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Transcript of Council Comments from the July 2, 2012 City Council Meeting entered into the record due to portion of the meeting losing quorum. Councilmember Benavides: Just a couple of items. • One, yesterday we had a fabulous Independence Day celebration at Centennial Park a number of you were out there. It was an amazing fireworks show and a great time for the family, music and celebration. I want to thank the committee that put it together, the staff who worked diligently on making it happen and the sponsors. We will be officially doing presentations and recognitions for those folks. But I do want to thank everybody who was a part of that. Day after tomorrow is Independence Day, 4th of July I want to wish everybody a Happy Birthday to the United States, and I want to encourage folks to be safe out there with the fireworks and support our local nonprofits who have the firework stands out there. • This coming Saturday, a couple things, to make mention, one is in the morning, 9AM to noon I will be having my monthly community office hours, first Saturday of the month at the Southwest Senior Center at Jerome Park, there at Center and McFadden. I want to thank all those that do come out on Saturdays to chat with me and give me some of their feedback/input, I've met with a number of the individuals who were here today, both talking about Sunshine Ordinance, about the PBID. Just want to invite folks and let you know that you have an audience with your councilmember, there again this coming Saturday the 7t" from 9 to noon at the Southwest Senior Center. • That same day in the evening, we will be having one, the art walk in the downtown, all of our art galleries will be open it's a fabulous time to come out and this one is particularly special because the Santora Building is turning 84, and so there is going to a 1920s theme party, there will be people dressing up and special music and a birthday cake. I want to encourage folks you don't want to miss that and dress up in your Zoot Suits or whatever else theme attire and come on out and have a great time in our downtown this coming Saturday evening. • Finally as we talked tonight, we talked about downtown talk about the economy just in general one of the things that is clearly important is to make sure that we shop in Santa Ana. Whenever you're thinking about buying groceries, buying shoes, pumping gas, buying milk whatever it is, do everything you can to make it happen in Santa Ana so we can benefit from the tax dollars and continue to provide great service to our community. So shop Santa Ana and with that have a great night. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 20 JULY 16, 2012