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From: PNA90404 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 8:28 AM
To: Oscar de la Torre; Phil Brock; Gleam Davis; Sue Himmelrich; Kristin McCowan; Christine Parra Cc: councilmtgitems
Subject: Agenda Item 3A
Attachments: Exhibit1newBuilding.jpg; ExhibitB.jpg; ExhibitCopenLandfillonStewartSt.png; ExhibitA.png; ExhibitGscdStainedWall.jpg; ExhibitJ.png; ExhibitH.png; ExhibitK.png
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Dear City Council and City Staff.
Agenda item 3A: Please say no to staff's recommendation to the relocation of the City’s open air recyclable materials tip/dump and transfer facility hard up against the residential mhp.
Don’t pass the EIR addendum, at 20 feet the sound percussion knocks crockery off of kitchen tables and interferes with people's mental health when the City recycle trucks dump their loads and the compacting machines cram the recycling into large diesel powered hauling trucks,SCD and City Hall will pollute the residents that live 20 feet from their operations, how can any environmental analysis have been done if you are poisoning Low income Hispanic residents with 2.5 PM and 10 PM particulate matter particle pollution? What outreach has been done to the 20 plus families that live directly under your cloud of pollution?
In June 2019 the City of Santa Monica closed down “The Santa Monica Community Recycling Center” also known as the Buyback Center run by the Allan Company the City wanted the land Allen Company used in the City yards for themselves to build a vanity project costing upto $300.0000,000. dollars (please see Exhibit 1 new Building).
Allan Company provided a service to Santa Monica residents that paid the redemption value on recycling to residents when they collected them and brought them in. that amount of Cash was approximately $7-13 Million Dollars per year to the Residents and community of Santa Monica from an overall income of $14- $30 Million (the difference in amounts is a bumper year versus an average year) the closing down also lost local employment in Santa Monica (please see Exhibit A) Closing down the Santa Monica Community Recycling Center was a huge cash gift by City Hall to Southern California Disposal & Recycling Transfer Station “SCD” on an annual basis/Plus the land swop for City owned land the Hanson Lot, combined and should be investigated by an outside agency such as Los Angeles District Attorney's office or the FBI or both for embezzlement of public funds also SCD gives nothing back to the community, they only take from the community, all trash services are paid for by the residents of Santa Monica they are not free.
City Staff state very clearly in their EIR for the addendum to City Yards Project, staff are solely responsible for the relocation/location of City’s recyclable materials tip/dump and transfer facility, SCD is Item 3.A
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2 not involved in the relocation or decision making, If this is a straightforward business deal why is City Hall hiding/shielding this deal with the City Attorney's office and $24 million dollar City Attorneys budget?( that is what that statement is saying) to shield SCD from Lawsuits that may come from the poisonous pollution in particulates dumped over the cement block walls into the Residential MHP and the unexplained deaths of residents in this part of the mhp. Please see Exhibits B & C.) So Why is this happening (please see Exhibit D AB1550 Disadvantaged community/Low-income community) Pico Neighborhood is a Disadvantaged community, this is a loss of equity and entrenched racism by City Hall seen today in the 21st Century for all to see, the reason you are doing this, a bunch of low income Hispanics forced/tricked into moving onto the Landfill by another City Department, that they never lived on before and no one will care, it is not right for City hall to poison low income Santa Monica residents simply because you can and they are not capable of fighting you plus its probably not lawful.
So what is it City Hall is doing to this poverty stricken community (please see Exhibits E,F) please take notice of the stained wall 20 feet from residential homes in exhibit E This wall is not a sound wall it's just a block wall and provides no protection from the trash stench and odors and particulate pollution and sound/noise created by City owned trucks and SCD, please also take notice of the stained wall inside SCD transfer station(Exhibit G)-it is 4 inches thick mostly mold that SCD refuses to remedy and is just one of the public health violations SCD and the City is responsible for.
Please return the Zoning back to residential and stop Joining lots together for City Business Partners (please see Exhibits H,J,K)
Thanking you in Advance: Cris McLeod Pico NeighborHood Association Chair and Santa Monica Resident.
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