to
thank
you
to
Inglewood,
because
England
has
really
just
made
a
change
to
my
life
and
I.
Just
want
to
thank
everybody,
and
thank
you,
my
mom
to
my
mom
too.
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I
D
M
J
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Now,
five
years
ago,
I
don't
think
anybody
living
in
this
city
would
have
thought
we'd
have
our
own
sizzle
reel.
In
fact,
five
years
ago
now
tell
me
I
know
nobody
here
used
to
do
this,
but
tell
me
if
some
of
your
neighbors
didn't
do
it.
People
asked
you
here,
mask
them.
Well,
where
do
you
live?
Well,
I
live
near
LAX,
but
where
do
you
live?
I
live
just
south
of
Culver
City.
D
D
First
I
want
to
thank
the
committee
that
put
this
together
all
the
people
from
the
city
of
Inglewood
and
from
the
forum,
and
if
all
of
you
that
we're
involved
this
would
stand
up
because
I
messed
this
up
last
year
and
I
left
people
out.
Would
you
stand
up,
became
we
give
up,
give
a
big
round
of
applause.
D
Now,
a
special
thanks
to
Shelli
Azoff,
who
went
out
of
her
way
to
make
sure
that
we
had
everything
we
needed
and
nick
saban
puñado.
They
are
always
here
for
us.
Please
give
them
a
hand
and
even
though
they're
going
to
be
introduced
later,
I
really
want
us
to
get
up
on
our
feet
for
Stan,
Kroenke
and
Jerry
Jones.
For
taking
the
time
to
be
here
and
show
us
that
Englewood
matters.
D
D
You
know
we
we
use
benchmarks
in
Englewood
to
evaluate
our
performance,
most
state
of
the
cities,
you'll
ear,
mayor's
they'll
talk
for
45
or
50
minutes,
and
they
really
don't
say
a
whole
lot
because
they
don't
want
to
go
to
the
numbers
and
I.
Don't
blame
them,
because
most
mayor's
have
inherited
an
untenable
situation.
And
so
the
numbers
really
work
against
you,
because
it's
not
likely
that
you're
going
to
show
progress
year-to-year.
D
Q
D
There
we
go
alright,
I'm,
pretty
technical,
but
anyway,
I
want
to
thank
some
elected
partners
before
I
go
any
further.
These
are
people
that
have
been
with
us,
the
council
for
for
the
last
five
years
to
help
us
get
the
legislation
we
needed
to
do
the
things
we
needed
to
do
to
get
the
city
to
where
we
are
today.
Carn
from
Maxine
Waters
got
us
a
millions
of
dollars
from
the
FAA
for
sound
installation.
Give
her
a
big
hand.
D
Assemblywoman
autumn
Burke
is
in
Sacramento
right
now,
but
she's
working
on
that
same
sign
legislation
for
us,
County,
County,
Supervisor,
mark
ridley-thomas,
senator
rod,
right
retired,
was
instrumental
in
helping
us
to
support
our
revenue
stream
and
Assemblyman
Steve
Bradford
retired
running
for
the
Senate
he's
here
as
well.
Please
give
him
all
around
with
applause.
G
D
D
Now
I
knew
I
got
the
impression
she
wanted
me
to
mention
it,
because
first
she
sent
me
the
letter.
Then
she
sent
me
a
copy
of
the
award
and
then
she
sent
me
the
notarized
affidavit
from
the
Los
Angeles
Business
Journal,
so
Linda.
We
are
proud
of
you,
proud
of
you,
and
this
is
another
number
one
for
Inglewood
Thank,
You
Linda.
Congratulations.
D
D
This
right
here
this
is
the
logo
for
my
newsletter
that
I
send
out
every
two
weeks,
and
you
see
we
had
the
pass
Randy's
donuts,
the
present
the
forum
and
the
future
champions
Plaza.
But
if
leading
at
champions
Plaza
I
wanted
to
change
my
letterhead.
Do
you
know
how
bad
that
would
have
been?
That's
a
joke.
You
guys-
and
this
is
Inglewood
now
we're
going
to
have
a
brand
new
casino
champions.
Plaza
lax
is
undergoing
a
three
billion
dollar
renovation.
D
D
So
anyway,
here
are
challenges.
In
2011
we
had
eighteen
point:
six
million
dollar
structural
deficit.
We
were
headed
to
cash
flow
bankruptcy
in
six
months,
we're
financing
our
water
purchases
with
capital
infrastructure
money.
On
our
six-year-old
system
we
had
sinkholes.
Every
month
our
average
police
vehicle
had
150,000
miles
on
it.
Our
computer,
a
dispatch
system,
was
written
in
COBOL
in
1986
I
know
because
I
was
part
of
the
project
team
and
our
residential
sound
insulation
program
had
been
defunded
and
lost
37
million.
D
Over
four
years
we
had
a
lifetime
medical
program
that
was
unfunded
by
the
employees
or
by
the
city
for
the
people
that
had
already
retired.
That
was
a
hundred
seventeen
million
dollar
unfunded
liability
over
30
years,
and
we
were
spending
about
five
million
dollars
a
year
when
I
took
office
for
it
we
were
spending
six
million
dollars
for
their
medical
premiums.
Right
now,
before
we
get
one
single
revenue,
we
start
with
a
six
million
dollar
deficit
in
the
city.
D
If
it
had
continued
by
2017,
we
would
have
again
had
the
opportunity
to
be
cashflow,
bankrupt
and
insolvent.
They
would
have
peaked
in
somewhere
in
the
2030s
and
it
didn't
matter
because
we
wouldn't
have
been
in
business
at
that
time.
At
that
time
anyway,
we
mean
no
go
ship,
we
negotiated
with
the
employees.
We
spent
four
million
dollars
upfront
for
retirement
health
savings
plan
and
we
capped
that
liability
and
we
reduced
that
360.
Sixteen
million
dollar
liability
to
one
hundred
and
fifty
two
million
dollars.
D
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D
D
D
We
outsource
parking
control,
we
had
25
parking,
checkers
of
which
14
showed
up
on
any
given
day
and
when
we
contracted
that
they
hired
our
employees
and
we
saved
1.4
million
dollars
a
year
and
we
have
increased
our
citation
output
by
about
a
magnitude
of
10.
Although
people
aren't
happy
about
that
either.
D
D
D
Our
sales
tax
revenues
have
steadily
climbed.
We
have
an
arrangement
with
the
developers
for
the
point
of
sale
for
all
the
construction
materials
used
to
build
the
stadium
to
be
sold
here
in
the
city
of
Inglewood,
and
what
that
does
to
our
projected
sales
tax
revenue
for
the
coming
year
is
double
it.
D
D
Residential
sound
installation
program.
Well,
you
know
we're
in
the
flight
path
in
a
lot
of
places
in
this
city
and
when
I
came
into
office,
we
had
been
defunded,
we
lost
37
million
dollars
in
grant
funds
from
LA
WA
because
we
didn't
manage
the
program
properly.
I
entered
into
an
MOU
audited
the
program
and
since
2000,
and
see
that's
15,
14
13.
Since
2013
we
have
gone
from
doing
205
houses
in
2010
to
almost
4,000
homes.
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D
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D
D
Employment
contemporary
service
corporation
CSC,
they
staff
the
forum
and
they
have
hired
over
900
inward
residents.
In
the
past
five
years,
inward
residents
have
earned
over
three
hundred
seventy
thousand
dollars
in
wages
and
over
three
hundred
England
residents
have
been
hired
at
forum.
Job
fairs,
thanks
to
the
forum
and
CSC.
D
Englewood
one-stop
right
across
the
street
from
City
Hall,
they
opened
a
teen
Center
in
collaboration
with
the
city.
At
the
bottom
floor
of
the
library
they
had
1,200
youth
visit,
the
teen
teen
center
from
July
1
2015
to
March
31st
2016.
They
averaged
60
per
day.
24
in
wood
residents
have
been
employed
in
construction
jobs,
paying
eighty
nine
dollars
an
hour
or
more
since
February
2016,
and
that's
the
one-stop
construction
and
utilities
preparation
program.
They
have
a
thing
called
blueprint
for
workplace
success.
It's
held
at
Rogers
Park.
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D
Moody's
upgraded
our
bond
rating
in
February
of
2015
and
then
on
January
21st
of
2016.
They
issued
this
annual
comment
and
basically
the
get
to
the
heart
of
it.
It
says,
moreover,
in
Englewood
the
fund
balance
as
a
percent
of
operating
revenues,
meaning
the
money
that
we
have
in
the
bank
compared
to
our
spending
plan,
far
surpasses
other
Moody's
related
city
Moody's
rated
cities
nationwide
and
saw
an
impressive
increase
from
2011
to
2014
I.
D
Senior
Center
all
I
heard
it
was
about
the
senior
center
forever
when
I
got
into
town
and-
and
it
was
not
funded,
we
admit,
spent
two
million
dollars
and
HUD
money
that
we
had
to
pay
back
to
HUD
because
we
put
in
a
design
that
wasn't
eligible.
But
this
new
20
million
dollar
facility
will
open
November
of
2017.
D
The
shop
up
group
is
building
317
dwelling
units
in
the
400
to
600
thousand
dollar
range
at
the
old
Daniel
Freeman
site.
It's
going
to
look
like
that.
Safran
associates
associates
is
building
177
residential
unit
complex
at
the
old
Buffington
Cadillac
site
at
market
and
Florence
across
the
street
from
the
Metrolink,
and
that's
what
it's
going
to
look
like.
D
R
R
R
It's
born
of
the
work
of
all
the
people
in
the
community
that
have
been
working
to
make
this
happen
and
it's
their
marriage
with
the
vision
of
Stan
Kroenke.
That's
going
to
bring
this
thing
to
life.
There
is
300
acres
of
land
that
has
been
assembled
by
Stan
here
in
the
center
of
the
Los
Angeles
basin.
It
is
an
area
where
there
was
no
plan
for
future
development.
R
It
was
an
area
that
was
putting
forth
little
economic
growth
in
the
city
and
over
the
past
number
of
years,
the
community
stakeholders
participated
in
setting
a
vision
for
what
would
come
here
that
included
open
space,
local
jobs,
a
beautiful
new
retail
district.
Would
that
would
be
the
center
point
of
the
basin
of
Los
Angeles?
Our
work
is
not
done
here
because
the
NFL
made
its
selection
in
January.
R
Our
work
will
be
done
over
the
coming
decade,
is
all
of
the
promises
that
have
been
made
to
this
community
come
to
life,
and
we
look
so
forward
to
actually
seeing
that
come
thanks
to
again
the
vision
of
Stan
Kroenke,
we're
going
to
show
a
few
slides
on
what
the
stadium
is
like.
Mark
williams
of
HKS,
sports
and
entertainment
is
going
to
walk
us
through
those
and
then
meal
there
of
l'air
and
associates.
One
of
the
greatest
landscape.
Architects
in
this
country
is
going
to
walk
us
through
what
the
public
park
realm
here
is.
S
S
Working
on
the
project
in
Dallas
just
quickly
became
a
twice
in
a
lifetime
opportunity
because
of
that
same
reason
of
looking
at
client
in
the
eye
and
knowing
that
they
were
not
only
dreamers,
but
they
were
visionaries
and
they
were
going
to
change
the
way
people
experience
these
venues,
so
it's
a
very,
very
special
day
for
us
and
I
think
the
dreaming
really
started
that
day.
It
was
soon
after
that
that
I
met
mayor,
butts
and
I
think
in
the
first
five
minutes.
S
He
looked
at
me
and
he
looked
me
in
the
eye
and
he
said
mark.
Do
you
think
we
can
have
something
here
like
what
you
did
for
mr.
and
mrs.
Jones
in
Arlington,
Texas
and
I
said
mayor
butts?
We
can
do
that.
We
can
do
that
and
I
can
tell
you
today.
Mr.
mayor
butts,
we
have
done
that
and
we
have
created
that
and
this
venue
will
be
incredible.
S
S
Want
to
touch
on
just
a
couple
of
those
visionary
things
that
really
grew
out
of
HKS
and
our
client.
This
project
will
have
the
DNA
of
Englewood
in
the
DNA
of
Southern
California.
It's
a
very
unique
thing
that
we
do
and
if
you
look
at
this
entry,
when
we
all
get
a
walk
into
this
building
for
the
very
first
time
and
you
walk
through
this
indoor/outdoor
meandering
path
down
to
the
stadium
down
to
your
seat.
And
you
can
see
the
the
field
in
there.
S
It's
going
to
be
the
most
incredible
experience
and
entry
into
any
sporting
entertainment
venue
in
the
world.
And
if
you
just
look
at
the
landscaping
that
Mia's
going
to
touch
on
them
a
little
bit
and
you
think
about
walking
through
there,
you're
really
walking
through
a
park
to
get
into
an
incredible
entertainment
venue
to
watch
an
NFL
game
to
watch
a
whole
host
of
activities
so
that
we
have
five
or
six
of
those
that
are
spread
around
the
perimeter
of
the
building.
It's
going
to
be
a
very,
very
unique
piece
of
the
design.
S
The
other
thing,
if
you
sort
of
look
on
the
opposite
end.
As
this
site,
that's
just
a
few
yards
away
is
going
to
be
a
global
stage.
There's
about
thirty,
eight
million
people
and
I
just
did
this.
This
morning
you
fly
right
near
the
site.
You
look
out
the
window,
there's
38
million
people
that
do
what
I
did
this
morning
and
you
look
right
on
top
of
this
of
this
site
and
that'll
be
your
view
right
there.
S
So,
if
you
think
about
the
eyeballs
across
the
world
across
the
globe
coming
from
every
country
on
the
planet,
landing
at
LAX,
that's
just
an
incredible
opportunity
for
the
site
for
the
city
of
Englewood
for
the
NFL
and
anybody
who's
associated
with
this
site.
So
that's
in
a
very
exciting
component
of
this
design.
S
And
then,
lastly,
what
I
think
is
the
very
most
important
piece
of
this
is
is
really
the
experience
and
we
all
you
know,
are
plugged
into
our
devices
and
our
phones
and
and
the
day
that
you
know
my
father
and
I
would
go
watch
a
football
game
or
an
event
is
a
little
bit
different.
You
know,
and
the
people
that
are
younger
than
myself
have
different
expectations.
Well,
I
can
tell
you
that
we
have
embedded
that
into
our
design
and
we're
thinking
about
that
daily.
So
it's
we're.
S
Gonna,
have
incredible
seats
and
and
things
to
do.
But
if
you
look
at
the
the
integration
of
Technology,
you
look
at
food,
you
don't
have
to
just
go
to
a
sports,
a
venue
and
and
have
that
same
expected
food.
We're
gonna
have
the
food
that
you
would
eat
when
you
go
to
restaurants
when
you
go
to
other
other
places
in
this
region,
so
we've
really
incorporated
the
experience
to
a
much
higher
level
for
everybody
that
comes
in
and
to
defend
you.
So
the
exciting
thing
for
me
is
that
we
have
taken
mr.
S
Crocker's
vision
of
this
site
and
we're
going
to
share
it
with
the
world
and
I
think
that
the
experience
is
that
everybody
sees
whether
it's
on
in
an
airplane,
whether
it's
sitting
in
the
seating
bowl
or
whether
it's
watching
something
on
TV
happen
in
this
venue.
It's
going
to
affect
people
and
they're
gonna,
feel
it
and
I
think
it's
gonna
change
their
lives
and
it's
going
to
change
Englewood.
S
T
So
what
you
see
here
is
the
sort
of
pedestrian
bike
connections
that
not
only
connect
the
community
but
also
connect
the
neighborhoods
to
the
community.
With
real
permeability,
we
have
champion
Plaza,
which
is
a
wonderful
Plaza,
that
with
the
stairs
and
the
fountain
looking
down
into
the
lake,
the
lake
being
the
heart
of
the
community
and
allowing
us
to
have
events
and
performances
in
in
that
area
between
the
performance,
venue
and
the
stadium.
T
Here,
it
is
25
10
acre
park
with
a
5
acre
lake
and
a
wonderful
and
a
series
of
spaces
all
around
for
people
to
enjoy
daytime
and
nighttime,
and
a
wonderful
waterfall
and
the
Royal
Park,
which
is
for
the
residential
area,
which
is
this
linear
park.
That
really
takes
advantage
and
has
a
different
kind
of
activities.
A
more
community-based
and
then,
of
course,
bluff
Park
with
more
active
recreation
and
that
overlooks
and
peeks
down
into
the
lake
and
into
the
stadium
area
and
really
sort
of
has
its
own
a
character.
T
So
we
this
is
the
Mediterranean
biome
and
what
we're
dealing
with
and
how
we're
taking
advantage
of
the
wonderful
wonderful
flora
and
so,
where
you're
going
to
have
the
series
of
gardens
there,
series
of
parts
that
are
going
to
be
bringing
and,
of
course,
I
have
a
bias,
and
so
does
my
team,
but
that
we
think
that
this
stadium
and
these
gardens
and
these
plazas
are
going
to
be
way
beyond
the
experiences
that
people
are
having
in
most
stadiums
in
the
country.
Thank
you.
D
You
know,
actually
this
isn't
the
first
time
there's
been
interest
in
England
and
particularly
the
Hollywood
Park
Racetrack
site
as
a
potential
NFL
site
in
the
90s.
Al
Davis
was
with
in
a
press
conference
of
announcing
a
deal
with
the
English
City
Council
when
he
decided
he
wanted
the
council
to
give
more
money
towards
the
construction
of
the
stadium
and
that
didn't
manifest
itself
and
no
press
cops
ever
occurred
in
2012
actually
was
in
discussions
with
Mark
Davis
about
the
same
potentiality.
D
But
you
know
there's
a
lot
of
things
you
got
to
have
to
make
this
happen.
You
have
to
have
an
owner,
you
have
to
be
capitalized,
and
then
you
have
to
have
the
will
of
the
league
to
make
it
happen,
and
you
have
to
have
enough
land
and
that
just
in
materialized,
then
one
day,
two
and
a
half
years
ago
we
got
a
call
from
a
guy
named
Andy
Camacho
who
owns
the
marisol
restaurant
in
Santa,
Monica
I,
know
Andy
very
well,
and
he
called
Eloy
Morales
and
said:
hey.
D
You
know
Stan
Kroenke
is
in
the
area
and
he
wants
to
know
if
he
could
drop
in
and
see
the
mayor
and
so
Eloy
comes
and
tells
me
that
and
I
said
who's,
Stan,
Kroenke
and
and
and
then
I
found
out
who
Stan
Kroenke
was
I,
see
I'll
take
that
meeting
and
we
met
and
cut
to
the
chase.
You
know
he
he
he
made
a
proposal.
I
gave
him
my
input
on
some
things
that
I
thought
would
make
it
even
better
and
surprising
to
me.
F
U
Okay,
well,
this
goes
back
quite
a
long
way,
because
the
Mayor
was
talking
about
the
history
of
the
NFL
in
Los,
Angeles
and
Wow.
Now,
looking
at
the
site,
I
used
to
tell
other
owners,
I
mean
we
don't
know
a
lot
about
a
lot
of
things.
We
know
a
little
bit
about
real
estate
and
I
was
sitting
there
in
the
90s,
and
you
know
we.
U
U
U
So
we
had
a
long
history
of
things
that
happened
back
in
st.
Louis
and
we
don't
need
to
go
there,
but
go
into
that.
But
once
we
were,
the
judges
had
decided
that
we
had
been
reasonable
and
that
we
were
our
remedy
was
to
relocate.
The
team.
I
mean
it
was
prudent
for
us
to
start
looking
around
and
and
back
to
real
estate.
We
find
it's
easy
to
look
at
sites
in
the
morning
when
there
isn't
so
much
traffic.
So
one
day,
I
called
Kevin
demo
off
and
it
was
about.
U
He
goes
what
you
know
what
you
know.
It
was
like
7
o'clock
or
7:30
back
and
back
in
Missouri
and
I
said.
You
know,
I'm
driving
by
this
side
out
here.
This
racetrack
and
I
said
what
a
wonderful
sight,
and
so
it
sort
of
went
from
there
and,
and
there
were
other
alternatives,
some
presented
by
people
I
know
really
well
around
Los
Angeles.
But
to
me
there
was
no
doubt
this
was
clearly
easily
the
best
side.
So.
F
U
Right
and
then
you
know,
that's
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
do.
You
know
in
any
of
these
big
projects,
so
you
know
the
first
guy
you
want
to
talk
to.
Is
you
know,
we're
real
estate
developers?
We've
done
a
lot
of
these
things.
You
want
to
get
to
know
the
guy
in
charge
so
may
or
may
not
have
known
my
name,
I
wasn't
real
sure.
I
knew
his
name,
but
but
I
was
real
happy.
U
He
took
the
meeting
and
you
know-
and
you
know
he's
he's
a
lot
more
clever
than
he
wants
to
let
on
up
here,
because
when
I
came
in
the
door
he
said
you
don't
have
to
tell
me
I
started
to
tell
him.
You
know,
give
him
some
background
on
what
we
did
and
he
said
really
you
don't
have
to
egos
I
know
because
I've
looked
look
at
what
you
do.
He
goes.
It's
not
just
the
football
I
understand
you
own
the
team,
but
he
goes
I
know
your
development
background.
What
do
you
need?
F
V
It's
always
been
about
the
men
or
the
women.
It's
always
they'll.
Remember
the
great
buildings
and
they'll
remember
the
great
projects,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day
they
will
remember
the
men
and
women
who
were
really
the
builders
of
men
and
women,
and
these
two
guys
sitting
here
seriously.
These
two
guys
sitting
here
have
taken
a
very
visible
sports.
V
V
But
sports
but
sports
and
in
our
particular
case
the
National
Football
League
I,
never
dreamed
it
would
be
like
it
is
today
at
all
of
the
50
top
programs
watched
by
this
nation
last
year.
48
of
them
were
NFL
football
games
in
football
programming.
Who
would
have
ever
thought
that
who
would
have
ever
thought
that
7%
of
our
fans?
V
That's
the
figure
that
have
ever
been
inside
an
NFL
stadium,
7,
not
77,
the
rest
of
it
is
watched
by
television,
and
so
this
great
project
that
you're
mayor
with
got
him
that
big,
ok,
stan
kroenke
got
him
that
big
when
they
get
together
and
create
something
here
that
when
that
kickoff
comes
that's
not
a
hundred
thousand
people
are
gonna.
Watch
that
kickoff
there'd
be
30
million
people
watching
that
kickoff
Inglewood
California
Inglewood
I
asked
George
Foreman
one
day
to
come
visit
with
my
football
team
and
talk
to
him.
V
George
Foreman,
a
great
heavyweight
champion
and
I
asked
him
to
talk
to
the
team
and
he
said
to
the
team.
He
said
you
have
to
have
pictured
yourself
with
that
belt
on.
You
have
to
have
prayed
it
in
front
of
the
mirror
you
have
to
have
dreamed
about
that,
maybe
even
maybe
even
drawn
pictures
of
it.
It
has
to
occupy
your
mind
if
you
wait
until
you
climb
through
the
ropes.
Are
you
waiting
till
that
trains
coming
by
and
you
didn't
see
the
vision
of
you
owning
that
belt?
V
You're
gonna
get
you!
You
know
what
kicked
it's
too
late
to
think
about
it,
these
men,
this
mayor
and
that
man
sitting
right
there.
They
had
this
vision
and,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
I
want
to
tell
you.
We've
had
a
lot
of
experience
with
cities
and
municipalities
and
building
stadiums
in
the
NFL,
but
boy
when
those
crosshairs
hit,
and
it
took
a
big
crosshair
to
take
on
Los
Angeles,
and
it
took
a
big
man
over
here
to
say,
and
we
want
it
right
here
in
Inglewood.
That's
how
come
I'm
sitting
here
today.
These
two
guys.
F
F
Jerry,
can
you
please
just
for
a
moment
and
I,
don't
know
how
inside
football
you
want
to
go.
Can
you
take
us
through
that
weekend
and
I
know
the
relocation
committee
proposed
five
to
one
for
an
alternate
site.
Can
you
take
us
through
that
weekend
because,
by
the
way,
everybody
in
this
room,
no
matter
what
was
said
at
that
point,
knew
it
was
going
to
be
Inglewood
in
our
hearts?
Can
you
take
us
through
what
happened?
Please.
V
Share
this
with
you,
the
feel
and
I'm
talking
about
phone
call
to
phone
call
eyeball
to
eyeball
among
the
owners.
There
was
never
a
doubt
in
our
minds
that
the
right
person
there
was
always
a
fear
that
the
wrong
owner,
the
wrong
person
that
didn't
have
the
vision
that
somehow
that
might
end
up
in
Los
Angeles
that
might
end
up
there.
This
is
so
important
to
us
in
the
NFL
there's
the
great
New
York,
there's
Chicago,
there's
Los
Angeles,
there's
Inglewood
seriously
seriously.
V
We
cannot
mess
this
up.
This
thing
has
to
be
Wow
Wow.
So
having
said
that,
every
owner
in
the
NFL
really
realize
that,
but
how
many
times
does
an
organization?
32
owners
have
an
opportunity
to
have
among
us
if
you
will
have
inside
have
inside
a
man
with
the
vision,
a
man.
That's
got
the
experience
and
a
man
that
can
sit
there
and
see
that
vision
and
go.
Hang
your
hat
on
that,
and
literally
when
that
was
really
thought
through
when
it
was
communicated.
V
When
it
really
was
in
the
backdrop
of
what
we
would
hope,
the
NFL
we
being
the
owners
or
the
NFL,
then
the
facts
are
we
were
lucky
to
have
him
in
the
room
lucky
to
have
him
in
the
room.
So
at
that
time
it
was
an
affirmation
of
that
it
was
a
coming
to
that.
You
can
imagine
you,
we
watch
it
every
day,
what
happens
in
politics
and
comment
all
of
that
that
goes
on
and
all
of
the
kind
of
trading
and
everything
that
goes
on
there.
This
was
not
to
be
denied.
D
You
know
I
wanted
to
say
something.
You
know:
I've
been
in
public
service
for
44
years,
I've
been
in
a
general
manager,
assistant,
general
manager,
since
1986,
that's
another
30
years,
and
so
I've
met
a
lot
of
people
and
I've
talked
to
a
lot
of
business
people
since
I've
been
the
mayor
in
five
years
when,
when
Stan
Kroenke
came
in,
those
kind
of
conversations
can
be
20
minutes
long,
because
you
know
you
know
right
away.
If
it's
going
to
work
for
either
one
of
you
by
the
time
we
got
done.
D
We
were
like
two
hours,
two
hours
of
15
minutes
and
we
were
talking
about
the
Nuggets
at
that
time
he
owns
a
basketball
team
as
well,
but
one
of
the
things
that
I
knew
coming
out
of
that
meeting
was
that
this
was
an
opportunity
that
was
likely
going
to
manifest
itself
for
the
city
and
I
told
Eli.
When
we
were
done
I
said
you
know
what
that
was.
He
like.
D
I
F
One
of
the
things
that
Stan
indicated
and
Kevin
demo
who
succeeded
at
the
table,
the
Rams
are
going
to
be
more
than
a
football
team
for
the
city
of
Inglewood.
The
NFL
is
here
the
Rams
will
be
housed
here,
but
the
Rams
in
essence
are
going
to
be
partners
they're
going
to
be
involved
in
the
community.
They
truly
care
about
this
area.
F
In
this
city
example,
Todd
Gurley,
who
is
the
Rookie
of
the
Year,
who
will
probably
become
the
face
of
LA
Sports
after
one
season
as
we
speak
right
now,
is
it
Inglewood,
High,
School,
meeting
students
just
spending
his
afternoon
and
getting
to
know
them
stand
and
everything
you've
ever
done?
You
think
it's
important
to
integrate
into
the
community,
you
believe
in
the
people
and
the
areas
where
you
put
your
projects.
What
do
you
think
this
means
for
Inglewood
and
what
does
it
mean
for
you.
U
Well,
you
know
I'm,
proud
of
Kevin
and
our
organization.
We
won
the.
We
were
the
only
sports
organization,
I
believe
in
40
years,
in
st.
Louis
that
won
the
philanthropic
award
and
it's
all
it's
our
players.
It's
our
front
office,
it's
our
our
management
team,
they're
committed
to
it.
We
find
it
very
rewarding
it's
it's
a
its
first
of
all,
it's
a
lot
of
fun.
U
F
V
One
in
one
is
not
two:
it's
three
it's
three
and
we
got
to
experience
that
in
a
great
state,
great
football
tradition
and
a
city
and
area
that
does
it
up
now
they
do
it
up
and
we
got
to
experience
the
lift
and
we
got
not
only
from
the
franchise
and
not
only
the
team,
but
also
from
the
standpoint
of
just
our
own
enthusiasm.
It's
inspirational,
that's
going
to
happen
here.
It
can't
help
but
happen,
and
it's
going
to
happen
too.
V
You've
got
guys
that
are
in
this
great
city
that
just
thought
they
made
the
squad
and
they're
going
to
turn
into
all
pros
and
that's
going
to
happen
within
the
organization
of
the
Rams
and
because
it's
going
to
be
inspirational,
it's
inspirational,
we've
all
been
around
it.
You
know,
I
was
born
in
Inglewood,
my
family
lived
in
Inglewood
when
it
was
born
right
off,
got
off
the
end
of
the
run.
I
had
one
owner
asked
me
said
you
know:
do
you
even
know
where
Englewood
is
because
you're
dying
seriously
seriously?
V
V
By
the
time
it's
through
and
I,
don't
know
how
much
time
we
have
if
you
use
a
7,
if
you
use
a
7
to
1,
which
is
a
standard
kind
of
ratio
that
people
say
you
go
in
and
spend
that
kind
of
money
over
a
period
of
years,
and
you
use
that
there's
a
potential
of
a
hundred
billion
dollar
impetus
to
this
particular
area.
Now
the
mayor's
done
a
fabulous
job
here
he
gave
he
gave
the
figures
and
he
had
to
do
it
with
a
whole
bunch
of
help.
F
I
V
Many
of
you
wouldn't
remember
this,
but
when
we
first
got
involved
in
the
NFL
gene
and
I
and
our
family
Herschel
Walker
a
great
football
player
played
for
us
and
we
traded
Herschel
Walker
and
we
got
we
robbed
the
train
so
to
speak,
but
we
got
Herschel
Walker.
Well,
we
also
got
Troy
Aikman
and
we
also
got
Emmitt
Smith,
so
I've
been
around
when
these
Herschel
Walker
traits
happen
on
both
sides
of
them.
They
can
make
a
big
time
difference.
V
B
B
Well,
there's
got
to
be
a
certain
place
where
it
all
starts
and
that's
where
it
all
started,
but
he's
got
big
ones
himself
right,
I
leave
you
with
this
I'm
reminded
of
what
Vince
Lombardi
once
said
when
he
said
I
believe
in
God
in
human
decency
and
I
firmly
believe
that
any
man's
finest
hour
to
total
fulfillment
to
all
that
he
holds
dear.
Is
that
moment
he
lies
exhausted.
B
D
Okay,
we're
gonna,
let
everybody
go
back
to
work
in
a
minute,
but
I
want
to
tell
you
something
one,
the
most
important
slide.
It
never
showed,
but
I
saw
this
Apple
commercial
and
it
reminded
me
of
Inglewood
and
and
I
adapted
it.
The
only
thing
that's
changed
in
Inglewood
is
everything
you
guys
remember
that
I
want
you
to
know.
D
D
Finally,
I
want
to
thank
most
of
all
the
employees
of
the
city
of
Englewood,
who
have
gone
through
the
tough
times
and
delivered
the
best
service
and
made
us
number
one
in
so
many
categories
in
the
nation
and
it's
time
for
us
to
figure
it
out
how
to
pay
them
with
parity
with
the
best
of
cities
and
we're
gonna
figure
that
out.
So
thank
you,
single
city
employees
and
please
give
them
a
big
hand.
Everyone
say
good
afternoon:
everybody.