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From: Cordell Hindler <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 5:01 PM
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Public Comments- Open Forum
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good Evening Mayor Butt, council members and city staff, I have a couple of comments for the record
1. the council should consider inviting the Northern California Promise Coalition to schedule a presentation
2. second I am in full support for O.5 on the consent calendar
Sincerely
Cordell
From: Rodrick Satre
To: Charmain Tyler; City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Comment on vacant parcel tax re [email protected] which is a non-working email address Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 7:32:57 PM
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We have spent 3 years and $5000 in fees to apply for a lot merger and lot line adjustment to facilitate combining two undersized lots to a buildable one.
City staff has lied in writing
and in public meetings to stall our PLN19-009 application by citing false facts, producing false documents and denying our application.
If our experience is any indication for how
property owners are treated, then penalizing vacant property owners even more by raising taxes is deplorable.
Each year we pay over $18K in property taxes and fees.
to boost that
by another $12K for two vacant undersized parcels which has been stymied by the city for development is going to drive away homeowners
From: Jeannette Kortz
To: Gayle McLaughlin; Melvin Willis; claudia jimenez; richcityservant; Demnlus Johnson; Nat Bates Cc: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT - AGENDA ITEM O.2 a
Date: Monday, January 10, 2022 1:57:07 PM
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Condemning the horrific events of January 6, 2021, and defending democracy and the sacred right of voting.
ADOPT a resolution condemning the horrific events of the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol and defending democracy and the sacred right of voting – Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin (510-620-6581).
Dear City Council,
I am writing in support of Council Member Gayle McLaughlin's resolution. Now, more than ever, we must defend our right to vote. We are on the edge of losing our democracy.
Thank you for your time.
Jeanne Kortz
Richmond Resident
From: Cordell Hindler
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Public Comments- Open Forum
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2022 5:01:00 PM
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good Evening Mayor Butt, council members and city staff, I have a couple of comments for the record
1. the council should consider inviting the Northern California Promise Coalition to schedule a presentation
2. second I am in full support for O.5 on the consent calendar Sincerely
Cordell
From: Leisa Johnson
To: City Clerk Dept User
Cc: Tom Butt - external ; Nat Bates; Demnlus Johnson; Eduardo Martinez; Gayle McLaughlin; Claudia Jimenez; Demnlus Johnson; [email protected]; Eduardo Martinez; [email protected]; Melvin Willis Subject: Written Public Comments -- Agenda Item Q1 (Police Staffing), Jan 11, 2022 City Council Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 8:38:34 PM
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Dear City Clerk,
Can you please include my comments below in the supplementary minutes for the Jan 11th, 2022 City Council meeting?
Thank you,
Leisa
******************************************************************** Good Evening Mayor and Councilmembers -
Thank you Acting Chief Tirona for your thoughtful & sincere presentation tonight, and for helping shed light on what is happening to RPD.
Through 2021, RPD lost 26 sworn officers.
As of December 2, 2021, Richmond had lost 13 sworn officers or 10% since July 2021, the beginning of this fiscal year.
As of today, ~ 1 month later, they’ve lost an additional 6, bringing the number to 19 sworn officers for this fiscal year’s first 6 months.
That translates to 19 officers out of the 130 actual officers as of July 1st — a 15% decrease.
This has the potential to go as high as 31% (40/130) if all 21 eligible officers retire by end of FY2021/22 — that’s less than 6 months from now.
This has the potential to go as high as 40% (52/130) if all 33 eligible officers retire by end of 2023.
IF we lose 40% of our sworn officers by Dec 2023, there is no physical way RPD can adequately meet our city’s need, which covers 52.5 sq miles.
Please remember that it takes 6 to 18 months to bring an officer fully on board depending upon their experience level.
You are our elected leaders. How you treat RPD has a significant impact on their morale and desire to stay and serve us while putting their own life on the line. It matters.
In order to fill the City's 9 beats, our chief has had to move several sworn personnel from investigations to patrol. Even with those moves, RPD still can not always fill all 9 beats for the entire shift, including with mandatory overtime.
When a sworn officer is absent due to vacation, it creates a need for OT to fill that absence.
When this situation is experienced by multiple teams then there becomes a possibility that forced overtime is required; or if the absences are unanticipated, it could lead to staffing below the minimum. Now put Covid spikes on top of that. Increased OT also increased risk of injuries.
Imagine you have an emergency — will your beat officer position be staffed? Seconds can mean the difference between life & death.
Please remember that they are human, just like each of you on this council. An exhausted and stressed out officer risks their own safety as well as those they serve. This isn’t right. P lease remember that with the same passion that you used to decimate this force or their morale.
In moving investigative officers to patrol, we have:
lost the Regulatory Unit , with services being transferred to Code Enforcement, who is also understaffed;
the Robbery & Property Units have both been reduced and will be combined to one smaller unit; and
the Criminal Violence Reduction Team has basically been gutted with only 1 sergeant left to focus on intelligence gathering.
Additionally, RPD had a 65% decrease (86/245) in applications from 2019 to 2020. Of note, 84% (72/86) of candidates successfully qualified in 2020. However, that % dropped significantly to only 53% (43/81) in 2021, which is more on par with the 48% (117/245) in 2019.
Please remember that RPD is competing for those qualified candidates with all of the other cities in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
We can’t hire our way out of this mess that this majority council’s decisions have created.
To the 5 RPA councilmembers who spearheaded dismantling community policing:
If someone in your district or city doesn’t get the response they need, are you personally liable given that you were all warned, repeatedly, what would happen based on your premature and reckless decision making?
Will you personally go and speak to the victims, their family members and friends negatively impacted by your decisions?
Councilmember Jimenez is echoing the same far-left criticisms that RPD is not solving enough crimes. Please think about what your actions have resulted in. We now have fewer investigative officers just to meet our patrol minimums. It will now be even harder to help provide victims the justice they deserve.
Please also look in the mirror when reviewing OT costs during mid-year and year-end budgeting as your decisions have also resulted in significant OT.
I am respectfully asking that this council please:
1. Create a more welcoming environment for potential police candidates and retention of current personnel.
2. Appropriately prepare for the mass exodus of sworn personnel in the next two years due to expected retirements.
3. No more budgetary cuts and to support hiring bonuses to effectively compete with other local agencies hiring officers would be a good thing and an increase in budget would be needed.
4. Support community policing.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Leisa
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1/11/2022 5:00 PM Veolia’s October
2021 Monthly
Operating Report
Jeanne Kortz jeannekortz@gmail
.com
Veolia, a private
corporation, cares
only about pro ts.
This company,
brought to us by
Tom Butt, is much
more expensive
than EBMUD would
have been. I am
now paying $1,000
on my property
taxes for this
private, multi-
national
corporation that
played a role in the
Flint, Michigan
water asco:
https://www.thegu
ardian.com/us-
news/2019/dec/10/
water-company-
city-o cials- knew-
int-lead-risk-
emails-michigan-
tap-water Here is a
quote from the
East Bay Times,
dated 10/29/2010:
"In 2001, EBMUD
had extra capacity
and submitted a
proposal to treat
Richmond’s
sewage. The City
Against Appro
1/11/22, 1:07 PM https://richmond.escribemeetings.com/Pages/ReportingPrintFriendly.aspx?reporting-reporttype=PublicComment https://richmond.escribemeetings.com/Pages/ReportingPrintFriendly.aspx?reporting-reporttype=PublicComment 2/2 Council narrowly
approved a
contract with
Veolia to run the
city plant. Some
say Veolia had
more political
muscle, especially
since the wife of
then City Manager
Isiah Turner was
the vice president."
Corruption reigns!
It's time to put out
a bid for a di erent
sewage company.
Thank you for your
time. Jeanne Kortz
Richmond Resident
1/11/2022 5:00 PM Update from
Chevron Re
nery
Jeanne Kortz jeannekortz@gmail
.com
An oil spill that
happened in
February 2021, and
still no update
from Chevron? No
nancial impact?
What about the
environmental
impact? Chevron
cares not about the
environment, nor
it's negative health
impacts on
residents. Pro ts
are its only
concerns.
For Appro