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From:
Stephen wontrobski
Sent:
Friday, September 08, 2017 2:55 PM
To:
Robin Roberts
Cc:
cob.response @hoa.ocgov.com; Clerk City of Irvine; Clerk - Dana Point; Clerk - San Juan
Capistrano; Clerk - Laguna Niguel; City Clerk Aliso Viejo Clerk - Aliso Viejo; Clerk -
Rancho Santa Margarita; Clerk - Lake Forest cityclerk @san- clemente.org
Subject:
Seal Beach OCFA Helicopter Support Letter
Attachments:
sealbeachhelicoptemupport9- 8- 17.doc
Dear Seal Beach City Clerk,
Attached is my written public comment regarding your upcoming City Council meeting agenda item regarding "Seal
Beach OCFA Helicopter Support Letter ".
Can you please arrange for its distribution to your Mayor and other City Council members.
This letter has also been copied to the OC Board of Supervisors and the South Orange County Cities of Irvine, Dana Point,
San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente and Lake Forest.
Sincerely,
Stephen Wontrobski
Stephen Wontrobski
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
September 8, 2017
Seal Beach City Council Members
City Hall
211 Eighth Street
Seal Beach, CA 90740
Reference: OCFA Helicopter Support Letter
Written City Council Meeting Public Comment
Dear City Council Members:
This is my written public comment regarding your City Council Meeting agenda item regarding the
issuance by your mayor of a letter addressing OCFA/OCSD helicopter operations. My comments are as
follows:
1. The staff report is supposedly from Robin Roberts, your City Clerk, thru Jill Ingram, your City Manager.
I question whether this actually is the case. I seriously doubt that your City Clerk can author the staff
report and support letter, which contain numerous and complex legal issues. Question: Who actually was
the main proponent and writer of the staff report and support letter? Was it Robin Roberts or Jill Ingram?
2. Was the report and proposed letter primarily authored by the OCFA? At a previous Board of
Supervisors meeting the OCFA was instructed by a Board member to never again issue misleading OCFA
statements to the Board. The Board of Supervisors needs to be aware of the actual author of your staff
report and proposed support letter, if they actually were authored by the OCFA.
3. The staff report is very misleading, since it leaves out a considerable amount of opposing information on
this subject that was discussed in the Board of Supervisors meeting in August. Have your Council
members viewed the tape of the August meeting dealing with this issue? Has your City Clerk or City
Manager advised you about the contrary background information discussed in that meeting? I myself was
at that meeting and spoke against endorsement of the new MOU.
4. Has your City Clerk or City Manager discussed this issue with either County Counsel, your City
Attorney or your Board of Supervisors District representative, Michelle Steele, in order to advise you of all
the legal implications addressed in the staff report and proposed support letter ?
6. Has your City Clerk or City Manager requested OCSD letter input on this matter in order to obtain a full
picture of this issue?
7. Has your City Clerk or City Manager requested someone from the OCSD to appear before your City
Council and explain its position on this issue?
8. Wasn't your City Manager the former Clerk of the OCFA, who has demonstrated tremendous loyalty on
all issues relative to OCFA and its Union Local 3631?
Recommendations
1. Have your City Council refrain from issuing the support letter until they are given all needed
information and hear the OCSD's side of the story. Otherwise, your City Council mayjust be seen by your
residents as:
a) Pawns of the OCFA doing whatever they beckon you to do; and
b) Uninformed City Council members that approved something that they really were not completely
informed about.
2. Ask the OCSD to come and give their side of the story on this issue.
A Issue Investination
Your City Manager, Jill Ingram, was the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Charwoman of the OCFA.
This is a committee comprised of OCFA member City Managers. I had previously issued a Public Records
Request (PRR) in your City regarding Jill Ingram's TAC documents.
The response from your City Clerk was that there was not even one single record applicable to my request.
This response appeared very suspicious, so I put out separate PRR's to the OCFA and City of Mission Viejo
for their TAC documents. Both of these agencies provided documents on the OCFATAC. Notably they
submitted among other documents: a) written agendas for the meetings, b) numerous a -mails to Jill Ingram
from the OCFA on TAC matters, and c) handouts given at the TAC meetings, chaired by Jill Ingram.
Questio n: Have all of Jill Ingram's documents requested under my PRR been destroyed? Did any
destruction of those records violate your Records Retention Policy?
Your City Attorney is requested to review my PRR's on this subject and the responses given by your City
Clerk to those PRR's, since questions have now arisen on this matter.
Sincerely,
Stephen M. Wontrobski E:walb hhelicoptmuppon94-17
cc: Orange County Board of Supervisors; South Orange County City Councils of Irvine, Dana Point, San
Joan Capistrano, Iaguna Niguel, Allan Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente and lake Forest