SR 12-12-2023 1A
City Council
Report
City Council Meeting: December 12, 2023
Agenda Item: 1.A
1 of 1
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records and Election Services
Department
Subject: Written Comments
Prepared By: Esterlina Lugo, Deputy City Clerk
Approved
Forwarded to Council
Attachments:
A. Written Comments
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Xavier Mota
From:jonathan hawes <jonathanhawes@myyahoo.com>
Sent:Wednesday, November 29, 2023 8:31 AM
To:Clerk Mailbox
Subject:General public comment to be read at the next city council meeting
Follow Up Flag:Follow up
Flag Status:Flagged
EXTERNAL
Hello. My name is Jonathan Hawes. I served as El Monte City Clerk from 2013 to 2018. Since 2015 I
have been a whistleblower on Andre Quintero and Team El Monte’s embezzlement of $10 million
from the El Monte Promise Foundation scholarship fund. I have interviewed dozens of El Monte
residents who have privately confirmed that Promise funds were used for fraudulent trips to Vietnam
and Haiti, a bogus consultant in Salt Lake City, house repairs, and other unlawful expenditures. I
have myself been interviewed by the FBI about two dozen times. Documents proving the
embezzlement have been submitted to the FBI and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
A week ago, an El Monte resident with a documented history of harassing and fabricating lies about
other residents, Gabby Leos, told a string of lies on cable news about El Monte Mayor Jessica
Ancona. These lies were spoon-fed to her by City Manager Alma Martinez. El Monte Police Chief
Jake Fisher, who went on record confirming one of Leos/Martinez’s lies, needs to be fired for
interfering in ongoing litigation by commenting publicly on said litigation, and for lying in his official
capacity. Both Martinez and Fisher dislike Mayor Ancona due to her efforts to rid our city of the
baleful influence of Andre Quintero and his Team El Monte minions, of which Martinez and Fisher are
two. Martinez and Fisher have frequently made significant decisions without a vote from the council,
which is unlawful, and Ancona has called out such improprieties, furthering their animosity towards
her and her anti-corruption efforts.
I am asking the Santa Monica City Council to pass a resolution condemning these crimes and
schemes in order to protect the greatest mayor El Monte has ever had, Mayor Jessica Ancona, and
the vulnerable residents of one of the poorest cities in Southern California. If this criminal, FBI-
investigated cabal succeeds in removing her from office via well-orchestrated, mendacious smear
campaigns, we will be back to full dictatorship under Andre Quintero or one of his puppets. El Monte
children, who should’ve been provided with college scholarships, were robbed by his embezzlement.
Andre Quintero and Team El Monte members must go to prison. If you have any questions, please
call or text me at (626) 863-2149. Thank you.
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Xavier Mota
From:Jason Mastbaum <jason.mastbaum@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, December 11, 2023 4:39 PM
To:councilmtgitems
Subject:12/11/2023 item 1 general public comment
EXTERNAL
I just saw our soon‐to‐be mayor getting out of the fancy new electric Mercedes SUV he doesn't want to have to pay to
charge, and I couldn't help but notice that Phil didn't attach his front license plate. As a lifelong Californian I'd think Phil
would know that it's California law to attach both license plates to a car. I can't help but wonder what other laws will
Phil decide don't apply to him once he's mayor.
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Xavier Mota
From:mazdayasnie@netzero.net
Sent:Tuesday, December 12, 2023 11:45 AM
To:councilmtgitems
Subject:We Want a REAL Opt-Out from the AMI Wireless Water Meter Project
EXTERNAL
Dear Council Members:
Good day to you all
I'm wriƟng because one of the plans that the city has considered for those wishing to opt‐out of the AMI project would
NOT be a REAL opt‐out.. We do NOT
want our water meter to be replaced with an AMI compliant meter which could later have a radio aƩachment aƩached
to it that would convert it into a wireless device.
Please know that there legiƟmate health, environmental and security concerns associated with AMI meters. We
simply ask that we be REALLY allowed to opt‐out just as we were allowed to
opt‐out of electric "smart" meters and "Advanced" gas meters by uƟlity companies.
Thank you in advance for respecƟng our consƟtuƟonal. rights.
Sincerely,
Dhun May
(On behalf of myself and concerned residents throughout the city)
P.S . Also please be aware that some water meters are being "stressed" or damaged by the pressure of roots of Ficus
trees (planted adjacent to water meters.
by the City) and therefore may warrant replacement in the near future.. The Street Maintenance department
working in conjuncƟon with the Water department will likely
be able to help with this maƩer by WORKING TOGETHER.
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Xavier Mota
From:Lauren Huntington Weedman <weedman71@hotmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, December 12, 2023 12:06 PM
To:councilmtgitems
Subject:Reed Park/Miles Playhouse
EXTERNAL
Hello City Council‐
I’m a Single Mother of a teenage son who has lived for 20 years in a rent controlled apartment directly across from the
Miles Playhouse.
I’ve been in a struggle to find a way to help clean up the stairs of the of Miles Playhouse or block off the steps so it’s not
a daily hang out for drug users or folks selling. Even just police tape or something while the theater is not in use.
I call the non emergency line when it gets too out of control or if there’s a fight or blatant dealing or using. We walk out
of our apartment almost every day into the hell of Reed Park. Which could be such a nice park. But it’s not.
I’ve spent Ɵme talking to the Santa Monica Arts Commission. Months of back and forth with them during Covid and they
all sent to me to you all.
So then I wrote emails to City Council members. I’ve OVER AND OVER again offered my help. Can I pay for large
decoraƟve rocks to be put on the stairs?
Can we do what everyone in this neighbor wants—and turn the park into a dog park or shut it down? Do any of you live
near Reed park? I so want to move but can’t afford to so I want to help turn it into a safe feeling home. I give up for a
few years and then try for a few years and then give up.
Can the drug use and homeless hang outs be directed to an area that’s not where people are trying to raise their kids?
I’m not trying to clean up the world of all the struggles that are happening but once in a while it hits me how
homeowners would never put up with this and fight and seem to have rights and the poor apartment folks have none.
So what can we do? Why has nothing been changed in a park that is so clearly a rough/bad area? How do we get the
city to care?
Thank you so much. I”m not angry. Just depressed.
‐lauren Weedman
818‐288‐6264
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