HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-03-27 Agenda Item 1AFrom:Brad Anderson
To:City Clerk
Cc:Assemblymember.Wallis@assembly.ca.gov
Subject:Public Comment, Agenda Item: 1.A - City of Palm Springs City Council meeting of March 27, 2025 (5:30PM)
Date:Wednesday, March 26, 2025 10:53:57 AM
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March 26, 2025
City of Palm Springs
City Council / City Hall
3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA. 92262
(760) 323-8204 - www.palmspringsca.gov
Attention: Clerk of the Board
Re: Written letter to be entered in the Public record and made available for public Inspection
for the March 27, 2025 (Thursday - 5:30PM) regular scheduled City Council meeting -
Agenda Item: 1.A (Proposed approval of March 7 & 12, 2025 City Council recorded written
meeting minutes)
Dear current Palm Springs City Council,
Please review my written statements listed below prior to the consideration of agenda Item:
1.A (meeting minutes).
Please review (see attached email dated February 26, 2025) that details prevous concerns
related to the topic of the City of Palm Springs desire to censor public testimony thats provide
during City held public meetings.
It's frankly very concerning that a current City Council member (D. Ready) was drectly
involved with imposing restrictions upon public speakers (censoring written meeting minutes)
while employed (contracted City Manager position) during California State of Emergency
(virus narrative event - COVID-19).
False Information was supplied to the Palm Springs City Council that detailed that the City of
Rancho Mirage recorded their written meeting minutes with (tilted: Action Minutes
procedures) within Palm Springs September 9, 2021 City Council Staff Report (Agenda Item:
1.C). It's reasonable to consider that - "Incorrect" information may have influenced that City
Council to proceed with a radical political maneuver to reduce and or eliminate public
testimony from being recorded accurately within written meeting minutes that were construted
by Palm Springs officials.
Brief summary formatted meeting minute protocols were used to describe public testimony
prior to September 9, 2021. Radical political maneuver of Palm Springs City Council to censor
public testimony provided during city held public meetings were installed (tilted: Action
03/27/2025
Public Comment
Item 1A
Minutes procedures) after September 2021. Brief Summary meeting minutes procedure to
record verbalized testimony are ideally the best avenue to record historical events (verbal
testimony) that have been spoken during Palm Springs public meetings.
It's completely nonsensical that members of the public that desire to provide public testimony
(verbal) will not be recognized and recorded accurately within current Palm Springs
construted written meeting minutes. Please consider reinstating "Brief Summary meeting
minutes protocols" that are clearly the best practice protocol to record verbal testimony given
during city conducted public meetings.
Please be reminded, that written documents are legitimate legal avenues to secure fact-finding
elements. Video recording have little to No legitimacy within California State regulations.
Sincerely,
Brad Anderson | Rancho Mirage, CA. | Ba4612442@gmail.com
Cc:
47th District Assembly member
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From: Brad Anderson <ba4612442@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 1:09 PM
Subject: Public Comment, Agenda Item: 1.A - City of Palm Springs City Council meeting of
February 27, 2025 (5:30PM)
To: City Clerk <cityclerk@palmspringsca.gov>
Cc: <Assemblymember.Wallis@assembly.ca.gov>
February 26, 2025
City of Palm Springs
City Council / City Hall-Chamber
3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA. 92262
(760) 323-8204 - www.palmspringsca.gov
Attention: Clerk of the Board
Re: Written letter to be entered in the Public record and made available for public Inspection
for the February 27, 2025 (5:30PM) regular scheduled City of Palm Springs Council meeting -
Agenda Item: 1.A (proposed approval of February 13, 2025 City Council recorded written
meeting minutes)
Dear current City Council members,
Please review my written statements listed below prior to the consideration of agenda Item:
03/27/2025
Public Comment
Item 1A
1.A (February 13, 2025 meeting minutes).
It's been repeatedly demonstrated that the City of Palm Springs have decided NOT to record
(written meeting minutes) accurately of it's Public meeting(s) held under it's authority.
The February 13, 2025 written minutes of the City of Palm Springs Council meeting, once
again decided NOT to record "Public Testimony" partispates accurately. Those Individuals
that provided verbal testimony (oral testimony) didn't have (agenda Items) that were
commented about listed (recorded) within the City's constructed written meeting minutes.
And NO description was provided of the public speaker(s) testimony (what was talked
about/commented about) stance taken (In opposition of, or in favor of, or No stance).
It's highly recommended to accommodate "summary formatted meeting minutes protocols" for
all City controlled public meetings.
Please review and implement the recommendations listed below for the betterment of City of
Palm Springs residential population.
1) Allow public testimony on every agenda Item (3 minutes/per Item) during (at the same
time) that the governing body considers each agenda Item.
2) Record (summary formatted meeting minutes protocol) for every City conducted Public
meeting (minutes).
3) Provide a (NO COST) local or toll-free telephone number for members of the community
to remotely access (partispate/monitor) City controlled Public meeting(s).
It's nonsensical that Individuals are currently ONLY allowed (2 minutes) of total speaking
time for every agenda Item listed on the meeting agenda (except: Public Hearing Items and
Non-Agenda Public comment). It's currently possible that public speakers would only have a
few "seconds" to provide Public testimony on selected agenda Items.
Having ALL partispates that desire to provide Public testimony on agenda Items (except:
Public Hearing and Non-Agenda Public comment) speak in advance (could be hours before
the governing body considers that agenda Item) of consideration from the governing body
(City Council) is completely nonsensical. It's highly likely that a complete Board staff report
(videos and or other Information) wouldn't be made available for those public speakers at the
time that they are mandated to provide Public testimony on selected agenda Items. The
General Public is entitled to the same information that the City Council is made aware of
before public testimony is mandated.
It's extremely reasonable that current public testimony protocols may interfere with City
officials (elected and appointed members) that should recuse themselves at the consideration
of certain agenda Items.
Sincerely,
Brad Anderson | Rancho Mirage, CA. | Ba4612442@gmail.com
03/27/2025
Public Comment
Item 1A
Cc:
47th District Assembly member
03/27/2025
Public Comment
Item 1A