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immigrant rights and stop undocumented drivers; shared experience at Dia De Los Muertos and intimidation by police officer; need cultural sensitivity training. • Vanessa Cerda, Chicanos Unidos, thanked organizers for awareness; need for respect by officials and community to be heard. • Gaby Hernandez, Chicanos Unidos, noted that Santa Anita neighborhood has had two deaths and Townsend none; stand up for civil rights; need justice and democracy; need to agendize matter for discussion; need to file police complaint. • Brenda Zeferino, does not support City Manager bonus; supports Maria Zacarias and Teresa efforts; spoke of personal incident with his dad where an officer lied under oath about arrest. • Undisclosed, provided allegory of police arrest. • Barbara Lamere, spoke on lack of lighting at park, noted that 10 lights out in tennis courts and playground area; reported matter on November 6t" and has not been fixed; supports current park ranger program. • James Spady, Chicanos Unidos, spoke against gang injunction; need to engage in dialogue; consider all options including after school programs. • Ignacio Rios Jr., representing Santa Ana Boys and Men of Color, noted importance of social and emotional awareness programs. • Isaac Castillo, noted that City motto is "Education First"; need to focus on youth. • Ana Urzua, commented on criminalization and racism; encourage the Police Department to drop charges and change DUI check points; investigate actions; not add additional funds for police force or programs; support restorative justice and repair harm. • Alfonso Alvarez, spoke of need for body video cameras to protect the community and reduce complaints; opposed to gang injunctions; opine that faith based and social organizations need to work together to address the root of the problem. • Robert Sanchez, member of Chicanos Unidos, opposed to gang injunction, not incarcerate youth; need to invest in our community and after -school programs. • Ed Murashie, Connect to Council will host OC Supervisor Forum on January 6th at 7 p.m. and Rancho Community College; opine the best resource is neighborhood association; need to leverage communication gap and get in front of the issue. • Scott Sink, OC May Day Coalition, spoke on recent arrest of observers at DUI checkpoint; need to review content of arrests; wanding erodes trust; City continues to hold ICE detainees; need to get out of deportation and tow business. • Gema Salas, stand in solidarity on missing youth in Mexico; request approval of resolution to protect human rights like City of Pomona; need to protect immigrant laws; police to have sensitivity training; need to understand reason for arrest of Maria and Teresa. • Rick Niedermeyer, thanked City Council for taking time to listen to community; commented on CDBG application process; United States Soccer Federal has grant funds available for synthetic turf; also request City Council adjourn meeting in memory of Carlos Sedano. 90A. CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA 23 DECEMBER 16, 2014