HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmailed Comment from JO8N1
Brandon DeCriscio
From:JO8N <JO8N@proton.me>
Sent:Monday, May 12, 2025 5:31 PM
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Henderson; Joe Bailey; Gloria Harper; Alexa Smittle; Barbara Arenado; Iris Lee; Tim
Kelsey; Shaun Temple; Deb Machen; Brandon DeCriscio; Anthony Nguyen; Nicholas
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Subject:Public Comment Seal Beach City Council Meeting 5/12/25
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Jewish American Heritage Month Proclamation - Thank You for the Tanakh, an absolutely genius G-d given proof of
Life. My favorite part is Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I hope to meet the person that first told/wrote that G-d
given story in Heaven. I believe the Gospels' story returns us to the Garden of Eden, and I'd be happy to peacefully
discuss that difference at any time loving my neighbor as myself with belief in the 1st Amendment of the United
States of America. Maybe filmed over some shared homegrown Seal Beach Cannabis in the future? What do you
think the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge is?
Public Works Week Proclamation - I am loving the visual component of Public Works communications with the
public and aesthetics of the City itself. I love the colors of the picture of Seal Beach pier when I cross the bridge over
the freeway. I look forward to the vision of a revitalized Main Street. The addition of more Trees is awesome! I sent
some questions for Donald Hodel and Public Works for their new online series. Keep being patient with The Water.
It is inevitable. Looking forward to the cleaning of the San Gabriel River!
National Police Week Proclamation - Thank you Seal Beach Police for your brave service and adherence to the law
that maintains society. I am loving the honesty through the changes being made with Team Policing scheduling,
implementing a Wellness Coordinator, Seal Beach local training potential, intelligence lead policing using data
technology, and drone first response. My responses are that using Orange County Sheriffs does not allow for local
community integration especially with response time, intelligence lead policing, and the possibility of locally grown
Cannabis/Plant Medicines exempt from state/federal tax, the license plate scanners can store that data to be
track/identify locals/regulars/unlicensed/suspicious vehicle patterns over time, Anduril might be worth the
consultation for drones/intelligent policing/potentially drawing their business to Seal Beach as the Boeing here used
to be a big Defense contractor, and a local cryptocurrency and Seal Beach digital identity adoption overseen by the
police to be converted and used at Seal Beach local businesses for Leisure World especially could reduce financial
crimes significantly. The drug take back pictures were astonishing! Can you require license plate registration for e-
bikes and then use the license plate scanners on them? The best analogy I could make for our disagreement is
would you want to be a police officer without a gun? Also, given the U.S. Army's adoption of the XM7 rifle with a
much hotter round, is our local police being given access to anything similar due to the prevalence of body armor?
Keep being patient with the parking meters. I think parking validation could go a long way.
Finance Department - It is great to see that the numbers are looking much better. I am loving how the graphs clearly
show improvement. A local cryptocurrency and Seal Beach digital identity adoption overseen by the police to be
converted and used at Seal Beach local businesses? I was disappointed that Cannabis was not discussed publicly. I
think the tariffs are not good in the short term but necessary in the long term as the U.S. needs to put China in their
place because the leader of the world cannot be an authoritarian dictatorship without the first amendment. We have
to use soft power because they arguably have the hard power and number of people at this point. I still think the
retirement/pension that public employees deserve should invest within the local community they served to some
degree rather than forced by the federal government to be in the mutual funds of giant non-local corporations.
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Community Services/Recreation - Love the availability of tennis courts, pool, library, parks, and gardens and seeing
the improvements made. I look forward to the restoration of the Wetlands and integration of indigenous people. I
would love to hear the founding religious stories of the Tongva people, with integration of the public. The laws
surrounding Cannabis/Plant Medicine prevent Community.
Community Development - I'm loving the recognition of the need for affordable housing as the demographics of age
limit the ideas/business for the Community. My proposal envisions repurposing surplus federal land at NWS Seal
Beach ideally (or Los Alamitos JFTB not ideally) through established legal frameworks—such as the Federal
Surplus Property Act and legislative models demonstrated by the Fort Ord redevelopment and the Presidio Trust—
to enable a transformative, community-driven project. It aims to create a dual-use facility that integrates
conventional healthcare with a dedicated research wing for psychedelic-assisted therapies, including palliative care
for end-of-life anxiety and psilocybin-assisted therapy for PTSD among first responders and veterans, using proven
protocols from institutions like Johns Hopkins and MAPS. Cal State Long Beach, also situated on historic Tongva
land, is a key academic partner, ensuring cultural sensitivity and rigorous interdisciplinary research. Cannabis,
Stems of the Banisteriopsis caapi, Leaves of the Psychotria viridis, Psilocybin mushrooms, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
containing plants, and other plant/fungus psychedelic medicines would be grown on the land by workers that live in
local affordable housing for the Tongva community and hospital workers, fostering economic revitalization and social
equity. Inclusive political, scientific, and religious engagement with local residents, religious institutions, and
government bodies further underscores the feasibility of this initiative, aligning it with well-documented legal
precedents and successful redevelopment models. The restoration of the Wetlands, the San Gabriel River, and
deteriorating beach can serve as a key point of mutual agreement to return to. I want Drum Circles and cross
cultural music collaborations…
Marine Safety - Double minimum wage. Love it, keep being the voice. I agree, but is there any way to cut down on
part timers to have mostly long time full timers to accomplish that goal? Also, I heard lifeguards become EMT
teachers? Is there any way to make videos of them teaching EMT courses to sell online? Or teach at Los Al high
school through gathering cohorts of students to potentially later recruit? Could the McGaugh pool being heated more
to attract more residents?
City Clerk - I love the City Clerk Week Records Theme! I hope you have all these emails stored somewhere.
Congratulations on the scholarship to further professional development! The laserfiche implementation to see
contracts publicly is going to be awesome and sounds like it is going well. For the public records requests, is there
any way to just make the public records more accessible? Is the issue that some things must be redacted? Maybe
there is a way to have an AI filter redact many documents before upload by saying "redact all adresses" or
something?
Fire - Thank you for your brave service in emergencies that is vital for a civilized society. Loving to hear how the
OCFA works and I am glad it gives us access to helicopters and other services that we would not have access to
otherwise. Would a hospital across the street from Leisure World improve your ability to do your job?
Human Resources - Loving that I can send these emails. We are all human. Everyone's poop stinks!
Acting City Manager - Love the smoothness of the budget presentations which I know must take a lot of behind the
scenes work, the improvement of visuals, and the patient, measured responses to the public. I think Craig is the only
person I missed with this email, if you don't mind forwarding it. What would it take to move back to Seal Beach?
JO8N