City Council Meeting: December 6, 2021

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are live from er thank you. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the DECEMBER six twenty twenty one meeting of the past passing the city council the council is meeting both virtually and in person recognizing the ongoing pandemic. Let's begin with a calling of the role MR. Clark. Thank you mayor. COUNCILMAN Roehampton, merry christmas. Happy holidays. Blessed to be here. Council member kennedy here customer madisons not yet joined us council member massouda here, council member riva's here. Council member williams is not here but will be joining we believe later in the meeting. Vice mayor wilson here, mayor vado here. There's a quorum of the council present to begin by asking our interim city manager your courage to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Today's cynthia's first day first council meeting and so we can begin with that ceremonial letter. Thank you very much. More quite an honor. Please join me in the pledge of flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to anybody but to the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you, cynthia. As I said, today's stinkiest first day in the in the chair, as you know, returned to the city manager's position. Thank you, cynthia, for jumping in to help us out during this important transition time. I'd like to recognize the passing of senator bob dole who was also a nominee and candidate for PRESIDENT Of the united states senator dole as a veteran had many contribute to our great country and lost his life this past week as you all know, we have a flag procedure in place and it's dictated in large part by the white house and consistent with a white house directive from PRESIDENT Biden. The flags will be flown at city hall at half staff and will will do so commemorating the life of senator bob dole through thursday, DECEMBER. So thank you all. Next will go to public comment for MR. Kennedy, mayor and my colleague. I have the good fortune of meeting with senator bob dole and his office in the rotunda at the us capitol and anyone who says that he couldn't occasionally go into partizan hackery will be mistaken. However, he always plays in my view needs of the american people ahead of his personal ambition and he was willing to work with democrats and his best ideas were coming forth to get legislation passed that benefited a significant number of americans and as a former military man he was one who understood beauty of the diversity of our country. so I add my brief words with our mayor in celebrating life robert dole. Thank mayor. Thank you, MR. Kennedy. We have quite a bit of public comment for matters not on the agenda. And so to be fair to the public and to allow the public who's tuned in for our agenda items we're going to cut the time down to a minute and a half for all public speakers for matters not on the agenda. And again, this is intended to be fair to all speakers as well as to the public who reviews our agenda and signs on to participate in the council's meeting and deliberations related to the agenda items. MR. Clark. Thank you, mayor. First of all to just read some words ahead of the public comment public comment will be limited to a total of 20 minutes at the beginning of the meeting and will continue at the conclusion of the meeting if necessary. Comments tonight are limited to a minute and a half. The city council MAY not discuss or take action on issues not on the meeting agenda except that members of the city council or staff MAY briefly respond to statements made or questions posed by persons exercising public testimony. Rights writes a member of the public shall only address the body and let? S only address the body and shall direct comments the body as a whole and not to staff individual members of the body or the public. No person shall be permitted to interrupt members of the body staff presentations or members of the public while at the microphone any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks about members of the body, staff of the public or who shall become boisterous or threatening or personally abusive of the body staff or members of the public shall be asked to cease and desist such activity by the mayor or chair and MAY be requested or required to leave the meeting in the event the behavior continues to disrupt the meeting proceedings and with at the first speaker is bert newton followed by jud battista followed by hahm hiram cormier and its one minute and 30 seconds. Go ahead MR. Newton. Bert bert we can't hear you. We'll go to the next speaker and we'll bring you back in. Maybe something's going on with your audio. Judy battista followed by hiram cormier jr jud go ahead. One man, one man. Thirty seconds. Go ahead. Hello mayor and city council. My name is john batiste. I have lived in pasadena for my whole life which is about twelve years. Start off by saying thank you for the one thousand plus units of affordable housing in the pipeline. I support affordable housing because my family and I would like to go out and give away food and talk to people who live outside. i want to make sure that their housing units available for them that aren't too expensive when they start trying to look for jobs and find themselves homes. If we were zoned land we could provide the much needed additional sites for affordable housing. The director of planning MR. David reyes said there are not enough most teachers churches are either not zoned for residential housing or not at a high enough density to make affordable housing development financially viable serotonin needs to happen also the rezoning of land for affordable housing needs to be my right if not a lot of projects won't take place because nonprofit affordable housing developers won't be able to invest the time and money in redevelopment due to the risk that it might be denied. Thirty seconds if we don't trust land those churches can build more affordable housing units on their land giving the people that me and my family meet with every weekend a chance of a homes as an unreasonable expenses. Thank you for your time and your commitment to housing justice for our community. Thank you. Next we have hiram cormier JR. Followed by allen shay and then we'll try bert newton again. You go ahead. Ah so we're like the brazilians we can roll I'm calling you to fire the hostages or anything mcclaine or you know we say that all the time and we've been crying for almost eighteen months or so and nothing has happened at all and it's ridiculous. It's very disrespectful. If anything is disrespectful it would is so I'm for you to fire those hot as far as our settlement goes. You know I read one article that you guys put out or someone wrote about gordo's said we're ready to move on from this issue but nobody can move on and so just serve and really our family will never be able to move on because they can't see their loved no, and that's a serious, serious matter. You know, loss is never especially when somebody is killed in the middle of the street like a dog. Thirty seconds on the and you know that you care. But if you cared one of your constituent is that you always talk about you represent was shot in the street and nobody did nothing about it and you still don't do nothing about it. In fact, you get offended when people call you and tell you to make some happy stories on it. So no real review showing your cards and I'ma keep pulling them too. So it's all good those cops I praise cynthia do your job too. Thank you. Your time has expired. Well, goil well try bert newton again. See if we can get his comment and bert can you hear me now we can. Great. Go ahead. Yeah. good evening mayor and city council. Thank you for this opportunity to address you head on. Very important matters this time that we have to speak on matters not on the agenda is very valuable at the time that we the people get to have a voice and make arguments for what we believe is right. I know that it is not always easy to sit through so thank you for listening and I know that there is a process to get things agenda and the things that we've been speaking about are in that process but people keep showing up week after week to speak about these things because if we don't they might get forgotten. Rezoning church land for affordable housing was on track to be discussed a year ago but it got delayed and it was going to be taken up by the planning commission this month. Now it's going to be taken up in JANUARY. Anthony mcclain was shot well over a year ago and the officer who shot him is still working for the pasadena. I'm not as reflexively antipolice as a lot of my friends are. One of my brothers was a police officer for many years and I don't always believe the videos tell the whole story but this one is very clear. It shows a man being shot in the back as he's running away 30 second more clear. But we are here here we are a year later that's why people come back and others come for the first time week after week to plead for justice. racist zoning began over a hundred years ago. It is still with us and I could say more but my time is extremely limited this evening. So thank you for letting me speak. Thank you. Will bring in alan shay followed by blair miller followed by michael williams. Alan are you able to. Good afternoon. There you go. Yes you hear me? Yes. We can't go ahead of them. There were no city council members as you know all of us have been calling asking for some action from the city council and there has been none as it relates to anthony mcclain. Clearly you are going to put more pressure on the community to take action that is opposing your position as you stand and you have not made any attempts to bring any kind of true justice as it relates to the police department. Clearly if if this is how the city is going to handle the police department and we love our police department but if the police department has done something outside of their their holds their performance, they should be held accountable plain and simple and it's up to to you and the city council members. Mayor bordo to make sure twenty five seconds is plenty. This will be no different than your own home if you will allow your kids to go out and do something and they're not disciplined then I'm sure you have to be in disarray. That is exactly what's happening with the city. It's becoming in disarray as it relates to the leadership here. So the city has been asking you the community's been asking you to resolve this problem. MR. Shea, your time has expired. This city city manager please take heed to what is being presented by the community. Thank you. Blair miller followed by michael williams followed by tofor mather's good afternoon mayor and COUNCILMAN. Last week three year old pasadena resident yangyang lou was killed by a driver at the intersection allen avenue and san pasquale when she was out for a morning jog. I've been in touch with her husband and he is beyond devastated. Yang was his soul mate today the streets are unsafe for everyone but especially for the most vulnerable people. Those are not surrounded by three thousand pounds of metal and glass. We are not doing enough to make our streets safer. It's not just money, it is political. Will the dotty's have great ideas for safety features that would make our streets safer for everyone. But these projects are continuously delayed or reduced or eliminated due to people whose primary interest is in driving as quickly as possible and who holds outsized political influence in our city. thirty seconds we need to change how we drive in pasadena and we need to start by showing people the driving as fast as possible is not our highest priority as our community leaders we need to step up and put our safety first and please I do not ever want to have to talk to another devastated witwer or if I might susan. Thank you, mayor and I just want to remind the public that we did acknowledge the tragic loss of gang lu at our meeting last week my office this is the incident that alan swale is in district 17. I personally visit the right a number of times and I know as we speak department of transportation has reevaluated the intersection will continue to look for ways to make that intersection safer and have hosted conversations with a number of nearby neighbors and look forward to doing a neighborhood walk of that section of allen and see if there are other traffic safety improvements that can be made in that section of allen. So I wanted to share that with the public. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, mayor if you don't mind and I'm very grateful for vice mayor's comments. I was going to have some comments and since he mentioned that I was going to bring up some ideas that were brought up through the emails that we've seen the reduction of speed I don't know if it's temporary or something that we can bring back as a as an item to discuss maybe public safety or maybe the full city council needs to take on that idea of reduction of speed with reduction of speed within our residential neighborhoods and then you know, part of that is the enforcement and do our traffic officers do we have enough traffic officers to do that? We need to be set up. I would like to have that as an agenda and to come back to us. Thank you, MR. Thank you. We'll move on to michael williams followed by tofor mather's anthony medusa's has a speaker card in but is not yet in the meeting. MR. Williams, go ahead minute and a half. I just wanted to say I don't really care if he acknowledged the people that are being killed here. Your passion, your knowledge with me nothing unless you're willing to do something about this to make sure that these things do not keep happening. You keep saying that your knowledge of these people wanted knowledge if you don't do anything in anything in a quick manner to make sure that these things don't continue to have you don't try to stop police violence because you have multiple murders on your police force including the people who killed at mcclain. You don't do anything about community based violence because you keep pumping money into police programs, have proven not to work and not put money into things that are community based programs that have been known to prevent crime and prevent violence in our community. If you're going to say their names and say their names in a way that's proactive in making sure that there would be issues of to twenty five seconds and a day to our community if you're going to say their name make sure that you're saying a name with the intention of making them the last names we've got to call stop the grandstanding, do the right thing like many people have called you have to do over and over and over again . MR. Williams your time has expired at the end of playing thank you tofor mather's followed by anthony minutos who's here to check in followed by jason tofor omara gorner and city council members last week's tragic death being angry was preventable. She was killed on her morning jog. She was trying to cross allen avenue at tampa's well near her home. This is the second pedestrian to have been killed on allen avenue this year. Eight year old miriam casella was killed near her home by a driver left on the street on her morning walk early this year. MRS. Death marks the sixth person killed in a traffic collision while walking past nina thus far this year and that means six families will be celebrating the holidays without their loved one. According to ppd records, pedestrian have only been involved in six percent of traffic collisions this year but have made 75 percent of traffic fatalities. There have in nine hundred and fifteen traffic collisions and passing this year resulting in 55 injured pedestrians, 56 injured cyclists and 419 five injured drivers and passengers. This does not need to be this you can do more to make passengers safer for everyone every time you see improvement like the proposed safety improvements to orange grove boulevard or you water down traffic safety project, you do a disservice to the victims of traffic violence and their families and ensure there will be future victims cities and countries around the world have implemented street safety improvements that reduce the number of injuries and severity of those injuries in the last twenty years. This track record of success recognize that drivers make mistakes and focus on infrastructure with built in safeguards for street by designing them for safety instead of speed passed the streets are dangerous by design. MR. Mathers, your time has expired. Our for everyone. Thank you. Thank you anthony minutos for by jason ah for by jonah canor star six to unmuted anthony there you go. Go ahead. Can you all hear me. Yes we can win and a half go ahead. Ok wonderful. Well first of all I want to say that I really appreciate the patience of the city council members listening to us when we say the same things over and over again. But we feel like the widow in the parable of jesus that we just need to keep speaking out for justice and for the good of our community. And I know you care about the good of the community just as we do so I want to say I really resonate with all the things that have been said tonight, particularly st. St. I'm concerned that we are concerned about north barrack's where there's been a lot of traffic accidents and we like to see some slowing of traffic in that area with the complete streets concept and I also think we need to take serious action regarding police accountability. It's just disgraceful that the police shot and killed anthony reclaimer are still on the beat. That would never happen if they were teachers and they'd done something in five seconds. This is what we said and also I think we need to set and rezoning church land for affordable housing. This is an emergency affordable housing and and this is something that really needs to get on the agenda asap and approved so we can churches can fulfill our mission and be of benefit to our community and address our housing crisis. Thank you very much for your patience and I hope that this thing will make a difference. Thank you, jason. Jason are followed by jonah kanter followed by jenny l.. All right. Yeah so yesterday when I drove to pasadena I saw a sign that said the community mourns anthony mclean but while mayor in the city council MAY have moved on, the people in the community have not. You have community members calling each and every week to speak on the lack of justice. There has been the name of anthony mclean and I repeat for the record there are now seven point five million reasons why the officers who murdered anthony mclean should be fired immediately. Why is the city so invested in protecting and defending edmund mcalinden a murderer? What is the benefit of covering up the fault of this police department? How does that benefit the community? You have sanitized the violence of the police department of the palestinian police department for too long. You will not be permitted to retire without doing what you have the power to do which was fire these officers. What this council can do is put public pressure on whoever is chosen to fill the city manager position to take the first step in getting some semblance of justice. Nancy mclean's name cynthia kurts as interim city manager you can start to get those wheels in motion for the termination of these officers 30 seconds. Anthony mcclain lives on through his children, through his family, through his community and through us and finally I say it's great to see the city of pasadena showing love to bob dole a racist, a homophobe and a self professed trumper jonah cantave all by jenny l jarnail. Hi. Good evening. Can I be here? Yes, go ahead. Thank you so much. Good evening. Mayor cordeaux city council. I'm speaking tonight out of concern for street safety in pasadena. As you know, last week there was a tragic collision at the intersection of oakland and san pasquale where 33 year old woman was struck and killed by the driver of a fast moving suv this happened in a neighborhood where I used to live and at an intersection that was part of my daily job for four years this type of horrific violence is not an accident and it's not unique. Instead, these collisions are the predictable result of street design that prioritizes high speed traffic and puts a low premium on human health and life. This year alone there have been eight fatalities due to traffic violence and this is the second death just on alan. This is part of a larger pattern of dangerous and costly collisions of which over 900 have been reported pasadena police this year other cities around the world have adopted vision zero principles and the second is that high rate of traffic deaths are a choice. For example, the city of oslo has reduced the rate of traffic deaths to less than one per year. This is a per capita traffic death rate. Twenty five these are 95 percent preventable in the coming months and years a city council devoted to street designs that prioritize safety and so protect residents and property values by preventing pollution. Thank you for the time and for all the work you do for our city. Thank you. Janelle followed by heavenly who's followed by victor hudson jenay. Hello my comrade. I am calling to demand you guys fire the officers who have killed anthony. It is going beyond a year and there has clear bit of evidence of biases on your part. It clean deserves to be with his family during the holiday season but he can't because rogue officers decided to murder him with second behind his back which is absurd. I don't know how you can be so freaking scared of people running away from your leg if you're so incompetent that like you need to shoot before even a second question you probably shouldn't have this job to be quite honest. But time and time again we're calling you guys and you continue to do nothing. So for me it's going to you guys also don't have these jobs as well. It's time for you guys to pack up and leave because they clearly your your ability to not 30 seconds. My mom is letting us know that you're incompetent so please pack up your stuff and go and so we can put people who actually believe and care about their community because it's clear it's clear that you guys do not so resigned but you let us and we'll all take it willingly every one of you. Thank you. Heavenly hues father victor hudson mitsuse hello. Can you hear me? We can go ahead one minute. Thirty seconds. Go ahead. Hi mark. How are you? Good how are you here you good . Hello mary victor gordo how are you. Remarkably thank you. Thank you. I'm I'm glad to see that we have cynthia occurred. Hello cynthia. I'm glad you are here. We needed a breath of fresh air and we appreciate you being here. We look forward to sitting down with you cynthia and talking about police accountability and how we can have better community engagement from the city of pasadena, the pasadena police and the community. So we really look forward to having you. So cynthia, just so you can know a little bit more about who I am. My name is henry hughes. I'm one of the co-founders of my tribe. And first on our focus is police accountability. A lot of times people think that we are a hate group against the police but we don't hate the police at all. twenty five seconds we believe that the police should be held accountable and we look forward to understanding if you are in that same space with believing that those within the city city employees particularly were focused on the police department being held accountable especially for the murder of anthony mcclaine. We asked right now that we take a moment of silence in his name as we've done for others today this is your time has expired. Victor hudson MR. Hudson, can you when you will move on to cat ross and come back to victor at some point? I I oh, there you go. There you go