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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental Communication from Schachter-Philiips-Ross Parque-Gotto.Kyriakakos-Bolander-Riggs-Hutton1 Gloria Harper From:Jill Ingram Sent:Tuesday, April 07, 2020 10:04 AM To:Gloria Harper Subject:FW: External Email : Letter from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS(r) re COVID-19 Attachments:PWR Letter re COVID-19.pdf Hi Gloria, I’m assuming this is a public comment for tonight’s meeting. Thank you, Jill Jill R. Ingram, ICMA-CM City Manager City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740 (562) 431-2527, Ext. 1300   Civility Principles: 1. Treat everyone courteously; 2. Listen to others respectfully; 3. Exercise self-control; 4. Give open-minded consideration to all viewpoints; 5. Focus on the issues and avoid personalizing debate; and, 6. Embrace respectful disagreement and dissent as democratic rights, inherent components of an inclusive public process, and tools for forging sound decisions. For Information about Seal Beach, please see our city website: www.sealbeachca.gov NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: Christine Schachter [mailto:christines@pwr.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 10:02 AM To: Schelly Sustarsic; Joe Kalmick; Thomas Moore; Mike Varipapa; Sandra Massa-Lavitt Cc: Jill Ingram; Phil Hawkins; Tim Shaw Subject: External Email : Letter from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS® re COVID-19 Honorable Mayor Sustarsic and Members of the City Council: Please find attached a letter from the Pacific West Association of REALTORS® (PWR) regarding the COVID- 19 pandemic. Thank you for your leadership during this challenging time. Best regards, ANAHEIM OFFICE - MAIN 1601 East Orangewood Ave., Anaheim, CA 92805 LONG BEACH OFFICE 5000 East Spring St Suite #110, Long Beach, CA 90815 (714) 245-5500 | Fax (714) 245-5599 | www.pwr.net • April 7, 2020 Honorable Mayor Schelly Sustarsic and Members of the City Council: The Pacific West Association of REALTORS® is the local real estate association that represents the Seal Beach area, and PWR’s 13,000 members promote homeownership, private property rights, free enterprise and responsible government. During this time of unprecedented challenge and uncertainty, and as we collectively work to respond to and address the COVID-19 crisis, we recognize that many in our community have faced both health and financial impact and we are here to support residents in any way possible . Now, more than ever, our sector is essential to Seal Beach’s evolving housing needs, and functioning critical infrastructure is imperative for public health and safety along with overall community well-being. In addition to following infection control precautions and implementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention community mitigation strategies, the California Association of REALTORS® has issued Best Practices Guidelines for real estate licensees. We’ve responded by issuing specific COVID -19 forms, advisories and disclosures that are now part of the real estate tra nsaction process and that take into account a safer at home environment. Even though certain real estate activities may be allowed, no open houses are to be held at this time to comply with local, state, and federal guidelines. We are encouraging our members to conduct transactions electronically as much as possible and advising that should an in-person interaction, including being present at a home, be necessary that any persons on the property must adhere strictly to the social distancing practices. We are committed to keeping PWR fully operational in support of our members, their clients, and the general public while working remotely to enable our members to provide much needed shelter for our communities. We greatly appreciate your leadership in addressing this current health pandemic with urgency and through responsible governance to keep our communities safe and strong. Sincerely, Phil Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer Tim Shaw, Government Affairs Director Christine Schachter, Government Affairs Director 2 Christine Schachter Government Affairs Director Pacific West Association of REALTORS® 1601 E. Orangewood Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805 714-245-5500 (main) 310-892-7121 (cell) christines@pwr.net   CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:David Philips <davidphilips@mac.com> Sent:Friday, April 03, 2020 10:49 AM To:Gloria Harper Cc:Susan Philips Subject:External Email : Closed sessions It is difficult for me to understand how you can meet weekly as a council in closed session and restrict yourself to only  discussing topics that are legally permitted. It doesn’t seem humanly possible.  Does the city attorney interrupt you  when you begin to discuss public business?    Mr. Kalmick is quoted in the paper as saying it’s “too cumbersome to set up teleconferencing” with the public. Yes.   However City Council meetings have been broadcast over local TV in the past. That combined with accepting email  comments would seem to be a straightforward way to hold a non‐secret meeting and to receive public comment as well.   Thank you for your care and hard work,    David Philips  231 6th  562‐252‐2235  Sent from my iPhone    CAUTION:  This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you  recognize the sender and know the content is safe.  1 Gloria Harper From:Joyce Ross Parque <joyce10parque@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, April 06, 2020 8:01 PM To:Schelly Sustarsic; Mike Varipapa; Joe Kalmick; Thomas Moore; Jill Ingram; Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : Questions for City Council From Joyce Ross-Parque, Old Town, Seal Beach Would the City Council consider making something that we can carry so that those of us who live here, and walk down to the parking lot at 1st Street. To pay a City employee for 8 hours to sit in the car in the lot on 1st Street and tell us we can not walk down to the walking, bike trail is not right. The schools are closed and the kids are having a rough time not being able to surf also.. Especially, since there are 4 buses that come in to our town at least 8 times a day. 2 come from Long Beach and we do not know where they have been or come from. Shut the buses down. Since all the stores have been closed, should Leisure World give the in-lue-parking money back to the restaurants who had to pay for a parking program in Old Town?. They also could use the money to help their business. A lot of tenants on Main Street are getting a reduction in rent. Did the City file a lawsuit against the Oil Company for a Business License or for money to pay Greg Kirstie, who said he could get money from Oil Company? How much money has come in from the new sales tax? How much money has come in from the bed tax? How is the City going to pay the full Pension money? Not another Bond. They have lost 69 billion $$$ so far. Thank you, Joyce Ross-Parque CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:Melanie D Gotto <melaniegotto@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, April 03, 2020 5:42 PM To:Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : Stop Deployment of Wireless during Quarantine Dear Ms. Harper, Dear Mayor & City Council Member, We ask that you impose a moratorium on “small cells” and other wireless infrastructure permits process and deployment until the COVID-19 emergency is over. The wireless providers are using the COVID-19 emergency as cover to expand and cement their rapid and virtually unsupervised deployment of harmful wireless infrastructure. Our local leaders should not have to dedicate time and resources to policing whether the wireless companies are following local and state law, they have far more important things to do. The FCC wireless permit rules allow emergency moratoria. Homeland Security guidelines emphasize that maintenance of existing communications capability is the priority. New construction is not “essential.” The COVID-19 emergency has led to a government shut down of non-essential activity. Hospitals, emergency response and local officials are overwhelmed and they must be allowed to focus on what is indeed “essential”. Now is not the time to be dedicating resources to expanding, rather than just maintaining, our networks. The FCC has directly held a local jurisdiction can impose a temporary halt to deployment and permits during emergencies. In the Matter of Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers, FCC 18- 111, 33 FCC Rcd 7705, 7784-7785, ¶157 (2018) (“We recognize that there may be limited situations in the case of a natural disaster or other comparable emergency where an express or de facto moratoria that violates section 253(a) may nonetheless be ‘necessary’ to ‘protect the public safety and welfare’ or to ‘ensure the continued quality of telecommunications services.’”) Homeland Security has declared that local government is on the forefront and can take control over determining whether to temporarily halt all non-essential activity. Homeland Security guidance documents prioritize maintenance of existing Communications Systems, and do not support “essential” status for new construction. See Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID-19, https://www.cisa.gov/identifying-critical-infrastructure-during-covid-19 (local control); e- Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Support Annex, http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-support- cikr.pdf (focus on “protection, response, recovery, and restoration”). Homeland Security, like the FCC, understands that it is essential in an emergency situations justify focusing on protecting, responding, recovering and restoring of existing systems, but new communications facilities construction is and should be deemed nonessential, and subject to lockdown for so long as we are under emergency conditions. Cities can and should impose a moratorium on deployment in their local area and freeze the permit process until the COVID-19 emergency is over. Sincerely, Melanie D Gotto 2 4280 Guava Ave Seal Beach, CA 90740 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:Nick Kyriakakos <luxurynick@yahoo.com> Sent:Thursday, April 02, 2020 1:43 PM To:Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : Public Comment Re: Seal Beach boardwalk, COVID Risk See below to Joe regarding way too many dogs and people on boardwalk. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, March 27, 2020, 11:34 AM, Nick Kristos <luxurynick@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Joe, Maybe it’s time Seal Beach thinks about shuts down its boardwalk south of pier. People are treating like and excercise trail and dog park. It’s a Petri dish for spreading of Covid 19. I am lucky enough to live on that boardwalk and watch it every day get more packed since the beach  shut down. They need to stay home.   CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:Shelly Bolander <sbsocal.rentals@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, April 07, 2020 2:09 PM To:Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : Evictions To Whom It May Concern, I just read that the council may be voting on a city urgency bill that pertains to evictions. Please know that there is already a state ordinance in place for evictions as well as no fault evictions. The city doesn't need to waste their time as there are certainly more important issues to handle. The courts are not open right now anyway. Currently you cannot evict for non payment of rent as long as the tenant can provide substantial proof that they were effected financially and cannot pay rent during this emergency situation happening. Most landlords are working with their tenants in addition to working out a payment structure. Landlords have a right to serve a notice, but cannot act on it during this emergency period. Shelly Bolander -- CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:Steve Riggs <sriggs179@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, April 04, 2020 5:47 PM To:Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : Beach closure City Council, Calm minds and clear direction define great leaders when they are needed most. Who needs great leadership when everything is going well? Now we have a crises and the Seal Beach city council decides to close the beach and water. Huntington Beach, San Clemente are significantly bigger and they have control, so all beaches are open. Huntington’s mayor talks about how respectful the people are about distancing. Seal Beach apparently has no control, therefore they decided to close it to everyone. If you can kick people off the beach and enforce that rule, why can’t you simply enforce a rule that forbids people to sit on the beach; if you can’t sit on the beach your not going to get a crowd (easier to enforce than a blatant kickoff) walking and running are ok, just stay 6’ apart; surfing, yes!! People are closer on the sidewalk then they were on the beach or in the water. I’m not sure why you chose the extreme measure to close the beach, your suppose to be in tune with the community, were not Long Beach!! People are respectful here, just like Huntington. Change the rules and show better leadership, (also that your in tune with locals in seal beach) no sitting or congregating on the sand...walking 6’ apart, running and surfing are ok. Thank you, Steve Riggs -- Sent from Gmail Mobile CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 Gloria Harper From:Suzy Hutton <suzyhutton@verizon.net> Sent:Tuesday, April 07, 2020 10:27 AM To:Gloria Harper Subject:External Email : please vote yes to ban eviction during this time Suzy Hutton suzyhutton@verizon.net CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.