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A night to remember: Establishment operative, Fitzgerald and Nelson tool, Royce hack Larry Bennett faces Barry Levinson
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Joe Imbriano’s comments- This one will be sure to get Bruce Whitaker talked to by his bosses. We will see who Bruce Whitaker is really working for in a matter of days.
MASSIVE 300 UNIT HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Agenda 21, Fullerton Community events, Fullerton politics, FULLERTON PRAVDA, Fullerton's downtown core and corridor on April 25, 2016
NO CITY IN ORANGE COUNTY IS BEING OVERDEVELOPED LIKE FULLERTON IS AND YOU BETTER WAKE UP FOLKS BECAUSE THEY ARE MOVING FAST AND THE COUNCIL WILL PASS THIS IF YOU DON’T GET MAD AS HELL. THEY ARE SELLING US OUT TO THE DEVELOPERS AGENDA 21 STYLE TO PAY FOR THE BLOATED POLICE, FIRE AND CITY EMPLOYEES’ SALARIES, BENEFITS AND PENSIONS.
This is not the city I moved into 19 years ago and their solution is to make it worse! Ladies and gentlemen, what you see happening is all about getting things rammed through without people knowing about it until it is too late.
HERE WE GO AGAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WITH JOB KILLING MASSIVE HIGH RISE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT BEHIND ALL OF YOUR BACKS.
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/weblink/DocView.aspx?dbid=1&id=589379&page=1&cr=1
AND OF COURSE WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN THE VICE PRESIDENT OF CURT PRINGLE AND ASSOCIATES IS RUNNING AROUND MASQUERADING AS THE MAYOR OF FULLERTON?
Jennifer Fitzgerald became Vice President of Curt Pringle & Associates only after her election to the council
Well a few weeks ago, the Polly’s Pies location pictured below here in pink
was on the block for a potential 500-600 unit massive development at the Planning commission that Ms. Halluza like to call a mixed use overlay district. At the last city council meeting, the VP of Pringle and Associates masquerading as our mayor denied the existence of the plans in the picture above that was presented at the planning commission meeting.
Well the planning commission voted to delay the project to a date uncertain and bring it back for revision.
We most certainly beat that back because now it looks like they are trying to ram through another monstrosity about a mile due west. It has been said GO WEST YOUNG MAN, GO WEST….
NOT TO DISAPPOINT, THAT IS WHAT THEY DID-NOW A MILE TO THE WEST, FAST =TRACKING 300 UNITS PLANNED FOR A FORMER CAR DEALERSHIP. Yes rezoning a commercial property to cram in 300 apartments right next to homes is the model.
Where is all the public notification? Well here are some public notifiers – here we have Jane Rands
and her pal Jane Reifer
WRITING FOR THE FULLERTON PRAVDA AKA THE FULLERTON OBSERVER- These two state that this new version of the DCCSP IS A “STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION“.
Are they out of their minds?
HANDING OVER ALL POWER OVER THE CHECKS AND BALANCES WHEN IT COMES TO DEVELOPMENT TO THE CITY MANAGER ONCE THE DCCSP IS APPROVED IS STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?
ASIDE FROM WHERE ALL THE WATER IS SUPPOSED TO COME FROM, WHERE ARE ALL THE CARS SUPPOSED TO GO, WHERE IS ALL THE TRAFFIC SUPPOSED TO BE DIVERTED, WHERE ARE ALL THE CLASSROOMS SUPPOSED TO COME FROM, WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO WORK, AND REALLY NOW, IS THIS JUST ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RAMMING A HUGE SECTION 8 HOUSING PROJECT TUCKED AWAY SOUTH OF THE TRACKS TO MEET FULLERTON’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.
City Manager Joe Felz pictured at the 2-25-16 Library Board meeting where he tried to PULL OFF AGENDIZING selling the Hunt Branch Library to a Korean Church for a song and a dance behind our backs.
Uncle Jose Felz’s
creation, the DCCSP will rezone massive areas, get rid of traditional processes which involve commissions and all public input will hurry it the hell up before the residents find out about it. That is the plan.
THIS IS MY CITY
So here we have what Ms. Halluza who speaks about and puts nothing in writing defining this mixed use nonsense and throws the words mixed use around to get us to think she means what she says. She speaks about rezoning and mixed use overlays but there is nothing in writing describing exactly what these overlays really are or defining what these rezonings actually will be and yet the planning commission is expected to vote on this?
What she really means when she refers to a mixed use development is having one building having no retail space at all and the other having a measly 1.5% retail space with 20 parking spaces? What kind of mixed use is that? What about parking? This mixed use crap is nothing but a ruse to get high density housing through under the radar.
This type of commercial property on the ground floor of a highrise apartment building is nothing but a recipe for a small business loan default,and vacancies in the making. Look around at all of these retail areas downstairs with no parking=THEY ARE ALL OUT OF BUSINESS AND ARE REMAINING EMPTY. THESE ARE THE TOKENS THAT THEY THROW AT THE UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC TO GET YOU TO ACCEPT THE HIGH DENSITY AGENDA 21 PACKEM AND STACKEM HOUSING SCAMS THAT SCAG IS RAMMING DOWN OUR THROATS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL’S BLESSING.
And get this-this mixed use joke of a project is what the plans for Wednesday night refer to as a good example of the types of developments they want to ram through.
Watch the players at the last planning commission meeting as Barry Levinson exposes the scam.
FULLERTON CANNOT CONTINUE TO REZONE ALL THE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES INTO HIGH RISE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS. OUR ROADS ARE PURE CRAP OUR TRAFFIC IS ALREADY A MESS AND FULLERTON NEEDS JOBS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN not more apartments!
SHAME ON THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR PROMOTING THIS AND RUNNING ALL THE BUSINESSES OUT OF TOWN
AND ACCORDING TO A SOURCE TO THE FULLERTON INFORMER, KAREN HALLUZA REFUSES TO RELEASE THE PLANNING COMMISSION’S PRESENTATION ON THE NEW AND IMPROVED DCCSP IN ADVANCE TO THE RESIDENTS. YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE TO KNOW THE EXACT DETAILS OF WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS GOING TO BE VOTING ON.
This is a new trick folks, one fell swoop-rezone and approve and hand the decisions all over to The City Manager-Joe Felz
BEFORE
AFTER
MEET THE NEW BOSS SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
JOE FELZ IS REPACKAGING UP THE DCCSP AND HOPING THE PLANNING COMMISSION CAN SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROATS. HERE WE GO AGAIN FULLERTON, HERE WE GO AGAIN.
JOE FELZ IS INTRODUCING TO FULLERTON: the study session on the new DCCSP
Just recently, we the people beat back the horrific College Town plan back for the time being. College town calls for closing the 57 Freeway exits and onramps to Nutwood, closing Nutwood to through traffic, wiping out thriving business that serve southeast Fullerton, adding 12000 more cars a day,4300 high density housing units and the creation of a “parking management district” that is not defined and will bring parking meters to all of Fullerton. THIS THING WAS CHUMP CHANGE COMPARED TO WHAT THEY HAVE PLANNED WITH THIS SO CALLED NEW AND IMPROVED DCCSP.
JUST HOW BAD IS THE DCCSP THAT WAS PASSED TWO YEARS AGO?
How Awful and Corrupt is the Fullerton Downtown Core and Corridor Special Project?
Please let me count the ways as follows: by Barry Levinson
1- It is an undemocratic power grab by one unelected bureaucrat, City Manager Joe (I want to be king)Felz.
2- It turns the power to vote on individual development projects from the city council with the requirement to allow public comments prior to any vote, to one unelected man, City Manager Joe (I want to be emperor) Felz.
3- No honest elected city council majority would ever consider giving away their power to decide on numerous future development projects throughout much of the city to an unelected bureaucrat, City Manager Joe (I want to be a dictator) Felz.
4- If you think traffic is bad now wait until you add another 50,000-100,000 or more residents with no additional roads or lanes to existing roads. If you do not believe me than look at the million-dollar plan documents. The only traffic improvement called for in the plan is adding one or two roundabouts on Wilshire Avenue.
5- Who do you think might benefit from this project if passed?
Jennifer Fitzgerald became Vice President of Curt Pringle & Associates only after her election to the council
May I suggest to you that Council member Jennifer Fitzgerald (who is also the Vice President of Curt Pringle and Associates)
and her boss along with a host of developers who will be knocking at our City Manager’s door?
as you can see she has switched to mountain dew instead of water
If Ms. Fitzgerald does not recuse herself from this vote when it comes up, I think rather than recalling her we should just run her out of town.
6- I of course have not yet mentioned the concern as to where the needed water will come from for the 100,000 additional residents.
….under a chemtrailed sky, a crowd has gathered…….
It would seem that the City of Fullerton motto must be that no matter how bad the times are for you and me, there is never a bad time to get more money (tax money) for themselves.
Good times come to me now.
After all 80% of every dime in tax money that represents the General Fund, does not go for our streets or our decaying sewers and water system.
Fullerton’s ground water replenishment system -patent pending. The entire city with its hundreds of center mile streets will soon be part of a special assessment district. This revolutionary aquifer recharging rainwater collection program perfected by our public works department will be the model for the entire nation as a solution to the lingering pension crisis and ongoing drought .
It goes to our friends at city hall for their salaries and benefits. We get the crumbs that are remaining. Yet for Joe Felz and his merry men and women of Fullerton Forest they are eager to take even more from the poor citizens of Fullerton to make sure their stomachs are full and their retirements are merry and pay for it by selling Fullerton off to the developers.
SO WHO PASSED THE DCCSP TWO YEARS AGO THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO REPACKAGE TONIGHT?
Don’t let the flowers fool you. She voted for the DCCSP IN 2014 and she did not submit a motion to kill this proposal. Her concern was with air quality. How do you mitigate the pollution from increased gridlocked traffic and 50,000 more cars?
You are here to serve the RESIDENTS of Fullerton. You are here for us, not the other way around. Many of you just do not get it. I mean how can you logically even consider bringing this thing back for consideration?
This plan should have NEVER advanced and, if you had any common sense or were here for the benefit of the People, you would know that. You work for us. Either do your job or resign. Never lecture us, again, or put us in a position where we have to fight you for our own rights to live in a healthy community.
DCCSP suppoRting John Silber-HE VOTED FOR THE DCCSP IN 2014-This is one to watch. He thinks Fullerton needs this plan and seems to have a huge problem with the automobile. Well pal, start walking, it might do you some good.
We all know this scam would net the city hundreds of millions in developer fees to keep the out of control pensions and salaries’ gravy train on the tracks and not a peep about the park lands this money will be used for because that is not where it will go. We could have bought Coyote Hills years ago and furnished the darn thing with the endless revenue stream that is now not even ENOUGH TO MEET PAYROLL! Stop participating in planning activities that will destroy our homes and lives here in Fullerton.
This DCCSP supporting city hall sycophant Gambino who voted for the DCCSP in 2014 and thinks we need to bring this back because he is ok with density and we should praise the city staff for wasting almost two million dollars of taxpayer money (yes grants are tax money) on these disasters.
Homeowners be damned, Fullerton must grow! So saith our overlord, Ms. Ma’Ayn Johnson.
S.C.A.G operative May’An Johnson’s mantra back in 2014 at the DCCSP hearing where she moved the motion to pass-“The DCCSP is not the cause of increased density…..Here in 2016 she is at it again.
“We are going to keep growing” — Yes, and destroy resident’s property values and quality of life. Is that what the QB means?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qg3wSAzuA
What an Agenda 21 tool, as if you can never pack so many people in so that you have created an overcrowded environment and why when according the census bureau, 95% of the United States is rural open space.
The CT Plan: “it looks good on paper” WHAT? I guess if you don’t mind unbearable gridlock and total degradation of communities.
City hall tool-The Register’s Lou Ponsi who makes these scams look good on paper too. He has been soft peddling these disasters for years when he is not running cover for the corrupt Fullerton Police department and city hall cabal.
Devalued properties
Significantly adverse impact to air quality, traffic, pedestrian deaths, cyclist deaths and people dying in the ambulances stuck in traffic that this will create.
Ma’ Ayn Johnson thinks Cal State Fullerton can do whatever they want and that she can do whatever she wants as a S.C.A.G operative. Yeah right. I guess she never read a maximum occupancy sign on the wall in her entire life.
We warned you that this project would be back, and you know what? So WILL WE.
Stay vigilant Fullerton.
JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL
PLEASE JOIN ME WEDNESDAY NIGHT-NO MORE HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENT FOR FULLERTON
Fullerton’s vector control no show Jan Flory and her work at the Fullerton Pravda
Posted by Joe Imbriano in AERIAL POISONING, Fullerton politics, Jan Flory, JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL on April 22, 2016
In spite of my publicly urging Vector Control Board appointee Jan Flory in a city council meeting to stand up for the rights of the residents who deserve warning if they are going to be sprayed with poisonous chemicals,
Jan Flory still went ahead and voted against supporting a Senate Bill that would have guaranteed Orange County residents advanced warning of impending aerial spraying of chemical pesticides over our homes, businesses, schools and parks.
Remember when they sprayed Orange County with toxic Malathion back in the 1980s and now it is banned because they determined it caused cancer? They told us Malathion was safe and now they are telling us Duet adulticide is safe? Now Jan Flory misses the most important vote of her career on the vector control board. She is a no show on the vote to transfer power to the manager to spray us.
Where was she? She was briefed by me Tuesday night at the council meeting publicly to vote against this. What does she do? She doesn’t even bother to show up. She better have a good reason for Fullerton residents at the next council meeting. 30 SECONDS IN FLORY IS A NO SHOW.
We maybe we have figured out where she was. I believe she is moonlighting for Sharon Kennedy’s city hall cabal protecting establishment sycophant rag, the Fullerton Pravda.
Listen to what appears to be a first person narrative from the Observer -for sure a hit piece by the establishment against Community Activists who dare to challenge the status quo and the City Hall Cabal
http://media.wix.com/ugd/50dca9_24e8ab9080194d3cbac0afd3937ef900.pdf
Listen to who I believe is Jan Flory talking right here folks talking smack and reminiscing over the failed frame up job from 2 years ago-
“I totally agree with Anonymous (Early April Observer page 3) on the intimidating, bullying behavior of a group of men who make comments at city council meetings. I have also witnessed the same group doing the same thing at other meetings. Several of this group were involved in the intimidation of an AT&T representative over a year ago. And some of their targets seem to be the eye witnesses to that attack who contacted police. So maybe it is revenge they are after.
I really appreciated Mayor Protem Jan Flory’s brave comments at the council on this group but I am confused as to why Councilmember Whitaker, who actually appointed one of them to a commission, doesn’t do anything to rein them in. I kind of understand why everyone else is silent – these guys are scary. While I am all for free speech I think we need to do something to bring the constant toxic behavior under control especially when it is directed at certain targeted staff members who don’t have the luxury of remaining anonymous. Are we who witness this behavior just going to sit on the sidelines and let it happen? We will be very lucky if the whole staff doesn’t quit. This group seems to bash anyone who comments on their out of control behavior. I do not want to be added to their hate list. So for that reason please sign me anonymous too – though I am embarrassed to not be braver”.
Anonymous Fullerton
Yes folks, if it smells like Jan Flory, it probably is Jan Flory. This is not the first time the Fullerton Pravda printed her Dear Abby column but will hopefully be the last.
JAN FLORY NEEDS TO BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE IN NOVEMBER ALONG WITH HER ALTER EGO VOTING SIAMESE TWIN, JENNIFER FITZGERALD
I stand up for the residents even when no one is looking folks.
Joe Imbriano 4 Fullerton City Council
The Wireless Holocaust
NEVER FORGET THAT EVERYTHING HITLER DID IN GERMANY WAS LEGAL.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forced Microwave Irradiation of Children In School
Are you part of this holocaust?
If you are advancing the promotion of “Best Practices” or school policies that even call for “minimizing”, “low EMF” or “turning off” wireless devices/routers when not being used, you are effectively promoting the irradiation of children. You are harming children.
- Essentially, you are responsible for setting in motion/causing disease and premature death in children.
- Essentially, you are responsible for setting in motion the sterilization of children.
- Essentially, you are usurping parental rights by promoting adoption of a known health hazard in their child’s school environment without their informed consent.
- Essentially, you are supporting the use of pulse modulated wireless microwave radiation, a known military weapon in a child’s school environment.
- Essentially, you are supporting the introduction of a Class 2B(according to experts, microwaves should be a Class 1 Carcinogen) into a forced exposure environment.
- Essentially, you are actively involved in aiding and abetting school boarm members, administrators and staff who are breaking the law, reference CA State Education Code 32060 – 32066; CA Education Code section 51101 (d) (7); possible violation of CA Ed Code 52060(g), 52062 on the adoption of an LCAP and 52063.
- Essentially, you are advancing a practice that incurs liability for school districts, personnel and board members.
- Essentially, you are undermining the work of others that understand the only answer is to remove wireless radiation completely from the educational setting.
- Essentially, you are conveying the message that “some” amount of radiation exposure is permissible. We all know that is not the case.
Honest and truthful practices and policies reflect the reality of microwave radiation exposure and that necessitates that it be completely removed from the school environment. Anything less, supports yielding our children’s health and well being to outside interests.
Are you part of this holocaust?
Devra Davis is the head of the controlled oppositon
This faithful christian irradiator Kubo fundraises for wireless devices at Troy High School
Troy principal Mynster refuses parents access to campus with metal walls and microwvave systems in full deployment
Troy teacher obsessed with technology Jesse Knowles held a junk science presentation at his home for district personnel touting the safety of wireless and pushed for the installation of wireless at Troy in spite of his knowledge that the school has metal walls.
Acacia principals calls the police on peaceful moms trying to warn the parents
FSD’s Robert Pletka obsessed with technology is responsible for irradiating 15000 students every day
IPADS AND LAPTOPS HAVE A HIGHER SAR RATING THAN A CELL PHONE AND ARE BEING FORCED ON OUR CHILDREN ALL DAY AT SCHOOL.
https://thefullertoninformer.com/looky-here-ladies-and-gentlemen-the-devils-in-the-details/
Lock upwards of 35 children in a room full of them in use all day and see what happens especially when the antenna is on their reproductive organs.
Formal complaint against the City of Fullerton for several official actions taken during the last two Park and Recreation Committee meetings
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics on April 13, 2016
Please note that I have attached a complaint letter, which includes the 2 page analysis that I handed out to every Park and Recreation Committee member, to Park and Recreation Director Hugo Curiel, to Debbie Baker, Secretary, who initially puts together the Park and Recreation Committee minutes and to members of the audience at the March 14, 2016 Park and Recreation Committee meeting.
I would appreciate a response by Tuesday, April 19th before 12 pm.
Barry Levinson
Fullerton Park and Recreation Committee Member and
Concerned Fullerton Citizen
To: Fullerton City Clerk, Lucinda Williams,
Fullerton City Attorney Dick Jones of
Jones and Mayer Law Firm
Fullerton City Manager, Joe Felz
Fullerton Park and Recreation Director Hugo Curiel
Fullerton Police Chief, Dan Hughes
Mayor Jennifer Fitzgerald
Council member Bruce Whitaker
The purpose of this letter is to notify all of the above that this is a formal complaint against the City of Fullerton for several official actions taken during the last two Park and Recreation Committee meetings, held April 11, 2016 and March 14, 2016, respectively. In the below referenced items, I believe there have been Brown Act violations as well as a violation of my civil liberties under my First Amendment Right to free speech.
Item No. 1: Before the Park and Recreation Committee and the City Attorney took it upon themselves to throw out the normal rules followed for decades and not allow me to continue speaking, I made this specific point. It was that I requested in the February 8, 2016 Park and Recreation meeting the following as it is written in the minutes and I quote, “Commissioner Levinson asked that staff clarify the numbers presented by Manager Loya last month regarding her presentation to Council on November, 2010.” I believe this comment in particular was the motivation to inappropriately shut me down.
This documented request by me in the minutes must still be answered in writing with complete supporting documentation for all the numbers. The city must hire an outside, totally independent auditor (not a person or firm that the city has used previously) to step-by-step deal with the errors in Ms. Loya’s 11/2/2010 council presentation. For your added convenience my detailed analysis is attached to this letter as Attachment No. 1.
Item No. 2: April 11, 2016, an incredibly sad day for the citizens of Fullerton and a new low for the conduct of the Parks and Recreation Committee, which any honorable city would take immediate steps to correct. First, the complete failure of Deputy City Attorney, Ivy Tsai to not interject herself to correct the grave error made by Chair Lang-McNabb and exacerbated by all but one of the other committee members going along with her motion to end my right to speak as commissioner is something that I would never believe would take place in any publicly held government meeting. To not uphold the normal rules of allowing a commissioner the right to speak during the one part of the meeting that is specifically designed to allow each committee member to speak about anything regarding the Park and Recreation Department was either a grave error in judgment and common decency or part of a planned attempt to shut off any dissenting voices even from a committee member. It is only since the beginning of this year that the city of Fullerton decided (not this committee) to have a Deputy or Assistant City Attorney present at our meetings. I believe we never had them in the past and it is not clear why this was changed for this committee. Nevertheless, any City Attorney’s function at a committee or council meeting is to ensure that the committee members follow the proper rules. I am asserting that Chair Mc-Nabb (appointed by Council member Doug Chaffee) did not have the authority to stop me from speaking at that juncture in the meeting.
Please note that I was addressing the committee during the Commissioners Communications segment of the meeting and the precise purpose of that segment has always been to give each and every committee member the right to speak about any and all Park and Recreation department issues. But Chair Lang-McNabb thought otherwise, rudely interrupted me and put a motion on the floor to close the meeting. At no time during this debacle in common decency and the rights of free speech by a commissioner did the Deputy City Attorney interject herself.
I had 4 or 5 different topics to discuss, which if I were allowed to complete my remarks would have lasted no more than an additional 10 to 12 minutes. I was interrupted in the middle of my first topic. The meeting at this point had lasted approximately 90 minutes from its starting time of 6:30 pm to approximately 8:00 pm. To infer that I was wasting the time of my fellow commissioners by Chair person Karen Lang-McNabb to stay another few minutes is ridiculous on its face and shows the contempt and arrogance of Ms. Lang-McNabb’s running of the meeting. If you do not have at least 2 hours to give to the community each month for the purpose of participating in the Park and Recreation Committee meeting, I humbly suggest a committee member should resign rather than vote to cut off the one committee member who was not worried about staying a little while longer conducting the people’s business.
Karen Lang-McNabb’s action to cut me off from speaking further was in direct violation of the rules of conduct for this committee meeting and was also a violation of my 1st Amendment right of free speech. Her laughable reason for stopping my comments were these, “This is not on the agenda”. As I already stated and what Chair person Mc-Nabb already knows is that at this point in the committee meeting under Commissioners Communications, it is the commissioners who decides what they want to talk about.
Our city government should absolutely know that there are not two sets of rules, one for everybody else and one for themselves wherein they can do anything they please at any time.
Item No. 3: I believe a Brown Act violation occurred at the March 14, 2016 Park and Recreation meeting related to Agenda Item No. 7, entitled Brea Dam Recreation Area. It was Received and Filed without the Park and Recreation Department giving any verbal presentation or even one comment by Park and Recreation management or staff. How can you conduct regular city business and then refuse to discuss the Agenda item at all. Then have the Chair and Ms. Cox state that we have answered all of my questions and concerns. This in my humble opinion is a flagrant violation of the public’s trust that Regular city business put on any city agenda must be addressed. I also believe this was a Brown Act violation as well.
Item No. 4: During the 3/14/2016 Park and Recreation Committee meeting I went over for the benefit of all attending my detailed analysis. At the end of my presentation, I handed out copies to each and every committee member present, to Director Curiel, to members of the audience and to Debbie Baker, the Park and Recreation employee responsible for the minutes of the meeting. I made it quite clear to everyone that I wanted the entire presentation and supporting document, which was a total of 2 pages included in the official minutes. Not one committee member or the Deputy City Attorney Barlow objected. So when I received my packet for the April meeting I was very chagrined to see that not only was it not included at all in the minutes but also there was absolutely no reference to my presentation. I called City Clerk Lucinda Williams on Friday leaving her a detailed message about this problem the city had created for itself and I told her that I would press for its correction in the official minutes. I specifically asked her to call me as soon as possible, which would have been early Monday morning. Ms. Williams who in the past has always responded to my voice messages very promptly never did call me back. However, she obviously informed people at city hall as one of the first things done at the next meeting was to do a mea culpa that this complete lack of reference to the most significant item that happened in the March meeting was “accidentally left out entirely from the official minutes. To make matters worse, the Department refused to put my presentation in the minutes as I had requested without any objection and when I questioned that decision once again the Deputy City Attorney Ivy Tsai rather than deal with the specific facts gave a general answer that what is placed in the minutes is up to the department.
This scenario starting by me as a sincere and straight forward attempt to get the Park and Recreation Department to address serious and large dollar errors I had found in Ms. Loya’s 11/2/2010 council presentation representing her department and her still including variations of the same errors in her 01/11/2016 presentation before the Parks and Recreation Committee. It has now evolved in what any objective clear thinking individual must conclude is an orchestrated cover-up. The amount of time the Park and Recreation Department and Committee has used to not answer simple questions continues to get bigger and bigger. The Chair Lang-McNabb and the newly seated and appointed by Mayor Fitzgerald, Gretchen Cox have complained that what I have requested has not only been answered but more than once. This is categorically not true. Again a few simple direct answers could either answer my very legitimate questions or demonstrate that Ms. Loya’s presentation was flawed and resulted in the city council on 11/2/2010 entering into a Management Agreement that was indeed not a better financial deal by $133,480 a year as presented to council by Ms. Loya but a deal that was entered into by then Acting City Manager Joe Felz to the financial detriment of $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 in net revenue loss over a 20 year period starting in 2010.
As part of this complaint, I am asking for written apologies from Ivy Tsai, Karen Lang-McNabb and Gretchen Cox for their involvement in taking away my right to speak at the 4/11/2016 Park and Recreation Committee Meeting. I am also requesting a written apology from Director Hugo Curiel for his failure to include my Fullerton Golf Course Analysis in total as I requested without any objections noted by any of the commissioners, department members or from Assistant City Attorney Kimberly Hall Barlow. I am also requesting that these gross errors do not persist at future Park and Recreation Committee meetings.
My requests are simple and can be easily met if the city of Fullerton chooses to do the right things going forward.
Respectfully,
Barry Levinson
Fullerton Park and Recreation Committee Member
ATTACHMENT NO. 1
BELOW IS THE ANALYSIS I HANDED OUT AT THE PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING AND DISCUSSED AT LENGTH ON MARCH 14, 2014 AND REPORTED ON AGAIN TO FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MARCH 15, 2016. BY BARRY LEVINSON
| MS LOYA’S 11/2/2010 COUNCIL PRESENTATION | CORRECTING MS. LOYA’S PRESENTATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FY 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LEASE | MANAGEMENT | M. A. – USING CORRECT AMOUNTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AGREEMENT (M.A.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GROSS REVENUE | $2,230,000 | $2,230,000 | $2,230,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LESS: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OPERATING COSTS | $1,140,000 | $1,140,000 | $1,140,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CITY LEASE REVENUE | $420,000 | – | – |
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| AM. GOLF M. FEE | – | $500,000 | $670,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RZEDB DEBT | – | $36,520 | $203,323 | *Average cost to city for principal & | Interest rebate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest over 20 years of the bond
Including 45% federal interest rebate. |
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| NET REVENUE | $670,000 | Ameri-can | $553,480 | CITY | $216,677 | Actual Average City Revenue earned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Golf | under Management Agreement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average yearly loss for city by changing from former Lease agreement to Management agreement ($420,000 – $216,677) = $203,323 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overstatement of average net revenues under the Management agreement = $553,400 less $216,667 = $336,332. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alice Loya claimed on 11/2/10 before council that the Management Agreement would net an additional $133,480 dollars to the city while in fact it lost $203,323 dollars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Total series A Principal $2,705,000/20 years = $135,250 + (total series A interest $2,475,381/20 years = $123,769 x .55 = $68,073) = $203,323. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Therefore, Ms. Loya’s presentation to the council that this change from a lease agreement to a management agreement, would over the course of the bond bring in more revenue to the city was in fact not correct. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Over the course of the 20-year life of the RZED Bond, the city will loose conservatively at least 4,000,000 dollars in net revenue and at the same time it takes on liabilities that did not exist under the former lease agreement. |
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| Please also note that under the lease agreement city revenues would have increased based on the increased gross revenues from the golf course, which was already up over 13% from FY 2011 to FY 2014/2015 as reported by Ms. Loya in January, making this an even worse deal than the numbers above show. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finally, the amount Ms. Loya presented to the committee in January 2016 for the Management fee for FY 2014/2015 of $587,000 is understated by $103,302, as the correct amount is actually $690,000 ($670,000 in base year, (not the $500,000 reported by Ms. Loya) times three one percent annual increases per the contract terms.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The RZED Bond Debt amount per Ms. Loya is also grossly understated. The correct amount is (100K principal + ($185,550 int. X .55 = $102,053) = $202,053 and not $107,000 as Ms. Loya reported to this committee in January 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conclusion: The numbers as presented by Alice Loya to council on 11/2/2010 and on 01/11/2016 to the Park and Recreation Committee misrepresent the financial benefits of the Management Agreement over the former lease agreement. This resulted in the council approving a Management Agreement that will cost taxpayers 4 to 5 million dollars in lost net revenue over 20 years.
Fullerton Golf Course Management Agreement 12/01/10, Page 12 of 23
reports of claims activities on a schedule and in a format reasonably acceptable to the City. City understands and agrees that with respect to all policies of insurance required under this Article 4 (whether such policies are maintained by City or by AGC), the portion of any losses, damages, and expenses paid with respect to such claims which is subject to a deductible amount or a self- insurance or a self-assumption amount shall be the sole responsibility of City. If at any time during the term of this Agreement, City desires to assume responsibility for handling of claims, the parties may amend this provision as provided in Section 11.8, subject to (i) the approval of the applicable insurance companies, and (ii) the reasonable approval of AGC.
ARTICLE 5 – MANAGEMENT FEES
In addition to the costs and expenses to be reimbursed to AGC pursuant to this Agreement, City shall pay AGC the Management Fee computed and payable as follows:
5.1 Management Fee. In consideration of AGC’s services during the Operating Period, City shall pay to AGC a “Management Fee.” For the first twelve (12) months of the term of this Agreement, the Management Fee shall equal Six Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($670,000) per annum (i.e., Fifty Five Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty Three Dollars and Thirty Three Cents ($55,833.33) per month). The Management Fee shall increase on each anniversary of the Effective Date (until termination of this Agreement) by one percent (1%) of the Management Fee in effect immediately prior to the applicable increase. The Management Fee shall be paid to AGC, in equal monthly installments, in accordance with Section 5.2 of this Agreement.
5.2 Payment Schedule. If the Commencement Date does not fall on the first day of the month, then the Management Fee for the first partial month of the Operating Period shall be the pro-rata portion of the Management Fee and such amount shall be payable on the Commencement Date. Commencing with the first full month of the Operating Period, City shall pay AGC the Management Fee monthly in advance on the first day of the month to which it pertains.
ARTICLE 6 – ACCOUNTS; WORKING FUNDS; RECORDS AND REPORTS
6.1 Bank Accounts. City shall establish bank accounts for the Facility at a banking institution or institutions reasonably selected by City, (which banking institution or institutions shall have branches located in close proximity to the Facility), such accounts to be in City’s name (the “City Accounts”). AGC shall also establish bank accounts for the Facility at a banking institution or institutions reasonably approved by City, (which banking institution or institutions shall have branches located in close proximity to the Facility), such accounts to be in City’s name (the “Facility Accounts”). AGC will deposit into the City Accounts all monies received by AGC from the operation of the Facility. City shall deposit all funds required to be furnished by City as working funds under Section 6.3 of this Agreement into the Facility Accounts, and AGC will disburse those monies from the Facility Accounts only for the purposes set forth in Section 6.2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing, AGC shall be entitled to maintain funds in reasonable amounts in “cash register banks” or in petty cash funds at the Facility.
The First Amendment under attack in Fullerton
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, The First Amendment under attack in Fullerton on April 11, 2016
So the taxpayers appear to be getting the proverbial 5 million dollar shaft by some aspartame gum chewing rubber stamp hack that calls public comments “Tirades” and interferes with the people’s business by moving to receive and file the Brea Dam issue without any discussion whatsoever.
I second that
Melia Homes Townhouse Proposal at the March Planning Commission Meeting. This is what all 6* Planning Commissioners ignored while speaking at the end of the Planning Commission meeting on March 14, 2016 as follows:
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Fullerton's downtown core and corridor, JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL, Who's who in Fullerton politics on April 1, 2016
Barry Levinson
By Barry Levinson
Melia Homes Townhouse Proposal at the March Planning Commission Meeting.
This is what all 6* Planning Commissioners ignored while speaking at the end of the Planning Commission meeting on March 14, 2016 as follows:
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL SUNNY HILLS RESIDENTS AND ALL PARENTS OF CHILDREN NOW ATTENDING OR IN THE FUTURE PLANNING TO ATTEND LAGUNA ROAD SCHOOL CONCERNING THE PROPOSED MELIA HOMES 40 UNIT TOWNHOUSE DEVELOPMENT ON 3.3 ACRES
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Who's who in Fullerton politics on March 29, 2016
by Barry Levinson
This is what all 6* Planning Commissioners ignored while speaking at the end of the Planning Commission meeting on March 14, 2016 as follows:
1. They ignored our 4 to 5 five-year in the making updated General Plan for Fullerton that was completed I believe in 2012, less than 4 years ago. It was Commissioner Gambino I believe who said that the General Plan is already obsolete. This is what they do. They have a bunch of rules and use them for their advantage when the situation is right and trash the rules when they want to pass something else. If I believed as a commissioner that the General Plan was obsolete and did not meet the needs of the city (which I do not) I would be speaking out loudly on how the city wasted over a million dollars and over 4 years putting together a plan that is not worth the paper it is printed on. But again they would never do that. In fact as I mentioned at the podium it was none other than Mayor Fitzgerald that voted against the Lark Ellen townhouse proposal’s first iteration because it did not follow the General Plan to keep the neighborhoods intact. In fact that neighborhood has homes on 7,000 and 8,000 thousand sq. ft. lots and not the 20,000 sq. ft. lots and greater in Sunny Hills. So one day the city is making decisions based on the General Plan and then a month or two later they are trashing the same plan. All one has to do 90% of the time to fight city hall is to use their own contradictory words and thoughts against them. I find it to be one of the most effective tools we have as citizens to get their attention.
2. As I stated at the podium, Planning Consultant Heather Allen’s presentation was totally biased in favor of the developer. It is the same reason police and firemen get such large raises and outsized benefits. The city and the unions are on the same side and no one looks out for the taxpayers. In this case it is obvious once again that the city and the developer are on the same side. No one on the dais agreed with my comments that the presentation by the city left a lot to be desired. It was so, so obvious but commissioners will not go there (except me at Parks and Recreation).
3. No one asked for any proof that there is no demand for a new office/medical building at the site of the proposed Melia Homes. We heard from the developer, one or more commissioners and Marty Burbank that the Towers office buildings on Harbor and Brea Boulevards are half vacant. Before accepting that as fact, documentation about the vacancy percentage in those two buidlings should have been presented to the committee. Until such evidence is provided it was just an unconfirmed statement, nothing more and nothing less. Even if it is true they are comparing apples to oranges. First, the Melia homes location being so close to St. Jude Hospital and medical offices makes that property a good fit for another medical related building including the ever growing need for more extended senior care facilities. Second, a brand new office building can’t be compared to a 40 year old building over a mile away.
4. No one on the dais stated that Melia Homes should strongly consider bringing forth a plan of single family homes with lots at or near 20,000 sq. ft. as to fit in with the neighborhood. All they talked about was reducing the 40 town-home units to somewhat smaller town-home development.
5. Commissioner Larry Bennett talked about how he is a strong advocate for private property rights. I am also a strong advocate of the same. But buying property zoned as office/medical, which sets the value of that property and now asking that they change it 180% degrees to high density multi-unit residential (no matter what the city labels it) is not property rights. The reality is that it violates the adjoining property owner rights, privacy and valuations, while at the same time making the developer’s property values much higher due to the zoning change. This is crony capitalism at its worst.
6. Finally, based on the majority of the commissioners professions and/or organizations they belong to suggests a real bias for more medium and high density development.
I wish I could have had 8 to 10 minutes at the podium for I would demonstrate point by point how bad this project is and how the commissioners are ignoring the major issues before them. I thought to some extent they were getting lost in the weeds hoping that by throwing the neighbors a bone it would become acceptable. This is also a tactic they use over and over again.
Together we are much stronger than just each of us speaking out individually. Sunny Hills residents please do not be fooled by future city attempts to placate you with the same development on a slightly smaller scale. The city seems to care more about collecting the $11,700 a unit fee/tax, called the Park Dwelling Fee required of the developer for each of the 40 units, which would total $468,000.
* Kevin Pendergraft appointed by Council member Whitaker missed this extremely important meeting. He also missed the vote on the Downtown Core And Corridor Special Project Proposal several months ago as well.
Deborah Pauly gets the CRA endorsement for the 68th Assembly district
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics on March 20, 2016
Will she be able to take this all the way? She has a solid platform, she has the people behind her and she is a fighter. Should be an interesting race and we wish her the best. Deborah is red white and blue all the way folks.
KAREN LEE SHATZLE’S SPEECH FOR OC JUDGE 3-19-16
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Public safety, The twighlight's last gleaming on March 20, 2016
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for all you law and order types to listen up and listen good. This candidate for Judge is doubling down against the house and she means business. Regardless of what she is up to and what side of the political aisle you are on, what she is saying, cannot be ignored.
If you don’t think the establishment from the top down is corrupt then you might as well put your 1000 dollar a bottle cognac into old wine skins folks.
The CRA is the heart, soul and morality of the Republican party and it is no wonder the establishment hacks didn’t even bother to show their faces yesterday. Does she embody it? You decide that for yourself. Do your homework. I am here to report on the event at Republican HQ and I can tell you that those trusted names should never be blindly trusted. Local politics are a mess and the only way out of these muddy waters is to look for some clarity in your navigation and that means opening your eyes and ears to what those on both sides have to present and say.
KAREN LEE SHATZLE is telling it like it is about some trusted household names, and believe me. you had better rethink what it means to have an (R) next to your name and blindly cast a vote for those who hide behind one.
Jennifer Fitzgerald and Jan Flory: Ladies night featuring the pre peroxide Pringle puppet with her divorce petition purveying pal
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Fullerton's downtown core and corridor, JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL, The DCCSP on March 12, 2016
November cannot come soon enough to throw these two out of office. Voting records speak for themselves unless you are a city employee, and then their voting records are music to your ears. It’s ladies night all the time now in Fullerton with these two cheerleaders and that emasculated compromised RINO Royce handing out his endorsements like liquor licenses downtown and all this to act as a cover for the moral and economic decay in our city government. Lights camera action and forget the sex trafficked women in the massage parlors and in the personal adds that Dan Hughes ignores, forget the cops that molest women, frame, maim and murder, we need another feel good meeting.
Siamese twin voting records Fitzgerald and Flory
Yes folks these two are up for re election in November and there is still time for these two to ruin Fullerton forever if they pass the DCCSP while they block police oversight committee formation in this lala land of law and order where smashed DAR’s preclude a jail house hanging and an innocent man gets executed on TV by some deranged cops and get away with it. And then there is this guy who is chomping at the bit to ram massive development through and these two work for him.
Yes Fitzpringle won’t disclose her client list with Pringle and Associates while she votes to block an independent audit committee on the City Council while she sits on the FJUHSD bond oversight committee, the second gargantuan FJUHSD taxpayer ripoff in 10 years while overseeing the forcing of wireless radiation into every classroom in the entire district while ignoring 3 years of presentations and thousands of scientific studies on how dangerous wireless in schools is.
Oh yes its ladies night every night when their platform is pure deficit spending, ignoring real issues, massive, horrific Agenda 21 development projects that will ruin Fullerton forever that enrich their bosses, lavish benefits and salary increases for the already overpaid greedy police and fire union employees just so they can get re elected, and of course cell towers and WiFi Transmitters on every light pole everywhere for the forced irradiation of the population as they shut your water off because of the 100,000 more people they want to bring in to Fullerton with College Town and the DCCSP. Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, they can’t be thrown out soon enough.
When is this guy gonna give it up? The emperor has no clothes. It doesn’t cost $105,000 a month to run paid for building full of books.
Don’t get me wrong, but come on and look who is paying attention, and it certainly isn’t the three stooges that vote together to screw the taxpayers every chance they get. These three amigos have ignored every issue ever brought before them for three years that had any real significance and in exchange, foisted babble on about trite crap to hoodwink the voters. They really pander to the women’s groups so the demise of the city feels like a day spa session while the front ends of everyone’s cars jump up and down on the busted up roads like a five year old on a trampoline as they cross the Fullerton city line as they wait in secret to double Fullerton’s population with the DCCSP and all with no water hoping you will never find out about it until its too late.
You know the ones that appoint rubber stamp hacks to city commissions and pass deficit spending left and right while ignoring the third world roads and water mains. Yeah they want to add 100,000 more residents so they can balance the holes in the budget with the $11,700 per unit developer fees that they voted to put there in the first place with their votes to give away the farm to the city employees with money they don’t even have. Well we aint swallerin that and well, anyways, you know what they say about those who can’t look you in the eye. By the way, this union hack tool Chaffee is another problem to be dealt with in the following election cycle.
Well at least we finally might have possibly figured out what is wrong with Jencurt Fitzpringle-I believe it is the brominated vegetable oil, sucralose, halide, aspartame and metal poisoning going straight down her gazoo up on the dias on a regular basis.
Check her out chugging down a Diet Dew-right before I opened up another Tuesday night special can of worms on this Royce Hack and Pringle Puppet.
As far as Jan Flory, I believe we might have figured out what is wrong with her as well.
In vast metal vats, tons of pork trimmings are mixed with the pink slurry formed when chicken and pork carcasses are squeezed through metal grates and blasted with water.
The mush is mixed with powdered preservatives such as sodium nitrite, msg, sodium erythrobate, hydrolyzed protiens, ammonia, flavourings, red colouring and drenched in water before being squeezed into plastic tubes to be cooked and packaged.
It is a disgusting process, for the hot dog is arguably the ultimate in processed, industrial food. Remember you are what you eat.
The next issue will deal with brass knuckle Doug so stay tuned.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t care if these people are your neighbors, drinking buddies or you buy girl scout cookies from their kids. Public office carries tremendous responsibility that is not to be abdicated to the highest bidders. Fitzpringle’s and Fluoride’s voting records speak for themselves. They are unacceptable and you cannot ignore them.
If we remove just one of them and install me, Fullerton can be spared the fate of fiscally failing cities like Glendale or Los Angeles that are flanked by busted up roads, gridlock and high rise housing as far as the eye can see. Get these people out of our city government.
Joe Imbriano 4 Fullerton City Council
I stand up for the residents even when no one is looking ladies and gentlemen, and I will continue to do so.
AN OPEN LETTER BY BARRY LEVINSON TO THE FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL – MAYOR JENNIFER FITZGERALD, COUNCIL MEMBERS JAN FLORY, DOUG CHAFFEE, GREG SEBOURN AND BRUCE WHITAKER.
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Who's who in Fullerton politics on March 9, 2016
Question: How did Don Bankhead and Dick Jones get to serve on the Fullerton City Council for a combined 40 plus years?
Joe Imbriano back in May of 2012 on the Kelly Thomas murder and housecleaning at Fullerton City Hall
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Fullerton politics, Government sponsored terrorism, JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL, KELLY THOMAS on March 4, 2016
So almost four years later the murderers went free and the Fullerton city council is still controlled by three puppets with a union gag ball in their mouths-Jennifer Fitzpringle, Jan Fluoride and Doug Chaffeepoo WHO WERE ALL SILENT ON THE MURDER OF KELLY THOMAS. They need to go because Fullerton has more problems now than ever before. I am in this for the long haul ladies and gentlemen. I will represent the residents and not those that have pledged behind the scenes to run us into ruin in exchange for re election. You have my word.
MAYOR JENNIFER FITZGERALD, CITY MANAGER JOE FELZ AND A MAJORITY OF FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL HAVE PUT UP THIS SIGN – FULLERTON FOR SALE! By Barry Levinson
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Chris Meyer, Fullerton politics, Fullerton's downtown core and corridor, Highway Robbery, Joe Felz, The DCCSP on March 2, 2016
Mayor Fitzgerald along with the council majority have willfully put the city into millions of dollars of debt (current $2.8 million dollar deficit) and yet they want to keep on giving to their special interest buddies nonstop!
Rotten to the core-Fullerton’s core corridor proposed fast track back door road to an urban nightmare.
Posted by Joe Imbriano in Agenda 21, Fullerton politics, Fullerton's downtown core and corridor, Hidden in plain view, Highway Robbery, The twighlight's last gleaming, Who's who in Fullerton politics on February 22, 2016
THIS WILL BE VOTED ON IN THE NEAR FUTURE UNLESS WE STOP THEM. THEY ARE TRYING TO RAM THIS THROUGH BEHIND OUR BACKS
Cameron Irons “Core and Corridor is a good thing. Read about it beyond Facebook posts. Current system benefits insiders who lobby each project on its own.” NOW IF THAT ISN’T THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS!
FULLERTON’S QUEEN OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST-HER MAJESTY JENCURT FITZPRINGLE-I like homeless shelters right next to elementary schools too.
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