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Home My WebLink AboutNon-AgendaFrom:Alyssa Chavez To:City Clerk Cc:Nora Ayala Subject:FW: PS surf club Date:Monday, July 21, 2025 2:33:35 PM Good Afternoon, Please see the email below. Please include for public comment. ALYSSA CHAVEZ | EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT – MAYOR/COUNCIL City of Palm Springs | Office of the City Council 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 t: 760.322.8395 | f: 760.323.8207 | alyssa.chavez@palmspringsca.gov -----Original Message----- From: Linda Butorac <lindajeanrealtor@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 2:29 PM To: Planning <Planning@palmspringsca.gov>; CityManager <CityManager@palmspringsca.gov>; Ron deHarte <Ron.deHarte@palmspringsca.gov>; Naomi Soto <Naomi.Soto@palmspringsca.gov>; David Ready <David.Ready@palmspringsca.gov>; Grace Garner <Grace.Garner@palmspringsca.gov>; Jeffrey Bernstein <Jeffrey.Bernstein@palmspringsca.gov>; Alyssa Chavez <Alyssa.Chavez@palmspringsca.gov>; Nora Ayala <Nora.Ayala@palmspringsca.gov> Subject: PS surf club 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. To Whom It May Concern: My name is Linda and my husband Michael and I live on Broadmoor Drive in the Tahquitz neighborhood. We have been here for about 16 years when we purchased our home in 2006. We have no issues with the Palm Springs Surf Club. What little “noise” we have heard from the golf course or our house is insignificant and not a detriment to the enjoyment of our home or neighborhood. We have eaten enjoyed and partaken in the Surf Club since its opening. We have also brought many guests there to enjoy all its eateries and pools. In fact, we find the Surf Club to be a great asset to the city of Palm Springs and to our community. It would be a tragedy for the Surf Club to be mired with anything that would jeopardize its health and existence. Thank you very much for your time! Best regards, Linda Butorac 07/21/2025 Public Comment Non-Agenda From:Tom Kohn To:City Clerk Subject:Fwd: Ten Acts for Defensible Space, a new definition Date:Sunday, July 20, 2025 5:45:06 PM 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. Hello, I would like to reserve a two-minute period in the non-agenda forum to speak to the attached request. I trust that you will provide copies to each council member. I plan to attend in person. However, I expect you will have many speakers on the low-water bridge on S. Palm Canyon Dr. Perhaps you can advise on when the non-agenda comments might occur? Thomas Kohn Sent from the tomPhone 937.271.1484 Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Kohn <tgkohn@aol.com> Date: July 9, 2025 at 12:13:00 PM PDT To: Ron.deHarte@palmspringsca.gov Cc: chair.rcdp@gmail.com Subject: Ten Acts for Defensible Space, a new definition Hello Mayor DeHarte, I’m a resident of Palm Springs, and my home is at the western edge of Demuth Park (District 5). I lead an active life for a 74 year-old, walking, biking, light weight training, and genealogy. I learned from Luz Gallego of TODEC.org that six fathers of Latino families in the Coachella Valley have recently died at their own hand. These men, one may presume, were depressed and anxious because of the insecurity caused by the threat of detention by ICE or other federal agencies. I learned from Nancy Ross, Mayor of Cathedral City, that many illegal apprehensions occur daily in her city and across the Coachella Valley. These deaths disturb me. And the continuing apprehensions in our community disgust me because of their lawlessness. The apparent racial profiling these abductors act on threatens us all. I believe that the City of Palm Springs can take steps to protect us all. 07/21/2025 Public Comment Non-Agenda After my signature is a set of Ten Acts for Defensible Space. I feel the City Council must discuss these statements of possible ordinances, and the City Manager and Legal Counsel must modify them to make them iron-clad. Please respond to me by email with a date for first discussion among the Council, Manager, Counsel, and you. Please respond to me by email when the proposals are placed on a City Council Agenda for public discussion and vote. With best regards, Thomas Kohn 608 S El Cielo Rd Palm Springs 92264 937.271.1484 (text preferred before phone call) Ten Acts for Defensible Space Preamble: These Acts are intended to support our Immigrant-American population who is now under threat of deportation by Presidential policies. The wording of the Acts attempts to provide a legal framework for support of our Immigrant-Americans, but I have no legal training. Detailed text may be amended as necessary, but the thrust of each Act shall be retained. 1. Officers, to include Palm Springs Police Department, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, FBI agents, ICE agents, HSI agents, National Guardsmen, locally deployed members of the United States Army, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Navy, shall, upon demand by any person and while located within the boundaries of the City of Palm Springs, provide identifying materials during their activities. Officers shall not wear masks or disguises and shall not obscure or hide badges, nameplates, insignia, or agency identifiers on themselves or their vehicles. 2. Warrants shall be presented to the subject of apprehension before attempting to impede her or his free movement. The warrant shall identify and shall physically describe the subject of apprehension. The subject shall be allowed to produce personal identification to corroborate or dispute the accuracy of the her or his identity as the subject of the attempted apprehension. 3. Officers shall not point weapons of any kind at or in the direction of the subject of apprehension, family members, or persons observing the apprehension, with the exception of a clear threat to the life of the officer. Weapons shall include rifles of any kind, pistols of any kind, knives or bayonets of any kind, batons or handheld blunt instruments, non-lethal projectile devices, tasers, and other objects that can be perceived as a threat to life or free movement. 4. Officers shall state whether the person is under arrest or is free to go, and at that time read a standardized Miranda statement. 5. The subject of apprehension shall be allowed, within 60 minutes of arrest, to 07/21/2025 Public Comment Non-Agenda contact and speak to an Attorney, and a family member, and persons of authority for care of the subject’s children, and a doctor or care provider for continuing health issues. 6. The agency of incarceration shall publish a daily list of all persons apprehended, detained, or arrested. The agency of incarceration shall send these daily lists twice weekly to the City of Palm Springs. 7.Within 24 hours of receipt, the City of Palm Springs shall inform social service agencies of families affected by the detention or arrest of a subject. 8. The social services agencies shall interview the affected families within 24 hours of being informed of the subject’s detention or arrest and shall arrange specific services based on the expressed needs of the family. The interview to express family needs shall include disposition of abandoned vehicles or belongings left at the apprehension site, financial distress because of the loss of a sole breadwinner, default of rent or mortgage payments, food assistance, lack of transportation, failure of care for ongoing health issues. 9. The City of Palm Springs shall pursue grants, awards, donations, and, subject to electoral results, bonds or taxes to fund expanded services to immigrant families affected by policies of immigration control. 10. The City of Palm Springs shall summarize all received reports weekly and shall present the summary to the Riverside county Board of Supervisors and to the State of California. Each weekly summary shall be made available to the public on a continual basis. Sent from the tomPhone 937.271.1484 07/21/2025 Public Comment Non-Agenda