Written Comments — Santa Monica City Council, April 12, 2022

1 Vernice Hankins
From: Brodsky, Michael <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2022 6:15 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: April 12 agenda item 1-G

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Dear City Council Members,
The City of Santa Monica needs to end _ANY_ business of transporting, selling, storing, operating, or _LEASING_ any tanker truck, gas pump or above ground or below ground storage facility, that contains toxic lead AvGas fuel.

Lead is a deadly toxin.

Lead AvGas fuel that is stored in underground storage tanks is dangerous threat to our underground aquifers that is the source to drinking water supply.

This is not a hypothetical concern.

In the past, Trichloroethylene, or TCE, a man‐made chemical was previously discovered in our shallow perched groundwater at the former GTE Santa Monica plant site.

Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether or MTBE, a gasoline additive, was previously discoved in a groundwater basin formerly used for drinking water by the City of Santa Monica to which oil companies had to pay $1.5 million to the EPA for costs it incurred while directing the investigation and cleanup.

We must not allow history to repeat itself.

Sincerely,
Michael Brodsky
Santa Monica
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1 Vernice Hankins
From: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 4:17 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: FOSP: City Council 4/12 item 1-G: Lease of storage tanks at SMO -- OPPOSE

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April 10, 2022
To: Mayor Himmelrich and City Council members
From: Board of Directors, Friends of Sunset Park
RE: 4/12/22 agenda item 1-G: Extending a lease of underground storage tanks at 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North to Atlantic Aviation

During Closed Session on April 12, you will be discussing extending a lease of city-owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport to Atlantic Aviation.

The FOSP Board urges the Council to:
1) not extend the lease to Atlantic Aviation of underground fuel storage tanks which are used for storing "leaded" aviation fuel (Avgas), and to
2) de-commission this aging "fuel field" at 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North that's used to store nearly 40,000 gallons of toxic leaded Avgas and toxic jet fuel.

Piston/propeller aircraft, which could potentially use "unleaded" Avgas, take off and land more than 5,000 times every month at Santa Monica Airport, flying over local homes, back yards, parks, playgrounds, and preschools.

Residents near the airport received this letter in the mail in 2015:

WARNING
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2 "The area within one kilometer of Santa Monica Airport contains lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Lead is contained in the aviation fuel (“Avgas”) that is used by small piston engine aircraft that take off and land at this airport. People living, working, or traveling near this location will be exposed to lead as aircraft take off and land."

Below is a letter from the Attorneys General of 18 states to the Environmental Protection Agency, stating that "prevention of lead exposure is the best way to minimize the adverse effects of lead poisoning." ______________________________________________________________________ March 16, 2022 letter to the EPA from the Attorney’s General of New York, California, DC, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin:

“Lead hazards are a scourge on the health and welfare of the most vulnerable residents of our states, and we support the strongest practical measures at the federal level to protect the public. Reducing lead exposures is an environmental justice imperative….

EPA has concluded that the effects of lead poisoning are ‘devastating and irreversible.’ Low-level chronic exposure to lead can cause severe developmental and behavioral problems in children.

Children under the age of five are physiologically more sensitive to lead exposure than the general population. High blood lead levels typically manifest as poor neurocognitive and neurobehavioral effects, such as decreases in IQ, attention deficits, impulsivity, hyperactivity, and predisposition to depression, anxiety, or high-risk behavior.

Lead exposure can lead to a wide range of medical disorders, such as encephalopathy, anemia, peripheral neuropathy, renal failure, hypertension, osteoporosis, and reproductive dysfunction.

Pregnant women and unborn children also experience severe adverse effects from lead exposure.

Data shows that lead exposure during pregnancy increases the odds of gestational hypertension, eclampsia and preeclampsia, renal insufficiency, spontaneous abortions, and still births.

For a fetus, lead toxicity can impair growth, lower birth weight, and delay neurodevelopment and puberty.

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3 Once absorbed by the human body, lead is extremely difficult to remove, and the health effects of lead poisoning are irreversible.

Therefore, prevention of lead exposure is the best way to minimize the adverse effects of lead poisoning….” Item 1.G
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From: Ben
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: SMO: April 12 agenda item 1-G
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:35:02 PM
Attachments: IMG_3065.PNG

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Dear Santa Monica City Council:

Please decommission the 37-year-old underground storage tanks at SMO. They were put in the ground in 1986, over 4 decades ago, and they are a significant risk!!! In fact, they have already leaked before.

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ASTSWMO and EPA studies say that the average UST lifespan is only about 20 years. http://astswmo.org/files/policies/Tanks/2015-10-ASTSWMOAgingTanks%20ReportFinal.pdf https://www.epa.gov/ust/frequent-questions-about-underground-storage-tanks Thank you for your consideration,
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Ben Wang
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From: Jamie Dunham <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:39 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: April 12 agenda item 1-G

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Echoing the Open Letter to City Council from Zina Josephs:
"During Closed Session on April 12, the City Council will discuss extending a lease of city‐owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport to Atlantic Aviation.

I urge the Council to:
1) not extend the lease to Atlantic Aviation of underground fuel storage tanks which are used for storing "leaded" aviation fuel (Avgas), and to
2) decommission this aging "fuel field" at 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North that's used to store nearly 40,000 gallons of leaded Avgas and jet fuel.

Piston/propeller aircraft using "leaded" Avgas, but which could potentially use "unleaded" Avgas, take off and land more than 5,000 times every month at Santa Monica Airport, flying over local homes, back yards, parks, playgrounds, and preschools."
This includes where we live on Pier Avenue, and where our son attended elementary school, and continues with middle school and playing in the local parks.

Thank you, Jamie Dunham
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1 Vernice Hankins
From: Elizabeth Van Denburgh <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:18 AM
To: Sue Himmelrich; Kristin McCowan; Christine Parra; Oscar de la Torre; Phil Brock; Gleam Davis; Lana Negrete; councilmtgitems
Cc: David White; Susan Cline; Anuj Gupta
Subject: City Council 4/12/22 - Item 1-G: Extending a lease of underground storage tanks at 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North to Atlantic Aviation - OPPOSE

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Mayor Himmelrich and City Council members,
During Closed Session on April 12, you will be discussing extending a lease of city-owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport to Atlantic Aviation. I urge you not to extend the lease to Atlantic Aviation of underground fuel storage tanks which are used for storing "leaded" aviation fuel (Avgas) and decommission this aging "fuel field" at 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North that's used to store nearly 40,000 gallons of toxic leaded Avgas and toxic jet fuel.

Residents near the airport received this letter in the mail in 2015:

WARNING
"The area within one kilometer of Santa Monica Airport contains lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Lead is contained in the aviation fuel (“Avgas”) that is used by small piston engine aircraft that take off and land at this airport. People living, working, or traveling near this location will be exposed to lead as aircraft take off and land."

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2 “Lead hazards are a scourge on the health and welfare of the most vulnerable residents of our states, and we support the strongest practical measures at the federal level to protect the public. Reducing lead exposures is an environmental justice imperative….

EPA has concluded that the effects of lead poisoning are ‘devastating and irreversible.’ Low-level chronic exposure to lead can cause severe developmental and behavioral problems in children.

Lead exposure can lead to a wide range of medical disorders, such as encephalopathy, anemia, peripheral neuropathy, renal failure, hypertension, osteoporosis, and reproductive dysfunction.

Pregnant women and unborn children also experience severe adverse effects from lead exposure.

Data shows that lead exposure during pregnancy increases the odds of gestational hypertension, eclampsia and preeclampsia, renal insufficiency, spontaneous abortions, and still births.

For a fetus, lead toxicity can impair growth, lower birth weight, and delay neurodevelopment and puberty.

Once absorbed by the human body, lead is extremely difficult to remove, and the health effects of lead poisoning are irreversible.

Therefore, prevention of lead exposure is the best way to minimize the adverse effects of lead poisoning….”
As a city that looks to continually improve and values residents' lives including the environmental impacts of such toxic chemicals as leaded fuel, please oppose tonight's Item 1- G.

Thank-you,
Elizabeth Van Denburgh
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From: Colin Maduzia <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 6:39 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Atlantic Aviation lease of city-owned fuel tanks

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Please stop the use of the aging 40,000 gallon ‘Fuel Farm’ of leaded Avgas and jet fuel on the north side of SMO. These tanks are over 36 years old, contain known toxins, have a history of leakage, & sit on irreplaceable aquifers. The City of SM can choose NOT TO LEASE those aging tanks of toxic fuel to Atlantic Aviation.

Thank you very much,
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Colin Maduzia
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1 Vernice Hankins
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 6:48 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: April 12 agenda item 1-G

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Dear City Council,
Please do Not renew the Atlantic Aviation lease of city owned fuel tanks.

Thank you for your consideration,
Michele Perrone
Ocean Park Resident since 1997
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From: Alan Levenson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:18 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Closed session Item 1-G

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Dear Mayor and Council,
In just a couple of days over 200 people have signed the below petition asking you not to lease the city’s underground fuel tanks.

When there is a will there is a way. Please listen to us.

SMO Underground Storage
Tank Petition
April 2022:
"We, the undersigned, urge the City Council to decommission the 37‐year‐old City‐owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport and to stop leasing them to store leaded and other toxic fuels.” Please do not lease the fuel farm.

Thank you.

Alan Levenson and over 200 more!
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From: Robb Curtis Brown <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:52 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: We're watching

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Tonight's vote on whether or not Santa Monica continues to be complicit in the sale of leaded AvGas will be of enormous consequence. The city can continue to pollute the air, the water and our children or it can say, ENOUGH! PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH! Dump the Pump. Vote NO to leaded fuel sales at SMO!! Robert Brown
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1 Vernice Hankins
From: danilobach <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:34 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: City Council meeting 4/12/22: item 1-G

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Dear Council,
As a resident of Santa Monica (though not in Sunset Park), I too share FOSP's concerns about the dangers from the current maintenance and use of leaded gasoline at the airport and urge you to terminate its storage there as soon as possible.

Danilo Bach
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Petition to Santa Monica City Council
April 12, 2022
City Council Meeting
Agenda Item 1.G
“We, the undersigned, urge the City
Council to decommission the 37-year-old
City-owned underground storage tanks at
Santa Monica Airport and to stop leasing
them to store leaded and other toxic
fuels.”
Below are the names, timestamp, and additional
comments submitted by over 220+ petition signers:

Alan Levenson -- 4/9/2022 11:20
Billy Nistico -- 4/9/2022 13:44
Theo Swerissen -- 4/9/2022 13:45
John Campisi -- 4/9/2022 13:46
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Asa Greenberg -- 4/9/2022 13:46
Katherine Newmark -- 4/9/2022 13:48
Ellen Mark -- 4/9/2022 13:48
Gregg Cahdwick -- 4/9/2022 13:49
Simona Garon -- 4/9/2022 13:50
Gavin Scott -- 4/9/2022 13:50
James Murakami -- 4/9/2022 13:52
Jonny Pray -- 4/9/2022 13:53
Yvonne Guy -- 4/9/2022 13:54
Will Guston -- 4/9/2022 13:56
Sejon Ding -- 4/9/2022 13:57
Sulinh Lafontaine -- 4/9/2022 13:57
Guy Cass -- 4/9/2022 13:58
Kent Alves -- 4/9/2022 13:58
Ross Berryman -- 4/9/2022 14:00
Patricia Braun -- 4/9/2022 14:00
Gary Glickman -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Jan Simonovic -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Jill Rosen -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Katherine Inglis -- 4/9/2022 14:05
Benjamin Shore -- 4/9/2022 14:08
John Greenwood -- 4/9/2022 14:08
tom krumpak -- 4/9/2022 14:10
William N. Fordes -- 4/9/2022 14:10
Darcy Lubbers -- 4/9/2022 14:12
David Abramis -- 4/9/2022 14:15
Chuck Mason -- 4/9/2022 14:18
Zina Josephs -- 4/9/2022 14:20
Robb Brown -- 4/9/2022 14:20
Jan-Peter Flack -- 4/9/2022 14:24
Nicola Scott -- 4/9/2022 14:29
Edward Luci -- 4/9/2022 14:33
David Konell -- 4/9/2022 14:33
Jeff Treves -- 4/9/2022 14:37
Jennifer Field -- 4/9/2022 14:38
Doug Wolf -- 4/9/2022 14:38
Alvin Crown -- 4/9/2022 14:39
Maureen Bradford -- 4/9/2022 14:45
Marion Klein -- 4/9/2022 14:48
Jesse Kramer -- 4/9/2022 14:59
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Lori Nafshun -- 4/9/2022 15:02
Nan Waldman -- 4/9/2022 15:08
Joseph Lutz -- 4/9/2022 15:15
Zuzana Landres -- 4/9/2022 15:29
Dorothy Chapman -- 4/9/2022 15:30
Ose Dalldorf -- 4/9/2022 15:34
Stephan Hewitt -- 4/9/2022 15:38
Chris Lee -- 4/9/2022 15:42
Jamie Dunham -- 4/9/2022 15:46
Lauren wallenstein -- 4/9/2022 15:48
LOU SSUTU -- 4/9/2022 15:57
David Ginsburg -- 4/9/2022 16:00
Erika Soja -- 4/9/2022 16:18
Marsha Nakashima -- 4/9/2022 16:21
David Sirh -- 4/9/2022 16:26
Andrea Lieberman -- 4/9/2022 16:45
Laurie Rocha -- 4/9/2022 16:57
Andrea Maitra -- 4/9/2022 17:04
Deborah Rothman -- 4/9/2022 17:06
Brian Kelly -- 4/9/2022 17:09
Betsy Katz -- 4/9/2022 17:25
Deborah Travis -- 4/9/2022 17:34
Ann Lewis -- 4/9/2022 17:39
Socorro Gallegos -- 4/9/2022 18:02
Mia Levenson -- 4/9/2022 18:03
Charles Bloomquist -- 4/9/2022 18:07
Jo Winston -- 4/9/2022 18:27
Joseph Schmitz -- 4/9/2022 18:34
Elin Katz -- 4/9/2022 18:36
Joan Schmitz -- 4/9/2022 18:42
Caroline Denyer -- 4/9/2022 18:55
Michael Brodsky -- 4/9/2022 18:55
Peter Spelman -- 4/9/2022 19:26
John Humble -- 4/9/2022 19:28
John Machtinger -- 4/9/2022 19:46
Michael Osment -- 4/9/2022 19:54
Mindy Taylor-Ross -- 4/9/2022 20:14
Carol Dickinson -- 4/9/2022 20:25
Patrick Seeholzer -- 4/9/2022 21:01
Lisa Sandbank -- 4/9/2022 21:07
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Patty -- 4/9/2022 21:15
Davidegoddard -- 4/9/2022 21:29
Roy Rico -- 4/9/2022 22:48
Linda Wilson -- 4/9/2022 23:05
Julia Quinn -- 4/9/2022 23:12
Dennis Wilder -- 4/10/2022 0:46
Michael Katz -- 4/10/2022 1:04
Bill Sundblad -- 4/10/2022 1:39
Matt Hendrickson -- 4/10/2022 1:47
Charles Blum -- 4/10/2022 2:54
Dirk Beving -- 4/10/2022 4:08
Eric Weingarten -- 4/10/2022 4:38
Helane Weingarten -- 4/10/2022 4:39
Cheryl Jones -- 4/10/2022 4:55
Dee Forrest -- 4/10/2022 4:57
David McCoy -- 4/10/2022 7:28
Rebecca Villegas -- 4/10/2022 8:49
Gizelle Strohkendl -- 4/10/2022 9:19
Paola Levenson -- 4/10/2022 9:22
Gary Keller -- 4/10/2022 10:28
Joyce Foster -- 4/10/2022 10:36
Brett Schafer -- 4/10/2022 11:05
Alice Ellis -- 4/10/2022 11:05
Ammar lughod -- 4/10/2022 11:14
Flynn Isment -- 4/10/2022 11:44
Ava Osment -- 4/10/2022 11:45
Sandra Casillas -- 4/10/2022 12:02
Lara Osment -- 4/10/2022 12:12
Annie Sabroux -- 4/10/2022 12:23
Will Pirkey -- 4/10/2022 12:24
Susan Grossman -- 4/10/2022 12:26
Richard M Levine -- 4/10/2022 12:45
John Ventura -- 4/10/2022 13:00
Patrick De Feo -- 4/10/2022 13:15
Elizabeth Oakes -- 4/10/2022 13:15
Olivia Kelly -- 4/10/2022 13:28
Leslie Bogart -- 4/10/2022 13:34
Shannon Eakman -- 4/10/2022 13:34
Kirsten Campisi -- 4/10/2022 13:37
Schafer -- 4/10/2022 13:38
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David Abramis -- 4/10/2022 13:43
Cathy tieri -- 4/10/2022 14:03
Stephen Manes -- 4/10/2022 14:19
Stacey Abrams-Sherick -- 4/10/2022 14:31
Tina Sumner -- 4/10/2022 14:39
ADRIAN HAREWOOD -- 4/10/2022 14:42
Laura Zerr -- 4/10/2022 14:55
Jordan Ellis -- 4/10/2022 15:28
susan reid -- 4/10/2022 15:29
H Milder -- 4/10/2022 16:57
William Schoene -- 4/10/2022 16:58
Natalie pittman -- 4/10/2022 16:59
William Schoene -- 4/10/2022 17:01
Joey Reynolds -- 4/10/2022 17:18
Nina Ellis -- 4/10/2022 17:22
Robert Street -- 4/10/2022 17:34
Christina Tayag -- 4/10/2022 18:02
Cris Armstrong -- 4/10/2022 18:18
David Greene -- 4/10/2022 18:33
Tasha Giuda -- 4/10/2022 18:44
Sydney Lovelace -- 4/10/2022 18:44
Astrid Calderas -- 4/10/2022 18:52
Astrid Calderas -- 4/10/2022 18:53
IrmaVargas -- 4/10/2022 18:58
Andrea ferrer -- 4/10/2022 19:36
Leo and Rachel Marcus -- 4/10/2022 19:47
Santiago Ferrer -- 4/10/2022 19:48
Lorri Benson -- 4/10/2022 19:49
Joseph Hardin -- 4/10/2022 19:51
Barbara Kaplan -- 4/10/2022 19:54
Karen Stern -- 4/10/2022 20:06
Stephen Mark -- 4/10/2022 20:14
Mario Peixoto -- 4/10/2022 20:38
Vivien Flitton -- 4/10/2022 20:44
Kim Grossman -- 4/10/2022 20:59
victor davich -- 4/10/2022 21:40
Deanna Ssutu -- 4/10/2022 22:49
Dale Strumpell -- 4/10/2022 23:00
Patricia Rulo -- 4/10/2022 23:24
Diana Tran -- 4/10/2022 23:30
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Anne Yee -- 4/10/2022 23:31
Russell Yee -- 4/10/2022 23:32
Nancy Owens -- 4/10/2022 23:37
Jilla Sardashti -- 4/10/2022 23:49
Megan FitzGerald -- 4/11/2022 0:09
Paula Mazur -- 4/11/2022 0:56
Pam Bottaro -- 4/11/2022 1:19
HAL GOLDEN -- 4/11/2022 1:29
Joan Blum -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Steven Benson -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Gregory Blum -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Christine Hardin -- 4/11/2022 8:38
Lisa Detamore -- 4/11/2022 10:33
stephen wilkins -- 4/11/2022 11:50
Kathy Cass -- 4/11/2022 11:58
Allison Greene -- 4/11/2022 12:21
John Greene -- 4/11/2022 12:28
saku ee -- 4/11/2022 13:03
hal lindes -- 4/11/2022 13:28
Joy Abbott -- 4/11/2022 14:44
Philip Cass -- 4/11/2022 15:08
Nicola Goode -- 4/11/2022 19:06
Sean Meehan -- 4/11/2022 19:08
Dylan McFarland -- 4/11/2022 19:09
Ruby Meehan -- 4/11/2022 19:38
Sara Daleiden -- 4/11/2022 20:01
ruth shari -- 4/11/2022 20:06
Tina Grossman -- 4/11/2022 20:59
Max Hunt -- 4/11/2022 21:12
Tracy Orloff -- 4/11/2022 22:31
Stephen Naftali -- 4/11/2022 23:24
Catherine Lerer -- 4/11/2022 23:46
Antonio Lysy -- 4/12/2022 1:12
Ted Braun -- 4/12/2022 1:25
Syd Lovelace -- 4/12/2022 2:27
Ken Abbott -- 4/12/2022 2:52
Randolph Holland -- 4/12/2022 3:29
Colin Maduzia -- 4/12/2022 9:35
Michele Perrone -- 4/12/2022 9:44
Pamela Gavras -- 4/12/2022 11:19
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Margaret Griffin -- 4/12/2022 11:21
Kim Andres -- 4/12/2022 11:24
Susan grant -- 4/12/2022 11:27
tamra raven -- 4/12/2022 11:29
Jeffrey Rosenfeld -- 4/12/2022 11:30
Janet Tunick -- 4/12/2022 11:34
Laura Thixton -- 4/12/2022 11:36
Dorothy Cramer -- 4/12/2022 11:36
Cinzia Paganuzzi -- 4/12/2022 11:41
Alison Megliola -- 4/12/2022 11:41
John Murdock -- 4/12/2022 11:52
Patty Antin -- 4/12/2022 11:55
Heather Gould -- 4/12/2022 11:59
Mary Hubbell -- 4/12/2022 12:02
Ben Wang -- 4/12/2022 12:05
Leah -- 4/12/2022 12:06
Kathy Seal -- 4/12/2022 12:15
Robert Street – 4/12/2022 12:24:28
Paulette Rochelle-Levy – 4/12/2022 12:25:32
Geraldine Kennedy – 4/12/2022 12:27:21
Tregg Rustad – 4/12/2022 12:40:56
Additional comments:
● Don’t lease tanks. Thanks.
● Please I live near this place. These tanks and lead are not compatible with living things.
● These jets are not flying out over the shoreline before banking north upon take off, which I believe is a violation of departures.
● Airport should be closed and all services suspended ASAP ● Take the leaded gas out of our city!
● Please end the storage of leaded fuel in Santa Monica. ● Please stop providing leaded fuel at Santa Monica airport. Thanks Item 1.G
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● "Protect the long term health of our environment get rid of these fuel storage tanks, now!
● Choke the airport not the lives around it!
● Newer studies show the dangers. Please act now.
● These tank are a danger to the health and safety of all!! ● Toxic! Dangerous! Life threatening! Protect us. Just say no. ● PLEASE do the right thing. For once....
● It's time.
● Practice what you PREACH!! Stop the sale of TOXINS!
● In our effort to shut down the airport permanently, we should keep establishing facts wherever possible. Shutting down AVGAS storage and distribution is a key action that needs to be taken. Dear City Council: please act accordingly and do not renew the tank leases. Ideally the tanks get dismantled and removed. That sends a clear message to the Aviation Industry and will be hard to reverse. ● Stop storing toxic fuels in these old storage tanks!
● It’s time to get rid of these under ground storage tanks. ● If there is any fuel offered it should be UNLEADED!!!! Other small airports such as Torrance have done this for years. PLEASE contribute to the climate change solution as well as cleaning the air in our back yards. I will be SO grateful. ● Lead causes learning disabilities in children and impacts health. We must eradicate lead from our environment!
● Please cease and desist the sale of leaded fuel.
● Every little piece of the puzzle is essential.Every missed link weakens us. Please remain strong in your actions !
● Decommission the toxic tanks and stop leasing them now! ● Please get rid of the fuel storage and stop the jets from endangering our neighborhoods.
● While SM cannot restrict the sale of leaded fuel, the Consent Decree does not require SM to sell leaded AvGas or provide tanks for lease to sell this toxic fuel. I do believe that individual Council Members could be personally liable for gross Item 1.G
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dereliction of duty if the sale of toxic fuel is authorized. And, why WOULD a sane person go out of their way to facilitate the spewing of toxic, disease-causing fumes over our own neighbors??
● For the good of Santa Monica please discontinue use of all city owned tanks that store toxic fuel. Do the right thing.
● Please do the right thing to make our community as safe as possible for its residents. Thank you.
● Please be kind to mother earth!
● "Stopping the City from enabling Atlantic Aviation's ongoing lead poisoning of our children should be an easy decision given your professed commitment to environmental justice.
● Acts, not words, reveal values.
● As our elected representatives, are you stalwart protectors of our children! Please act on our behalf."
● Please discourage leaded fuel wherever you can!
● Please, please do not allow the city to be complicit in poisoning our children with lead.
● "Please stop the poisoning of my two children, we live in Sunset Park, we smell leaded gas fumes all the time!!
● You pride yourself on being an environmental city. Santa Monica has a history of developing environmental and sustainability strategies, with the most recent focus on community-wide carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner. PLEASE, get rid of the fuel storage tanks! Please protect the many, over the few. ● Let’s begin to close down the airport so that we’re ready in 2028. ● There can be NO GOOD REASON to lease underground storage tanks at SMO to store leaded fuel for use over our town. PLEASE STOP and think of the PEOPLE.
● There will be long term repercussions to your decisions which will leave your legacy of service to Santa Monica Citizens who entrust the health of the children in your hands. There is more than enough research by the EPA, CDC, and even the FAA about the dangers of lead pollution. It is time to stop playing politics and stand up for what you know in your heart is right.

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● Get this toxic stuff out of our neighborhood!
● Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this common sense measure. ● Please stop poisoning the residents of Santa Monica.
● Fuel tanks at gas stations have often been repaired due to leakage. There are ways to avoid future litigation. Perhaps you should take them. ● Please don’t allow them to store toxic fuels on the airport!!!! ● Do not stand by while our children are being poisoned. Do not extend the Atlantic Aviation lease of city-owned fuel tanks. GET THE LEAD OUT! ● I would like to voice my support to stop leasing of the underground storage tanks at the Santa Monica Airport for all types of fuels and toxic chemicals. ● We know how harmful these fuels are to the public and the environment, and yet we do little to stop them. Do not enable this any longer! Please end the lease and decommission the tanks to prevent further harm to us all. Thank you. ● Stop the fuel farm lease!
● Stop poisoning our neighborhood and children! It’s absurd. ● My house is constantly covered in sut from fuel.. toxic and loud ● Don't be fools! Water is gold
● We are not required to provide tanks or sell fuel and we should not if we are serious about closing the airport. Right now we need to focus on the fuel farm lease. Time to do as you say, now!
● Water is so precious that it must be protected above all and no matter the cost. ● I want this decommission of the 37-year-old City-owned underground storage tanks to happen immediately.
● There is no case for the continued use of leaded fuels, aviation or otherwise. ● No more jets!!!! Enough.
● Hasten the discontinuation of leaded aviation fuel by refusing to store it in city-owned facilities.
● Please help convert airport to a park. No new construction.

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● Please do not delay any longer than necessary.
● Since we are not supposed to have jets at the SM Airport - we don't need to have the fuel there either. Begs the question, are you serious about providing safety to the neighborhood by removing the jets and fuel? that's what we have all been promised for years
● I strongly oppose the renewal of the fuel tank lease at the airport property ● The health risks are simply not worth any potential commercial benefits that may derive from maintaining the lease. Thank you for doing the right thing! ● Please please please vote to get rid of these dangerous toxins in our neighborhood. We know too much to let these leaded and other toxic fuels continue to harm us all. Thank you!
● No more Aviation fuel at SMO
● This is urgent to address and take action to protect our environment and the future of our aquifer, our most valuable asset. Please take action to decommission the 37 year old City owned storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport and stop leasing them to store leaded and other toxic fuels. ● Walk the talk and protect our environment. And no deals with "property developers."
● An accident--and class action--waiting to happen.
● Decommission Now!!
● Removing the underground storage tanks would contribute to better health, especially for those of us who live in the airport neighborhood. ● Stop allowing toxic fuels in our city!
● Fuel tanks don't belong here if we're serious about closing the airport. ● For a city that prides itself on clean living, Santa Monica can be mighty hypocritical when it comes to selling out.
● Let’s get this transition started.
● Please help clean up our city!
● Santa Monica should do everything in it's power to protect the health of its citizens!
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● You absolutely have a health obligation to stop the storage & sale of AV leaded fuel….
● Having been a victim of leaded fuel particles over our house for 38 years, we strongly encourage going forward the City stop leasing underground storage used for leaded fuels.
● Let's do the common sense, right thing. Thank you.
● Thank you for continuing to seek ways to heal the land at the Santa Monica Airport so it is available for a new life.
● How many years will it take to clean up the toxic leaks on airport land? ● Let's get the lead out of Santa Monica. Thank you.
● Please get the lead out! I live at the end of the runway (Navy and Walgreens). I worry about long term known health risks. I’m shocked to learn that lead fuel exists.
● Do not extending this
● Let's clean up these tanks to avoid a much more expensive cleanup when the chemicals leach into our land due to age-related failure. ● The vast health problems that stem from leaded fuel were first discovered in the 70's (fifty years ago). Lead was introduced into fuel to make engines go faster.

Allowing airplanes at SMO access to leaded fuel from City owned storage tanks, means you the City Council (our representatives) would be prioritizing airplane efficiency over the lives of the City's citizens. Decommissioning these tanks is 50 years past due.
● I believe my father’s Parkinson’s Disease could have been caused by his living under the runway of the airport.
● Release the underground storage
● Don't be hypocritical. Stop supplying storage for lead avgas. ● SMO will close in 80 months, per both the 2017 Consent Decree and the 2017 City Council SMO Closure Resolution No. 11026 which states, “The City Council directs the City Manager, City Attorney and their staffs to take all actions necessary and proper to ensure that SMO will cease to operate as an airport and shall be closed to all aeronautical use forever effective as of midnight on Item 1.G
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December 31, 2028.” The SMO fuel farm and underground storage tanks are far past their life expectancy and should be decommissioned now. ● Please act quickly on this hazard to our community's health! ● We have known for over ten years the damage that leaded gas from the Small planes is causing our children> THIS MUST STOP NOW!!
● I wholeheartedly agree that these storage tanks be decommissioned. And let’s have public notice that Santa Monica is a leader in reducing access to leaded gas. Public health and the climate thank you!
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1 Vernice Hankins
From: Ben <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:05 AM
To: Christine Parra; Gleam Davis; Oscar de la Torre; Kristin McCowan; Lana Negrete; Phil Brock; Sue Himmelrich; Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems; David White Subject: SMO: April 12, 2022 -- City Council Meeting Agenda Item 1.G -- Petition to Santa Monica City Council
Attachments: SMO -- Petition to SM City Council -- 04-12-22 Agenda Item_ 1.G.pdf

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Dear Santa Monica City Council:

The attached Petition from over 220+ community members is respectfully submitted for your consideration for the April 12, 2022 City Council Meeting Agenda Item 1.G. “We, the undersigned, urge the City Council to decommission the 37-year-old City-owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport and to stop leasing them to store leaded and other toxic fuels.”
SMO will close in 80 months, per both the 2017 Consent Decree and the 2017 City Council SMO Closure Resolution No. 11026 which states, “The City Council directs the City Manager, City Attorney and their staffs to take all actions necessary and proper to ensure that SMO will cease to operate as an airport and shall be closed to all aeronautical use forever effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028.” The SMO fuel farm and underground storage tanks are a huge present danger and risk. They are far past their life expectancy and should be decommissioned now.

You may receive the petition from others as well. For your convenience, I have also pasted it below in the text of this email
Thank you,
Ben Wang
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Petition to Santa Monica City Council
April 12, 2022
City Council Meeting
Agenda Item 1.G
“We, the undersigned, urge the City Council to decommission the 37-year-old City-owned underground storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport and to stop leasing them to store leaded and other toxic fuels.”
Below are the names, timestamp, and additional comments submitted by over 220+ petition signers:

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2 Alan Levenson -- 4/9/2022 11:20
Billy Nistico -- 4/9/2022 13:44
Theo Swerissen -- 4/9/2022 13:45
John Campisi -- 4/9/2022 13:46
Asa Greenberg -- 4/9/2022 13:46
Katherine Newmark -- 4/9/2022 13:48
Ellen Mark -- 4/9/2022 13:48
Gregg Cahdwick -- 4/9/2022 13:49
Simona Garon -- 4/9/2022 13:50
Gavin Scott -- 4/9/2022 13:50
James Murakami -- 4/9/2022 13:52
Jonny Pray -- 4/9/2022 13:53
Yvonne Guy -- 4/9/2022 13:54
Will Guston -- 4/9/2022 13:56
Sejon Ding -- 4/9/2022 13:57
Sulinh Lafontaine -- 4/9/2022 13:57
Guy Cass -- 4/9/2022 13:58
Kent Alves -- 4/9/2022 13:58
Ross Berryman -- 4/9/2022 14:00
Patricia Braun -- 4/9/2022 14:00
Gary Glickman -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Jan Simonovic -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Jill Rosen -- 4/9/2022 14:03
Katherine Inglis -- 4/9/2022 14:05
Benjamin Shore -- 4/9/2022 14:08
John Greenwood -- 4/9/2022 14:08
tom krumpak -- 4/9/2022 14:10
William N. Fordes -- 4/9/2022 14:10
Darcy Lubbers -- 4/9/2022 14:12
David Abramis -- 4/9/2022 14:15
Chuck Mason -- 4/9/2022 14:18
Zina Josephs -- 4/9/2022 14:20
Robb Brown -- 4/9/2022 14:20
Jan-Peter Flack -- 4/9/2022 14:24
Nicola Scott -- 4/9/2022 14:29
Edward Luci -- 4/9/2022 14:33
David Konell -- 4/9/2022 14:33
Jeff Treves -- 4/9/2022 14:37
Jennifer Field -- 4/9/2022 14:38
Doug Wolf -- 4/9/2022 14:38
Alvin Crown -- 4/9/2022 14:39
Maureen Bradford -- 4/9/2022 14:45
Marion Klein -- 4/9/2022 14:48
Jesse Kramer -- 4/9/2022 14:59
Lori Nafshun -- 4/9/2022 15:02
Nan Waldman -- 4/9/2022 15:08
Joseph Lutz -- 4/9/2022 15:15
Zuzana Landres -- 4/9/2022 15:29
Dorothy Chapman -- 4/9/2022 15:30
Ose Dalldorf -- 4/9/2022 15:34
Stephan Hewitt -- 4/9/2022 15:38
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3 Chris Lee -- 4/9/2022 15:42
Jamie Dunham -- 4/9/2022 15:46
Lauren wallenstein -- 4/9/2022 15:48
LOU SSUTU -- 4/9/2022 15:57
David Ginsburg -- 4/9/2022 16:00
Erika Soja -- 4/9/2022 16:18
Marsha Nakashima -- 4/9/2022 16:21
David Sirh -- 4/9/2022 16:26
Andrea Lieberman -- 4/9/2022 16:45
Laurie Rocha -- 4/9/2022 16:57
Andrea Maitra -- 4/9/2022 17:04
Deborah Rothman -- 4/9/2022 17:06
Brian Kelly -- 4/9/2022 17:09
Betsy Katz -- 4/9/2022 17:25
Deborah Travis -- 4/9/2022 17:34
Ann Lewis -- 4/9/2022 17:39
Socorro Gallegos -- 4/9/2022 18:02
Mia Levenson -- 4/9/2022 18:03
Charles Bloomquist -- 4/9/2022 18:07
Jo Winston -- 4/9/2022 18:27
Joseph Schmitz -- 4/9/2022 18:34
Elin Katz -- 4/9/2022 18:36
Joan Schmitz -- 4/9/2022 18:42
Caroline Denyer -- 4/9/2022 18:55
Michael Brodsky -- 4/9/2022 18:55
Peter Spelman -- 4/9/2022 19:26
John Humble -- 4/9/2022 19:28
John Machtinger -- 4/9/2022 19:46
Michael Osment -- 4/9/2022 19:54
Mindy Taylor-Ross -- 4/9/2022 20:14
Carol Dickinson -- 4/9/2022 20:25
Patrick Seeholzer -- 4/9/2022 21:01
Lisa Sandbank -- 4/9/2022 21:07
Patty -- 4/9/2022 21:15
Davidegoddard -- 4/9/2022 21:29
Roy Rico -- 4/9/2022 22:48
Linda Wilson -- 4/9/2022 23:05
Julia Quinn -- 4/9/2022 23:12
Dennis Wilder -- 4/10/2022 0:46
Michael Katz -- 4/10/2022 1:04
Bill Sundblad -- 4/10/2022 1:39
Matt Hendrickson -- 4/10/2022 1:47
Charles Blum -- 4/10/2022 2:54
Dirk Beving -- 4/10/2022 4:08
Eric Weingarten -- 4/10/2022 4:38
Helane Weingarten -- 4/10/2022 4:39
Cheryl Jones -- 4/10/2022 4:55
Dee Forrest -- 4/10/2022 4:57
David McCoy -- 4/10/2022 7:28
Rebecca Villegas -- 4/10/2022 8:49
Gizelle Strohkendl -- 4/10/2022 9:19
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4 Paola Levenson -- 4/10/2022 9:22
Gary Keller -- 4/10/2022 10:28
Joyce Foster -- 4/10/2022 10:36
Brett Schafer -- 4/10/2022 11:05
Alice Ellis -- 4/10/2022 11:05
Ammar lughod -- 4/10/2022 11:14
Flynn Isment -- 4/10/2022 11:44
Ava Osment -- 4/10/2022 11:45
Sandra Casillas -- 4/10/2022 12:02
Lara Osment -- 4/10/2022 12:12
Annie Sabroux -- 4/10/2022 12:23
Will Pirkey -- 4/10/2022 12:24
Susan Grossman -- 4/10/2022 12:26
Richard M Levine -- 4/10/2022 12:45
John Ventura -- 4/10/2022 13:00
Patrick De Feo -- 4/10/2022 13:15
Elizabeth Oakes -- 4/10/2022 13:15
Olivia Kelly -- 4/10/2022 13:28
Leslie Bogart -- 4/10/2022 13:34
Shannon Eakman -- 4/10/2022 13:34
Kirsten Campisi -- 4/10/2022 13:37
Schafer -- 4/10/2022 13:38
David Abramis -- 4/10/2022 13:43
Cathy tieri -- 4/10/2022 14:03
Stephen Manes -- 4/10/2022 14:19
Stacey Abrams-Sherick -- 4/10/2022 14:31
Tina Sumner -- 4/10/2022 14:39
ADRIAN HAREWOOD -- 4/10/2022 14:42
Laura Zerr -- 4/10/2022 14:55
Jordan Ellis -- 4/10/2022 15:28
susan reid -- 4/10/2022 15:29
H Milder -- 4/10/2022 16:57
William Schoene -- 4/10/2022 16:58
Natalie pittman -- 4/10/2022 16:59
William Schoene -- 4/10/2022 17:01
Joey Reynolds -- 4/10/2022 17:18
Nina Ellis -- 4/10/2022 17:22
Robert Street -- 4/10/2022 17:34
Christina Tayag -- 4/10/2022 18:02
Cris Armstrong -- 4/10/2022 18:18
David Greene -- 4/10/2022 18:33
Tasha Giuda -- 4/10/2022 18:44
Sydney Lovelace -- 4/10/2022 18:44
Astrid Calderas -- 4/10/2022 18:52
Astrid Calderas -- 4/10/2022 18:53
IrmaVargas -- 4/10/2022 18:58
Andrea ferrer -- 4/10/2022 19:36
Leo and Rachel Marcus -- 4/10/2022 19:47
Santiago Ferrer -- 4/10/2022 19:48
Lorri Benson -- 4/10/2022 19:49
Joseph Hardin -- 4/10/2022 19:51
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5 Barbara Kaplan -- 4/10/2022 19:54
Karen Stern -- 4/10/2022 20:06
Stephen Mark -- 4/10/2022 20:14
Mario Peixoto -- 4/10/2022 20:38
Vivien Flitton -- 4/10/2022 20:44
Kim Grossman -- 4/10/2022 20:59
victor davich -- 4/10/2022 21:40
Deanna Ssutu -- 4/10/2022 22:49
Dale Strumpell -- 4/10/2022 23:00
Patricia Rulo -- 4/10/2022 23:24
Diana Tran -- 4/10/2022 23:30
Anne Yee -- 4/10/2022 23:31
Russell Yee -- 4/10/2022 23:32
Nancy Owens -- 4/10/2022 23:37
Jilla Sardashti -- 4/10/2022 23:49
Megan FitzGerald -- 4/11/2022 0:09
Paula Mazur -- 4/11/2022 0:56
Pam Bottaro -- 4/11/2022 1:19
HAL GOLDEN -- 4/11/2022 1:29
Joan Blum -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Steven Benson -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Gregory Blum -- 4/11/2022 2:10
Christine Hardin -- 4/11/2022 8:38
Lisa Detamore -- 4/11/2022 10:33
stephen wilkins -- 4/11/2022 11:50
Kathy Cass -- 4/11/2022 11:58
Allison Greene -- 4/11/2022 12:21
John Greene -- 4/11/2022 12:28
saku ee -- 4/11/2022 13:03
hal lindes -- 4/11/2022 13:28
Joy Abbott -- 4/11/2022 14:44
Philip Cass -- 4/11/2022 15:08
Nicola Goode -- 4/11/2022 19:06
Sean Meehan -- 4/11/2022 19:08
Dylan McFarland -- 4/11/2022 19:09
Ruby Meehan -- 4/11/2022 19:38
Sara Daleiden -- 4/11/2022 20:01
ruth shari -- 4/11/2022 20:06
Tina Grossman -- 4/11/2022 20:59
Max Hunt -- 4/11/2022 21:12
Tracy Orloff -- 4/11/2022 22:31
Stephen Naftali -- 4/11/2022 23:24
Catherine Lerer -- 4/11/2022 23:46
Antonio Lysy -- 4/12/2022 1:12
Ted Braun -- 4/12/2022 1:25
Syd Lovelace -- 4/12/2022 2:27
Ken Abbott -- 4/12/2022 2:52
Randolph Holland -- 4/12/2022 3:29
Colin Maduzia -- 4/12/2022 9:35
Michele Perrone -- 4/12/2022 9:44
Pamela Gavras -- 4/12/2022 11:19
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6 Margaret Griffin -- 4/12/2022 11:21
Kim Andres -- 4/12/2022 11:24
Susan grant -- 4/12/2022 11:27
tamra raven -- 4/12/2022 11:29
Jeffrey Rosenfeld -- 4/12/2022 11:30
Janet Tunick -- 4/12/2022 11:34
Laura Thixton -- 4/12/2022 11:36
Dorothy Cramer -- 4/12/2022 11:36
Cinzia Paganuzzi -- 4/12/2022 11:41
Alison Megliola -- 4/12/2022 11:41
John Murdock -- 4/12/2022 11:52
Patty Antin -- 4/12/2022 11:55
Heather Gould -- 4/12/2022 11:59
Mary Hubbell -- 4/12/2022 12:02
Ben Wang -- 4/12/2022 12:05
Leah -- 4/12/2022 12:06
Kathy Seal -- 4/12/2022 12:15
Robert Street – 4/12/2022 12:24:28
Paulette Rochelle-Levy – 4/12/2022 12:25:32
Geraldine Kennedy – 4/12/2022 12:27:21
Tregg Rustad – 4/12/2022 12:40:56
Additional comments:
 Don’t lease tanks. Thanks.
 Please I live near this place. These tanks and lead are not compatible with living things.  These jets are not flying out over the shoreline before banking north upon take off, which I believe is a violation of departures.
 Airport should be closed and all services suspended ASAP  Take the leaded gas out of our city!
 Please end the storage of leaded fuel in Santa Monica.  Please stop providing leaded fuel at Santa Monica airport. Thanks  "Protect the long term health of our environment get rid of these fuel storage tanks, now!  Choke the airport not the lives around it!
 Newer studies show the dangers. Please act now.
 These tank are a danger to the health and safety of all!!  Toxic! Dangerous! Life threatening! Protect us. Just say no.  PLEASE do the right thing. For once....
 It's time.
 Practice what you PREACH!! Stop the sale of TOXINS!
 In our effort to shut down the airport permanently, we should keep establishing facts wherever possible. Shutting down AVGAS storage and distribution is a key action that needs to be taken. Dear City Council: please act accordingly and do not renew the tank leases. Ideally the tanks get dismantled and removed. That sends a clear message to the Aviation Industry and will be hard to reverse.
 Stop storing toxic fuels in these old storage tanks!
 It’s time to get rid of these under ground storage tanks.

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7  If there is any fuel offered it should be UNLEADED!!!! Other small airports such as Torrance have done this for years. PLEASE contribute to the climate change solution as well as cleaning the air in our back yards. I will be SO grateful.  Lead causes learning disabilities in children and impacts health. We must eradicate lead from our environment!
 Please cease and desist the sale of leaded fuel.
 Every little piece of the puzzle is essential.Every missed link weakens us. Please remain strong in your actions !
 Decommission the toxic tanks and stop leasing them now!  Please get rid of the fuel storage and stop the jets from endangering our neighborhoods.  While SM cannot restrict the sale of leaded fuel, the Consent Decree does not require SM to sell leaded AvGas or provide tanks for lease to sell this toxic fuel. I do believe that individual Council Members could be personally liable for gross dereliction of duty if the sale of toxic fuel is authorized. And, why WOULD a sane person go out of their way to facilitate the spewing of toxic, disease-causing fumes over our own neighbors??
 For the good of Santa Monica please discontinue use of all city owned tanks that store toxic fuel. Do the right thing.
 Please do the right thing to make our community as safe as possible for its residents. Thank you.
 Please be kind to mother earth!
 "Stopping the City from enabling Atlantic Aviation's ongoing lead poisoning of our children should be an easy decision given your professed commitment to environmental justice.  Acts, not words, reveal values.
 As our elected representatives, are you stalwart protectors of our children! Please act on our behalf."
 Please discourage leaded fuel wherever you can!
 Please, please do not allow the city to be complicit in poisoning our children with lead.  "Please stop the poisoning of my two children, we live in Sunset Park, we smell leaded gas fumes all the time!!
 You pride yourself on being an environmental city. Santa Monica has a history of developing environmental and sustainability strategies, with the most recent focus on community-wide carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner. PLEASE, get rid of the fuel storage tanks! Please protect the many, over the few.
 Let’s begin to close down the airport so that we’re ready in 2028.  There can be NO GOOD REASON to lease underground storage tanks at SMO to store leaded fuel for use over our town. PLEASE STOP and think of the PEOPLE.  There will be long term repercussions to your decisions which will leave your legacy of service to Santa Monica Citizens who entrust the health of the children in your hands. There is more than enough research by the EPA, CDC, and even the FAA about the dangers of lead pollution. It is time to stop playing politics and stand up for what you know in your heart is right.
 Get this toxic stuff out of our neighborhood!
 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this common sense measure.  Please stop poisoning the residents of Santa Monica.
 Fuel tanks at gas stations have often been repaired due to leakage. There are ways to avoid future litigation. Perhaps you should take them.
 Please don’t allow them to store toxic fuels on the airport!!!!  Do not stand by while our children are being poisoned. Do not extend the Atlantic Aviation lease of city-owned fuel tanks. GET THE LEAD OUT!
 I would like to voice my support to stop leasing of the underground storage tanks at the Santa Monica Airport for all types of fuels and toxic chemicals.

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8  We know how harmful these fuels are to the public and the environment, and yet we do little to stop them. Do not enable this any longer! Please end the lease and decommission the tanks to prevent further harm to us all. Thank you.
 Stop the fuel farm lease!
 Stop poisoning our neighborhood and children! It’s absurd.  My house is constantly covered in sut from fuel.. toxic and loud  Don't be fools! Water is gold
 We are not required to provide tanks or sell fuel and we should not if we are serious about closing the airport. Right now we need to focus on the fuel farm lease. Time to do as you say, now!
 Water is so precious that it must be protected above all and no matter the cost.  I want this decommission of the 37-year-old City-owned underground storage tanks to happen immediately.
 There is no case for the continued use of leaded fuels, aviation or otherwise.  No more jets!!!! Enough.
 Hasten the discontinuation of leaded aviation fuel by refusing to store it in city-owned facilities.
 Please help convert airport to a park. No new construction.  Please do not delay any longer than necessary.
 Since we are not supposed to have jets at the SM Airport - we don't need to have the fuel there either. Begs the question, are you serious about providing safety to the neighborhood by removing the jets and fuel? that's what we have all been promised for years  I strongly oppose the renewal of the fuel tank lease at the airport property  The health risks are simply not worth any potential commercial benefits that may derive from maintaining the lease. Thank you for doing the right thing!  Please please please vote to get rid of these dangerous toxins in our neighborhood. We know too much to let these leaded and other toxic fuels continue to harm us all. Thank you!  No more Aviation fuel at SMO
 This is urgent to address and take action to protect our environment and the future of our aquifer, our most valuable asset. Please take action to decommission the 37 year old City owned storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport and stop leasing them to store leaded and other toxic fuels.
 Walk the talk and protect our environment. And no deals with "property developers."  An accident--and class action--waiting to happen.
 Decommission Now!!
 Removing the underground storage tanks would contribute to better health, especially for those of us who live in the airport neighborhood.
 Stop allowing toxic fuels in our city!
 Fuel tanks don't belong here if we're serious about closing the airport.  For a city that prides itself on clean living, Santa Monica can be mighty hypocritical when it comes to selling out.
 Let’s get this transition started.
 Please help clean up our city!
 Santa Monica should do everything in it's power to protect the health of its citizens!  You absolutely have a health obligation to stop the storage & sale of AV leaded fuel….  Having been a victim of leaded fuel particles over our house for 38 years, we strongly encourage going forward the City stop leasing underground storage used for leaded fuels.  Let's do the common sense, right thing. Thank you.
 Thank you for continuing to seek ways to heal the land at the Santa Monica Airport so it is available for a new life.
 How many years will it take to clean up the toxic leaks on airport land? Item 1.G
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9  Let's get the lead out of Santa Monica. Thank you.
 Please get the lead out! I live at the end of the runway (Navy and Walgreens). I worry about long term known health risks. I’m shocked to learn that lead fuel exists.  Do not extending this
 Let's clean up these tanks to avoid a much more expensive cleanup when the chemicals leach into our land due to age-related failure.
 The vast health problems that stem from leaded fuel were first discovered in the 70's (fifty years ago). Lead was introduced into fuel to make engines go faster. Allowing airplanes at SMO access to leaded fuel from City owned storage tanks, means you the City Council (our representatives) would be prioritizing airplane efficiency over the lives of the City's citizens.

Decommissioning these tanks is 50 years past due.
 I believe my father’s Parkinson’s Disease could have been caused by his living under the runway of the airport.
 Release the underground storage
 Don't be hypocritical. Stop supplying storage for lead avgas.  SMO will close in 80 months, per both the 2017 Consent Decree and the 2017 City Council SMO Closure Resolution No. 11026 which states, “The City Council directs the City Manager, City Attorney and their staffs to take all actions necessary and proper to ensure that SMO will cease to operate as an airport and shall be closed to all aeronautical use forever effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028.” The SMO fuel farm and underground storage tanks are far past their life expectancy and should be decommissioned now.  Please act quickly on this hazard to our community's health!  We have known for over ten years the damage that leaded gas from the Small planes is causing our children> THIS MUST STOP NOW!!
 I wholeheartedly agree that these storage tanks be decommissioned. And let’s have public notice that Santa Monica is a leader in reducing access to leaded gas. Public health and the climate thank you!
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From: Nancy Lamell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:17 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: April 12 agenda item 1-G

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Dear Members of the Santa Monica City Council,
PLEASE vote against the proposed extension of the Atlantic Aviation lease of underground fuel storage tanks at Santa Monica Airport, and further please act to decommission the tanks as soon as possible. As the City moves toward closure of the airport for the health and welfare of residents of Santa Monica, it is counterproductive and counterintuitive to continue to allow underground storage of fossil fuels in aging tanks that have a history of leaks. We should be moving toward elimination of aviation fuel at the site, not extension of aviation's use of our land for its toxic purposes.

Thank you for your consideration.

Nancy B. Lamell
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From: Robert Street <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:31 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Avgas Storage Tanks

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Esteemed council members,
Please oppose the storage of fuel in these aged tanks. I grew up on Pier Ave and am raising three daughters here. One of my daughters was identified with having high levels of lead in her system when she was younger. I can’t be sure that it was a result of exposure to aviation fuel but I cannot imagine that continued use of these “vintage” tanks is in any way a good idea for our community.

Thank you,
Robert Street
2323 Pier Ave.

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April 12, 2022