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Home My WebLink About4-A Public CommentAnthony Mejia Subject: RE: Masks From: psjbarda(@gmail.com Date: November 2, 2021 at 17:43:57 PDT To: Grace Garner<Grace.Garner@palmspringsca.eov> Subject: Re: Masks NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. If we wanted to follow that logic then the mandate at bars and restaurants and clubs would be to remask when not eating. That is not the case. You could be at a club dancing the night away for hours and not drink once but have your mask off the entire time. These inconsistent mandates and rules are why people need to make their own choices and follow county rules. Palm Springs city council should stay out it. Please forward to the council. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 1, 2021, at 8:21 PM, Grace Garner<Grace.Garner@palmspringsca.eov> wrote: Hi Julie, The proof of vaccination required at restaurants is because you must take off a mask to eat. At the the gym you do not need to take your mask off and that's why it's different. I agree that these restrictions are difficult. I asked many questions about this on the dais but ultimately the council wants more time to see if there will continue to be a downward trend. It will be reviewed again at the December council meeting. Best, Grace Sent from my iPhone On Oct 29, 2021, at 16:52, pssibarda@gmail.com wrote: 1 a 2 L Z°Z1 VV0011 VvVA1A- rMM NO. A l - P� NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. I'm so disappointed at the city's vote last night. Can you explain to me why I can show a vaccine card and drink and dance in a bar, but I can't show one at my gyms and all customers have to mask? This is very inconsistent and makes no scientific sense. What am I not understanding? Thanks for your input. Julie Sent from my iPhone Anthony Mejia From: Jim <jim@jimpieretti.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:53 PM To: City Clerk; jim@jimpieretti.com Subject: Public Comment on Agenda NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are Il sure the content is safe. I would like to submit a comment to the agenda item regarding the present covid restrictions being discussed on the City Counsel meeting on 10/28. I maintain that the City Counsel is not demonstrating thought leadership by using personal opinion and surveys instead of metrics and science to administer covid protocols. I understand the council will present covid metrics at the meeting. HOWEVER policy being based on personal interpretation of those metrics on an ad hoc basis. Instead the City Counsel should develop target metrics for easing restrictions, similar to the way Gavin Newsome developed a color coded system for easing restrictions. This removes personal opinion and basis easing restrictions on metrics and science. Likewise the idea of relying on a survey to establish policy shows poor thought leadership. This is not the Best of The Desert popularity contest. It's clear that public opinion is divided and based on individual opinion not science. There were also no controls in administering the survey to obtain accurate and honest results. I for one submitted the survey no less that 10 times, because nobody said I couldn't —there were no controls. So therefore the survey results are inaccurate. The Palm Springs City Counsel needs to do better on this issue. They are demonstrating poor thought leadership on managing covid restrictions and are clearly and unnecessarily hindering our return to normalcy. Jim Pieretti { D I2,9 1&-oz-1 WL `� �.�Y'rN� PIQX rmm No.— Anthony Mejia From: LetsAll@GoBananas.net Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:46 PM To: City Clerk Cc: ABig@kidatheart.com Subject: 2021-10-28 - Item 4-A Review of COVID related orders. NOTICE: This message originated outside of The City of Palm Springs -- DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you are sure the content is safe. Dear City Council and Staff, Almost 2 years ago, it all started with one single human infection. Today, it has infected many millions around the world causing death and serious injury. It goes in waves, even with vaccines as one of our best tools. Other countries with far better vaccination rates are experiencing very serious surges once again. Many remain especially vulnerable. Hopefully soon the all the mitigation routines can come to an end. Now is too soon. Please keep the order as it is for now. Pandemic/Endemic... it's still a thing. Thanks for reading, Bob Heinbaugh and Paul Hinrichsen — Upper West Side NOrg — leadership %01 z 81 az ( pabb'(, C0rnrr,1r1i- 1 1TFM 1 To. ,t-,1, A AV85t This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com Anthony Mejia Subject: RE: My opinion on the vaccine mandate of Palm Springs From: David <dbcolts@aol.com> Date: October 26, 2021 at 11:57:50 PDT To: Grace Garner<Grace.Garner@palmspringsca.eov> Subject: My opinion on the vaccine mandate of Palm Springs Reply -To: David <dbcolts@aol.com> Palm Springs City Council Member RE: Vaccine mandate My wife and I have decided to not take the Covid 19 vaccine, mandated by the Palm Springs City Council. We are 75 and 74 years old .... and have already had Covid, and now have the natural immunity. We live in Cathedral City .... near the Palm Springs border and frequent restaurants 3-4 times a week. As we are not allowed to enter your restaurants .... because we do not have a vaccination card. I feel that you are infringing on our rights. And we tell all our friends not to dine in Palm Springs. Even though many of them have been vaccinated. They don't want to exclude us .... so we all dine together at other restaurants outside of Palm Springs. We especially frequent those on El Paseo in Palm Desert. We used to dine at Melvin's, Lu-Lu's, Sherman's, Las Casuelas, etc. But! Not any more. Oh! I'm from Orange County (I still have a home in Seal Beach) .... and plan on telling all my friends there ..... to not stay in Palm Springs. As they will not be allowed to eat there..... if they don't have the vaccination card. Oh ..... and we can't join them in any of the Palm Springs restaurants ...... So! I'll recommend other hotels and restaurants in other cities. I pray that you change your mind. And I pray that you don't have any bad repercussions from taking the "so-called" vaccine. Sincerely, David L. Buehn and Sheila Weissberger ROUGH & READY DODGE POWER WAGONS www.rough-readvdpw.com 714 310 9934 David Buehn 44903 Golf Center Pkwy, Ste 10 Indio, Ca. 92203 �inMf�G_Com TPEM No. "„� Anthony Mejia To: City of Palm Springs Subject: RE: *NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs From: City of Palm Springs <palmspringsca@enotify.visioninternet.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:09 PM To: City Clerk <CityClerk@palmspringsca.gov>; Anthony Mejia <Anthony.Mejia@palmspringsca.gov> Subject: *NEW SUBMISSION* Submit Public Comment to the City of Palm Springs Full Name/Nombre Julie Barda City of Residence/Ciudad de residencia Palm Springs, Phone (optional) /Telefono (opcional) 7602851953 Email (optional/opcional) Ps eDgmail.com Your Comments/Sus comentarios Dear Council Members, It is time to revisit the mask mandates that were put in place in August. They are inconsistant across all areas. I'm especially concerned about the mandate for people working out in gyms to have to mask. This is unhealthy and is killing the businesses of the gyms in Palm Springs who have been sited and are enforcing the mandates. Our neighboring cities do not have these mandates. I want to stay healthy and workout but I can't with a mask on. However, I can show a vaccine card and go to a club or bar in the city. This makes no sense. Let gyms either ask for vaccine cards so we don't have to mask as those in bars do or let each patron decide for him/herself what protections are needed. It is not the job of the city council to regulate my health and impose impossibly unfair mandates on its citizens. Please remove this mandate today. Respectfully, Julie Barda Thank you, City of Palm Springs This is an automated message generated by Granicus. Please do not reply directly to this email. IV) q, q VI'l yXic. com�� ITEM NO.