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ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE,

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LET'S SEE. TEST TEST. TEST.

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YEAH. TEST TEST. TEST. TEST

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TEST TEST. I PUSHED SEE TEST.

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TEST. TEST. IT'S OKAY. LET'S

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SEE. HELLO? BLACK. JUST BLACK.

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DO YOU WANT COFFEE? DO YOU WANT

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COFFEE? YEAH. THANK YOU. OKAY.

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THANK YOU. OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO

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GET STARTED HERE. HI, EVERYONE.

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WELCOME TO OUR JOINT

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LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COMMITTEE

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OVERSIGHT HEARING. IT IS A

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PLEASURE TO BE HERE IN CASTAIC

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AND SANTA CLARITA, WHERE THE

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SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AUDIT

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HEARING IS VERY CLOSE AND

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PERSONAL. TO THOSE OF YOU IN

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THE ROOM AND TO THE COMMUNITY.

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AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.

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THANK YOU TO ASSEMBLYMEMBER'S

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SCHIAVO FOR HAVING US IN HER

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DISTRICT, SENATOR VALLADARES,

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FOR HAVING US IN YOUR DISTRICT.

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AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING

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HERE. MY NAME IS JOHN BEATTY,

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AND I CHAIR THE JOINT

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LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COMMITTEE FOR

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THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. AND

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TODAY WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER AN

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AUDIT THAT, AS I SAID, IS VERY

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CLOSE AND PERSONAL TO THIS

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COMMUNITY. FOR THE RECORD, THE

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AUDIT IS ENTITLED LOS ANGELES

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COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

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HEALTH. ITS ACTIONS IN RESPONSE

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TO CONDITIONS NEAR THE CHIQUITA

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LANDFILL HAVE BEEN INCOMPLETE.

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AGAIN, IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT WE

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ARE HERE AND. TALKING ABOUT

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THIS BECAUSE I KNOW HOW

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IMPORTANT IT IS FOR EVERYONE

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HERE. I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT

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IS TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES HERE

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BEFORE YOU. AND I WANT TO

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APPLAUD, AS MAYOR SCHIAVO, FOR

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REQUESTING THIS AUDIT AND

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REALLY PUSHING FOR THIS. I WANT

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TO THANK AND APPLAUD SENATOR

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VALLADARES FOR, AS A MEMBER OF

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THIS COMMITTEE, VOTING IN FAVOR

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OF IT AND GETTING US TO THIS

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POINT. AND WE ARE HERE WITH THE

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STATE AUDITOR GRANTS, GRANT

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PARKS AND HIS TEAM, WHO DID A

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FANTASTIC JOB ON THE AUDIT. AND

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I DO WANT TO GET INTO THE

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SUBSTANCE OF IT. BUT BEFORE WE

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DO THAT, I DO ALSO WANT TO

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ACKNOWLEDGE ASSEMBLYMEMBER MARK

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GONZALEZ, WHO IS HERE WITH US,

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AND I JUST WANT TO THANK MY

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COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE AND

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ALL THEIR ATTENTION. AND I

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ACTUALLY AM NOT TOO FAR FROM

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YOU. I NOT ONLY CHAIR THIS

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COMMITTEE, BUT I REPRESENT THE

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41ST DISTRICT, WHICH INCLUDES

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COMMUNITIES OF ALTADENA,

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PASADENA, SAN DIMAS, UPLAND,

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, AND PARTS OF

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THE HIGH DESERT. AND WE, AS YOU

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KNOW, JUST WENT THROUGH OUR OWN

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PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN THE

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EDEN FIRE. AND WHILE I CAN'T

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SAY THAT I KNOW EVERYTHING THAT

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YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, I DON'T I

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CAN SAY THAT MY COMMUNITY AND I

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HAVE A LOT OF EMPATHY FOR WHAT

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YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, BECAUSE

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WE, AGAIN, HAVE GONE THROUGH

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SIMILAR STRUGGLES AND ARE

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FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR

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COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PUBLIC

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HEALTH CRISES THAT WE ARE

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DEALING WITH AS WELL. AND I

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KNOW ASSEMBLYMEMBER GONZALEZ

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HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH SIMILAR

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EXPERIENCES AS WELL, AND IT ALL

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IS RELATED, AND IT'S ALL

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RELATED BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITIES

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HAVE HAVE A BOND OF THAT

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STRUGGLE AND THOSE CRISES AND

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TRYING TO GET MORE HELP FROM

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, INCLUDING

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THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

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SO IT'S REALLY AN HONOR TO BE

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WITH YOU. AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU

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HAVE MEMBERS HERE WHO CARE

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DEEPLY ABOUT YOU AND WHAT

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YOU'RE GOING THROUGH WITH THAT.

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I JUST WANT TO ALLOW FOR. YOU

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KNOW, SOME OPENING STATEMENTS

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FROM MY COLLEAGUES AND AND TALK

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ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK

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ABOUT. BUT I DO WANT TO SAY

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THAT AS WE DISCUSSED THE AUDIT

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REPORT, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT

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THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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IS NOT HERE. AND WE WANT TO

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EXPLORE WAYS IN WHICH THE

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH CAN

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AND SHOULD IMPROVE THEIR

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SERVICES TO THIS COMMUNITY AS

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IT RELATES TO THE LANDFILL, BUT

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ALSO HOW IT CAN INCREASE ITS

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COMMUNICATION AND DELIVERY OF

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SERVICES TO YOU. I THINK IT'S

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UNFORTUNATE AND DISAPPOINTING

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THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS NOT HERE,

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AND THAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING. I

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WISH THAT THEY WERE HERE,

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ESPECIALLY WHEN THE AUDIT

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ACTUALLY NOTED THAT THE

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COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE

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PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND

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THE COMMUNITY HAS NOT BEEN

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PERFECT. IT CAN BE IMPROVED.

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AND THAT'S ONE OF THE CONCERNS

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OF THE AUDITOR THAT WE WILL

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HEAR FROM TODAY. THAT SAID,

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AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK MY

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COLLEAGUE FOR BRINGING THIS

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AUDIT TO US, AND I'M GOING TO

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HAND IT OVER TO HER FOR OPENING

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STATEMENTS. AND THEN SENATOR

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VALLADARES AND THEN A SENATOR

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GONZALEZ. BUT BEFORE I DO JUST

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A FEW HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS TO

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ENSURE THAT WE HEAR FROM

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EVERYONE, I WANT TO ASK THAT

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THE PANELS KEEP THEIR

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PRESENTATIONS TO THE TIME

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ALLOCATED. WE ONLY HAVE TWO

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PANELS TODAY, SO I DON'T THINK

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THAT'S GOING TO BE TOO HARD. I

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WILL ASK THAT AFTER EACH PANEL,

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MEMBERS WILL HAVE QUESTIONS TO

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THE DÍAS FOR THE PRESENTERS AND

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THE PANELISTS, AND THEN WE'RE

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GOING TO RESERVE PUBLIC COMMENT

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AT THE END. SO I KNOW A LOT OF

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PEOPLE PROBABLY HAVE PUBLIC

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COMMENT THAT WILL COME AFTER

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THE TWO PANELS. AND SO WE WE

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE,

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BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT

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OF GOOD INFORMATION BEING

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SHARED IN THE TWO PANELS, AND

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THEN YOU'LL HAVE YOUR

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OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

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WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO HAND IT

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OVER TO SENATOR SHIVA FOR AN

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OPENING STATEMENT. THANK YOU SO

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MUCH, MR. CHAIR. AND, YOU KNOW,

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I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR

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SUPPORT AND LEADERSHIP. YOU'VE

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BEEN INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE, AS

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WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE

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OUT ALL THE WAYS, ALL THE

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LEVERS THAT WE CAN PULL IN

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SACRAMENTO TO TRY TO PROTECT

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OUR COMMUNITY AND REALLY GET

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RESULTS FROM GOVERNMENT AT A

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TIME WHEN IT'S WHEN YOU NEED

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GOVERNMENT TO SHOW UP, IS IN

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EMERGENCIES LIKE THIS, IN

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DISASTERS LIKE THIS, I'M

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GRATEFUL TO THE STAFF, THE

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AUDITORS FOR FOR THEIR HARD

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WORK IN THIS REPORT AND MY

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COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE TODAY

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AS WELL, AND ESPECIALLY

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GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE IN THE

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COMMUNITY WHO'S HERE. YOU KNOW,

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I REQUESTED THIS AUDIT TODAY

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BECAUSE FOR YEARS NOW, FAMILIES

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HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR HELP.

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THIS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED.

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THEY'VE BEEN DESCRIBING

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DEBILITATING SYMPTOMS. I JUST

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TALKED WITH SOMEONE THIS

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EVENING WHO TOLD ME THEY LOST

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THEIR WIFE TO CANCER. THEY HAVE

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CANCER AND BOTH OF THEIR DOGS

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DIED. AND THIS UNFORTUNATELY IS

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NOT A RARE STORY THAT YOU HEAR

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IN THIS COMMUNITY. TOO OFTEN

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PEOPLE CAN SEE TOO MANY OF

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THEIR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE CANCER

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ARE SUFFERING FROM ALL KINDS OF

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SYMPTOMS HEADACHES, DIZZINESS,

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NAUSEA, TREMORS, BLOODY NOSES

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THAT ARE UNCONTROLLABLE THAT

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KIDS WAKE UP IN A PUDDLE OF

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BLOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGHT.

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THIS IS A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE

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SITUATION, AND WE ARE NOT

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GETTING THE KIND OF RESPONSE

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THAT WE NEED FROM L.A. COUNTY

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

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THE AUDITOR'S FINDINGS IN

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AUDITOR SPEAK ARE SCATHING. IT

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IS IT IS, YOU KNOW, A CLEAR

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FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP THAT OUR

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COMMUNITY IS NOT GETTING THE

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SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED. AND IT

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IS THE LEADERSHIP THAT NEEDS TO

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FIX THAT OR GET OUT OF THE WAY

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FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT. WE

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HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THAT WE

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CAN IMAGINE TO TRY TO GET THEM

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TO ACT. I STARTED CONVENING

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MONTHLY MEETINGS WITH

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND

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ALL OF THE AGENCIES RESPONDING,

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AND I WAS JUST GOING OVER MY

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NOTES LAST NIGHT OF THOSE

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MEETINGS THAT I'VE BEEN

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CONVENING FOR TWO YEARS,

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MONTHLY MEETINGS LAST YEAR, AND

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THEN EVERY OTHER MONTH THIS

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YEAR. AND SO OFTEN I'LL GO

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THROUGH ALL THE AGENCIES AND

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HAVE NOTES ON WHAT THEY'RE

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REPORTING OUT, ALL THE THINGS

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THAT THEY'RE DOING. AND THEN LA

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CDPH, NO NOTES, NOTHING. THIS

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HAS HAPPENED MONTH AFTER MONTH.

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AND FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR AT THIS

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POINT, WE HAVE HELD PRESS

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CONFERENCES AND TOWN HALLS. I

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SLEPT AT JENNIFER ELKIN'S HOUSE

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AND EXPERIENCED SYMPTOMS MYSELF

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JUST IN THE 12 HOURS THAT I WAS

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THERE. INSIDE ALMOST ALL OF

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THAT TIME, I HAD BURNING FACE,

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BURNING EYES, BURNING THROAT.

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IN THE MORNING I BLEW MY NOSE

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AND IT STARTED TO BLEED, AND I

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COULD NOT REMEMBER THE LAST

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TIME THAT I HAD A BLOODY NOSE.

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AND THEN TO CONTINUE TO TRY TO

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BUILD PRESSURE FOR THE

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO

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ACT. I SLEPT OUTSIDE CAMPING

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WITH JANE WILLIAMS, WHO'S GOING

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TO TESTIFY TODAY AT ANOTHER

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NEIGHBOR'S HOME, CAMPING

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OUTSIDE, AND HAD MANY OF THOSE

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SYMPTOMS AGAIN. AND ALSO, MY

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EARS HAVE NOT STOPPED RINGING

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FOR A YEAR AND A HALF NOW. SO

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NOW I HAVE TINNITUS. SO, YOU

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KNOW, THIS IS VERY SERIOUS AND

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PEOPLE ARE GETTING SICK. I HAVE

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BEEN TO FUNERALS IN OUR

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COMMUNITY AND IT IS

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UNACCEPTABLE THAT OUR LA COUNTY

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH NOT

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ONLY IS NOT SHOWING UP, IS NOT

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DOING WHAT IS IN THEIR NAME.

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PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTING PUBLIC

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HEALTH IS LITERALLY THEIR

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NUMBER ONE JOB, AND THEY'RE NOT

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DOING IT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY,

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BUT ALSO THAT THEY'RE NOT

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SHOWING UP TODAY. THEY'RE NOT

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SHOWING UP. IT'S, AGAIN,

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COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR OUR

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COMMUNITY AND THEIR EXCUSES.

00:48:29.406 --> 00:48:31.575
WELL, THERE'S A LAWSUIT, AND SO

00:48:31.642 --> 00:48:33.343
WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT UNTIL

00:48:33.410 --> 00:48:35.112
THIS LAWSUIT IS RESOLVED.

00:48:35.178 --> 00:48:36.046
ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHEN

00:48:36.113 --> 00:48:37.881
THAT LAWSUIT IS GOING TO BE

00:48:37.948 --> 00:48:41.585
RESOLVED? YEARS, YEARS. SO THEY

00:48:41.652 --> 00:48:43.053
DON'T HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO

00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:46.290
OUR COMMUNITY FOR YEARS BECAUSE

00:48:46.356 --> 00:48:48.091
THERE'S A LAWSUIT. ARE YOU

00:48:48.158 --> 00:48:53.163
KIDDING ME? THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

00:48:53.230 --> 00:48:56.433
YEAH. SO THIS IS, YOU KNOW,

00:48:56.500 --> 00:49:01.738
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE. WE

00:49:01.805 --> 00:49:03.807
HAVE TRIED LITERALLY EVERYTHING

00:49:03.874 --> 00:49:05.609
THAT WE CAN THINK TO TRY. I'VE

00:49:05.676 --> 00:49:06.743
BEEN WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN THE

00:49:06.810 --> 00:49:08.612
COMMUNITY TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:09.846
ALL THE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN

00:49:09.913 --> 00:49:11.848
GET THE RESPONSE THAT WE NEED,

00:49:11.915 --> 00:49:13.650
AND HAVE RESORTED TO DOING

00:49:13.717 --> 00:49:15.819
STATE BILLS THAT REQUIRE A

00:49:15.886 --> 00:49:17.220
HEALTH STUDY TO HAPPEN BECAUSE

00:49:17.287 --> 00:49:18.989
THEY REFUSE TO DO ONE. THAT'S

00:49:19.056 --> 00:49:20.290
WHAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

00:49:20.357 --> 00:49:21.992
THINGS IN AB 28, THE LANDFILL

00:49:22.059 --> 00:49:24.428
SAFETY ACT, REQUIRES A HEALTH

00:49:24.494 --> 00:49:29.132
STUDY. I DID BILLS ON

00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:30.033
TRANSPARENCY SO THAT EVERYBODY

00:49:30.100 --> 00:49:31.368
CAN HAVE THE INFORMATION ABOUT

00:49:31.435 --> 00:49:33.070
THE TEMPERATURE AND AIR

00:49:33.136 --> 00:49:35.238
MONITORING DATA. I DID BILLS ON

00:49:35.305 --> 00:49:36.340
MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF

00:49:36.406 --> 00:49:37.607
ANYONE GOT RELIEF DOLLARS,

00:49:37.674 --> 00:49:39.042
YOU'RE NOT TAXED ON THOSE. BY

00:49:39.109 --> 00:49:40.210
THE WAY, YOU SHOULD NOT BE

00:49:40.277 --> 00:49:42.012
GETTING TAXED ON THOSE. AND IF

00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:43.280
YOU DID, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING

00:49:43.347 --> 00:49:45.115
TO AMEND THAT AND GET IN TOUCH

00:49:45.182 --> 00:49:46.950
WITH MY OFFICE AND WE'LL HELP

00:49:47.017 --> 00:49:48.185
YOU WITH THAT. BUT WE HAVE BEEN

00:49:48.251 --> 00:49:50.020
DOING A PATCHWORK OF BILLS AT

00:49:50.087 --> 00:49:52.055
THE STATE LEVEL TO MAKE UP FOR

00:49:52.122 --> 00:49:55.459
THE INACTION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL,

00:49:55.525 --> 00:49:56.860
AND IT'S INEXCUSABLE. IT'S WHY

00:49:56.927 --> 00:49:58.628
I ASKED FOR THE AUDIT AND WHY

00:49:58.695 --> 00:50:00.497
I'M VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THIS

00:50:00.564 --> 00:50:01.898
CONVERSATION HERE TODAY, TO

00:50:01.965 --> 00:50:03.133
HEAR BOTH FROM THE AUDITORS,

00:50:03.200 --> 00:50:04.768
FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND FROM

00:50:04.835 --> 00:50:07.304
ALL OF YOU. SO WE WILL HEAR

00:50:07.371 --> 00:50:09.473
FROM THE AUDITORS JUST ABOUT

00:50:09.539 --> 00:50:10.674
HOW THE THE HEARING IS GOING TO

00:50:10.741 --> 00:50:12.442
WORK. WE'LL HEAR FROM THE

00:50:12.509 --> 00:50:14.111
AUDITORS, WE'LL HEAR FROM

00:50:14.177 --> 00:50:15.212
COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE GOING

00:50:15.278 --> 00:50:17.114
TO COME UP AND SPEAK. AND THEN

00:50:17.180 --> 00:50:18.482
THERE WILL BE A TIME FOR PUBLIC

00:50:18.548 --> 00:50:20.283
COMMENT AT THE END FOR EVERYONE

00:50:20.350 --> 00:50:21.685
TO ALSO TALK ABOUT. IF YOU'VE

00:50:21.752 --> 00:50:24.187
HAD ANY EXPERIENCES WITH LA

00:50:24.254 --> 00:50:25.622
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

00:50:25.689 --> 00:50:27.591
HEALTH, WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ANY,

00:50:27.657 --> 00:50:28.859
YOU KNOW, HEALTH ISSUES THAT

00:50:28.925 --> 00:50:29.960
YOU'RE EXPERIENCING IN THE

00:50:30.026 --> 00:50:31.094
COMMUNITY IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE

00:50:31.161 --> 00:50:32.763
SHARING THOSE. BUT WE REALLY

00:50:32.829 --> 00:50:33.964
WANT TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE AND

00:50:34.030 --> 00:50:35.832
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR VOICE IS ON

00:50:35.899 --> 00:50:38.602
THE RECORD ON THIS ISSUE TODAY

00:50:38.668 --> 00:50:40.137
TO HELP BE PART OF THE CHANGE

00:50:40.203 --> 00:50:42.205
THAT WE NEED TO SEE HAPPEN, AND

00:50:42.272 --> 00:50:43.473
CONTINUING TO BUILD PRESSURE ON

00:50:43.540 --> 00:50:44.708
THE LA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF

00:50:44.775 --> 00:50:46.777
PUBLIC HEALTH TO SHOW UP TO DO

00:50:46.843 --> 00:50:48.345
THEIR JOB AND TO PROTECT PUBLIC

00:50:48.412 --> 00:50:49.780
HEALTH HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

00:50:49.846 --> 00:50:51.348
SO WITH THAT, I LOOK FORWARD TO

00:50:51.415 --> 00:50:53.683
THIS CONVERSATION. THANK YOU,

00:50:53.750 --> 00:50:58.088
SENATOR SCHIAVO. SENATOR

00:50:58.155 --> 00:50:59.856
VALLADARES, THANK YOU, MR.

00:50:59.923 --> 00:51:01.057
CHAIR, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING

00:51:01.124 --> 00:51:02.926
THE TIME TO COME UP TO OUR

00:51:02.993 --> 00:51:05.228
COMMUNITY TO CHAIR THIS

00:51:05.295 --> 00:51:07.097
IMPORTANT AUDIT HEARING, AND

00:51:07.164 --> 00:51:08.832
FOR BEING REALLY A PHENOMENAL

00:51:08.899 --> 00:51:09.699
CHAIR. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO

00:51:09.766 --> 00:51:11.501
DON'T KNOW, THE JOINT AUDIT

00:51:11.568 --> 00:51:12.602
CHAIR IS THE JOINT AUDIT

00:51:12.669 --> 00:51:13.870
COMMITTEE IS COMPOSED OF BOTH

00:51:13.937 --> 00:51:15.172
SENATORS AND ASSEMBLY MEMBERS,

00:51:15.238 --> 00:51:16.840
AND WE REQUEST FOR SOME OF THE

00:51:16.907 --> 00:51:18.575
MOST VITAL AUDITS THAT ARE

00:51:18.642 --> 00:51:19.943
IMPORTANT NOT ONLY TO THE STATE

00:51:20.010 --> 00:51:21.111
BUT TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO I

00:51:21.178 --> 00:51:22.846
WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE

00:51:22.913 --> 00:51:23.847
ASSEMBLY MEMBER FOR REQUESTING

00:51:23.914 --> 00:51:24.981
THIS AUDIT AND THAT WE HOLD

00:51:25.048 --> 00:51:26.049
THIS HEARING HERE IN OUR

00:51:26.116 --> 00:51:27.918
COMMUNITY, AS WELL, AS WELL AS

00:51:27.984 --> 00:51:29.786
ASSEMBLY MEMBER GONZALEZ, FOR

00:51:29.853 --> 00:51:31.521
MAKING IT OUT AND JUDGING THAT

00:51:31.588 --> 00:51:33.690
LA TRAFFIC. WE GENUINELY

00:51:33.757 --> 00:51:35.125
APPRECIATE IT. AND THEN, OF

00:51:35.192 --> 00:51:36.927
COURSE, TO SEE VÌ FOR HOSTING

00:51:36.993 --> 00:51:40.163
US IN THIS WONDERFUL ROOM AND

00:51:40.230 --> 00:51:42.999
BEING A GREAT COMMUNITY PARTNER

00:51:43.066 --> 00:51:44.167
THROUGHOUT THE CASTAIC VAL

00:51:44.234 --> 00:51:46.603
VERDE AREA. AND GENUINELY

00:51:46.670 --> 00:51:48.939
BECAUSE S¼ VÌ S VÌ CARES ABOUT

00:51:49.005 --> 00:51:50.640
OUR KIDS AND THE FAMILIES

00:51:50.707 --> 00:51:54.611
IMPACTED BY THIS ENVIRONMENTAL

00:51:54.678 --> 00:51:56.012
DISASTER. AND THEN LASTLY, I

00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:59.583
ALSO WANT I WANT TO THANK THE

00:51:59.649 --> 00:52:00.817
ASSEMBLY SERVICES FOR COMING

00:52:00.884 --> 00:52:03.220
OUT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE NOT

00:52:03.286 --> 00:52:05.021
ONLY HAVE A PHENOMENAL HEARING,

00:52:05.088 --> 00:52:06.256
BUT THAT THIS IS RECORDED. YOU

00:52:06.323 --> 00:52:08.992
CAN FIND THIS ONLINE. IT IS A

00:52:09.059 --> 00:52:11.862
PART OF OF OUR HEARING ONLINE

00:52:11.928 --> 00:52:13.063
AT THE SENATE WEBSITE, AS WELL

00:52:13.129 --> 00:52:15.832
AS THE ASSEMBLY WEBSITE. AND I

00:52:15.899 --> 00:52:17.200
WANT TO THANK STATE AUDITOR

00:52:17.267 --> 00:52:19.035
GRANT PARKS AND YOUR ENTIRE

00:52:19.102 --> 00:52:21.204
TEAM FOR THEIR WORK. AND TO

00:52:21.271 --> 00:52:22.639
EVERYONE WHO HAS JOINED US THIS

00:52:22.706 --> 00:52:24.074
EVENING, MOST IMPORTANTLY, I

00:52:24.140 --> 00:52:25.442
WANT TO THANK THE RESIDENTS OF

00:52:25.509 --> 00:52:27.444
VAL VERDE, OF CASTAIC AND ALL

00:52:27.511 --> 00:52:29.479
OF OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

00:52:29.546 --> 00:52:31.615
FOR YEARS, FAMILIES LIVING NEAR

00:52:31.681 --> 00:52:33.416
CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL HAVE

00:52:33.483 --> 00:52:35.986
ENDURED CONDITIONS THAT NO

00:52:36.052 --> 00:52:38.488
FAMILY SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH

00:52:38.555 --> 00:52:40.957
PERSISTENT ODORS, HEADACHES,

00:52:41.024 --> 00:52:43.126
NAUSEA, CONCERNS ABOUT THE AIR

00:52:43.193 --> 00:52:44.961
THAT THEIR CHILDREN BREATHE,

00:52:45.028 --> 00:52:47.130
AND THE UNCERTAINTY OF NOT

00:52:47.197 --> 00:52:49.266
KNOWING WHETHER THEIR HOMES ARE

00:52:49.332 --> 00:52:52.869
SAFE. AS A MOTHER, I CANNOT

00:52:52.936 --> 00:52:54.671
IMAGINE THE ANGUISH OF

00:52:54.738 --> 00:52:56.106
WONDERING WHETHER THE HOME THAT

00:52:56.172 --> 00:52:58.275
YOU'VE WORKED SO HARD TO

00:52:58.341 --> 00:53:01.144
PROVIDE FOR YOUR CHILDREN IS

00:53:01.211 --> 00:53:03.313
HURTING THEM, COULD BE MAKING

00:53:03.380 --> 00:53:06.182
THEM SICK. AND AS YOUR SENATOR,

00:53:06.249 --> 00:53:08.685
I BELIEVE THAT YOU DESERVE

00:53:08.752 --> 00:53:11.988
ANSWERS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND

00:53:12.055 --> 00:53:14.090
MEANINGFUL RELIEF. YOU DESERVE

00:53:14.157 --> 00:53:15.559
MORE THAN ANOTHER GOVERNMENT

00:53:15.625 --> 00:53:18.094
MEETING. YOU DESERVE RESULTS.

00:53:18.161 --> 00:53:19.729
AND I'VE WORKED ON LEGISLATION

00:53:19.796 --> 00:53:20.830
TO STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS FOR

00:53:20.897 --> 00:53:22.766
OUR COMMUNITY AFFECTED BY

00:53:22.832 --> 00:53:24.534
LANDFILLS, IMPROVED OVERSIGHT,

00:53:24.601 --> 00:53:26.336
AND ADDRESS THE GAPS IN OUR

00:53:26.403 --> 00:53:27.771
LAWS THAT HAVE BECOME APPARENT

00:53:27.837 --> 00:53:30.340
THROUGH THIS CRISIS. AND I

00:53:30.407 --> 00:53:32.108
AGAIN, WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

00:53:32.175 --> 00:53:34.644
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SCHIAVO, WHO

00:53:34.711 --> 00:53:35.712
REQUESTED THIS AUDIT AND WHO

00:53:35.779 --> 00:53:37.213
HAS WORKED VERY DILIGENTLY TO

00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.282
BRING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING

00:53:39.349 --> 00:53:41.117
ON HERE. WE MAY NOT AGREE ON

00:53:41.184 --> 00:53:43.186
EVERY ISSUE, BUT PROTECTING THE

00:53:43.253 --> 00:53:45.088
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR

00:53:45.155 --> 00:53:46.623
CONSTITUENTS IS NEVER, SHOULD,

00:53:46.690 --> 00:53:47.958
NEVER AND WILL NEVER BE

00:53:48.024 --> 00:53:50.093
PARTIZAN. AND I BELIEVE THAT

00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:55.498
EVERYONE INVOLVED. THANK YOU. I

00:53:55.565 --> 00:53:57.367
BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE INVOLVED

00:53:57.434 --> 00:54:00.236
LOCAL, STATE, FEDERAL OFFICIALS

00:54:00.303 --> 00:54:03.073
HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO WORK

00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:05.241
TOGETHER TOWARDS SOLUTIONS

00:54:05.308 --> 00:54:06.710
BECAUSE OUR FAMILIES LIVING

00:54:06.776 --> 00:54:09.946
HERE DON'T CARE WHAT AGENCY HAS

00:54:10.013 --> 00:54:11.348
JURISDICTION OR WHICH ELECTED

00:54:11.414 --> 00:54:13.149
OFFICIAL GETS THE CREDIT. THEY

00:54:13.216 --> 00:54:14.250
WANT TO KNOW THAT THEIR

00:54:14.317 --> 00:54:16.353
FAMILIES ARE SAFE. THEY WANT TO

00:54:16.419 --> 00:54:18.588
KNOW WHAT'S BEING DONE TO

00:54:18.655 --> 00:54:20.690
ADDRESS THE CONDITIONS AT THE

00:54:20.757 --> 00:54:22.525
LANDFILL, AND THEY WANT TO KNOW

00:54:22.592 --> 00:54:25.795
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. THIS AUDIT

00:54:25.862 --> 00:54:26.830
GIVES US IMPORTANT AND

00:54:26.896 --> 00:54:28.264
IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER

00:54:28.331 --> 00:54:30.400
SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS. IT

00:54:30.467 --> 00:54:32.469
IDENTIFIES SERIOUS SHORTCOMINGS

00:54:32.535 --> 00:54:33.637
BY THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF

00:54:33.703 --> 00:54:36.172
PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE,

00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:38.341
INCLUDING INADEQUATE HEALTH

00:54:38.408 --> 00:54:40.543
MONITORING, INCONSISTENT

00:54:40.610 --> 00:54:41.945
COMMUNICATION, AND SIGNIFICANT

00:54:42.012 --> 00:54:43.780
DELAYS IN RECOMMENDING

00:54:43.847 --> 00:54:46.282
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE. THOSE

00:54:46.349 --> 00:54:48.485
FINDINGS DESERVE CAREFUL

00:54:48.551 --> 00:54:50.253
EXAMINATION, AND THEY DESERVE

00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.055
ACCOUNTABILITY. BUT THE AUDIT

00:54:52.122 --> 00:54:53.490
ALSO FOUND THAT THE COUNTY'S

00:54:53.556 --> 00:54:55.659
SOLID WASTE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

00:54:55.725 --> 00:54:57.494
ACTED WITH REASONABLE SPEED AND

00:54:57.560 --> 00:54:59.229
TOOK APPROPRIATE STEPS TO

00:54:59.295 --> 00:55:01.364
ADDRESS THE CONDITIONS AT THE

00:55:01.431 --> 00:55:03.166
LANDFILL. BOTH FINDINGS DO

00:55:03.233 --> 00:55:04.968
MATTER, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE

00:55:05.035 --> 00:55:06.936
HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO EXAMINE

00:55:07.003 --> 00:55:10.407
THIS REPORT. IT'S AN ENTIRETY

00:55:10.473 --> 00:55:11.441
RECOGNIZING WHAT WAS DONE

00:55:11.508 --> 00:55:13.643
CORRECTLY, IDENTIFYING WHERE

00:55:13.710 --> 00:55:16.146
GOVERNMENT FELL SHORT AND

00:55:16.212 --> 00:55:17.981
DETERMINING WHAT HAS TO CHANGE.

00:55:18.048 --> 00:55:20.116
AND WE ALSO HAVE TO RECOGNIZE

00:55:20.183 --> 00:55:23.019
THAT ACCOUNTABILITY EXTENDS

00:55:23.086 --> 00:55:26.222
BEYOND ONE DEPARTMENT OR ONE

00:55:26.289 --> 00:55:28.425
LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT. THERE ARE

00:55:28.491 --> 00:55:30.193
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE

00:55:30.260 --> 00:55:31.995
LANDFILLS, OPERATORS

00:55:32.062 --> 00:55:33.063
RESPONSIBILITIES, COORDINATION

00:55:33.129 --> 00:55:35.565
AMONG REGULATORY AGENCIES, AND

00:55:35.632 --> 00:55:37.400
WHETHER OUR EXISTING LAWS

00:55:37.467 --> 00:55:39.936
PROVIDE THE TOOLS NECESSARY TO

00:55:40.003 --> 00:55:41.705
RESPOND TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL

00:55:41.771 --> 00:55:44.207
EMERGENCY OF THIS MAGNITUDE.

00:55:44.274 --> 00:55:46.409
AND THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO

00:55:46.476 --> 00:55:48.178
CONTINUE TO NEED HELP TODAY.

00:55:48.244 --> 00:55:50.013
SOME ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE

00:55:50.080 --> 00:55:51.815
HEALTH, ABOUT THEIR HEALTH, BUT

00:55:51.881 --> 00:55:52.849
CANNOT AFFORD TO LEAVE THEIR

00:55:52.916 --> 00:55:55.018
HOMES. I KNOW THIS. OTHERS ARE

00:55:55.085 --> 00:55:56.820
STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL

00:55:56.886 --> 00:55:58.354
UNCERTAINTY AND THE FEAR THAT

00:55:58.421 --> 00:56:00.423
THEIR MOST VALUABLE INVESTMENT,

00:56:00.490 --> 00:56:03.326
THEIR HOME, MAY HAVE LOST ITS

00:56:03.393 --> 00:56:05.829
VALUE. THOSE CHALLENGES CANNOT

00:56:05.895 --> 00:56:08.031
BE SOLVED BY ONE AUDIT ALONE.

00:56:08.098 --> 00:56:10.867
THEY REQUIRE COOPERATION. THEY

00:56:10.934 --> 00:56:13.403
REQUIRE RESOURCES AND SUSTAINED

00:56:13.470 --> 00:56:14.838
COMMITMENT TO MAKING THIS

00:56:14.904 --> 00:56:16.673
COMMUNITY WHOLE. BECAUSE

00:56:16.740 --> 00:56:18.475
ULTIMATELY, OUR RESPONSIBILITY

00:56:18.541 --> 00:56:20.243
ISN'T TO ASSIGN POLITICAL BLAME

00:56:20.310 --> 00:56:23.813
HERE. IT'S ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY,

00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:25.615
CORRECTING WHAT WENT WRONG, AND

00:56:25.682 --> 00:56:28.151
MAKING SURE THE PEOPLE OF OUR

00:56:28.218 --> 00:56:31.020
COMMUNITY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.

00:56:31.087 --> 00:56:37.494
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SENATOR.

00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:40.497
SENATOR GONZALEZ, THANK YOU. SO,

00:56:40.563 --> 00:56:43.266
MEMBER, FOR PUTTING TODAY'S

00:56:43.333 --> 00:56:44.667
AUDIT TOGETHER. I KNOW YOU'VE

00:56:44.734 --> 00:56:45.902
BEEN IN THIS ROLE FOR A COUPLE

00:56:45.969 --> 00:56:47.871
OF YEARS NOW, AS I HAVE AS WELL,

00:56:47.937 --> 00:56:49.672
IN TERMS OF BEING THE

00:56:49.739 --> 00:56:50.740
LEGISLATURE. BUT SINCE DAY ONE,

00:56:50.807 --> 00:56:51.941
YOU'VE BEEN A STRONG CHAMPION.

00:56:52.008 --> 00:56:53.409
OBVIOUSLY, YOUR COMMUNITY GOING

00:56:53.476 --> 00:56:54.477
THROUGH MANY SIMILAR

00:56:54.544 --> 00:56:55.779
DEVASTATIONS AS MINE. BUT AT

00:56:55.845 --> 00:56:56.913
THE END OF THE DAY, I

00:56:56.980 --> 00:56:58.047
APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP ON

00:56:58.114 --> 00:56:59.115
HAVING THIS MEETING HERE TODAY.

00:56:59.182 --> 00:57:00.984
I KNOW WE HAVE TO GET THINGS

00:57:01.050 --> 00:57:02.786
STARTED, BUT I JUST WANT TO

00:57:02.852 --> 00:57:03.386
THANK ASSEMBLYMEMBERS SCHIAVO

00:57:03.453 --> 00:57:04.954
FOR HER WORK AND THE SENATOR,

00:57:05.021 --> 00:57:05.789
OF COURSE, ASSEMBLYMEMBER

00:57:05.855 --> 00:57:07.423
SCHIAVO IS IN MY CAUCUS AND

00:57:07.490 --> 00:57:09.559
BRINGS US UP, AT LEAST TO OUR

00:57:09.626 --> 00:57:11.027
CAUCUS MEMBERS EVERY WEEK, BUT

00:57:11.094 --> 00:57:12.428
FOR A REASON. AND I WANT TO

00:57:12.495 --> 00:57:14.297
THANK HER FOR THAT, BECAUSE WE

00:57:14.364 --> 00:57:15.632
HAVE VERY SIMILAR. WE MIGHT BE

00:57:15.698 --> 00:57:16.766
WHAT'S CONSIDERED ALMOST. I

00:57:16.833 --> 00:57:18.468
THINK IT TOOK ME LONGER TO GET

00:57:18.535 --> 00:57:19.736
HERE THAN IT DOES TO SACRAMENTO

00:57:19.803 --> 00:57:21.604
ON A PLAY. BUT BUT THE REALITY

00:57:21.671 --> 00:57:23.406
IS MY BOYLE HEIGHTS PEOPLE ARE

00:57:23.473 --> 00:57:24.574
HERE AS WELL. MY EAST SIDE

00:57:24.641 --> 00:57:26.476
PEOPLE ARE HERE AND I WANT TO

00:57:26.543 --> 00:57:27.677
THANK THEM FOR FOR COMING HERE

00:57:27.744 --> 00:57:29.379
TODAY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I

00:57:29.445 --> 00:57:31.181
REPRESENT THE FIFTH POOREST

00:57:31.247 --> 00:57:32.949
DISTRICT IN THE STATE. IN THE

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54TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, 70% OF

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MY DISTRICT SPEAKS ANOTHER

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LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH,

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AND 85% OF MY DISTRICT ARE

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RENTERS. I'VE WORKED WITH JANE

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OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS WHEN

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EXIDE WAS FIRST SHUT DOWN.

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EXIDE IS ONE OF. SOME OF YOU

00:57:45.862 --> 00:57:47.363
MIGHT KNOW WAS THE WAS 33 YEARS

00:57:47.430 --> 00:57:48.798
WITH THE TEMPORARY PERMIT THAT

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CAUSED THE MOST SEVERE LEAD

00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:52.035
POISONING IN OUR DISTRICT THAT

00:57:52.101 --> 00:57:53.169
WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH,

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STILL DEALING WITH TODAY AND MY

00:57:55.004 --> 00:57:56.039
TIME AS DISTRICT DIRECTOR, JANE

00:57:56.105 --> 00:57:57.941
AND I AND MANY OF OUR COMMUNITY

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FOLKS TO MY RIGHT OVER HERE,

00:57:59.209 --> 00:58:00.944
ALMA AND SO MANY OTHERS HAVE

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WORKED TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE WE

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DIDN'T SHUT IT DOWN. AND THESE

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ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICES, AND

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WE COME FROM THE SCHOOL OF, YOU

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KNOW, JUSTICE DELAYED IS

00:58:07.217 --> 00:58:08.184
JUSTICE DENIED. AND THAT'S WHAT

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WE ARE SEEING HERE IN THIS

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COMMUNITY AS WELL. BOYLE

00:58:11.521 --> 00:58:12.322
HEIGHTS, IF SOME OF YOU DON'T

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KNOW, IS SURROUNDED BY FIVE

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FREEWAYS. IT'S BEEN LANDLOCKED

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BY A LOT OF ENVIRONMENTAL

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INJUSTICES, INCLUDING OUR AIR

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POLLUTION. AND SO MANY THINGS

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HAVE HAPPENED IN OUR AREA. AND

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SOME OF YOU MIGHT KNOW THE

00:58:22.432 --> 00:58:23.700
RECENT LINEAGE FIRE THAT WE

00:58:23.766 --> 00:58:25.335
WERE DEALING WITH AS WELL. AND

00:58:25.401 --> 00:58:26.603
A LOT OF THAT DEBRIS CAME TO

00:58:26.669 --> 00:58:28.771
THIS AREA, TO THESE LANDFILLS

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AND THIS SIDE OF TOWN. SO IT'S

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REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO HAVE

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THIS DISCUSSION BECAUSE

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GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THE

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PROBLEM SOLVER, NOT THE PROBLEM.

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AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE

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TODAY TO GO THROUGH THAT. AND

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WE WITH MANY OF YOU IN THIS

00:58:40.183 --> 00:58:42.051
HELP AND AND MANY OF YOU ON

00:58:42.118 --> 00:58:43.987
THIS DAIS, WE'RE ABLE TO PASS A

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B 817, WHICH IS HOLDING THOSE

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CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE AND

00:58:46.589 --> 00:58:47.857
MAKING SURE THEY HAVE A

00:58:47.924 --> 00:58:48.591
CONTINGENCY PLAN IF THEY

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DESTROY OUR COMMUNITIES, IN

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ADDITION TO MAKING SURE THAT IF

00:58:51.494 --> 00:58:53.363
WE DO SUE AS A SMALL BUSINESS,

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AS A RESIDENT, THAT WHEN WE SUE

00:58:55.765 --> 00:58:57.166
THESE THESE COMPANIES, THAT WE

00:58:57.233 --> 00:58:59.035
DON'T GET TAXED ON IT FROM OUR

00:58:59.102 --> 00:59:00.036
COMPENSATION AS A RESULT OF

00:59:00.103 --> 00:59:01.971
THAT. SO WE ARE ABLE TO PASS

00:59:02.038 --> 00:59:03.172
THAT BILL. AND THE GOVERNOR DID

00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:05.842
SIGN THAT. AND THAT WAS

00:59:05.909 --> 00:59:07.210
SOMETHING THAT WE WERE IT TOOK

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A LOT OF WORK TO GET THERE, BUT

00:59:09.245 --> 00:59:10.280
MANY PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS

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NEEDED IN OUR BACKYARD, AND

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WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP THERE.

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SO THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING

00:59:14.450 --> 00:59:16.252
TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY. MANY OF

00:59:16.319 --> 00:59:18.121
YOU HAD TO LEAVE WORK EARLY,

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FIND BABYSITTERS FOR YOUR PETS

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OR FOR YOUR CHILDREN. I DON'T

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HAVE KIDS MYSELF, BUT I DO

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APPRECIATE MANY OF YOU WHO DO

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ON THIS PANEL AND HOW HARD IT

00:59:25.828 --> 00:59:27.830
IS TO HAVE TO MANEUVER THAT.

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IT'S A THURSDAY NIGHT AND

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THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON

00:59:30.667 --> 00:59:31.768
OUT THERE. SO I REALLY JUST

00:59:31.834 --> 00:59:33.736
WANTED TO BE HERE IN SOLIDARITY

00:59:33.803 --> 00:59:34.771
AND SUPPORT AND TO LISTEN AND

00:59:34.837 --> 00:59:36.539
THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY

00:59:36.606 --> 00:59:37.974
COLLEAGUES FOR FOR PUTTING THIS

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AFTERNOON TOGETHER. THANK YOU

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SO MUCH. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR

00:59:44.314 --> 00:59:45.381
BEING HERE. AND THOSE WORDS.

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WE'RE GOING TO START WITH OUR

00:59:46.582 --> 00:59:48.318
FIRST PANEL, AND IT IS THE

00:59:48.384 --> 00:59:49.519
OVERVIEW OF THE AUDIT REPORT BY

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THE STATE AUDITOR. SO, MR.

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PARKS, IF YOU COULD COME UP

00:59:52.455 --> 00:59:54.257
WITH YOUR TEAM. WE HAVE GRANT

00:59:54.324 --> 00:59:55.325
PARKS HERE, WHO IS THE

00:59:55.391 --> 00:59:56.359
CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR. VERY

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NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE IN THE

00:59:58.328 --> 00:59:59.329
DISTRICT. AND BOB HARRIS, THE

00:59:59.395 --> 01:00:00.396
AUDIT PRINCIPAL, AND DANIELA

01:00:00.463 --> 01:00:01.497
JACOBS, THE SENIOR AUDITOR. MR.

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PARKS, YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.

01:00:03.533 --> 01:00:05.535
THE FLOOR IS YOURS. AND I WILL

01:00:05.601 --> 01:00:06.736
GIVE YOU, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE

01:00:06.803 --> 01:00:08.538
OF THIS HEARING AND WHERE WE

01:00:08.604 --> 01:00:09.772
ARE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU NEED.

01:00:09.839 --> 01:00:11.641
SO PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME TO GO

01:00:11.708 --> 01:00:13.543
OVER THE FINDINGS. AND TO THE

01:00:13.609 --> 01:00:15.411
EXTENT THAT ANYONE ELSE NEEDS

01:00:15.478 --> 01:00:18.381
TO JUMP IN, FEEL FREE. SO TAKE

01:00:18.448 --> 01:00:22.719
IT AWAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU

01:00:22.785 --> 01:00:25.421
VERY MUCH, CHAIRMAN GARABEDIAN.

01:00:25.488 --> 01:00:26.589
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE

01:00:26.656 --> 01:00:27.557
THIS EVENING. ALSO,

01:00:27.623 --> 01:00:28.424
ASSEMBLYMEMBER SCHIAVO, THANK

01:00:28.491 --> 01:00:29.659
YOU FOR THE AUDIT REQUEST. AND

01:00:29.726 --> 01:00:31.694
MEMBERS, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE

01:00:31.761 --> 01:00:34.297
WITH YOU. IN SEPTEMBER, WE

01:00:34.364 --> 01:00:36.065
RELEASED OUR AUDIT REPORT IN

01:00:36.132 --> 01:00:37.467
RESPONSE TO ASSEMBLYMEMBER

01:00:37.533 --> 01:00:38.968
SCHIAVO'S AUDIT REQUEST

01:00:39.035 --> 01:00:40.403
CONCERNING THE LOS ANGELES

01:00:40.470 --> 01:00:41.904
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND

01:00:41.971 --> 01:00:43.539
ITS RESPONSE TO THE CONDITIONS

01:00:43.606 --> 01:00:46.175
AT THE CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL,

01:00:46.242 --> 01:00:47.643
INCLUDING ITS HEALTH EFFECTS ON

01:00:47.710 --> 01:00:50.246
NEARBY RESIDENTS. I'D LIKE I'D

01:00:50.313 --> 01:00:51.714
LIKE TO BRIEFLY TOUCH ON SOME

01:00:51.781 --> 01:00:53.583
OF THE EVENTS AT THE LANDFILL

01:00:53.649 --> 01:00:54.851
LEADING UP TO THE AUDIT REQUEST,

01:00:54.917 --> 01:00:56.652
AND THEN LIST SOME OF THE KEY

01:00:56.719 --> 01:00:58.154
AUDIT OBJECTIVES, ALONG WITH

01:00:58.221 --> 01:00:59.822
OUR MAIN OBSERVATIONS DURING

01:00:59.889 --> 01:01:01.624
THE AUDIT. AND AFTER MY REMARKS,

01:01:01.691 --> 01:01:03.426
I'LL BE TURNING IT OVER TO MY

01:01:03.493 --> 01:01:04.594
COLLEAGUE BOB HARRIS, WHO IS

01:01:04.660 --> 01:01:06.329
THE AUDIT PRINCIPAL ON THE

01:01:06.396 --> 01:01:07.797
ASSIGNMENT, ALONG WITH DANIELA

01:01:07.864 --> 01:01:09.599
JACOBS, WHO LED THE AUDIT TEAM,

01:01:09.665 --> 01:01:11.000
WHO WILL WALK THE PANEL THROUGH

01:01:11.067 --> 01:01:12.802
OUR AUDIT FINDINGS IN MORE

01:01:12.869 --> 01:01:15.338
DETAIL BY WAY OF BACKGROUND.

01:01:15.405 --> 01:01:16.572
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, AND I'M

01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:18.441
SURE MANY IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY

01:01:18.508 --> 01:01:20.009
ARE AWARE THAT CHIQUITA CANYON

01:01:20.076 --> 01:01:21.210
LANDFILL IS LOCATED VERY CLOSE

01:01:21.277 --> 01:01:23.579
TO WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT,

01:01:23.646 --> 01:01:25.815
LOCATED IN NORTHERN LOS ANGELES

01:01:25.882 --> 01:01:27.216
COUNTY IN THE SANTA CLARITA

01:01:27.283 --> 01:01:28.251
VALLEY, SURROUNDED BY THE

01:01:28.317 --> 01:01:29.752
COMMUNITIES OF HALSEY CANYON,

01:01:29.819 --> 01:01:31.888
CASTAIC, VAL VERDE, WHERE

01:01:31.954 --> 01:01:33.756
SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE MAKE

01:01:33.823 --> 01:01:35.725
THEIR HOMES AND THE CONDITIONS

01:01:35.792 --> 01:01:36.926
THAT THE. AT THE CHIQUITA

01:01:36.993 --> 01:01:39.062
CANYON LANDFILL HAVE PERSISTED

01:01:39.128 --> 01:01:40.863
OVER SEVERAL YEARS. AND SO I

01:01:40.930 --> 01:01:42.999
THINK SOME BRIEF BACKGROUND

01:01:43.066 --> 01:01:46.269
REMARKS ON ITS HISTORY AND LADS

01:01:46.335 --> 01:01:47.703
ACTIONS MAY BE HELPFUL TO THIS

01:01:47.770 --> 01:01:51.340
EVENING'S DISCUSSION. IN 2017,

01:01:51.407 --> 01:01:52.975
LA COUNTY ISSUED A CONDITIONAL

01:01:53.042 --> 01:01:54.744
USE PERMIT TO CHIQUITA CANYON

01:01:54.811 --> 01:01:56.245
FOR THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF

01:01:56.312 --> 01:01:58.548
THE LANDFILL AND INCLUDED

01:01:58.614 --> 01:02:00.149
VARIOUS CONDITIONS, INCLUDING

01:02:00.216 --> 01:02:02.118
THAT CHIQUITA OPERATE, AN AIR

01:02:02.185 --> 01:02:03.920
QUALITY MONITORING PROGRAM AND

01:02:03.986 --> 01:02:05.855
PROVIDE SEVERAL REGULAR REPORTS

01:02:05.922 --> 01:02:08.224
TO VARIOUS COUNTY AGENCIES SO

01:02:08.291 --> 01:02:09.659
THEY CAN MORE EFFECTIVELY

01:02:09.725 --> 01:02:12.195
MONITOR LANDFILL OPERATIONS.

01:02:12.261 --> 01:02:14.363
AND UPON ISSUING THIS PERMIT,

01:02:14.430 --> 01:02:16.165
LA COUNTY ALSO CREATED THE

01:02:16.232 --> 01:02:17.633
CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL

01:02:17.700 --> 01:02:19.035
COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE,

01:02:19.102 --> 01:02:21.938
OR CACC, WHICH IS COMPOSED OF

01:02:22.004 --> 01:02:23.005
INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE IN THE

01:02:23.072 --> 01:02:24.607
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY AND SERVES

01:02:24.674 --> 01:02:26.242
AS AN ADVISORY BODY TO THE

01:02:26.309 --> 01:02:28.444
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AMONG

01:02:28.511 --> 01:02:29.645
OTHERS, ON MATTERS RELATED TO

01:02:29.712 --> 01:02:32.482
THE LANDFILL. IN EARLY 2022,

01:02:32.548 --> 01:02:33.783
THE LANDFILL BECAME THE SITE OF

01:02:33.850 --> 01:02:35.651
A HIGH TEMPERATURE UNDERGROUND

01:02:35.718 --> 01:02:37.386
CHEMICAL REACTION, AND THIS

01:02:37.453 --> 01:02:38.855
REACTION HAS CAUSED AN INCREASE

01:02:38.921 --> 01:02:40.690
IN BOTH ODOROUS LANDFILL GAS

01:02:40.756 --> 01:02:42.391
EMISSIONS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE

01:02:42.458 --> 01:02:44.961
KNOWN AS LEACHATE. AND BOTH

01:02:45.027 --> 01:02:46.462
CALRECYCLE AND CHIQUITA CANYON

01:02:46.529 --> 01:02:47.530
BELIEVE THAT THIS CHEMICAL

01:02:47.597 --> 01:02:48.898
REACTION WILL CONTINUE FOR

01:02:48.965 --> 01:02:50.399
SEVERAL YEARS, AND THAT THE

01:02:50.466 --> 01:02:52.869
REACTION MAY ALSO BE GROWING.

01:02:52.935 --> 01:02:54.003
RESIDENTS OF THESE COMMUNITIES

01:02:54.070 --> 01:02:55.438
NEAR THE LANDFILL HAVE

01:02:55.505 --> 01:02:56.472
COMPLAINED ABOUT INCREASED

01:02:56.539 --> 01:02:57.874
ODORS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS,

01:02:57.940 --> 01:03:00.276
SINCE 2023, AND IN CONNECTION

01:03:00.343 --> 01:03:02.278
WITH THESE, ODORS HAVE REPORTED

01:03:02.345 --> 01:03:03.679
EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE HEALTH

01:03:03.746 --> 01:03:05.882
EFFECTS SUCH AS HEADACHES, EYE,

01:03:05.948 --> 01:03:07.650
NOSE, AND THROAT IRRITATION,

01:03:07.717 --> 01:03:10.186
INCLUDING NOSEBLEEDS, TREMORS,

01:03:10.253 --> 01:03:14.157
NAUSEA, AND FATIGUE. LA DFE

01:03:14.223 --> 01:03:15.691
BEGAN MONITORING AIR QUALITY

01:03:15.758 --> 01:03:17.393
AND HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH

01:03:17.460 --> 01:03:19.929
SYMPTOMS IN JULY 2023, WHEN

01:03:19.996 --> 01:03:21.230
THEY ALSO ISSUED A PUBLIC

01:03:21.297 --> 01:03:22.398
HEALTH NOTICE TO CHIQUITA

01:03:22.465 --> 01:03:23.833
CANYON, NOTIFYING THEM THAT THE

01:03:23.900 --> 01:03:25.001
REACTION WAS IMPACTING THE

01:03:25.067 --> 01:03:27.103
HEALTH OF ITS RESIDENTS AND WAS

01:03:27.170 --> 01:03:28.905
CREATING A PUBLIC NUISANCE,

01:03:28.971 --> 01:03:30.373
REQUIRING THE LANDFILL TO TAKE

01:03:30.439 --> 01:03:32.542
SPECIFIC ACTIONS. AND THE NEXT

01:03:32.608 --> 01:03:34.610
MONTH, LA DF ALSO ISSUED A

01:03:34.677 --> 01:03:36.445
LETTER TO CHIQUITA CANYON WITH

01:03:36.512 --> 01:03:37.880
VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

01:03:37.947 --> 01:03:39.649
MITIGATING THE HEALTH IMPACTS,

01:03:39.715 --> 01:03:41.317
INCLUDING EXPANDED AND ENHANCED

01:03:41.384 --> 01:03:44.053
AIR MONITORING ACTIONS. THE

01:03:44.120 --> 01:03:46.589
FOLLOWING YEAR, IN 2024, LADF

01:03:46.656 --> 01:03:47.623
RELEASED THE RESULTS OF A

01:03:47.690 --> 01:03:49.425
HEALTH RISK EVALUATION

01:03:49.492 --> 01:03:50.860
CONDUCTED BY A CONTRACTOR IT

01:03:50.927 --> 01:03:52.295
HIRED AND HELD A COMMUNITY

01:03:52.361 --> 01:03:53.729
MEETING TO DISCUSS THE

01:03:53.796 --> 01:03:56.199
EVALUATIONS, RESULTS, AND LADF

01:03:56.265 --> 01:03:58.100
ALSO BEGAN AN ONLINE SURVEY TO

01:03:58.167 --> 01:03:59.435
BETTER UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH

01:03:59.502 --> 01:04:02.038
IMPACTS OF THE COMMUNITY. IN

01:04:02.104 --> 01:04:03.806
DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR, IN 2024,

01:04:03.873 --> 01:04:05.241
LA COUNTY FILED A LAWSUIT

01:04:05.308 --> 01:04:06.676
AGAINST CHIQUITA SEEKING

01:04:06.742 --> 01:04:08.177
ABATEMENT OF THE NUISANCE AND

01:04:08.244 --> 01:04:09.912
FUNDING TO SUBSIDIZE THE

01:04:09.979 --> 01:04:11.147
RELOCATION AND HOME HARDENING

01:04:11.214 --> 01:04:13.916
EFFORTS OF THE COMMUNITY THE

01:04:13.983 --> 01:04:15.084
FOLLOWING YEAR. SORRY. I'M

01:04:15.151 --> 01:04:16.752
SORRY, MR. PARKS, IF I CAN,

01:04:16.819 --> 01:04:18.621
WHEN, AS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

01:04:18.688 --> 01:04:20.423
THIS, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION,

01:04:20.489 --> 01:04:22.558
BECAUSE I KNOW WITHIN LA, CDPH

01:04:22.625 --> 01:04:24.660
THERE ARE KIND OF TWO WINGS,

01:04:24.727 --> 01:04:26.162
BASICALLY, RIGHT? THERE'S AN

01:04:26.229 --> 01:04:27.597
ENFORCEMENT WING AND THERE'S A

01:04:27.663 --> 01:04:29.665
HEALTH WING, RIGHT. AND SO WHEN

01:04:29.732 --> 01:04:30.666
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE

01:04:30.733 --> 01:04:31.767
ACTIONS HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW

01:04:31.834 --> 01:04:33.669
MOST OF THEM HAVE TO DO WITH

01:04:33.736 --> 01:04:34.804
ENFORCEMENT AND NOT WITH HEALTH,

01:04:34.870 --> 01:04:37.306
IF YOU CAN, JUST FOR SHORTHAND,

01:04:37.373 --> 01:04:38.774
WOULD YOU MIND SAYING

01:04:38.841 --> 01:04:39.909
ENFORCEMENT OR HEALTH SO THAT

01:04:39.976 --> 01:04:41.611
WE'RE CLEAR ON THAT? WHO'S

01:04:41.677 --> 01:04:43.779
DOING WHAT? IT'S ALL HELL. IS

01:04:43.846 --> 01:04:45.948
THAT OKAY? THAT'S FINE. AND

01:04:46.015 --> 01:04:47.083
THANK YOU FOR THE FOR THE

01:04:47.149 --> 01:04:48.818
REQUEST, THE, THE COMMENTS THAT

01:04:48.884 --> 01:04:50.620
I'M TALKING ABOUT. AND THE

01:04:50.686 --> 01:04:52.421
MAJORITY OF OUR AUDIT REPORT

01:04:52.488 --> 01:04:55.625
FOCUSES ON HEALTH. SO THE, THE

01:04:55.691 --> 01:04:56.626
ACTIVITIES THAT I'M MENTIONING

01:04:56.692 --> 01:04:58.160
HERE PERTAIN TO HEALTH, NOT THE

01:04:58.227 --> 01:05:02.098
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. LA DFE

01:05:02.164 --> 01:05:03.599
BEGAN MONITORING AIR QUALITY

01:05:03.666 --> 01:05:05.001
AND HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH

01:05:05.067 --> 01:05:06.836
SYMPTOMS IN 2023, AND THEY

01:05:06.902 --> 01:05:08.237
ISSUED A NOTICE TO CHIQUITA

01:05:08.304 --> 01:05:10.773
CANYON FOR THEM TO TAKE VARIOUS

01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:12.875
ACTIONS. BUT BY MAY 2025, THEY

01:05:12.942 --> 01:05:14.610
ISSUED A DIRECTIVE TO THE

01:05:14.677 --> 01:05:15.778
LANDFILL TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL

01:05:15.845 --> 01:05:17.546
FUNDING FOR HOME HARDENING. AND

01:05:17.613 --> 01:05:21.517
BY 2026, LADF ENDED ITS ONLINE

01:05:21.584 --> 01:05:23.019
COMMUNITY PROGRAM COMMUNITY

01:05:23.085 --> 01:05:27.323
SURVEY. THESE EVENTS IN NO WAY

01:05:27.390 --> 01:05:30.593
REFLECT WHETHER OR NOT LA DFE

01:05:30.660 --> 01:05:31.994
CONDUCTED THEIR WORK ADEQUATELY.

01:05:32.061 --> 01:05:33.796
IT'S SIMPLY A REFLECTION OF THE

01:05:33.863 --> 01:05:35.097
EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE

01:05:35.164 --> 01:05:36.332
DURING THE TIME PERIOD, WHICH

01:05:36.399 --> 01:05:38.100
WAS A REQUEST IN THE AUDIT TO

01:05:38.167 --> 01:05:39.902
FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY THE

01:05:39.969 --> 01:05:42.805
DEPARTMENT DID. AND AS

01:05:42.872 --> 01:05:44.607
ASSEMBLYMEMBER SCHIAVO NOTED,

01:05:44.674 --> 01:05:46.442
LADF PLAYS TWO KEY ROLES HERE,

01:05:46.509 --> 01:05:47.843
WHICH IS WORTHWHILE. TOUCHING

01:05:47.910 --> 01:05:50.379
ON THERE IS THE COUNTY HEALTH

01:05:50.446 --> 01:05:52.214
OFFICER ROLE, WHERE THE HEAD OF

01:05:52.281 --> 01:05:54.283
LA DFE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO

01:05:54.350 --> 01:05:55.985
MAKE SURE THAT THAT DEPARTMENT

01:05:56.052 --> 01:05:57.887
IS INVESTIGATING AND DIAGNOSING

01:05:57.953 --> 01:05:59.422
HEALTH PROBLEMS AND TAKING

01:05:59.488 --> 01:06:00.523
ACTIONS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH

01:06:00.589 --> 01:06:02.291
AND SAFETY OF RESIDENTS. AND

01:06:02.358 --> 01:06:04.794
SECONDLY, LADF HAS A

01:06:04.860 --> 01:06:06.195
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM WHERE THEY

01:06:06.262 --> 01:06:07.997
WORK IN COORDINATION WITH THE

01:06:08.064 --> 01:06:09.865
STATE CALRECYCLE DEPARTMENT TO

01:06:09.932 --> 01:06:12.001
MAKE SURE THAT THE LANDFILL IS

01:06:12.068 --> 01:06:14.103
FOLLOWING STATE LANDFILL RULES.

01:06:14.170 --> 01:06:15.538
AND SO OUR AUDIT TOUCHED ON

01:06:15.604 --> 01:06:18.040
BOTH ACTIVITIES. OUR AUDIT

01:06:18.107 --> 01:06:19.542
CRITICISM AND OUR REPORT

01:06:19.608 --> 01:06:21.310
FOCUSES PRIMARILY ACTUALLY

01:06:21.377 --> 01:06:23.479
ENTIRELY ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH

01:06:23.546 --> 01:06:26.415
ASPECT OF LADF, NOT THE NOT THE

01:06:26.482 --> 01:06:30.353
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. TO TOUCH

01:06:30.419 --> 01:06:31.487
BRIEFLY ON THE AUDIT REQUEST

01:06:31.554 --> 01:06:33.222
AND WHY WE WERE ASKED TO DO THE

01:06:33.289 --> 01:06:35.324
AUDIT. ASSEMBLYMEMBER SCHIAVO

01:06:35.391 --> 01:06:36.792
WANTED TO KNOW VARIOUS

01:06:36.859 --> 01:06:38.227
INFORMATION, INCLUDING

01:06:38.294 --> 01:06:39.295
IDENTIFYING WHAT THE DEPARTMENT

01:06:39.362 --> 01:06:40.763
DID TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS OF

01:06:40.830 --> 01:06:41.864
POTENTIAL NEGATIVE HEALTH

01:06:41.931 --> 01:06:43.999
IMPACTS FROM THE LANDFILL,

01:06:44.066 --> 01:06:45.067
EVALUATE WHAT STEPS THE

01:06:45.134 --> 01:06:46.836
DEPARTMENT TOOK TO DOCUMENT

01:06:46.902 --> 01:06:48.704
SYSTEM SYMPTOMS, AND TO ACT TO

01:06:48.771 --> 01:06:50.840
PROTECT THE PUBLIC, AND ALSO TO

01:06:50.906 --> 01:06:52.341
COMPARE THE DEPARTMENT'S

01:06:52.408 --> 01:06:53.409
RESPONSE TO THE LANDFILL TO

01:06:53.476 --> 01:06:55.444
OTHER EVENTS, SUCH AS THE GAS

01:06:55.511 --> 01:06:57.646
LEAK AT ALISO CANYON. AND IF

01:06:57.713 --> 01:06:58.881
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXIST

01:06:58.948 --> 01:07:00.549
IN THOSE RESPONSES TO DETERMINE

01:07:00.616 --> 01:07:03.452
THE REASONS WHY. SO I'LL TALK

01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:05.254
NOW ABOUT SOME OF THE AUDIT

01:07:05.321 --> 01:07:06.822
RESULTS. A KEY TAKEAWAY FROM

01:07:06.889 --> 01:07:08.124
OUR AUDIT, ULTIMATELY, AT ITS

01:07:08.190 --> 01:07:09.558
CORE, IS THAT THE COMMUNITY'S

01:07:09.625 --> 01:07:11.727
CONCERNS AND CRITICISMS OF LADF

01:07:11.794 --> 01:07:13.596
WERE WELL FOUNDED. AND IN OUR

01:07:13.662 --> 01:07:14.930
VIEW, THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS

01:07:14.997 --> 01:07:16.198
WITH RESPECT TO THE LANDFILL

01:07:16.265 --> 01:07:18.234
HAVE BEEN INCOMPLETE AND DIFFER

01:07:18.300 --> 01:07:19.769
FROM THE OTHER HAZARDOUS EVENTS

01:07:19.835 --> 01:07:21.404
THAT WE REVIEWED DURING THE

01:07:21.470 --> 01:07:22.872
AUDIT, AND OUR FINDINGS FALL

01:07:22.938 --> 01:07:25.040
INTO THREE BROAD CATEGORIES.

01:07:25.107 --> 01:07:28.310
THE FIRST, THAT LADF MISSED

01:07:28.377 --> 01:07:29.745
OPPORTUNITIES TO BETTER PROTECT

01:07:29.812 --> 01:07:32.248
COMMUNITY HEALTH. NUMBER TWO,

01:07:32.314 --> 01:07:34.383
LADF DEMONSTRATED LIMITED

01:07:34.450 --> 01:07:35.851
COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY

01:07:35.918 --> 01:07:38.721
ENGAGEMENT. AND THREE, WE NOTED

01:07:38.788 --> 01:07:40.890
INCONSISTENCIES IN HOW LA DFE

01:07:40.956 --> 01:07:42.358
RESPONDED TO THE CHIQUITA

01:07:42.425 --> 01:07:43.592
CANYON EVENT WHEN COMPARED TO

01:07:43.659 --> 01:07:45.194
THE DEPARTMENT'S RESPONSES TO

01:07:45.261 --> 01:07:47.363
OTHER HEALTH EMERGENCIES. AND

01:07:47.430 --> 01:07:48.831
WE ALSO MADE VARIOUS

01:07:48.898 --> 01:07:51.400
RECOMMENDATIONS TO LADF. I'LL

01:07:51.467 --> 01:07:52.768
TOUCH BRIEFLY ON EACH OF THESE

01:07:52.835 --> 01:07:55.271
THREE AREAS IN MORE DETAIL WITH

01:07:55.337 --> 01:07:57.339
RESPECT TO MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

01:07:57.406 --> 01:07:58.874
TO BETTER PROTECT THE PUBLIC

01:07:58.941 --> 01:08:00.276
HEALTH, THE DEPARTMENT COULD

01:08:00.342 --> 01:08:01.744
NOT ALWAYS PROVIDE EVIDENCE

01:08:01.811 --> 01:08:03.379
THAT IT CONSISTENTLY MONITORED

01:08:03.446 --> 01:08:05.014
AIR QUALITY THROUGHOUT ITS

01:08:05.080 --> 01:08:06.816
RESPONSE EFFORTS, AND THIS

01:08:06.882 --> 01:08:08.617
INCLUDED NOT COMMENTING

01:08:08.684 --> 01:08:10.085
PUBLICLY WHEN DETECTED, LEVELS

01:08:10.152 --> 01:08:12.188
OF HARMFUL CHEMICALS EXCEEDED

01:08:12.254 --> 01:08:14.023
PROTECTIVE THRESHOLDS. THIS

01:08:14.089 --> 01:08:15.424
PREVENTED THE COMMUNITY FROM

01:08:15.491 --> 01:08:16.559
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF

01:08:16.625 --> 01:08:18.327
THESE EXCEEDANCES TO THEIR

01:08:18.394 --> 01:08:20.196
HEALTH. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IN

01:08:20.262 --> 01:08:23.399
LATE 2023 AND IN EARLY 2024,

01:08:23.466 --> 01:08:25.167
THE LANDFILL FREQUENTLY

01:08:25.234 --> 01:08:26.602
REPORTED EXCEEDANCES OF

01:08:26.669 --> 01:08:28.037
HYDROGEN SULFIDE LEVELS IN THE

01:08:28.103 --> 01:08:30.072
AIR. YET WE FOUND NO EVIDENCE

01:08:30.139 --> 01:08:32.341
OF LADF EXPLAINING THE HEALTH

01:08:32.408 --> 01:08:34.510
RISKS TO THE PUBLIC OR

01:08:34.577 --> 01:08:35.945
ALTERNATIVELY, REASSURING

01:08:36.011 --> 01:08:36.879
RESIDENTS THAT THEY SHOULDN'T

01:08:36.946 --> 01:08:39.949
BE CONCERNED. AND THE LA DFE

01:08:40.015 --> 01:08:41.350
ANALYST WE SPOKE WITH, WHO WAS

01:08:41.417 --> 01:08:43.185
TASKED WITH MONITORING AIR

01:08:43.252 --> 01:08:45.354
QUALITY DATA REPORTED REPORTED

01:08:45.421 --> 01:08:47.456
FROM THE LANDFILL WAS ACTUALLY

01:08:47.523 --> 01:08:48.824
UNAWARE OF THE PARTICULARLY

01:08:48.891 --> 01:08:50.359
HIGH GAS LEVELS THAT WE

01:08:50.426 --> 01:08:52.528
INQUIRED ABOUT DURING OUR AUDIT.

01:08:52.595 --> 01:08:54.363
AND WHILE THE DEPARTMENT DID

01:08:54.430 --> 01:08:55.764
CONDUCT AN ONLINE SURVEY

01:08:55.831 --> 01:08:57.266
REGARDING COMMUNITY HEALTH

01:08:57.333 --> 01:08:59.668
SYMPTOMS, THE USEFULNESS OF

01:08:59.735 --> 01:09:02.571
LADF. S SURVEY WAS IN QUESTION

01:09:02.638 --> 01:09:04.507
LIMITED, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF

01:09:04.573 --> 01:09:07.276
THE POOR DESIGN AND

01:09:07.343 --> 01:09:08.344
COMMUNICATION WITH RESPECT TO

01:09:08.410 --> 01:09:09.478
COMMUNICATION. THE DEPARTMENT

01:09:09.545 --> 01:09:10.880
DIDN'T ACCURATELY TELL THE

01:09:10.946 --> 01:09:12.114
COMMUNITY HOW LONG THE SURVEY

01:09:12.181 --> 01:09:13.782
WOULD BE AVAILABLE AND WHAT IT

01:09:13.849 --> 01:09:15.751
WOULD BE USED FOR. AND IN TERMS

01:09:15.818 --> 01:09:17.119
OF FLAWED DESIGN OF THE SURVEY,

01:09:17.186 --> 01:09:18.821
IT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN SUCH A

01:09:18.888 --> 01:09:21.290
MANNER WHERE LA DFE HAS NO

01:09:21.357 --> 01:09:22.424
INFORMATION ON HOW MANY PEOPLE

01:09:22.491 --> 01:09:25.261
ACTUALLY COMPLETED THE SURVEY

01:09:25.327 --> 01:09:26.729
OR, IN OTHER WORDS, HOW MANY

01:09:26.795 --> 01:09:28.497
UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS COMPLETED IT.

01:09:28.564 --> 01:09:30.699
THEREFORE, PREVENTING A REAL

01:09:30.766 --> 01:09:32.468
UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WIDESPREAD

01:09:32.535 --> 01:09:35.037
THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS WERE,

01:09:35.104 --> 01:09:36.438
I.E. WHETHER IT WAS A FEW

01:09:36.505 --> 01:09:37.873
PEOPLE REPORTING OFTEN, OR

01:09:37.940 --> 01:09:39.675
WHETHER IT WAS A GREAT NUMBER

01:09:39.742 --> 01:09:41.477
OF PEOPLE REPORTING LESS

01:09:41.544 --> 01:09:43.379
FREQUENTLY. WE ALSO FOUND

01:09:43.445 --> 01:09:45.114
LIMITED COMMUNICATION AND

01:09:45.180 --> 01:09:47.249
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FROM LADF.

01:09:47.316 --> 01:09:48.784
WE SAW LENGTHY GAPS IN TIME

01:09:48.851 --> 01:09:50.152
WHERE THE DEPARTMENT DID NOT

01:09:50.219 --> 01:09:51.554
SHARE NEW OR VALUABLE

01:09:51.620 --> 01:09:52.988
INFORMATION TO RESIDENTS,

01:09:53.055 --> 01:09:54.823
INCLUDING NOT PROVIDING ANY

01:09:54.890 --> 01:09:55.958
SUBSTANTIVE WRITTEN UPDATES FOR

01:09:56.025 --> 01:09:59.161
MOST OF 2025. DESPITE RESIDENTS

01:09:59.228 --> 01:10:00.596
ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT CHEMICAL

01:10:00.663 --> 01:10:02.364
LEVELS IN THE AIR AND WHETHER

01:10:02.431 --> 01:10:04.867
THOSE LEVELS EXCEEDED SAFETY

01:10:04.934 --> 01:10:06.335
THRESHOLDS. IN ADDITION, THE

01:10:06.402 --> 01:10:07.436
DEPARTMENT'S APPROACH TO

01:10:07.503 --> 01:10:08.504
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFERED

01:10:08.571 --> 01:10:11.040
FEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR TWO WAY

01:10:11.106 --> 01:10:12.808
DIALOG WITH CONCERNED COMMUNITY

01:10:12.875 --> 01:10:14.276
MEMBERS. FOR EXAMPLE, WE NOTED

01:10:14.343 --> 01:10:16.812
THAT LADF IS PARTICIPATION ON

01:10:16.879 --> 01:10:18.647
CACC MEETINGS WAS OFTEN TEN

01:10:18.714 --> 01:10:20.716
MINUTES OR LESS, WHERE LADF

01:10:20.783 --> 01:10:22.151
DIDN'T ALWAYS HAVE AN

01:10:22.217 --> 01:10:23.218
OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO

01:10:23.285 --> 01:10:24.653
QUESTIONS POSED FROM THE

01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:26.855
COMMUNITY AND IN OUR VIEW, LADF

01:10:26.922 --> 01:10:27.957
REALLY COULD HAVE ENGAGED IN

01:10:28.023 --> 01:10:29.358
QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSIONS ON

01:10:29.425 --> 01:10:31.193
ITS OWN WITH THE PUBLIC AS PART

01:10:31.260 --> 01:10:32.962
OF ITS EFFORTS TO COMMUNICATE

01:10:33.028 --> 01:10:34.330
EFFECTIVELY, ESPECIALLY GIVEN

01:10:34.396 --> 01:10:36.065
THE LIMITED PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

01:10:36.131 --> 01:10:37.800
IN THE CACC MEETINGS. HOWEVER,

01:10:37.866 --> 01:10:39.201
THE DEPARTMENT DECIDED NOT TO

01:10:39.268 --> 01:10:42.338
DO SO, AND FURTHER, IN MY VIEW,

01:10:42.404 --> 01:10:43.772
LADF IS DECISION NOT TO ATTEND

01:10:43.839 --> 01:10:44.840
THIS EVENING'S MEETING TO

01:10:44.907 --> 01:10:45.941
ANSWER THE COMMUNITY'S

01:10:46.008 --> 01:10:48.077
QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, ALONG

01:10:48.143 --> 01:10:50.613
WITH THE DEFENSIVENESS OF THE

01:10:50.679 --> 01:10:51.714
DEPARTMENT'S RESPONSE TO OUR

01:10:51.780 --> 01:10:53.515
AUDIT, WHERE WE CRITICIZE ITS

01:10:53.582 --> 01:10:55.351
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, IN MY

01:10:55.417 --> 01:10:57.453
VIEW, FURTHER REINFORCES OUR

01:10:57.519 --> 01:10:59.955
CONCLUSION THAT LADF APPEARS

01:11:00.022 --> 01:11:00.990
UNINTERESTED IN FURTHER

01:11:01.056 --> 01:11:02.458
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT REGARDING

01:11:02.524 --> 01:11:04.627
THE LANDFILL. DESPITE PUBLIC

01:11:04.693 --> 01:11:11.834
CONCERN. THE THIRD ISSUE THAT

01:11:11.900 --> 01:11:13.669
I'LL BRIEFLY TOUCH ON FROM OUR

01:11:13.736 --> 01:11:15.804
AUDIT'S FINDINGS IS

01:11:15.871 --> 01:11:16.839
INCONSISTENCY. WHEN RESPONDING

01:11:16.905 --> 01:11:19.074
TO OTHER HEALTH HAZARD EVENTS,

01:11:19.141 --> 01:11:20.476
WE COMPARED THE DEPARTMENT'S

01:11:20.542 --> 01:11:22.311
RESPONSE TO FOUR OTHER HEALTH

01:11:22.378 --> 01:11:23.712
EMERGENCIES AND FOUND

01:11:23.779 --> 01:11:24.813
INCONSISTENCIES, SUCH AS

01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:25.881
DIFFERING APPROACHES TO

01:11:25.948 --> 01:11:27.383
FORMALLY ASSESSING HEALTH

01:11:27.449 --> 01:11:29.151
RELATED NEEDS, DIFFERING

01:11:29.218 --> 01:11:30.219
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES TO

01:11:30.285 --> 01:11:32.388
KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED,

01:11:32.454 --> 01:11:33.555
INCONSISTENT PARTNERSHIPS WITH

01:11:33.622 --> 01:11:34.890
OTHER COUNTY AGENCIES TO

01:11:34.957 --> 01:11:36.325
PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT

01:11:36.392 --> 01:11:38.127
TO IMPACTED RESIDENTS AND

01:11:38.193 --> 01:11:39.695
COMMUNITIES. AND WE ALSO FOUND

01:11:39.762 --> 01:11:41.196
THAT IT TOOK THE DEPARTMENT TWO

01:11:41.263 --> 01:11:42.431
YEARS TO ISSUE A DIRECTIVE TO

01:11:42.498 --> 01:11:44.266
THE LANDFILL OPERATOR REGARDING

01:11:44.333 --> 01:11:45.701
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE FOR

01:11:45.768 --> 01:11:47.436
RESIDENTS NEAR THE LANDFILL, AS

01:11:47.503 --> 01:11:48.937
COMPARED TO ITS RESPONSE TO A

01:11:49.004 --> 01:11:50.739
SIMILAR EVENT IN ALISO CANYON,

01:11:50.806 --> 01:11:51.807
WHERE THE DEPARTMENT ISSUED

01:11:51.874 --> 01:11:53.242
THAT DIRECTIVE. WITHIN ONE

01:11:53.308 --> 01:11:56.578
MONTH, THE UNDERLYING CAUSE FOR

01:11:56.645 --> 01:11:58.313
OUR FINDINGS APPEARS TO BE THAT

01:11:58.380 --> 01:12:00.049
THERE HAS BEEN CHANGE IN

01:12:00.115 --> 01:12:02.284
TURNOVER IN LEADERSHIP AT LADF

01:12:02.351 --> 01:12:03.652
BETWEEN EARLIER PUBLIC HEALTH

01:12:03.719 --> 01:12:05.487
EMERGENCY EVENTS SUCH AS AT

01:12:05.554 --> 01:12:06.955
ALISO CANYON, COMPARED TO THE

01:12:07.022 --> 01:12:08.691
MORE RECENT EVENT AT CHIQUITA

01:12:08.757 --> 01:12:11.226
CANYON AND LADF, WE FOUND

01:12:11.293 --> 01:12:12.528
LACKED POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

01:12:12.594 --> 01:12:14.029
THAT WOULD PROMOTE AND BETTER

01:12:14.096 --> 01:12:16.298
ENSURE CONSISTENCY IN HOW IT

01:12:16.365 --> 01:12:18.434
PLANS FOR AND RESPOND TO HEALTH

01:12:18.500 --> 01:12:19.868
EMERGENCIES, SUCH AS HOW IT

01:12:19.935 --> 01:12:21.303
DETERMINES THE FREQUENCY AND

01:12:21.370 --> 01:12:22.404
DEPTH OF THE COMMUNITY,

01:12:22.471 --> 01:12:24.239
ENGAGEMENT REQUIRED, AND THE

01:12:24.306 --> 01:12:25.841
DATA AND THE HEALTH ASSESSMENTS

01:12:25.908 --> 01:12:27.443
IT SHARES TO PROTECT AND TO

01:12:27.509 --> 01:12:30.646
REASSURE THE PUBLIC. AS FAR AS

01:12:30.713 --> 01:12:31.180
RECOMMENDATIONS, WE MADE

01:12:31.246 --> 01:12:32.514
VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE

01:12:32.581 --> 01:12:34.316
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

01:12:34.383 --> 01:12:36.452
AIMED AT IMPROVING LADF

01:12:36.518 --> 01:12:37.920
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND

01:12:37.986 --> 01:12:39.655
THE DATA IT SHARES WITH THE

01:12:39.722 --> 01:12:42.224
PUBLIC. WE MADE THOSE

01:12:42.291 --> 01:12:43.659
RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD

01:12:43.726 --> 01:12:45.794
BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT LADF,

01:12:45.861 --> 01:12:46.995
BASED ON OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH

01:12:47.062 --> 01:12:49.398
THEM DURING THE AUDIT, WOULD BE

01:12:49.465 --> 01:12:51.233
UNINTERESTED IN CONSIDERING OR

01:12:51.300 --> 01:12:52.301
IMPLEMENTING OUR

01:12:52.367 --> 01:12:54.403
RECOMMENDATIONS. UNFORTUNATELY,

01:12:54.470 --> 01:12:56.605
THE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO OUR

01:12:56.672 --> 01:12:58.107
REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

01:12:58.173 --> 01:13:00.175
OF SUPERVISORS TO INDICATE THAT

01:13:00.242 --> 01:13:01.677
THE BOARD WOULD SIMILARLY NOT

01:13:01.744 --> 01:13:04.513
BE TAKING ACTION ON THOSE SAME

01:13:04.580 --> 01:13:05.948
RECOMMENDATIONS. ULTIMATELY,

01:13:06.014 --> 01:13:07.783
THIS MEANS THAT THE BOARD AND

01:13:07.850 --> 01:13:09.184
LADF HAVE INDICATED THAT THEY

01:13:09.251 --> 01:13:11.420
WILL IMPLEMENT. I THINK ONE

01:13:11.487 --> 01:13:12.788
RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR REPORT

01:13:12.855 --> 01:13:14.590
RELATED TO ACTUALLY

01:13:14.656 --> 01:13:15.657
ESTABLISHING POLICIES AND

01:13:15.724 --> 01:13:16.759
PROCEDURES TO GUIDE ITS

01:13:16.825 --> 01:13:18.193
RESPONSE TO HEALTH HAZARD

01:13:18.260 --> 01:13:19.962
EVENTS, BUT IT DOES NOT PLAN TO

01:13:20.028 --> 01:13:21.263
IMPLEMENT SOME OF OUR OTHER

01:13:21.330 --> 01:13:22.531
AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS,

01:13:22.598 --> 01:13:24.333
INCLUDING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE

01:13:24.399 --> 01:13:25.400
COMMUNITY, SUCH AS BY

01:13:25.467 --> 01:13:26.468
DEVELOPING A COMMUNICATIONS

01:13:26.535 --> 01:13:28.303
PLAN WITH INPUT FROM THE

01:13:28.370 --> 01:13:29.371
COMMUNITY OR BY PROVIDING

01:13:29.438 --> 01:13:30.806
UPDATED HEALTH ASSESSMENTS,

01:13:30.873 --> 01:13:32.641
EVEN IF ONLY TO REASSURE THE

01:13:32.708 --> 01:13:34.076
PUBLIC BASED ON THE AIR QUALITY

01:13:34.143 --> 01:13:35.844
DATA IT RECEIVES FROM THE

01:13:35.911 --> 01:13:37.012
LANDFILL. AND SO WITH THAT,

01:13:37.079 --> 01:13:38.480
I'LL TURN THINGS OVER TO BOB

01:13:38.547 --> 01:13:40.482
AND DANIELLE TO WALK THE PANEL

01:13:40.549 --> 01:13:42.017
THROUGH OUR REPORT IN MORE

01:13:42.084 --> 01:13:43.352
DETAIL, ALONG WITH OUR FINDINGS

01:13:43.418 --> 01:13:49.525
AND RECOMMENDATIONS. THANK YOU.

01:13:49.591 --> 01:13:50.659
THANK YOU, MR. PERKS. I WILL

01:13:50.726 --> 01:13:51.827
NOTE BEFORE MR. HARRIS GOES,

01:13:51.894 --> 01:13:53.595
THAT'S THE FIRST TIME IN TWO

01:13:53.662 --> 01:13:54.763
YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING

01:13:54.830 --> 01:13:56.532
TOGETHER THAT YOU GOT A ROUND

01:13:56.598 --> 01:13:57.833
OF APPLAUSE. SO WELL DONE, WELL

01:13:57.900 --> 01:13:59.234
DONE. ALL RIGHT, MR. HARRIS.

01:13:59.301 --> 01:14:00.803
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. MEMBERS

01:14:00.869 --> 01:14:02.137
OF THE COMMITTEE. MY NAME IS

01:14:02.204 --> 01:14:03.806
BOB HARRIS. I'M WITH THE

01:14:03.872 --> 01:14:04.339
CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR'S

01:14:04.406 --> 01:14:05.808
OFFICE AS A PRINCIPAL AUDITOR.

01:14:05.874 --> 01:14:07.810
SO ALONG WITH MISS JACOBS,

01:14:07.876 --> 01:14:09.011
WE'RE GOING TO WALK THROUGH THE

01:14:09.077 --> 01:14:10.112
FINDINGS THAT THE STATE AUDITOR

01:14:10.179 --> 01:14:11.814
JUST SUMMARIZED IN A GREATER

01:14:11.880 --> 01:14:13.115
LEVEL OF DETAIL, KIND OF UNPACK

01:14:13.182 --> 01:14:14.216
HOW WE REACHED THE CONCLUSIONS

01:14:14.283 --> 01:14:15.818
WE REACHED. I'LL BE COVERING

01:14:15.884 --> 01:14:17.286
THE FIRST TWO AREAS THE MISSED

01:14:17.352 --> 01:14:18.720
OPPORTUNITIES TO PROTECT PUBLIC

01:14:18.787 --> 01:14:20.122
HEALTH AND THE LIMITED

01:14:20.189 --> 01:14:21.223
COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY

01:14:21.290 --> 01:14:22.191
ENGAGEMENT. AND THEN MISS

01:14:22.257 --> 01:14:23.592
JACOBS WILL COVER THE THE

01:14:23.659 --> 01:14:26.261
SECOND HALF. SO IN THE AREA OF

01:14:26.328 --> 01:14:27.296
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES TO PROTECT

01:14:27.362 --> 01:14:29.097
PUBLIC HEALTH, WE WANT TO FOCUS

01:14:29.164 --> 01:14:30.933
ON TWO KEY AREAS OF OUR

01:14:30.999 --> 01:14:32.367
FINDINGS. THE FIRST IS THE

01:14:32.434 --> 01:14:33.468
DEPARTMENT'S COMMUNICATION

01:14:33.535 --> 01:14:35.270
ABOUT AIR QUALITY IN THE

01:14:35.337 --> 01:14:36.338
COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING THE

01:14:36.405 --> 01:14:37.773
LANDFILL, AND THE SECOND WILL

01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:39.208
BE THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS TO

01:14:39.274 --> 01:14:40.275
DOCUMENT, THROUGH A HEALTH

01:14:40.342 --> 01:14:41.643
SURVEY AND OTHER EFFORTS THAT

01:14:41.710 --> 01:14:43.846
IT MADE THE HEALTH CONDITIONS

01:14:43.912 --> 01:14:45.314
OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE

01:14:45.380 --> 01:14:47.516
AREA SURROUNDING THE LANDFILL,

01:14:47.583 --> 01:14:49.718
SO RELATED TO AIR QUALITY AND

01:14:49.785 --> 01:14:51.453
AIR QUALITY COMMUNICATION. IT'S

01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:52.821
HELPFUL, PROBABLY, TO TAKE A

01:14:52.888 --> 01:14:54.022
STEP BACK FOR A MOMENT AND

01:14:54.089 --> 01:14:55.057
COVER SOME BACKGROUND

01:14:55.123 --> 01:14:57.559
INFORMATION ABOUT HOW LADF AND

01:14:57.626 --> 01:14:59.761
OTHERS HAVE BEEN ASSESSING THE

01:14:59.828 --> 01:15:01.163
AIR QUALITY IN THE COMMUNITIES

01:15:01.230 --> 01:15:02.698
AROUND THE LANDFILL. ONE OF THE

01:15:02.764 --> 01:15:04.266
KEY METRICS THAT THEY'VE BEEN

01:15:04.333 --> 01:15:05.901
USING IS THIS CONCEPT OF A

01:15:05.968 --> 01:15:08.370
REFERENCE EXPOSURE LEVEL OR A

01:15:08.437 --> 01:15:11.640
REL. SO A REL IS A STANDARD SET

01:15:11.707 --> 01:15:13.508
BY THE STATE, ACTUALLY A STATE

01:15:13.575 --> 01:15:15.611
BY SET BY THE STATE OFFICE OF

01:15:15.677 --> 01:15:16.979
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD

01:15:17.045 --> 01:15:19.915
ASSESSMENT. AND RL IS A HEALTH

01:15:19.982 --> 01:15:21.116
PROTECTIVE THRESHOLD. SO IT'S

01:15:21.183 --> 01:15:24.152
AN INDICATOR WHEN LEVELS OF

01:15:24.219 --> 01:15:26.321
CHEMICALS IN THE AIR MIGHT BE

01:15:26.388 --> 01:15:28.557
REACHING CONCERNING THRESHOLDS.

01:15:28.624 --> 01:15:29.958
TO HAVE A RL, YOU BASICALLY

01:15:30.025 --> 01:15:31.260
HAVE THREE DIFFERENT PARTS. YOU

01:15:31.326 --> 01:15:32.828
HAVE THE CHEMICAL THAT YOU'RE

01:15:32.895 --> 01:15:34.696
TALKING ABOUT. SO HYDROGEN

01:15:34.763 --> 01:15:36.498
SULFIDE OR BENZENE OR ANY OTHER

01:15:36.565 --> 01:15:37.900
CHEMICAL THAT HAS SET A

01:15:37.966 --> 01:15:39.234
STANDARD FOR. SO YOU HAVE THE

01:15:39.301 --> 01:15:40.402
CHEMICAL, YOU HAVE THE DURATION

01:15:40.469 --> 01:15:42.170
OF EXPOSURE. SO HOW LONG YOU'VE

01:15:42.237 --> 01:15:43.472
BEEN EXPOSED TO THAT CHEMICAL.

01:15:43.538 --> 01:15:45.908
THERE ARE RELS FOR HOURS, AN

01:15:45.974 --> 01:15:47.276
HOUR LONG EXPOSURE. THERE'S

01:15:47.342 --> 01:15:49.044
RELS FOR 24 HOURS WORTH OF

01:15:49.111 --> 01:15:50.479
EXPOSURE. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE

01:15:50.545 --> 01:15:51.613
DOSAGE, THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF

01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:53.015
THE CHEMICAL YOU'VE BEEN

01:15:53.081 --> 01:15:55.484
EXPOSED TO. SO THERE ARE PARTS

01:15:55.550 --> 01:15:56.652
PER BILLION PARTS PER, PER

01:15:56.718 --> 01:15:58.787
MILLION MEASUREMENTS. AND WHEN

01:15:58.854 --> 01:15:59.955
YOU PUT ALL THAT TOGETHER, A

01:16:00.022 --> 01:16:00.856
SPECIFIC CHEMICAL FOR A

01:16:00.923 --> 01:16:02.758
SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF TIME AND A

01:16:02.824 --> 01:16:06.328
SPECIFIC AMOUNT, YOU HAVE A REL.

01:16:06.395 --> 01:16:08.497
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT

01:16:08.563 --> 01:16:09.564
INDIVIDUALS CAN EXPERIENCE

01:16:09.631 --> 01:16:11.366
HEALTH SYMPTOMS EVEN WHEN

01:16:11.433 --> 01:16:13.201
LEVELS OF CHEMICALS IN THE AIR

01:16:13.268 --> 01:16:15.304
DON'T REACH THAT REL. AND

01:16:15.370 --> 01:16:16.538
THAT'S, IN FACT, WHAT MEMBERS

01:16:16.605 --> 01:16:18.573
OF THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN

01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:20.309
EXPERIENCING, EVEN THOUGH

01:16:20.375 --> 01:16:21.677
SOMETIMES CHEMICALS HAVE NOT

01:16:21.743 --> 01:16:22.844
REACHED THE REL FOLKS HAVE

01:16:22.911 --> 01:16:24.346
STILL EXPERIENCED VERY

01:16:24.413 --> 01:16:26.148
SIGNIFICANT SYMPTOMS WITH THE

01:16:26.214 --> 01:16:28.283
REL INDICATES IS WHEN THE RISK

01:16:28.350 --> 01:16:29.751
STARTS BEING COMING ELEVATED

01:16:29.818 --> 01:16:31.153
FOR WHAT WE CALL AN ADVERSE

01:16:31.219 --> 01:16:33.255
HEALTH EFFECT. AND I KNOW IT'S

01:16:33.322 --> 01:16:34.389
A LITTLE CONFUSING, BUT WE HAVE

01:16:34.456 --> 01:16:35.524
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HEALTH

01:16:35.590 --> 01:16:36.525
SYMPTOMS AND ADVERSE HEALTH

01:16:36.591 --> 01:16:38.360
EFFECTS. ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS

01:16:38.427 --> 01:16:40.862
ARE HEALTH EFFECTS THAT ARE

01:16:40.929 --> 01:16:42.698
TOXICOLOGICAL AND POSSIBLY

01:16:42.764 --> 01:16:45.600
IRREVERSIBLE. SO THE REL TELLS

01:16:45.667 --> 01:16:47.035
YOU WHEN YOU HIT THAT THRESHOLD

01:16:47.102 --> 01:16:48.470
FOR THAT CHEMICAL, FOR THAT

01:16:48.537 --> 01:16:49.671
AMOUNT OF TIME, AT THAT LEVEL

01:16:49.738 --> 01:16:52.407
OF EXPOSURE, THAT THE RISK IS

01:16:52.474 --> 01:16:53.842
STARTING TO INCREASE, THAT

01:16:53.909 --> 01:16:55.377
SOMEONE WILL EXPERIENCE ONE OF

01:16:55.444 --> 01:16:57.112
THOSE ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS

01:16:57.179 --> 01:17:00.015
FROM THAT EXPOSURE. IT DOESN'T

01:17:00.082 --> 01:17:01.350
GUARANTEE THEY WILL, BUT IT

01:17:01.416 --> 01:17:02.551
SAYS THE RISKS ARE STARTING TO

01:17:02.617 --> 01:17:04.319
INCREASE AND THEY'RE SET AT, AS

01:17:04.386 --> 01:17:05.354
I SAID BEFORE, HEALTH

01:17:05.420 --> 01:17:06.455
PROTECTIVE THRESHOLDS, MEANING

01:17:06.521 --> 01:17:08.924
THEY'RE SET TO BE SENSITIVE FOR

01:17:08.991 --> 01:17:10.459
POPULATIONS THAT MIGHT BE MORE

01:17:10.525 --> 01:17:11.493
SUSCEPTIBLE TO FEELING THOSE

01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:12.594
HEALTH EFFECTS OR EXPERIENCING

01:17:12.661 --> 01:17:13.428
THOSE HEALTH EFFECTS. SO THEY

01:17:13.495 --> 01:17:15.430
ARE DEFINITELY AT A PROTECTIVE

01:17:15.497 --> 01:17:16.498
THRESHOLD. JUST BECAUSE

01:17:16.565 --> 01:17:17.599
CHEMICALS EXCEED THE REL

01:17:17.666 --> 01:17:19.401
DOESN'T GUARANTEE ADVERSE

01:17:19.468 --> 01:17:21.236
HEALTH EFFECTS. IN FACT, THE

01:17:21.303 --> 01:17:21.903
DEPARTMENT INFORMED US

01:17:21.970 --> 01:17:23.372
THROUGHOUT THE AUDIT

01:17:23.438 --> 01:17:24.740
EXCEEDANCES, WHICH IS WHAT WE

01:17:24.806 --> 01:17:25.807
CALL WHEN THE CHEMICALS GO

01:17:25.874 --> 01:17:28.043
ABOVE THE REL, REQUIRE

01:17:28.110 --> 01:17:28.777
INTERPRETATION AND THAT

01:17:28.844 --> 01:17:29.878
DEPENDING ON DIFFERENT

01:17:29.945 --> 01:17:31.313
CIRCUMSTANCES AND EXCEEDANCE,

01:17:31.380 --> 01:17:32.981
MAY OR MAY NOT BE CAUSE FOR

01:17:33.048 --> 01:17:35.117
GREATER CONCERN OR NOT AS MUCH

01:17:35.183 --> 01:17:37.185
CONCERN. SO THEY DO NEED TO BE

01:17:37.252 --> 01:17:38.754
INTERPRETED. AS THE STATE

01:17:38.820 --> 01:17:39.788
AUDITOR INDICATED IN HIS

01:17:39.855 --> 01:17:41.323
OPENING COMMENTS, THE LANDFILL

01:17:41.390 --> 01:17:43.091
PUBLISHES AIR QUALITY DATA ON A

01:17:43.158 --> 01:17:44.459
REGULAR BASIS. THEY PROVIDE

01:17:44.526 --> 01:17:46.795
REPORTS TO LADF ON A QUARTERLY

01:17:46.862 --> 01:17:48.630
AND A MONTHLY BASIS, MONITORING

01:17:48.697 --> 01:17:50.065
THE LEVELS OF CERTAIN CHEMICALS

01:17:50.132 --> 01:17:51.366
IN THE COMMUNITY SURROUNDING

01:17:51.433 --> 01:17:54.603
THE LANDFILL AND THROUGHOUT

01:17:54.669 --> 01:17:57.472
2023, EARLY 2024, AND

01:17:57.539 --> 01:17:58.974
SPORADICALLY CONTINUING AFTER

01:17:59.041 --> 01:18:01.009
THAT, THE LANDFILL HAS REPORTED

01:18:01.076 --> 01:18:01.777
EXCEEDANCES OF CERTAIN

01:18:01.843 --> 01:18:02.944
CHEMICALS, IN PARTICULAR

01:18:03.011 --> 01:18:06.148
HYDROGEN SULFIDE, MANY

01:18:06.214 --> 01:18:07.182
EXCEEDANCES, IN FACT, IN 2023

01:18:07.249 --> 01:18:10.018
AND 2024. AND SO WHAT WE

01:18:10.085 --> 01:18:12.254
EXPECTED WAS THAT LADF WOULD

01:18:12.320 --> 01:18:14.056
PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY WITH

01:18:14.122 --> 01:18:15.090
INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO

01:18:15.157 --> 01:18:16.625
UNDERSTAND WHAT TO DO WITH THAT

01:18:16.691 --> 01:18:17.993
EXCEEDANCE DATA. SO THIS

01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:19.061
EXCEEDANCE DATA IS PUBLIC. IT'S

01:18:19.127 --> 01:18:20.862
PROVIDED TO LADF, BUT IT'S ALSO

01:18:20.929 --> 01:18:23.365
POSTED PUBLICLY. AND SO WE

01:18:23.432 --> 01:18:24.533
EXPECTED THE DEPARTMENT WOULD

01:18:24.599 --> 01:18:25.867
DO THAT INTERPRETATION. IT

01:18:25.934 --> 01:18:27.002
WOULD PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY

01:18:27.069 --> 01:18:29.137
WITH ADVICE OR GUIDANCE ABOUT

01:18:29.204 --> 01:18:30.939
HOW TO UNDERSTAND THIS

01:18:31.006 --> 01:18:31.640
INFORMATION, AND IT

01:18:31.706 --> 01:18:33.442
IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR HEALTH.

01:18:33.508 --> 01:18:34.876
WE EXPECTED THAT BECAUSE IT

01:18:34.943 --> 01:18:36.011
WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT WITH

01:18:36.078 --> 01:18:37.612
HOW THE DEPARTMENT HAD ACTED IN

01:18:37.679 --> 01:18:39.548
THE PAST. IN 2022, BEFORE

01:18:39.614 --> 01:18:41.383
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE LANDFILL

01:18:41.450 --> 01:18:43.552
ODORS STARTED INCREASING, LADF

01:18:43.618 --> 01:18:45.353
HAD ACTUALLY COMMENTED ON

01:18:45.420 --> 01:18:46.788
CERTAIN EXCEEDANCE INFORMATION

01:18:46.855 --> 01:18:47.889
AND ADVISED THE PUBLIC THAT

01:18:47.956 --> 01:18:49.057
THEY DIDN'T SEE ANY REASON TO

01:18:49.124 --> 01:18:50.792
BE OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT

01:18:50.859 --> 01:18:52.894
DATA FROM 2022. SO WE EXPECTED

01:18:52.961 --> 01:18:54.329
THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO OFFER

01:18:54.396 --> 01:18:56.431
PUBLIC GUIDANCE AS THE LANDFILL

01:18:56.498 --> 01:18:58.733
EVENT INCREASED IN SEVERITY. WE

01:18:58.800 --> 01:19:00.469
ALSO EXPECTED IT BECAUSE THEY

01:19:00.535 --> 01:19:01.436
TOLD THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY

01:19:01.503 --> 01:19:03.105
WOULD DO SO AND THEIR

01:19:03.171 --> 01:19:04.039
COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE

01:19:04.106 --> 01:19:05.140
COMMUNITY. WHEN THEY FIRST

01:19:05.207 --> 01:19:07.309
BEGAN THEIR RESPONSE ACTIVITIES,

01:19:07.375 --> 01:19:08.376
THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE

01:19:08.443 --> 01:19:10.212
LOOKING AT THE HEALTH DATA AND

01:19:10.278 --> 01:19:11.680
OR THE AIR QUALITY DATA, AND

01:19:11.746 --> 01:19:13.215
THAT THEY WOULD BE REVIEWING IT

01:19:13.281 --> 01:19:14.416
TO DETERMINE IF THEY NEEDED TO

01:19:14.483 --> 01:19:15.984
PROVIDE HEALTH GUIDANCE. AND

01:19:16.051 --> 01:19:17.385
ALSO, AGAIN, BECAUSE THEY TOLD

01:19:17.452 --> 01:19:19.154
US THESE DO REQUIRE

01:19:19.221 --> 01:19:20.622
INTERPRETATION. IF THERE IS AN

01:19:20.689 --> 01:19:21.490
EXCEEDANCE, HOW CONCERNED

01:19:21.556 --> 01:19:23.325
SHOULD I BE IF I'M A COMMUNITY

01:19:23.391 --> 01:19:24.593
MEMBER? HOW WHAT STEPS SHOULD I

01:19:24.659 --> 01:19:27.062
TAKE TO PROTECT MYSELF?

01:19:27.129 --> 01:19:28.530
UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN WE ASKED

01:19:28.597 --> 01:19:30.398
LADF IF THEY HAD PROVIDED ANY

01:19:30.465 --> 01:19:31.800
OF THAT GUIDANCE OR PROVIDED

01:19:31.867 --> 01:19:32.968
ANY COMMENTS TO THE COMMUNITY

01:19:33.034 --> 01:19:33.902
ABOUT THIS EXCEEDANCE

01:19:33.969 --> 01:19:35.003
INFORMATION, THEY WERE NOT ABLE

01:19:35.070 --> 01:19:36.471
TO POINT TO ANY INFORMATION

01:19:36.538 --> 01:19:37.572
THAT THEY HAD PROVIDED THE

01:19:37.639 --> 01:19:38.607
COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT

01:19:38.673 --> 01:19:40.909
THESE EXCEEDANCES. SO DESPITE

01:19:40.976 --> 01:19:42.043
THE FACT THAT THEY SAID THEY

01:19:42.110 --> 01:19:43.879
WERE GOING TO, DESPITE THE FACT

01:19:43.945 --> 01:19:45.080
THAT THE EXCEEDANCES REQUIRE

01:19:45.147 --> 01:19:46.581
INTERPRETATION FOR PEOPLE TO

01:19:46.648 --> 01:19:47.983
UNDERSTAND, THEY HAD NOT

01:19:48.049 --> 01:19:49.451
DIRECTLY COMMENTED ON THOSE

01:19:49.518 --> 01:19:52.287
EXCEEDANCES AT ALL. FURTHER

01:19:52.354 --> 01:19:53.388
COMPLICATING THINGS WITH THIS

01:19:53.455 --> 01:19:55.157
AREA IS THAT WHEN WE ASKED THEM

01:19:55.223 --> 01:19:56.925
TO SHOW US PROOF THAT THEY HAD

01:19:56.992 --> 01:19:58.059
BEEN REVIEWING THE AIR QUALITY

01:19:58.126 --> 01:19:59.961
DATA CONSISTENTLY, THEY WERE

01:20:00.028 --> 01:20:01.663
ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT PROOF FOR

01:20:01.730 --> 01:20:03.298
LESS THAN HALF OF THE AIR

01:20:03.365 --> 01:20:04.299
QUALITY REPORTS THAT THE

01:20:04.366 --> 01:20:05.967
LANDFILL HAD BEEN PROVIDING. SO

01:20:06.034 --> 01:20:07.102
WE LOOKED AT ALL OF THE

01:20:07.169 --> 01:20:07.936
QUARTERLY AND MONTHLY REPORTS

01:20:08.003 --> 01:20:09.971
THE LANDFILL HAD PROVIDED ABOUT

01:20:10.038 --> 01:20:11.373
THE AIR QUALITY IN THE

01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:14.242
COMMUNITY, AND LED PH HAD

01:20:14.309 --> 01:20:15.343
DOCUMENTATION EVIDENCE THAT IT

01:20:15.410 --> 01:20:16.811
HAD REVIEWED LESS THAN HALF OF

01:20:16.878 --> 01:20:19.314
THOSE. SO THAT'S CONCERNING

01:20:19.381 --> 01:20:20.382
BECAUSE IT SHOWED THAT THE

01:20:20.448 --> 01:20:21.283
DEPARTMENT DIDN'T NECESSARILY

01:20:21.349 --> 01:20:22.517
HAVE A RIGOROUS PROCESS FOR

01:20:22.584 --> 01:20:24.119
REVIEWING THAT AND DOCUMENTING

01:20:24.186 --> 01:20:28.256
THE RESULTS OF ITS REVIEW. SO

01:20:28.323 --> 01:20:30.492
WE CAN TURN NOW TO THE SECOND

01:20:30.559 --> 01:20:32.627
AREA THAT WE COVERED IN THIS

01:20:32.694 --> 01:20:33.695
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR

01:20:33.762 --> 01:20:35.163
PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH, WHICH

01:20:35.230 --> 01:20:36.565
IS THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS TO

01:20:36.631 --> 01:20:38.033
DOCUMENT THE HEALTH SYMPTOMS

01:20:38.099 --> 01:20:39.167
THAT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY

01:20:39.234 --> 01:20:42.504
WERE EXPERIENCING. WE'RE GOING

01:20:42.571 --> 01:20:44.306
TO TALK MOSTLY ABOUT THE HEALTH

01:20:44.372 --> 01:20:45.373
SURVEY THEY CONDUCTED, BUT BY

01:20:45.440 --> 01:20:47.008
WAY OF BACKGROUND, BEFORE THE

01:20:47.075 --> 01:20:48.443
DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED THE HEALTH

01:20:48.510 --> 01:20:50.278
SURVEY, THEY HAD FOR ABOUT THE

01:20:50.345 --> 01:20:51.947
FIRST YEAR AND A HALF OF ITS

01:20:52.013 --> 01:20:53.848
RESPONSE, STARTING IN MID 2023,

01:20:53.915 --> 01:20:56.051
THEY HAD A HOTLINE, A PUBLIC

01:20:56.117 --> 01:20:57.819
HEALTH NURSE HOTLINE AND EMAIL

01:20:57.886 --> 01:20:59.621
ADDRESS THAT MEMBERS OF THE

01:20:59.688 --> 01:21:01.423
COMMUNITY COULD CALL IN OR

01:21:01.489 --> 01:21:02.891
EMAIL THEIR SYMPTOMS TO, AND

01:21:02.958 --> 01:21:04.259
THE DEPARTMENT WAS LOGGING

01:21:04.326 --> 01:21:06.027
THOSE IN A SPREADSHEET. SO

01:21:06.094 --> 01:21:07.562
THAT'S ABOUT THE FIRST YEAR,

01:21:07.629 --> 01:21:09.698
YEAR AND A FEW MONTHS. WHAT

01:21:09.764 --> 01:21:10.799
THEY WERE DOING TO COLLECT

01:21:10.865 --> 01:21:12.601
HEALTH SYMPTOM INFORMATION. BUT

01:21:12.667 --> 01:21:14.502
IN LATE 2024, THE DEPARTMENT

01:21:14.569 --> 01:21:16.171
DECIDED TO TRANSITION TO AN

01:21:16.238 --> 01:21:17.939
ONLINE SURVEY. THEY TOLD US

01:21:18.006 --> 01:21:19.774
THEY DID THAT TO STANDARDIZE

01:21:19.841 --> 01:21:20.875
THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT

01:21:20.942 --> 01:21:21.910
THEY WERE COLLECTING, THAT THEY

01:21:21.977 --> 01:21:23.812
WANTED TO KIND OF HAVE A

01:21:23.878 --> 01:21:24.779
STANDARDIZED FORMAT FOR WHAT

01:21:24.846 --> 01:21:25.880
PEOPLE COULD REPORT, SO THAT

01:21:25.947 --> 01:21:26.848
THEY COULD MEASURE IT

01:21:26.915 --> 01:21:30.185
DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY HAD BEEN.

01:21:30.252 --> 01:21:31.353
THE DEPARTMENT'S ROLE OUT OF

01:21:31.419 --> 01:21:32.520
THAT SURVEY, THOUGH, WAS MARKED

01:21:32.587 --> 01:21:33.788
BY SOME INCONSISTENT MESSAGING

01:21:33.855 --> 01:21:35.257
TO THE COMMUNITY, WHICH WE

01:21:35.323 --> 01:21:36.825
THINK COULD, COULD AND PROBABLY

01:21:36.891 --> 01:21:38.093
DID CAUSE CONFUSION IN THE

01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:39.594
COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY

01:21:39.661 --> 01:21:40.996
THIS SURVEY EFFORT WAS GOING TO

01:21:41.062 --> 01:21:42.664
ENTAIL. THERE WERE ESSENTIALLY

01:21:42.731 --> 01:21:43.565
TWO DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE THE

01:21:43.632 --> 01:21:45.100
DEPARTMENT WAS PUBLICIZING THIS

01:21:45.166 --> 01:21:46.735
SURVEY. ONE WAS ON THE ACTUAL

01:21:46.801 --> 01:21:47.869
WEBSITE WHERE YOU COULD GO TAKE

01:21:47.936 --> 01:21:49.671
THE SURVEY, AND THE OTHER WAS

01:21:49.738 --> 01:21:51.439
THROUGH DOOR TO DOOR FLIERS

01:21:51.506 --> 01:21:52.641
THAT THEY WERE HANDING OUT.

01:21:52.707 --> 01:21:54.542
THEY DID MAKE AN EFFORT TO GO

01:21:54.609 --> 01:21:56.478
DOOR TO DOOR TO ADVERTISE THE

01:21:56.544 --> 01:21:59.714
SURVEY. AND AT MOST OF THOSE

01:21:59.781 --> 01:22:00.649
LOCATIONS, THOUGH, THEY DIDN'T

01:22:00.715 --> 01:22:01.650
ACTUALLY MAKE CONTACT WITH A

01:22:01.716 --> 01:22:04.052
REAL PERSON. THEY OVER 90% OF

01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:05.487
THE HOMES THAT THEY VISITED,

01:22:05.553 --> 01:22:06.921
LOCATIONS THEY VISITED, THEY

01:22:06.988 --> 01:22:08.590
JUST LEFT WRITTEN INFORMATION

01:22:08.657 --> 01:22:11.926
ABOUT THE SURVEY. SO ON THE

01:22:11.993 --> 01:22:14.129
WEBSITE, THE SURVEY WAS

01:22:14.195 --> 01:22:15.897
POSITIONED OR ADVERTISED AS A

01:22:15.964 --> 01:22:18.033
MONTH LONG DAILY SURVEY. SO IT

01:22:18.099 --> 01:22:19.301
WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT

01:22:19.367 --> 01:22:20.368
STARTING WHEN THE SURVEY OPENED,

01:22:20.435 --> 01:22:22.304
IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN FOR A

01:22:22.370 --> 01:22:23.738
MONTH'S TIME AND PEOPLE COULD

01:22:23.805 --> 01:22:25.874
LOG ON DAILY TO TAKE THE SURVEY

01:22:25.940 --> 01:22:28.143
FOR THAT MONTH PERIOD. THE

01:22:28.209 --> 01:22:29.511
WRITTEN MATERIALS THAT THE

01:22:29.577 --> 01:22:30.578
DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTED, THOUGH,

01:22:30.645 --> 01:22:31.746
SAID SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THEY

01:22:31.813 --> 01:22:33.081
SAID THAT IT WAS A

01:22:33.148 --> 01:22:33.782
RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY.

01:22:33.848 --> 01:22:34.883
ESSENTIALLY, IT WAS A SURVEY OF

01:22:34.949 --> 01:22:36.651
RESIDENT EXPERIENCES OVER THE

01:22:36.718 --> 01:22:38.887
PAST MONTH. SO THERE WAS

01:22:38.953 --> 01:22:39.721
ALREADY SOME MIXED MESSAGING

01:22:39.788 --> 01:22:41.022
FROM THE DEPARTMENT ABOUT

01:22:41.089 --> 01:22:42.257
EXACTLY WHAT WERE THE GOALS OF

01:22:42.324 --> 01:22:43.491
THE SURVEY AND WHAT WERE PEOPLE

01:22:43.558 --> 01:22:45.327
EXPECTED TO DO IF THEY WERE TO

01:22:45.393 --> 01:22:47.195
LOG ON AND TAKE THAT SURVEY?

01:22:47.262 --> 01:22:49.664
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE,

01:22:49.731 --> 01:22:52.133
THOUGH, AND SORT OF FLAW IN

01:22:52.200 --> 01:22:52.901
COMMUNICATION FROM THE

01:22:52.967 --> 01:22:53.968
DEPARTMENT, CAME WHEN THEY

01:22:54.035 --> 01:22:55.337
DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO

01:22:55.403 --> 01:22:57.939
EXTEND THE SURVEY PERIOD. SO

01:22:58.006 --> 01:22:59.374
KIND OF REGARDLESS OF WHICH ONE

01:22:59.441 --> 01:23:00.942
YOU READ AT THE OUTSET, THE

01:23:01.009 --> 01:23:03.044
SURVEY WAS INITIALLY ADVERTISED

01:23:03.111 --> 01:23:04.713
BY THE DEPARTMENT AS SORT OF A

01:23:04.779 --> 01:23:05.714
LIMITED TERM EFFORT, RIGHT?

01:23:05.780 --> 01:23:06.881
EITHER A THING THAT WAS GOING

01:23:06.948 --> 01:23:08.750
TO HAPPEN FOR A MONTH, OR A

01:23:08.817 --> 01:23:09.951
THING THAT WOULD HAPPEN FOR A

01:23:10.018 --> 01:23:11.786
BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME ABOUT THE

01:23:11.853 --> 01:23:12.954
LAST MONTH. AND THE COMMUNITY

01:23:13.021 --> 01:23:14.889
DOES SEEM TO HAVE UNDERSTOOD

01:23:14.956 --> 01:23:16.991
THAT THAT WAS A LIMITED

01:23:17.058 --> 01:23:18.093
DURATION EFFORT. AND WE'LL LOOK

01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:19.694
AT THE THE RATE OF RESPONSES

01:23:19.761 --> 01:23:21.129
HERE IN A MOMENT. AND I THINK

01:23:21.196 --> 01:23:22.263
YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT'S THE

01:23:22.330 --> 01:23:24.065
MESSAGE THAT GOT THROUGH TO THE

01:23:24.132 --> 01:23:25.200
COMMUNITY, WAS THAT THIS WAS A

01:23:25.266 --> 01:23:27.102
LIMITED TERM EFFORT. BUT THE

01:23:27.168 --> 01:23:29.604
DEPARTMENT IN LATE 2024 DECIDED

01:23:29.671 --> 01:23:30.805
THAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY EXTEND

01:23:30.872 --> 01:23:32.774
THE SURVEY EFFORT, BUT IT MADE

01:23:32.841 --> 01:23:34.676
NO PROACTIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT

01:23:34.743 --> 01:23:36.978
THAT, ABOUT THAT THEY UPDATED

01:23:37.045 --> 01:23:38.580
THEIR WEBSITE. SO IF YOU

01:23:38.646 --> 01:23:39.814
HAPPENED TO GO TO THE WEBSITE,

01:23:39.881 --> 01:23:41.516
YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN PASSIVELY

01:23:41.583 --> 01:23:42.884
BASICALLY COMMUNICATION THAT

01:23:42.951 --> 01:23:45.086
THE SURVEY REMAINED OPEN. BUT

01:23:45.153 --> 01:23:46.521
UNLIKE WHEN THEY INITIALLY

01:23:46.588 --> 01:23:47.856
ROLLED IT OUT AND WENT DOOR TO

01:23:47.922 --> 01:23:48.990
DOOR TO ANNOUNCE THE SURVEY,

01:23:49.057 --> 01:23:50.492
THE DEPARTMENT DIDN'T

01:23:50.558 --> 01:23:51.960
PROACTIVELY NOTIFY INDIVIDUALS

01:23:52.026 --> 01:23:53.361
THAT THE SURVEY WOULD ACTUALLY

01:23:53.428 --> 01:23:54.462
CONTINUE. AND IT DID CONTINUE

01:23:54.529 --> 01:23:59.467
ON FOR OVER A YEAR AFTER THAT.

01:23:59.534 --> 01:24:01.836
I'LL GO NOW TO THE SURVEY RATES

01:24:01.903 --> 01:24:04.105
OF RESPONSE. AND THIS IS WHAT I

01:24:04.172 --> 01:24:05.273
WAS MENTIONING JUST A MOMENT

01:24:05.340 --> 01:24:07.809
AGO. THE THE MESSAGE THAT THE

01:24:07.876 --> 01:24:09.544
SURVEY WAS GOING TO GO ON IN IN

01:24:09.611 --> 01:24:11.646
LATE 2024 CAME THROUGH LOUD AND

01:24:11.713 --> 01:24:13.148
CLEAR. AS WE CAN SEE FROM THE

01:24:13.214 --> 01:24:14.883
RATE OF SURVEY RESPONSES. AND

01:24:14.949 --> 01:24:16.384
AS THE STATE AUDITOR MENTIONED

01:24:16.451 --> 01:24:18.052
BEFORE, BECAUSE OF LIMITATIONS

01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:19.988
IN THE DESIGN OF THE SURVEY, WE

01:24:20.054 --> 01:24:21.856
DON'T KNOW HOW MANY UNIQUE

01:24:21.923 --> 01:24:22.524
INDIVIDUALS THIS IS. THIS IS

01:24:22.590 --> 01:24:24.292
JUST THE NUMBER OF TIMES

01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:25.760
SOMEBODY RESPONDED TO THE

01:24:25.827 --> 01:24:28.296
SURVEY. BUT YOU CAN SEE THE

01:24:28.363 --> 01:24:29.697
STEEP DROP OFF AFTER THE

01:24:29.764 --> 01:24:31.232
DEPARTMENT DID NOT ANNOUNCE

01:24:31.299 --> 01:24:32.934
THAT IT WAS GOING TO CONTINUE

01:24:33.001 --> 01:24:34.402
CONDUCTING THE SURVEY, THERE

01:24:34.469 --> 01:24:36.571
WAS CLEARLY A DROP IN AWARENESS

01:24:36.638 --> 01:24:39.474
OR A DROP IN PARTICIPATION.

01:24:39.541 --> 01:24:40.542
EVENTUALLY, WHEN THE DEPARTMENT

01:24:40.608 --> 01:24:42.710
CLOSED THE SURVEY IN 2026, THEY

01:24:42.777 --> 01:24:43.578
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE COMMUNITY

01:24:43.645 --> 01:24:44.846
HAD BEEN CONFUSED ABOUT THIS

01:24:44.913 --> 01:24:45.914
AND THAT THEY DIDN'T

01:24:45.980 --> 01:24:47.348
NECESSARILY KNOW THAT THE

01:24:47.415 --> 01:24:49.918
SURVEY WAS STILL OPEN. BUT PART

01:24:49.984 --> 01:24:51.686
OF THE THE THING THAT'S

01:24:51.753 --> 01:24:52.520
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT

01:24:52.587 --> 01:24:54.155
THIS PICTURE IS THE PUBLIC

01:24:54.222 --> 01:24:55.690
HEALTH NURSE HOTLINE HAD

01:24:55.757 --> 01:24:56.758
ESSENTIALLY BEEN TRANSITIONED

01:24:56.825 --> 01:24:58.927
OUT OF EXISTENCE BY THIS POINT.

01:24:58.993 --> 01:25:00.695
SO THIS WAS THE DEPARTMENT'S

01:25:00.762 --> 01:25:02.096
MAIN AND ONLY TOOL FOR

01:25:02.163 --> 01:25:03.331
COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT

01:25:03.398 --> 01:25:05.033
THE COMMUNITY'S HEALTH

01:25:05.099 --> 01:25:06.434
CONDITIONS. AND AS YOU CAN SEE,

01:25:06.501 --> 01:25:08.303
IT WASN'T COLLECTING VERY MUCH

01:25:08.369 --> 01:25:09.704
INFORMATION AT ALL. AND IT

01:25:09.771 --> 01:25:12.240
RELIED PASSIVELY ON PEOPLE TO

01:25:12.307 --> 01:25:13.441
VOLUNTARILY GO TO THE WEBSITE

01:25:13.508 --> 01:25:14.709
AND REPORT THEIR SYMPTOM

01:25:14.776 --> 01:25:15.443
INFORMATION, AS OPPOSED TO

01:25:15.510 --> 01:25:16.778
GOING OUT AND PROACTIVELY

01:25:16.845 --> 01:25:20.849
COLLECTING THAT INFORMATION.

01:25:20.915 --> 01:25:22.083
GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TURN NOW

01:25:22.150 --> 01:25:24.786
TO THE SECOND MAJOR AREA OF OUR

01:25:24.853 --> 01:25:27.021
REVIEW, AND THAT IS THE LIMITED

01:25:27.088 --> 01:25:28.056
COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY

01:25:28.122 --> 01:25:29.524
ENGAGEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT.

01:25:29.591 --> 01:25:31.659
AND WE'LL START WITH

01:25:31.726 --> 01:25:34.162
COMMUNICATION. SO WE SPOKE

01:25:34.229 --> 01:25:35.964
EARLIER ABOUT COMMUNICATION

01:25:36.030 --> 01:25:38.132
ABOUT AIR QUALITY DATA. BUT FOR

01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:39.467
THIS AREA OF OUR REVIEW, WE

01:25:39.534 --> 01:25:41.736
KIND OF ZOOMED OUT TO ANY

01:25:41.803 --> 01:25:43.171
COMMUNICATION AT ALL. GENERAL

01:25:43.238 --> 01:25:43.905
COMMUNICATION WITH THE

01:25:43.972 --> 01:25:45.406
COMMUNITY ABOUT THE THE

01:25:45.473 --> 01:25:48.176
LANDFILL EVENT AND THE STORY WE

01:25:48.243 --> 01:25:49.978
FOUND STORY. WE FOUND THERE IS

01:25:50.044 --> 01:25:52.180
ONE OF DECLINING FREQUENCY,

01:25:52.247 --> 01:25:53.281
BOTH IN THE WRITTEN

01:25:53.348 --> 01:25:54.349
COMMUNICATION THE DEPARTMENT

01:25:54.415 --> 01:25:56.117
WAS ISSUING, BUT ALSO THE

01:25:56.184 --> 01:25:57.218
VERBAL COMMUNICATION THEY WERE

01:25:57.285 --> 01:25:58.686
HAVING WITH THE COMMUNITY. SO

01:25:58.753 --> 01:26:00.488
WITH RESPECT TO WRITTEN

01:26:00.555 --> 01:26:02.624
COMMUNICATION, IN THE INITIAL

01:26:02.690 --> 01:26:03.691
MONTHS OF THE DEPARTMENT'S

01:26:03.758 --> 01:26:05.827
RESPONSE, THEY WERE ISSUING

01:26:05.894 --> 01:26:08.463
FLIERS OR HANDOUTS FOR THE

01:26:08.530 --> 01:26:09.797
COMMUNITY ABOUT AIR

01:26:09.864 --> 01:26:11.032
PURIFICATION OR ABOUT THINGS

01:26:11.099 --> 01:26:12.333
THAT THEY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE

01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:13.401
DEPARTMENT'S RESPONSE TO THE

01:26:13.468 --> 01:26:15.136
LANDFILL EVENT. BUT WE PRETTY

01:26:15.203 --> 01:26:18.106
QUICKLY RUN INTO TWO POCKETS OF

01:26:18.172 --> 01:26:19.908
SIGNIFICANT BREAKS IN WRITTEN

01:26:19.974 --> 01:26:20.642
COMMUNICATION FROM THE

01:26:20.708 --> 01:26:23.144
DEPARTMENT. THE FIRST IS THIS

01:26:23.211 --> 01:26:24.579
MARCH 2024. THAT'S A NINE MONTH

01:26:24.646 --> 01:26:26.047
PERIOD WHERE THERE WAS NO

01:26:26.114 --> 01:26:27.081
SUBSTANTIVE WRITTEN

01:26:27.148 --> 01:26:27.849
COMMUNICATION FROM THE

01:26:27.916 --> 01:26:29.083
DEPARTMENT TO THE COMMUNITY

01:26:29.150 --> 01:26:31.119
ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND

01:26:31.185 --> 01:26:32.453
THEN THE SECOND, MORE

01:26:32.520 --> 01:26:33.588
SIGNIFICANT IS A 12 MONTH

01:26:33.655 --> 01:26:35.390
PERIOD STARTING IN FEBRUARY OF

01:26:35.456 --> 01:26:37.525
2025. SO ESSENTIALLY ALL OF

01:26:37.592 --> 01:26:39.193
2025, BASICALLY, THE DEPARTMENT

01:26:39.260 --> 01:26:41.029
WAS NOT ISSUING ANY SUBSTANTIVE

01:26:41.095 --> 01:26:42.564
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION TO THE

01:26:42.630 --> 01:26:44.032
COMMUNITY ABOUT STEPS THEY

01:26:44.098 --> 01:26:45.833
COULD TAKE TO PROTECT

01:26:45.900 --> 01:26:47.235
THEMSELVES ABOUT THE CONDITION

01:26:47.302 --> 01:26:49.470
OF THE AIR, ABOUT THE STEPS THE

01:26:49.537 --> 01:26:51.205
DEPARTMENT WAS TAKING TO

01:26:51.272 --> 01:26:52.307
COORDINATE WITH OTHER AGENCIES.

01:26:52.373 --> 01:26:53.408
NONE OF THIS WAS BEING

01:26:53.474 --> 01:26:54.509
COMMUNICATED TO THE COMMUNITY

01:26:54.576 --> 01:26:57.612
IN WRITING. SIMILARLY, THERE

01:26:57.679 --> 01:26:59.847
WAS AN EARLY SENSE THAT THE

01:26:59.914 --> 01:27:01.316
DEPARTMENT WAS COMMUNICATING

01:27:01.382 --> 01:27:03.851
VERBALLY, FREQUENTLY AT CAC

01:27:03.918 --> 01:27:05.620
MEETINGS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE

01:27:05.687 --> 01:27:08.489
CAC MEETINGS FROM 2023 2024,

01:27:08.556 --> 01:27:10.291
THE DEPARTMENT WAS REGULARLY

01:27:10.358 --> 01:27:11.359
SHOWING UP AND SHARING

01:27:11.426 --> 01:27:13.895
SUBSTANTIVE INFORMATION. THEY

01:27:13.962 --> 01:27:14.963
SHOWED UP AND DID THAT AT

01:27:15.029 --> 01:27:16.798
ALMOST ALL OF THEM FROM THAT

01:27:16.864 --> 01:27:19.467
2023 2024 PERIOD. BUT WHEN YOU

01:27:19.534 --> 01:27:21.769
TURN INTO 2025 AND THE SECOND

01:27:21.836 --> 01:27:24.305
OR THE FIRST HALF OF 2026, THE

01:27:24.372 --> 01:27:25.406
STORY IS MUCH DIFFERENT. THEY

01:27:25.473 --> 01:27:27.208
SHOW UP AND SHARE SUBSTANTIVE

01:27:27.275 --> 01:27:29.344
INFORMATION AT LESS THAN HALF

01:27:29.410 --> 01:27:31.212
OF THOSE MEETINGS. SO WE SAW

01:27:31.279 --> 01:27:32.981
THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE CAC

01:27:33.047 --> 01:27:34.315
MEETINGS DROP OFF SIGNIFICANTLY,

01:27:34.382 --> 01:27:35.617
WHICH MEANT THE VERBAL UPDATES

01:27:35.683 --> 01:27:37.118
THAT THEY COULD BE PROVIDING

01:27:37.185 --> 01:27:38.052
THE COMMUNITY HAD DROPPED OFF

01:27:38.119 --> 01:27:40.622
AT THAT POINT. IT'S NOT AS

01:27:40.688 --> 01:27:41.756
THOUGH THERE WASN'T THINGS

01:27:41.823 --> 01:27:43.157
THERE WEREN'T THINGS FOR THE

01:27:43.224 --> 01:27:44.158
DEPARTMENT TO BE COMMUNICATING

01:27:44.225 --> 01:27:45.360
ABOUT. SO WE CONSIDERED WHETHER

01:27:45.426 --> 01:27:46.427
THERE WERE THINGS THEY COULD

01:27:46.494 --> 01:27:47.528
HAVE BEEN SHARING WITH THE

01:27:47.595 --> 01:27:49.230
COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION TO THE

01:27:49.297 --> 01:27:50.331
AIR QUALITY UPDATES THEY COULD

01:27:50.398 --> 01:27:52.400
HAVE BEEN PROVIDING, THERE WAS

01:27:52.467 --> 01:27:52.967
ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST

01:27:53.034 --> 01:27:53.601
PROVIDE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT

01:27:53.668 --> 01:27:55.303
THINGS LIKE RAILS SO THAT THE

01:27:55.370 --> 01:27:56.237
COMMUNITY COULD BETTER

01:27:56.304 --> 01:27:57.839
UNDERSTAND THESE CONCEPTS.

01:27:57.905 --> 01:27:59.107
THERE WERE STEPS THE DEPARTMENT

01:27:59.173 --> 01:28:00.375
WAS TAKING, AS I SAID, TO

01:28:00.441 --> 01:28:02.510
COORDINATE WITH OTHER AGENCIES

01:28:02.577 --> 01:28:04.278
OR TO CONSULT ON WHETHER THERE

01:28:04.345 --> 01:28:05.713
ARE POSSIBLE CANCER CLUSTERS.

01:28:05.780 --> 01:28:06.881
THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT THEY

01:28:06.948 --> 01:28:08.049
COULD HAVE BEEN PROVIDING THE

01:28:08.116 --> 01:28:09.017
COMMUNITY WITH INFORMATION

01:28:09.083 --> 01:28:10.718
ABOUT, BUT WE FOUND THAT THEY

01:28:10.785 --> 01:28:11.886
WEREN'T DOING SO. SO A LOT OF

01:28:11.953 --> 01:28:13.721
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN HERE

01:28:13.788 --> 01:28:14.689
AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES TO

01:28:14.756 --> 01:28:16.891
BETTER COMMUNICATE WITH FOLKS.

01:28:16.958 --> 01:28:19.027
TURNING TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

01:28:19.093 --> 01:28:20.128
SO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

01:28:20.194 --> 01:28:21.162
INVOLVES COMMUNICATION, OF

01:28:21.229 --> 01:28:22.664
COURSE, BUT IT ALSO INVOLVES

01:28:22.730 --> 01:28:24.065
LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY'S

01:28:24.132 --> 01:28:25.166
CONCERNS AND RESPONDING TO THEM.

01:28:25.233 --> 01:28:26.234
THAT'S SORT OF THE

01:28:26.300 --> 01:28:27.702
DIFFERENTIATOR HERE BETWEEN

01:28:27.769 --> 01:28:29.504
COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT.

01:28:29.570 --> 01:28:30.605
SO WHAT WE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED

01:28:30.672 --> 01:28:32.407
TO SEE WAS THE WAS THE

01:28:32.473 --> 01:28:34.475
DEPARTMENT HAVING A TWO WAY

01:28:34.542 --> 01:28:36.678
DIALOG WITH THE COMMUNITY AND

01:28:36.744 --> 01:28:38.179
LISTENING TO AND RESPONDING TO

01:28:38.246 --> 01:28:42.050
THEIR CONCERNS. SO AT A AT A

01:28:42.116 --> 01:28:43.885
BASIC LEVEL, WE DID SEE THE

01:28:43.951 --> 01:28:46.054
DEPARTMENT ENGAGED IN

01:28:46.120 --> 01:28:47.855
ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. SO THE

01:28:47.922 --> 01:28:49.290
ONES ON THE SCREEN ARE

01:28:49.357 --> 01:28:50.725
ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES THAT KIND

01:28:50.792 --> 01:28:53.261
OF COVER THE BASIC EXPECTATIONS.

01:28:53.327 --> 01:28:55.396
SO CAC MEETINGS, FOR EXAMPLE,

01:28:55.463 --> 01:28:57.565
THESE ARE MEETINGS FOR THE

01:28:57.632 --> 01:28:58.666
COMMUNITY. THEY ARE THE

01:28:58.733 --> 01:29:00.501
COMMUNITY'S MEETINGS. AND LADF

01:29:00.568 --> 01:29:02.336
WAS AT LEAST IN THE EARLY PART

01:29:02.403 --> 01:29:04.806
OF ITS RESPONSE, SHOWING UP AND

01:29:04.872 --> 01:29:06.207
BEING PRESENT AT COMMUNITY

01:29:06.274 --> 01:29:07.241
MEETINGS. THAT'S A THAT'S A

01:29:07.308 --> 01:29:09.110
BEST PRACTICE THAT WE

01:29:09.177 --> 01:29:09.877
IDENTIFIED ON OUR AUDIT. AND

01:29:09.944 --> 01:29:11.946
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY WERE

01:29:12.013 --> 01:29:13.648
DOING, AT LEAST AGAIN, IN THE

01:29:13.715 --> 01:29:14.849
INITIAL MONTHS OF THEIR

01:29:14.916 --> 01:29:18.419
RESPONSE. BUT EACH OF THE

01:29:18.486 --> 01:29:19.520
ACTIVITIES ON THE SLIDE RIGHT

01:29:19.587 --> 01:29:22.023
NOW ALSO COME WITH SHORTCOMINGS.

01:29:22.090 --> 01:29:26.060
SO THE CAC MEETINGS, AGAIN, ARE

01:29:26.127 --> 01:29:27.028
INHERENTLY LIMITED WHEN IT

01:29:27.095 --> 01:29:28.896
COMES TO LADF ABILITY TO ENGAGE

01:29:28.963 --> 01:29:31.099
WITH THE COMMUNITY. THEY ARE

01:29:31.165 --> 01:29:32.500
NOT LAD PAGES MEETINGS. THEY'RE

01:29:32.567 --> 01:29:33.968
THE COMMUNITY'S MEETINGS, AND

01:29:34.035 --> 01:29:35.069
THEY'RE GIVEN A CERTAIN AMOUNT

01:29:35.136 --> 01:29:36.471
OF TIME TO SHARE THEIR

01:29:36.537 --> 01:29:37.905
INFORMATION ALONGSIDE MANY

01:29:37.972 --> 01:29:40.007
OTHER AGENCIES AND ENTITIES.

01:29:40.074 --> 01:29:41.476
THEIR AVERAGE SPEAKING TIME AT

01:29:41.542 --> 01:29:43.344
THESE MEETINGS IS LESS THAN TEN

01:29:43.411 --> 01:29:44.412
MINUTES FOR MEETINGS THAT CAN

01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:47.248
GO ON FOR MULTIPLE HOURS. SO

01:29:47.315 --> 01:29:49.050
WHILE THEY'RE ADMIRABLE IN ONE

01:29:49.117 --> 01:29:50.118
SENSE THAT THEY'RE THERE AT

01:29:50.184 --> 01:29:51.185
THOSE MEETINGS AND SHARING

01:29:51.252 --> 01:29:53.755
INFORMATION, IT'S IT'S ALSO NOT

01:29:53.821 --> 01:29:55.523
A COMPLETE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE

01:29:55.590 --> 01:29:56.824
COMMUNITY. THEY DON'T GET A

01:29:56.891 --> 01:29:57.959
CHANCE, FOR EXAMPLE, TO RESPOND

01:29:58.025 --> 01:30:00.595
TO COMMUNITY QUESTIONS AT THOSE

01:30:00.661 --> 01:30:03.431
MEETINGS. SO GOING DOWN THE

01:30:03.498 --> 01:30:04.932
LINE, THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

01:30:04.999 --> 01:30:05.967
HOTLINE, WE MENTIONED THAT

01:30:06.033 --> 01:30:07.769
EARLIER. ONE OF THE LIMITATIONS

01:30:07.835 --> 01:30:09.337
THERE AGAIN, IT DID ALLOW THEM

01:30:09.403 --> 01:30:11.038
TO COLLECT INFORMATION FROM THE

01:30:11.105 --> 01:30:12.807
COMMUNITY, BUT ONLY A TOTAL OF

01:30:12.874 --> 01:30:14.275
65 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS EVER

01:30:14.342 --> 01:30:16.410
CALLED THAT HOTLINE OR SENT

01:30:16.477 --> 01:30:18.579
EMAIL IN EMAILED IN INFORMATION.

01:30:18.646 --> 01:30:21.816
SO THEY WERE OPEN TO RECEIVING

01:30:21.883 --> 01:30:22.817
INFORMATION, BUT THEY REACHED

01:30:22.884 --> 01:30:24.018
ONLY A VERY LIMITED PORTION OF

01:30:24.085 --> 01:30:25.787
THE POPULATION. BY DOING THIS

01:30:25.853 --> 01:30:27.622
STEP, THE DOOR TO DOOR SURVEY I

01:30:27.688 --> 01:30:29.791
MENTIONED EARLIER, OVER 90% OF

01:30:29.857 --> 01:30:31.726
THE DOORS THAT THEY WENT TO GO

01:30:31.793 --> 01:30:32.727
VISIT. THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY

01:30:32.794 --> 01:30:33.828
INTERACT WITH A PERSON. THEY

01:30:33.895 --> 01:30:35.897
JUST LEFT WRITTEN INFORMATION.

01:30:35.963 --> 01:30:36.931
AND THEN THERE WERE SEVERAL ONE

01:30:36.998 --> 01:30:38.666
TIME ACTIVITIES, THE TOWN HALL

01:30:38.733 --> 01:30:40.134
EVENT THEY HELD TO DISCUSS THE

01:30:40.201 --> 01:30:42.703
HEALTH RISK EVALUATION RESULTS,

01:30:42.770 --> 01:30:44.138
MEETINGS WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT

01:30:44.205 --> 01:30:45.973
OFFICIALS. AND THOSE ARE

01:30:46.040 --> 01:30:47.375
PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, A GOOD

01:30:47.441 --> 01:30:48.776
EXAMPLES OF THE ABILITY TO

01:30:48.843 --> 01:30:50.011
ACTUALLY HAVE INTERACTION WITH

01:30:50.077 --> 01:30:51.646
THE COMMUNITY. BUT THEY WERE

01:30:51.712 --> 01:30:52.680
ISOLATED EVENTS, AND THEY ALL

01:30:52.747 --> 01:30:53.915
OCCURRED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF

01:30:53.981 --> 01:30:55.683
THE RESPONSE. AND THIS RESPONSE

01:30:55.750 --> 01:30:56.851
HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THREE

01:30:56.918 --> 01:30:59.220
YEARS NOW. SO WE EXPECTED THAT

01:30:59.287 --> 01:31:00.354
THE DEPARTMENT WOULD TAKE

01:31:00.421 --> 01:31:01.789
ADDITIONAL STEPS TO OVERCOME

01:31:01.856 --> 01:31:03.925
THOSE SHORTCOMINGS THEN. BUT

01:31:03.991 --> 01:31:05.626
THEY DIDN'T. SO THIS IS THE

01:31:05.693 --> 01:31:07.161
EXTENT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT

01:31:07.228 --> 01:31:08.596
ACTIVITIES. THEY COULD HAVE,

01:31:08.663 --> 01:31:10.097
FOR EXAMPLE, HELD MORE TOWN

01:31:10.164 --> 01:31:12.800
HALL MEETINGS OR EVEN MADE THE

01:31:12.867 --> 01:31:13.734
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION THAT THEY

01:31:13.801 --> 01:31:15.503
WERE HAVING MORE TARGETED TO

01:31:15.570 --> 01:31:18.372
RESIDENTS CONCERNS. WE ALSO

01:31:18.439 --> 01:31:19.774
REVIEWED RELATED TO ENGAGEMENT,

01:31:19.841 --> 01:31:21.542
HOW THE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO

01:31:21.609 --> 01:31:22.944
COMMUNITY CONCERNS, AND IT WAS

01:31:23.010 --> 01:31:24.946
A BIT OF A MIXED BAG. IN SOME

01:31:25.012 --> 01:31:27.081
CASES, THEY DID SEEM TO HEAR

01:31:27.148 --> 01:31:29.116
THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS. FOR

01:31:29.183 --> 01:31:31.652
EXAMPLE, WHEN THE DEPARTMENT

01:31:31.719 --> 01:31:32.620
WAS COLLECTING INFORMATION ON

01:31:32.687 --> 01:31:34.889
THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE HOTLINE,

01:31:34.956 --> 01:31:36.057
THEY INITIALLY DIDN'T REALLY

01:31:36.123 --> 01:31:37.391
SHARE ANY OF WHAT WAS BEING

01:31:37.458 --> 01:31:38.459
REPORTED TO THEM WITH THE

01:31:38.526 --> 01:31:39.527
COMMUNITY UNTIL THE COMMUNITY

01:31:39.594 --> 01:31:41.762
ASKED THEM TO DO SO. BY THE

01:31:41.829 --> 01:31:43.164
TIME WE REACHED THE HEALTH

01:31:43.231 --> 01:31:44.932
SURVEY, THEY PROACTIVELY

01:31:44.999 --> 01:31:46.100
STARTED PUTTING THE RESULTS OF

01:31:46.167 --> 01:31:47.501
THE HEALTH SURVEY UP ON THEIR

01:31:47.568 --> 01:31:49.103
WEBSITE. SO THEY DID SEEM TO

01:31:49.170 --> 01:31:51.105
GET THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERN

01:31:51.172 --> 01:31:52.173
ABOUT WANTING TO KNOW WHAT,

01:31:52.240 --> 01:31:53.841
WHAT, WHAT IS BEING REPORTED TO

01:31:53.908 --> 01:31:55.009
YOU. COULD YOU SHARE THAT WITH

01:31:55.076 --> 01:31:57.111
US? THERE ARE OTHER THINGS,

01:31:57.178 --> 01:31:58.212
THOUGH, WHERE WE NOTICE THEY

01:31:58.279 --> 01:32:00.781
EITHER DIDN'T OR DIDN'T, DIDN'T

01:32:00.848 --> 01:32:01.916
RESPOND TO THE COMMUNITY'S

01:32:01.983 --> 01:32:03.317
CONCERNS, OR DIDN'T RESPOND

01:32:03.384 --> 01:32:05.519
EFFECTIVELY. A KEY EXAMPLE HERE

01:32:05.586 --> 01:32:07.088
IS THE EFFORT TO COLLECT HEALTH

01:32:07.154 --> 01:32:08.723
RELATED INFORMATION FROM THE

01:32:08.789 --> 01:32:10.157
COMMUNITY. THE COMMUNITY HAS

01:32:10.224 --> 01:32:12.360
LONG EXPRESSED A DESIRE FOR LÀ

01:32:12.426 --> 01:32:13.995
DF TO DO MORE THAN IT'S DONE,

01:32:14.061 --> 01:32:15.396
TO GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY,

01:32:15.463 --> 01:32:18.099
TO MEET IN PERSON, WITH WITH

01:32:18.165 --> 01:32:19.901
INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECT HEALTH

01:32:19.967 --> 01:32:21.302
INFORMATION FROM THEM.

01:32:21.369 --> 01:32:22.737
ESSENTIALLY DO SOMETHING

01:32:22.803 --> 01:32:24.639
BESIDES THE PASSIVE COLLECTION

01:32:24.705 --> 01:32:25.640
ACTIVITIES THAT THE DEPARTMENT

01:32:25.706 --> 01:32:27.608
HAS ENGAGED IN. AND ALTHOUGH

01:32:27.675 --> 01:32:30.378
THE DEPARTMENT INITIALLY DID

01:32:30.444 --> 01:32:32.847
RESPOND, ALBEIT NOT

01:32:32.914 --> 01:32:33.948
AFFIRMATIVELY, NOT THAT THEY

01:32:34.015 --> 01:32:35.383
AGREED TO DO SO, BUT THEY DID

01:32:35.449 --> 01:32:36.417
INITIALLY RESPOND TO THE

01:32:36.484 --> 01:32:37.919
COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS. THE

01:32:37.985 --> 01:32:39.754
COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS PERSISTED,

01:32:39.820 --> 01:32:42.590
AND WE DIDN'T SEE LÀ DF S

01:32:42.657 --> 01:32:44.025
DIALOG WITH THE COMMUNITY

01:32:44.091 --> 01:32:45.493
PERSISTING, WE SAW THEM NO

01:32:45.559 --> 01:32:46.894
LONGER RESPONDING TO THE

01:32:46.961 --> 01:32:48.696
COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS. FOR A

01:32:48.763 --> 01:32:50.831
MORE IN-DEPTH HEALTH STUDY.

01:32:50.898 --> 01:32:53.401
THEY COULD HAVE DONE SO TO

01:32:53.467 --> 01:32:54.802
CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN THE REASONS

01:32:54.869 --> 01:32:56.404
WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT TO. THEY

01:32:56.470 --> 01:32:57.838
COULD HAVE ENDED UP CHANGING

01:32:57.905 --> 01:32:59.840
THEIR MINDS AND IN RESPONSE TO

01:32:59.907 --> 01:33:01.409
COMMUNITY FEEDBACK, GOING OUT

01:33:01.475 --> 01:33:03.210
AND DOING MORE. BUT WE DIDN'T

01:33:03.277 --> 01:33:04.545
SEE THEM EVEN CONTINUING THAT

01:33:04.612 --> 01:33:05.746
DIALOG, WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT

01:33:05.813 --> 01:33:07.782
PART OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

01:33:07.848 --> 01:33:09.216
SO WHEN IT COMES TO

01:33:09.283 --> 01:33:10.151
COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT,

01:33:10.217 --> 01:33:11.385
THERE ARE PLENTY OF MISSED

01:33:11.452 --> 01:33:12.286
OPPORTUNITIES AND EXAMPLES IN

01:33:12.353 --> 01:33:14.088
THE AUDIT REPORT OF HOW LADF

01:33:14.155 --> 01:33:16.057
COULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB

01:33:16.123 --> 01:33:16.891
SERVING THE COMMUNITIES AROUND

01:33:16.958 --> 01:33:19.593
THE LANDFILL. I'M GOING TO HAND

01:33:19.660 --> 01:33:20.828
IT OVER NOW TO MISS JACOBS.

01:33:20.895 --> 01:33:21.762
SHE'S GOING TO COVER

01:33:21.829 --> 01:33:22.730
INCONSISTENCIES BETWEEN HEALTH

01:33:22.797 --> 01:33:23.931
EVENTS AND ALSO THE

01:33:23.998 --> 01:33:29.103
RECOMMENDATIONS WE MADE. WE

01:33:29.170 --> 01:33:30.671
WERE GOING TO DO. THANK YOU,

01:33:30.738 --> 01:33:32.106
MR. HARRIS. WE'RE GOING TO DO

01:33:32.173 --> 01:33:33.107
QUESTIONS AFTER. BUT, MR.

01:33:33.174 --> 01:33:34.241
GONZALEZ, YOU HAD A QUESTION.

01:33:34.308 --> 01:33:36.043
JUST A SUPER QUICK ONES. YEAH.

01:33:36.110 --> 01:33:37.278
YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW WHAT

01:33:37.345 --> 01:33:39.213
WAS THE RADIUS OF THE OUTREACH

01:33:39.280 --> 01:33:41.949
THAT THEY DID. I, I DON'T IT'S

01:33:42.016 --> 01:33:43.684
NOT ON YOU. I JUST DON'T KNOW.

01:33:43.751 --> 01:33:45.586
YEAH, NO, I DON'T I, I'M GOING

01:33:45.653 --> 01:33:46.887
TO GIVE A VERY BROAD ANSWER. IT

01:33:46.954 --> 01:33:48.723
WAS TO THE, TO THE GENERAL

01:33:48.789 --> 01:33:49.924
COMMUNITIES OF CASTAIC AND

01:33:49.991 --> 01:33:50.992
VALVERDE AND, AND THE

01:33:51.058 --> 01:33:51.692
COMMUNITIES IMMEDIATELY

01:33:51.759 --> 01:33:53.461
SURROUNDING THE LANDFILL. AND

01:33:53.527 --> 01:33:55.162
WHO DID THEY HIRE TO DO THE

01:33:55.229 --> 01:33:56.364
DOOR TO DOOR OR WHO DID THE

01:33:56.430 --> 01:33:58.366
DOOR TO DOOR? I DON'T KNOW THAT.

01:33:58.432 --> 01:34:00.167
OKAY. AND THEN THEY, THEY USED

01:34:00.234 --> 01:34:03.804
THE STAFF. I'M SORRY, WHO GOT Þ?

01:34:03.871 --> 01:34:06.474
WHO GOT A FLIER AT THEIR HOUSE?

01:34:06.540 --> 01:34:08.309
OKAY. SORRY, I APOLOGIZE. MR.

01:34:08.376 --> 01:34:09.643
AND LAST QUESTION. AND I DO

01:34:09.710 --> 01:34:11.545
HAVE TO GET BACK. I'M GOING TO

01:34:11.612 --> 01:34:13.547
LEAVE IN A BIT, BUT I WANTED TO

01:34:13.614 --> 01:34:14.582
ASK THESE QUESTIONS. LASTLY.

01:34:14.648 --> 01:34:16.517
AND WHAT LANGUAGES WAS THIS

01:34:16.584 --> 01:34:19.387
CONDUCTED AS WELL. SURVEY WAS

01:34:19.453 --> 01:34:20.087
ENGLISH RIGHT. WAS IT JUST

01:34:20.154 --> 01:34:22.189
ENGLISH? SPANISH TRANSLATION.

01:34:22.256 --> 01:34:23.224
THEY HAD A SPANISH TRANSLATION

01:34:23.290 --> 01:34:25.893
OF THE SURVEY AS WELL, NOT AAPI

01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:28.029
LANGUAGES, NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE,

01:34:28.095 --> 01:34:30.598
BUT THEY THEIR IT DIDN'T

01:34:30.664 --> 01:34:31.999
REQUIRE IT BASED ON THE

01:34:32.066 --> 01:34:33.434
THRESHOLD OF LANGUAGES FOR THAT

01:34:33.501 --> 01:34:34.869
COMMUNITY, BASED ON THEIR

01:34:34.935 --> 01:34:37.038
PROCEDURES FOR LANGUAGE ACCESS

01:34:37.104 --> 01:34:39.940
AND WHO WAS USING DIFFERENT

01:34:40.007 --> 01:34:41.475
LANGUAGES. SO THEY DID. AND,

01:34:41.542 --> 01:34:45.312
AND OF THAT, WAS IT JUST DOOR

01:34:45.379 --> 01:34:47.014
KNOCKING WITH A FLIER OR WAS IT

01:34:47.081 --> 01:34:49.617
TEXT MESSAGING? OR WAS IT LIKE

01:34:49.683 --> 01:34:51.052
INSTAGRAM OR ANY SOCIAL MEDIA?

01:34:51.118 --> 01:34:53.254
WE DIDN'T SEE SOCIAL MEDIA

01:34:53.320 --> 01:34:54.588
OUTREACH OR TEXT MESSAGING. SO

01:34:54.655 --> 01:34:56.357
THAT WAS ALSO MISSING FROM THE

01:34:56.424 --> 01:34:59.393
OVERALL AUDIT. OKAY, UNDERSTOOD.

01:34:59.460 --> 01:35:01.462
I WILL LET MR. JACOBS GO. BUT

01:35:01.529 --> 01:35:02.730
WHAT TIME DO YOU BECAUSE I WANT

01:35:02.797 --> 01:35:04.632
TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN GET YOUR

01:35:04.698 --> 01:35:06.467
QUESTIONS IN. SO THAT WAS IN

01:35:06.534 --> 01:35:07.735
ABOUT THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. OKAY.

01:35:07.802 --> 01:35:09.637
SO I MAY JUST HAVE YOU GO FIRST

01:35:09.703 --> 01:35:11.505
THEN IF WHEN SHE'S DONE. SO I

01:35:11.572 --> 01:35:12.640
APOLOGIZE. OKAY. NO NO NO NO,

01:35:12.706 --> 01:35:14.575
IT'S THANK YOU FOR THOSE. WOULD

01:35:14.642 --> 01:35:16.477
YOU LIKE TO GO IN AND THEN

01:35:16.544 --> 01:35:17.645
WE'LL WE'LL GO TO QUESTIONS.

01:35:17.711 --> 01:35:18.679
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. SORRY.

01:35:18.746 --> 01:35:19.713
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND

01:35:19.780 --> 01:35:21.449
MEMBERS. MY NAME IS DANIELLA

01:35:21.515 --> 01:35:22.616
JACOBS. I'M A SENIOR AUDITOR

01:35:22.683 --> 01:35:23.551
WITH THE CALIFORNIA STATE

01:35:23.617 --> 01:35:24.618
AUDITOR'S OFFICE. AND THE NEXT

01:35:24.685 --> 01:35:26.454
AREA OF OUR REVIEW THAT I'LL

01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:27.688
COVER HERE IS THE INCONSISTENT

01:35:27.755 --> 01:35:28.589
ACTION LADF TOOK WHEN WE

01:35:28.656 --> 01:35:29.657
COMPARED THEIR ACTIONS AND

01:35:29.723 --> 01:35:30.791
RESPONSE TO THE CONDITIONS NEAR

01:35:30.858 --> 01:35:31.892
THE CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL

01:35:31.959 --> 01:35:33.461
AND OTHER HEALTH HAZARD EVENTS

01:35:33.527 --> 01:35:34.662
THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN LOS

01:35:34.728 --> 01:35:36.097
ANGELES COUNTY OVER THE PAST

01:35:36.163 --> 01:35:37.865
DECADE OR SO. SO WE REVIEWED

01:35:37.932 --> 01:35:39.667
FIVE EVENTS IN TOTAL, INCLUDING

01:35:39.733 --> 01:35:41.135
THE RESPONSE TO THE CHIQUITA

01:35:41.202 --> 01:35:42.670
CANYON LANDFILL, AND WE ASKED

01:35:42.736 --> 01:35:44.338
THE DEPARTMENT HOW IT ENSURES

01:35:44.405 --> 01:35:46.507
THAT IT CONDUCTS A ROBUST AND

01:35:46.574 --> 01:35:48.576
CONSISTENT RESPONSE WHEN IT HAS

01:35:48.642 --> 01:35:50.144
HEALTH HAZARD EVENTS TO RESPOND

01:35:50.211 --> 01:35:51.912
TO. AND THE COUNTY HEALTH

01:35:51.979 --> 01:35:53.013
OFFICER TOLD US THAT THEY

01:35:53.080 --> 01:35:54.448
ALWAYS TAKE ACTION IN THESE

01:35:54.515 --> 01:35:56.450
FOUR MAIN AREAS SURVEILLANCE

01:35:56.517 --> 01:35:58.018
AND MONITORING ACTIVITIES,

01:35:58.085 --> 01:36:00.221
MITIGATION STRATEGIES,

01:36:00.287 --> 01:36:01.789
COMMUNICATION AND RESOURCE

01:36:01.856 --> 01:36:03.457
COORDINATION. HOWEVER, OUR

01:36:03.524 --> 01:36:05.593
REVIEW FOUND THAT THERE WERE

01:36:05.659 --> 01:36:06.594
INCONSISTENCIES IN EACH OF

01:36:06.660 --> 01:36:08.095
THESE AREAS WHEN YOU LOOKED AT

01:36:08.162 --> 01:36:10.331
THEIR DIFFERENT RESPONSES. SO

01:36:10.397 --> 01:36:11.665
IN THE AREA OF SURVEILLANCE AND

01:36:11.732 --> 01:36:13.467
MONITORING MONITORING, WE FOUND

01:36:13.534 --> 01:36:15.336
THAT THEY CONDUCTED MORE

01:36:15.402 --> 01:36:16.370
FORMALIZED ASSESSMENTS OF

01:36:16.437 --> 01:36:18.172
RESIDENTS NEEDS AND HEALTH

01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:19.306
IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER HEALTH

01:36:19.373 --> 01:36:20.708
HAZARD EVENTS THAN THEY DID

01:36:20.774 --> 01:36:22.042
WHEN RESPONDING TO CONDITIONS

01:36:22.109 --> 01:36:23.978
AT THE LANDFILL. SIMILARLY, AS

01:36:24.044 --> 01:36:25.446
WE'VE COVERED, THERE WAS MORE

01:36:25.513 --> 01:36:27.214
CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION IN

01:36:27.281 --> 01:36:30.084
OTHER EVENTS AND MORE ROBUST

01:36:30.151 --> 01:36:32.586
COMMUNICATION, ESPECIALLY IN

01:36:32.653 --> 01:36:33.654
RESPONSE TO EVENTS SUCH AS

01:36:33.721 --> 01:36:35.856
ALISO CANYON AND THE 2025

01:36:35.923 --> 01:36:37.925
WILDFIRES, AND THEN IN THE AREA

01:36:37.992 --> 01:36:39.460
OF RESOURCE COORDINATION, WE

01:36:39.527 --> 01:36:41.228
FOUND A NOTABLE EXAMPLE WHERE

01:36:41.295 --> 01:36:42.696
THE DEPARTMENT DID NOT

01:36:42.763 --> 01:36:44.465
COORDINATE WITH THE COUNTY

01:36:44.532 --> 01:36:46.300
AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR MENTAL

01:36:46.367 --> 01:36:48.068
HEALTH, WHERE IT DID DO SO IN

01:36:48.135 --> 01:36:49.670
RESPONSE TO ANOTHER EVENT WHERE

01:36:49.737 --> 01:36:50.938
IT INVITED THE COUNTY

01:36:51.005 --> 01:36:52.039
DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO

01:36:52.106 --> 01:36:54.575
JOIN IT IN AN EVENT IT WAS

01:36:54.642 --> 01:36:55.910
PARTICIPATING IN TO MAKE SURE

01:36:55.976 --> 01:36:57.411
THAT RESIDENTS WERE CONNECTED

01:36:57.478 --> 01:36:59.246
WITH MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES.

01:36:59.313 --> 01:37:00.681
AND WE DIDN'T SEE ANY SIMILAR

01:37:00.748 --> 01:37:02.316
ACTION TAKING PLACE IN RESPONSE

01:37:02.383 --> 01:37:03.951
TO CONDITIONS AT CHIQUITA

01:37:04.018 --> 01:37:05.719
CANYON, DESPITE MENTAL HEALTH

01:37:05.786 --> 01:37:07.154
SYMPTOMS BEING ONE OF THE TOP

01:37:07.221 --> 01:37:08.289
CONCERNS THAT WAS REPORTED TO

01:37:08.355 --> 01:37:11.392
THE DEPARTMENT. BUT ONE OF THE

01:37:11.458 --> 01:37:12.626
MOST STARK EXAMPLES THAT WE SEE

01:37:12.693 --> 01:37:14.695
IS IN THIS AREA OF MITIGATION,

01:37:14.762 --> 01:37:16.530
STRATEGY AND ACTIVITIES TO

01:37:16.597 --> 01:37:18.666
PREVENT OR REDUCE HARM. AND

01:37:18.732 --> 01:37:20.301
THIS INCONSISTENCY IS BETWEEN

01:37:20.367 --> 01:37:22.303
THE ALISO CANYON GAS LEAK

01:37:22.369 --> 01:37:24.838
RESPONSE AND THE CHIQUITA EVENT.

01:37:24.905 --> 01:37:27.675
SO CONDITIONS PERSISTING AFTER

01:37:27.741 --> 01:37:29.476
ALISO CANYON AND CHIQUITA

01:37:29.543 --> 01:37:31.645
CANYON WERE STRIKINGLY SIMILAR.

01:37:31.712 --> 01:37:34.215
IN BOTH CASES, LADF SAID THAT

01:37:34.281 --> 01:37:35.950
THE CONDITIONS DIDN'T REPRESENT

01:37:36.016 --> 01:37:38.118
ANY IMMEDIATE DANGER. THERE

01:37:38.185 --> 01:37:40.988
WEREN'T HEALTH EFFECTS EXPECTED

01:37:41.055 --> 01:37:43.290
TO CONTINUE LONG TERM, AND THEY

01:37:43.357 --> 01:37:44.959
WERE EXPECTED TO STOP ONCE THE

01:37:45.025 --> 01:37:47.861
ODOR EXPOSURE STOPPED.

01:37:47.928 --> 01:37:48.929
SIMILARLY, A LOT OF THE

01:37:48.996 --> 01:37:50.364
SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCED WERE

01:37:50.431 --> 01:37:52.533
SIMILAR HEADACHES, DIZZINESS,

01:37:52.600 --> 01:37:53.968
NAUSEA, IRRITATION AND

01:37:54.034 --> 01:37:56.503
NOSEBLEEDS. SO IN BOTH CASES,

01:37:56.570 --> 01:37:58.706
WE SEE SIMILAR UNDERLYING

01:37:58.772 --> 01:38:00.441
CONDITIONS. BUT IN ALISO CANYON,

01:38:00.507 --> 01:38:02.243
IT TOOK THE DEPARTMENT ONLY 22

01:38:02.309 --> 01:38:04.011
DAYS TO DIRECT THE RESPONSIBLE

01:38:04.078 --> 01:38:06.213
PARTY TO OFFER RELOCATION

01:38:06.280 --> 01:38:08.682
ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS

01:38:08.749 --> 01:38:10.484
AFFECTED BY THE HAZARD EVENT,

01:38:10.551 --> 01:38:12.019
WHEREAS IT TOOK THEM NEARLY TWO

01:38:12.086 --> 01:38:14.221
YEARS. THAT'S THE 657 DAYS OF

01:38:14.288 --> 01:38:16.290
THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE TO

01:38:16.357 --> 01:38:17.758
DIRECT THE CHIQUITA CANYON

01:38:17.825 --> 01:38:19.893
LANDFILL TO TAKE SIMILAR ACTION.

01:38:19.960 --> 01:38:21.195
AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO SEE AT

01:38:21.262 --> 01:38:22.429
THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE HERE

01:38:22.496 --> 01:38:24.198
THAT IT TOOK THE COUNTY LONGER

01:38:24.265 --> 01:38:26.700
TO ENGAGE IN COURT ACTION ON

01:38:26.767 --> 01:38:28.836
RELOCATION IN THE CHIQUITA

01:38:28.902 --> 01:38:32.806
CANYON EVENT. SO AS A RESULT OF

01:38:32.873 --> 01:38:33.941
THE FINDINGS THAT WE'VE

01:38:34.008 --> 01:38:36.076
DISCUSSED TODAY, WE WE

01:38:36.143 --> 01:38:37.144
RECOMMENDED THAT THE LOS

01:38:37.211 --> 01:38:38.612
ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF

01:38:38.679 --> 01:38:41.115
SUPERVISORS DIRECT LADF TO

01:38:41.181 --> 01:38:42.216
CONSISTENTLY SHARE ITS

01:38:42.283 --> 01:38:43.250
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH RISKS

01:38:43.317 --> 01:38:45.786
RELATED TO AIR QUALITY, TO

01:38:45.853 --> 01:38:46.920
PROACTIVELY COLLECT UPDATED

01:38:46.987 --> 01:38:48.355
HEALTH INFORMATION FROM

01:38:48.422 --> 01:38:49.490
RESIDENTS AND TO DEVELOP A PLAN

01:38:49.556 --> 01:38:51.191
FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT

01:38:51.258 --> 01:38:52.993
TOOK INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY

01:38:53.060 --> 01:38:56.964
INTO CONSIDERATION. WE ALSO

01:38:57.031 --> 01:38:58.032
RECOMMENDED THAT THE DEPARTMENT

01:38:58.098 --> 01:38:59.300
ITSELF SHOULD CREATE POLICIES

01:38:59.366 --> 01:39:01.335
AND PROCEDURES TO DEFINE HOW IT

01:39:01.402 --> 01:39:02.336
RESPONDS TO HEALTH HAZARD

01:39:02.403 --> 01:39:03.804
EVENTS, TO INCREASE ITS

01:39:03.871 --> 01:39:05.306
CONSISTENCY MOVING FORWARD, AND

01:39:05.372 --> 01:39:07.041
THAT IT SHOULD MONITOR ITS

01:39:07.107 --> 01:39:08.475
RESPONSES TO THOSE EVENTS BY

01:39:08.542 --> 01:39:10.177
REVIEWING PAST ONES FOR HOW IT

01:39:10.244 --> 01:39:12.379
COULD IMPROVE. WE DID REACH OUT

01:39:12.446 --> 01:39:13.547
TO THE DEPARTMENT IN ADVANCE OF

01:39:13.614 --> 01:39:14.848
THIS HEARING TO UNDERSTAND IF

01:39:14.915 --> 01:39:16.583
IT WAS IF IT HAD TAKEN ACTION

01:39:16.650 --> 01:39:18.919
AND IT SAID IT HAD BEGUN TO

01:39:18.986 --> 01:39:20.354
CREATE THESE POLICIES, AS THESE

01:39:20.421 --> 01:39:22.156
WERE SOME OF THE ONLY

01:39:22.222 --> 01:39:23.624
RECOMMENDATIONS IT STATED IT

01:39:23.691 --> 01:39:26.160
WOULD IMPLEMENT, AND WE'D BE

01:39:26.226 --> 01:39:28.629
HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

01:39:28.696 --> 01:39:30.964
THANK YOU. INCREDIBLY THOROUGH.

01:39:31.031 --> 01:39:32.566
YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. ROUND OF

01:39:32.633 --> 01:39:35.836
APPLAUSE. INCREDIBLY THOROUGH

01:39:35.903 --> 01:39:37.671
BY ALL THREE OF YOU. THANK YOU.

01:39:37.738 --> 01:39:39.440
AND WE APPRECIATE THE LEVEL OF

01:39:39.506 --> 01:39:41.608
DETAIL THAT YOU JUST WENT INTO.

01:39:41.675 --> 01:39:43.744
I KNOW SENATOR GONZALEZ HAS A

01:39:43.811 --> 01:39:45.846
HAS A TIME LINE HERE, SO I'M

01:39:45.913 --> 01:39:47.081
GOING TO ALLOW HIM TO GO FIRST.

01:39:47.147 --> 01:39:50.250
ARE YOU SURE? OKAY. NO NO NO NO,

01:39:50.317 --> 01:39:51.485
PLEASE. AND IF YOU DO HAVE MORE

01:39:51.552 --> 01:39:53.220
QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU LEAVE, LET

01:39:53.287 --> 01:39:58.525
ME KNOW. SENATOR, PLEASE. AGAIN,

01:39:58.592 --> 01:39:59.960
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR

01:40:00.027 --> 01:40:02.129
PHENOMENAL WORK ON THIS AUDIT.

01:40:02.196 --> 01:40:04.298
I HAVE FIVE AREAS OF

01:40:04.365 --> 01:40:05.799
QUESTIONING. THEY'RE NOT VERY

01:40:05.866 --> 01:40:07.468
MANY QUESTIONS OTHER THAN THE

01:40:07.534 --> 01:40:08.936
FIVE, THOUGH, SO BEAR WITH ME

01:40:09.002 --> 01:40:11.472
FOR A SECOND. THE FIRST IS

01:40:11.538 --> 01:40:14.375
AROUND REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE

01:40:14.441 --> 01:40:17.978
AUDIT. MR. PARKS, YOUR REPORT

01:40:18.045 --> 01:40:19.413
IDENTIFIES IDENTIFIED

01:40:19.480 --> 01:40:21.215
SIGNIFICANT SHORTCOMINGS IN THE

01:40:21.281 --> 01:40:22.649
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S

01:40:22.716 --> 01:40:24.418
RESPONSE. BUT IT DID ALSO

01:40:24.485 --> 01:40:25.519
CONCLUDE THAT THE COUNTY'S

01:40:25.586 --> 01:40:27.354
SOLID WASTE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

01:40:27.421 --> 01:40:29.590
ACTED WITH REASONABLE SPEED AND

01:40:29.656 --> 01:40:31.658
TOOK APPROPRIATE CORRECTION.

01:40:31.725 --> 01:40:33.794
CORRECTIVE ACTION. COULD YOU

01:40:33.861 --> 01:40:35.329
EXPLAIN THE DISTINCTION? WHERE

01:40:35.396 --> 01:40:38.132
DID THE COUNTY FULFILL ITS

01:40:38.198 --> 01:40:38.665
RESPONSIBILITIES? AND THEN

01:40:38.732 --> 01:40:40.667
WHERE DID IT FALL SHORT? AND

01:40:40.734 --> 01:40:42.803
WERE THESE SHORTCOMINGS

01:40:42.870 --> 01:40:45.339
PRIMARILY FAILURES TO EXERCISE

01:40:45.406 --> 01:40:48.208
EXISTING AUTHORITY FAILURES OF

01:40:48.275 --> 01:40:50.778
INTERNAL PROCESSES OR GAPS IN

01:40:50.844 --> 01:40:53.981
STATE LAW? THANK YOU FOR THE

01:40:54.047 --> 01:40:56.116
QUESTION. PART OF OUR WORK

01:40:56.183 --> 01:40:57.951
DURING THE AUDIT WAS TO EXAMINE

01:40:58.018 --> 01:41:00.754
HOW THE ENFORCEMENT BRANCH OF

01:41:00.821 --> 01:41:03.323
LADF WAS CONDUCTING OVERSIGHT

01:41:03.390 --> 01:41:05.492
OF THE JAKARTA CANYON LANDFILL.

01:41:05.559 --> 01:41:07.261
I THINK UP TO TWO YEARS BEFORE

01:41:07.327 --> 01:41:08.529
THE EVENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

01:41:08.595 --> 01:41:10.531
AND SO WE WERE LOOKING AT

01:41:10.597 --> 01:41:11.598
INSPECTION ACTIVITIES. WE WERE

01:41:11.665 --> 01:41:12.733
LOOKING TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT

01:41:12.800 --> 01:41:14.601
THE REPORTS WERE BEING DONE ON

01:41:14.668 --> 01:41:16.270
TIME, WHETHER OR NOT THERE WERE

01:41:16.336 --> 01:41:17.638
FINDINGS, WHETHER OR NOT THE

01:41:17.704 --> 01:41:19.506
LANDFILL OPERATOR WAS

01:41:19.573 --> 01:41:20.941
COOPERATIVE WITH THOSE

01:41:21.008 --> 01:41:22.042
INSPECTIONS. AND THEN ONCE

01:41:22.109 --> 01:41:23.410
PROBLEMS WERE IDENTIFIED, WE

01:41:23.477 --> 01:41:26.013
WERE TRYING TO EVALUATE HOW

01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:27.815
QUICKLY WAS THE ENFORCEMENT

01:41:27.881 --> 01:41:30.083
PROGRAM TAKING STEPS TO ENSURE

01:41:30.150 --> 01:41:31.752
THAT THE LANDFILL OPERATOR WAS

01:41:31.819 --> 01:41:33.954
TAKING ACTION TO MITIGATE THE

01:41:34.021 --> 01:41:35.355
EFFECTS OF THE SUBSURFACE

01:41:35.422 --> 01:41:36.857
CHEMICAL REACTION. BUT TO

01:41:36.924 --> 01:41:38.258
ANSWER YOUR QUESTION MORE

01:41:38.325 --> 01:41:39.426
SPECIFICALLY, I THINK I'LL TURN

01:41:39.493 --> 01:41:42.930
IT OVER TO BOB HARRIS. SO TO TO

01:41:42.996 --> 01:41:45.399
THE PART OF THE QUESTION. SO SO

01:41:45.466 --> 01:41:46.867
LADF HAS THESE TWO FUNCTIONS,

01:41:46.934 --> 01:41:49.069
AND THEY REALLY DO OPERATE VERY

01:41:49.136 --> 01:41:50.471
INDEPENDENTLY OF ONE ANOTHER.

01:41:50.537 --> 01:41:52.639
SO STAFF DON'T CROSS OVER.

01:41:52.706 --> 01:41:54.475
THESE ARE VERY DIFFERENT

01:41:54.541 --> 01:41:56.243
INDIVIDUALS WITH VERY DIFFERENT

01:41:56.310 --> 01:41:57.611
PROCESSES IN PLACE FOR HOW THEY

01:41:57.678 --> 01:41:59.780
DO WHAT THEY DO. SO THERE IS A

01:41:59.847 --> 01:42:01.982
SIGNIFICANT PROCEDURAL

01:42:02.049 --> 01:42:04.885
DISTINCTION. THERE'S ALSO A

01:42:04.952 --> 01:42:06.019
DISTINCTION OF AUTHORITY. SO SO

01:42:06.086 --> 01:42:07.721
THE THE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM,

01:42:07.788 --> 01:42:10.290
IT'S A HIGHLY IT'S A REGULATORY

01:42:10.357 --> 01:42:11.325
RESPONSIBILITY THAT THEY HOLD

01:42:11.391 --> 01:42:12.793
AT THE DESIGNATION OF

01:42:12.860 --> 01:42:14.361
CALRECYCLE. SO THERE'S THERE'S

01:42:14.428 --> 01:42:17.831
A LOT MORE CRITERIA,

01:42:17.898 --> 01:42:18.565
REGULATIONS OR WHATEVER THAT

01:42:18.632 --> 01:42:21.034
THEY CAN HOLD THE LANDFILL OR

01:42:21.101 --> 01:42:22.870
SIMILAR OPERATORS ACCOUNTABLE

01:42:22.936 --> 01:42:24.972
TO. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE

01:42:25.038 --> 01:42:26.206
PUBLIC HEALTH ARM DOESN'T HAVE

01:42:26.273 --> 01:42:27.908
WHAT IT NEEDS IN TERMS OF

01:42:27.975 --> 01:42:29.109
AUTHORITY. IT JUST MEANS THAT

01:42:29.176 --> 01:42:31.144
THERE'S A LOT OF SPECIFICITY TO

01:42:31.211 --> 01:42:32.579
THE REGULATIONS AROUND

01:42:32.646 --> 01:42:34.748
REGULATING LANDFILL THAT DON'T

01:42:34.815 --> 01:42:36.550
NECESSARILY EXIST FOR THE BROAD

01:42:36.617 --> 01:42:39.086
SCALE, RESPONDING TO ANY

01:42:39.152 --> 01:42:41.588
POSSIBLE HEALTH HAZARD. RIGHT.

01:42:41.655 --> 01:42:42.990
YOU ASKED, I BELIEVE, IF THERE

01:42:43.056 --> 01:42:44.691
WAS SORT OF BREAKDOWNS IN

01:42:44.758 --> 01:42:45.926
PROCESS OR PROCEDURE. YEAH. I

01:42:45.993 --> 01:42:47.761
WAS CURIOUS TO UNDERSTAND IF IT

01:42:47.828 --> 01:42:49.263
IF SO, IT'S ESTABLISHED THEY

01:42:49.329 --> 01:42:51.365
HAVE THE AUTHORITY IN BOTH

01:42:51.431 --> 01:42:52.766
DEPARTMENTS OF THE OVERSIGHT

01:42:52.833 --> 01:42:54.935
HERE. WERE THERE INTERNAL

01:42:55.002 --> 01:42:56.670
FAILURES OF PROCEDURES OR IS

01:42:56.737 --> 01:42:59.573
THERE WERE THERE ANY STATE, ANY

01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:00.741
GAPS IN STATE LAW THAT WE

01:43:00.807 --> 01:43:01.875
SHOULD BE ADDRESSING FROM A

01:43:01.942 --> 01:43:03.610
LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN

01:43:03.677 --> 01:43:05.012
REVERSE? NO, WE DIDN'T IDENTIFY

01:43:05.078 --> 01:43:07.147
ANY GAPS IN STATE LAW. THERE

01:43:07.214 --> 01:43:08.615
ARE NO LEGISLATIVE

01:43:08.682 --> 01:43:09.349
RECOMMENDATIONS. THE REPORT'S

01:43:09.416 --> 01:43:10.450
NOTHING. WE FEEL LIKE THE STATE

01:43:10.517 --> 01:43:12.586
LAW LACKS OR GAPS IN THE

01:43:12.653 --> 01:43:15.055
CRITERIA THERE WITH RESPECT TO

01:43:15.122 --> 01:43:16.657
THE INTERNAL PROCESSES AND

01:43:16.723 --> 01:43:18.225
WHERE THOSE THOSE SHORTCOMINGS

01:43:18.292 --> 01:43:21.228
ARE, AS MR. JACOBS NOTED, THEY

01:43:21.295 --> 01:43:23.030
DON'T HAVE POLICIES AND

01:43:23.096 --> 01:43:25.098
PROCEDURES THEY OR THEY DIDN'T

01:43:25.165 --> 01:43:26.333
AT THE TIME WE CONDUCTED THE

01:43:26.400 --> 01:43:27.467
AUDIT. WE STILL UNDERSTAND THAT

01:43:27.534 --> 01:43:29.069
THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON THOSE.

01:43:29.136 --> 01:43:30.270
SO WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH

01:43:30.337 --> 01:43:31.705
HAZARD RESPONSE, THEY HAD NO

01:43:31.772 --> 01:43:33.473
PLAYBOOK, SO TO SPEAK. YOU KNOW,

01:43:33.540 --> 01:43:35.976
THEY HAD NO NO SET OF

01:43:36.043 --> 01:43:37.444
INSTRUCTIONS OR STANDARD

01:43:37.511 --> 01:43:40.280
OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR HOW TO

01:43:40.347 --> 01:43:42.115
RESPOND. AND THAT CAN LEAD TO

01:43:42.182 --> 01:43:43.317
INCONSISTENCY. THAT CAN LEAD TO

01:43:43.383 --> 01:43:47.888
GAPS IN RESPONSES. WE FOUND

01:43:47.955 --> 01:43:50.123
THAT THE PREDOMINANT THING THAT

01:43:50.190 --> 01:43:51.825
WE COULD IDENTIFY THAT WAS

01:43:51.892 --> 01:43:52.893
AFFECTING HOW THEY RESPONDED

01:43:52.960 --> 01:43:54.361
HAPPENED TO BE THE EXPERTISE

01:43:54.428 --> 01:43:55.796
AND THE JUDGMENT OF WHOEVER

01:43:55.862 --> 01:43:57.631
HAPPENED TO BE RUNNING THE

01:43:57.698 --> 01:43:58.999
DEPARTMENT AT THE TIME THAT

01:43:59.066 --> 01:44:01.201
PARTICULAR EVENT HAPPENED,

01:44:01.268 --> 01:44:03.236
WHICH IS NOT WHERE YOU WANT TO

01:44:03.303 --> 01:44:04.371
BE. YOU WANT TO BE IN A

01:44:04.438 --> 01:44:05.572
POSITION OF HAVING STANDARD

01:44:05.639 --> 01:44:06.907
OPERATING PROCEDURES, NOT THAT

01:44:06.974 --> 01:44:08.375
THEY CAN'T CHANGE OR EVOLVE OR

01:44:08.442 --> 01:44:09.543
GROW AND IMPROVE, BUT YOU WANT

01:44:09.610 --> 01:44:11.478
TO BE IN A POSITION OF HAVING

01:44:11.545 --> 01:44:13.313
THOSE SOPS. DO YOU FIND IT

01:44:13.380 --> 01:44:16.583
STRANGE THAT WE WE JUST CAME

01:44:16.650 --> 01:44:17.985
OUT OF COVID, YOU KNOW, TWO AND

01:44:18.051 --> 01:44:19.720
A HALF, THREE YEARS AGO WHERE

01:44:19.786 --> 01:44:23.023
THERE WAS IMMENSE COMMUNICATION,

01:44:23.090 --> 01:44:24.124
EVERYTHING REGARDING PUBLIC

01:44:24.191 --> 01:44:27.694
HEALTH, FROM VACCINE ACCESS TO,

01:44:27.761 --> 01:44:29.963
YOU NAME IT, RIGHT TO MASKS TO

01:44:30.030 --> 01:44:32.566
YOU NAME IT ISN'T WAS ISN'T IT

01:44:32.633 --> 01:44:36.303
A LITTLE BIZARRE THAT NO NÓ

01:44:36.370 --> 01:44:38.438
PROCEDURE EXISTS? WE WOULD HAVE

01:44:38.505 --> 01:44:40.307
WANTED THEM TO HAVE A PROCEDURE.

01:44:40.374 --> 01:44:46.780
YEAH. SO TO LOOK AT THE SIX,

01:44:46.847 --> 01:44:50.751
657 DAY DELAY HERE, THAT WAS

01:44:50.817 --> 01:44:51.785
PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST

01:44:51.852 --> 01:44:52.886
TROUBLING REVELATIONS IN THE

01:44:52.953 --> 01:44:56.123
AUDIT FOR ME, IS THAT THERE IT

01:44:56.189 --> 01:45:00.093
TOOK 657 DAYS TO DIRECT

01:45:00.160 --> 01:45:01.695
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE, COMPARED

01:45:01.762 --> 01:45:04.064
WITH 22 DAYS AT ALISO CANYON.

01:45:04.131 --> 01:45:06.199
SO WHAT SPECIFICALLY SHOULD

01:45:06.266 --> 01:45:08.335
HAVE TRIGGERED AN EARLIER

01:45:08.402 --> 01:45:11.938
RECOMMENDATION FOR RELOCATION?

01:45:12.005 --> 01:45:15.575
OR WHAT COULD HAVE. IF THE

01:45:15.642 --> 01:45:17.010
DEPARTMENT HAD STANDARD

01:45:17.077 --> 01:45:18.445
OPERATING PROCEDURES THAT

01:45:18.512 --> 01:45:21.314
DEFINED WHAT CONDITIONS SHOULD

01:45:21.381 --> 01:45:23.850
ASK IT TO ISSUE ITS DIRECTIVES.

01:45:23.917 --> 01:45:25.652
THAT WOULD HAVE PROVIDED THE

01:45:25.719 --> 01:45:26.720
DEPARTMENT WITH A FRAMEWORK FOR

01:45:26.787 --> 01:45:28.522
WHEN IT SHOULD TAKE SPECIFIC

01:45:28.588 --> 01:45:29.990
ACTIONS. WE COULDN'T IDENTIFY A

01:45:30.057 --> 01:45:31.391
CLEAR REASON WHY THE DEPARTMENT

01:45:31.458 --> 01:45:33.093
HADN'T ACTED SOONER IN THIS

01:45:33.160 --> 01:45:34.094
CASE, ESPECIALLY WITH SO MANY

01:45:34.161 --> 01:45:37.130
OF THE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS

01:45:37.197 --> 01:45:39.299
LOOKING IDENTICAL FROM THE

01:45:39.366 --> 01:45:41.802
RECORDS OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO

01:45:41.868 --> 01:45:43.303
RESPONDED TO THE ALISO CANYON

01:45:43.370 --> 01:45:46.506
EVENT. SO WE WHEN WE ASKED THEM,

01:45:46.573 --> 01:45:48.341
WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SO SOONER?

01:45:48.408 --> 01:45:49.843
THE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WHO

01:45:49.910 --> 01:45:52.312
ARE IN CHARGE NOW HAD HAD A

01:45:52.379 --> 01:45:54.147
SENSE THAT ALISO CANYON WAS

01:45:54.214 --> 01:45:56.616
MORE DANGEROUS OR POTENTIALLY

01:45:56.683 --> 01:45:58.819
HAD BIGGER IMPLICATIONS. BUT

01:45:58.885 --> 01:46:00.587
THE RECORD SHOWS THAT THE

01:46:00.654 --> 01:46:02.723
CONDITIONS AND THE HEALTH

01:46:02.789 --> 01:46:03.924
ASSESSMENTS OF THE OFFICIALS AT

01:46:03.990 --> 01:46:06.727
THE TIME HAD SIMILAR

01:46:06.793 --> 01:46:08.128
ASSESSMENTS TO WHAT IS

01:46:08.195 --> 01:46:09.563
HAPPENING NOW CURRENTLY. SO

01:46:09.629 --> 01:46:12.466
THERE WAS NO GUIDING FORCE TO

01:46:12.532 --> 01:46:14.267
STANDARDIZE BETWEEN THOSE TWO

01:46:14.334 --> 01:46:15.669
RESPONSES. I THINK I WOULD ALSO

01:46:15.736 --> 01:46:17.437
ADD TO THAT WE MENTIONED THIS

01:46:17.504 --> 01:46:19.272
IN THE REPORT, IS THAT THE

01:46:19.339 --> 01:46:20.774
LEADERSHIP AT THE DEPARTMENT

01:46:20.841 --> 01:46:22.142
CHANGES OVER TIME. AND SO

01:46:22.209 --> 01:46:23.677
ULTIMATELY, YOU HAVE THESE

01:46:23.744 --> 01:46:25.412
HEALTH OFFICIALS AND PEOPLE IN

01:46:25.479 --> 01:46:26.847
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS WHO ARE

01:46:26.913 --> 01:46:28.682
MAKING, IN THEIR VIEW,

01:46:28.749 --> 01:46:30.083
PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENTS, AND

01:46:30.150 --> 01:46:31.918
PEOPLE CAN REACH DIFFERENT

01:46:31.985 --> 01:46:33.353
PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENTS, PERHAPS.

01:46:33.420 --> 01:46:34.955
BUT I THINK THE POINT THAT WE

01:46:35.021 --> 01:46:36.089
RAISED IN THE AUDIT IS, YOU

01:46:36.156 --> 01:46:37.157
KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT

01:46:37.224 --> 01:46:38.425
PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENTS TO BE SO

01:46:38.492 --> 01:46:40.227
FAR APART. THERE NEEDS TO BE

01:46:40.293 --> 01:46:41.895
SOME ELEMENT OF STANDARDIZATION

01:46:41.962 --> 01:46:43.797
WHERE PERHAPS EACH HEALTH

01:46:43.864 --> 01:46:45.599
EMERGENCY ISN'T PRECISELY THE

01:46:45.665 --> 01:46:47.067
SAME, BUT HOW YOU GO ABOUT

01:46:47.134 --> 01:46:48.568
PLANNING FOR IT, WHAT FACTORS

01:46:48.635 --> 01:46:50.704
YOU CONSIDER AS THE INPUTS TO

01:46:50.771 --> 01:46:51.872
HOW YOU'RE GOING TO RESPOND,

01:46:51.938 --> 01:46:53.640
WHAT KIND OF DATA YOU'RE GOING

01:46:53.707 --> 01:46:54.841
TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC, THE

01:46:54.908 --> 01:46:56.409
THOUGHT PROCESS, THE PLANNING

01:46:56.476 --> 01:46:58.145
NEEDS TO CONSIDER THE SAME KIND

01:46:58.211 --> 01:46:59.579
OF INPUTS. AND THAT WAS THE

01:46:59.646 --> 01:47:01.047
GENESIS AND THE IMPETUS BEHIND

01:47:01.114 --> 01:47:02.449
OUR RECOMMENDATION TO THE

01:47:02.516 --> 01:47:05.352
DEPARTMENT. OKAY. A LITTLE BIT

01:47:05.418 --> 01:47:06.820
MORE AROUND THE HEALTH

01:47:06.887 --> 01:47:09.589
MONITORING, THE OBVIOUSLY, WE

01:47:09.656 --> 01:47:11.525
SAW THROUGH THE CHARTS AND, AND,

01:47:11.591 --> 01:47:14.060
AND THROUGH YOUR COMMENTS THAT

01:47:14.127 --> 01:47:15.195
YOU MENTIONED THAT THE COUNTY

01:47:15.262 --> 01:47:17.664
NO LONGER HAD RELIABLE CURRENT

01:47:17.731 --> 01:47:19.432
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS HEALTH

01:47:19.499 --> 01:47:20.267
SYMPTOMS THAT THE RESIDENTS

01:47:20.333 --> 01:47:22.402
WERE EXPERIENCING. WAS THERE

01:47:22.469 --> 01:47:23.970
ANY IS THERE ANY EVEN YOU KNOW,

01:47:24.037 --> 01:47:25.172
I KNOW THERE HAS NOT BEEN A

01:47:25.238 --> 01:47:28.108
RESPONSE, BUT IS THERE ANY

01:47:28.175 --> 01:47:29.509
INDICATION OF WHY THIS SUDDEN

01:47:29.576 --> 01:47:32.379
DROP OFF OF MONITORING, OF

01:47:32.445 --> 01:47:34.548
COLLECTING DATA, OF ENGAGEMENT

01:47:34.614 --> 01:47:37.784
AND COMMUNICATION IN 2024? I

01:47:37.851 --> 01:47:39.085
MEAN, DID IT HAVE ANYTHING TO

01:47:39.152 --> 01:47:40.253
DO WITH THE LAWSUIT? I'M JUST

01:47:40.320 --> 01:47:41.822
TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THERE

01:47:41.888 --> 01:47:43.890
WAS IT FELT LIKE A LOT OF

01:47:43.957 --> 01:47:46.426
ENGAGEMENT TO MINIMAL, RIGHT.

01:47:46.493 --> 01:47:48.929
SO WITH I WILL DEAL WITH THE,

01:47:48.995 --> 01:47:51.464
THE HEALTH, THE, THE COLLECTION

01:47:51.531 --> 01:47:53.233
OF HEALTH INFORMATION FIRST. SO

01:47:53.300 --> 01:47:55.802
THE DEPARTMENT TOLD US THAT THE

01:47:55.869 --> 01:47:56.870
HEALTH INFORMATION IT WAS

01:47:56.937 --> 01:47:58.438
COLLECTING THROUGH THE SURVEY

01:47:58.505 --> 01:48:00.440
THAT IT CONDUCTED WAS

01:48:00.507 --> 01:48:01.575
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. SO

01:48:01.641 --> 01:48:03.276
IT WASN'T THE ONLY THING IT WAS

01:48:03.343 --> 01:48:05.145
DOING TO MONITOR HEALTH

01:48:05.212 --> 01:48:07.347
CONDITIONS, BUT THE THINGS THAT

01:48:07.414 --> 01:48:09.082
IT TOLD US IT WAS DOING IN

01:48:09.149 --> 01:48:10.650
ADDITION WEREN'T THINGS THAT

01:48:10.717 --> 01:48:12.452
COULD ACTUALLY TELL YOU WHAT

01:48:12.519 --> 01:48:13.787
THE COMMUNITY'S HEALTH

01:48:13.854 --> 01:48:15.222
CONDITIONS WERE. SO THEY

01:48:15.288 --> 01:48:17.057
MENTIONED THINGS LIKE

01:48:17.123 --> 01:48:18.458
MONITORING THE NUMBER OF

01:48:18.525 --> 01:48:20.327
NOTICES OF VIOLATION ISSUED BY

01:48:20.393 --> 01:48:21.728
THE AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT

01:48:21.795 --> 01:48:22.696
DISTRICT. WELL, THOSE NOTICES

01:48:22.762 --> 01:48:24.231
OF VIOLATION TELL YOU THAT

01:48:24.297 --> 01:48:25.932
SOMEONE DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY THE

01:48:25.999 --> 01:48:27.133
AIR SMELLED, BUT THEY DON'T

01:48:27.200 --> 01:48:28.902
TELL YOU WHAT HEALTH SYMPTOMS

01:48:28.969 --> 01:48:30.036
THEY'RE EXPERIENCING. SO

01:48:30.103 --> 01:48:31.438
THEY'RE AN INDICATOR THAT THE

01:48:31.504 --> 01:48:33.607
AIR STINKS, BUT THEY'RE NOT AN

01:48:33.673 --> 01:48:34.975
INDICATOR OF WHAT I MIGHT BE

01:48:35.041 --> 01:48:36.443
FEELING HEALTH WISE. SO WE

01:48:36.509 --> 01:48:37.911
DIDN'T FIND THE OTHER THINGS

01:48:37.978 --> 01:48:39.679
THAT THE DEPARTMENT SAID IT WAS

01:48:39.746 --> 01:48:42.549
LOOKING AT TO BE SUFFICIENT,

01:48:42.616 --> 01:48:44.651
REALLY, FOR ITS ARGUMENT THAT

01:48:44.718 --> 01:48:46.119
LIKE, WELL, WE HAVE A GOOD

01:48:46.186 --> 01:48:47.254
HANDLE ON THIS BECAUSE WE'RE

01:48:47.320 --> 01:48:48.221
REVIEWING ALL THESE OTHER

01:48:48.288 --> 01:48:50.023
PIECES OF DATA WITH RESPECT TO

01:48:50.090 --> 01:48:51.258
ENGAGEMENT, THE ONLY THING I'LL

01:48:51.324 --> 01:48:52.659
SAY IS THE DEPARTMENT'S

01:48:52.726 --> 01:48:53.793
POSITION WAS THAT IT FELT LIKE

01:48:53.860 --> 01:48:55.328
IT WAS SUFFICIENTLY ENGAGING

01:48:55.395 --> 01:48:56.630
WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE

01:48:56.696 --> 01:48:58.465
OBVIOUSLY DON'T AGREE WITH THAT.

01:48:58.531 --> 01:48:59.366
WE THINK THAT THEY COULD HAVE

01:48:59.432 --> 01:49:01.368
BEEN DOING MORE. BUT AS TO WHY

01:49:01.434 --> 01:49:04.571
IT DROPPED OFF IN THE LATER

01:49:04.638 --> 01:49:07.073
PERIOD, I WILL NOTE THAT IT DID.

01:49:07.140 --> 01:49:08.475
THEIR ATTENDANCE AT CAC

01:49:08.541 --> 01:49:09.943
MEETINGS DOES SEEM TO TICK UP

01:49:10.010 --> 01:49:12.445
AGAIN COME 2026, BUT WE WERE,

01:49:12.512 --> 01:49:14.180
YOU KNOW, HAD TO CUT IT OFF AT

01:49:14.247 --> 01:49:15.248
SOME POINT BECAUSE WE WERE

01:49:15.315 --> 01:49:16.416
ABOUT TO RELEASE THE AUDIT

01:49:16.483 --> 01:49:18.118
REPORT, BUT THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE

01:49:18.184 --> 01:49:19.185
AN ANSWER WITH RESPECT TO

01:49:19.252 --> 01:49:20.253
ENGAGEMENT OTHER THAN WE FEEL

01:49:20.320 --> 01:49:22.122
LIKE WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB

01:49:22.188 --> 01:49:24.691
ESSENTIALLY. OKAY, IN TERMS OF

01:49:24.758 --> 01:49:26.493
LEGISLATIVE FIXES IDENTIFIED,

01:49:26.559 --> 01:49:28.662
ARE THERE ANY SPECIFIC CHANGES

01:49:28.728 --> 01:49:30.430
TO STATE LAW THAT THAT WOULD

01:49:30.497 --> 01:49:32.565
HAVE ENABLED A FASTER OR MORE

01:49:32.632 --> 01:49:37.637
EFFECTIVE RESPONSE? SO THE

01:49:37.704 --> 01:49:40.507
LANDFILL SAFETY ACT THAT

01:49:40.573 --> 01:49:43.443
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SCHIAVO SPONSORED

01:49:43.510 --> 01:49:45.578
IS PROBABLY A REALLY GOOD STEP

01:49:45.645 --> 01:49:48.081
IN THAT DIRECTION. IT PUTS IN

01:49:48.148 --> 01:49:49.482
PLACE, AS SHE MENTIONED IN HER

01:49:49.549 --> 01:49:52.786
OPENING COMMENTS, A LOT OF

01:49:52.852 --> 01:49:54.554
REQUIREMENTS THAT HAD THEY BEEN

01:49:54.621 --> 01:49:57.090
AROUND FOR THIS EVENT, WOULD

01:49:57.157 --> 01:49:59.626
HAVE CHANGED HOW RESPONSIBLE

01:49:59.693 --> 01:50:01.027
DEPARTMENTS WOULD HAVE HAD TO

01:50:01.094 --> 01:50:03.129
RESPOND. OTHER THAN THAT, NO,

01:50:03.196 --> 01:50:04.230
WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER

01:50:04.297 --> 01:50:05.065
LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS IN

01:50:05.131 --> 01:50:08.234
THE REPORT. SO TO DIG INTO THAT

01:50:08.301 --> 01:50:09.703
A LITTLE BIT, THOUGH, BECAUSE I

01:50:09.769 --> 01:50:11.404
DID SUPPORT THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN.

01:50:11.471 --> 01:50:14.074
S BILL, BUT THAT THAT IS

01:50:14.140 --> 01:50:16.576
ESSENTIALLY JUST MONITORING OF

01:50:16.643 --> 01:50:18.311
GASES. AND WHAT IS THAT? IS

01:50:18.378 --> 01:50:20.513
THAT SO WHAT WHAT AM I MISSING

01:50:20.580 --> 01:50:21.982
IN TERMS OF AN ADDITION?

01:50:22.048 --> 01:50:23.049
BECAUSE YOU JUST SAID EARLIER

01:50:23.116 --> 01:50:25.552
THAT IT'S NOT SIMPLY THE

01:50:25.618 --> 01:50:28.388
MONITORING OF EMISSIONS OR

01:50:28.455 --> 01:50:30.890
ODORS, BUT UNDERSTANDING THE

01:50:30.957 --> 01:50:33.059
HEALTH IMPACTS. SO I'M JUST

01:50:33.126 --> 01:50:34.928
TRYING TO CONNECT THE TWO. I

01:50:34.995 --> 01:50:35.996
WON'T SPEAK FOR THE

01:50:36.062 --> 01:50:37.397
ASSEMBLYWOMAN, BUT IT DOES

01:50:37.464 --> 01:50:39.299
INCLUDE ALSO A COMPONENT IN THE

01:50:39.366 --> 01:50:41.735
BILL ABOUT HEALTH STUDIES. OKAY.

01:50:41.801 --> 01:50:45.005
OKAY. THANK YOU. THIS IS YOUR

01:50:45.071 --> 01:50:50.744
FAULT. EXCUSE ME. SO MY LAST

01:50:50.810 --> 01:50:52.178
AREA IS REALLY ABOUT

01:50:52.245 --> 01:50:53.980
ACCOUNTABILITY IMPLEMENTATION.

01:50:54.047 --> 01:50:56.049
WHICH OF YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS

01:50:56.116 --> 01:50:58.351
DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST URGENT

01:50:58.418 --> 01:51:00.387
FOR PROTECTING THE RESIDENTS OF

01:51:00.453 --> 01:51:02.689
OUR COMMUNITY TODAY? I THINK

01:51:02.756 --> 01:51:04.391
IT'S ALL ABOUT HEALTH

01:51:04.457 --> 01:51:06.226
ULTIMATELY. AND SO OUR

01:51:06.292 --> 01:51:08.028
RECOMMENDATION THAT THE

01:51:08.094 --> 01:51:09.596
DEPARTMENT REALLY NEEDS TO PUT

01:51:09.662 --> 01:51:11.664
UP ON ITS WEBSITE, ITS OWN

01:51:11.731 --> 01:51:13.867
PUBLIC ASSESSMENTS ABOUT WHAT

01:51:13.933 --> 01:51:15.568
ARE THE HEALTH IMPACTS WHEN YOU

01:51:15.635 --> 01:51:17.404
HAVE THESE EXCEEDANCES DON'T

01:51:17.470 --> 01:51:19.172
LEAVE THE COMMUNITY IN THE DARK.

01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:20.373
IT'S KIND OF A FUNDAMENTAL

01:51:20.440 --> 01:51:21.674
QUESTION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH

01:51:21.741 --> 01:51:23.543
OFFICER. YOU KNOW, PROTECT THE

01:51:23.610 --> 01:51:24.677
PUBLIC, LET THEM KNOW WHAT'S

01:51:24.744 --> 01:51:26.746
GOING ON. AND SO BEING MORE

01:51:26.813 --> 01:51:28.181
TRANSPARENT BY SHARING WITH THE

01:51:28.248 --> 01:51:29.649
COMMUNITY, EITHER YOU SHOULD BE

01:51:29.716 --> 01:51:31.084
CONCERNED OR YOU SHOULDN'T BE

01:51:31.151 --> 01:51:32.185
CONCERNED. I THINK THAT'S JOB

01:51:32.252 --> 01:51:34.320
ONE. I THINK JOB TWO IS THERE'S

01:51:34.387 --> 01:51:36.089
A REAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE

01:51:36.156 --> 01:51:37.891
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER TO ENGAGE

01:51:37.957 --> 01:51:39.726
IN CONTINUAL MONITORING AND

01:51:39.793 --> 01:51:41.161
SURVEY OF HEALTH SYMPTOMS IN

01:51:41.227 --> 01:51:43.196
THE COMMUNITY, AND DO SO IN A

01:51:43.263 --> 01:51:45.098
WAY WHERE YOU'RE ABLE TO TRACK

01:51:45.165 --> 01:51:46.599
INDIVIDUALS TO UNDERSTAND HOW

01:51:46.666 --> 01:51:48.401
WIDESPREAD THE PROBLEM IS. AND

01:51:48.468 --> 01:51:50.837
I GUESS MY MY THIRD, IF I HAD

01:51:50.904 --> 01:51:53.106
TO PICK ONLY THREE, THE THIRD

01:51:53.173 --> 01:51:55.942
ONE IS, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK OF

01:51:56.009 --> 01:51:57.343
EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENCIES

01:51:57.410 --> 01:51:59.879
AFTER A WILDFIRE DISASTER OR

01:51:59.946 --> 01:52:02.048
ANOTHER EMERGENCY EVENT THEY

01:52:02.115 --> 01:52:03.783
ALWAYS ENGAGE IN AFTER ACTION

01:52:03.850 --> 01:52:05.251
REPORTS WHERE THEY LOOK AT WHAT

01:52:05.318 --> 01:52:07.454
WENT WRONG, WHAT NEEDS TO

01:52:07.520 --> 01:52:09.222
IMPROVE, WHAT CAN WE DO BETTER?

01:52:09.289 --> 01:52:10.757
THAT WAS A RECOMMENDATION WE

01:52:10.824 --> 01:52:13.560
MADE. WE MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT.

01:52:13.626 --> 01:52:16.062
POSITION YOURSELF TO GET BETTER.

01:52:16.129 --> 01:52:17.497
CLEARLY, WHAT HAPPENED HERE AT

01:52:17.564 --> 01:52:18.998
CHIQUITA CANYON WASN'T THE

01:52:19.065 --> 01:52:20.667
GREATEST EXAMPLE OF HOW IT

01:52:20.733 --> 01:52:21.768
SHOULD BE DONE. LET'S LEARN

01:52:21.835 --> 01:52:24.337
FROM THIS AND LET'S FIGURE OUT

01:52:24.404 --> 01:52:26.139
HOW WE BETTER SERVE THE

01:52:26.206 --> 01:52:27.240
COMMUNITY. THE NEXT TIME

01:52:27.307 --> 01:52:28.241
SOMETHING HAPPENS. I'LL JUST

01:52:28.308 --> 01:52:29.409
MAKE ONE QUICK WHAT'S HAPPENING

01:52:29.476 --> 01:52:31.878
BECAUSE IT'S STILL EXISTING.

01:52:31.945 --> 01:52:34.314
AND THEN LASTLY, YOU KNOW, I

01:52:34.380 --> 01:52:35.515
JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR

01:52:35.582 --> 01:52:37.650
TAKING SO MUCH TIME TO, TO

01:52:37.717 --> 01:52:43.423
UNDERSTAND THIS AUDIT. I'M SURE

01:52:43.490 --> 01:52:44.858
THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE LOTS

01:52:44.924 --> 01:52:47.127
OF FOLLOW UP, BUT ALL OF YOUR

01:52:47.193 --> 01:52:48.495
RECOMMENDATIONS TO CLARIFY ALL

01:52:48.561 --> 01:52:49.596
OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE

01:52:49.662 --> 01:52:51.364
AUDIT RIGHT NOW CAN BE DONE

01:52:51.431 --> 01:52:52.732
PREDOMINANTLY ADMINISTRATIVELY

01:52:52.799 --> 01:52:54.300
AT THE COUNTY LEVEL. THEY DON'T

01:52:54.367 --> 01:52:56.636
HAVE TO BE THERE DOESN'T NEED

01:52:56.703 --> 01:52:58.972
TO BE A STATE INTERVENTION. IF

01:52:59.038 --> 01:53:00.907
THERE WAS A DESIRE TO DO IT,

01:53:00.974 --> 01:53:02.142
THEY COULD DO IT ON THEIR OWN

01:53:02.208 --> 01:53:03.243
WITHOUT STATE INTERVENTION.

01:53:03.309 --> 01:53:06.146
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SENATOR

01:53:06.212 --> 01:53:11.251
SENATOR SHIVA. THANK YOU AGAIN

01:53:11.317 --> 01:53:13.786
FOR ALL OF YOUR THOROUGH WORK

01:53:13.853 --> 01:53:15.522
AND EXPLANATION TONIGHT. SO OUR

01:53:15.588 --> 01:53:17.257
COMMUNITY CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND

01:53:17.323 --> 01:53:19.092
WHAT HAS GONE INTO THE MANY

01:53:19.159 --> 01:53:21.594
MONTHS THAT YOU PUT INTO THESE

01:53:21.661 --> 01:53:23.363
CONVERSATIONS. I IMAGINE

01:53:23.429 --> 01:53:24.797
SOMETIMES FRUSTRATING

01:53:24.864 --> 01:53:25.899
CONVERSATIONS WITH LA COUNTY

01:53:25.965 --> 01:53:27.700
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

01:53:27.767 --> 01:53:30.603
AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I JUST

01:53:30.670 --> 01:53:33.806
THINK IT'S IT'S TRULY

01:53:33.873 --> 01:53:34.908
UNBELIEVABLE, SOME OF THIS

01:53:34.974 --> 01:53:38.511
STUFF, THE FACT THAT THEY WERE

01:53:38.578 --> 01:53:41.147
NOT COMMUNICATIVE DURING MARCH

01:53:41.214 --> 01:53:43.583
TO NOVEMBER OF 2024. I HAVE THE

01:53:43.650 --> 01:53:48.955
SUMMARY OF THE SOUTH COAST AQMD

01:53:49.022 --> 01:53:51.457
REPORTED COMPLAINTS AND NOVS.

01:53:51.524 --> 01:53:55.061
THAT IS THE WORST TIME. THAT'S

01:53:55.128 --> 01:53:58.264
THE WORST TIME IN THE LAST FOUR

01:53:58.331 --> 01:54:03.102
YEARS. THEY WERE HAVING. DURING

01:54:03.169 --> 01:54:07.307
THAT TIME, THERE WERE 2200

01:54:07.373 --> 01:54:09.842
COMPLAINTS A MONTH FOR MULTIPLE

01:54:09.909 --> 01:54:12.712
MONTHS. DURING THAT TIME, 1500

01:54:12.779 --> 01:54:16.282
1400, 2500, AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER,

01:54:16.349 --> 01:54:18.851
1500 IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER

01:54:18.918 --> 01:54:21.788
CAME DOWN IN DECEMBER. WHEN WE

01:54:21.854 --> 01:54:23.223
HAVE THE SANTA ANA WINDS, WHICH

01:54:23.289 --> 01:54:24.991
IS ALSO WHEN THEY HAPPEN TO DO

01:54:25.058 --> 01:54:26.159
THEIR HEALTH STUDY. AND THEY

01:54:26.226 --> 01:54:28.528
SAID, OH, THE AIR'S NOT SO BAD.

01:54:28.595 --> 01:54:30.663
IT'S NOT SO BAD. IT'S LIKE

01:54:30.730 --> 01:54:36.069
BACKGROUND. SO, YOU KNOW, FOR

01:54:36.135 --> 01:54:37.804
THEM TO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH

01:54:37.870 --> 01:54:39.706
THE COMMUNITY DURING THAT TIME,

01:54:39.772 --> 01:54:41.441
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.

01:54:41.507 --> 01:54:42.976
AND IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME FOR A

01:54:43.042 --> 01:54:45.878
MINUTE, I HAVE A VISUAL AID.

01:54:45.945 --> 01:54:47.914
FOR WHAT? THE TIME THAT IT TOOK

01:54:47.981 --> 01:55:04.931
AND WHAT WE WERE EXPERIENCING.

01:55:04.998 --> 01:55:11.371
IT TOOK. IT TOOK TWO BILLBOARDS

01:55:11.437 --> 01:55:14.274
OR WHAT ARE THESE CALLED?

01:55:14.340 --> 01:55:16.042
POSTER BOARDS. THANK YOU. THANK

01:55:16.109 --> 01:55:18.945
YOU. TWO POSTER BOARDS TO GET

01:55:19.012 --> 01:55:21.481
CHIQUITA CANYON COMPLAINTS ON

01:55:21.547 --> 01:55:24.317
THE BOARD. AND AS YOU CAN SEE,

01:55:24.384 --> 01:55:26.486
CHIQUITA CANYON IS THE REDDISH

01:55:26.552 --> 01:55:29.088
ORANGE. THOSE ARE COMPLAINTS ON

01:55:29.155 --> 01:55:31.924
THE LEFT, NOTICES OF VIOLATION

01:55:31.991 --> 01:55:34.060
ON THE RIGHT, WHICH MEANS THAT

01:55:34.127 --> 01:55:36.596
BASICALLY A BUNCH OF THESE WERE

01:55:36.663 --> 01:55:38.765
CONFIRMED AND THEY ISSUE A

01:55:38.831 --> 01:55:39.799
VIOLATION BECAUSE SO MANY

01:55:39.866 --> 01:55:41.634
PEOPLE GOT THEIR COMPLAINTS

01:55:41.701 --> 01:55:44.537
CONFIRMED. SO THAT'S CHIQUITA

01:55:44.604 --> 01:55:48.474
CANYON. AND THEN THE OTHER

01:55:48.541 --> 01:55:49.876
COLORS ARE THE TWO OF THE OTHER

01:55:49.942 --> 01:55:51.644
ONES THAT YOU COMPLAIN YOU

01:55:51.711 --> 01:55:53.880
COMPARED IT TO. SO ELISA ALISO

01:55:53.946 --> 01:55:56.382
CANYON IS IN THE BLUE, THE

01:55:56.449 --> 01:55:59.952
SMALLEST BAR ON THE RIGHT. AND

01:56:00.019 --> 01:56:02.121
DOMINGUEZ CHANNEL IS IN THE

01:56:02.188 --> 01:56:06.826
GREEN IN THE MIDDLE. SO WE'RE

01:56:06.893 --> 01:56:16.903
COMPARING 38,499 COMPLAINTS TO

01:56:16.969 --> 01:56:18.304
4700 OR 2300. IN THE OTHER

01:56:18.371 --> 01:56:21.574
INSTANCES. AND THEN ON THE FAR

01:56:21.641 --> 01:56:24.444
LEFT, ON MY LEFT, ON YOUR RIGHT,

01:56:24.510 --> 01:56:25.878
THERE'S A LINE WITH SOME

01:56:25.945 --> 01:56:27.714
NUMBERS. THAT'S THE DAYS THAT

01:56:27.780 --> 01:56:32.452
IT TOOK LA CDPH TO ACT. AS YOU

01:56:32.518 --> 01:56:33.820
CAN SEE, THE OTHER TWO

01:56:33.886 --> 01:56:35.288
INSTANCES WAY AT THE BOTTOM

01:56:35.355 --> 01:56:39.225
EIGHT DAYS, 22 DAYS. AS YOU

01:56:39.292 --> 01:56:42.128
HEARD, IT TOOK TWO YEARS FOR US

01:56:42.195 --> 01:56:43.563
HERE FOR THEM TO TAKE ANY

01:56:43.629 --> 01:56:46.833
ACTION, 657 DAYS AND NO ONE'S

01:56:46.899 --> 01:56:48.234
BEEN EVACUATED. HAVE YOU HAS

01:56:48.301 --> 01:56:51.771
ANYONE BEEN EVACUATED YET? NO,

01:56:51.838 --> 01:56:56.109
NO NO NO STATE OF EMERGENCY. SO,

01:56:56.175 --> 01:57:01.914
YOU KNOW, THIS IS MIND BOGGLING

01:57:01.981 --> 01:57:04.083
THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE

01:57:04.150 --> 01:57:05.485
COMMUNICATING WITH PEOPLE IN

01:57:05.551 --> 01:57:08.821
THE HEIGHT OF THIS. RIGHT. DID

01:57:08.888 --> 01:57:12.225
THEY GIVE YOU ANY UNDERSTANDING

01:57:12.291 --> 01:57:16.062
OR EXPLANATION OF WHY? WHY THEY

01:57:16.129 --> 01:57:18.798
JUST DIDN'T COMMUNICATE AT ALL

01:57:18.865 --> 01:57:22.769
DURING THAT TIME? OTHER THAN

01:57:22.835 --> 01:57:24.203
THE FACT THAT THEY FELT LIKE

01:57:24.270 --> 01:57:25.538
THEY WERE DOING A SUFFICIENT

01:57:25.605 --> 01:57:29.242
JOB ALREADY? NO, IF DOING

01:57:29.308 --> 01:57:31.411
NOTHING IS SUFFICIENT, THEN I

01:57:31.477 --> 01:57:39.719
GUESS THEY WOULD BE RIGHT. SO,

01:57:39.786 --> 01:57:43.990
YOU KNOW, WHAT IS INCREDIBLY

01:57:44.056 --> 01:57:48.428
FRUSTRATING TO ME IS THAT. THIS

01:57:48.494 --> 01:57:50.496
IS WHAT THEY DO. I, YOU KNOW,

01:57:50.563 --> 01:57:53.032
BEFORE GETTING ELECTED TO THE

01:57:53.099 --> 01:57:56.969
STATE ASSEMBLY, I FOR 13 YEARS

01:57:57.036 --> 01:57:58.571
WAS A NURSE ADVOCATE. I WORKED

01:57:58.638 --> 01:58:00.940
WITH NURSES, I FOUGHT FOR

01:58:01.007 --> 01:58:03.075
HEALTHCARE. I FOUGHT FOR

01:58:03.142 --> 01:58:04.877
COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

01:58:04.944 --> 01:58:06.879
AND I HAVE SAID THIS DIRECTLY

01:58:06.946 --> 01:58:10.650
TO THE LEADERSHIP OF LA CDF,

01:58:10.716 --> 01:58:14.587
THAT IT IS SO FRUSTRATING THAT

01:58:14.654 --> 01:58:18.591
I FOUGHT FOR MY CAREER TO

01:58:18.658 --> 01:58:21.093
BOLSTER PUBLIC HEALTH, TO

01:58:21.160 --> 01:58:23.262
SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH

01:58:23.329 --> 01:58:25.031
DEPARTMENTS LIKE THEIRS, AND

01:58:25.097 --> 01:58:27.233
THEY HAVE DESERTED OUR

01:58:27.300 --> 01:58:28.434
COMMUNITY IN THE TIME WHEN THEY

01:58:28.501 --> 01:58:38.711
NEED THEM. AND I CAN'T CAN. I

01:58:38.778 --> 01:58:40.947
HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING TODAY?

01:58:41.013 --> 01:58:44.150
AND I STILL DON'T HEAR A

01:58:44.217 --> 01:58:45.685
SUFFICIENT ANSWER. ON WHY THEY

01:58:45.751 --> 01:58:48.120
HAVE NOT ACTED SOONER, WHY THEY

01:58:48.187 --> 01:58:49.755
HAVEN'T ACTED MORE DECISIVELY,

01:58:49.822 --> 01:58:50.990
WHY THEY HAVEN'T COMMUNICATED

01:58:51.057 --> 01:58:52.425
WITH OUR COMMUNITY, WHY THEY

01:58:52.492 --> 01:58:54.227
HAVEN'T DONE A REAL HEALTH

01:58:54.293 --> 01:58:55.428
SURVEY WHERE THEY ACTUALLY KNOW

01:58:55.495 --> 01:58:57.830
WHO THEY TALK TO AND HOW MANY

01:58:57.897 --> 01:58:59.031
PEOPLE IT WAS. HOW DO YOU NOT

01:58:59.098 --> 01:59:01.434
KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU

01:59:01.501 --> 01:59:02.802
COMMUNICATED WITH IN A HEALTH

01:59:02.869 --> 01:59:08.341
SURVEY? THIS IS CRAZY. DO YOU?

01:59:08.407 --> 01:59:11.477
I MEAN, DID YOU HEAR ANYTHING?

01:59:11.544 --> 01:59:13.179
IT'S A IT'S A LOT OF AIR

01:59:13.246 --> 01:59:14.847
COMPLAINTS TO REVIEW, SO I'LL

01:59:14.914 --> 01:59:16.449
GIVE THEM THAT. IT'S A LOT OF

01:59:16.516 --> 01:59:20.152
WORK. BUT DID YOU HEAR ANYTHING

01:59:20.219 --> 01:59:23.389
THAT KIND OF EXPLAINS THIS, OR

01:59:23.456 --> 01:59:26.259
YOU FOUND ANY SUFFICIENT

01:59:26.325 --> 01:59:30.963
ANSWERS ON THIS? I WOULD SAY WE

01:59:31.030 --> 01:59:32.164
DIDN'T GET A CLEAR ANSWER FROM

01:59:32.231 --> 01:59:33.866
THE DEPARTMENT ABOUT WHY THEIR

01:59:33.933 --> 01:59:35.334
ACTION WAS AT THE LEVEL THAT WE

01:59:35.401 --> 01:59:37.737
SAW IT AT. AND WHY DID YOU

01:59:37.803 --> 01:59:40.673
CHOOSE, IN A COUPLE OF YOUR

01:59:40.740 --> 01:59:42.074
COMPARISONS, ALISO AND

01:59:42.141 --> 01:59:43.943
DOMINGUEZ CHANNEL AS THE

01:59:44.010 --> 01:59:46.078
COMPARISONS? I DO HAVE TO STATE

01:59:46.145 --> 01:59:47.113
THAT DOMINGUEZ CHANNEL WAS NOT

01:59:47.179 --> 01:59:48.381
ONE OF THE COMPARATIVE EVENTS

01:59:48.447 --> 01:59:50.383
THAT WE CHOSE. TWO OF THEM WERE

01:59:50.449 --> 01:59:52.184
IN THE AUDIT REQUEST THAT YOU

01:59:52.251 --> 01:59:53.619
SUBMITTED, INCLUDING THE ALISO

01:59:53.686 --> 01:59:54.720
CANYON RESPONSE AND THE

01:59:54.787 --> 01:59:57.189
RESPONSE TO THE 2025 EATON AND

01:59:57.256 --> 01:59:59.058
PALISADES WILDFIRES. THE OTHER

01:59:59.125 --> 02:00:00.860
TWO EVENTS THAT WE LOOKED AT

02:00:00.927 --> 02:00:02.628
WERE THE CITY OF PARAMOUNT

02:00:02.695 --> 02:00:04.430
HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM EMISSIONS,

02:00:04.497 --> 02:00:06.165
AS WELL AS CITY TERRACE, WHICH

02:00:06.232 --> 02:00:09.101
WAS ANOTHER LANDFILL THAT HAD

02:00:09.168 --> 02:00:10.536
POTENTIAL CONCERNS ABOUT HEALTH

02:00:10.603 --> 02:00:12.371
EFFECTS DUE TO EMISSIONS FROM

02:00:12.438 --> 02:00:16.642
THAT CLOSED LANDFILL. OKAY. YOU

02:00:16.709 --> 02:00:19.178
KNOW, THIS IS SO THE ATTORNEY

02:00:19.245 --> 02:00:21.714
GENERAL JUST I WAS AT A PRESS

02:00:21.781 --> 02:00:24.951
CONFERENCE WITH HIM ON TUESDAY.

02:00:25.017 --> 02:00:26.786
HE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC

02:00:26.852 --> 02:00:29.255
SUBSTANCE CONTROL BOTH ARE

02:00:29.322 --> 02:00:30.690
SUING. SO THE STATE OF

02:00:30.756 --> 02:00:32.491
CALIFORNIA, DIFFERENT AGENCIES

02:00:32.558 --> 02:00:34.660
ARE SUING CHIQUITA CANYON FOR

02:00:34.727 --> 02:00:36.762
MISMANAGEMENT OF TOXIC LEACHATE,

02:00:36.829 --> 02:00:38.598
THE GARBAGE LIQUID THAT HAS ALL

02:00:38.664 --> 02:00:43.302
THE TOXINS IN IT. RIGHT. AND

02:00:43.369 --> 02:00:45.104
SUING FOR MISMANAGEMENT OF IT

02:00:45.171 --> 02:00:48.307
SPILLS, YOU KNOW, ILLEGALLY

02:00:48.374 --> 02:00:49.809
DISPOSING OF IT. THEY'RE

02:00:49.875 --> 02:00:51.911
CARTING IT TO OTHER COMMUNITIES

02:00:51.978 --> 02:00:56.949
TO. AND SO I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE

02:00:57.016 --> 02:00:59.151
MR. GONZALEZ WAS TALKING ABOUT

02:00:59.218 --> 02:01:02.021
HOW THE LINEAGE TRASH WAS

02:01:02.088 --> 02:01:04.156
BROUGHT UP TO, I THINK SUNSHINE

02:01:04.223 --> 02:01:05.992
CANYON, WHICH IS ALSO IN MY

02:01:06.058 --> 02:01:08.494
DISTRICT RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD.

02:01:08.561 --> 02:01:12.431
AND AND SO, YOU KNOW, ISSUES IN

02:01:12.498 --> 02:01:13.866
OTHER PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY

02:01:13.933 --> 02:01:15.701
BECOME ISSUES FOR OTHER PARTS

02:01:15.768 --> 02:01:17.503
OF THE COMMUNITY AS IT'S

02:01:17.570 --> 02:01:19.271
EXPORTED THIS LEACHATE,

02:01:19.338 --> 02:01:20.740
MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF

02:01:20.806 --> 02:01:21.807
GALLONS OF LEACHATE ARE NOW

02:01:21.874 --> 02:01:23.943
BEING TRUCKED OR ILLEGALLY

02:01:24.010 --> 02:01:25.411
TRUCKED DOWN TO, I THINK,

02:01:25.478 --> 02:01:29.015
SUPERVISOR HAHN'S DISTRICT TO A

02:01:29.081 --> 02:01:30.149
PLACE WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT

02:01:30.216 --> 02:01:31.951
HAVE BEEN TREATED AND THEN WERE

02:01:32.018 --> 02:01:33.719
DUMPED IN THE LA RIVER AND THEN

02:01:33.786 --> 02:01:35.855
FLOWED OUT TO THE OCEAN, WHERE

02:01:35.921 --> 02:01:37.356
IT'S EVERYBODY'S PROBLEM. IF

02:01:37.423 --> 02:01:43.462
YOU GO TO THE OCEAN. SO THIS IS

02:01:43.529 --> 02:01:45.931
THIS IS BECOMING A REGIONAL

02:01:45.998 --> 02:01:49.535
ISSUE. AND WHAT HAS BEEN

02:01:49.602 --> 02:01:51.704
FRUSTRATING ABOUT COUNTY

02:01:51.771 --> 02:01:53.139
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS

02:01:53.205 --> 02:01:56.375
THAT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT

02:01:56.442 --> 02:01:58.144
AGENCIES, I MEAN, AQMD IS

02:01:58.210 --> 02:02:00.379
KILLING THEMSELVES OVER HERE

02:02:00.446 --> 02:02:01.781
DOCUMENTING ALL OF THIS, RIGHT?

02:02:01.847 --> 02:02:03.416
PEOPLE KNOW THE INVESTIGATORS

02:02:03.482 --> 02:02:04.817
BY THEIR FIRST NAMES BECAUSE

02:02:04.884 --> 02:02:06.819
THEY COME TO THEIR HOMES

02:02:06.886 --> 02:02:08.587
REGULARLY AND VERIFY ALL THE

02:02:08.654 --> 02:02:09.989
COMPLAINTS THAT YOU ALL HAVE A

02:02:10.056 --> 02:02:15.094
FULL TIME JOB OF REPORTING. AND

02:02:15.161 --> 02:02:17.263
AND IF I ASK IN, IN THE

02:02:17.329 --> 02:02:18.798
MEETINGS THAT I WOULD CONVENE

02:02:18.864 --> 02:02:20.232
WITH ALL OF THESE AGENCIES THAT

02:02:20.299 --> 02:02:21.967
ARE RESPONDING AND THEY'RE ALL

02:02:22.034 --> 02:02:23.002
REPORTING EVERYTHING THEY'RE

02:02:23.069 --> 02:02:25.571
DOING AND, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO

02:02:25.638 --> 02:02:27.206
FIGURE OUT THE KIND OF MAXIMUM

02:02:27.273 --> 02:02:28.874
OF THEIR AUTHORITY TO ACT AND

02:02:28.941 --> 02:02:32.645
TAKE ACTION. AND DEPARTMENT OF

02:02:32.712 --> 02:02:33.779
PUBLIC HEALTH, MOST MONTHS

02:02:33.846 --> 02:02:35.981
DIDN'T REPORT ANYTHING OUT. AND

02:02:36.048 --> 02:02:38.884
WHEN THEY TOLD ME WHEN THEY

02:02:38.951 --> 02:02:40.086
CAME THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR

02:02:40.152 --> 02:02:41.887
AND SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING

02:02:41.954 --> 02:02:47.860
TO CLOSE THE SURVEY, THEY SAID.

02:02:47.927 --> 02:02:51.097
DOCTOR DAVIS SAID BASICALLY

02:02:51.163 --> 02:02:53.632
THAT THEY HAD ENOUGH

02:02:53.699 --> 02:02:56.502
INFORMATION. NOW THAT IT WAS

02:02:56.569 --> 02:02:58.671
CLEAR THAT THE LANDFILLS MAKING

02:02:58.738 --> 02:03:01.874
THE COMMUNITY SICK. AND SO THEY

02:03:01.941 --> 02:03:04.410
HAD WHAT THEY NEED. AND AND

02:03:04.477 --> 02:03:07.279
OBVIOUSLY MY NEXT QUESTION WAS,

02:03:07.346 --> 02:03:08.748
GREAT, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO

02:03:08.814 --> 02:03:14.820
NOW? AND, YOU KNOW, HIS ANSWER,

02:03:14.887 --> 02:03:16.622
WHICH WAS THE SAME ANSWER IN

02:03:16.689 --> 02:03:18.491
THE LETTER THAT THEY SUBMITTED

02:03:18.557 --> 02:03:21.660
TODAY, AND HIS ANSWER REGULARLY,

02:03:21.727 --> 02:03:23.162
WHENEVER I ASK WHAT THEY'RE

02:03:23.229 --> 02:03:26.031
DOING IS TO POINT EVERYWHERE

02:03:26.098 --> 02:03:28.934
ELSE. WELL, IT'S A MULTI-AGENCY

02:03:29.001 --> 02:03:30.336
RESPONSE. WELL, THERE'S A BUNCH

02:03:30.402 --> 02:03:32.938
OF AGENCIES. WE ALL HAVE A ROLE

02:03:33.005 --> 02:03:37.943
TO PLAY. AND I LOST MY MIND FOR

02:03:38.010 --> 02:03:41.914
A SECOND AND I SAID, NO, YOU

02:03:41.981 --> 02:03:43.249
ARE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

02:03:43.315 --> 02:03:46.585
HEALTH. PUBLIC HEALTH IS YOUR

02:03:46.652 --> 02:03:47.953
RESPONSIBILITY. WHAT ARE YOU

02:03:48.020 --> 02:03:52.658
DOING ON PUBLIC HEALTH? THE

02:03:52.725 --> 02:03:53.626
REST OF THE CONVERSATION DIDN'T

02:03:53.692 --> 02:03:56.929
GO VERY WELL, BUT AT THE END OF

02:03:56.996 --> 02:03:59.498
THE DAY, IT WAS THERE WAS NO

02:03:59.565 --> 02:04:01.700
ANSWER. THERE WAS NO ANSWER.

02:04:01.767 --> 02:04:03.369
AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS

02:04:03.435 --> 02:04:04.970
LIKE THIS ONE, LIKE THE SCHOOLS

02:04:05.037 --> 02:04:07.039
DOWN THE STREET WHO HAVE TO

02:04:07.106 --> 02:04:08.541
CHECK AIR MONITORS BEFORE THEY

02:04:08.607 --> 02:04:10.142
DECIDE IF THEY'RE GOING TO SEND

02:04:10.209 --> 02:04:12.878
KIDS OUT TO GO TO RECESS OR TO

02:04:12.945 --> 02:04:16.415
GO TO LUNCH. AND I'VE ASKED

02:04:16.482 --> 02:04:17.616
PUBLIC HEALTH, CAN YOU COME

02:04:17.683 --> 02:04:19.285
MEET WITH THEM? CAN YOU HAVE A

02:04:19.351 --> 02:04:21.153
TOWN HALL WITH OUR COMMUNITY TO

02:04:21.220 --> 02:04:23.956
TALK WITH PARENTS AND SCHOOL

02:04:24.023 --> 02:04:26.859
STAFF SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT?

02:04:26.926 --> 02:04:28.194
WHAT ARE YOU READING IN THIS

02:04:28.260 --> 02:04:30.529
AIR MONITOR DATA? HOW MANY

02:04:30.596 --> 02:04:32.264
PARTS PER BILLION OR PARTS PER

02:04:32.331 --> 02:04:33.465
MILLION IS DANGEROUS? I MEAN,

02:04:33.532 --> 02:04:35.501
THIS IS YOU HAVE TO BE A

02:04:35.568 --> 02:04:36.869
SCIENTIST TO UNDERSTAND THE

02:04:36.936 --> 02:04:39.805
DATA THAT YOU'RE PRESENTED. AND

02:04:39.872 --> 02:04:42.007
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR

02:04:42.074 --> 02:04:44.510
INTERPRETER. AND IT SEEMS LIKE

02:04:44.577 --> 02:04:45.945
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING THAT

02:04:46.011 --> 02:04:47.379
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN DOING THIS

02:04:47.446 --> 02:04:50.583
WHOLE TIME. IS THAT CORRECT?

02:04:50.649 --> 02:04:52.451
THAT IS CORRECT. AND THAT'S

02:04:52.518 --> 02:04:53.886
ESSENTIALLY OUR FIRST

02:04:53.953 --> 02:04:54.887
RECOMMENDATION, IS THAT YOU

02:04:54.954 --> 02:04:56.388
NEED TO BE SHARING WITH THE

02:04:56.455 --> 02:04:57.857
PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR

02:04:57.923 --> 02:04:59.592
NOT THEY SHOULD BE CONCERNED

02:04:59.658 --> 02:05:01.527
BASED ON WHAT'S IN THE AIR THAT

02:05:01.594 --> 02:05:02.928
THEY BREATHE EVERY DAY. I MEAN,

02:05:02.995 --> 02:05:05.064
THESE SHOULD BE. AND ONE OF THE

02:05:05.130 --> 02:05:06.098
LIMITATIONS THAT I THINK I

02:05:06.165 --> 02:05:07.533
UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE IS

02:05:07.600 --> 02:05:09.001
THAT FOR THEM TO SEND OUT TEXT

02:05:09.068 --> 02:05:11.170
MESSAGES, IT HAS TO BE KIND OF

02:05:11.237 --> 02:05:12.571
EMERGENCY, RIGHT? THERE'S A

02:05:12.638 --> 02:05:15.107
FIRE, SOMETHING LIKE VERY, VERY

02:05:15.174 --> 02:05:16.876
URGENT. AND IT'S A WHOLE

02:05:16.942 --> 02:05:18.110
NEGOTIATION WITH ANOTHER AGENCY

02:05:18.177 --> 02:05:19.979
TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE IT OUT.

02:05:20.045 --> 02:05:24.083
BUT. IF THEY HAVE TO, THIS IS A

02:05:24.149 --> 02:05:27.019
20 YEAR PLUS PROBLEM THAT WE

02:05:27.086 --> 02:05:29.121
HAVE. THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY

02:05:29.188 --> 02:05:30.990
ANYTIME SOON. THERE IS NO

02:05:31.056 --> 02:05:32.391
SILVER BULLET. THEY ARE

02:05:32.458 --> 02:05:34.159
COVERING IT AND SUCKING OUT THE

02:05:34.226 --> 02:05:35.327
GASES AND TRYING TO BURN THEM

02:05:35.394 --> 02:05:37.162
OFF AND DOING ALL OF THESE

02:05:37.229 --> 02:05:38.230
THINGS THAT HOPEFULLY MAKE IT

02:05:38.297 --> 02:05:39.431
BETTER. AND IT SEEMS LIKE FROM

02:05:39.498 --> 02:05:40.566
THE CONSTRUCTION, WHEN THEY

02:05:40.633 --> 02:05:42.167
PEELED IT BACK THIS SUMMER,

02:05:42.234 --> 02:05:43.903
IT'S DEFINITELY MAKING IT

02:05:43.969 --> 02:05:45.738
BETTER. BUT IT'S NOT FIXING IT

02:05:45.804 --> 02:05:48.941
AND IT'S NOT SOLVING IT. SO YOU

02:05:49.008 --> 02:05:51.443
CANNOT SIT ON YOUR HANDS. AS AN

02:05:51.510 --> 02:05:53.245
AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLIC

02:05:53.312 --> 02:05:56.215
HEALTH FOR 20 YEARS AND NOT

02:05:56.282 --> 02:05:58.884
HAVE A PLAN. THEY HAVE NO PLAN.

02:05:58.951 --> 02:06:00.085
THERE'S NO PLAN THAT I'VE HEARD

02:06:00.152 --> 02:06:01.887
ABOUT. DID YOU HEAR ABOUT A

02:06:01.954 --> 02:06:06.125
PLAN? NO PLAN. OKAY, OKAY, YES.

02:06:06.191 --> 02:06:08.260
GO AHEAD. THERE'S A COMMUNITY

02:06:08.327 --> 02:06:10.429
PLAN SPECIFICALLY FOR THE EVENT

02:06:10.496 --> 02:06:11.864
OF A SLOPE FAILURE THAT THEY'VE

02:06:11.931 --> 02:06:13.666
BEEN WORKING ON IN CONJUNCTION

02:06:13.732 --> 02:06:15.834
WITH THE LANDFILL. BUT I

02:06:15.901 --> 02:06:17.603
WOULDN'T SAY A A BROADER,

02:06:17.670 --> 02:06:18.604
DIFFERENT PLAN. AND THAT'S

02:06:18.671 --> 02:06:20.506
SOMETHING THEY JUST ASKED THE

02:06:20.572 --> 02:06:22.675
LANDFILL TO COME UP WITH A PLAN

02:06:22.741 --> 02:06:25.544
IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS IN CASE.

02:06:25.611 --> 02:06:27.746
AND A SLOPE FAILURE MEANS THAT

02:06:27.813 --> 02:06:30.249
THE LANDFILL SLIDES DOWN THE

02:06:30.316 --> 02:06:32.017
HILL INTO THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE

02:06:32.084 --> 02:06:34.186
IT HAS LIQUEFIED SO MUCH. THAT

02:06:34.253 --> 02:06:36.355
IS WHAT THIS MEANS. THAT'S WHAT

02:06:36.422 --> 02:06:39.925
THEY'RE PLANNING FOR. AND THEY

02:06:39.992 --> 02:06:42.561
DON'T HAVE A PLAN TO SAY WHAT

02:06:42.628 --> 02:06:44.630
WE SHOULD DO, THOUGH. DO WE

02:06:44.697 --> 02:06:46.365
SHELTER IN PLACE? DO YOU THINK

02:06:46.432 --> 02:06:49.668
THAT WOULD BE SAFE? ANYONE?

02:06:49.735 --> 02:06:51.804
KNOW? HOW ARE WE GOING TO

02:06:51.870 --> 02:06:57.209
EVACUATE PEOPLE? SO THIS IS,

02:06:57.276 --> 02:06:59.745
YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY,

02:06:59.812 --> 02:07:02.514
IT'S CLEAR FROM MY INTERACTIONS

02:07:02.581 --> 02:07:03.649
WITH LEADERSHIP BECAUSE AND THE

02:07:03.716 --> 02:07:07.052
LAST THING I'LL SAY IS THAT YOU

02:07:07.119 --> 02:07:09.822
YOU RAISED THE ISSUE, MR.

02:07:09.888 --> 02:07:13.392
HARRIS, ABOUT HOW WITH THE AIR

02:07:13.459 --> 02:07:15.694
MONITORING, SOMETIMES PEOPLE

02:07:15.761 --> 02:07:19.231
CAN HAVE SYMPTOMS OR WHAT WAS

02:07:19.298 --> 02:07:21.333
THE DISTINCTION YOU MADE THOSE

02:07:21.400 --> 02:07:23.168
SYMPTOMS AND HEALTH EFFECTS AND

02:07:23.235 --> 02:07:24.236
SYMPTOMS, ADVERSE HEALTH

02:07:24.303 --> 02:07:26.372
EFFECTS, ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS

02:07:26.438 --> 02:07:30.409
BELOW THE ORAL. AND I TELL YOU,

02:07:30.476 --> 02:07:32.144
I DIDN'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT ABOUT

02:07:32.211 --> 02:07:33.946
LANDFILLS BEFORE I GOT ELECTED.

02:07:34.013 --> 02:07:35.748
AND UNFORTUNATELY, I KNOW A LOT

02:07:35.814 --> 02:07:38.217
ABOUT LANDFILLS NOW. AND ONE OF

02:07:38.283 --> 02:07:40.052
THE THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED

02:07:40.119 --> 02:07:42.554
IS THAT THE SCIENCE HAS NOT

02:07:42.621 --> 02:07:45.791
CAUGHT UP WITH OUR LANDFILLS.

02:07:45.858 --> 02:07:49.495
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY'RE

02:07:49.561 --> 02:07:51.230
ONLY MONITORING CERTAIN

02:07:51.296 --> 02:07:53.032
CHEMICALS, RIGHT? HYDROGEN

02:07:53.098 --> 02:07:55.567
SULFIDE BEING ONE OF THEM,

02:07:55.634 --> 02:07:57.002
BENZENE, A CANCER CAUSING

02:07:57.069 --> 02:07:58.003
CHEMICAL BEING ANOTHER ONE THAT

02:07:58.070 --> 02:07:59.872
WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT. BUT

02:07:59.938 --> 02:08:02.274
THERE'S A COCKTAIL OF CHEMICALS,

02:08:02.341 --> 02:08:04.209
RIGHT? IT'S BURNING PLASTIC.

02:08:04.276 --> 02:08:05.377
THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT

02:08:05.444 --> 02:08:07.413
GOES INTO TRASH. THAT IS WHAT'S

02:08:07.479 --> 02:08:09.214
BURNING OVER HERE IN OUR

02:08:09.281 --> 02:08:12.051
LANDFILL. AND SO THERE IS NO

02:08:12.117 --> 02:08:14.620
SCIENCE THAT SAYS, OH, THIS

02:08:14.686 --> 02:08:15.687
COCKTAIL OF CHEMICALS THAT

02:08:15.754 --> 02:08:17.456
YOU'RE BREATHING, THIS AMOUNT

02:08:17.523 --> 02:08:19.658
OF AIR IS DANGEROUS. THERE'S,

02:08:19.725 --> 02:08:21.093
WE'RE OPERATING WITH WITHOUT

02:08:21.160 --> 02:08:22.594
THE SCIENCE THAT WE NEED TO BE

02:08:22.661 --> 02:08:24.463
ABLE TO EXPLAIN WHAT PEOPLE ARE

02:08:24.530 --> 02:08:27.199
EXPERIENCING AND WHAT THE

02:08:27.266 --> 02:08:29.401
DIRECTOR FERRER HAS SAID TO ME

02:08:29.468 --> 02:08:30.803
IN MULTIPLE MEETINGS I'VE HAD

02:08:30.869 --> 02:08:32.971
WITH HER NOW IS THAT WHEN THE

02:08:33.038 --> 02:08:34.740
SCIENCE IS NOT THERE, THE

02:08:34.807 --> 02:08:36.542
COMMUNITY HAS TO BE THE SCIENCE.

02:08:36.608 --> 02:08:41.780
THOSE ARE HER WORDS. BUT STILL,

02:08:41.847 --> 02:08:43.282
THEY ARE NOT ACTING ON THE

02:08:43.348 --> 02:08:44.850
COMMUNITY AS THE SCIENCE. I

02:08:44.917 --> 02:08:46.351
DON'T SEE THAT. I DON'T SEE

02:08:46.418 --> 02:08:49.221
THAT IN THIS REACTION OVER HERE,

02:08:49.288 --> 02:08:52.791
WHERE IT TAKES 657 DAYS TO

02:08:52.858 --> 02:08:54.927
ISSUE A NOTICE AND STILL NO

02:08:54.993 --> 02:08:56.395
ACTION HAPPENS WITH IT. I DON'T

02:08:56.462 --> 02:08:58.297
SEE IT FROM JUST WAITING FOR A

02:08:58.363 --> 02:08:59.631
LAWSUIT THAT'S GOING TO BE

02:08:59.698 --> 02:09:06.572
TAKING YEARS. AND SO IT IS. AND,

02:09:06.638 --> 02:09:07.739
AND IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DON'T

02:09:07.806 --> 02:09:09.475
KNOW, LIKE YOU SAID, THEY'VE

02:09:09.541 --> 02:09:10.609
BEEN SHOWING UP. THEY COME TO

02:09:10.676 --> 02:09:11.877
THESE MONTHLY MEETINGS THAT ARE

02:09:11.944 --> 02:09:14.012
THREE HOURS LONG WITH PUBLIC

02:09:14.079 --> 02:09:15.147
COMMENT AT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF

02:09:15.214 --> 02:09:16.348
THEM, WHERE PEOPLE ARE TALKING

02:09:16.415 --> 02:09:18.016
ABOUT ALL OF THEIR HEALTH

02:09:18.083 --> 02:09:18.984
SYMPTOMS. FOR YEARS THEY'VE

02:09:19.051 --> 02:09:20.219
BEEN DOING THIS. IT'S NOT LIKE

02:09:20.285 --> 02:09:22.321
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

02:09:22.387 --> 02:09:24.089
I'VE DEFINITELY BEEN TELLING

02:09:24.156 --> 02:09:25.891
THEM WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR

02:09:25.958 --> 02:09:26.758
MEETINGS. WE'VE BEEN HAVING

02:09:26.825 --> 02:09:28.026
PRESS CONFERENCES. I'VE BEEN

02:09:28.093 --> 02:09:29.528
CAMPING OUT HERE TO GET

02:09:29.595 --> 02:09:31.697
ATTENTION TO IT. LIKE ANYTHING,

02:09:31.763 --> 02:09:34.199
TO GET THEM TO ACT, SENDING

02:09:34.266 --> 02:09:35.300
LETTERS TO THE BOARD OF

02:09:35.367 --> 02:09:36.635
SUPERVISORS, ASKING THEM TO GET

02:09:36.702 --> 02:09:38.904
THEM TO ACT RIGHT. OUR WHOLE LA

02:09:38.971 --> 02:09:40.672
DELEGATION SENT A LETTER WITH

02:09:40.739 --> 02:09:42.107
SPECIFIC REQUESTS ON PUBLIC

02:09:42.174 --> 02:09:44.610
HEALTH ABOUT STUDIES ABOUT, YOU

02:09:44.676 --> 02:09:46.011
KNOW, INFORMING THE COMMUNITY,

02:09:46.078 --> 02:09:47.479
HOLDING TOWN HALLS, ALL OF

02:09:47.546 --> 02:09:52.885
THESE THINGS. AND SO THE ONLY

02:09:52.951 --> 02:09:54.253
CONCLUSION YOU CAN COME TO, I

02:09:54.319 --> 02:09:56.255
FEEL LIKE AT THE END OF THE DAY

02:09:56.321 --> 02:09:58.991
IS THAT IT IS A FAILURE OF

02:09:59.057 --> 02:10:01.160
LEADERSHIP BECAUSE THERE'S NO

02:10:01.226 --> 02:10:05.531
OTHER EXPLANATION, BECAUSE WE

02:10:05.597 --> 02:10:07.266
KEEP SHOWING THEM WHAT'S

02:10:07.332 --> 02:10:08.433
HAPPENING AND HOW TERRIBLE IT

02:10:08.500 --> 02:10:10.869
IS, AND THEY KEEP NOT SHOWING

02:10:10.936 --> 02:10:11.970
UP. THEY KEEP POINTING THE

02:10:12.037 --> 02:10:13.639
OTHER WAY. THEY KEEP EXPLAINING

02:10:13.705 --> 02:10:15.774
IT AWAY. THEY KEEP GASLIGHTING

02:10:15.841 --> 02:10:18.810
OUR COMMUNITY. THERE'S LOTS OF

02:10:18.877 --> 02:10:20.979
REASONS YOU HAVE NOSEBLEEDS.

02:10:21.046 --> 02:10:25.651
DIDN'T YOU KNOW? SO YOU KNOW

02:10:25.717 --> 02:10:28.587
THIS FOR ME, THIS. I'M SO

02:10:28.654 --> 02:10:31.390
GRATEFUL FOR IT BECAUSE IT

02:10:31.456 --> 02:10:32.524
VALIDATES WHAT EVERYBODY HERE

02:10:32.591 --> 02:10:35.027
HAS BEEN FEELING AND

02:10:35.093 --> 02:10:36.595
EXPERIENCING AND JUST FEELING

02:10:36.662 --> 02:10:37.896
LIKE YOU'RE BANGING YOUR HEAD

02:10:37.963 --> 02:10:39.698
AGAINST A WALL WITH COUNTY

02:10:39.765 --> 02:10:41.133
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND

02:10:41.200 --> 02:10:44.036
GETTING NO ACTION AND NO

02:10:44.102 --> 02:10:46.605
PROTECTION FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

02:10:46.672 --> 02:10:49.474
AND THAT IS WHY I AM AT THE

02:10:49.541 --> 02:10:51.944
POINT WHERE EITHER THEY

02:10:52.010 --> 02:10:53.845
IMPLEMENT THESE, THEY DO REAL

02:10:53.912 --> 02:10:55.881
HEALTH SURVEYS ON A REGULAR

02:10:55.948 --> 02:10:58.050
BASIS. THEY IMPLEMENT YOUR

02:10:58.116 --> 02:10:59.051
RECOMMENDATIONS, AND IF THEY

02:10:59.117 --> 02:11:00.285
ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT, THEY

02:11:00.352 --> 02:11:02.754
NEED TO BE REMOVED AND REPLACED

02:11:02.821 --> 02:11:07.459
BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

02:11:07.526 --> 02:11:08.660
AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

02:11:08.727 --> 02:11:09.962
NEEDS TO TELL. DEPARTMENT OF

02:11:10.028 --> 02:11:11.396
PUBLIC HEALTH AND THERE ARE

02:11:11.463 --> 02:11:13.532
MANY GOOD, CARING PEOPLE AT

02:11:13.599 --> 02:11:14.600
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH WHO

02:11:14.666 --> 02:11:17.102
I KNOW ARE SICK TO THEIR

02:11:17.169 --> 02:11:18.937
STOMACHS OVER WHAT THEY SEE AND

02:11:19.004 --> 02:11:20.706
HEAR FROM OUR COMMUNITY. AND

02:11:20.772 --> 02:11:22.007
THEIR HANDS ARE TIED BECAUSE OF

02:11:22.074 --> 02:11:26.111
THE LEADERSHIP. AND SO AND YOU

02:11:26.178 --> 02:11:29.915
GUYS KNOW THEM. AND WE NEED THE

02:11:29.982 --> 02:11:33.285
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO DEMAND

02:11:33.352 --> 02:11:34.453
THAT LA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF

02:11:34.519 --> 02:11:36.588
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLEMENT THESE

02:11:36.655 --> 02:11:38.390
SOLUTIONS, DO A REAL HEALTH

02:11:38.457 --> 02:11:39.458
STUDY, BE PRESENT FOR OUR

02:11:39.524 --> 02:11:40.892
COMMUNITY, COMMUNICATE WITH

02:11:40.959 --> 02:11:42.728
THEM, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY

02:11:42.794 --> 02:11:45.631
ARE SHOWING UP AND HELPING OUR

02:11:45.697 --> 02:11:47.432
COMMUNITY IN A REAL WAY THAT

02:11:47.499 --> 02:11:49.201
SUPPORTS THEM. AND I AM READY

02:11:49.268 --> 02:11:51.103
TO FIGHT FOR MONEY AT THE STATE

02:11:51.169 --> 02:11:52.304
LEVEL. I WILL PARTNER WITH THEM.

02:11:52.371 --> 02:11:54.239
I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS, AS

02:11:54.306 --> 02:11:56.742
LONG AS IT IS GOING TO HELP OUR

02:11:56.808 --> 02:11:59.978
COMMUNITY. I AM DOWN, I AM DOWN

02:12:00.045 --> 02:12:02.114
FOR ALL OF THE THINGS THAT IT

02:12:02.180 --> 02:12:03.482
TAKES TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY IN

02:12:03.548 --> 02:12:06.585
A REAL WAY. SO, YOU KNOW,

02:12:06.652 --> 02:12:08.253
THAT'S WHERE I'VE ENDED UP WITH

02:12:08.320 --> 02:12:10.956
WITH YOUR AUDIT AND KNOWING,

02:12:11.023 --> 02:12:12.591
YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE ALL

02:12:12.658 --> 02:12:15.127
EXPERIENCED IS WE NEED EITHER

02:12:15.193 --> 02:12:17.262
ACTION, A CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP.

02:12:17.329 --> 02:12:18.630
AND IF NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS

02:12:18.697 --> 02:12:20.132
WILL HAPPEN AND THE BOARD WILL

02:12:20.198 --> 02:12:21.967
NOT ACT, WHICH SO FAR THEY'RE

02:12:22.034 --> 02:12:24.436
REFUSING TO DO, THEN THE STATE

02:12:24.503 --> 02:12:26.238
HAS TO COME IN AND ACT. WE

02:12:26.305 --> 02:12:28.040
CAN'T WAIT. WE CANNOT WAIT ANY

02:12:28.106 --> 02:12:30.142
LONGER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU

02:12:30.208 --> 02:12:32.277
FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK. THANK YOU

02:12:32.344 --> 02:12:36.715
SO MUCH. THANK YOU. SENATOR

02:12:36.782 --> 02:12:47.893
MEMBER. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

02:12:47.959 --> 02:12:49.328
AND I WANT TO THANK ASSEMBLYMAN

02:12:49.394 --> 02:12:52.164
GONZALEZ FOR BEING HERE. AND I

02:12:52.230 --> 02:12:53.832
JUST WANT TO THANK THE THREE OF

02:12:53.899 --> 02:12:55.434
YOU. MR. PARKS. MR. HARRIS,

02:12:55.500 --> 02:12:56.868
MISS JACOBS, THANK YOU VERY

02:12:56.935 --> 02:12:59.404
MUCH. AND YOU GUYS CAN GO BACK

02:12:59.471 --> 02:13:01.873
TO YOUR SEATS AND APPRECIATE

02:13:01.940 --> 02:13:04.443
EVERYTHING WE JUST DISCUSSED AT

02:13:04.509 --> 02:13:06.278
THIS TIME. TYPICALLY, THE

02:13:06.345 --> 02:13:08.046
ODDITY WOULD WOULD COME AND

02:13:08.113 --> 02:13:09.815
TESTIFY BECAUSE DEPARTMENT OF

02:13:09.881 --> 02:13:10.982
PUBLIC HEALTH ISN'T HERE. WE

02:13:11.049 --> 02:13:12.718
WILL NOT HAVE THAT. THEY HAVE

02:13:12.784 --> 02:13:14.186
SUBMITTED A LETTER. IT IS ON

02:13:14.252 --> 02:13:16.121
THE WEBSITE. IT IS PART OF THE

02:13:16.188 --> 02:13:17.356
RECORD. SUPERVISOR BARGER HAS

02:13:17.422 --> 02:13:18.957
SUBMITTED A LETTER. IT IS ALSO

02:13:19.024 --> 02:13:20.625
ON THE WEBSITE AND PART OF THE

02:13:20.692 --> 02:13:24.196
RECORD. BUT NOW WE WILL GO TO

02:13:24.262 --> 02:13:25.664
OUR NEXT PANEL, PERSPECTIVES ON

02:13:25.731 --> 02:13:27.866
THE AUDIT. SO I'M GOING TO ASK

02:13:27.933 --> 02:13:30.369
FOR THE PANEL MEMBERS TO JOIN

02:13:30.435 --> 02:13:31.737
US HERE AT THE TABLE. JANE

02:13:31.803 --> 02:13:33.205
WILLIAMS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

02:13:33.271 --> 02:13:34.306
FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES

02:13:34.373 --> 02:13:37.142
AGAINST TOXICS. JENNIFER ELKINS,

02:13:37.209 --> 02:13:38.977
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE

02:13:39.044 --> 02:13:41.480
VALVERDE CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

02:13:41.546 --> 02:13:43.348
STEPHEN HOUSE IS HERE, AND HE

02:13:43.415 --> 02:13:46.885
WILL BE TESTIFYING. JOSE

02:13:46.952 --> 02:13:51.890
BOBADILLA AND DARCY STINSON. SO.

02:13:51.957 --> 02:13:53.325
AS YOU GUYS ARE TAKING YOUR

02:13:53.392 --> 02:13:55.193
SEATS, I THINK THAT JANE

02:13:55.260 --> 02:13:56.995
WILLIAMS IS GOING TO GO FIRST.

02:13:57.062 --> 02:13:59.164
OKAY. SO MISS WILLIAMS,

02:13:59.231 --> 02:14:00.232
WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, THE

02:14:00.298 --> 02:14:01.666
FLOOR IS YOURS. AND THANK YOU

02:14:01.733 --> 02:14:03.402
FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR

02:14:03.468 --> 02:14:05.337
ALL OF YOU, FOR BEING HERE AND

02:14:05.404 --> 02:14:07.406
TAKING THE TIME TO LEND US YOUR

02:14:07.472 --> 02:14:09.241
VOICE AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR

02:14:09.307 --> 02:14:10.976
EXPERIENCE. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT

02:14:11.042 --> 02:14:14.946
AND IT'LL HELP ALL OF US

02:14:15.013 --> 02:14:17.182
HOPEFULLY GET YOU GUYS RELIEF

02:14:17.249 --> 02:14:18.984
IN A PROPER WAY. SO WITH THAT,

02:14:19.050 --> 02:14:21.153
MISS WILLIAMS, THANK YOU. AND

02:14:21.219 --> 02:14:22.487
YOU CAN BEGIN WHENEVER YOU'RE

02:14:22.554 --> 02:14:27.893
READY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL,

02:14:27.959 --> 02:14:30.095
FIRST OF ALL, I'M JANE WILLIAMS.

02:14:30.162 --> 02:14:32.664
I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF

02:14:32.731 --> 02:14:34.032
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES AGAINST

02:14:34.099 --> 02:14:35.233
TOXICS. I ALSO CHAIR THE SIERRA

02:14:35.300 --> 02:14:37.636
CLUB'S NATIONAL CLEAN AIR TEAM

02:14:37.702 --> 02:14:44.109
AND. I'M EXTREMELY SORRY TO BE

02:14:44.176 --> 02:14:48.413
HERE TODAY. AND THE IRONY IS

02:14:48.480 --> 02:14:50.949
THAT I HAVE WORKED FOR 20 YEARS

02:14:51.016 --> 02:14:54.920
WITH MR. GONZALES IN EAST LA ON

02:14:54.986 --> 02:14:57.789
THE EXIDE CATASTROPHE, WHICH IS

02:14:57.856 --> 02:14:59.991
THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE

02:15:00.058 --> 02:15:01.460
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP IN THIS

02:15:01.526 --> 02:15:03.995
COUNTRY'S HISTORY, SECOND ONLY

02:15:04.062 --> 02:15:05.730
TO THE HANFORD NUCLEAR

02:15:05.797 --> 02:15:09.000
RESERVATION. I'VE BEEN WORKING

02:15:09.067 --> 02:15:11.870
IN MISS SCHIAVO'S DISTRICT. NOW,

02:15:11.937 --> 02:15:13.672
THIS FEBRUARY WILL BE FIVE

02:15:13.738 --> 02:15:16.575
YEARS ON THIS LANDFILL, AND I

02:15:16.641 --> 02:15:18.310
HAD THE UNFORTUNATE

02:15:18.376 --> 02:15:19.744
CIRCUMSTANCE OF GETTING TO WORK

02:15:19.811 --> 02:15:22.380
IN MR. HARRISON'S DISTRICT ON

02:15:22.447 --> 02:15:27.018
THE ALTADENA FIRE. OKAY. AND SO

02:15:27.085 --> 02:15:29.888
I ALSO WORK ON DISASTERS AND

02:15:29.955 --> 02:15:31.690
FIRES IN OTHER STATES, BECAUSE

02:15:31.756 --> 02:15:33.258
I HAVE THIS NATIONAL POSITION

02:15:33.325 --> 02:15:35.627
WITH THE SIERRA CLUB. AND SO I

02:15:35.694 --> 02:15:37.229
HAVE A VERY UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE

02:15:37.295 --> 02:15:40.265
ON THIS PROBLEM. AND I SHARE

02:15:40.332 --> 02:15:42.834
MANY OF ASSEMBLYMEMBER

02:15:42.901 --> 02:15:45.770
SCHIAVO'S OBSERVATIONS ABOUT

02:15:45.837 --> 02:15:48.206
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

02:15:48.273 --> 02:15:51.109
OKAY. NOW, BECAUSE OF THE

02:15:51.176 --> 02:15:53.278
LINEAGE, CHEMICAL DISASTER AND

02:15:53.345 --> 02:15:55.514
FIRE, I HAD TO DO QUITE A BIT

02:15:55.580 --> 02:15:57.949
OF RESEARCH ON WHY IS THIS

02:15:58.016 --> 02:16:01.520
HAPPENING? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW,

02:16:01.586 --> 02:16:03.321
CHIQUITA CANYON IS THE LONGEST

02:16:03.388 --> 02:16:04.589
ONGOING CHEMICAL DISASTER IN

02:16:04.656 --> 02:16:06.691
THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY. AND THAT

02:16:06.758 --> 02:16:08.226
WAS NOT ME THAT HAD THAT

02:16:08.293 --> 02:16:09.528
OBSERVATION. THAT WAS A SENIOR

02:16:09.594 --> 02:16:10.862
MEMBER OF THE EPA TEAM THAT'S

02:16:10.929 --> 02:16:14.099
WORKING ON THE LANDFILL FIRE.

02:16:14.165 --> 02:16:17.903
AND USUALLY A CHEMICAL DISASTER

02:16:17.969 --> 02:16:19.938
IS SHORT LIVED, BELIEVE IT OR

02:16:20.005 --> 02:16:22.407
NOT, IT'S SHORT LIVED. YOU HAVE

02:16:22.474 --> 02:16:23.875
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS,

02:16:23.942 --> 02:16:26.011
SOMETHING EXPLODES AND BLOWS UP,

02:16:26.077 --> 02:16:27.846
AND THEN YOU SORT OF HAVE THIS

02:16:27.913 --> 02:16:29.614
RESOLUTION PERIOD. OKAY, THAT'S

02:16:29.681 --> 02:16:31.850
NOT HAPPENING HERE. AND IN FACT,

02:16:31.917 --> 02:16:33.585
I WAS TELLING YOUR STAFF MEMBER,

02:16:33.652 --> 02:16:35.387
COLTON, IN THE CAR HERE, I HAVE

02:16:35.453 --> 02:16:36.988
WORKED ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT

02:16:37.055 --> 02:16:38.690
THINGS IN MY CAREER. NOW, SINCE

02:16:38.757 --> 02:16:40.125
IT'S MORE THAN THREE DECADES

02:16:40.191 --> 02:16:41.860
OLD AND THIS CHIQUITA CANYON

02:16:41.927 --> 02:16:43.328
LANDFILL FIRE, YOU SAY, IS MY

02:16:43.395 --> 02:16:45.463
BLACK EYE ON MY CAREER.

02:16:45.530 --> 02:16:48.300
ABSOLUTE UTTER FAILURE. OKAY.

02:16:48.366 --> 02:16:49.568
BECAUSE WHEN I STARTED WORKING

02:16:49.634 --> 02:16:52.337
ON IT, I THOUGHT, OKAY, WE HAVE

02:16:52.404 --> 02:16:53.505
THIS APPARATUS IN THE STATE

02:16:53.572 --> 02:16:55.206
THAT'S GOING TO RESPOND, AND

02:16:55.273 --> 02:16:57.342
THAT DID NOT OCCUR. SO THAT

02:16:57.409 --> 02:16:59.844
RESPONSE DID NOT HAPPEN. IT'S

02:16:59.911 --> 02:17:01.313
VERY SIMILAR TO THE LINEAGE

02:17:01.379 --> 02:17:02.614
FIRE, WHERE YOU THOUGHT A

02:17:02.681 --> 02:17:03.949
RESPONSE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN

02:17:04.015 --> 02:17:06.351
AND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. AND SO

02:17:06.418 --> 02:17:08.086
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT IF

02:17:08.153 --> 02:17:09.588
YOU HAVE A DAM THAT'S GOING TO

02:17:09.654 --> 02:17:12.424
BREAK. SO JUST IN THE OTHER

02:17:12.490 --> 02:17:14.159
DISTRICT OVER, YOU HAD THE

02:17:14.225 --> 02:17:15.427
SAINT, THE SAINT FRANCIS DAM,

02:17:15.493 --> 02:17:16.761
RIGHT? VERY FAMOUS DAM THAT

02:17:16.828 --> 02:17:18.196
BROKE AND KILLED HUNDREDS OF

02:17:18.263 --> 02:17:21.099
PEOPLE. SO IN THE STATE OF

02:17:21.166 --> 02:17:22.167
CALIFORNIA, WE HAVE ALL OF

02:17:22.233 --> 02:17:23.969
THESE AUTHORITIES OVER

02:17:24.035 --> 02:17:25.570
EVACUATIONS NOW. SO IF YOU HAVE

02:17:25.637 --> 02:17:26.571
A TANKER TRUCK FULL OF

02:17:26.638 --> 02:17:28.440
CHEMICALS THAT GOES OVER ON THE

02:17:28.506 --> 02:17:29.541
FREEWAY, YOU HAVE LIKE FOUR

02:17:29.608 --> 02:17:30.508
DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT CAN

02:17:30.575 --> 02:17:31.910
DECLARE AN EVACUATION. A DAM IS

02:17:31.977 --> 02:17:33.545
GOING TO BREAK. YOU'VE GOT FOUR

02:17:33.612 --> 02:17:34.579
DIFFERENT PEOPLE ALL THE WAY

02:17:34.646 --> 02:17:35.847
FROM YOUR CABINET LEVEL TO

02:17:35.914 --> 02:17:37.449
SOMEBODY ON THE GROUND, TO

02:17:37.515 --> 02:17:38.783
SOMEBODY IN THE MIDDLE. WE

02:17:38.850 --> 02:17:40.151
DON'T HAVE THAT IN THIS

02:17:40.218 --> 02:17:40.852
SITUATION, AND WE DON'T HAVE

02:17:40.919 --> 02:17:42.554
THAT AT LINEAGE, AND WE DON'T

02:17:42.621 --> 02:17:44.823
HAVE THAT IN THINGS LIKE THE

02:17:44.889 --> 02:17:47.025
GARDEN GROVE CHEMICAL DISASTER.

02:17:47.092 --> 02:17:48.927
WE ONLY HAVE ONE PERSON THAT

02:17:48.994 --> 02:17:50.395
CAN ISSUE AN EVACUATION ORDER,

02:17:50.462 --> 02:17:51.763
AND THAT IS THE LOCAL PUBLIC

02:17:51.830 --> 02:17:55.667
HEALTH OFFICER. AND SO I AM I

02:17:55.734 --> 02:17:57.135
FEEL VERY TERRIBLE DISAGREEING

02:17:57.202 --> 02:17:58.536
WITH THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

02:17:58.603 --> 02:17:59.604
BECAUSE THEY DID SUCH AN

02:17:59.671 --> 02:18:01.706
AMAZING JOB. BUT ONE OF THE

02:18:01.773 --> 02:18:04.075
THINGS THAT I A WANT FROM THE

02:18:04.142 --> 02:18:07.312
NEXT GOVERNOR. I WANT NEW

02:18:07.379 --> 02:18:08.413
EVACUATION NUMBERS BECAUSE THE

02:18:08.480 --> 02:18:09.514
EVACUATION NUMBERS THAT WE HAVE

02:18:09.581 --> 02:18:11.616
NOW, WHICH ARE THE RULES, DO

02:18:11.683 --> 02:18:13.818
NOT PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

02:18:13.885 --> 02:18:15.620
THEY DO NOT. THEY'LL PROTECT A

02:18:15.687 --> 02:18:18.123
42 YEAR OLD GUY ON A LADDER AND

02:18:18.189 --> 02:18:19.591
GREAT PHYSICAL SHAPE. THEY DO

02:18:19.658 --> 02:18:20.992
NOT PROTECT A TWO YEAR OLD

02:18:21.059 --> 02:18:22.293
TODDLER. THEY DO NOT PROTECT A

02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:23.862
PREGNANT WOMAN. AND SO I'VE

02:18:23.928 --> 02:18:25.664
ASKED DOCTOR CHRIS THAYER,

02:18:25.730 --> 02:18:26.798
WHO'S HEAD OF OUR OFFICE OF

02:18:26.865 --> 02:18:28.233
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD

02:18:28.299 --> 02:18:29.634
ASSESSMENT, TO ISSUE NEW

02:18:29.701 --> 02:18:31.503
EVACUATION NUMBERS. AND SO IF

02:18:31.569 --> 02:18:32.937
YOU'RE DOING AIR MONITORING AND

02:18:33.004 --> 02:18:33.972
YOU EXCEED THOSE NUMBERS, YOU

02:18:34.039 --> 02:18:35.273
SHOULD BE ISSUING EVACUATIONS.

02:18:35.340 --> 02:18:37.509
AND THAT'S A A HARD NUMBER.

02:18:37.575 --> 02:18:39.010
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU'VE GOT

02:18:39.077 --> 02:18:40.078
DISCRETION. IT'S LIKE, NO, YOU

02:18:40.145 --> 02:18:41.513
NEED TO EVACUATE AT THESE

02:18:41.579 --> 02:18:44.382
NUMBERS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

02:18:44.449 --> 02:18:45.650
WE MAY NEED THE LEGISLATURE TO

02:18:45.717 --> 02:18:47.952
WEIGH IN ON. THE SECOND THING

02:18:48.019 --> 02:18:51.556
IS, WHY IS IT ONLY FOR CHEMICAL

02:18:51.623 --> 02:18:53.725
DISASTERS LIKE LINEAGE, LIKE

02:18:53.792 --> 02:18:55.560
GARDEN GROVE, LIKE CHIQUITA,

02:18:55.627 --> 02:18:57.696
THAT THE ONLY PERSON THAT HAS

02:18:57.762 --> 02:18:58.897
EVACUATION AUTHORITY IS A LOCAL

02:18:58.963 --> 02:19:01.299
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER? NOW,

02:19:01.366 --> 02:19:02.901
JUST TO BE VERY BLUNT, BECAUSE

02:19:02.967 --> 02:19:04.235
I'M KNOWN FOR THAT AND BECAUSE

02:19:04.302 --> 02:19:08.173
I'M TOO OLD NOW NOT TO BE OKAY,

02:19:08.239 --> 02:19:09.941
WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE PERSON IN

02:19:10.008 --> 02:19:12.077
THE STATE THAT HAS THE

02:19:12.143 --> 02:19:13.545
AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AN

02:19:13.611 --> 02:19:14.746
EVACUATION ORDER? AND JUST

02:19:14.813 --> 02:19:16.347
THINK ABOUT IT SELFISHLY AS AN

02:19:16.414 --> 02:19:18.950
ELECTED OFFICIAL, RIGHT? LIKE,

02:19:19.017 --> 02:19:20.251
WOULD YOU WANT THAT PRESSURE

02:19:20.318 --> 02:19:21.853
PUT ON YOU WHEN THERE'S A LOT

02:19:21.920 --> 02:19:23.988
THAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU ISSUE

02:19:24.055 --> 02:19:25.156
EVACUATION? I AM SURE THAT YOU

02:19:25.223 --> 02:19:26.991
HAVE I'M SURE THAT YOU HAVE

02:19:27.058 --> 02:19:28.660
SEEN HOW OFF PEOPLE WERE IN

02:19:28.727 --> 02:19:30.495
GARDEN GROVE. THEY JUST HELD A

02:19:30.562 --> 02:19:32.263
BIG TOWN HALL MEETING. 600

02:19:32.330 --> 02:19:35.133
PEOPLE SHOWED UP. THESE PEOPLE

02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:36.901
HERE WOULD LIKE TO BE EVACUATED.

02:19:36.968 --> 02:19:39.471
THEY'RE OFF BECAUSE THEY WERE

02:19:39.537 --> 02:19:40.972
SO. BUT HERE'S WHAT I SAY ABOUT

02:19:41.039 --> 02:19:43.074
WHAT HAPPENED IN GARDEN GROVE.

02:19:43.141 --> 02:19:45.944
NO ONE IS SICK. OKAY? YES,

02:19:46.010 --> 02:19:48.113
THERE BUSINESSES WERE, YOU KNOW,

02:19:48.179 --> 02:19:49.514
THEY THEY THEY HAVE

02:19:49.581 --> 02:19:50.715
INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS. THEY,

02:19:50.782 --> 02:19:52.384
THEY HAD TO MOVE OUT OF THEIR

02:19:52.450 --> 02:19:53.551
HOUSES FOR FIVE DAYS, BUT THEY

02:19:53.618 --> 02:19:55.453
ARE NOT GOING TO BE FACING A

02:19:55.520 --> 02:19:57.422
LIFE LONG PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS

02:19:57.489 --> 02:19:58.923
LIKE THE PEOPLE HERE IN

02:19:58.990 --> 02:19:59.991
CHIQUITA AND QUITE FRANKLY, THE

02:20:00.058 --> 02:20:01.793
PEOPLE IN LINEAGE. SO LINEAGE

02:20:01.860 --> 02:20:03.561
IS NOW THE STATE'S LARGEST

02:20:03.628 --> 02:20:05.697
CHEMICAL DISASTER. 20,000

02:20:05.764 --> 02:20:06.564
PEOPLE HAVE SOUGHT PUBLIC

02:20:06.631 --> 02:20:11.136
HEALTH CARE. OKAY. SOMEONE'S

02:20:11.202 --> 02:20:14.739
GOING TO GET THAT TAB. AND THIS

02:20:14.806 --> 02:20:17.242
IS WHY I THINK THAT I DISAGREE

02:20:17.308 --> 02:20:19.077
WITH THE AUDIT COMMITTEE. AND I

02:20:19.144 --> 02:20:20.845
THINK THAT THE LEGISLATURE DOES

02:20:20.912 --> 02:20:23.748
HOLD A ROLE HERE, OKAY? BECAUSE

02:20:23.815 --> 02:20:26.618
IN 2021, WE HAD NINE CHEMICAL

02:20:26.684 --> 02:20:28.052
DISASTERS IN THE STATE OF

02:20:28.119 --> 02:20:30.555
CALIFORNIA. THIS YEAR, WE'RE AT

02:20:30.622 --> 02:20:34.192
24 AND WE'RE NOT DONE YET. SO

02:20:34.259 --> 02:20:35.560
WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT IS

02:20:35.627 --> 02:20:37.428
HAPPENING ACROSS CALIFORNIA,

02:20:37.495 --> 02:20:39.164
AND I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, I

02:20:39.230 --> 02:20:40.465
GOT A CALL FROM YANA GARCIA,

02:20:40.532 --> 02:20:41.466
WHO'S KELLY PA SECRETARY,

02:20:41.533 --> 02:20:43.301
BECAUSE SHE KNOWS I'M AN EXPERT

02:20:43.368 --> 02:20:44.402
IN THESE KINDS OF SITUATIONS.

02:20:44.469 --> 02:20:45.403
LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING? IT'S

02:20:45.470 --> 02:20:46.771
JUST AGING INFRASTRUCTURE,

02:20:46.838 --> 02:20:48.907
ISN'T IT, JANE? I'M LIKE, IF

02:20:48.973 --> 02:20:51.109
ONLY IT WAS THAT SIMPLE. NO, IT

02:20:51.176 --> 02:20:52.844
IS NOT. IS A SERIES OF THREE

02:20:52.911 --> 02:20:55.013
THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

02:20:55.079 --> 02:20:57.215
LINEAGE WAS ONLY BUILT IN 2018.

02:20:57.282 --> 02:20:59.384
IT'S NOT AGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

02:20:59.450 --> 02:21:01.085
THE WAREHOUSES THAT BURN DOWN

02:21:01.152 --> 02:21:04.055
IN ONTARIO AND IN MODESTO, HUGE

02:21:04.122 --> 02:21:05.623
DISASTERS, BRAND NEW,

02:21:05.690 --> 02:21:07.659
RELATIVELY BRAND NEW GARDEN

02:21:07.725 --> 02:21:09.060
GROVE. WHY CAN'T YOU KEEP A

02:21:09.127 --> 02:21:10.595
WATER PUMP RUNNING, DARCY? WHY

02:21:10.662 --> 02:21:12.197
CAN'T YOU KEEP. IT'S LIKE A

02:21:12.263 --> 02:21:13.431
PUMP THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR

02:21:13.498 --> 02:21:15.934
SWAMP COOLER. WHAT? OKAY, I

02:21:16.000 --> 02:21:17.902
LIVE ON A HORSE RANCH. I GOTTA

02:21:17.969 --> 02:21:19.170
KEEP A BUNCH OF PUMPS RUNNING.

02:21:19.237 --> 02:21:20.972
I HAVE EXTRA ONES ON HAND IN

02:21:21.039 --> 02:21:22.774
CASE SOMETHING BREAKS. THEIR

02:21:22.841 --> 02:21:24.542
PUMP BROKE. AND SO THEY HAD A

02:21:24.609 --> 02:21:26.444
CHEMICAL DISASTER. THAT HAS TO

02:21:26.511 --> 02:21:28.546
DO WITH HEAT AND HUMAN ERROR.

02:21:28.613 --> 02:21:30.348
SO WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THESE

02:21:30.415 --> 02:21:31.449
DISASTERS IS THAT THERE'S THREE

02:21:31.516 --> 02:21:32.817
MAJOR CAUSES AGING

02:21:32.884 --> 02:21:34.285
INFRASTRUCTURE. DO WE HAVE THAT?

02:21:34.352 --> 02:21:37.188
YES. HUMAN ERROR. DO WE HAVE

02:21:37.255 --> 02:21:40.058
THAT? YES. AND NATE, TECH

02:21:40.124 --> 02:21:41.860
EVENTS, NATURAL DISASTERS,

02:21:41.926 --> 02:21:45.496
EARTHQUAKES, FLOODING, HEAT,

02:21:45.563 --> 02:21:47.966
ETC. BUT HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW.

02:21:48.032 --> 02:21:50.168
THESE DISASTERS ARE INCREASING

02:21:50.235 --> 02:21:53.404
IN SIZE, DURATION AND IMPACT.

02:21:53.471 --> 02:21:55.273
AND PILAR WILL TELL YOU, THIS

02:21:55.340 --> 02:21:56.541
IS NOT THE ONLY LANDFILL FIRE

02:21:56.608 --> 02:21:58.843
WE HAVE IN CALIFORNIA. SO WE

02:21:58.910 --> 02:22:02.013
ARE NOW ACTIVELY MANAGING THREE

02:22:02.080 --> 02:22:03.648
LANDFILL FIRES IN CALIFORNIA,

02:22:03.715 --> 02:22:06.684
EL SOBRANTE, CHIQUITA AND

02:22:06.751 --> 02:22:08.486
ETHANOL, WHICH I WANT TO SHOUT

02:22:08.553 --> 02:22:11.022
OUT TO MY COLLEAGUES HERE THAT

02:22:11.089 --> 02:22:12.824
WENT TO AVENAL YESTERDAY FOR A

02:22:12.891 --> 02:22:14.959
PUBLIC MEETING. OKAY. A

02:22:15.026 --> 02:22:16.027
DELEGATION OF FOLKS FROM

02:22:16.094 --> 02:22:21.132
CHIQUITA WENT THERE. OKAY, SO

02:22:21.199 --> 02:22:22.767
I'M ON THE BOARD OF GREENACTION

02:22:22.834 --> 02:22:23.935
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND

02:22:24.002 --> 02:22:25.036
JUSTICE, AND THEY'RE RESPONDING

02:22:25.103 --> 02:22:26.638
TO THAT LANDFILL FIRE. AND LET

02:22:26.704 --> 02:22:28.506
ME TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO

02:22:28.573 --> 02:22:29.674
HAPPEN IN ETHANOL IF THE STATE

02:22:29.741 --> 02:22:31.609
AND THE FEDS CAN'T GET IN FRONT

02:22:31.676 --> 02:22:33.511
OF IT, AVENAL IS GOING TO LOOK

02:22:33.578 --> 02:22:34.579
LIKE CHIQUITA. IT'S GOING TO

02:22:34.646 --> 02:22:35.780
LOOK LIKE VAL VERDE IN THREE

02:22:35.847 --> 02:22:37.615
YEARS. AND YOU HAVE A SMALL

02:22:37.682 --> 02:22:38.750
TOWN THERE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO

02:22:38.816 --> 02:22:40.618
HAVE TO EVACUATE THE WHOLE TOWN.

02:22:40.685 --> 02:22:41.719
SO ENOUGH SAID ON THIS. BUT

02:22:41.786 --> 02:22:43.588
THERE IS A ROLE FOR THE

02:22:43.655 --> 02:22:45.189
LEGISLATURE TO TO PLAY CHIQUITA

02:22:45.256 --> 02:22:48.459
IS A ABSOLUTE AND UTTER FAILURE

02:22:48.526 --> 02:22:51.262
BY THE STATE. IT IS A FAILURE

02:22:51.329 --> 02:22:52.397
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

02:22:52.463 --> 02:22:53.831
HEALTH. AND MY OWN PERSONAL

02:22:53.898 --> 02:22:56.701
VIEW IS THAT WHEN I LOOK AT THE

02:22:56.768 --> 02:22:58.136
COMPORTMENT OF THE LEADERSHIP

02:22:58.202 --> 02:22:59.604
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

02:22:59.671 --> 02:23:03.141
HEALTH, IT IS NEGLIGENT. IT IS

02:23:03.207 --> 02:23:05.343
COMPLETELY NEGLIGENT, NOT JUST

02:23:05.410 --> 02:23:08.947
TO CHIQUITA AT ALTADENA, AT THE

02:23:09.013 --> 02:23:10.481
PALISADES, AND AT MY AGE. AND

02:23:10.548 --> 02:23:12.617
I'M REALLY SORRY THAT MARC LEFT

02:23:12.684 --> 02:23:13.718
BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN EACH

02:23:13.785 --> 02:23:15.620
OTHER NOW FOR WAY TOO LONG, AND

02:23:15.687 --> 02:23:16.888
NOW HE HAS THE DOUBLE DISASTER

02:23:16.955 --> 02:23:18.623
OF EXIDE AND LINEAGE. SO THANK

02:23:18.690 --> 02:23:20.491
YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE

02:23:20.558 --> 02:23:23.361
TESTIMONY. THANK YOU, MISS

02:23:23.428 --> 02:23:25.129
WILLIAMS. I DO KNOW THAT YOU

02:23:25.196 --> 02:23:27.665
HAVE A A HARD DEADLINE. SO ARE

02:23:27.732 --> 02:23:29.100
YOU GOING TO. THERE'S NO WAY.

02:23:29.167 --> 02:23:30.935
OKAY. IN FACT, I'M SUPPOSED TO

02:23:31.002 --> 02:23:32.837
BE AT Ã ACCEPTING AN AWARD IN

02:23:32.904 --> 02:23:34.872
EAST LA, SO I DO NOT HAVE TO

02:23:34.939 --> 02:23:36.074
LEAVE. WELL, I JUST SAID THAT I.

02:23:36.140 --> 02:23:37.842
THERE'S NO WAY I APPRECIATE

02:23:37.909 --> 02:23:39.010
THAT. OKAY. WELL THEN WE WE'LL

02:23:39.077 --> 02:23:40.311
WAIT FOR THE QUESTIONS THEN.

02:23:40.378 --> 02:23:42.780
OKAY. WE WILL NOW. THANK YOU

02:23:42.847 --> 02:23:44.549
FOR THAT. I'M GOING TO GO TO

02:23:44.615 --> 02:23:46.851
MISS ELKINS. THANK YOU, JANE,

02:23:46.918 --> 02:23:48.586
FOR BEING HERE WITH US TONIGHT.

02:23:48.653 --> 02:23:50.488
I KNOW THIS MEANS A LOT TO ALL

02:23:50.555 --> 02:23:52.490
OF US. AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD

02:23:52.557 --> 02:23:53.658
THAT EVAN IS NOW ACCEPTING

02:23:53.725 --> 02:23:54.692
TRASH THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN

02:23:54.759 --> 02:23:56.094
GOING TO CHIQUITA CANYON.

02:23:56.160 --> 02:23:57.595
THEY'RE TAKING OUR TRASH. SO

02:23:57.662 --> 02:23:58.730
WE'RE PUTTING ONE BURDEN ONTO

02:23:58.796 --> 02:23:59.731
ANOTHER COMMUNITY THAT'S

02:23:59.797 --> 02:24:02.266
ALREADY BURDENED. GOOD EVENING.

02:24:02.333 --> 02:24:03.501
MY NAME IS JENNIFER ELKINS. I'M

02:24:03.568 --> 02:24:05.503
A RESIDENT, AND I'M ALSO THE

02:24:05.570 --> 02:24:06.604
CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE VAL

02:24:06.671 --> 02:24:09.207
VERDE CIVIC ASSOCIATION. MY

02:24:09.273 --> 02:24:11.242
HOME IS AROUND 1500FT FROM THE

02:24:11.309 --> 02:24:12.310
REACTION SITE AT CHIQUITA

02:24:12.377 --> 02:24:13.878
CANYON LANDFILL. WE'VE BEEN

02:24:13.945 --> 02:24:15.013
DEALING WITH THIS DISASTER IN

02:24:15.079 --> 02:24:16.681
OUR COMMUNITY NOW FOR FOUR

02:24:16.748 --> 02:24:18.483
YEARS AND HAVE SEEN NO END IN

02:24:18.549 --> 02:24:20.218
SIGHT, NO REAL SOLUTIONS AND NO

02:24:20.284 --> 02:24:21.819
REAL BELIEF OR NO REAL RELIEF

02:24:21.886 --> 02:24:24.288
FOR THE RESIDENTS. OVER A DOZEN

02:24:24.355 --> 02:24:25.890
OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN

02:24:25.957 --> 02:24:26.958
DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER IN THE

02:24:27.025 --> 02:24:28.626
LAST TWO YEARS. YOU CAN WALK

02:24:28.693 --> 02:24:30.228
DOWN THE STREET AND POINT OUT

02:24:30.294 --> 02:24:31.329
MORE NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE HAD

02:24:31.396 --> 02:24:33.564
CANCER THAN THOSE WHO DO NOT.

02:24:33.631 --> 02:24:35.033
MY FAMILY, INCLUDING MY

02:24:35.099 --> 02:24:36.067
CHILDREN, HAVE SUFFERED FROM

02:24:36.134 --> 02:24:38.636
SEVERE NOSEBLEEDS, HIVES, SKIN

02:24:38.703 --> 02:24:40.772
IRRITATION, RESPIRATORY ISSUES,

02:24:40.838 --> 02:24:42.573
IRRITATED EYES, HEADACHES AND

02:24:42.640 --> 02:24:44.375
OTHER HEALTH IMPACTS. WE'VE

02:24:44.442 --> 02:24:46.110
ALSO HAD SEVERAL PETS DIE

02:24:46.177 --> 02:24:47.278
PREMATURELY ON OUR PROPERTY IN

02:24:47.345 --> 02:24:49.714
THE LAST FEW YEARS. I EMAILED

02:24:49.781 --> 02:24:51.182
THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE ALMOST

02:24:51.249 --> 02:24:52.650
DAILY FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR.

02:24:52.717 --> 02:24:53.818
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. THESE ARE

02:24:53.885 --> 02:24:57.288
MY EMAILS. THE ONLY RESPONSE I

02:24:57.355 --> 02:24:58.790
RECEIVED WAS THAT THE SYMPTOMS

02:24:58.856 --> 02:25:01.659
WOULD BE LOGGED. NO ADVICE, NO

02:25:01.726 --> 02:25:03.461
QUESTIONS. NO ACTION WAS TAKEN

02:25:03.528 --> 02:25:05.263
OTHER THAN THE LOGGING OF OUR

02:25:05.329 --> 02:25:07.432
SYMPTOMS. THERE IS NO POLICY OR

02:25:07.498 --> 02:25:09.567
PROCEDURE, NO STANDARD PRACTICE.

02:25:09.634 --> 02:25:11.002
I DON'T KNOW IF PUBLIC HEALTH

02:25:11.069 --> 02:25:12.203
DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND OR

02:25:12.270 --> 02:25:14.072
JUST DIDN'T WANT TO, BUT WE GOT

02:25:14.138 --> 02:25:15.373
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FROM THEIR

02:25:15.440 --> 02:25:16.407
DEPARTMENT. AND I'D LIKE TO

02:25:16.474 --> 02:25:18.109
READ YOU JUST A COUPLE OF THE

02:25:18.176 --> 02:25:20.044
EMAILS I SENT, SO YOU CAN KIND

02:25:20.111 --> 02:25:21.412
OF HAVE A SENSE OF HOW THAT

02:25:21.479 --> 02:25:29.921
WENT. THIS WAS DATED SEPTEMBER

02:25:29.987 --> 02:25:32.757
25TH OF 2023. I SAID, WE LEFT

02:25:32.824 --> 02:25:34.225
THE TOWN FOR A FEW DAYS AND HAD

02:25:34.292 --> 02:25:36.094
ZERO SYMPTOMS. IT'S THE BEST

02:25:36.160 --> 02:25:37.728
WE'VE FELT IN MONTHS. CAME BACK

02:25:37.795 --> 02:25:39.430
HOME LAST NIGHT AND GUESS WHAT?

02:25:39.497 --> 02:25:40.865
SYMPTOMS HAVE RETURNED THIS

02:25:40.932 --> 02:25:41.999
MORNING. BURNING EYES AND

02:25:42.066 --> 02:25:44.168
THROAT, CONGESTED SINUSES,

02:25:44.235 --> 02:25:46.270
HEADACHE, NAUSEA, FATIGUE. WHAT

02:25:46.337 --> 02:25:47.738
MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR

02:25:47.805 --> 02:25:48.840
PUBLIC HEALTH? STEP IN AND

02:25:48.906 --> 02:25:50.608
ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING. THE

02:25:50.675 --> 02:25:51.709
COUNTY AND THE SCHOOLS KEEP

02:25:51.776 --> 02:25:53.611
TELLING US THE AIR IS SAFE. IT

02:25:53.678 --> 02:25:54.912
JUST SMELLS BAD. BUT WE ARE

02:25:54.979 --> 02:25:56.714
BREATHING TOXIC GASES AND OUR

02:25:56.781 --> 02:25:57.815
SYMPTOMS AND HEALTH ISSUES TELL

02:25:57.882 --> 02:25:59.717
ME THE AIR IS NOT SAFE TO

02:25:59.784 --> 02:26:01.786
BREATHE. THE RESPONSE I GOT WAS,

02:26:01.853 --> 02:26:03.221
THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. I'M

02:26:03.287 --> 02:26:04.422
ADDING IT TO THE ADDITIONAL

02:26:04.489 --> 02:26:05.456
REPORTS WE HAVE RECEIVED IN

02:26:05.523 --> 02:26:06.824
YOUR PREVIOUS REPORTS AND

02:26:06.891 --> 02:26:07.558
FORWARDING THEM TO THE

02:26:07.625 --> 02:26:08.593
LEADERSHIP TEAM IN PUBLIC

02:26:08.659 --> 02:26:10.328
HEALTH. AND THIS WAS OUR

02:26:10.394 --> 02:26:11.395
RESPONSE THAT WE WOULD GET

02:26:11.462 --> 02:26:16.601
AFTER EVERY EMAIL. PUBLIC

02:26:16.667 --> 02:26:18.236
HEALTH CLAIM TO DO A DOOR TO

02:26:18.302 --> 02:26:19.770
DOOR HEALTH SURVEY. AND I CAN

02:26:19.837 --> 02:26:21.539
TELL YOU THAT NOBODY EVER CAME

02:26:21.606 --> 02:26:23.541
TO MY DOOR TO TALK TO ME ABOUT

02:26:23.608 --> 02:26:24.609
A HEALTH SURVEY. THERE WAS

02:26:24.675 --> 02:26:26.544
NEVER A FLIER LEFT AT MY DOOR.

02:26:26.611 --> 02:26:27.678
AND HONESTLY, I'VE ASKED ALL OF

02:26:27.745 --> 02:26:29.547
MY NEIGHBORS, AND I CAN'T FIND

02:26:29.614 --> 02:26:30.715
A SINGLE PERSON WHO CAN RECALL

02:26:30.781 --> 02:26:31.782
SOMEONE FROM PUBLIC HEALTH

02:26:31.849 --> 02:26:33.417
COMING TO THEIR DOOR. THE

02:26:33.484 --> 02:26:35.253
HEALTH SURVEY ITSELF WAS A JOKE.

02:26:35.319 --> 02:26:36.754
I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE SURVEY

02:26:36.821 --> 02:26:38.489
FROM THE TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS.

02:26:38.556 --> 02:26:39.891
THE QUESTIONS WERE BASED

02:26:39.957 --> 02:26:40.992
PRIMARILY ON ODORS AND ASKED

02:26:41.058 --> 02:26:42.460
QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH SYMPTOMS

02:26:42.527 --> 02:26:43.861
WHEN SMELLING ODORS. THERE WAS

02:26:43.928 --> 02:26:45.129
NEVER AN OPTION TO REPORT

02:26:45.196 --> 02:26:46.464
HEALTH SYMPTOMS WHEN ODORS WERE

02:26:46.531 --> 02:26:48.866
NOT PRESENT, EACH QUESTION HAD

02:26:48.933 --> 02:26:50.568
A DROP DOWN MENU WITH OPTIONS,

02:26:50.635 --> 02:26:51.802
AND THERE WAS NOWHERE TO INPUT

02:26:51.869 --> 02:26:53.404
SOMETHING THAT WASN'T LISTED IN

02:26:53.471 --> 02:26:55.072
THAT DROP DOWN MENU. THERE WAS

02:26:55.139 --> 02:26:56.674
ALSO A LOT OF CONFUSION ABOUT

02:26:56.741 --> 02:26:57.875
WHEN TO FILL OUT THE HEALTH

02:26:57.942 --> 02:27:00.044
SURVEY. SOME THOUGHT IT WAS A

02:27:00.111 --> 02:27:01.145
ONE TIME SURVEY. OTHERS SAID,

02:27:01.212 --> 02:27:02.313
I'M NOT FEELING THAT OUT. EVERY

02:27:02.380 --> 02:27:04.148
TIME I SMELL AN ODOR THAT'S

02:27:04.215 --> 02:27:05.283
MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY, I ALREADY

02:27:05.349 --> 02:27:08.019
REPORT TO AQMD. IT WAS VERY

02:27:08.085 --> 02:27:09.187
CONFUSING AND VERY UNCLEAR WHEN

02:27:09.253 --> 02:27:10.521
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FILL OUT

02:27:10.588 --> 02:27:11.689
THE SURVEY, HOW OFTEN AND FOR

02:27:11.756 --> 02:27:13.424
HOW LONG. MANY RESIDENTS

02:27:13.491 --> 02:27:15.226
WEREN'T EVEN AWARE THE SURVEY

02:27:15.293 --> 02:27:18.896
EXISTED. WHAT WE DID RECEIVE AT

02:27:18.963 --> 02:27:20.598
OUR DOOR WERE FLIERS FROM THE

02:27:20.665 --> 02:27:21.899
LANDFILL, WITH WHAT THEY CALLED

02:27:21.966 --> 02:27:23.868
MYTHS VERSUS FACTS, WHERE THEY

02:27:23.935 --> 02:27:25.303
PROCEEDED TO GASLIGHT US ONCE

02:27:25.369 --> 02:27:27.505
AGAIN. AND I WILL GO AHEAD AND

02:27:27.572 --> 02:27:34.645
READ YOU ONE EXAMPLE OF THAT.

02:27:34.712 --> 02:27:37.548
LISTED UNDER MYTH. THEY SAID

02:27:37.615 --> 02:27:38.983
THE REACTION IS CAUSING LONG

02:27:39.050 --> 02:27:40.785
TERM HEALTH IMPACTS, INCLUDING

02:27:40.851 --> 02:27:43.054
CANCER. NEXT TO IT, THE COLUMN

02:27:43.120 --> 02:27:44.822
SAYS FACTS. BOTH CHIQUITA AND

02:27:44.889 --> 02:27:46.157
LA COUNTY COMMISSIONED

02:27:46.224 --> 02:27:47.592
INDEPENDENT TOXICOLOGISTS TO

02:27:47.658 --> 02:27:49.427
EVALUATE AIR QUALITY IN THE

02:27:49.493 --> 02:27:50.094
COMMUNITIES AROUND THE LANDFILL

02:27:50.161 --> 02:27:51.028
AND ASSESS POTENTIAL HEALTH

02:27:51.095 --> 02:27:53.631
RISKS. THE STUDIES BY THESE

02:27:53.698 --> 02:27:55.399
EXPERTS FOUND NO EXPECTED SHORT

02:27:55.466 --> 02:27:56.667
OR LONG TERM HEALTH IMPACTS

02:27:56.734 --> 02:27:59.036
FROM THE LANDFILL, YET WE HAVE

02:27:59.103 --> 02:28:01.906
DOZENS OF PEOPLE WITH CANCER.

02:28:01.973 --> 02:28:03.341
THE RECENT WORK ON THE WESTERN

02:28:03.407 --> 02:28:04.475
TOW OF THE LANDFILL BEGAN

02:28:04.542 --> 02:28:05.910
BEFORE THE COMMUNITY WAS EVER

02:28:05.977 --> 02:28:07.345
NOTIFIED, BEFORE THE COOL ROOM

02:28:07.411 --> 02:28:09.113
WAS OPEN, AND BEFORE THERE WAS

02:28:09.180 --> 02:28:10.348
ANY PLAN IN PLACE TO PROTECT

02:28:10.414 --> 02:28:12.350
THE COMMUNITY. JUST RECENTLY,

02:28:12.416 --> 02:28:13.651
WE HAD A BENZENE EXCEEDANCE IN

02:28:13.718 --> 02:28:15.419
THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND

02:28:15.486 --> 02:28:16.420
THE ONLY NOTIFICATION RESIDENTS

02:28:16.487 --> 02:28:18.456
RECEIVED WAS AN EMAIL AT 2 A.M.

02:28:18.522 --> 02:28:20.291
THERE WAS NO EMERGENCY PROTOCOL,

02:28:20.358 --> 02:28:22.059
NO EMERGENCY RESPONSE. IT

02:28:22.126 --> 02:28:23.861
WASN'T EVEN INVESTIGATED UNTIL

02:28:23.928 --> 02:28:24.929
RESIDENTS WOKE UP IN THE

02:28:24.996 --> 02:28:25.930
MORNING AND REPORTED THE

02:28:25.997 --> 02:28:27.064
EXCEEDANCE TO GOVERNMENT

02:28:27.131 --> 02:28:28.933
AGENCIES. IN ANY OTHER

02:28:29.000 --> 02:28:30.334
EMERGENCY, LIKE A FIRE, THERE

02:28:30.401 --> 02:28:32.536
WOULD BE A TEXT MESSAGE ALERT

02:28:32.603 --> 02:28:34.138
ALARMS WOULD GO OFF, SHERIFFS

02:28:34.205 --> 02:28:35.006
WOULD BE KNOCKING ON DOORS.

02:28:35.072 --> 02:28:36.641
THERE WOULD BE A SHELTER IN

02:28:36.707 --> 02:28:37.942
PLACE ORDER. NONE OF THAT

02:28:38.009 --> 02:28:39.677
HAPPENED. AND THEN JUST LIKE

02:28:39.744 --> 02:28:41.112
ANYTIME WE HAVE AN EXCEEDANCE

02:28:41.178 --> 02:28:42.613
HERE, WE WERE TOLD THAT THE

02:28:42.680 --> 02:28:43.781
EXCEEDANCE WAS A FALSE READING

02:28:43.848 --> 02:28:45.449
DUE TO FAULTY EQUIPMENT. I'M

02:28:45.516 --> 02:28:49.086
NOT BUYING IT. WE HAVE A

02:28:49.153 --> 02:28:50.521
MEETING AFTER MEETING MONTH

02:28:50.588 --> 02:28:52.657
AFTER MONTH, YEAR AFTER YEAR.

02:28:52.723 --> 02:28:54.492
OUR QUESTIONS DON'T GET

02:28:54.558 --> 02:28:55.559
ANSWERED. PUBLIC HEALTH IS

02:28:55.626 --> 02:28:57.328
POINTING FINGERS, BLAMING OTHER

02:28:57.395 --> 02:28:58.963
AGENCIES. WE GET THE NOTORIOUS

02:28:59.030 --> 02:29:00.231
WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU NEXT

02:29:00.298 --> 02:29:01.866
MONTH, WHICH THEY RARELY DO. OR

02:29:01.932 --> 02:29:03.834
IT'S JUST CRICKETS. IT'S LIKE

02:29:03.901 --> 02:29:06.003
TALKING TO A BRICK WALL. WE

02:29:06.070 --> 02:29:07.071
KEEP OUR WINDOWS AND DOORS

02:29:07.138 --> 02:29:08.839
CLOSED AT ALL TIMES. MY

02:29:08.906 --> 02:29:10.308
CHILDREN CANNOT PLAY OUTSIDE,

02:29:10.374 --> 02:29:11.409
AND I'VE HAD TO MAKE THE

02:29:11.475 --> 02:29:12.443
HEARTBREAKING DECISION TO

02:29:12.510 --> 02:29:13.544
RELOCATE THEM TO SCHOOLS

02:29:13.611 --> 02:29:15.346
FURTHER AWAY. TO PROTECT THEIR

02:29:15.413 --> 02:29:17.548
HEALTH, THEY HAD TO LEAVE THEIR

02:29:17.615 --> 02:29:19.016
FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY AND START

02:29:19.083 --> 02:29:20.885
ALL OVER TO GET AWAY FROM THE

02:29:20.951 --> 02:29:22.953
TOXIC LANDFILL AIR. I NOW

02:29:23.020 --> 02:29:24.388
COMMUTE ABOUT THREE HOURS EACH

02:29:24.455 --> 02:29:26.157
DAY TO DRIVE THEM TO AND FROM

02:29:26.223 --> 02:29:28.292
SCHOOL. WE SIGN OUR KIDS UP FOR

02:29:28.359 --> 02:29:29.327
SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES CLEAR

02:29:29.393 --> 02:29:31.429
ACROSS TOWN, JUST SO THEY CAN

02:29:31.495 --> 02:29:34.465
HAVE A CHANCE TO PLAY OUTSIDE.

02:29:34.532 --> 02:29:35.733
TOO MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE

02:29:35.800 --> 02:29:37.535
HAD TO MOVE AWAY AND ARE NOW

02:29:37.601 --> 02:29:39.470
STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY, PAYING

02:29:39.537 --> 02:29:40.671
DOUBLE OR TRIPLE THE MORTGAGE

02:29:40.738 --> 02:29:43.074
AND PROPERTY TAXES THEY USED TO.

02:29:43.140 --> 02:29:44.342
MANY OTHERS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT

02:29:44.408 --> 02:29:46.143
TO STAY IN THEIR HOMES AND

02:29:46.210 --> 02:29:47.144
SUFFER THROUGH THE PERSISTENT

02:29:47.211 --> 02:29:48.446
AIR QUALITY ISSUES AND HEALTH

02:29:48.512 --> 02:29:50.281
IMPACTS. WE HAVE BEEN ASKED

02:29:50.348 --> 02:29:51.349
COUNTLESS TIMES, WHY DON'T YOU

02:29:51.415 --> 02:29:53.451
JUST MOVE? WHY DID YOU BUY A

02:29:53.517 --> 02:29:55.619
HOME NEXT TO A LANDFILL? BUT

02:29:55.686 --> 02:29:56.654
NOBODY ASKED THE LANDFILL TO

02:29:56.721 --> 02:29:58.856
MOVE. NOBODY. NOBODY ASKED THE

02:29:58.923 --> 02:30:00.291
COUNTY, WHY DID YOU ALLOW THE

02:30:00.358 --> 02:30:01.759
LANDFILL TO BE BUILT NEXT TO

02:30:01.826 --> 02:30:04.628
HOMES? VALVERDE WAS FOUNDED IN

02:30:04.695 --> 02:30:06.464
1924, AND THE LANDFILL BEGAN

02:30:06.530 --> 02:30:10.167
OPERATING IN 1972. NOBODY ASKED

02:30:10.234 --> 02:30:11.502
THE COUNTY WHY THEY APPROVED

02:30:11.569 --> 02:30:12.770
HUNDREDS OF NEW HOMES TO BE

02:30:12.837 --> 02:30:13.938
BUILT IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO

02:30:14.004 --> 02:30:15.072
THIS ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER.

02:30:15.139 --> 02:30:18.242
EITHER. I HAVE HAD NEIGHBORS

02:30:18.309 --> 02:30:19.443
WHO HAVE HAD TO LEAVE THEIR

02:30:19.510 --> 02:30:21.345
HOME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

02:30:21.412 --> 02:30:22.513
AND SLEEP IN A WALMART PARKING

02:30:22.580 --> 02:30:24.081
LOT, BECAUSE TOXIC LANDFILL

02:30:24.148 --> 02:30:26.617
GASES WERE INVADING THEIR HOME.

02:30:26.684 --> 02:30:27.785
PUBLIC HEALTH. IT IS YOUR JOB

02:30:27.852 --> 02:30:29.820
TO PROTECT US, PROTECT OUR

02:30:29.887 --> 02:30:32.356
HEALTH. OUR HEALTH IS NOT BEING

02:30:32.423 --> 02:30:34.158
PROTECTED. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS

02:30:34.225 --> 02:30:37.428
THREE CORE FUNCTIONS ASSESSMENT,

02:30:37.495 --> 02:30:38.829
COLLECTING, ANALYZING AND

02:30:38.896 --> 02:30:39.930
MONITORING, POPULATION HEALTH

02:30:39.997 --> 02:30:41.399
DATA, HEALTH STATUS AND

02:30:41.465 --> 02:30:43.567
COMMUNITY HAZARDS POLICY

02:30:43.634 --> 02:30:44.935
DEVELOPMENT USING SCIENTIFIC

02:30:45.002 --> 02:30:46.270
DATA AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

02:30:46.337 --> 02:30:48.205
TO CREATE LAWS, PLANS AND

02:30:48.272 --> 02:30:50.007
POLICIES THAT PROMOTE HEALTH

02:30:50.074 --> 02:30:51.475
AND ASSURANCE. MAKING SURE

02:30:51.542 --> 02:30:53.244
ESSENTIAL HEALTH SERVICES,

02:30:53.310 --> 02:30:54.345
REGULATIONS AND A SKILLED

02:30:54.412 --> 02:30:56.480
WORKFORCE ARE AVAILABLE AND

02:30:56.547 --> 02:30:59.116
EQUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. PUBLIC

02:30:59.183 --> 02:31:00.451
HEALTH HAS THE ABILITY TO GIVE

02:31:00.518 --> 02:31:02.219
THE RECOMMENDATION TO RELOCATE

02:31:02.286 --> 02:31:03.354
RESIDENTS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH

02:31:03.421 --> 02:31:05.623
OF THE COMMUNITY. THEY DIDN'T

02:31:05.689 --> 02:31:07.625
DO THAT. INSTEAD, THEY TOOK

02:31:07.691 --> 02:31:08.859
SOME AIR SAMPLES DURING SANTA

02:31:08.926 --> 02:31:10.528
ANA WINDS AND SPENT HUNDREDS OF

02:31:10.594 --> 02:31:12.663
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR DOCTOR

02:31:12.730 --> 02:31:14.131
LOVE TO TELL US THAT THERE ARE

02:31:14.198 --> 02:31:15.699
NO HEALTH RISKS. WHILE DOZENS

02:31:15.766 --> 02:31:17.101
OF NEIGHBORS DEALT WITH CANCER

02:31:17.168 --> 02:31:19.170
AND MISCARRIAGES AND HEART

02:31:19.236 --> 02:31:21.672
PROBLEMS AND RESPIRATORY ISSUES,

02:31:21.739 --> 02:31:23.274
MANY WITH SYMPTOMS SO SEVERE

02:31:23.340 --> 02:31:24.542
THAT THEY COULDN'T FUNCTION

02:31:24.608 --> 02:31:26.777
NORMALLY, THEY ALLEGEDLY WENT

02:31:26.844 --> 02:31:28.145
DOOR TO DOOR TO HAND OUT SOME

02:31:28.212 --> 02:31:29.780
FLIERS AND TOLD RESIDENTS THEY

02:31:29.847 --> 02:31:31.415
COULD TAKE AN ONLINE SURVEY.

02:31:31.482 --> 02:31:32.550
THEY DID ENOUGH TO SAY THAT

02:31:32.616 --> 02:31:33.884
THEY DID SOMETHING, BUT THEY

02:31:33.951 --> 02:31:36.787
DIDN'T DO ENOUGH. LA COUNTY

02:31:36.854 --> 02:31:37.888
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH YOU

02:31:37.955 --> 02:31:39.390
HAVE FAILED THIS COMMUNITY, AND

02:31:39.457 --> 02:31:40.724
YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE

02:31:40.791 --> 02:31:42.326
COURAGE TO SHOW UP TONIGHT TO

02:31:42.393 --> 02:31:50.100
FACE US. THANK YOU, MISS ELKINS.

02:31:50.167 --> 02:31:57.241
MR. HOUSE. MY NAME IS STEPHEN

02:31:57.308 --> 02:31:59.376
HOUSE. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF MY

02:31:59.443 --> 02:32:01.645
WIFE, BRANDY. SHE VERY

02:32:01.712 --> 02:32:02.446
REGRETTABLY CAME DOWN WITH THE

02:32:02.513 --> 02:32:04.949
FEVER AND GOT SICK YESTERDAY,

02:32:05.015 --> 02:32:06.617
AND I HAD TO DO EVERYTHING I

02:32:06.684 --> 02:32:08.519
COULD TO GET HER TO STAY IN BED

02:32:08.586 --> 02:32:09.753
AND NOT COME TONIGHT BECAUSE

02:32:09.820 --> 02:32:11.388
SHE DESPERATELY WANTED TO BE

02:32:11.455 --> 02:32:12.556
HERE. SO I'M GOING TO DO MY

02:32:12.623 --> 02:32:14.992
BEST TO TO READ THE STATEMENT

02:32:15.059 --> 02:32:17.928
THAT SHE WROTE DOWN FOR FOR ME

02:32:17.995 --> 02:32:21.832
TO READ. SO I CAN PULL IT UP

02:32:21.899 --> 02:32:26.604
HERE. SO IT SAYS, HELLO, MY

02:32:26.670 --> 02:32:28.305
NAME IS BRANDY HOUSE. THANK YOU

02:32:28.372 --> 02:32:29.740
FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY AND

02:32:29.807 --> 02:32:31.542
LISTENING TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY.

02:32:31.609 --> 02:32:33.410
WE MOVED TO VAL VERDE IN 1998.

02:32:33.477 --> 02:32:35.513
I WAS EXCITED TO BE A FIRST

02:32:35.579 --> 02:32:37.081
TIME HOMEOWNER IN THE LITTLE

02:32:37.147 --> 02:32:38.582
TOWN, SURROUNDED BY HILLS AND

02:32:38.649 --> 02:32:40.918
AWAY FROM CITY LIGHTS. WE HAD

02:32:40.985 --> 02:32:43.020
JUST HAD OUR FIRST CHILD AND IT

02:32:43.087 --> 02:32:44.755
LOOKED LIKE AN AMAZING PLACE TO

02:32:44.822 --> 02:32:46.657
GROW UP. WE WERE TOLD ABOUT THE

02:32:46.724 --> 02:32:47.758
LANDFILL, BUT WE WERE ASSURED

02:32:47.825 --> 02:32:49.927
IT WAS CLOSING. NOW THIS IS IN

02:32:49.994 --> 02:32:52.062
1998. WE SOON FOUND OUT THAT

02:32:52.129 --> 02:32:53.831
WAS NOT ACTUALLY THE CASE. I

02:32:53.898 --> 02:32:55.232
WAS CONCERNED, BUT I BELIEVE

02:32:55.299 --> 02:32:56.734
THE AGENCY'S IN PLACE WOULD

02:32:56.800 --> 02:32:58.202
KEEP US SAFE AND WOULD NEVER

02:32:58.269 --> 02:33:00.704
PUT US IN HARM'S WAY. WOW, WAS

02:33:00.771 --> 02:33:03.207
I NAIVE. THROUGH THE YEARS,

02:33:03.274 --> 02:33:05.009
THINGS GOT WORSE. AT FIRST. WE

02:33:05.075 --> 02:33:06.443
SMELLED IT A COUPLE OF TIMES A

02:33:06.510 --> 02:33:08.312
WEEK AND IT WAS REALLY BAD.

02:33:08.379 --> 02:33:10.414
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE. AS THE

02:33:10.481 --> 02:33:12.583
YEARS WENT BY, THOUGH, THINGS

02:33:12.650 --> 02:33:14.418
PROGRESSIVELY GOT WORSE. WE NOW

02:33:14.485 --> 02:33:15.886
SMELLED THE LANDFILL DAILY AND

02:33:15.953 --> 02:33:17.788
WE WERE ALL AFRAID SOMETHING

02:33:17.855 --> 02:33:19.356
BAD WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. IF

02:33:19.423 --> 02:33:20.457
CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL WAS

02:33:20.524 --> 02:33:22.626
ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN MUCH

02:33:22.693 --> 02:33:25.529
LONGER. SO IN 2017, WHEN THE

02:33:25.596 --> 02:33:26.997
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT WAS UP,

02:33:27.064 --> 02:33:28.966
WE WERE SURE THAT THE LANDFILL

02:33:29.033 --> 02:33:30.267
WOULD HONOR THE CONTRACT AND

02:33:30.334 --> 02:33:32.469
THE COMMUNITY WOULD CLOSE. WE

02:33:32.536 --> 02:33:34.538
WERE HEARTBROKEN AND BETRAYED

02:33:34.605 --> 02:33:36.740
TO LEARN THAT THE COUNTY HAD

02:33:36.807 --> 02:33:38.142
SIGNED A NEW CONDITIONAL USE

02:33:38.208 --> 02:33:40.311
PERMIT THAT WOULD ALLOW TYPEKIT

02:33:40.377 --> 02:33:42.780
TO BE OPEN FOR AN ADDITIONAL 30

02:33:42.846 --> 02:33:45.082
YEARS, A PERIOD OF TIME. MIND

02:33:45.149 --> 02:33:46.450
YOU, THAT CHIQUITA CANYON

02:33:46.517 --> 02:33:48.953
LANDFILL WAS NEVER DESIGNED FOR

02:33:49.019 --> 02:33:52.156
ORIGINALLY. THEN, IN 2022, WE

02:33:52.222 --> 02:33:54.024
BEGAN HAVING ALL SORTS OF

02:33:54.091 --> 02:33:55.492
SYMPTOMS. WE WERE FATIGUED ALL

02:33:55.559 --> 02:33:57.561
THE TIME TERRIBLE BRAIN FOG,

02:33:57.628 --> 02:33:59.430
HEADACHES, BURNING SINUSES,

02:33:59.496 --> 02:34:01.932
SORE AND HOARSE THROATS. WE HAD

02:34:01.999 --> 02:34:03.167
NAUSEA SO BAD AT TIMES THAT IT

02:34:03.233 --> 02:34:05.869
WOULD MAKE US VOMIT. OUR. MY

02:34:05.936 --> 02:34:07.671
YOUNGEST SON BEGAN TO HAVE

02:34:07.738 --> 02:34:09.440
NOSEBLEEDS 2 TO 3 TIMES A WEEK.

02:34:09.506 --> 02:34:12.009
AT FIRST I. IT WASN'T CONNECTED

02:34:12.076 --> 02:34:13.811
UNTIL THE NEIGHBORS BEGAN

02:34:13.877 --> 02:34:15.579
TALKING. THEY TOO WERE HAVING

02:34:15.646 --> 02:34:17.114
THE SAME SYMPTOMS AND THEIR

02:34:17.181 --> 02:34:18.816
KIDS WERE ALSO HAVING

02:34:18.882 --> 02:34:20.618
NOSEBLEEDS. I BEGAN GETTING

02:34:20.684 --> 02:34:22.853
VERY ANEMIC AND I WAS HAVING TO

02:34:22.920 --> 02:34:24.955
GO IN FOR IRON TRANSFUSIONS

02:34:25.022 --> 02:34:28.225
EVERY SIX MONTHS. THEN IN

02:34:28.292 --> 02:34:29.593
FEBRUARY 24TH, I WAS DIAGNOSED

02:34:29.660 --> 02:34:31.428
WITH AN AGGRESSIVE STAGE THREE

02:34:31.495 --> 02:34:33.597
BREAST CANCER. AFTER BEING

02:34:33.664 --> 02:34:35.466
TESTED AND CLEARED ONLY A YEAR

02:34:35.532 --> 02:34:38.268
AND A HALF EARLIER, I WAS

02:34:38.335 --> 02:34:40.037
SHOCKED. ORIGINALLY, I DIDN'T

02:34:40.104 --> 02:34:41.405
THINK IT HAD ANYTHING TO DO

02:34:41.472 --> 02:34:43.273
WITH THE LANDFILL UNTIL I

02:34:43.340 --> 02:34:45.109
REALIZED THAT TEN OTHER

02:34:45.175 --> 02:34:47.277
NEIGHBORS OF MINE ALSO HAD

02:34:47.344 --> 02:34:49.046
CANCER. SADLY, THAT NUMBER HAS

02:34:49.113 --> 02:34:50.514
GROWN TO. FROM WHAT I

02:34:50.581 --> 02:34:53.384
UNDERSTAND, 13 GOING THROUGH

02:34:53.450 --> 02:34:55.519
CANCER MEANT CHEMOTHERAPY,

02:34:55.586 --> 02:34:58.789
RADIATION, AND ADDED AUTOIMMUNE

02:34:58.856 --> 02:35:01.659
DISEASE OF TYPE ONE DIABETES.

02:35:01.725 --> 02:35:04.161
THIS MEANS YEARS OF MEDICATION

02:35:04.228 --> 02:35:06.330
THAT I STILL CURRENTLY NEED TO

02:35:06.397 --> 02:35:08.532
TAKE. THESE ARE. SHE ASKED ME

02:35:08.599 --> 02:35:11.368
TO BRING THEM SOME OF HER.

02:35:11.435 --> 02:35:12.536
THESE ARE HER CANCER TREATMENT

02:35:12.603 --> 02:35:14.638
DRUGS THERE AND THEN. THESE ARE

02:35:14.705 --> 02:35:16.407
ALL THE OTHER STUFF. THESE GUYS.

02:35:16.473 --> 02:35:17.875
YOU HAVE TO HAVE A DEXCOM SHE

02:35:17.941 --> 02:35:21.478
HAS TO CARRY AROUND INSULIN

02:35:21.545 --> 02:35:23.013
SHOTS. SHE'S GOT OTHER ONES.

02:35:23.080 --> 02:35:25.783
SHE HAS TO HAVE A NEBULIZER.

02:35:25.849 --> 02:35:26.884
AND THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT

02:35:26.950 --> 02:35:28.585
SHE HAS TO TAKE ON A REGULAR

02:35:28.652 --> 02:35:30.821
BASIS. AND WHAT IT DOES, THE

02:35:30.888 --> 02:35:32.456
CANCER TREATMENT, IT SUPPRESSES

02:35:32.523 --> 02:35:34.425
THE WHITE BLOOD CELLS. I'M

02:35:34.491 --> 02:35:35.559
DOING A TANGENT. WHAT

02:35:35.626 --> 02:35:36.593
SUPPRESSES WHITE BLOOD CELLS.

02:35:36.660 --> 02:35:38.128
AND SO THAT'S WHY SHE GETS SICK

02:35:38.195 --> 02:35:39.930
A LOT MORE OFTEN BECAUSE HER

02:35:39.997 --> 02:35:40.998
BODY CAN'T FIGHT OFF AN

02:35:41.065 --> 02:35:42.066
INFECTION THAT A NORMAL,

02:35:42.132 --> 02:35:48.105
HEALTHY PERSON WOULD. SO THESE

02:35:48.172 --> 02:35:49.540
ARE SOME OF THE MEDICATIONS

02:35:49.606 --> 02:35:51.675
SHE'S ON AND WILL BE ON FOR THE

02:35:51.742 --> 02:35:54.211
REST OF HER LIFE. UNFORTUNATELY,

02:35:54.278 --> 02:35:55.446
LATER, THROUGH A HEALTH STUDY,

02:35:55.512 --> 02:35:57.481
WE LEARNED THAT WOMEN IN OUR

02:35:57.548 --> 02:36:00.718
COMMUNITY WERE 57% MORE LIKELY

02:36:00.784 --> 02:36:03.320
TO HAVE A MISCARRIAGE. THIS

02:36:03.387 --> 02:36:05.756
FELT LIKE A PUNCH IN THE GUT. I

02:36:05.823 --> 02:36:08.992
MYSELF HAVE EXPERIENCED FIVE

02:36:09.059 --> 02:36:11.161
MISCARRIAGES, ONE BEING OF A

02:36:11.228 --> 02:36:16.300
SET OF TWINS. SORRY. TWO OF

02:36:16.366 --> 02:36:17.634
THESE MISCARRIAGES HAPPENED AT

02:36:17.701 --> 02:36:19.203
18 WEEKS. NEARLY HALFWAY

02:36:19.269 --> 02:36:21.238
THROUGH MY PREGNANCIES, I WAS

02:36:21.305 --> 02:36:23.040
TOLD THAT IT WAS JUST A FLUKE

02:36:23.107 --> 02:36:25.542
THE FIRST TIME WITH MY SON

02:36:25.609 --> 02:36:27.978
AZARIAH, AND THAT THERE WAS NO

02:36:28.045 --> 02:36:29.113
REASON IT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN.

02:36:29.179 --> 02:36:32.049
BUT IT DID. AND I GAVE BIRTH

02:36:32.116 --> 02:36:34.218
AGAIN TO MY SILENT LITTLE JACOB

02:36:34.284 --> 02:36:37.488
AT 18 WEEKS. DESPITE ALL OF

02:36:37.554 --> 02:36:39.590
THESE DIFFICULTIES, VALVERDE

02:36:39.656 --> 02:36:42.860
HAD BEEN HOME TO US FOR OVER 27

02:36:42.926 --> 02:36:44.661
YEARS. WE HAD RAISED FOUR

02:36:44.728 --> 02:36:46.463
CHILDREN THERE. WE LOVED OUR

02:36:46.530 --> 02:36:48.232
COMMUNITY AND THE CLOSE

02:36:48.298 --> 02:36:49.333
RELATIONSHIPS WE HAD BUILT

02:36:49.399 --> 02:36:50.801
THERE. OUR HOME IN VALVERDE FIT

02:36:50.868 --> 02:36:52.736
OUR NEEDS TOO. IT WAS NEAR TOWN,

02:36:52.803 --> 02:36:54.338
NOT TOO FAR FROM MY HUSBAND'S

02:36:54.404 --> 02:36:56.840
WORK AND BECAUSE OF WHEN WE

02:36:56.907 --> 02:36:59.042
BOUGHT IT WAS VERY AFFORDABLE.

02:36:59.109 --> 02:37:01.178
THIS ALLOWED. THIS WAS

02:37:01.245 --> 02:37:02.846
IMPORTANT AS IT ALLOWED ME TO

02:37:02.913 --> 02:37:05.215
BE A HOME AT HOME WITH OUR KIDS,

02:37:05.282 --> 02:37:06.583
WHICH WAS VERY HELPFUL. SINCE

02:37:06.650 --> 02:37:07.684
WE HAVE TWO CHILDREN WITH

02:37:07.751 --> 02:37:09.486
SPECIAL NEEDS, IT MADE IT

02:37:09.553 --> 02:37:10.554
POSSIBLE TO GET THEM THE

02:37:10.621 --> 02:37:11.722
THERAPY THEY NEED. OUR HOME WAS

02:37:11.789 --> 02:37:13.490
THE PERFECT PRICE AND THE

02:37:13.557 --> 02:37:15.259
PERFECT PLACE. BUT WITH

02:37:15.325 --> 02:37:16.693
CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL SO

02:37:16.760 --> 02:37:18.162
CLOSE AND NO RESOLUTION IN

02:37:18.228 --> 02:37:20.264
SIGHT TO KEEP US SAFE, WE JUST

02:37:20.330 --> 02:37:22.432
DID NOT FEEL SAFE THERE ANYMORE.

02:37:22.499 --> 02:37:25.302
I FELT AS IF WE STAYED. ONE OF

02:37:25.369 --> 02:37:27.437
US MIGHT EVEN LOSE OUR LIVES.

02:37:27.504 --> 02:37:28.939
THROUGH A TON OF PRAYER AND

02:37:29.006 --> 02:37:30.641
FAITH, WE DECIDED TO PUT OUR

02:37:30.707 --> 02:37:32.543
HOME UP FOR SALE. HONESTLY, WE

02:37:32.609 --> 02:37:34.144
WERE NOT SURE IT WOULD EVEN

02:37:34.211 --> 02:37:36.113
SELL. WE PUT RIGHT IN OUR

02:37:36.180 --> 02:37:37.181
LISTING, WHICH WE'RE NOT

02:37:37.247 --> 02:37:39.716
REQUIRED TO DO. THAT WAS LESS

02:37:39.783 --> 02:37:41.652
THAN A MILE FROM THE LANDFILL,

02:37:41.718 --> 02:37:43.453
AND WE LOWERED OUR PRICE ASKING

02:37:43.520 --> 02:37:45.455
PRICE THREE TIMES BELOW

02:37:45.522 --> 02:37:47.257
COMPARABLE HOMES SELLING IN OUR

02:37:47.324 --> 02:37:49.359
AREA. IT TOOK QUITE A WHILE,

02:37:49.426 --> 02:37:51.195
BUT OUR TO OUR SURPRISE,

02:37:51.261 --> 02:37:53.096
DESPITE BEING VERY UPFRONT WITH

02:37:53.163 --> 02:37:55.866
ALL THE POTENTIAL BUYERS, OUR

02:37:55.933 --> 02:37:59.870
HOME DID ACTUALLY SELL. THIS

02:37:59.937 --> 02:38:01.638
DECISION TO MOVE HAS COST US

02:38:01.705 --> 02:38:04.308
DEARLY. WE NOW PAY OVER TWICE

02:38:04.374 --> 02:38:06.043
WHAT WE DID FOR OUR VALVERDE

02:38:06.109 --> 02:38:08.512
HOME AND AT 50 YEARS OLD, WE

02:38:08.579 --> 02:38:10.314
WERE JUST FOUR YEARS FROM BEING

02:38:10.380 --> 02:38:12.482
ABLE TO TAKE OUR PROPERTY TAX

02:38:12.549 --> 02:38:13.350
BASE WITH US, WHERE WE WERE

02:38:13.417 --> 02:38:15.185
ABLE TO KEEP THE SAME TAX

02:38:15.252 --> 02:38:18.956
AMOUNT WITH THIS. NOW,

02:38:19.022 --> 02:38:20.357
FINANCIALLY, THINGS ARE SO

02:38:20.424 --> 02:38:21.959
TIGHT FOR US, NOT JUST BECAUSE

02:38:22.025 --> 02:38:24.361
OF NEW HOME EXPENSES. WE ARE

02:38:24.428 --> 02:38:25.929
FARTHER FROM TOWN OR FURTHER

02:38:25.996 --> 02:38:27.397
FROM MY HUSBAND'S WORK. THE

02:38:27.464 --> 02:38:29.032
COMMUTE IS DOUBLED. WE ARE

02:38:29.099 --> 02:38:30.467
STRUGGLING NOT JUST FINANCIALLY,

02:38:30.534 --> 02:38:31.902
BUT WE ALSO MISS ALL OF OUR

02:38:31.969 --> 02:38:33.003
FRIENDSHIPS AND OUR COMMUNITY

02:38:33.070 --> 02:38:34.805
WE BUILT IN VALVERDE. THESE

02:38:34.872 --> 02:38:36.373
PEOPLE ARE LIKE FAMILY AND WE

02:38:36.440 --> 02:38:38.242
HAVE A HARD TIME SPENDING A

02:38:38.308 --> 02:38:39.409
HARD TIME BEING ABLE TO SPEND

02:38:39.476 --> 02:38:42.312
TIME WITH THEM. WAS IT WORTH IT

02:38:42.379 --> 02:38:44.448
THOUGH? I WOULD SAY YES. WE ARE

02:38:44.514 --> 02:38:45.749
NO LONGER SUFFERING WITH ALL

02:38:45.816 --> 02:38:47.584
THE SYMPTOMS THAT WE DID IN

02:38:47.651 --> 02:38:49.553
VALVERDE. MY SON HAS NOT HAD

02:38:49.620 --> 02:38:51.388
ONE BLOODY NOSE SINCE WE MOVED

02:38:51.455 --> 02:38:53.891
IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. NOT

02:38:53.957 --> 02:38:56.026
ONE. MY DAUGHTER, WHO LOST THE

02:38:56.093 --> 02:38:57.828
MAJORITY OF HER SENSE OF SMELL,

02:38:57.895 --> 02:39:00.130
CAN ACTUALLY SMELL NORMALLY.

02:39:00.197 --> 02:39:01.398
AGAIN, WE THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS

02:39:01.465 --> 02:39:02.566
COVID OR SOMETHING. A COUPLE OF

02:39:02.633 --> 02:39:04.401
MONTHS AFTER WE MOVED, SHE WAS

02:39:04.468 --> 02:39:06.336
LIKE, OH MY GOSH, I CAN SMELL

02:39:06.403 --> 02:39:09.239
AGAIN. WE DIDN'T EVEN THINK

02:39:09.306 --> 02:39:10.440
THAT WAS REALLY A SYMPTOM OF

02:39:10.507 --> 02:39:12.576
THE LANDFILL ISSUES. WE TOOK

02:39:12.643 --> 02:39:14.678
OUR SPECIAL PET CHICKENS, YOU

02:39:14.745 --> 02:39:16.213
KNOW, THE ONES THAT AREN'T

02:39:16.280 --> 02:39:19.383
LAYING ANYMORE WITH US. AND ALL

02:39:19.449 --> 02:39:20.651
OF A SUDDEN THEY STARTED LAYING

02:39:20.717 --> 02:39:24.488
EGGS AGAIN. OVERALL, OUR LIFE

02:39:24.554 --> 02:39:25.923
HAS GOTTEN MUCH BETTER SINCE WE

02:39:25.989 --> 02:39:28.325
HAVE MOVED. WITH ALL OF THAT

02:39:28.392 --> 02:39:29.593
SAID, SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS AND

02:39:29.660 --> 02:39:31.328
NEIGHBORS ARE STILL LIVING IN

02:39:31.395 --> 02:39:32.496
THE SHADOW OF THE CHIQUITA

02:39:32.562 --> 02:39:33.463
CANYON LANDFILL, AND THEY ARE

02:39:33.530 --> 02:39:35.299
UNABLE TO LEAVE. WE ARE ASKING

02:39:35.365 --> 02:39:36.700
YOU TO HEAR THEM AND HELP THEM.

02:39:36.767 --> 02:39:38.435
THIS IS A TOXIC PROBLEM THAT'S

02:39:38.502 --> 02:39:39.970
NOT GOING AWAY. THEY NEED YOUR

02:39:40.037 --> 02:39:41.438
HELP AND THEY NEED YOU TO STEP

02:39:41.505 --> 02:39:43.674
UP. AND I JUST WANT TO ADD ON

02:39:43.740 --> 02:39:46.476
MY OWN COMMENT HERE IS THAT ONE

02:39:46.543 --> 02:39:48.278
OF THE THINGS WE WERE ONE OF

02:39:48.345 --> 02:39:50.380
THE CLOSEST HOMES TO THE

02:39:50.447 --> 02:39:52.916
LANDFILL, AND WE CAN DEFINITELY

02:39:52.983 --> 02:39:55.118
STAY SAY THAT GETTING OUT OF

02:39:55.185 --> 02:39:56.820
THE AREA AND GOING TO A

02:39:56.887 --> 02:39:58.288
DIFFERENT PLACE HAS IMPROVED

02:39:58.355 --> 02:40:00.490
OUR HEALTH DRAMATICALLY FOR MY

02:40:00.557 --> 02:40:02.993
ENTIRE FAMILY. SO ANY TIME THAT

02:40:03.060 --> 02:40:03.994
THEY'RE SAYING WITH STUDIES

02:40:04.061 --> 02:40:05.529
LIKE THE DOCTOR LOVES STUDIES

02:40:05.595 --> 02:40:07.331
OR PELE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH OR

02:40:07.397 --> 02:40:09.132
STATING THAT, YOU KNOW, OH, YOU

02:40:09.199 --> 02:40:10.467
KNOW, IT'S OKAY, IT'S NOT THAT

02:40:10.534 --> 02:40:13.403
BAD. THAT IS NOT TRUE. IF YOU

02:40:13.470 --> 02:40:15.105
GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THE

02:40:15.172 --> 02:40:16.673
COMMUNITY OF VERDE, THEY WILL

02:40:16.740 --> 02:40:18.775
GET BETTER. DOES IT MEAN THAT

02:40:18.842 --> 02:40:19.943
ALL THEIR SYMPTOMS ARE GOING TO

02:40:20.010 --> 02:40:21.011
GO AWAY, THAT IT'S NOT

02:40:21.078 --> 02:40:22.779
PERMANENT? I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S

02:40:22.846 --> 02:40:23.981
FOR SOME DOCTOR TO SAY. BUT I

02:40:24.047 --> 02:40:25.849
WILL SAY FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF

02:40:25.916 --> 02:40:27.751
YOU LEAVE THE AREA, IF YOU GET

02:40:27.818 --> 02:40:28.952
THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THE AREA,

02:40:29.019 --> 02:40:30.087
THEIR SYMPTOMS AND THEIR HEALTH

02:40:30.153 --> 02:40:32.556
WILL IMPROVE AND IT NEEDS TO BE

02:40:32.622 --> 02:40:34.691
DONE. AND I REALLY WOULD HOPE

02:40:34.758 --> 02:40:36.126
THAT THE LA COUNTY PUBLIC

02:40:36.193 --> 02:40:38.261
HEALTH WOULD LISTEN TO THE

02:40:38.328 --> 02:40:39.997
COMMUNITY, STEP UP AND MAKE

02:40:40.063 --> 02:40:41.865
THAT, MAKE THAT DETERMINATION

02:40:41.932 --> 02:40:49.039
AND MAKE IT HAPPEN. THANK YOU.

02:40:49.106 --> 02:40:50.874
AND THANK YOU TO YOUR WIFE, WHO

02:40:50.941 --> 02:40:52.676
WE HOPE SHE FEELS BETTER AND

02:40:52.743 --> 02:40:53.710
PROBABLY IS WATCHING FROM HOME.

02:40:53.777 --> 02:40:55.879
SO THANK YOU TO BRANDI AS WELL.

02:40:55.946 --> 02:41:00.684
MR. BOBADILLA. I'LL BE

02:41:00.751 --> 02:41:18.935
ANSWERING. DE VALVERDE. MI CASA

02:41:19.002 --> 02:41:26.877
AND CUATRO MUY CERCA DEL. DOS

02:41:26.943 --> 02:41:33.717
CON CON COMO. UN RESTAURANT. YO

02:41:33.784 --> 02:41:37.654
EL COCINERO. EMPECÉ

02:41:37.721 --> 02:41:46.696
EXPERIMENTAR SINTOMAS DE SALUD.

02:41:46.763 --> 02:41:49.900
EMPERADO CON EL TIEMPO Y

02:41:49.966 --> 02:41:58.542
SINTOMAS EL CUANDO COMIENZA EL

02:41:58.608 --> 02:42:07.184
CHIQUITO TRES. MUCHO MUCHO

02:42:07.250 --> 02:42:10.087
OTROS PROBLEMAS DE SALUD.

02:42:10.153 --> 02:42:15.092
DOLORES DE CABEZA NUNCA MARIO

02:42:15.158 --> 02:42:22.299
ESTRÉS HORMIGUEO. AND AND AND

02:42:22.365 --> 02:42:24.468
NIVELES ALTOS DE AZUCAR EN LA

02:42:24.534 --> 02:42:29.506
SANGRE DIFICULTAD PARA RESPIRAR

02:42:29.573 --> 02:42:35.045
PROBLEMAS. TEMBLOR. TANTO QUÊ

02:42:35.112 --> 02:42:39.216
YA NO PUEDO USAR LA PARA

02:42:39.282 --> 02:42:42.486
TRABAJAR LOS ALIMENTOS CON

02:42:42.552 --> 02:42:47.524
CUIDADO. MI PROBLEMAS DE SALUD.

02:42:47.591 --> 02:42:50.727
MI NEGOCIO PORQUE YA NO PODIA

02:42:50.794 --> 02:42:54.364
TRABAJAR. ESPERO ME MI

02:42:54.431 --> 02:43:15.085
RESTAURANT. BUENAS NOCHES O.

02:43:31.468 --> 02:43:32.802
I'M GOING TO TRANSLATE HIS

02:43:32.869 --> 02:43:35.572
SPEECH INTO ENGLISH SO THAT YOU

02:43:35.639 --> 02:43:37.874
CAN HEAR THE REST OF IT. GOOD

02:43:37.941 --> 02:43:39.776
EVENING CHAIR AND MEMBERS. MY

02:43:39.843 --> 02:43:41.978
NAME IS JOSE BOBADILLA. I HAVE

02:43:42.045 --> 02:43:43.313
BEEN A RESIDENT OF VALVERDE

02:43:43.380 --> 02:43:46.216
SINCE 1982. I BOUGHT MY HOUSE

02:43:46.283 --> 02:43:48.718
IN 1994 WHERE I LIVE VERY CLOSE

02:43:48.785 --> 02:43:50.887
TO THE LANDFILL. I STARTED MY

02:43:50.954 --> 02:43:53.757
BUSINESS IN 2002. I OWNED A

02:43:53.823 --> 02:43:55.559
RESTAURANT AND I WAS THE COOK.

02:43:55.625 --> 02:43:57.360
I STARTED EXPERIENCING HEALTH

02:43:57.427 --> 02:44:00.230
SYMPTOMS IN 2016. TREMORS THAT

02:44:00.297 --> 02:44:02.766
HAVE GOTTEN WORSE. MY SYMPTOMS

02:44:02.832 --> 02:44:04.100
WORSENED WHEN THE DISASTER AT

02:44:04.167 --> 02:44:05.302
THE CHIQUITA CANYON LANDFILL

02:44:05.368 --> 02:44:07.971
STARTED IN 2023. I DEVELOPED

02:44:08.038 --> 02:44:09.239
MANY OTHER HEALTH SYMPTOMS AS

02:44:09.306 --> 02:44:12.108
WELL HEADACHES, NAUSEA,

02:44:12.175 --> 02:44:14.978
DIZZINESS, STRESS, TINGLING AND

02:44:15.045 --> 02:44:16.413
NUMBNESS. VERY HIGH BLOOD

02:44:16.479 --> 02:44:18.648
PRESSURE, DIFFICULTY BREATHING,

02:44:18.715 --> 02:44:21.151
AND CARDIOVASCULAR ISSUES. MY

02:44:21.218 --> 02:44:22.552
HANDS STARTED TO SHAKE SO MUCH

02:44:22.619 --> 02:44:24.187
THAT I COULD NO LONGER USE A

02:44:24.254 --> 02:44:26.089
KNIFE TO CAREFULLY CUT FOOD. MY

02:44:26.156 --> 02:44:27.090
HEALTH PROBLEMS CAUSED ME TO

02:44:27.157 --> 02:44:28.358
LOSE MY BUSINESS BECAUSE I

02:44:28.425 --> 02:44:30.093
COULD NO LONGER COOK OR OPERATE

02:44:30.160 --> 02:44:32.596
MY RESTAURANT. THEN I LOST MY

02:44:32.662 --> 02:44:34.431
HOME, A HOME I WORKED SO HARD

02:44:34.497 --> 02:44:36.233
TO BUY A HOME. I THOUGHT I

02:44:36.299 --> 02:44:39.035
WOULD RETIRE IN, A HOME WHERE I

02:44:39.102 --> 02:44:40.237
NOW LOST EVERYTHING I PAID INTO

02:44:40.303 --> 02:44:43.039
IT. NOW I AM LIVING WITH MY

02:44:43.106 --> 02:44:44.140
FAMILY AND DEPENDING ON THEM

02:44:44.207 --> 02:44:45.809
BECAUSE I AM SO SICK. I HAVE

02:44:45.875 --> 02:44:46.876
BECOME DISABLED AND CAN NO

02:44:46.943 --> 02:44:49.212
LONGER SUPPORT MYSELF. WHERE

02:44:49.279 --> 02:44:50.280
WAS PUBLIC HEALTH WHEN WE

02:44:50.347 --> 02:44:52.449
NEEDED THEM? WHY ARE THEY NOT

02:44:52.515 --> 02:44:54.217
STUDYING OUR HEALTH IMPACTS?

02:44:54.284 --> 02:44:55.652
WHY DIDN'T THEY DEMAND THAT

02:44:55.719 --> 02:44:57.087
RESIDENTS BE TEMPORARILY

02:44:57.153 --> 02:44:58.922
LOCATED, RELOCATED TO PROTECT

02:44:58.989 --> 02:45:01.391
OUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING? THAT

02:45:01.458 --> 02:45:03.727
IS THEIR JOB. THE LOS ANGELES

02:45:03.793 --> 02:45:04.794
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

02:45:04.861 --> 02:45:06.096
HEALTH HAS FAILED THIS

02:45:06.162 --> 02:45:08.265
COMMUNITY. WE DESERVE BETTER.

02:45:08.331 --> 02:45:09.332
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO SUFFER

02:45:09.399 --> 02:45:10.834
THE WAY THAT I AM SUFFERING,

02:45:10.900 --> 02:45:12.168
THE WAY OUR COMMUNITY IS

02:45:12.235 --> 02:45:29.853
SUFFERING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU,

02:45:29.919 --> 02:45:31.588
MR. BOBADILLA. THANK YOU VERY

02:45:31.655 --> 02:45:51.441
MUCH, MR. STINSON. OH MY GOSH.

02:45:51.508 --> 02:46:08.024
I. THIS SICKENS MY HEART. SO

02:46:08.091 --> 02:46:14.130
MANY PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. THAT

02:46:14.197 --> 02:46:16.733
I DIDN'T KNOW WITH SO MANY OF

02:46:16.800 --> 02:46:22.005
THE SAME, SAME CONCERNS. THE

02:46:22.072 --> 02:46:28.178
SAME HEALTH PROBLEMS. WE'VE

02:46:28.244 --> 02:46:31.414
ASKED DEPARTMENTS OF EVERY

02:46:31.481 --> 02:46:33.583
GOVERNMENT AGENCY, PUBLIC

02:46:33.650 --> 02:46:37.287
AGENCIES, CITIZENS OF CASTAIC

02:46:37.354 --> 02:46:39.723
HAS GONE TO SACRAMENTO TO

02:46:39.789 --> 02:46:41.491
ADVOCATE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

02:46:41.558 --> 02:46:45.929
CITIZENS ARE. I SORRY, I NEED

02:46:45.995 --> 02:46:47.597
TO START OFF SAYING I'M DARCY

02:46:47.664 --> 02:46:54.504
STINSON. I, I, I'M HERE FOR

02:46:54.571 --> 02:46:58.041
MYSELF, BUT I ALSO SIT ON THE

02:46:58.108 --> 02:46:59.442
CASTAIC AREA TOWN COUNCIL AS A

02:46:59.509 --> 02:47:02.379
BOARD MEMBER BECAUSE PEOPLE

02:47:02.445 --> 02:47:04.180
NEED THEIR VOICES TO BE HEARD.

02:47:04.247 --> 02:47:06.349
AND WE AS A COMMUNITY HAS BEEN,

02:47:06.416 --> 02:47:08.218
HAS, HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH TOLD

02:47:08.284 --> 02:47:11.688
TO SHUT UP. AND SO THE

02:47:11.755 --> 02:47:13.523
COMMUNITY NEEDS PEOPLE TO STAND

02:47:13.590 --> 02:47:18.962
UP. AND I KNOW THAT THIS

02:47:19.028 --> 02:47:20.363
HEARING IS ABOUT LA COUNTY

02:47:20.430 --> 02:47:23.566
PUBLIC HEALTH, BUT I'M GOING TO

02:47:23.633 --> 02:47:24.701
SAY LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH

02:47:24.768 --> 02:47:26.169
ANSWERS TO THE BOARD OF

02:47:26.236 --> 02:47:28.304
SUPERVISORS. AND AS MUCH AS

02:47:28.371 --> 02:47:29.773
THIS BOARD IS ASKING FOR THE

02:47:29.839 --> 02:47:35.812
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

02:47:35.879 --> 02:47:38.014
RECOMMENDATIONS, THE BOARD OF

02:47:38.081 --> 02:47:40.517
SUPERVISORS DOES NOT HAVE ANY

02:47:40.583 --> 02:47:42.352
CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF

02:47:42.419 --> 02:47:43.753
CASTAIC. THEY HAVE SHOWN THIS

02:47:43.820 --> 02:47:46.089
AND PROVED THIS MULTIPLE TIMES,

02:47:46.156 --> 02:47:48.825
AND SO I. AS MUCH AS I LOVE

02:47:48.892 --> 02:47:49.893
THIS HEARING AND I LOVE WHAT

02:47:49.959 --> 02:47:53.129
THIS BOARD DID OR THE, THE, THE,

02:47:53.196 --> 02:47:58.868
THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE DID.

02:47:58.935 --> 02:48:00.637
SOMEWHERE I READ IN HERE THAT

02:48:00.703 --> 02:48:03.940
YOU'RE REQUESTING THE BOARD OF

02:48:04.007 --> 02:48:06.209
SUPERVISORS TO MAKE DECISIONS.

02:48:06.276 --> 02:48:07.343
WE HAVE BEEN ASKING THE BOARD

02:48:07.410 --> 02:48:09.679
OF SUPERVISORS TO BE TO MAKE

02:48:09.746 --> 02:48:11.514
DECISIONS, ASK FOR A STATE OF

02:48:11.581 --> 02:48:12.582
EMERGENCY, ASK SO MANY

02:48:12.649 --> 02:48:13.950
DIFFERENT THINGS TO HELP SO

02:48:14.017 --> 02:48:15.585
MANY OF THE CITIZENS GO THROUGH

02:48:15.652 --> 02:48:17.153
THE STRUGGLES THAT THEY ARE

02:48:17.220 --> 02:48:19.789
GOING THROUGH. AND IT'S

02:48:19.856 --> 02:48:21.624
CRICKETS. IT'S NO, WE DON'T

02:48:21.691 --> 02:48:23.026
NEED A STATE OF EMERGENCY.

02:48:23.092 --> 02:48:24.461
WE'RE NOT GOING TO. HOWEVER,

02:48:24.527 --> 02:48:25.929
STATE OF EMERGENCIES GET

02:48:25.995 --> 02:48:28.431
DECLARED FOR ALL THE OTHER.

02:48:28.498 --> 02:48:30.533
THIS MIGHT BE WRONG SAYING THIS.

02:48:30.600 --> 02:48:32.769
WEALTHIER COMMUNITIES. OUR

02:48:32.836 --> 02:48:35.238
COMMUNITIES ARE NOT A VERY

02:48:35.305 --> 02:48:38.508
WEALTHY COMMUNITY, BUT OTHER

02:48:38.575 --> 02:48:43.913
COMMUNITIES GET IT. I. I HAVE

02:48:43.980 --> 02:48:46.816
SOME PERSONAL THINGS, BUT I

02:48:46.883 --> 02:48:48.952
HAVE A HOUSE IN VAL VERDE, I, I

02:48:49.018 --> 02:48:55.091
LIVED. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN

02:48:55.158 --> 02:48:57.060
TELL LIKE I'M SAD, BUT I AM

02:48:57.126 --> 02:49:00.830
ANGRY. I AM SO MAD AT IT. I

02:49:00.897 --> 02:49:02.298
FEEL LIKE IT'S TAKING OVER ME

02:49:02.365 --> 02:49:04.501
RIGHT NOW. AND I JUST JUST WANT

02:49:04.567 --> 02:49:11.641
TO SCREAM. THE HOUSES WERE MY

02:49:11.708 --> 02:49:14.511
NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. THEY

02:49:14.577 --> 02:49:15.578
WEREN'T JUST NEIGHBORS. THEY

02:49:15.645 --> 02:49:22.785
WERE FAMILY. I MADE THE

02:49:22.852 --> 02:49:24.053
DECISION TO MOVE OUT PROBABLY

02:49:24.120 --> 02:49:26.055
ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO

02:49:26.122 --> 02:49:31.394
YEARS AGO. I GOT CANCER. CANCER

02:49:31.461 --> 02:49:33.263
CAME BACK. GOING THROUGH

02:49:33.329 --> 02:49:36.499
STRUGGLES IN MY LIFE SUCKED.

02:49:36.566 --> 02:49:38.268
AND I'M HERE IN MY HOUSE

02:49:38.334 --> 02:49:39.669
THINKING, OH MY GOD, I'M GOING

02:49:39.736 --> 02:49:40.937
TO MAKE MY DAUGHTER HAVE CANCER

02:49:41.004 --> 02:49:42.572
BECAUSE I'M CHOOSING TO LIVE

02:49:42.639 --> 02:49:47.510
HERE. SO WE HAD TO DIG DOWN AND

02:49:47.577 --> 02:49:49.679
TO OUR FINANCES AND LUCKILY WE

02:49:49.746 --> 02:49:53.249
HAD THEM TO GET ANOTHER PLACE.

02:49:53.316 --> 02:49:54.951
AND SO WE HAVE NOW TWO HOMES. I

02:49:55.018 --> 02:49:56.920
STILL HAVE MY VAL VERDE HOME

02:49:56.986 --> 02:49:58.621
STILL PAYING MORTGAGE ON MY

02:49:58.688 --> 02:50:01.925
HOME. THAT'S USELESS. MY TAXES,

02:50:01.991 --> 02:50:03.359
EVERYTHING. THE HEALTH

02:50:03.426 --> 02:50:04.460
DEPARTMENT KNOWS THIS. I HAVE

02:50:04.527 --> 02:50:06.729
TEXT MESSAGES FROM THEM. ONE OF

02:50:06.796 --> 02:50:10.199
THE TEXT MESSAGES I'D LIKE TO

02:50:10.266 --> 02:50:13.436
READ BACK IN 2023 TO THE HEALTH

02:50:13.503 --> 02:50:15.672
DEPARTMENT AND TO A LADY NAMED

02:50:15.738 --> 02:50:20.276
CHRISTINA, I THINK, DELA ROSA.

02:50:20.343 --> 02:50:23.846
AND AS, LIKE CHEN SAID, AND

02:50:23.913 --> 02:50:25.281
OTHER PEOPLE, THIS IS KIND OF

02:50:25.348 --> 02:50:27.250
THE RESPONSE. SO I SAID, THIS

02:50:27.317 --> 02:50:33.256
IS OUT AT THIS IS AT 1:32 A.M.

02:50:33.323 --> 02:50:35.391
I WOKE UP. RIGHT NOW MY WIFE'S

02:50:35.458 --> 02:50:36.859
NOSE IS BLEEDING ALL OVER THE

02:50:36.926 --> 02:50:39.495
BED AND HAS SEVERE SORE THROAT.

02:50:39.562 --> 02:50:41.531
MY THROAT HURTS AS WELL

02:50:41.598 --> 02:50:43.700
CURRENTLY, AND WE HAVE INSANELY

02:50:43.766 --> 02:50:45.835
STRONG ODORS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT

02:50:45.902 --> 02:50:47.637
ELSE. OUR ENTIRE HOUSE SMELLS

02:50:47.704 --> 02:50:49.772
LIKE THE DUMP RIGHT NOW. IT IS

02:50:49.839 --> 02:50:52.475
SUPER STRONG. THE NEXT MORNING

02:50:52.542 --> 02:50:54.143
AT TEN. JUST WANT TO LET YOU

02:50:54.210 --> 02:50:55.912
KNOW. TODAY THE LANDFILL WAS

02:50:55.979 --> 02:50:57.747
ISSUED ANOTHER NOTICE OF

02:50:57.814 --> 02:51:01.284
VIOLATION. WAS STILL STILL

02:51:01.351 --> 02:51:06.389
COUNTING. AND THIS WAS AT 5

02:51:06.456 --> 02:51:08.358
P.M. JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW,

02:51:08.424 --> 02:51:09.592
THE LANDFILL GOT THEIR 40TH

02:51:09.659 --> 02:51:13.162
NOTICE OF VIOLATION. WE I NEVER

02:51:13.229 --> 02:51:14.597
THOUGHT WE'D HAVE THIS MANY

02:51:14.664 --> 02:51:16.799
NOTICES OF VIOLATION. I MEAN,

02:51:16.866 --> 02:51:19.335
AQMD THE TERRENCE MANN KEPT

02:51:19.402 --> 02:51:21.771
SAYING, OH, WELL, IF YOU GET A

02:51:21.838 --> 02:51:25.108
COUPLE ACTIONS WILL HAPPEN.

02:51:25.174 --> 02:51:26.909
WELL, NOTHING'S HAPPENED.

02:51:26.976 --> 02:51:28.578
THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT PAYING

02:51:28.645 --> 02:51:30.847
ANY OTHER FINES. SO WHO CARED

02:51:30.913 --> 02:51:32.081
BACK WHEN THEY COULD HAVE FIXED

02:51:32.148 --> 02:51:35.852
IT? THEY CHOSE NOT TO. ANYWAYS,

02:51:35.918 --> 02:51:38.755
THE RESPONSE FROM L.A. COUNTY

02:51:38.821 --> 02:51:45.595
HEALTH IS. GOOD MORNING.

02:51:45.662 --> 02:51:47.397
REGARDING YOUR COMPLAINT,

02:51:47.463 --> 02:51:48.831
THERE'S A LOT GOING ON BEHIND

02:51:48.898 --> 02:51:50.933
THE SCENES, WHICH I HAD YET TO

02:51:51.000 --> 02:51:58.241
SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON. WE. I

02:51:58.307 --> 02:51:59.609
WILL NOTE THAT YOUR COMPLAINT

02:51:59.676 --> 02:52:01.444
IS IN OUR DATABASE, WHICH I

02:52:01.511 --> 02:52:03.613
KNOW DOESN'T FEEL HELPFUL, BUT

02:52:03.680 --> 02:52:07.183
IT IS A DATA POINT FOR US. SO

02:52:07.250 --> 02:52:08.985
THAT'S WHAT LA COUNTY HEALTH

02:52:09.052 --> 02:52:11.187
CARED ABOUT. OUR HEALTH IS IT'S

02:52:11.254 --> 02:52:14.757
JUST A DATA POINT. WE ARE NOT

02:52:14.824 --> 02:52:17.260
DATA. BUT TO LA COUNTY PUBLIC

02:52:17.326 --> 02:52:19.395
HEALTH, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT WE

02:52:19.462 --> 02:52:25.902
ARE. I'M GOING TO SAY SOME SOME

02:52:25.968 --> 02:52:26.903
OF THE THINGS, THE HEALTH

02:52:26.969 --> 02:52:29.172
SURVEY THAT THAT SUPPOSEDLY

02:52:29.238 --> 02:52:31.307
WENT AROUND DOOR TO DOOR. I

02:52:31.374 --> 02:52:33.810
HAVE A, I, I'M, I'M EX-MILITARY.

02:52:33.876 --> 02:52:37.513
I'M, I'M KIND OF VERY, I LIKE

02:52:37.580 --> 02:52:39.615
TO KNOW MY AWARENESS AND MY

02:52:39.682 --> 02:52:42.819
SURROUNDINGS. SO I HAVE

02:52:42.885 --> 02:52:45.388
SECURITY CAMERAS EVERYWHERE. SO

02:52:45.455 --> 02:52:46.789
WHEN THEY SAID THEY CAME DOOR

02:52:46.856 --> 02:52:49.692
TO DOOR, I SAID, WHAT DATE? I

02:52:49.759 --> 02:52:51.828
WILL SIT ALL DAY LOOKING AT MY

02:52:51.894 --> 02:52:52.862
CAMERAS BECAUSE NOBODY CAME TO

02:52:52.929 --> 02:52:54.697
MY HOUSE. I DIDN'T GET TO

02:52:54.764 --> 02:52:56.833
REFUSE ANYBODY. AND MY HOUSE, I

02:52:56.899 --> 02:52:59.335
HAD 900FT AWAY FROM THE

02:52:59.402 --> 02:53:02.638
LANDFILL. I KNOW IT'S NOT UP

02:53:02.705 --> 02:53:04.440
THERE, BUT ON THE MAP, ON THE

02:53:04.507 --> 02:53:07.310
MAP THAT YOU GUYS ARE THAT THE

02:53:07.376 --> 02:53:11.047
BOARD DID THAT BOTTOM. YOU KNOW,

02:53:11.114 --> 02:53:12.348
YOU HAVE THE LANDFILL AT THE

02:53:12.415 --> 02:53:15.918
BOTTOM, THAT BOTTOM SQUARE, THE

02:53:15.985 --> 02:53:18.821
BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER IS MY HOUSE.

02:53:18.888 --> 02:53:20.289
STEPHENS HOUSE. JENN'S HOUSE IS

02:53:20.356 --> 02:53:22.859
JUST A TINY BIT MORE UP, BUT

02:53:22.925 --> 02:53:25.328
THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. I MEAN,

02:53:25.394 --> 02:53:27.463
IT'S WE'RE CLOSER TO THE TO THE

02:53:27.530 --> 02:53:31.167
LANDFILL THAN ANYONE. BUT THEY

02:53:31.234 --> 02:53:32.869
DIDN'T COME TO MY HOUSE. I

02:53:32.935 --> 02:53:34.303
ASKED ALL MY NEIGHBORS, ALL OF

02:53:34.370 --> 02:53:36.472
THEM. NONE OF THEM CAME. AND

02:53:36.539 --> 02:53:38.407
THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF

02:53:38.474 --> 02:53:39.675
IS THEN IS THEY DIDN'T COME TO

02:53:39.742 --> 02:53:41.410
OUR HOUSE BECAUSE THEY KNOW

02:53:41.477 --> 02:53:42.578
WHAT THE ANSWER IS. WE'RE ALL

02:53:42.645 --> 02:53:44.113
GETTING POISONED AND THEY DON'T

02:53:44.180 --> 02:53:45.848
WANT TO HEAR US SAY IT, BUT I'M

02:53:45.915 --> 02:53:47.984
GOING TO SAY IT. WE ARE GETTING

02:53:48.050 --> 02:53:54.857
POISONED. AND EVERYONE WAS. AND.

02:53:54.924 --> 02:53:57.727
SO I THE OTHER THING, THE CÁC

02:53:57.794 --> 02:53:59.529
MEETING, I WAS THE PRESIDENT OF

02:53:59.595 --> 02:54:02.431
THAT BOARD FOR OVER A YEAR

02:54:02.498 --> 02:54:05.635
BEFORE THE 2017 EXPANSION. SO I

02:54:05.701 --> 02:54:08.171
KNOW HOW IT RUNS, HOW IT RUNS

02:54:08.237 --> 02:54:10.640
NOW. SO BACK THEN THE COMMUNITY

02:54:10.706 --> 02:54:13.709
CAME IN, COMMUNITY CAME, VOICED

02:54:13.776 --> 02:54:15.711
THEIR CONCERNS, AND WE LISTENED

02:54:15.778 --> 02:54:18.080
AND THE BOARD WAS RESPONSIVE.

02:54:18.147 --> 02:54:19.515
AND THE SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE

02:54:19.582 --> 02:54:21.851
WITH MICHAEL ANTONOVICH AND

02:54:21.918 --> 02:54:23.219
ROSLYN WEYMAN. I FEEL LIKE THEY

02:54:23.286 --> 02:54:25.454
ACTUALLY INVOLVED THEMSELVES

02:54:25.521 --> 02:54:29.392
AND AND THEY CARED SOMEWHAT

02:54:29.458 --> 02:54:31.694
DURING THIS TIME. VAL VERDE

02:54:31.761 --> 02:54:33.629
DOES NOT HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE

02:54:33.696 --> 02:54:35.164
ON THE BOARD, WHICH AT THE

02:54:35.231 --> 02:54:36.766
OTHER ON THE OTHER COMMITTEE,

02:54:36.833 --> 02:54:39.468
WE HAD TWO PEOPLE, SUCH AS

02:54:39.535 --> 02:54:40.603
MYSELF WHEN I LIVED IN VAL

02:54:40.670 --> 02:54:42.471
VERDE, REQUESTED TO BE ON THE

02:54:42.538 --> 02:54:45.942
BOARD WAS DENIED. THE HOUSES

02:54:46.008 --> 02:54:48.077
REQUESTED TO BE ON THE BOARD,

02:54:48.144 --> 02:54:52.048
DENIED. OTHER RESIDENTS HERE

02:54:52.114 --> 02:54:54.250
THAT SIT ON THE CASTAIC TOWN

02:54:54.317 --> 02:54:55.685
COUNCIL DENIED WHY THEY'RE IN

02:54:55.751 --> 02:54:58.554
VAL VERDE. THEY. THE COUNTY

02:54:58.621 --> 02:55:00.356
WON'T GIVE A REASONING WHY, BUT

02:55:00.423 --> 02:55:02.859
WE'RE NOT. WE ARE NOT HEARD.

02:55:02.925 --> 02:55:05.061
AND SO THAT'S WHY I FEEL LIKE

02:55:05.127 --> 02:55:07.196
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. I

02:55:07.263 --> 02:55:10.399
DON'T THINK IF YOU GUYS MAKE A

02:55:10.466 --> 02:55:12.869
RECOMMENDATION, IT NEEDS TO BE

02:55:12.935 --> 02:55:14.737
SOMETHING MORE THAN THAT

02:55:14.804 --> 02:55:16.606
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THEY ARE

02:55:16.672 --> 02:55:19.775
GOING TO CARE. AND I DON'T KNOW

02:55:19.842 --> 02:55:21.210
IF ANYONE'S REALLY SAYING THAT,

02:55:21.277 --> 02:55:23.846
BUT I REALLY, AS MUCH AS I HATE

02:55:23.913 --> 02:55:25.314
TO SAY THIS BECAUSE YOU GUYS

02:55:25.381 --> 02:55:27.016
HAVE TAKEN YOUR TIME AND SO

02:55:27.083 --> 02:55:29.118
MUCH EFFORT, BUT I JUST DON'T

02:55:29.185 --> 02:55:31.687
SEE THEM ACTUALLY CARING

02:55:31.754 --> 02:55:33.489
BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE

02:55:33.556 --> 02:55:35.625
THAT'S GOING ON THAT NONE OF US

02:55:35.691 --> 02:55:37.793
ARE AWARE. THE, THE, OUR

02:55:37.860 --> 02:55:38.895
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE SAID THAT

02:55:38.961 --> 02:55:40.296
THEY'LL LOOK AT A STATE OF

02:55:40.363 --> 02:55:42.498
EMERGENCY, BUT IT HAS TO BE

02:55:42.565 --> 02:55:43.566
SIGNED BY THE BOARD OF

02:55:43.633 --> 02:55:45.668
SUPERVISORS. SHE'S THE THE

02:55:45.735 --> 02:55:47.303
CONTROLLER. SO THEIR OFFICE

02:55:47.370 --> 02:55:48.905
MADE IT PRETTY CLEAR WHEN WE

02:55:48.971 --> 02:55:50.006
WERE UP IN SACRAMENTO THAT

02:55:50.072 --> 02:55:51.073
THEY'LL GIVE THEY'LL ASSIGN A

02:55:51.140 --> 02:55:53.175
STATE OF EMERGENCY. BUT IT HAS

02:55:53.242 --> 02:55:56.145
TO BE SIGNED BY THE BOARD OF

02:55:56.212 --> 02:55:58.281
SUPERVISORS FIRST. THEY DENIED.

02:55:58.347 --> 02:56:00.483
AND. AND STEPHANIE ENGLISH SAID,

02:56:00.549 --> 02:56:03.653
WE WILL NEVER SIGN A A STATE OF

02:56:03.719 --> 02:56:06.222
EMERGENCY. WHY IS THERE A

02:56:06.289 --> 02:56:09.125
DIFFERENCE FOR US VERSUS OTHER

02:56:09.191 --> 02:56:10.927
OTHER ISSUES? I KNOW I'M

02:56:10.993 --> 02:56:13.062
PROBABLY PAST MY TIME, BUT I

02:56:13.129 --> 02:56:14.497
JUST ALSO WANTED TO SAY I HAD

02:56:14.563 --> 02:56:16.165
TWO DOGS IN VAL VERDE. THEY

02:56:16.232 --> 02:56:21.337
BOTH DIED OF CANCER. SOME

02:56:21.404 --> 02:56:23.839
SOMETHING GREAT THAT NOT GREAT.

02:56:23.906 --> 02:56:28.544
THAT'S VERY BAD CHOICE OF WORDS.

02:56:28.611 --> 02:56:30.346
WHEN I WOULD WALK OUT OF MY

02:56:30.413 --> 02:56:31.814
HOUSE. NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE

02:56:31.881 --> 02:56:34.283
BIG THINGS THAT HELPED HELP ME

02:56:34.350 --> 02:56:35.751
MOVE. WHEN I WALK OUT OF MY

02:56:35.818 --> 02:56:37.386
HOUSE, I COULD LOOK AT THE

02:56:37.453 --> 02:56:38.487
HOUSES DIRECTLY FROM THE STREET

02:56:38.554 --> 02:56:40.456
OF MY HOUSE AND SEE SEVEN HOMES.

02:56:40.523 --> 02:56:41.557
FIVE OF THE SEVEN HOMES HAD

02:56:41.624 --> 02:56:44.860
CANCER. WHEN I EXPRESSED THIS

02:56:44.927 --> 02:56:46.562
TO LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH AND

02:56:46.629 --> 02:56:48.731
DOCTOR LOVE AND THEIR DID THEIR

02:56:48.798 --> 02:56:50.833
HEALTH STUDIES, I WAS ON THE

02:56:50.900 --> 02:56:55.538
BOARD AT COC. THEIR RESPONSE

02:56:55.604 --> 02:56:57.707
WAS, WELL, THAT'S NORMAL FOR A

02:56:57.773 --> 02:57:00.242
CANCER CLUSTER BECAUSE OF THE

02:57:00.309 --> 02:57:01.677
PERCENTAGE. BUT THEY TIED OUR

02:57:01.744 --> 02:57:03.145
CANCER CLUSTER, NOT JUST VAL

02:57:03.212 --> 02:57:04.947
VERDE AND OUR SMALL AREA, BUT

02:57:05.014 --> 02:57:07.183
LIKE IN A GIGANTIC AREA THAT'S

02:57:07.249 --> 02:57:09.585
NOT AFFECTED BY THE LANDFILL.

02:57:09.652 --> 02:57:11.020
AND SO OF COURSE, IT'S NOT

02:57:11.087 --> 02:57:13.923
GOING TO BE JUST LIKE MISTER

02:57:13.990 --> 02:57:15.391
GONZALEZ TALKED ABOUT THE

02:57:15.458 --> 02:57:17.560
BATTERY, EXIDE, WHAT IF THEY

02:57:17.626 --> 02:57:18.995
DID A HEALTH STUDY? AND I I'M

02:57:19.061 --> 02:57:20.830
NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT. DID

02:57:20.896 --> 02:57:23.599
THEY DO IT ABOUT IN, YOU KNOW,

02:57:23.666 --> 02:57:25.434
COMMUNITIES IN TOWNS AWAY AND

02:57:25.501 --> 02:57:27.937
USE THAT DATA FOR THE BATTERY?

02:57:28.004 --> 02:57:30.473
EXIDE, I DON'T KNOW, BUT MY

02:57:30.539 --> 02:57:32.675
GUESS IS THEY PROBABLY TOOK THE

02:57:32.742 --> 02:57:34.477
SURROUNDING AREA LIKE IT SHOULD

02:57:34.543 --> 02:57:36.946
BE DONE. AND THAT'S THE HEALTH

02:57:37.013 --> 02:57:38.147
STUDY. LA COUNTY HASN'T DONE

02:57:38.214 --> 02:57:42.351
THAT FOR US. THE, THE, THE TIME

02:57:42.418 --> 02:57:47.023
FRAME FOR THE THE SURVEY, YOU

02:57:47.089 --> 02:57:50.259
KNOW, AT THE CAC MEETINGS, IT'S

02:57:50.326 --> 02:57:51.494
HALF THE TIME THE MEETINGS ARE

02:57:51.560 --> 02:57:58.567
A JOKE. SORRY, BUT. I THOUGHT

02:57:58.634 --> 02:58:00.770
IT WAS A ONE AND DONE DEAL FOR

02:58:00.836 --> 02:58:02.872
THE SURVEY. AND I'M TIED INTO

02:58:02.938 --> 02:58:06.142
THE COMMUNITY. SO EITHER I'M A

02:58:06.208 --> 02:58:09.011
COMPLETE IDIOT AND DIDN'T KNOW

02:58:09.078 --> 02:58:12.515
OR MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A

02:58:12.581 --> 02:58:14.450
ONE AND DONE. L.A. COUNTY

02:58:14.517 --> 02:58:17.319
DIDN'T SAY SOME.

02:58:17.386 --> 02:58:19.822
THE THAT'S IN THIS REPORT SAYS

02:58:19.889 --> 02:58:23.959
THAT PUBLIC HEALTH DON'T HAVE A

02:58:24.026 --> 02:58:25.995
LOT OF TIME TO SPEAK AT THE CAC

02:58:26.062 --> 02:58:27.496
MEETINGS. THAT'S A. I DON'T

02:58:27.563 --> 02:58:28.597
KNOW WHERE THEY GOT THAT

02:58:28.664 --> 02:58:29.899
INFORMATION BECAUSE THAT'S ALSO

02:58:29.965 --> 02:58:32.068
FALSE. THEY'RE GIVEN. THEY'RE

02:58:32.134 --> 02:58:34.637
GIVEN APPROXIMATELY TEN MINUTES.

02:58:34.703 --> 02:58:36.072
THAT'S KIND OF A GUIDELINE. IF

02:58:36.138 --> 02:58:37.840
THEY GO LONGER, THEY CAN AQMD

02:58:37.907 --> 02:58:41.043
DOES, EPA DOES. TODD SACHS DOES

02:58:41.110 --> 02:58:42.878
SO. AND NOBODY, YOU KNOW, BOB

02:58:42.945 --> 02:58:44.680
DOESN'T SHUT HIM UP. THEY KEEP

02:58:44.747 --> 02:58:49.051
GOING. AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

02:58:49.118 --> 02:58:50.786
LIMITED ARE THE COMMUNITY

02:58:50.853 --> 02:58:54.156
MEMBERS TO TO LIKE THREE

02:58:54.223 --> 02:58:57.293
MINUTES AND THEN THEY'RE DONE.

02:58:57.359 --> 02:58:59.428
BUT LA COUNTY COULD HAS BEEN

02:58:59.495 --> 02:59:01.997
ASKED QUESTIONS OR L.A. COUNTY

02:59:02.064 --> 02:59:04.900
PUBLIC HEALTH. SORRY I KEEP LA

02:59:04.967 --> 02:59:06.669
COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH IS ASKED

02:59:06.735 --> 02:59:07.770
QUESTIONS AND THEY DON'T

02:59:07.837 --> 02:59:12.408
RESPOND. I'VE BEEN TOLD BY LA

02:59:12.475 --> 02:59:14.210
COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES

02:59:14.276 --> 02:59:17.446
THAT THEIR HANDS ARE TIED. THEY

02:59:17.513 --> 02:59:19.982
FEEL SORRY FOR US. A LOT OF THE

02:59:20.049 --> 02:59:21.750
LOWER END PEOPLE AT LA COUNTY

02:59:21.817 --> 02:59:23.219
PUBLIC HEALTH, THEY ACTUALLY

02:59:23.285 --> 02:59:25.888
CARE. SO NOT ALL OF LA COUNTY

02:59:25.955 --> 02:59:27.523
PUBLIC HEALTH IS BAD, BUT THE

02:59:27.590 --> 02:59:31.494
SUPERIOR LEADERS OF LA COUNTY,

02:59:31.560 --> 02:59:33.629
THEY'RE. WE'RE TOLD THAT IT

02:59:33.696 --> 02:59:35.764
DOESN'T GO BEYOND THAT, THAT

02:59:35.831 --> 02:59:37.566
THEY DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT

02:59:37.633 --> 02:59:39.735
THEY'RE JUST HERE TO TAKE OUR

02:59:39.802 --> 02:59:46.308
OUR INFORMATION. I, I THANK YOU

02:59:46.375 --> 02:59:47.810
FOR THIS. I JUST I THINK

02:59:47.877 --> 02:59:50.212
THERE'S A LOT OF FLAWS IN IT.

02:59:50.279 --> 02:59:51.680
YOU KNOW, LA COUNTY MENTAL

02:59:51.747 --> 02:59:53.816
HEALTH, A COMMUNITY MEMBER IN

02:59:53.883 --> 02:59:55.618
VAL VERDE OPENED UP A MENTAL

02:59:55.684 --> 02:59:57.853
HEALTH, NOT A MENTAL HEALTH. IT

02:59:57.920 --> 02:59:59.588
WAS AN UNSANCTIONED MENTAL

02:59:59.655 --> 03:00:02.791
HEALTH GROUP LIKE ANGER

03:00:02.858 --> 03:00:04.160
MANAGEMENT GROUPS OR STUFF, YOU

03:00:04.226 --> 03:00:05.661
KNOW, AS IN THE MILITARY, YOU

03:00:05.728 --> 03:00:07.830
KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE VETERANS

03:00:07.897 --> 03:00:09.465
HAVE ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS,

03:00:09.532 --> 03:00:13.602
I GUESS. WELL, SOMEBODY IN OUR

03:00:13.669 --> 03:00:15.371
COMMUNITY OPENED UP A, A GROUP

03:00:15.437 --> 03:00:18.307
WHERE WE COULD GO. AND THERE WE

03:00:18.374 --> 03:00:20.442
FOUND, I FOUND OUT LIKE I, I

03:00:20.509 --> 03:00:21.977
USED SO MY HANDS PRETTY GOOD

03:00:22.044 --> 03:00:23.479
RIGHT NOW. I, I WOULD SAY I

03:00:23.546 --> 03:00:25.381
TREMOR A LITTLE BIT BEFORE MY

03:00:25.447 --> 03:00:26.916
HAND WAS LIKE THIS. I WOULD

03:00:26.982 --> 03:00:29.151
DROP CUPS. THE VA HAD CHECKED

03:00:29.218 --> 03:00:30.553
ME FOR PARKINSON'S. AND THEY'RE

03:00:30.619 --> 03:00:31.820
LIKE, NO, YOU DON'T HAVE

03:00:31.887 --> 03:00:32.821
PARKINSON'S. WE DON'T KNOW

03:00:32.888 --> 03:00:34.156
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU. WE HAVE

03:00:34.223 --> 03:00:36.325
NO IDEA. NO NERVE CONDUCTION

03:00:36.392 --> 03:00:40.229
TESTS FROM UP HERE TO DOWN HERE

03:00:40.296 --> 03:00:41.363
STUFF. I EXPLAINED ALL THIS TO

03:00:41.430 --> 03:00:42.765
PUBLIC HEALTH. THEY KNEW

03:00:42.831 --> 03:00:46.135
EVERYTHING. BUT IT WAS JUST

03:00:46.202 --> 03:00:48.971
THANK YOU. THAT'S IT. AND SO AT

03:00:49.038 --> 03:00:52.107
THIS GROUP, I FOUND OUT SO MANY

03:00:52.174 --> 03:00:54.009
OTHER PEOPLE LIKE JOSE. I'M

03:00:54.076 --> 03:00:56.812
FINDING OUT NOW, I JUST I'M

03:00:56.879 --> 03:00:59.682
SORRY. I'M JUST I'M GOING TO GO

03:00:59.748 --> 03:01:01.116
START CRYING AGAIN. AND I JUST

03:01:01.183 --> 03:01:04.053
REALLY DON'T LIKE DOING THAT. I

03:01:04.119 --> 03:01:06.188
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I'VE

03:01:06.255 --> 03:01:09.425
PROBABLY SPOKEN WAY TOO LONG.

03:01:09.491 --> 03:01:24.139
THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO EACH OF

03:01:24.206 --> 03:01:28.477
YOU. THE STRENGTH, WHAT WE JUST

03:01:28.544 --> 03:01:31.080
HEARD. I KNOW IT'S IT'S HARD TO

03:01:31.146 --> 03:01:33.582
DO THIS AND IT'S MORE

03:01:33.649 --> 03:01:34.717
MEANINGFUL THAN YOU GUYS KNOW.

03:01:34.783 --> 03:01:36.719
I MEAN, I DO THINK THAT AS HARD

03:01:36.785 --> 03:01:38.754
AS IT IS FOR YOU TO GET UP HERE

03:01:38.821 --> 03:01:40.689
AND TELL US YOUR STORIES, IT IS

03:01:40.756 --> 03:01:42.625
SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO HEAR IT.

03:01:42.691 --> 03:01:44.760
AND SO I THANK YOU. I KNOW THAT

03:01:44.827 --> 03:01:45.894
YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. THANK YOU.

03:01:45.961 --> 03:01:47.363
I KNOW SENATOR SCHIAVO THANKS

03:01:47.429 --> 03:01:48.764
YOU. I KNOW THE SENATOR

03:01:48.831 --> 03:01:50.065
VALLADARES THANKS YOU. BUT I DO

03:01:50.132 --> 03:01:52.234
THINK THAT IT IS CLEAR FROM

03:01:52.301 --> 03:01:54.069
HEARING YOUR STORIES, THE

03:01:54.136 --> 03:01:55.371
STORIES OF THE COMMUNITY. I WAS

03:01:55.437 --> 03:01:57.673
HERE WITH THE SENATOR SCHIAVO

03:01:57.740 --> 03:01:59.508
ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO NOW. I

03:01:59.575 --> 03:02:01.277
DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE. MANY

03:02:01.343 --> 03:02:03.045
OF YOU WERE THERE AS WELL. AND

03:02:03.112 --> 03:02:06.015
IT'S IT'S STARTLING TO TO KNOW

03:02:06.081 --> 03:02:07.716
THAT FROM THEN UNTIL NOW,

03:02:07.783 --> 03:02:09.551
THERE'S STILL JUST, YOU KNOW,

03:02:09.618 --> 03:02:11.320
LITTLE AND LITTLE ACTION AND

03:02:11.387 --> 03:02:12.488
LITTLE HELP. AND I DO THINK

03:02:12.554 --> 03:02:16.325
THAT YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW THAT

03:02:16.392 --> 03:02:17.826
YOU'RE GOING TO GET HELP. AND

03:02:17.893 --> 03:02:20.729
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. AND YOU

03:02:20.796 --> 03:02:22.097
HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE GOING TO

03:02:22.164 --> 03:02:23.966
ENSURE THAT. AND I THINK THAT

03:02:24.033 --> 03:02:25.701
YOU MAY SEEM POWERLESS. WHAT

03:02:25.768 --> 03:02:27.136
YOU'RE DOING NOW IS REALLY,

03:02:27.202 --> 03:02:29.071
REALLY IMPORTANT AND IT'S GOING

03:02:29.138 --> 03:02:31.573
TO GET YOU HELP. SO THAT'S WHY

03:02:31.640 --> 03:02:33.642
WE'RE HERE. THAT'S WHY I

03:02:33.709 --> 03:02:34.843
ALLOWED YOU TO TAKE AS MUCH

03:02:34.910 --> 03:02:38.714
TIME AS YOU WANT. AND, AND IT'S,

03:02:38.781 --> 03:02:40.082
IT'S REALLY IMPACTFUL. SO WITH

03:02:40.149 --> 03:02:41.550
THAT, I'M GOING TO OPEN THIS UP

03:02:41.617 --> 03:02:42.685
FOR QUESTIONS. I UNFORTUNATELY

03:02:42.751 --> 03:02:45.554
HAVE TO GO HOME TO MY KIDS. AND,

03:02:45.621 --> 03:02:48.057
BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT IS

03:02:48.123 --> 03:02:49.858
IMPORTANT TO ME. IT'S IMPORTANT

03:02:49.925 --> 03:02:51.360
TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. I KNOW

03:02:51.427 --> 03:02:53.195
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU, BUT I,

03:02:53.262 --> 03:02:54.430
I FEEL VERY PRIVILEGED AND

03:02:54.496 --> 03:02:56.165
HONORED TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO

03:02:56.231 --> 03:02:59.234
HEAR THIS. AND WE WILL HELP.

03:02:59.301 --> 03:03:02.838
AND WE AS A COLLECTIVE WITH

03:03:02.905 --> 03:03:04.306
EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT,

03:03:04.373 --> 03:03:05.708
HOPEFULLY KIND OF ROWING IN THE

03:03:05.774 --> 03:03:07.843
SAME DIRECTION. BUT I, I WANT

03:03:07.910 --> 03:03:09.311
TO MAKE SURE THAT EACH OF YOU

03:03:09.378 --> 03:03:10.813
AND ANYONE WATCHING KNOWS THAT

03:03:10.879 --> 03:03:12.214
YOU'RE NOT ALONE. YOU'RE

03:03:12.281 --> 03:03:13.916
OBVIOUSLY NOT ALONE. AND AS

03:03:13.982 --> 03:03:16.452
MUCH AS YOU FEEL LIKE OVER TIME

03:03:16.518 --> 03:03:20.122
YOU'VE BEEN ALONE, YOU'RE NOT.

03:03:20.189 --> 03:03:23.726
OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO ALLOW THE

03:03:23.792 --> 03:03:24.827
COMMITTEE MEMBER, SENATOR

03:03:24.893 --> 03:03:26.228
VALLADARES, TO GO FIRST AND

03:03:26.295 --> 03:03:29.431
THEN SENATOR, BUT I APPRECIATE

03:03:29.498 --> 03:03:31.633
EVERY ONE OF YOU. AND THANK YOU

03:03:31.700 --> 03:03:37.873
FOR THE TESTIMONY. AND AGAIN,

03:03:37.940 --> 03:03:40.275
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I KNOW

03:03:40.342 --> 03:03:41.710
HALLOWEEN IS COMING UP FOR YOUR

03:03:41.777 --> 03:03:43.145
KIDDOS THIS WEEK. SO HAVE A

03:03:43.212 --> 03:03:44.813
BLESSED WEEKEND. AND IT WAS

03:03:44.880 --> 03:03:47.516
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EACH AND

03:03:47.583 --> 03:03:49.184
EVERY ONE OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR

03:03:49.251 --> 03:03:52.488
YOUR STORY AND KNOW THAT

03:03:52.554 --> 03:03:54.289
EVERYONE ON THIS DAIS KNOWS

03:03:54.356 --> 03:03:55.758
THAT WHILE YOU. WHILE THIS IS

03:03:55.824 --> 03:03:59.661
VERY HARD SHARING YOUR STORY IN

03:03:59.728 --> 03:04:02.564
FRONT OF CALIFORNIA IS NOT EASY.

03:04:02.631 --> 03:04:04.066
AND WE KNOW THAT YOUR VOICE AND

03:04:04.133 --> 03:04:05.434
YOUR STORY DOESN'T JUST

03:04:05.501 --> 03:04:06.535
REPRESENT YOUR VOICE AND YOUR

03:04:06.602 --> 03:04:08.036
STORY. THERE ARE SO MANY OTHERS

03:04:08.103 --> 03:04:09.405
THAT YOU'RE REPRESENTING, AND

03:04:09.471 --> 03:04:13.342
THANK YOU FOR THAT. I'M GOING

03:04:13.409 --> 03:04:18.414
TO Þ. I HAVE THE GAVEL NOW. I'M

03:04:18.480 --> 03:04:20.883
A COMMITTEE MEMBER ON THE

03:04:20.949 --> 03:04:22.851
COMMITTEE. SO THE THE CHAIRMAN

03:04:22.918 --> 03:04:25.287
HAS HANDED THE GAVEL OVER. I'LL

03:04:25.354 --> 03:04:26.688
ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND THEN

03:04:26.755 --> 03:04:28.123
I'LL LET THE ASSEMBLY MEMBER

03:04:28.190 --> 03:04:30.592
FINISH WITH HER QUESTIONS. SO

03:04:30.659 --> 03:04:32.795
MY FIRST QUESTIONS ARE FOR JANE.

03:04:32.861 --> 03:04:35.631
YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY VAST

03:04:35.697 --> 03:04:37.499
EXPERIENCE WITH THESE TYPES OF

03:04:37.566 --> 03:04:39.268
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS. CAN

03:04:39.334 --> 03:04:43.605
YOU IS THERE CAN YOU TELL ME IS

03:04:43.672 --> 03:04:48.277
ARE THERE ANY OTHER SIMILAR

03:04:48.343 --> 03:04:50.412
DISASTERS IN WHICH THEIR PUBLIC,

03:04:50.479 --> 03:04:51.880
THEIR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH

03:04:51.947 --> 03:04:53.649
DEPARTMENT HAS STEPPED IN

03:04:53.715 --> 03:04:54.783
EFFECTIVELY AND WHAT THEY'RE

03:04:54.850 --> 03:04:55.784
DOING, WHAT THEY'VE DONE

03:04:55.851 --> 03:04:57.252
DIFFERENTLY THAN WHAT LA IS

03:04:57.319 --> 03:05:13.101
DOING? WELL. THIS. IS A POSTER

03:05:13.168 --> 03:05:14.269
CHILD OF THAT, WHERE WE HAD THE

03:05:14.336 --> 03:05:15.971
STATE'S WORST CHILDHOOD CANCER

03:05:16.038 --> 03:05:17.806
CLUSTER AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH

03:05:17.873 --> 03:05:19.608
DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTY OF

03:05:19.675 --> 03:05:21.743
KERN IN THE MID 80S REFUSED TO

03:05:21.810 --> 03:05:23.212
DO ANYTHING. AND SO THE STATE

03:05:23.278 --> 03:05:24.613
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT

03:05:24.680 --> 03:05:26.448
STEPPED IN. OKAY. AND THAT IS

03:05:26.515 --> 03:05:28.217
WHY I HAVE A LONG AND

03:05:28.283 --> 03:05:29.351
ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY WITH THE

03:05:29.418 --> 03:05:30.752
DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE

03:05:30.819 --> 03:05:31.854
CONTROL, BECAUSE THEY CAME IN

03:05:31.920 --> 03:05:33.222
AND INVESTIGATED AND CLEANED UP

03:05:33.288 --> 03:05:35.057
TOXIC SITES ALL THROUGHOUT THE

03:05:35.123 --> 03:05:37.593
COMMUNITY. SECONDLY, I WOULD

03:05:37.659 --> 03:05:39.394
POINT TO THE GARDEN GROVE

03:05:39.461 --> 03:05:40.729
RESPONSE, WHERE THE DEPARTMENT

03:05:40.796 --> 03:05:43.332
OF PUBLIC HEALTH WAS THE KOOPA.

03:05:43.398 --> 03:05:44.833
THE KOOPA IS THE CERTIFIED

03:05:44.900 --> 03:05:46.034
UNIFIED PROGRAM AGENCY. THEY

03:05:46.101 --> 03:05:48.070
WERE ONE IN THE SAME. SO THE

03:05:48.136 --> 03:05:49.171
FIRE DEPARTMENT CAME IN AND

03:05:49.238 --> 03:05:50.973
SAID, OKAY, WE GOT TO DO LIKE A

03:05:51.039 --> 03:05:52.774
QUICK EVACUATION. BUT THEN THEY

03:05:52.841 --> 03:05:53.809
WORK TOGETHER WITHIN AN

03:05:53.876 --> 03:05:55.210
INCIDENT COMMAND TO SAY, WAIT A

03:05:55.277 --> 03:05:57.446
MINUTE, WE HAVE A TANK IN THE

03:05:57.513 --> 03:05:59.281
MIDDLE THAT IS REACTING. WE

03:05:59.348 --> 03:06:00.949
HAVE TWO TANKS NEXT TO IT. IF

03:06:01.016 --> 03:06:02.551
ALL THREE TANKS GO, WE'RE GOING

03:06:02.618 --> 03:06:04.219
TO HAVE A MASS CASUALTY EVENT.

03:06:04.286 --> 03:06:06.121
AND THEY DID AN EVACUATION. AND

03:06:06.188 --> 03:06:07.589
THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT SHOULD

03:06:07.656 --> 03:06:10.025
HAVE HAPPENED. SO IT'S VERY

03:06:10.092 --> 03:06:11.360
INTERESTING TO TALK TO THE

03:06:11.426 --> 03:06:12.361
FIRST RESPONDERS. WHEN YOU

03:06:12.427 --> 03:06:13.395
RESPOND TO CHEMICAL DISASTERS,

03:06:13.462 --> 03:06:15.364
YOU GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

03:06:15.430 --> 03:06:16.565
BECAUSE MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE

03:06:16.632 --> 03:06:17.699
THE SAME PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE

03:06:17.766 --> 03:06:19.368
SEEING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

03:06:19.434 --> 03:06:20.536
RIGHT. AND I THINK THERE ARE

03:06:20.602 --> 03:06:22.371
SOME PEOPLE THAT FELT THAT THE

03:06:22.437 --> 03:06:23.672
RESPONSE TO THE GARDEN GROVE

03:06:23.739 --> 03:06:26.942
DISASTER WAS, WAS OVERLY

03:06:27.009 --> 03:06:29.044
CAUTIOUS. RIGHT. BUT WHEN YOU

03:06:29.111 --> 03:06:30.913
LOOK AT WHAT I JUST SAW IN

03:06:30.979 --> 03:06:31.880
TOLEDO, IT WAS NOT OVERLY

03:06:31.947 --> 03:06:33.682
CAUTIOUS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A TEN

03:06:33.749 --> 03:06:34.850
MILE LONG PLUME AND YOU HAVE

03:06:34.917 --> 03:06:36.018
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

03:06:36.084 --> 03:06:37.686
AFFECTED. AND THE SAME THING

03:06:37.753 --> 03:06:38.820
WITH LINEAGE WHERE THEY SHOULD

03:06:38.887 --> 03:06:39.888
HAVE EVACUATED AND THEY DIDN'T.

03:06:39.955 --> 03:06:41.690
AND NOW YOU HAVE 20,000 PEOPLE

03:06:41.757 --> 03:06:43.158
THAT HAVE SOUGHT HEALTH CARE. A

03:06:43.225 --> 03:06:44.192
CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THOSE ARE

03:06:44.259 --> 03:06:45.994
GOING TO END UP WITH PERMANENT

03:06:46.061 --> 03:06:49.932
DISABILITIES. SO AS STATE

03:06:49.998 --> 03:06:52.134
LEGISLATORS AND I KNOW THAT

03:06:52.200 --> 03:06:53.635
THAT ASSEMBLY MEMBER SCHIAVO IS

03:06:53.702 --> 03:06:54.870
ON THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. SO I

03:06:54.937 --> 03:06:55.971
DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT

03:06:56.038 --> 03:06:57.806
COMMITTEES I'M ON. I'M THE VICE

03:06:57.873 --> 03:06:59.074
CHAIR ON HEALTH AS WELL. RIGHT.

03:06:59.141 --> 03:07:00.809
SO YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED TO

03:07:00.876 --> 03:07:03.645
KNOW THAT THE TOXIC WASTE DUMP,

03:07:03.712 --> 03:07:06.114
WHICH IS OVER IN SANTA BARBARA

03:07:06.181 --> 03:07:08.050
COUNTY, WHERE THEY HAD BROUGHT

03:07:08.116 --> 03:07:09.751
IN ALL THIS LIQUID TOXIC WASTE,

03:07:09.818 --> 03:07:11.019
AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY SPRAYING

03:07:11.086 --> 03:07:12.621
IT IN THE AIR. AND THE WHOLE

03:07:12.688 --> 03:07:15.857
TOWN OF AMELIA WAS SICK. THE

03:07:15.924 --> 03:07:17.659
DOCTORS TOOK OUT A FULL PAGE AD

03:07:17.726 --> 03:07:19.861
IN LIKE IN THE SANTA BARBARA

03:07:19.928 --> 03:07:22.064
NEWSPAPER. OKAY, SO WHAT THE

03:07:22.130 --> 03:07:24.132
TOWN OF AMELIA DID IS THEY

03:07:24.199 --> 03:07:26.301
CLOSED THEIR SCHOOLS AND THEY

03:07:26.368 --> 03:07:28.437
HAD SCHOOL IN THE STATE

03:07:28.503 --> 03:07:31.340
LEGISLATURE. THEY TOOK THE KIDS

03:07:31.406 --> 03:07:35.677
WITH DESKS, OKAY, TO MAKE THE

03:07:35.744 --> 03:07:37.813
POINT. RIGHT. AND THEY CLOSED.

03:07:37.879 --> 03:07:40.349
THIS IS THE TOXIC WASTE DUMP.

03:07:40.415 --> 03:07:41.783
THEY CLOSED THE TOXIC WASTE

03:07:41.850 --> 03:07:43.986
DUMP. THEY HAD A HUGE, YOU KNOW,

03:07:44.052 --> 03:07:45.420
CLEANUP. U.S. EPA WAS INVOLVED,

03:07:45.487 --> 03:07:46.688
DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE.

03:07:46.755 --> 03:07:48.323
THE STATE CAME IN, RIGHT, AND

03:07:48.390 --> 03:07:50.425
DID THIS, BUT IT TOOK THIS VERY

03:07:50.492 --> 03:07:52.394
DRAMATIC ACTION OF LITERALLY

03:07:52.461 --> 03:07:54.796
THIS TOWN HOLDING SCHOOL IN THE

03:07:54.863 --> 03:07:55.897
HALLWAYS OF THE LEGISLATURE FOR

03:07:55.964 --> 03:07:57.666
A NUMBER OF DAYS, BY THE WAY.

03:07:57.733 --> 03:07:59.501
OKAY. SO I HAVE BEEN PART OF

03:07:59.568 --> 03:08:00.836
SOME OF THESE ACTIONS IN THE

03:08:00.902 --> 03:08:04.506
PAST. SO AS A AS A POLICY MAKER,

03:08:04.573 --> 03:08:06.308
RIGHT? WE DEFINITELY SEE THE

03:08:06.375 --> 03:08:08.410
GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

03:08:08.477 --> 03:08:11.680
THIS IS THE UGLY LINEAGE IS THE

03:08:11.747 --> 03:08:14.616
UGLY GARDEN GROVE IS THE GOOD,

03:08:14.683 --> 03:08:16.084
THE SANTA SUSANA FIELD LAB AND

03:08:16.151 --> 03:08:17.886
THE SANDY FIRE. I HATE TO SAY

03:08:17.953 --> 03:08:19.655
IT, IT WAS THE GOOD BECAUSE

03:08:19.721 --> 03:08:21.223
THEY BROUGHT IN THE DEPARTMENT

03:08:21.289 --> 03:08:24.626
OF ENERGY STRIKE TEAM. THEY PUT

03:08:24.693 --> 03:08:26.128
NUCLEAR MONITORS ALL AROUND THE

03:08:26.194 --> 03:08:28.230
LAB, AND THEN THEY USE THE NEW

03:08:28.296 --> 03:08:29.898
CAL FIRE PLANES THAT ARE LINKED

03:08:29.965 --> 03:08:31.133
TO THE SUPERCOMPUTER IN SAN

03:08:31.199 --> 03:08:32.601
DIEGO. THEY FLEW THE PLANES IN

03:08:32.668 --> 03:08:34.002
THERE. THEY COULD SEE, OH, YEAH,

03:08:34.069 --> 03:08:35.904
THE FIRE IS GOING TO GO ACROSS

03:08:35.971 --> 03:08:37.072
THE NUCLEAR LAB. THEY BASICALLY

03:08:37.139 --> 03:08:39.074
CARPET BOMBED THE NORTHERN

03:08:39.141 --> 03:08:40.876
BOUNDARY WITH FLAME RETARDANT.

03:08:40.942 --> 03:08:41.977
THEN THEY BROUGHT IN DRONES AND

03:08:42.044 --> 03:08:43.545
THEY COULD SEE THE FIRE WAS

03:08:43.612 --> 03:08:44.680
THERE. THEY WERE LIKE, THEY

03:08:44.746 --> 03:08:45.781
CARPET BOMBED THAT WITH WATER.

03:08:45.847 --> 03:08:47.582
AND THEY SAVED THE SANDY FIRE

03:08:47.649 --> 03:08:48.650
FROM GOING OVER THE SANTA

03:08:48.717 --> 03:08:50.485
SUSANA FIELD LAB. THIS WAS A

03:08:50.552 --> 03:08:51.486
HUGE INCIDENT COMMAND THAT

03:08:51.553 --> 03:08:53.121
HAPPENED JUST THIS PAST MAY. SO

03:08:53.188 --> 03:08:55.257
DO WE HAVE MODERN TECHNOLOGY?

03:08:55.323 --> 03:08:57.059
DO WE HAVE STRUCTURES AND

03:08:57.125 --> 03:08:59.561
INCIDENT COMMAND? DO WE HAVE

03:08:59.628 --> 03:09:00.996
POLICY THAT ALLOWS THIS TO

03:09:01.063 --> 03:09:03.165
OCCUR? I AM HERE TO TELL YOU,

03:09:03.231 --> 03:09:04.599
AS THE FIRST ADVISORY COMMITTEE

03:09:04.666 --> 03:09:06.068
MEMBER ON OUR CALIFORNIA

03:09:06.134 --> 03:09:07.536
ACCIDENTAL RELEASE PROGRAM AND

03:09:07.602 --> 03:09:08.704
THE PERSON WHO HAS SUED THE

03:09:08.770 --> 03:09:10.472
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON THE RISK

03:09:10.539 --> 03:09:11.840
MANAGEMENT, FEDERAL PROVINCIAL

03:09:11.907 --> 03:09:14.342
PLANS MY ENTIRE CAREER THAT WE

03:09:14.409 --> 03:09:16.144
HAVE AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT

03:09:16.211 --> 03:09:18.647
SHOULD WORK. AND IT DOES WORK

03:09:18.714 --> 03:09:20.816
AT TIMES. SO THE QUESTION HERE,

03:09:20.882 --> 03:09:23.285
AND I JUST APPLAUD THE AUDIT

03:09:23.351 --> 03:09:24.853
COMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY'RE

03:09:24.920 --> 03:09:26.088
TRYING TO GET TO THE POINT IS,

03:09:26.154 --> 03:09:28.790
WHY IS IT FAILED HERE? WHY IS

03:09:28.857 --> 03:09:31.927
IT FAILING? WELL, AND I LOOK AT

03:09:31.993 --> 03:09:32.961
TWO COMPONENTS, RIGHT? I LOOK

03:09:33.028 --> 03:09:34.463
AT THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMPONENT,

03:09:34.529 --> 03:09:36.398
WHICH IS FOR ME, OBVIOUSLY THE

03:09:36.465 --> 03:09:37.399
MOST PRESSING. WE HAVE PEOPLE

03:09:37.466 --> 03:09:39.067
THAT ARE SICK. WE HAVE PEOPLE

03:09:39.134 --> 03:09:40.569
THAT ARE DYING, PETS ARE DYING.

03:09:40.635 --> 03:09:42.437
AND SO I THINK I'M TRYING TO

03:09:42.504 --> 03:09:43.839
UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, IF THERE

03:09:43.905 --> 03:09:45.607
HAS BEEN A PUBLIC RESPONSE TO

03:09:45.674 --> 03:09:47.409
ANY SYMBOL OR A PUBLIC HEALTH

03:09:47.476 --> 03:09:48.910
DEPARTMENT RESPONSE IN ANY

03:09:48.977 --> 03:09:49.811
SIMILAR COMMUNITY, WOULD LOVE

03:09:49.878 --> 03:09:50.979
TO HAVE FURTHER CONVERSATIONS

03:09:51.046 --> 03:09:52.447
ABOUT THAT. BUT THE OTHER

03:09:52.514 --> 03:09:53.582
COMPONENT IS THE CLEANUP

03:09:53.648 --> 03:09:54.416
COMPONENT, RIGHT. AND WHETHER

03:09:54.483 --> 03:09:55.951
IT'S THE ARMY CORPS OF

03:09:56.017 --> 03:09:57.085
ENGINEERS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL,

03:09:57.152 --> 03:09:58.954
WHETHER IT IS TECHNOLOGY IN

03:09:59.020 --> 03:10:00.021
CALIFORNIA, IT'S MY

03:10:00.088 --> 03:10:01.123
UNDERSTANDING THERE IS AN

03:10:01.189 --> 03:10:03.291
ENERGY COMPANY IN NORTHERN

03:10:03.358 --> 03:10:04.693
CALIFORNIA THAT REMOVES WASTE

03:10:04.760 --> 03:10:06.962
FROM LANDFILLS, TAKES IT TO

03:10:07.028 --> 03:10:09.765
THEIR FACILITY, BURNS IT AT

03:10:09.831 --> 03:10:13.335
4000 DEGREES, ALL WITHIN A A

03:10:13.401 --> 03:10:14.836
SAFE, SECURE LOCATION WHERE

03:10:14.903 --> 03:10:17.305
THERE'S ZERO EMISSIONS AND EVEN

03:10:17.372 --> 03:10:20.942
CAN DESTROY TOXIC WASTE. IS HAS

03:10:21.009 --> 03:10:23.078
ANY OF THAT TECHNOLOGY BEEN

03:10:23.145 --> 03:10:25.580
USED IN ANY OF SIMILAR

03:10:25.647 --> 03:10:26.348
DISASTERS THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF

03:10:26.414 --> 03:10:29.718
IN THE PAST? YES, THAT'S THAT'S

03:10:29.785 --> 03:10:31.686
A CONVERSATION FOR A LITTLE BIT

03:10:31.753 --> 03:10:32.821
LONGER. OKAY. A LITTLE BIT

03:10:32.888 --> 03:10:33.855
LONGER, KNOW A LITTLE BIT

03:10:33.922 --> 03:10:35.624
LONGER CONVERSATION. BUT LET ME

03:10:35.690 --> 03:10:38.226
JUST SAY, OKAY, THAT WE AT THIS

03:10:38.293 --> 03:10:39.928
POINT, A NUMBER OF THE FOLKS IN

03:10:39.995 --> 03:10:41.830
THIS COMMUNITY JUST RECENTLY

03:10:41.897 --> 03:10:44.699
DID OUR OWN PUBLIC HEARING ON

03:10:44.766 --> 03:10:47.235
THE REMEDIAL ACTION WORK PLAN

03:10:47.302 --> 03:10:48.270
BECAUSE THE STATE REFUSED TO

03:10:48.336 --> 03:10:50.438
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING. AND I AM

03:10:50.505 --> 03:10:51.907
VERY CRITICAL OF THE STATE'S

03:10:51.973 --> 03:10:53.341
ACTIONS ON A NUMBER OF THESE

03:10:53.408 --> 03:10:54.976
TOXIC SITES THAT I WORK ON, NOT

03:10:55.043 --> 03:10:56.545
JUST THIS ONE, BECAUSE PART OF

03:10:56.611 --> 03:10:59.114
OUR PART OF OUR NATIONAL

03:10:59.181 --> 03:11:00.549
STRUCTURE UNDER OUR

03:11:00.615 --> 03:11:01.249
COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL

03:11:01.316 --> 03:11:02.717
RESPONSE AND LIABILITY ACT, IS

03:11:02.784 --> 03:11:05.954
THAT WHATEVER REMEDIES YOU ARE

03:11:06.021 --> 03:11:07.122
DOING, LIKE THE ONE THAT YOU

03:11:07.189 --> 03:11:09.124
JUST TALKED ABOUT, THE REMEDY

03:11:09.191 --> 03:11:11.660
NEEDS TO HAVE A SCALE TOWARDS

03:11:11.726 --> 03:11:12.828
PERMANENCY. AND ONE OF THE

03:11:12.894 --> 03:11:14.196
THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING AT

03:11:14.262 --> 03:11:15.630
CHIQUITA IS THAT YOU'RE JUST

03:11:15.697 --> 03:11:17.098
GOING FROM ONE CRISIS TO

03:11:17.165 --> 03:11:18.300
ANOTHER. IT'S THIS BAND-AID,

03:11:18.366 --> 03:11:19.968
IT'S THIS BAND-AID, IT'S THIS

03:11:20.035 --> 03:11:21.169
BAND-AID, IT'S THIS BAND-AID.

03:11:21.236 --> 03:11:24.239
AND IT'S LIKE, NO, VERY

03:11:24.306 --> 03:11:25.707
INTERESTING HOW THE NATIONAL

03:11:25.774 --> 03:11:27.876
CONTINGENCY PLAN CAME ABOUT. IT

03:11:27.943 --> 03:11:31.479
WAS INSISTED UPON BY GENERAL

03:11:31.546 --> 03:11:32.480
STAFFORD, WHO WAS THE

03:11:32.547 --> 03:11:33.615
REPUBLICAN CHAIR AT THE TIME OF

03:11:33.682 --> 03:11:34.749
THE SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND

03:11:34.816 --> 03:11:36.785
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, BECAUSE

03:11:36.852 --> 03:11:38.553
WHEN CERCLA WAS FIRST PASSED,

03:11:38.620 --> 03:11:40.422
EPA JUMPED INTO ALL THESE TOXIC

03:11:40.488 --> 03:11:41.256
SITES AND SAYS, YOU KNOW WHAT,

03:11:41.323 --> 03:11:42.991
WE'RE JUST GOING TO BURN

03:11:43.058 --> 03:11:44.359
EVERYTHING. AND PEOPLE DID NOT

03:11:44.426 --> 03:11:46.094
LIKE THAT BECAUSE NOW YOU GOT A

03:11:46.161 --> 03:11:48.029
TOXIC SITE IN YOUR YARD AND

03:11:48.096 --> 03:11:50.098
YOUR COMMUNITY, AND NOW YOU'VE

03:11:50.165 --> 03:11:51.533
GOT INCINERATORS BEING DROPPED

03:11:51.600 --> 03:11:53.168
IN, AND THEN ALL THAT STUFF

03:11:53.235 --> 03:11:54.369
GOING IN THE AIR. AND THESE

03:11:54.436 --> 03:11:55.337
WERE INCINERATORS THAT WERE

03:11:55.403 --> 03:11:56.905
MOBILE. AND SO THEY ACTUALLY

03:11:56.972 --> 03:11:58.173
PASSED WHAT ARE CALLED THE

03:11:58.240 --> 03:12:01.610
TITLE THREE AMENDMENTS TO

03:12:01.676 --> 03:12:03.778
CERCLA, SUPERFUND

03:12:03.845 --> 03:12:05.213
REAUTHORIZATION ACT. AND IT

03:12:05.280 --> 03:12:07.015
INSISTED THAT LOCAL COMMUNITIES

03:12:07.082 --> 03:12:09.885
BE INVOLVED IN DECISIONS ON THE

03:12:09.951 --> 03:12:12.754
REMEDY SELECTION. OKAY. LOCAL

03:12:12.821 --> 03:12:13.455
COMMUNITIES ARE SUPPOSED TO

03:12:13.521 --> 03:12:15.156
HAVE A SAY IN REMEDY SELECTION,

03:12:15.223 --> 03:12:17.425
AND THOSE REMEDIES ARE TO TIP

03:12:17.492 --> 03:12:19.995
THE SCALE TOWARDS PERMANENCY,

03:12:20.061 --> 03:12:22.664
NOT TOWARDS SHORT TERM REMEDIES.

03:12:22.731 --> 03:12:25.400
AND RIGHT NOW, OUR GOVERNOR AND

03:12:25.467 --> 03:12:27.535
OUR STATE ON A NUMBER OF THESE

03:12:27.602 --> 03:12:28.637
SITES THAT WE HAVE EITHER

03:12:28.703 --> 03:12:30.438
CHEMICAL DISASTERS OR LONG TERM

03:12:30.505 --> 03:12:32.908
PROBLEMS LIKE THIS ONE, ARE

03:12:32.974 --> 03:12:34.709
DOING THESE SHORT TERM REMEDIES.

03:12:34.776 --> 03:12:36.511
AND MANY TIMES IT'S BEEN

03:12:36.578 --> 03:12:39.080
EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO GET

03:12:39.147 --> 03:12:40.916
INFORMATION. LIKE, I AM AN

03:12:40.982 --> 03:12:42.684
INFORMATION NERD ON LANDFILLS.

03:12:42.751 --> 03:12:44.085
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND I

03:12:44.152 --> 03:12:46.254
STILL DO NOT HAVE THE WAIVERS

03:12:46.321 --> 03:12:48.089
FROM SOUTH COAST ON THIS

03:12:48.156 --> 03:12:50.225
LANDFILL. WE HAVE REQUESTED

03:12:50.292 --> 03:12:51.359
FROM SOUTH COAST ALL THE

03:12:51.426 --> 03:12:52.494
WAIVERS THAT THEY'VE GRANTED TO

03:12:52.560 --> 03:12:54.162
THE LANDFILLS IN THEIR REGIONS.

03:12:54.229 --> 03:12:55.363
AND WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO

03:12:55.430 --> 03:12:57.299
HAVE TO SUE THAT AGENCY TO GET

03:12:57.365 --> 03:12:59.234
THOSE WAIVERS. SO THERE'S A

03:12:59.301 --> 03:13:01.002
FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF

03:13:01.069 --> 03:13:03.905
TRANSPARENCY AND OF OUR STATE'S

03:13:03.972 --> 03:13:05.340
COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL LAW,

03:13:05.407 --> 03:13:07.142
WITH THE NATIONAL CONTINGENCY

03:13:07.208 --> 03:13:08.677
PLAN. SO I HOPE THAT I'M NOT

03:13:08.743 --> 03:13:10.345
SURE THAT GETS EXACTLY TO YOUR.

03:13:10.412 --> 03:13:11.413
IS THERE SOMETHING BETTER WE

03:13:11.479 --> 03:13:13.615
CAN DO HERE? ABSOLUTELY. I

03:13:13.682 --> 03:13:15.350
COULD LAY IT OUT FOR YOU LIKE

03:13:15.417 --> 03:13:16.518
BING, BING, BING. THIS IS WHAT

03:13:16.584 --> 03:13:18.520
WE NEED TO DO AT LINEAGE. THIS

03:13:18.586 --> 03:13:20.455
IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO AT EXCITE.

03:13:20.522 --> 03:13:22.257
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE AND

03:13:22.324 --> 03:13:23.458
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND

03:13:23.525 --> 03:13:25.260
SO YOU HAVE TO START ASKING

03:13:25.327 --> 03:13:25.860
YOURSELF WHY PROGRAMMATICALLY

03:13:25.927 --> 03:13:27.629
IS THIS STRUCTURE THAT WAS PUT

03:13:27.696 --> 03:13:30.932
TOGETHER IN THE MID 80S BY

03:13:30.999 --> 03:13:32.701
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IN OUR

03:13:32.767 --> 03:13:34.502
CONGRESS, NOT BEING FOLLOWED

03:13:34.569 --> 03:13:36.671
TODAY IN OUR STATE? THAT IS A

03:13:36.738 --> 03:13:37.772
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION THAT I

03:13:37.839 --> 03:13:39.674
LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING WITH

03:13:39.741 --> 03:13:41.009
THE RELEVANT COMMITTEES ON AS

03:13:41.076 --> 03:13:42.344
WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE NEXT

03:13:42.410 --> 03:13:43.478
LEGISLATIVE SESSION, AND WITH A

03:13:43.545 --> 03:13:45.613
GOVERNOR WHO, BY THE WAY, COMES

03:13:45.680 --> 03:13:49.951
FROM EAST LA. THANK YOU.

03:13:50.018 --> 03:13:55.023
ASSEMBLYWOMAN. THANK YOU ALL SO

03:13:55.090 --> 03:13:58.660
MUCH. I KNOW IT'S INCREDIBLY

03:13:58.727 --> 03:14:00.428
PAINFUL TO TALK ABOUT THIS OVER

03:14:00.495 --> 03:14:02.931
AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, BUT

03:14:02.998 --> 03:14:04.699
AS OUR CHAIR MENTIONED, IT

03:14:04.766 --> 03:14:06.534
REALLY IS IMPACTFUL. YOUR

03:14:06.601 --> 03:14:08.336
STORIES ARE WHY WE HAVE PASSED

03:14:08.403 --> 03:14:11.606
LEGISLATION IN SACRAMENTO AND

03:14:11.673 --> 03:14:13.375
CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS AT

03:14:13.441 --> 03:14:15.944
THE STATE LEVEL AND CONTINUE TO

03:14:16.011 --> 03:14:18.046
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE US

03:14:18.113 --> 03:14:24.486
HERE LOCALLY. SO I WANT TO BE

03:14:24.552 --> 03:14:26.454
IF WE CAN BE SUPER QUICK. I DO

03:14:26.521 --> 03:14:27.655
HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS OR THINGS

03:14:27.722 --> 03:14:29.591
I WANT TO POINT OUT, BUT I ALSO

03:14:29.657 --> 03:14:31.526
WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET TO

03:14:31.593 --> 03:14:32.660
PUBLIC COMMENT AS QUICKLY AS

03:14:32.727 --> 03:14:33.661
POSSIBLE BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S

03:14:33.728 --> 03:14:35.530
GETTING LATER. JANE, IF YOU CAN

03:14:35.597 --> 03:14:37.832
JUST VERY BRIEFLY AND IF YOU

03:14:37.899 --> 03:14:39.768
DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU,

03:14:39.834 --> 03:14:41.770
I DO ON THE CASPER STUDY. BUT I

03:14:41.836 --> 03:14:42.871
THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT

03:14:42.937 --> 03:14:45.407
OUT THAT BECAUSE DEPARTMENT OF

03:14:45.473 --> 03:14:47.909
PUBLIC HEALTH WOULD NOT DO A

03:14:47.976 --> 03:14:50.779
REAL HEALTH STUDY TO ASSESS

03:14:50.845 --> 03:14:52.947
PEOPLE'S HEALTH IN A WAY THAT

03:14:53.014 --> 03:14:55.817
YOU COULD ANALYZE AND DRAW

03:14:55.884 --> 03:14:59.854
CONCLUSIONS FROM. THE COMMUNITY,

03:14:59.921 --> 03:15:02.023
YOU LED A COMMUNITY EFFORT TO

03:15:02.090 --> 03:15:05.894
DO A CASPAR STUDY IN IN THAT,

03:15:05.960 --> 03:15:07.695
YOU KNOW, TO FILL THAT VOID

03:15:07.762 --> 03:15:09.764
BASICALLY AND DO THE WORK OF

03:15:09.831 --> 03:15:10.765
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

03:15:10.832 --> 03:15:12.400
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU

03:15:12.467 --> 03:15:16.704
FOUND? I HAVE IT HERE IF YOU

03:15:16.771 --> 03:15:18.706
WANT A CHEAT SHEET. OH NO, I, I

03:15:18.773 --> 03:15:20.675
KNOW WHAT I FOUND. OKAY. I JUST

03:15:20.742 --> 03:15:22.577
DON'T WANT TO BE THE ONLY WOMAN

03:15:22.644 --> 03:15:23.845
ON THE BOARD THAT STARTS TO CRY.

03:15:23.912 --> 03:15:25.647
OKAY. BECAUSE SO FAR, JEAN AND

03:15:25.713 --> 03:15:26.915
I ARE DOING PRETTY GOOD. OKAY.

03:15:26.981 --> 03:15:31.086
SO I LIKE, OKAY, BECAUSE WE GOT

03:15:31.152 --> 03:15:32.620
TISSUES ON THE TABLE IS NOT

03:15:32.687 --> 03:15:34.689
PRETTY. IT IS NOT PRETTY. OKAY.

03:15:34.756 --> 03:15:36.157
FIRST OF ALL, LET ME THANK YOU

03:15:36.224 --> 03:15:37.859
VERY MUCH. I MIGHT NEED A

03:15:37.926 --> 03:15:39.127
LITTLE BIT OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

03:15:39.194 --> 03:15:41.930
HERE. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO

03:15:41.996 --> 03:15:43.898
POINT OUT THAT I, I DON'T KNOW

03:15:43.965 --> 03:15:45.066
IF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE ASKED

03:15:45.133 --> 03:15:46.267
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

03:15:46.334 --> 03:15:47.869
THIS. BUT TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE

03:15:47.936 --> 03:15:49.104
LAST CASPAR STUDY THAT THE

03:15:49.170 --> 03:15:50.138
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH DID

03:15:50.205 --> 03:15:53.408
WAS THE ALISO CANYON STUDY.

03:15:53.475 --> 03:15:58.079
OKAY. RIGHT. OKAY. BECAUSE WE

03:15:58.146 --> 03:16:01.349
HAD JUST DID ONE, SO I, I LED

03:16:01.416 --> 03:16:04.586
THE CASPAR STUDY HERE AT

03:16:04.652 --> 03:16:06.221
CHIQUITA, AND THEN I INITIATED

03:16:06.287 --> 03:16:08.156
THE ONE AT LINEAGE. SO WE HAVE

03:16:08.223 --> 03:16:09.791
ONE DONE AT LINEAGE TOO. CAN

03:16:09.858 --> 03:16:11.626
YOU EXPLAIN? SORRY. SO LET ME

03:16:11.693 --> 03:16:12.760
TELL YOU WHAT. EXPLAIN WHAT IT

03:16:12.827 --> 03:16:14.662
IS. YEAH. OKAY. AND IT'S VERY

03:16:14.729 --> 03:16:17.599
IRONIC. THAT I'M THE PERSON

03:16:17.665 --> 03:16:18.633
DOING CASPAR STUDIES NOW IN

03:16:18.700 --> 03:16:21.503
L.A. COUNTY BECAUSE ONE OF MY

03:16:21.569 --> 03:16:24.372
COLLEAGUES, WHO WAS A VERY

03:16:24.439 --> 03:16:25.807
PROMINENT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

03:16:25.874 --> 03:16:27.275
ADVOCATE WHO JUST DIED IN

03:16:27.342 --> 03:16:29.410
JANUARY DOWN IN WILMINGTON.

03:16:29.477 --> 03:16:30.912
JESSE MARQUEZ, THE EXECUTIVE

03:16:30.979 --> 03:16:33.014
DIRECTOR OF COALITION FOR SAFE

03:16:33.081 --> 03:16:34.816
ENVIRONMENT, CREATED, PULLED

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ALL THESE HEALTH SURVEYS THAT

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HAD BEEN DONE FOR LIKE 20 YEARS.

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AND HE AND HIS OTHER THIS OTHER

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PERSON, JILL JOHNSON, WHO NOW

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WORKS AT UC IRVINE. OKAY. THEY

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PULLED TOGETHER ALL THESE

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STUDIES BACK 20 YEARS AGO, AND

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THEY CREATED THIS CASPAR

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PROTOCOL FOR WILMINGTON, WHERE

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WE HAVE FOUR REFINERIES AND

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GIANT TANKS OF STUFF, WHATEVER.

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AND THEN THE CDC ACTUALLY

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ADOPTED IT AS A QUICK WAY TO

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GET A VIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING

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DURING A DISASTER. AND SO THIS

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CASPAR PROTOCOL NOW IS A

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PROTOCOL THAT IS ENDORSED BY

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THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL,

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AND WE HAVE USED IT. WE USED IT

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IN MAUI. WE'VE USED IT AT SOME

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OF THE DISASTERS LIKE KATRINA.

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WE'VE USED IT AND SOME SOME OF

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THE OTHER DISASTERS THAT I HAVE

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RESPONDED TO. OKAY. AND IT IS

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DESIGNED TO BE DONE IN LIKE

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THREE DAYS BY VOLUNTEERS. OKAY.

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IT'S QUICK. IT IS QUICK. AND

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THERE'S A NUMBER OF TEMPLATES

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THAT YOU CAN USE. WE CREATED

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OUR OWN TEMPLATE SPECIFICALLY

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FOR CHIQUITA BECAUSE IT WAS A

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LANDFILL. AND THERE'S NOT

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USUALLY DISASTERS AT LANDFILLS.

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I KNOW YOU GUYS MIGHT THINK

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THAT'S CRAZY, BUT WE DON'T

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USUALLY HAVE CHEMICAL DISASTERS

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AT LANDFILLS. SO WE DID THAT

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STUDY WITH SOME OF THE

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COMMUNITY MEMBERS HERE AS

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VOLUNTEERS OVER REALLY ABOUT

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TWO MONTHS. RIGHT. AND OF

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COURSE, THE FINDINGS ARE ARE

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WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE,

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BUT ALSO WHAT YOU WOULD NOT SEE.

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AND HERE'S WHY. FIRST OF ALL,

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YES, YOU SEE HIGHER CANCER

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INCIDENCE. YES. YOU SEE PEOPLE

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WITH INHALER USE MUCH MORE OR

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NEW INHALER USE. OKAY. YOU SEE

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PEOPLE WITH BLOODY NOSES. ALL

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RIGHT. YOU SEE PEOPLE WITH

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TINNITUS, WHICH IS VERY UNIQUE.

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USUALLY AT CHEMICAL CHEMICAL

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DISASTERS WE DO NOT SEE

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TINNITUS. WE SEE THAT OKAY HERE.

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BUT THE THING THAT YOU USUALLY

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DO NOT SEE AT A CASPAR SURVEY

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ARE MISCARRIAGES. AND THE

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REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE

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WOMEN DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT

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IT. IT IS A TABOO SUBJECT,

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ESPECIALLY IN THE LATINO

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COMMUNITY. BUT EVEN AMONG MORE

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WELL EDUCATED WHITE WOMEN, THEY

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DO NOT SHARE EVEN WITH THEIR

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CLOSEST FRIENDS IF THEY HAD A

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MISCARRIAGE OR NOT. IT IS A

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SOCIETAL TABOO. AND SO IT WAS

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SHOCKING TO ME BECAUSE I DID A

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NUMBER OF SURVEYS MYSELF. I

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INTERVIEWED PEOPLE, AND IT WAS

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SHOCKING HOW MANY MISCARRIAGES

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THERE ARE. AND NOW WHEN I TALK

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TO THE COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY ARE

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THERE ELEVATED MISCARRIAGES,

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BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN

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BEING BORN IN THIS COMMUNITY

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ANYMORE. AND THIS IS A VERY

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FASCINATING I HAVE NEVER SEEN

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THIS BEFORE. IT IS A

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FASCINATING SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT

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BECAUSE MOST OF THE FAMILIES

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THAT HAVE CHILDREN OF

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CHILDBEARING AGE HAVE ASKED

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THOSE CHILDREN TO LEAVE THEIR

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HOUSEHOLDS. AND WE SAW THAT IN

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THE SURVEY THAT I LIVE IN A

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MULTI-GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD.

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MY 25 YEAR OLD SON LIVES WITH

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ME WITH HIS PARTNER. RIGHT. AND

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SO YOU SEE THIS, THIS IS

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MULTI-GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLDS

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NOW, USUALLY TWO GENERATIONS,

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IF NOT THREE. AND SO YOU WILL

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SEE BABIES IN HOUSEHOLDS. AND

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WE DON'T SEE THAT IN THE

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COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CLOSEST TO

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THE LANDFILL. YOU'RE NOT SEEING

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THAT ANYMORE. THE OTHER

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STRIKING THING THAT WE SAW IN

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THE CASPAR SURVEY WAS SOCIAL

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COHESION, EROSION. AND I HATE

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TO SAY IT, BUT THIS PANEL IS

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THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT.

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YOU YOU MAKE THESE VERY STRONG

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SOCIAL TIES IN A FUNCTIONING

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COMMUNITY. AND IT IS THOSE

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STRONG SOCIAL TIES THAT WE HAVE

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IN EAST LA. FOR MY COLLEAGUES

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THAT ARE HERE, RIGHT, THAT

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ALLOW YOU TO BE RESILIENT IN

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THE FACE OF SOCIETAL SHOCKS,

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WHETHER THAT IS ECONOMIC

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DOWNTURN, A PANDEMIC, A FLOOD,

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A LANDFILL FIRE. AND WHAT

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HAPPENS DURING THESE, THESE

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SITUATIONS LIKE THIS IS YOU GET

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A DIASPORA. IT'S HAPPENING IN

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LINEAGE RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE HAVE

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LEFT THE COMMUNITY AND THEY

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WILL NOT COME BACK. SO THE

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OTHER STRIKING THING ABOUT THE

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CASPAR SURVEY THAT IS JUST

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HEARTBREAKING IS THAT PEOPLE

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WHO USED TO GET TOGETHER, WALK

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THEIR DOGS, TAKE THEIR KIDS TO

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THE PARK, HAVE POTLUCKS. THEY

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DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE BECAUSE

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YOU CANNOT BE OUTSIDE. AND SO

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THAT FURTHER ERODES SOCIAL

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COHESION. IT FURTHER ERODES IT.

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AND THE FASCINATING THING THAT

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I READ JUST TWO WEEKS AGO WAS

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THE TEN YEAR STUDY ON ALISO

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CANYON. OKAY. SO IT'S NOT THE

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PUBLIC HEALTH STUDY. IT WAS A

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TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVE DONE BY

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UCLA. AND THE STRIKING THING

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WAS THAT THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE

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EVACUATED, WHO ACTUALLY WERE

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EVACUATED TWICE, OKAY. AND A

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CASPAR SURVEY WAS DONE. AND IT

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WAS A HUGE THING AND IT WAS A

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MESS. BUT THEY FEEL INVISIBLE

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NOW. THEY FEEL INVISIBLE. AND

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THIS IS A FAIRLY WELL WEALTHY,

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MUCH MORE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS.

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YOU WOULD NOT THINK THAT SOCIAL

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COHESION HAS BEEN ERODED. IT

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HAS. AND WE SEE ALSO IN WHAT IS

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CALLED THE MAUI STUDY, WHICH IS

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NOW THE LONG THE LONGEST

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LONGITUDINAL STUDY

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POST-DISASTER THAT WE'VE EVER

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DONE, WHICH IS THREE YEARS FROM

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LAHAINA. WE SEE THIS THIS SENSE

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OF INVISIBILITY, WHICH IS THAT

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YOUR PEOPLE DON'T SEE YOUR

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SUFFERING AND YOUR PEOPLE DON'T

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CARE. AND TO ME, THAT IS ONE OF

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THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS THAT WE

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HAVE. AND WHEN YOU SEE THE MAUI

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STUDY, WHAT YOU SEE IS

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ESPECIALLY STRIKING IS YOUNG

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PEOPLE NO LONGER HOPE. THEY NO

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LONGER BELIEVE THEY'RE GOING TO

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HAVE FAMILIES, THEY'RE GOING TO

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OWN HOMES, THEY'RE GOING TO

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HAVE KIDS IN THEIR CAREER. AND

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SO THESE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL

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PROBLEMS THAT YOU HAVE AFTER A

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DISASTER OR DURING A DISASTER

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IN THIS CASE, HAVE LONG TERM

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PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS THAT ARE

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BEYOND WHOSE NOSE IS BLEEDING,

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WHO HAS TINNITUS, OR WHO IS

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USING INHALERS. IT IS A LONG

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TERM SOCIAL SHOCK TO THE

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COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ENDURING

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THEM. AND NOW, UNFORTUNATELY,

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WE ARE GOING TO BE ENDURING

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THEM MORE AND MORE AND MORE

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BECAUSE WE'VE GOT OUR LANDFILLS

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ON FIRE, WE HAVE FLOODING,

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WE'VE GOT THINGS LIKE LINEAGE

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HAPPENING. NOW. WE HAVE 24

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CHEMICAL DISASTERS WE HAD NINE,

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FIVE YEARS AGO. SO BOTH OF YOU

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BEING ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH

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DEPARTMENT, THE SPECIALTY

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SERVICES OF MENTAL HEALTH FOR

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THESE COMMUNITIES IS GOING TO

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BECOME MORE AND MORE AND MORE

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NEEDY AND APPARENT AS WE SEE

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THE HOW, HOW THESE COMMUNITIES

03:22:59.934 --> 03:23:01.836
ARE IMPACTED OVER TIME AT

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LINEAGE. RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE SEE

03:23:03.304 --> 03:23:05.172
AT THE THREE MONTH MARK AFTER A

03:23:05.239 --> 03:23:06.941
MAJOR DISASTER IS RISING

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SUICIDE RATES. THESE THINGS

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HAVE A HORRIBLE TOLL. I HOPE

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THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO YOUR

03:23:14.148 --> 03:23:17.618
QUESTION. YES, I MEAN, THANK

03:23:17.685 --> 03:23:20.588
YOU. IT'S IT THE IMPACT IS

03:23:20.655 --> 03:23:21.989
PROFOUND. AND THE RIPPLE

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EFFECTS ARE HARD, ARE REALLY

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HARD TO QUANTIFY IN A LOT OF

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WAYS BECAUSE OF YOU SEE THIS

03:23:29.964 --> 03:23:30.998
COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE

03:23:31.065 --> 03:23:33.100
EACH OTHER AND LIKE FAMILY AND

03:23:33.167 --> 03:23:35.269
BEING BROKEN UP BECAUSE OF THIS

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DISASTER. I JUST WANTED TO

03:23:37.471 --> 03:23:38.940
HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE NUMBERS OUT

03:23:39.006 --> 03:23:41.042
OF THAT HEALTH STUDY, AND I

03:23:41.108 --> 03:23:42.476
KNOW IT TOOK DEPARTMENT OF

03:23:42.543 --> 03:23:43.844
PUBLIC HEALTH A COUPLE OF

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MONTHS WITH MY ENCOURAGEMENT.

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HAVE YOU TALKED HAVE YOU TALKED

03:23:47.381 --> 03:23:49.016
TO JANE ABOUT THIS STUDY? HAVE

03:23:49.083 --> 03:23:51.519
YOU TALKED HAVE YOU LOOKED AT

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THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY? AND

03:23:53.788 --> 03:23:55.056
I GUESS AFTER A COUPLE OF

03:23:55.122 --> 03:23:56.490
MONTHS, THEY FINALLY CALLED YOU.

03:23:56.557 --> 03:23:58.225
BUT. WELL, BUT LET ME LET'S

03:23:58.292 --> 03:23:59.460
LET'S BE CLEAR WHY THEY CALLED

03:23:59.527 --> 03:24:02.697
ME. I'M SURE YOU WOULD LIKE TO

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BELIEVE IT WAS BECAUSE YOU

03:24:04.131 --> 03:24:10.204
ASKED THEM TO. BUT WHAT THEY

03:24:10.271 --> 03:24:14.241
REALLY NEEDED WAS THE STUDY FOR

03:24:14.308 --> 03:24:15.943
THEIR LAWCENTER DATA. THEY

03:24:16.010 --> 03:24:18.813
WANTED THE DATA. YEAH. OKAY.

03:24:18.879 --> 03:24:19.981
THE DATA THAT THEY SHOULD BE

03:24:20.047 --> 03:24:22.083
GETTING. OKAY. AT AT THE END OF

03:24:22.149 --> 03:24:23.484
THE DAY, IS VERY IMPORTANT TO

03:24:23.551 --> 03:24:25.019
UNDERSTAND THAT WE DID THE

03:24:25.086 --> 03:24:27.188
STUDY AND I MADE A PERSONAL

03:24:27.254 --> 03:24:28.189
GUARANTEE TO EVERYBODY THAT

03:24:28.255 --> 03:24:29.624
THEIR DATA WOULD NEVER BE

03:24:29.690 --> 03:24:32.493
SHARED. OKAY. THE SURVEYS THAT

03:24:32.560 --> 03:24:34.295
WE DID ALL WENT BACK TO THE

03:24:34.362 --> 03:24:36.130
ORIGINAL PEOPLE. SO EVERYONE

03:24:36.197 --> 03:24:39.000
WHO DID A SURVEY HAS THEIR

03:24:39.066 --> 03:24:40.434
SURVEY, AND THEY ARE WELCOME TO

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DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITH IT.

03:24:41.669 --> 03:24:43.471
THEY CAN PUT IT UP ON A

03:24:43.537 --> 03:24:45.373
BILLBOARD, THEY CAN GIVE IT TO

03:24:45.439 --> 03:24:46.507
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

03:24:46.574 --> 03:24:48.376
THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, GIVE IT TO

03:24:48.442 --> 03:24:49.443
THEIR ATTORNEYS, THEY CAN DO

03:24:49.510 --> 03:24:50.645
WHATEVER. AND I WAS VERY CLEAR

03:24:50.711 --> 03:24:52.380
WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

03:24:52.446 --> 03:24:53.447
HEALTH WHEN THEY CALLED ME

03:24:53.514 --> 03:24:54.649
TWICE. AND BY THE WAY, WICKS

03:24:54.715 --> 03:24:56.384
CONNECTION CALLED ME FOUR TIMES

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WANTING THE SURVEY, OKAY, THAT

03:24:57.551 --> 03:24:58.619
IF THEY WANTED THE SURVEY, ALL

03:24:58.686 --> 03:25:00.488
THEY HAD TO DO WAS CALL A

03:25:00.554 --> 03:25:01.555
COUPLE COMMUNITY LEADERS AND

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SAY, HEY, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE

03:25:03.524 --> 03:25:05.359
THE SURVEYS, PUT AN AD IN THE

03:25:05.426 --> 03:25:06.427
PAPER. PEOPLE WOULD SEND YOU

03:25:06.494 --> 03:25:07.428
THEIR SURVEYS, RIGHT? BUT

03:25:07.495 --> 03:25:09.263
HERE'S THE REAL THING, IS THAT

03:25:09.330 --> 03:25:10.998
BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR

03:25:11.065 --> 03:25:11.832
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, BECAUSE

03:25:11.899 --> 03:25:14.268
THEY HAD NOT DONE A HEALTH

03:25:14.335 --> 03:25:21.475
STUDY? YES. RIGHT. I MEAN,

03:25:21.542 --> 03:25:22.510
ULTIMATELY, L.A. COUNTY

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS

03:25:23.778 --> 03:25:26.180
A LIABILITY ON THIS ISSUE,

03:25:26.247 --> 03:25:29.150
TRULY, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK A

03:25:29.216 --> 03:25:31.919
LOT OF PEOPLE REALIZE, BUT THE

03:25:31.986 --> 03:25:34.021
THE THE LAWSUIT THAT THE COUNTY

03:25:34.088 --> 03:25:35.623
HAS DONE, ONE OF THE FIRST

03:25:35.690 --> 03:25:36.724
THINGS THAT THEY WERE SEEKING

03:25:36.791 --> 03:25:38.225
WAS A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION,

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WHICH IS LIKE THE FAST

03:25:41.362 --> 03:25:44.131
INTERVENTION, RIGHT, WHERE THE

03:25:44.198 --> 03:25:45.966
THE COURT MAKES A QUICKER

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DECISION ON ACTION. AND WE WERE

03:25:48.302 --> 03:25:49.336
REALLY HOPING THAT THAT WOULD

03:25:49.403 --> 03:25:50.638
COME QUICKLY. IT'S BEEN A

03:25:50.705 --> 03:25:52.873
COUPLE OF YEARS, AND IT DID NOT

03:25:52.940 --> 03:25:54.475
COME QUICKLY. AND THERE WAS A

03:25:54.542 --> 03:25:56.444
LOT OF BACK AND FORTH. AND ALSO

03:25:56.510 --> 03:25:57.578
THE LANDFILL, OF COURSE, IS IN

03:25:57.645 --> 03:26:03.250
THE MIX MUCKING IT UP. BUT. BUT

03:26:03.317 --> 03:26:04.652
ESSENTIALLY IT, IT SEEMS LIKE

03:26:04.719 --> 03:26:07.254
IF YOU LOOK AT THE DECISION, IT

03:26:07.321 --> 03:26:09.790
WAS NOT CLEAR TO THE COURT WHO

03:26:09.857 --> 03:26:13.661
HAD BEEN IMPACTED BY THE

03:26:13.728 --> 03:26:20.134
LANDFILL AND. THAT'S LÀ CDF'S

03:26:20.201 --> 03:26:24.505
JOB TO GO FIGURE THAT OUT. SO

03:26:24.572 --> 03:26:26.674
THAT ACTION THAT WE COULD HAVE,

03:26:26.741 --> 03:26:28.709
THE $20 MILLION THEY'RE SUING

03:26:28.776 --> 03:26:30.945
FOR TO HELP RELOCATE PEOPLE DID

03:26:31.011 --> 03:26:34.949
NOT HAPPEN. THERE WAS NO QUICK

03:26:35.015 --> 03:26:37.151
JUDGMENT ON THAT BECAUSE THEY

03:26:37.218 --> 03:26:40.287
DID NOT DO THEIR JOB. IT'S JUST

03:26:40.354 --> 03:26:43.190
FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER

03:26:43.257 --> 03:26:49.296
FAILURE. SO I JUST WANT TO

03:26:49.363 --> 03:26:51.232
POINT OUT THAT WE ASKED HIM TO

03:26:51.298 --> 03:26:53.601
DO A CASPER SURVEY AT LINEAGE,

03:26:53.667 --> 03:26:56.504
AND THEY TOLD US, ME

03:26:56.570 --> 03:26:58.205
SPECIFICALLY, WE DO NOT HAVE

03:26:58.272 --> 03:26:59.373
THE PERSONNEL OR THE MONEY TO

03:26:59.440 --> 03:27:03.344
DO THAT. AND TWO WEEKS LATER

03:27:03.410 --> 03:27:05.279
THEY DID A HEALTH SURVEY DOOR

03:27:05.346 --> 03:27:08.749
TO DOOR OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.

03:27:08.816 --> 03:27:11.252
YEAH. OKAY. SO YOU HAVE TO ASK

03:27:11.318 --> 03:27:14.288
YOURSELF WHY, WHEN THEY CLEARLY

03:27:14.355 --> 03:27:16.690
DID HAVE THE PERSONNEL AND THE

03:27:16.757 --> 03:27:18.459
PEOPLE, WHY DON'T THEY WANT TO

03:27:18.526 --> 03:27:19.693
DO A CASPER SURVEY HERE? AND

03:27:19.760 --> 03:27:21.529
WHY DON'T THEY WANT TO DO ONE

03:27:21.595 --> 03:27:23.464
AT LINEAGE? AND BY THE WAY, WHY

03:27:23.531 --> 03:27:24.665
DIDN'T THEY DO IT IN ALTADENA?

03:27:24.732 --> 03:27:27.501
OKAY. AND HERE'S WHY. BECAUSE

03:27:27.568 --> 03:27:30.704
CASPER SURVEYS ARE THEY'RE A

03:27:30.771 --> 03:27:31.906
SPECIFIC PROTOCOL THAT MAKES

03:27:31.972 --> 03:27:34.341
THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY

03:27:34.408 --> 03:27:35.776
STATISTICALLY ABLE TO BE SPREAD

03:27:35.843 --> 03:27:38.279
OVER LARGE DISTANCES. OKAY.

03:27:38.345 --> 03:27:42.216
IT'S A STATISTICAL SAMPLE. ALL

03:27:42.283 --> 03:27:43.751
RIGHT. AND IT'S CLEAR TO ME NOW

03:27:43.818 --> 03:27:45.352
THEY DON'T WANT TO DO THEM. I

03:27:45.419 --> 03:27:47.221
DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DON'T, BUT

03:27:47.288 --> 03:27:50.858
THEY DON'T. SO THAT'S THAT IS A

03:27:50.925 --> 03:27:52.293
QUESTION. LIKE IF I HAD

03:27:52.359 --> 03:27:54.128
INFORMED IF I HAD HAD INFORMED

03:27:54.195 --> 03:27:55.529
THE AUDIT MORE, I WOULD HAVE

03:27:55.596 --> 03:27:57.731
ASKED THE AUDITORS TO SAY, WHY?

03:27:57.798 --> 03:27:59.667
WHY DO YOU HAVE THESE DISASTERS

03:27:59.733 --> 03:28:01.335
THAT KEEP HAPPENING? YOU JUST

03:28:01.402 --> 03:28:03.204
LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE ENDURED IN

03:28:03.270 --> 03:28:04.738
THE LAST THREE YEARS IN L.A.

03:28:04.805 --> 03:28:07.808
COUNTY WITH TWO FIRES, LANDFILL

03:28:07.875 --> 03:28:10.644
FIRES, CHEMICAL DISASTERS, OIL

03:28:10.711 --> 03:28:12.112
SPILLS. RIGHT? WHY AREN'T WHY

03:28:12.179 --> 03:28:13.547
ISN'T THE COUNTY DOING CASTRO

03:28:13.614 --> 03:28:14.982
SURVEYS ANYMORE? AND THIS IS A

03:28:15.049 --> 03:28:16.817
REGION WIDE ISSUE THAT WE HAVE

03:28:16.884 --> 03:28:20.387
TO HAVE PROTOCOLS FOR AND RULES

03:28:20.454 --> 03:28:22.489
OF THE GAME. THERE HAS TO BE

03:28:22.556 --> 03:28:23.657
RULES OF THE GAME, AND THERE

03:28:23.724 --> 03:28:24.825
ARE NONE. THEY'RE NOT WILLING

03:28:24.892 --> 03:28:26.193
TO IMPLEMENT THEM ACCORDING

03:28:26.260 --> 03:28:27.628
FROM THEIR RESPONSE TO THE

03:28:27.695 --> 03:28:28.696
AUDIT. AND NEITHER IS THE

03:28:28.762 --> 03:28:29.763
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

03:28:29.830 --> 03:28:31.632
HEALTH. AND SO I THINK TO YOUR

03:28:31.699 --> 03:28:33.033
POINT, JANE, THE STATE HAS TO

03:28:33.100 --> 03:28:34.802
STEP IN IN THIS INSTANCE. AND

03:28:34.869 --> 03:28:36.237
JUST TO NOTE AND JUST TO NOTE,

03:28:36.303 --> 03:28:37.805
CASPER, SURVEY COSTS NOTHING TO

03:28:37.872 --> 03:28:39.874
DO, RIGHT? YOU CAN DO THEM FOR

03:28:39.940 --> 03:28:41.308
FREE VOLUNTEERS TO DO THEM. I

03:28:41.375 --> 03:28:43.277
GOTTA, WE GOTTA, I KNOW WE WANT

03:28:43.344 --> 03:28:44.511
TO GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M

03:28:44.578 --> 03:28:46.280
JUST GOING TO MAKE COMMENTS. I

03:28:46.347 --> 03:28:47.481
WAS GOING TO ASK ALL OF YOU

03:28:47.548 --> 03:28:49.283
QUESTIONS, BUT I WON'T. I'LL

03:28:49.350 --> 03:28:51.018
JUST KIND OF BAKE A QUICK,

03:28:51.085 --> 03:28:52.820
QUICK COMMENTS AND THEN WE CAN

03:28:52.887 --> 03:28:54.588
GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT. BUT YOU

03:28:54.655 --> 03:28:56.891
KNOW, ON, ON THE CASPER STUDY.

03:28:56.957 --> 03:28:58.325
SO WE KNOW THERE'S BEEN MENTION

03:28:58.392 --> 03:29:00.728
OF THE DOCTOR LOVE HEALTH

03:29:00.794 --> 03:29:03.564
SURVEY WHERE THEY CAME IN AND

03:29:03.631 --> 03:29:05.032
TESTED THE AIR DURING THE SANTA

03:29:05.099 --> 03:29:10.037
SUSANA OR SANTA ANA WINDS. AND,

03:29:10.104 --> 03:29:12.606
YOU KNOW, AND THEY USE THAT

03:29:12.673 --> 03:29:14.074
CONSTANTLY AS WELL. THIS IS THE

03:29:14.141 --> 03:29:15.843
AIR IS JUST LIKE BACKGROUND IN

03:29:15.910 --> 03:29:18.712
LA COUNTY. I HAVE BEEN ASKING

03:29:18.779 --> 03:29:19.914
LA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

03:29:19.980 --> 03:29:22.349
HEALTH DOCTOR DAVIS AND DOCTOR

03:29:22.416 --> 03:29:26.654
QUICK AND, AND DIRECTOR FERRER

03:29:26.720 --> 03:29:28.455
TO PLEASE COME AND HAVE COFFEE

03:29:28.522 --> 03:29:32.426
WITH ME IN JENNIFER'S BACKYARD

03:29:32.493 --> 03:29:33.961
AND TELL ME AFTER A HALF HOUR

03:29:34.028 --> 03:29:36.063
IF THIS FEELS LIKE THE REST OF

03:29:36.130 --> 03:29:37.431
LA COUNTY AIR, BECAUSE I'LL

03:29:37.498 --> 03:29:40.334
TELL YOU WHAT, IN MY PATIO, I

03:29:40.401 --> 03:29:42.136
DON'T GET BURNING EYES AND

03:29:42.202 --> 03:29:44.071
BURNING SKIN AND A BLOODY NOSE

03:29:44.138 --> 03:29:45.806
AND HEADACHE AND TINNITUS AND

03:29:45.873 --> 03:29:47.508
ALL OF THESE THINGS, RIGHT?

03:29:47.574 --> 03:29:50.344
THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN MY PATIO.

03:29:50.411 --> 03:29:54.682
AND THE CASPER STUDY SHOWED,

03:29:54.748 --> 03:29:56.650
FOR EXAMPLE, HYPERTENSION THREE

03:29:56.717 --> 03:29:59.753
AND A HALF TIMES THE LA COUNTY

03:29:59.820 --> 03:30:04.425
AVERAGE HEART DISEASE, 7.7

03:30:04.491 --> 03:30:06.226
TIMES HIGHER THAN THE

03:30:06.293 --> 03:30:13.400
CALIFORNIA AVERAGE. CANCER WAS

03:30:13.467 --> 03:30:22.476
26, OR 24.6 TIMES HIGHER. THAN,

03:30:22.543 --> 03:30:24.945
LET ME SEE THE COUNTY AVERAGE.

03:30:25.012 --> 03:30:29.984
SO. BUT MISCARRIAGES 57 TIMES

03:30:30.050 --> 03:30:34.688
HIGHER THAN LA COUNTY NORMAL.

03:30:34.755 --> 03:30:37.191
AND THAT IS HEARTBREAKING. AND

03:30:37.257 --> 03:30:38.659
SO, YOU KNOW, LA COUNTY

03:30:38.726 --> 03:30:39.460
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

03:30:39.526 --> 03:30:40.995
CAME UP TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.

03:30:41.061 --> 03:30:42.563
THEY PRESENTED ON ALL THE

03:30:42.629 --> 03:30:43.664
THINGS THEY HAD DONE ON THE

03:30:43.731 --> 03:30:46.533
FIRE. THEY HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL

03:30:46.600 --> 03:30:48.702
POWERPOINT PAGES AND PAGES OF

03:30:48.769 --> 03:30:49.903
THINGS THAT THEY HAD DONE. IT'S

03:30:49.970 --> 03:30:51.605
IN COLOR NORMALLY, BUT WE DID.

03:30:51.672 --> 03:30:55.676
WE SAVED ON PRINTING, BUT PAGES

03:30:55.743 --> 03:30:58.779
AND PAGES. AND I STARTED CRYING

03:30:58.846 --> 03:31:00.581
IN THAT COMMITTEE HEARING

03:31:00.647 --> 03:31:03.484
BECAUSE YOU COULD BARELY FILL

03:31:03.550 --> 03:31:05.986
ONE PAGE FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE

03:31:06.053 --> 03:31:08.222
FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BARELY ONE

03:31:08.288 --> 03:31:09.590
PAGE. AND I KNOW THERE'S

03:31:09.656 --> 03:31:10.657
FRUSTRATIONS AROUND THEIR

03:31:10.724 --> 03:31:13.227
RESPONSE TO THE FIRES, TOO. AND

03:31:13.293 --> 03:31:16.463
FOR US, IT'S LIKE A THIMBLE,

03:31:16.530 --> 03:31:21.101
YOU KNOW? SO THAT'S ONE THING,

03:31:21.168 --> 03:31:28.642
STEVE, YOU MENTIONED. MOVING

03:31:28.709 --> 03:31:30.811
AWAY AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT

03:31:30.878 --> 03:31:32.479
SOME OF IT HAS THE SYMPTOMS

03:31:32.546 --> 03:31:34.081
HAVE GOTTEN BETTER, RIGHT. AND

03:31:34.148 --> 03:31:36.350
THAT'S AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK

03:31:36.417 --> 03:31:38.318
HAS BEEN SAYING. RIGHT. WELL,

03:31:38.385 --> 03:31:41.655
IF YOU JUST GO AWAY, GO

03:31:41.722 --> 03:31:43.157
SOMEWHERE ELSE, IT'S GOING TO

03:31:43.223 --> 03:31:44.892
GO AWAY. SO IT'S NOT CHRONIC.

03:31:44.958 --> 03:31:47.027
IT'S NOT PERMANENT. RIGHT. BUT

03:31:47.094 --> 03:31:48.529
HOW IS IT NOT PERMANENT WHEN

03:31:48.595 --> 03:31:52.800
PEOPLE LIVE HERE? 247 AND YOU

03:31:52.866 --> 03:31:54.968
CAN'T JUST LEAVE ALL THE TIME.

03:31:55.035 --> 03:31:56.837
YOU SLEEP HERE, YOU LIVE HERE,

03:31:56.904 --> 03:31:58.205
YOUR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HERE.

03:31:58.272 --> 03:32:00.007
SOME PEOPLE WORK FROM HOME.

03:32:00.074 --> 03:32:03.710
THIS IS A 20 YEAR ISSUE, 247.

03:32:03.777 --> 03:32:05.779
WE HAVE TO TREAT IT AS A

03:32:05.846 --> 03:32:07.214
CHRONIC ISSUE, AND THERE HAS TO

03:32:07.281 --> 03:32:09.349
BE NEW SCIENCE AROUND THAT. AND

03:32:09.416 --> 03:32:15.089
THEN. DARCY. YOU YOU TALKED

03:32:15.155 --> 03:32:17.291
ABOUT YOUR TREMORS. A LOT OF

03:32:17.357 --> 03:32:19.460
PEOPLE HAVE TREMORS IN THIS

03:32:19.526 --> 03:32:20.627
COMMUNITY. I'VE MET SO MANY, SO

03:32:20.694 --> 03:32:22.463
MANY PEOPLE BE IN ROOMS LIKE

03:32:22.529 --> 03:32:23.664
THIS AND ASK PEOPLE TO HOLD UP

03:32:23.730 --> 03:32:25.532
THEIR HANDS AND PEOPLE HOLD UP

03:32:25.599 --> 03:32:26.600
THEIR HANDS SHAKING. RIGHT.

03:32:26.667 --> 03:32:28.435
IT'S IT'S UNFORTUNATELY VERY

03:32:28.502 --> 03:32:30.604
COMMON. AND ONE OF MY OTHER

03:32:30.671 --> 03:32:32.406
FRUSTRATIONS IS THAT I'VE ASKED

03:32:32.473 --> 03:32:33.874
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

03:32:33.941 --> 03:32:35.576
MANY TIMES IN THE MEETINGS THAT

03:32:35.642 --> 03:32:37.444
I'VE HAD WITH THEM TO INFORM

03:32:37.511 --> 03:32:39.246
LOCAL HEALTH PROVIDERS. CAN YOU

03:32:39.313 --> 03:32:41.048
JUST LET THEM KNOW WHAT'S GOING

03:32:41.115 --> 03:32:43.917
ON? BECAUSE EVERYBODY HERE IS

03:32:43.984 --> 03:32:45.452
GOING TO THE DOCTOR, GOING DOWN

03:32:45.519 --> 03:32:47.888
A RABBIT HOLE, TRYING TO FIGURE

03:32:47.955 --> 03:32:49.890
OUT WHAT IS WHY DO I HAVE THESE

03:32:49.957 --> 03:32:51.258
RASHES? WHY DO I, YOU KNOW,

03:32:51.325 --> 03:32:52.926
HAVE A HARD TIME BREATHING? WHY

03:32:52.993 --> 03:32:54.761
DO I HAVE TREMORS? WHY DO ALL

03:32:54.828 --> 03:32:56.563
THESE THINGS RIGHT? YOU'RE

03:32:56.630 --> 03:32:58.298
GETTING TESTED UP THE WAZOO TO

03:32:58.365 --> 03:33:00.868
FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH

03:33:00.934 --> 03:33:02.336
YOU. AND YOU MOVE AWAY. AND LO

03:33:02.402 --> 03:33:04.104
AND BEHOLD, IT GETS BETTER. NOT

03:33:04.171 --> 03:33:09.843
GONE, BUT BETTER. AND SO IT IS.

03:33:09.910 --> 03:33:12.746
IT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE WASTE OF

03:33:12.813 --> 03:33:13.981
RESOURCES THAT IS HAPPENING

03:33:14.047 --> 03:33:15.082
WHERE EVERYONE IS SPINNING

03:33:15.149 --> 03:33:16.116
THEIR WHEELS, TRYING TO FIGURE

03:33:16.183 --> 03:33:18.485
OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THEIR

03:33:18.552 --> 03:33:20.621
BODY. AND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

03:33:20.687 --> 03:33:23.090
HEALTH HAS REFUSED. REFUSED.

03:33:23.157 --> 03:33:24.892
AND THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME.

03:33:24.958 --> 03:33:27.761
THEY DO THIS. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY

03:33:27.828 --> 03:33:28.562
COVID, THEY WERE SENDING OUT

03:33:28.629 --> 03:33:29.863
ALL KINDS OF NOTIFICATIONS TO

03:33:29.930 --> 03:33:30.964
HEALTH PROVIDERS, RIGHT?

03:33:31.031 --> 03:33:32.199
MEASLES. RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE

03:33:32.266 --> 03:33:34.201
DOING NOTIFICATIONS TO HEALTH

03:33:34.268 --> 03:33:36.637
PROVIDERS AND THEY REFUSE TO DO

03:33:36.703 --> 03:33:39.606
IT. INSTEAD, THEY DID A WEBINAR

03:33:39.673 --> 03:33:41.842
TO GENERALLY ON TOXICS. AND WE

03:33:41.909 --> 03:33:49.716
HAD TO, WE HAD TO. WE HAD TO

03:33:49.783 --> 03:33:51.485
THEY HAD A COUPLE SLIDES ON

03:33:51.552 --> 03:33:52.986
CHIQUITA SPECIFICALLY, BUT IT

03:33:53.053 --> 03:33:55.122
WAS LIKE A VOLUNTARY WEBINAR

03:33:55.189 --> 03:33:56.290
FOR. WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY

03:33:56.356 --> 03:33:58.392
DOCTORS WHO FROM WHERE, IF ANY

03:33:58.458 --> 03:34:00.160
OF YOUR YOUR DOCTORS WERE THERE.

03:34:00.227 --> 03:34:01.628
DID ANYONE HEAR ABOUT THIS FROM

03:34:01.695 --> 03:34:06.266
THEIR DOCTOR? NO, NO YOU DIDN'T.

03:34:06.333 --> 03:34:09.903
OKAY. SO IT'S JUST LIKE ACTION

03:34:09.970 --> 03:34:11.638
AFTER ACTION AFTER ACTION,

03:34:11.705 --> 03:34:12.773
OPPORTUNITY AFTER OPPORTUNITY

03:34:12.839 --> 03:34:14.541
FOR THEM TO STEP UP AND DO

03:34:14.608 --> 03:34:15.976
SOMETHING, THEY CONTINUE TO

03:34:16.043 --> 03:34:19.913
FAIL TO DO IT. AND, YOU KNOW,

03:34:19.980 --> 03:34:22.849
LIKE THE CHAIR SAID, WE ARE

03:34:22.916 --> 03:34:24.952
GOING TO FIGHT FOR THIS

03:34:25.018 --> 03:34:26.753
COMMUNITY UNTIL REAL ACTION

03:34:26.820 --> 03:34:29.323
HAPPENS. AND IF THE LA COUNTY

03:34:29.389 --> 03:34:30.390
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS

03:34:30.457 --> 03:34:32.326
NOT GOING TO DO IT, AND THE

03:34:32.392 --> 03:34:33.393
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS NOT

03:34:33.460 --> 03:34:35.395
GOING TO DO THEIR JOB AND DO IT

03:34:35.462 --> 03:34:36.964
AS WELL, THEN THE STATE IS

03:34:37.030 --> 03:34:38.632
GOING TO HAVE TO COME IN AND

03:34:38.699 --> 03:34:48.709
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT.

03:34:48.775 --> 03:34:50.277
THANK YOU. ASSEMBLYWOMAN. WE'RE

03:34:50.344 --> 03:34:52.346
NOW GOING TO MOVE TO THE PUBLIC

03:34:52.412 --> 03:34:55.582
COMMENT PORTION OF THE HEARING.

03:34:55.649 --> 03:34:58.852
SO IF THERE DO WE HAVE A

03:34:58.919 --> 03:34:59.920
MICROPHONE THAT WE'RE GOING TO

03:34:59.987 --> 03:35:02.789
UTILIZE COMING UP HERE? OKAY.

03:35:02.856 --> 03:35:07.094
SO. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO

03:35:07.160 --> 03:35:08.762
COMMENT, PLEASE. OH, PERFECT.

03:35:08.829 --> 03:35:09.997
THERE'S A MICROPHONE RIGHT

03:35:10.063 --> 03:35:11.798
BEHIND YOU IN THE CENTER.

03:35:11.865 --> 03:35:13.900
PLEASE LINE UP IN AN ORDERLY

03:35:13.967 --> 03:35:16.436
FASHION. WE'RE GOING TO ASK

03:35:16.503 --> 03:35:18.639
THAT IN ORDER THAT WE GET

03:35:18.705 --> 03:35:21.174
THROUGH EVERYONE'S COMMENT,

03:35:21.241 --> 03:35:23.677
THAT YOU STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR

03:35:23.744 --> 03:35:25.879
COMMUNITY, AND YOU'LL HAVE ONE

03:35:25.946 --> 03:35:31.184
MINUTE. I'LL BE FLEXIBLE. I

03:35:31.251 --> 03:35:32.753
JUST DON'T WANT EVERYONE TO GO

03:35:32.819 --> 03:35:37.691
FOR TEN MINUTES EACH. OKAY?

03:35:37.758 --> 03:35:39.192
ANTEPASADOS PIDO LA PALABRA. MI

03:35:39.259 --> 03:35:40.961
NOMBRE ES SOFIA QUINONES. I'M

03:35:41.028 --> 03:35:43.130
FROM THE EAST HEIGHTS COALITION,

03:35:43.196 --> 03:35:44.531
AND I STAND HERE TODAY ON THE

03:35:44.598 --> 03:35:45.666
SHOULDERS OF MY SISTER IN

03:35:45.732 --> 03:35:48.502
STRUGGLE, DOLORES HUERTA. I

03:35:48.568 --> 03:35:50.270
THINK SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

03:35:50.337 --> 03:35:52.439
IS THAT THE COUNTY DID NOT

03:35:52.506 --> 03:35:53.874
ACTIVATE THE INCIDENT COMMAND

03:35:53.940 --> 03:35:55.142
SYSTEM. I ALSO THINK YOU NEED

03:35:55.208 --> 03:35:56.443
TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF

03:35:56.510 --> 03:35:58.178
THE DEPARTMENT AND WHEN IT WAS

03:35:58.245 --> 03:36:00.380
SPLIT AND HOW THE PREVIOUS

03:36:00.447 --> 03:36:02.215
DIRECTOR, THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER

03:36:02.282 --> 03:36:03.884
HAPPENED. THERE'S A DIVISION IN

03:36:03.950 --> 03:36:05.485
THAT DEPARTMENT. A WOMAN TWO

03:36:05.552 --> 03:36:07.621
YEARS AGO THREW HERSELF OFF ONE

03:36:07.688 --> 03:36:09.389
OF THE BUILDINGS AND COMMITTED

03:36:09.456 --> 03:36:10.824
SUICIDE, AND WROTE A LETTER AND

03:36:10.891 --> 03:36:12.492
TAPED IT TO HER CAR. BECAUSE OF

03:36:12.559 --> 03:36:14.861
ALL THE DYSFUNCTIONS IN THAT

03:36:14.928 --> 03:36:16.063
DEPARTMENT. BECAUSE I'M CUTTING,

03:36:16.129 --> 03:36:17.964
I'M CUTTING TIME. I THINK YOU

03:36:18.031 --> 03:36:19.199
HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT SUICIDE

03:36:19.266 --> 03:36:20.967
NOTE. AND I'D LIKE TO FURTHER

03:36:21.034 --> 03:36:22.202
TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHAT I THINK

03:36:22.269 --> 03:36:24.037
IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTY. THE

03:36:24.104 --> 03:36:25.172
COUNTY HAS FAILED US. AND WHEN

03:36:25.238 --> 03:36:26.973
YOU HAVE ASKED THE DEPARTMENT

03:36:27.040 --> 03:36:28.008
OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO DO

03:36:28.075 --> 03:36:29.543
SOMETHING AND THEY HAVEN'T DONE

03:36:29.609 --> 03:36:31.345
IT, THAT IS AN INTENT.

03:36:31.411 --> 03:36:32.813
THEREFORE IT IS CRIMINAL. NOT

03:36:32.879 --> 03:36:34.614
ONLY DID I ASK FOR THEM TO BE

03:36:34.681 --> 03:36:37.484
FIRED FOR RARE, AND I THINK

03:36:37.551 --> 03:36:38.585
THEY NEED CRIMINAL CHARGES, AND

03:36:38.652 --> 03:36:39.786
I DID CONTACT THE ATTORNEY

03:36:39.853 --> 03:36:41.054
GENERAL'S OFFICE AND THE

03:36:41.121 --> 03:36:42.155
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES DIVISION,

03:36:42.222 --> 03:36:43.690
ALSO WITHIN THE DA'S OFFICE.

03:36:43.757 --> 03:36:45.726
THIS IS CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE,

03:36:45.792 --> 03:36:47.561
BUT YOU'VE ALREADY DONE YOUR

03:36:47.627 --> 03:36:48.729
JOB ASKING THEM TO DO WHAT

03:36:48.795 --> 03:36:50.764
THEY'RE DOING. AND YES, IT'S

03:36:50.831 --> 03:36:52.933
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE

03:36:52.999 --> 03:36:54.768
DEPARTMENT AND THE SHERIFF'S

03:36:54.835 --> 03:36:57.237
DEPARTMENT CAN ALSO ISSUE AN

03:36:57.304 --> 03:36:58.705
EVACUATION. SO THESE ARE

03:36:58.772 --> 03:37:00.474
IMPORTANT THINGS AND YOU HAVE

03:37:00.540 --> 03:37:02.809
POWER. BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S

03:37:02.876 --> 03:37:05.445
A DISCONNECT. AND UNFORTUNATELY

03:37:05.512 --> 03:37:07.314
THE AUDITORS AREN'T ON THE

03:37:07.381 --> 03:37:08.448
GROUND. SO JUST LIKE WE ALL

03:37:08.515 --> 03:37:10.317
WERE IN COVID, AND YOU WOULD

03:37:10.384 --> 03:37:12.319
HAVE TO GO UP AND DO YOUR NOSE

03:37:12.386 --> 03:37:13.420
AND YOU HAD SOMEONE PUSH

03:37:13.487 --> 03:37:14.488
SOMETHING IN BECAUSE YOU WERE

03:37:14.554 --> 03:37:15.622
NOT EVACUATED. IT IS THE

03:37:15.689 --> 03:37:17.090
INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM THAT

03:37:17.157 --> 03:37:19.459
WOULD THEN GET THAT INFORMATION.

03:37:19.526 --> 03:37:20.394
THE OTHER IMPORTANT THING IS

03:37:20.460 --> 03:37:21.728
THAT THEY'RE PRIVATIZING HEALTH

03:37:21.795 --> 03:37:23.497
CARE, AND THEY'VE ALSO CHANGED

03:37:23.563 --> 03:37:24.664
THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES. THE

03:37:24.731 --> 03:37:27.467
COUNTY EMPLOYEES ARE NOW BEING

03:37:27.534 --> 03:37:28.568
SUBCONTRACTED IN THE HEALTH

03:37:28.635 --> 03:37:29.703
DEPARTMENT. AND WITHIN THAT

03:37:29.770 --> 03:37:30.737
DIVISION, THAT'S A PROBLEM

03:37:30.804 --> 03:37:32.205
BECAUSE THERE'S NO HISTORICAL

03:37:32.272 --> 03:37:36.176
OR INFORMATION. AND THAT IS

03:37:36.243 --> 03:37:38.311
VERY CREATIVE AND WHY IT'S SO

03:37:38.378 --> 03:37:39.846
DYSFUNCTIONAL AND WHY PEOPLE

03:37:39.913 --> 03:37:41.314
ARE SCARED TO SPEAK UP BECAUSE

03:37:41.381 --> 03:37:42.983
THEY'RE SCARED OF LOSING THEIR

03:37:43.049 --> 03:37:44.084
JOBS. THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE

03:37:44.151 --> 03:37:45.919
TALKED TO THAT WORK IN THE

03:37:45.986 --> 03:37:48.388
DEPARTMENT CANNOT STAND UP.

03:37:48.455 --> 03:37:51.992
FERRER OR MAN TO MR. DAVIS. AND

03:37:52.058 --> 03:37:53.760
PRIOR TO COVID, THE DOCTORS IN

03:37:53.827 --> 03:37:55.061
THE UNIVERSITIES WERE ACTUALLY

03:37:55.128 --> 03:37:56.329
GOING TO COME OUT PUBLICLY

03:37:56.396 --> 03:37:57.764
AGAINST FERRER BECAUSE SHE'S

03:37:57.831 --> 03:37:59.533
NOT A MEDICAL DOCTOR. BUT THAT

03:37:59.599 --> 03:38:01.735
COVID HIT AND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

03:38:01.802 --> 03:38:03.370
AND I ALSO WANT TO SHARE SOME

03:38:03.437 --> 03:38:04.471
OF YOUR COMMENTS. WHEN YOU

03:38:04.538 --> 03:38:05.639
TALKED ABOUT HOW COVID WE GOT

03:38:05.705 --> 03:38:07.574
ALL THESE THIS INFORMATION. NO,

03:38:07.641 --> 03:38:09.976
IT WASN'T THAT INFORMATION. AND

03:38:10.043 --> 03:38:11.411
YOU'RE STILL NOT GETTING THE

03:38:11.478 --> 03:38:13.413
INFORMATION BECAUSE HEALTHCARE

03:38:13.480 --> 03:38:15.348
HAS BEEN PRIVATIZED. SO WE HAVE

03:38:15.415 --> 03:38:16.817
THESE IMAGES WHERE THEY SENT

03:38:16.883 --> 03:38:18.251
OUT AND THE COUNTY,

03:38:18.318 --> 03:38:19.319
UNFORTUNATELY, THE STATE FAILED.

03:38:19.386 --> 03:38:21.855
THEY FUNDED PRIVATE MEDICAL

03:38:21.922 --> 03:38:24.391
MOBILE UNITS. I SPOKE TO FERRER

03:38:24.458 --> 03:38:25.892
AND SHE TOLD ME, WE CAN'T USE

03:38:25.959 --> 03:38:27.627
THIS INFORMATION UNDER HIPAA.

03:38:27.694 --> 03:38:29.796
SO UNDER HIPAA, BECAUSE IT'S

03:38:29.863 --> 03:38:31.131
PRIVATIZED, WE'RE NOT GOING TO

03:38:31.198 --> 03:38:32.299
TRIGGER THAT INCIDENT COMMAND

03:38:32.365 --> 03:38:33.700
SYSTEM. IF IT'S NOT THE COUNTY

03:38:33.767 --> 03:38:35.569
HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT

03:38:35.635 --> 03:38:37.337
DOCUMENTS IT AND THEY'RE NOT

03:38:37.404 --> 03:38:38.805
DOCUMENTED. I KNEW WHAT WAS

03:38:38.872 --> 03:38:39.973
HAPPENING. AND SO I WANTED TO

03:38:40.040 --> 03:38:41.942
CALL FOR A TOWN HALL AT EAST LA

03:38:42.008 --> 03:38:43.477
COLLEGE WHO OFFERED THEIR

03:38:43.543 --> 03:38:44.811
AUDITORIUM, AND I WAS GOING TO

03:38:44.878 --> 03:38:45.946
SET UP THE INCIDENT COMMAND

03:38:46.012 --> 03:38:47.447
SYSTEM THERE TO FORCE THEM TO

03:38:47.514 --> 03:38:49.583
TRIGGER THE EVACUATION. THEY

03:38:49.649 --> 03:38:51.017
DIDN'T DO IT. YOU HAVE THE

03:38:51.084 --> 03:38:52.819
POWER TO DO THAT. I WOULD HAVE

03:38:52.886 --> 03:38:54.688
FUNDED THE LEGISLATION TO FUND

03:38:54.754 --> 03:38:56.490
THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM SO

03:38:56.556 --> 03:38:57.891
THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE ON THE

03:38:57.958 --> 03:38:58.992
COMMENTS THAT THAT'S WHERE I

03:38:59.059 --> 03:39:00.727
WOULD SPEND MONEY TO EXPAND THE

03:39:00.794 --> 03:39:02.195
INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM SO THAT

03:39:02.262 --> 03:39:05.031
YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOCUMENT YOUR

03:39:05.098 --> 03:39:07.200
HEALTH PROBLEMS SO THAT YOU DO

03:39:07.267 --> 03:39:09.102
TRIGGER AN EVACUATION. THANK

03:39:09.169 --> 03:39:12.906
YOU, THANK YOU. AGAIN, STATE

03:39:12.973 --> 03:39:15.175
YOUR NAME, YOUR COMMUNITY, AND

03:39:15.242 --> 03:39:17.310
TRY AND STICK IT. THAT WAS A

03:39:17.377 --> 03:39:19.079
LONG MINUTE, BUT IT WAS A GREAT

03:39:19.145 --> 03:39:20.947
MINUTE. ALL RIGHT. MY NAME IS

03:39:21.014 --> 03:39:23.783
RICHARD AND I'M A RESIDENT OF

03:39:23.850 --> 03:39:27.020
CASTAIC BY THE LIVE OAK SCHOOL

03:39:27.087 --> 03:39:30.657
ON RIDGEWOOD ROAD. I'VE BEEN IN

03:39:30.724 --> 03:39:33.159
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR 38

03:39:33.226 --> 03:39:36.396
YEARS, AND OF THAT TIME, 32

03:39:36.463 --> 03:39:38.164
YEARS HAS BEEN IN VAL VERDE AND

03:39:38.231 --> 03:39:41.668
CASTAIC. AND ONE OF THE THINGS

03:39:41.735 --> 03:39:43.236
I WANT TO ESPECIALLY DO HERE IS

03:39:43.303 --> 03:39:45.038
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS

03:39:45.105 --> 03:39:47.941
LEGISLATIVE, THIS AUDIT. AND,

03:39:48.008 --> 03:39:49.376
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I THINK WE

03:39:49.442 --> 03:39:51.545
FINALLY HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE

03:39:51.611 --> 03:39:52.946
PEOPLE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE ARE

03:39:53.013 --> 03:39:55.482
TELLING THE TRUTH. OKAY. AND

03:39:55.549 --> 03:39:58.018
ESPECIALLY YOU, CHIQUITA

03:39:58.084 --> 03:40:01.221
SCHIAVO, ABOUT THE, YOU KNOW,

03:40:01.288 --> 03:40:03.056
ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THIS.

03:40:03.123 --> 03:40:04.457
BUT MY TAKE ON THIS IS AND

03:40:04.524 --> 03:40:06.593
SOMETHING THAT CAME UP A COUPLE

03:40:06.660 --> 03:40:09.829
OF MONTHS AGO WAS ALL THE

03:40:09.896 --> 03:40:12.399
DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE CHIQUITA

03:40:12.465 --> 03:40:15.969
CANYON LANDFILL. AND THEY ARE

03:40:16.036 --> 03:40:18.505
TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS OF

03:40:18.572 --> 03:40:21.007
HOMES, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF

03:40:21.074 --> 03:40:24.678
RESIDENTS, THOUSANDS OF JOBS.

03:40:24.744 --> 03:40:26.179
AS FAR AS THE CONSTRUCTION JOBS

03:40:26.246 --> 03:40:27.847
AND EVERYTHING THERE. IT'S AN

03:40:27.914 --> 03:40:30.016
ECONOMIC DRIVER. THAT IS, THEY

03:40:30.083 --> 03:40:32.552
ARE NO WAY THAT THE COUNTY IS

03:40:32.619 --> 03:40:34.688
GOING TO GIVE UP THAT ECONOMIC

03:40:34.754 --> 03:40:36.156
ACTIVITY BECAUSE OF WHAT'S

03:40:36.222 --> 03:40:37.591
HAPPENING WITH THIS CHIQUITA

03:40:37.657 --> 03:40:39.392
CANYON LANDFILL. THERE IS NO

03:40:39.459 --> 03:40:40.794
WAY, IF YOU'RE ASKING THE

03:40:40.860 --> 03:40:41.861
QUESTION OF WHY DIDN'T THE

03:40:41.928 --> 03:40:43.697
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DO THIS?

03:40:43.763 --> 03:40:45.498
THERE'S YOUR ANSWER BECAUSE

03:40:45.565 --> 03:40:47.701
THEY'RE AFRAID OF LOSING THIS

03:40:47.767 --> 03:40:49.235
ECONOMIC DRIVER IN THE COUNTY

03:40:49.302 --> 03:40:51.972
OF LOS ANGELES, THAT THEY

03:40:52.038 --> 03:40:54.474
ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE. AND

03:40:54.541 --> 03:40:55.942
THERE IS NOTHING THAT THE

03:40:56.009 --> 03:41:00.614
COUNTY IS GOING TO DO TO MAKE

03:41:00.680 --> 03:41:03.116
ANY POSSIBLE THING THAT CAN

03:41:03.183 --> 03:41:07.821
BLOCK THAT STUFF. OKAY. AND THE

03:41:07.887 --> 03:41:11.524
WHOLE ISSUE HERE IS, IS THEY

03:41:11.591 --> 03:41:13.193
DON'T WANT TO BRING UP ANY KIND

03:41:13.259 --> 03:41:15.095
OF PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES BECAUSE

03:41:15.161 --> 03:41:18.264
IT MAY AFFECT THAT WHOLE

03:41:18.331 --> 03:41:20.033
DEVELOPMENT OF THOUSANDS AND

03:41:20.100 --> 03:41:24.738
THOUSANDS OF HOMES, LITERALLY.

03:41:24.804 --> 03:41:26.906
OVER 8000 HOMES IN THE SHADOW

03:41:26.973 --> 03:41:30.944
OF THE DUMP. AND THE COUNTY IS

03:41:31.011 --> 03:41:32.345
NOT GOING TO BACK AWAY FROM

03:41:32.412 --> 03:41:33.747
THAT BECAUSE OF THE FINANCIAL

03:41:33.813 --> 03:41:35.281
REASONS. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT

03:41:35.348 --> 03:41:36.516
THE COUPLE OF THOUSAND PEOPLE

03:41:36.583 --> 03:41:38.785
HERE IN THE IN THE IN THE

03:41:38.852 --> 03:41:40.220
PHYSICAL ISSUES THAT WE'RE

03:41:40.286 --> 03:41:42.389
HAVING, WE CAN BE SACRIFICIAL

03:41:42.455 --> 03:41:43.823
LAMBS AS LONG AS THEY GET THEIR

03:41:43.890 --> 03:41:45.659
MONEY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT

03:41:45.725 --> 03:41:48.128
DRIVES THIS COUNTY. SO, I MEAN,

03:41:48.194 --> 03:41:49.262
SOMETHING I THINK THAT REALLY

03:41:49.329 --> 03:41:51.131
NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT IS WHEN

03:41:51.197 --> 03:41:52.832
YOU TALK ABOUT WHY THE

03:41:52.899 --> 03:41:54.267
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

03:41:54.334 --> 03:41:56.036
HASN'T DONE ANYTHING, IT'S

03:41:56.102 --> 03:41:57.470
BECAUSE THEY CAN'T JEOPARDIZE

03:41:57.537 --> 03:41:59.673
THAT PROJECT. AND THERE'S

03:41:59.739 --> 03:42:01.141
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF

03:42:01.207 --> 03:42:03.043
HOMES AND MILLIONS AND HUNDREDS

03:42:03.109 --> 03:42:04.678
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT RISK

03:42:04.744 --> 03:42:07.213
HERE. AND THEY THEY JUST CAN'T

03:42:07.280 --> 03:42:10.116
DO THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN,

03:42:10.183 --> 03:42:11.351
I THINK THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE

03:42:11.418 --> 03:42:12.986
TURNED INTO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

03:42:13.053 --> 03:42:15.522
FOR A TOXIC WASTE SITE, BECAUSE

03:42:15.588 --> 03:42:17.657
WE KNOW NOW, AFTER FOUR YEARS

03:42:17.724 --> 03:42:19.859
OF DEALING WITH THIS, THIS DUMP

03:42:19.926 --> 03:42:21.628
AND THE PERSONNEL THERE, THEY

03:42:21.695 --> 03:42:23.063
CANNOT HANDLE WHAT'S GOING ON.

03:42:23.129 --> 03:42:25.231
IT NEEDS TO BE TURNED INTO A

03:42:25.298 --> 03:42:26.633
SUPERFUND SITE. IT NEEDS TO BE

03:42:26.700 --> 03:42:28.835
TAKEN AWAY FROM THOSE PEOPLE.

03:42:28.902 --> 03:42:31.705
AND SOMEBODY WITH ENOUGH

03:42:31.771 --> 03:42:32.839
AUTHORITY. MAYBE YOU CAN GET IN

03:42:32.906 --> 03:42:34.708
TOUCH WITH LEE ZELDIN AT THE

03:42:34.774 --> 03:42:36.042
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

03:42:36.109 --> 03:42:38.545
AND SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE

03:42:38.611 --> 03:42:40.080
NEED AN INTERVENTION HERE FROM

03:42:40.146 --> 03:42:42.415
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND

03:42:42.482 --> 03:42:44.284
THROW THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF THERE.

03:42:44.350 --> 03:42:49.389
THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. THANK

03:42:49.456 --> 03:42:51.124
YOU FOR LETTING FOR HAVING ME

03:42:51.191 --> 03:42:53.660
HERE. WE NEED CHANGES AT THE

03:42:53.727 --> 03:42:54.260
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH,

03:42:54.327 --> 03:42:55.762
AND WE NEED THEM IMMEDIATELY.

03:42:55.829 --> 03:42:57.230
I'M SORRY, SIR, WHAT WAS YOUR

03:42:57.297 --> 03:42:58.465
NAME? MY NAME IS JOE GONZALEZ.

03:42:58.531 --> 03:43:00.233
I'M FROM THE BOYLE HEIGHTS AREA.

03:43:00.300 --> 03:43:01.401
THANK YOU. JOE. OKAY. VIÆT

03:43:01.468 --> 03:43:02.669
LINEAGE. FIRE THERE. OKAY, WE

03:43:02.736 --> 03:43:04.437
NEED CHANGE, AND WE NEED IT

03:43:04.504 --> 03:43:05.572
IMMEDIATELY. WHAT'S GOING ON

03:43:05.638 --> 03:43:08.141
RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE HAVING. IT'S

03:43:08.208 --> 03:43:10.009
THE SAME AS IF THEY WOULD HAVE

03:43:10.076 --> 03:43:12.045
PUT A GUN TO MY HEAD AND SHOT

03:43:12.112 --> 03:43:13.313
ME IN THE HEAD, BECAUSE THEY'RE

03:43:13.379 --> 03:43:14.347
NOT. THEY'RE LETTING THIS STUFF

03:43:14.414 --> 03:43:16.249
GO ON AND ON AND ON. THESE ARE

03:43:16.316 --> 03:43:18.017
CRIMINAL ACTS THAT WHAT THEY'RE

03:43:18.084 --> 03:43:19.252
DOING NOW, IN THE BLOCK WHERE I

03:43:19.319 --> 03:43:21.154
LIVE AT, THERE'S ONLY 19 HOMES,

03:43:21.221 --> 03:43:23.189
13 PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW OF HAVE

03:43:23.256 --> 03:43:24.991
CANCER OR HAVE DIED OF CANCER,

03:43:25.058 --> 03:43:26.359
AND THEY REFUSE TO CALL IT A

03:43:26.426 --> 03:43:28.228
CANCER CLUSTER. THIS IS JUST

03:43:28.294 --> 03:43:29.996
GOING ON, ON AND ON AND ON.

03:43:30.063 --> 03:43:31.698
THEY SAY, OH, NO, WE CAN'T DO

03:43:31.765 --> 03:43:32.832
THAT. YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T DO

03:43:32.899 --> 03:43:34.701
THAT BECAUSE OF HIPAA. JUST

03:43:34.768 --> 03:43:35.969
LIKE THE SAME AS THEY'RE SAYING,

03:43:36.035 --> 03:43:37.737
THEY CAN'T BE HERE BECAUSE OF A

03:43:37.804 --> 03:43:38.838
LAWSUIT. WE DON'T HAVE A

03:43:38.905 --> 03:43:39.906
LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM SO FAR

03:43:39.973 --> 03:43:41.775
THAT I KNOW AT LINEAGE, BUT

03:43:41.841 --> 03:43:42.909
THEY'RE NOT THERE EITHER. SO

03:43:42.976 --> 03:43:44.677
IT'S JUST SMOKE. THE EPA IS

03:43:44.744 --> 03:43:48.782
BLOWING UP OUR OUR BACKSIDES. I

03:43:48.848 --> 03:43:51.618
IN A FENCED YARD HAVE HAD FIVE

03:43:51.684 --> 03:44:00.193
DOGS DIE OF DOGGY CANCER. THE

03:44:00.260 --> 03:44:02.162
EXTREME HEALTH COSTS NOT ONLY

03:44:02.228 --> 03:44:04.197
OF MY LIFE, BUT OF THE THE

03:44:04.264 --> 03:44:05.732
FINANCIAL ASPECT OF IT. THIS

03:44:05.799 --> 03:44:08.201
YEAR SO FAR I GO TO KAISER IN

03:44:08.268 --> 03:44:09.969
IN HOLLYWOOD, IT'S COSTING ME

03:44:10.036 --> 03:44:13.540
ALMOST $2,000 IN PARKING ALONE,

03:44:13.606 --> 03:44:15.041
JUST IN PARKING. I'VE GONE

03:44:15.108 --> 03:44:16.810
THROUGH RADIATION, CHEMO, YOU

03:44:16.876 --> 03:44:18.978
KNOW, ONCE A WEEK, EVERY TWO

03:44:19.045 --> 03:44:20.747
WEEKS, EVERY THREE WEEKS. IT

03:44:20.814 --> 03:44:21.948
JUST KEEPS ON GOING ON AND ON

03:44:22.015 --> 03:44:24.717
AND ON. AND, AND I DIDN'T PLAN

03:44:24.784 --> 03:44:26.286
FOR THIS ON MY RETIREMENT, MAN.

03:44:26.352 --> 03:44:28.321
IT HAS EATEN MY RETIREMENT UP,

03:44:28.388 --> 03:44:30.156
MAN. I MEAN, THE COST OF THIS

03:44:30.223 --> 03:44:32.425
STUFF IS JUST CRAZY. IT'S CRAZY.

03:44:32.492 --> 03:44:34.527
YOU KNOW, MEDICINE, DOCTORS,

03:44:34.594 --> 03:44:36.596
SPECIAL STUDIES THEY HAVE TO DO

03:44:36.663 --> 03:44:39.098
AND STUFF LIKE THAT. IT'S IT'S

03:44:39.165 --> 03:44:40.133
RIDICULOUS, MAN. I DON'T

03:44:40.200 --> 03:44:41.267
UNDERSTAND HOW THE COUNTY

03:44:41.334 --> 03:44:43.469
ALLOWS THIS STUFF TO GO ON

03:44:43.536 --> 03:44:45.672
THERE. LIKE I SAID, WHEN IF YOU

03:44:45.738 --> 03:44:46.873
DON'T CONSIDER A CANCER CLUSTER,

03:44:46.940 --> 03:44:48.608
YOU'RE NOT DOING NOTHING TO IT.

03:44:48.675 --> 03:44:49.709
SO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

03:44:49.776 --> 03:44:51.778
HEALTH HAVING A ENFORCEMENT

03:44:51.845 --> 03:44:53.213
DIVISION AND A PUBLIC HEALTH

03:44:53.279 --> 03:44:54.380
DIVISION IS RIDICULOUS BECAUSE

03:44:54.447 --> 03:44:55.849
THAT'S THE RIGHT HAND AND THE

03:44:55.915 --> 03:44:57.150
LEFT HAND ON THE SAME BODY.

03:44:57.217 --> 03:44:58.885
THEY SHOULD BE IN CONTACT WITH

03:44:58.952 --> 03:45:00.019
EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO EXCUSE

03:45:00.086 --> 03:45:01.988
FOR THEM NOT TO BE IN CONTACT

03:45:02.055 --> 03:45:03.156
AND WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH

03:45:03.223 --> 03:45:09.429
EACH OTHER. OUR HEALTH IS NOT A

03:45:09.495 --> 03:45:10.630
LONG LEARNING CURVE WHERE THEY

03:45:10.697 --> 03:45:11.631
SHOULD LEARN THAT EITHER

03:45:11.698 --> 03:45:12.699
THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY

03:45:12.765 --> 03:45:14.400
THEY SHOULD. THAT SHOULD HAVE

03:45:14.467 --> 03:45:15.602
BEEN THE FIRST THING THAT COMES

03:45:15.668 --> 03:45:17.403
OUT RIGHT OFF THE TOP. THE

03:45:17.470 --> 03:45:18.571
STATE HAS TO STOP ALLOWING

03:45:18.638 --> 03:45:20.206
GROSS POLLUTERS INTO

03:45:20.273 --> 03:45:21.207
COMMUNITIES WHERE PEOPLE LIVE

03:45:21.274 --> 03:45:23.243
AT. AND THAT'S REALLY BUT, YOU

03:45:23.309 --> 03:45:25.078
KNOW, KEEP IT SHORT AT THAT.

03:45:25.144 --> 03:45:31.751
THANK YOU JOE. HI. MY NAME IS

03:45:31.818 --> 03:45:33.519
ABIGAIL SESSA, 27 YEAR RESIDENT

03:45:33.586 --> 03:45:36.756
OF VAL VERDE. AND I REPRESENT

03:45:36.823 --> 03:45:38.191
VAL VERDE ON THE CASTAIC AREA

03:45:38.258 --> 03:45:40.693
TOWN COUNCIL. HOWEVER, I'M

03:45:40.760 --> 03:45:42.161
SPEAKING NOT FOR THE COUNCIL

03:45:42.228 --> 03:45:46.466
TODAY. I, AS A PUBLIC FIGURE,

03:45:46.532 --> 03:45:47.700
PEOPLE KNOW WHO I AM AND KNOW

03:45:47.767 --> 03:45:51.504
HOW TO REACH ME. I GOT A CALL

03:45:51.571 --> 03:45:55.808
IN LATE FALL OF 2023 FROM

03:45:55.875 --> 03:45:57.610
PUBLIC HEALTH AT 9 P.M. AT

03:45:57.677 --> 03:46:00.513
NIGHT, FROM A PRIVATE NUMBER,

03:46:00.580 --> 03:46:03.416
AND I WAS TOLD BY MY NAME, THIS

03:46:03.483 --> 03:46:05.952
IS ABIGAIL, RIGHT? YES. AND I

03:46:06.019 --> 03:46:08.054
DO KNOW WHO THE PERSON WAS. I

03:46:08.121 --> 03:46:10.189
RECOGNIZED THE VOICE. YOU'RE

03:46:10.256 --> 03:46:11.391
GOING TO HAVE TO FIGURE THIS

03:46:11.457 --> 03:46:14.527
OUT ON YOUR OWN. EVERYTHING I

03:46:14.594 --> 03:46:16.696
SEND UP TO MY SUPERIORS, I GET

03:46:16.763 --> 03:46:20.033
TOLD LAUGHINGLY. HA HA. WE'RE

03:46:20.099 --> 03:46:21.401
NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING WITH

03:46:21.467 --> 03:46:22.735
THAT. ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS

03:46:22.802 --> 03:46:24.637
THAT THIS PERSON RECOMMENDED

03:46:24.704 --> 03:46:28.007
FOR US WAS LAUGHED AT. FINALLY,

03:46:28.074 --> 03:46:30.076
THIS PERSON WAS TOLD, IF WE

03:46:30.143 --> 03:46:33.246
LOOK FOR SOMETHING AND FIND

03:46:33.313 --> 03:46:34.681
SOMETHING, WE'RE REQUIRED TO

03:46:34.747 --> 03:46:37.583
REPORT IT. IF WE DON'T LOOK FOR

03:46:37.650 --> 03:46:39.352
SOMETHING, WE WON'T FIND

03:46:39.419 --> 03:46:40.553
SOMETHING. THEREFORE, WE DON'T

03:46:40.620 --> 03:46:43.723
HAVE TO REPORT SOMETHING. 9

03:46:43.790 --> 03:46:47.260
P.M. MY HOME LANDLINE, PRIVATE

03:46:47.327 --> 03:46:49.796
NUMBER, A PUBLIC HEALTH WORKER,

03:46:49.862 --> 03:46:55.568
A VOICE I RECOGNIZED. MENTAL

03:46:55.635 --> 03:46:58.104
HEALTH. I AM THAT PERSON WHO

03:46:58.171 --> 03:47:00.239
STARTED THE GROUP, RAN IT LIKE

03:47:00.306 --> 03:47:03.876
AN AA MEETING AT A LOCAL CHURCH.

03:47:03.943 --> 03:47:05.878
I WAS BEING MADE TO FEEL LIKE I

03:47:05.945 --> 03:47:08.881
WAS CRAZY, AND I DIDN'T FEEL

03:47:08.948 --> 03:47:11.784
LIKE I WAS ALONE, SO I GOT

03:47:11.851 --> 03:47:13.252
PERMISSION TO DO THAT AND

03:47:13.319 --> 03:47:15.021
STARTED INVITING THE COMMUNITY

03:47:15.088 --> 03:47:17.190
ONCE A MONTH. AND THAT IS HOW

03:47:17.256 --> 03:47:19.292
DARCY RECOGNIZED THAT I HAD

03:47:19.359 --> 03:47:20.426
REALLY BAD SHAKING, AND I KEPT

03:47:20.493 --> 03:47:22.562
DROPPING MY PHONE, AND WE ALL

03:47:22.628 --> 03:47:24.030
STARTED TO CONNECT ALL OF OUR

03:47:24.097 --> 03:47:27.266
SAME SYMPTOMS. SO THE REASON I

03:47:27.333 --> 03:47:29.435
DID THAT WAS BECAUSE AT ONE OF

03:47:29.502 --> 03:47:31.037
THOSE CÁC MEETINGS, WHICH, BY

03:47:31.104 --> 03:47:33.006
THE WAY, ARE NOT COMMUNITY

03:47:33.072 --> 03:47:35.875
ANYTHING, IT IS LITERALLY NOT

03:47:35.942 --> 03:47:36.976
COMMUNITY ANYTHING. THE

03:47:37.043 --> 03:47:38.778
COMMUNITY IS SHUT DOWN AND SHUT

03:47:38.845 --> 03:47:45.251
UP. WE MAY WATCH. I GOT INTO A

03:47:45.318 --> 03:47:47.053
VERBAL ARGUMENT WITH STEPHANIE

03:47:47.120 --> 03:47:48.855
ENGLISH. YOU KNOW HOW THAT CAN

03:47:48.921 --> 03:47:51.724
BE. AND STEPHANIE ENGLISH,

03:47:51.791 --> 03:47:52.825
SUPERVISOR, BARGER, SENIOR

03:47:52.892 --> 03:47:55.595
FIELD DEPUTY, AND I BROUGHT UP

03:47:55.661 --> 03:47:56.829
THE FACT THAT OUR MENTAL HEALTH

03:47:56.896 --> 03:47:57.897
WAS REALLY SCREWED. AND SHE

03:47:57.964 --> 03:47:59.632
GOES, YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT'S A

03:47:59.699 --> 03:48:01.434
GOOD IDEA, ABIGAIL. I'LL LOOK

03:48:01.501 --> 03:48:05.038
INTO IT. SO I HAD TO DO IT

03:48:05.104 --> 03:48:06.606
MYSELF. WELL, I'D LIKE TO LET

03:48:06.672 --> 03:48:08.307
YOU KNOW THAT LAST MONTH,

03:48:08.374 --> 03:48:10.109
DEALING WITH MY ADULT SON THAT

03:48:10.176 --> 03:48:11.310
LIVES IN MY HOUSE, WHO'S GONE

03:48:11.377 --> 03:48:13.413
BACK TO COLLEGE WHEN I GOT INTO

03:48:13.479 --> 03:48:14.614
A LITTLE BIT OF AN ARGUMENT

03:48:14.680 --> 03:48:16.382
WITH HIM OVER, YOU SHOULD BE

03:48:16.449 --> 03:48:17.417
TAKING MORE CLASSES. HIS

03:48:17.483 --> 03:48:19.452
RESPONSE TO ME IS, WHAT DOES IT

03:48:19.519 --> 03:48:20.453
SUPERLATIVE MATTER? I'M GOING

03:48:20.520 --> 03:48:22.321
TO DIE OF CANCER ANYWAY BECAUSE

03:48:22.388 --> 03:48:26.793
I LIVE HERE. THANK YOU, THANK

03:48:26.859 --> 03:48:31.330
YOU. ABIGAIL. THANK YOU.

03:48:31.397 --> 03:48:33.166
ABIGAIL. MY NAME IS SHARON

03:48:33.232 --> 03:48:34.534
CARABALLO. I ALSO SIT ON THE

03:48:34.600 --> 03:48:36.002
CASTAIC AREA TOWN COUNCIL, BUT

03:48:36.069 --> 03:48:37.804
I'M HERE SPEAKING TONIGHT FOR

03:48:37.870 --> 03:48:39.939
MYSELF AND MY FRIENDS IN THE

03:48:40.006 --> 03:48:42.108
COMMUNITY. THEY SAY A PICTURE

03:48:42.175 --> 03:48:44.277
IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. SO

03:48:44.343 --> 03:48:45.711
THEY WENT AND BLEW THIS UP

03:48:45.778 --> 03:48:48.281
TODAY AT CVS BECAUSE TWO YEARS

03:48:48.347 --> 03:48:49.782
AGO, ALMOST TO THIS DATE, WE

03:48:49.849 --> 03:48:51.551
HAD A TOWN HALL MEETING. AND

03:48:51.617 --> 03:48:53.619
THIS IS DOCTOR NICOLE QUICK.

03:48:53.686 --> 03:48:55.088
AND YOU CAN SEE SHE'S JUST

03:48:55.154 --> 03:48:57.590
LOOKING AT HER PHONE. WE ALL

03:48:57.657 --> 03:48:59.659
WANT TO SEE THAT SOMEBODY ELSE

03:48:59.725 --> 03:49:01.427
IN HERE TOOK THE SAME PICTURE.

03:49:01.494 --> 03:49:03.830
FUNNY. AND SO FOR HOURS LOOKING

03:49:03.896 --> 03:49:05.865
AT HER PHONE. AND THIS WAS OUR

03:49:05.932 --> 03:49:06.933
REPRESENTATIVE AT THE TIME.

03:49:06.999 --> 03:49:08.501
THIS WAS THE PERSON THAT WE HAD

03:49:08.568 --> 03:49:11.637
ON THE CÁC BOARD, THE MEETINGS,

03:49:11.704 --> 03:49:13.139
AND THAT WAS THE PERSON THAT WE

03:49:13.206 --> 03:49:15.007
WERE DIRECTING ALL OF OUR CALLS

03:49:15.074 --> 03:49:17.844
TO AND OUR INQUISITIONS TO, AND

03:49:17.910 --> 03:49:19.078
THAT WAS WHO WE WERE SUPPOSED

03:49:19.145 --> 03:49:20.947
TO TALK TO. AND SHE WAS THERE

03:49:21.013 --> 03:49:22.115
FOR OUR COMMUNITY. BUT THE

03:49:22.181 --> 03:49:23.950
WHOLE TIME SHE WAS ON HER PHONE

03:49:24.016 --> 03:49:25.318
WHEN JENNIFER'S 11 YEAR OLD

03:49:25.384 --> 03:49:27.854
DAUGHTER WAS BASICALLY CRYING

03:49:27.920 --> 03:49:29.288
AND SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU GOING

03:49:29.355 --> 03:49:31.190
TO DO TO PROTECT ME? SHE WAS

03:49:31.257 --> 03:49:32.558
LOOKING AT HER PHONE WHEN A

03:49:32.625 --> 03:49:34.327
COMMUNITY MEMBER SAID, I JUST

03:49:34.393 --> 03:49:35.661
FOUND OUT I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH

03:49:35.728 --> 03:49:37.363
CANCER AGAIN. SHE WAS LOOKING

03:49:37.430 --> 03:49:39.198
AT HER PHONE WHEN PEOPLE STOOD

03:49:39.265 --> 03:49:41.067
UP THERE AND SAID, MY DOG JUST

03:49:41.134 --> 03:49:42.735
PASSED AWAY. SHE STILL LOOKED

03:49:42.802 --> 03:49:44.504
AT HER PHONE. SHE DIDN'T CARE

03:49:44.570 --> 03:49:46.906
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND THAT

03:49:46.973 --> 03:49:48.741
THAT'S THE PERFECT

03:49:48.808 --> 03:49:50.510
REPRESENTATION OF OUR

03:49:50.576 --> 03:49:52.278
INTERACTION WITH PUBLIC HEALTH.

03:49:52.345 --> 03:49:54.514
THIS PICTURE RIGHT HERE. SO

03:49:54.580 --> 03:49:55.915
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND

03:49:55.982 --> 03:49:57.450
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. AND

03:49:57.517 --> 03:49:59.118
THANK YOU FOR HEARING US. THANK

03:49:59.185 --> 03:50:04.624
YOU SHERIFF. GOOD EVENING. MY

03:50:04.690 --> 03:50:06.425
NAME IS CAROL PERELLO. I WANT

03:50:06.492 --> 03:50:09.595
TO TELL TO ALL THE RESIDENTS OF

03:50:09.662 --> 03:50:11.063
CHIQUITA CANYON, WE UNDERSTAND

03:50:11.130 --> 03:50:12.064
WHAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING THROUGH.

03:50:12.131 --> 03:50:14.267
AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE PUBLIC

03:50:14.333 --> 03:50:15.735
HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS FAILED

03:50:15.801 --> 03:50:18.971
EVERYONE. I'M A 3737 YEAR

03:50:19.038 --> 03:50:20.406
RESIDENT OF BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST

03:50:20.473 --> 03:50:22.575
L.A. I LIVE 1.5 MILES FROM THE

03:50:22.642 --> 03:50:26.879
LINEAGE FIRE. IT'S VERY

03:50:26.946 --> 03:50:27.747
DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR

03:50:27.813 --> 03:50:28.948
EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON

03:50:29.015 --> 03:50:30.449
AND IT'S BEEN ALLOWED. AND I

03:50:30.516 --> 03:50:31.918
SECOND YOUR MOTION. WHAT YOU'RE

03:50:31.984 --> 03:50:33.352
SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO BE

03:50:33.419 --> 03:50:35.288
FIRED AND LET GO, AND WE NEED

03:50:35.354 --> 03:50:36.589
TO HAVE SOMEONE REPRESENTING US

03:50:36.656 --> 03:50:38.024
IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT

03:50:38.090 --> 03:50:39.492
THAT IS AN ACTUAL DOCTOR THAT

03:50:39.559 --> 03:50:44.597
HAS SEEN PATIENTS. MY STORY IS

03:50:44.664 --> 03:50:47.500
MY MOM IN HER 70S, THREE WEEKS

03:50:47.567 --> 03:50:49.902
AFTER THE FIRE HAD A DOUBLE

03:50:49.969 --> 03:50:53.172
PNEUMONIA, SEPTIC Â COLI, MY

03:50:53.239 --> 03:50:55.308
MOM WAS ON HER DEATHBED, SPENT

03:50:55.374 --> 03:50:57.476
A WEEK IN THE HOSPITAL, AND

03:50:57.543 --> 03:50:58.311
THEY'RE SAYING, THERE'S NOTHING

03:50:58.377 --> 03:50:59.845
IN THERE. THERE'S NOTHING IN

03:50:59.912 --> 03:51:01.447
THE WATER. THERE'S NOTHING.

03:51:01.514 --> 03:51:03.249
THERE IS SOMETHING. AND IT

03:51:03.316 --> 03:51:04.050
SHOULDN'T TAKE ALL THESE PEOPLE

03:51:04.116 --> 03:51:06.118
TO SIT HERE TO SAY, THERE'S

03:51:06.185 --> 03:51:08.054
SOMETHING GOING ON. THEY NEED

03:51:08.120 --> 03:51:10.056
TO DO A BETTER JOB TO REPRESENT

03:51:10.122 --> 03:51:11.924
THE PUBLIC BECAUSE OUR TAX

03:51:11.991 --> 03:51:13.693
MONEY GOES TOWARDS IT. AND WE

03:51:13.759 --> 03:51:14.760
NEED TO HAVE BETTER

03:51:14.827 --> 03:51:17.296
REPRESENTATIVES, NOT JUST FROM

03:51:17.363 --> 03:51:19.432
CÁC TO EAST L.A. ALL THE

03:51:19.498 --> 03:51:20.499
SURROUNDING AREAS THAT THEY'RE

03:51:20.566 --> 03:51:22.034
RESPONSIBLE FOR. THANK YOU VERY

03:51:22.101 --> 03:51:28.841
MUCH. THANK YOU. I BELIEVE KIDS

03:51:28.908 --> 03:51:31.310
DESERVE A CHILDHOOD, DON'T YOU?

03:51:31.377 --> 03:51:33.079
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. AND YOU

03:51:33.145 --> 03:51:36.716
GOT IT. I'M 13 YEARS OLD. I

03:51:36.782 --> 03:51:38.484
LIVED IN VALVERDE FOR 13 YEARS

03:51:38.551 --> 03:51:40.486
OF MY WELL, I AM 15 YEARS OLD.

03:51:40.553 --> 03:51:41.621
I LIVED IN VALVERDE FOR 13

03:51:41.687 --> 03:51:43.556
YEARS OF MY LIFE AND THEN THE

03:51:43.623 --> 03:51:44.690
LANDFILL WAS NEVER MY CONCERN

03:51:44.757 --> 03:51:46.559
UNTIL I WAS TEN. WHEN I WAS

03:51:46.626 --> 03:51:47.893
OUTSIDE WITH MY PARENTS, I

03:51:47.960 --> 03:51:50.029
ASKED, IS THAT WHAT IS THAT

03:51:50.096 --> 03:51:52.164
SMELL? WHAT THE LANDFILL IS?

03:51:52.231 --> 03:51:53.165
KNOWING THAT THEY ALWAYS

03:51:53.232 --> 03:51:55.434
COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. AND

03:51:55.501 --> 03:51:56.302
UNFORTUNATELY THEIR RESPONSE

03:51:56.369 --> 03:51:59.572
WAS YES. AFTER THAT, I BARELY

03:51:59.639 --> 03:52:01.540
WENT OUTSIDE AND ENJOYED MY DAY.

03:52:01.607 --> 03:52:03.342
I HAD A TRAMPOLINE AND BIKE,

03:52:03.409 --> 03:52:04.443
BUT NONE OF THEM WERE GETTING

03:52:04.510 --> 03:52:05.878
USED. EVER SINCE THAT

03:52:05.945 --> 03:52:08.381
CONVERSATION, I ALSO MISSED

03:52:08.447 --> 03:52:09.849
MANY SCHOOL DAYS DUE TO

03:52:09.915 --> 03:52:11.317
HEADACHES, WHICH NOT ONLY CAUSE

03:52:11.384 --> 03:52:12.718
HARM TO ME, BUT CAUSED HARM TO

03:52:12.785 --> 03:52:15.121
MY EDUCATION. ALONG WITH THIS,

03:52:15.187 --> 03:52:16.756
I WOKE UP WITH BLOOD IN MY BED

03:52:16.822 --> 03:52:18.557
FROM LEAVING MY WINDOW OPEN AND

03:52:18.624 --> 03:52:20.660
LAYING THE TOXIC AIR IN MY ROOM.

03:52:20.726 --> 03:52:23.129
A BLOODY NOSE. SINCE I'VE MOVED,

03:52:23.195 --> 03:52:26.032
THIS HASN'T HAPPENED. I MISS MY

03:52:26.098 --> 03:52:27.466
VALVERDE HOME AND MY OLD

03:52:27.533 --> 03:52:28.601
NEIGHBORS, BUT DUE TO HOW BAD

03:52:28.668 --> 03:52:31.103
THE LANDFILL IS, WE HAD TO MOVE.

03:52:31.170 --> 03:52:32.171
WE HAVE THESE MEETINGS BUT

03:52:32.238 --> 03:52:33.739
NOTHING IS CHANGING. WE DESERVE

03:52:33.806 --> 03:52:39.712
A CHANGE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

03:52:39.779 --> 03:52:41.847
JOHN PECORARO. I LIVE IN

03:52:41.914 --> 03:52:44.083
HILLCREST AND THANK YOU FOR

03:52:44.150 --> 03:52:46.585
CREATING THIS FORUM. JUST A

03:52:46.652 --> 03:52:47.920
FOLLOW UP ON WHAT YOU SAID

03:52:47.987 --> 03:52:48.921
ABOUT DOCTORS AND THE

03:52:48.988 --> 03:52:49.922
COMMUNICATION FROM THE HEALTH

03:52:49.989 --> 03:52:52.291
DEPARTMENT. ZERO BETWEEN THREE

03:52:52.358 --> 03:52:53.392
SPECIALISTS, THE E.R. AT HENRY

03:52:53.459 --> 03:52:55.328
MAYO. THEY'RE CLUELESS ABOUT

03:52:55.394 --> 03:52:56.896
THE LANDFILL. IT'S LIKE THEY

03:52:56.962 --> 03:52:58.064
DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT EXISTS

03:52:58.130 --> 03:52:59.231
AND THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'VE

03:52:59.298 --> 03:53:00.900
BEEN HAVING. SO THEY REALLY

03:53:00.966 --> 03:53:03.135
NEED TO TO STEP THAT UP BECAUSE

03:53:03.202 --> 03:53:04.904
DOCTORS NEED TO BE

03:53:04.970 --> 03:53:05.705
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY'RE

03:53:05.771 --> 03:53:07.073
DEALING WITH RATHER THAN JUST

03:53:07.139 --> 03:53:10.509
TRY THIS, TRY THAT. MY CONCERN,

03:53:10.576 --> 03:53:13.212
THOUGH, IS WITH LISTENING TO

03:53:13.279 --> 03:53:15.047
THE AUDIT AND ALL THE FAILURES

03:53:15.114 --> 03:53:17.183
FROM THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

03:53:17.249 --> 03:53:18.684
OBVIOUSLY, THE GOVERNOR IS

03:53:18.751 --> 03:53:20.086
POINTING THE FINGER BACK TO THE

03:53:20.152 --> 03:53:21.854
TO THEM AS FAR AS

03:53:21.921 --> 03:53:22.922
RESPONSIBILITY. AND WHO HAS THE

03:53:22.988 --> 03:53:25.358
AUTHORITY, I DON'T KNOW. WAS

03:53:25.424 --> 03:53:26.892
OUR SUPERVISOR INVITED TO THIS

03:53:26.959 --> 03:53:29.395
TONIGHT? YEAH. I MEAN, SHE'S

03:53:29.462 --> 03:53:31.197
NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. SO YOU

03:53:31.263 --> 03:53:32.365
DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET

03:53:32.431 --> 03:53:33.666
SCIENTIST TO FIGURE OUT THERE'S

03:53:33.733 --> 03:53:35.267
SOME CAHOOTS OR COERCION GOING

03:53:35.334 --> 03:53:36.502
ON OF WHY THIS WHOLE THING IS

03:53:36.569 --> 03:53:38.237
BEING DELAYED AND POOH POOHED

03:53:38.304 --> 03:53:39.839
AND PUSHED TO THE SIDE. I MEAN,

03:53:39.905 --> 03:53:42.007
THE COMMUNITY HAS SPOKEN FOR

03:53:42.074 --> 03:53:45.177
ALL THESE YEARS. THAT IS

03:53:45.244 --> 03:53:48.581
SHOCKING. I MEAN, YOU KNOW,

03:53:48.647 --> 03:53:49.882
PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS

03:53:49.949 --> 03:53:51.350
THAT THAT DOES. AND FOR THEM TO

03:53:51.417 --> 03:53:54.220
IGNORE THIS, IT'S CRIMINAL. I

03:53:54.286 --> 03:53:55.354
REALLY BELIEVE THAT THEY SHOULD

03:53:55.421 --> 03:53:57.523
BE INVESTIGATED AND HELD

03:53:57.590 --> 03:53:58.524
ACCOUNTABLE AND START PUTTING

03:53:58.591 --> 03:53:59.658
THESE PEOPLE BEHIND BARS,

03:53:59.725 --> 03:54:00.726
BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY

03:54:00.793 --> 03:54:02.495
YOU'RE GOING TO STOP THIS FROM

03:54:02.561 --> 03:54:06.832
EVOLVING. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

03:54:06.899 --> 03:54:09.001
MY NAME IS JANET TROTTER. I'VE

03:54:09.068 --> 03:54:10.536
LIVED IN THE NORTH BLUFF TRACK

03:54:10.603 --> 03:54:13.773
FOR 37 YEARS. NORTH BLUFF TRACK

03:54:13.839 --> 03:54:15.174
IS JUST RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

03:54:15.241 --> 03:54:16.976
HERE. I'M NOT IN VAL VERDE, BUT

03:54:17.042 --> 03:54:19.779
I GET A PLUME OF THIS NASTY

03:54:19.845 --> 03:54:21.614
SMELL ALL THE TIME. AND THEY

03:54:21.680 --> 03:54:22.948
ASKED ME, JANET, WHAT DOES IT

03:54:23.015 --> 03:54:24.150
SMELL LIKE? YOU CAN'T DESCRIBE

03:54:24.216 --> 03:54:25.951
WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE. IT IS THE

03:54:26.018 --> 03:54:27.853
MOST PUTRID THING IN THE WORLD.

03:54:27.920 --> 03:54:29.855
I GIVE YOU KUDOS FOR WHAT YOU

03:54:29.922 --> 03:54:31.791
DO. YOU'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL.

03:54:31.857 --> 03:54:35.628
I LOVE YOU, MY OWN GRANDCHILD.

03:54:35.694 --> 03:54:37.863
MY FIRST BORN GRANDCHILD NEVER

03:54:37.930 --> 03:54:39.532
MADE IT. AND I THINK IT HAD TO

03:54:39.598 --> 03:54:41.734
DO WITH THAT. DUMP MY

03:54:41.801 --> 03:54:43.169
NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I LIVE. I

03:54:43.235 --> 03:54:45.704
HAVE WATCHED FIVE OF MY VERY

03:54:45.771 --> 03:54:47.506
CLOSE THAT HAVE BEEN THERE 37

03:54:47.573 --> 03:54:48.607
YEARS. WELL, THEY'RE NOT THERE

03:54:48.674 --> 03:54:49.742
ANYMORE, SO THEY'RE GONE. BUT

03:54:49.809 --> 03:54:51.811
I'M HERE FOR YOU TONIGHT, MARK,

03:54:51.877 --> 03:54:53.279
AND I'M FIGHTING FOR HIM

03:54:53.345 --> 03:54:54.847
BECAUSE I'VE WATCHED A FEW OF

03:54:54.914 --> 03:54:57.283
MY NEIGHBORS HAD THEIR COMPLETE

03:54:57.349 --> 03:54:59.051
FACE PEELED DOWN TO THEIR CHIN

03:54:59.118 --> 03:55:01.554
FROM CANCER, ONE OF STOMACH

03:55:01.620 --> 03:55:02.988
CANCER. THE OTHER GUY, THEY

03:55:03.055 --> 03:55:04.623
DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS STOMACH

03:55:04.690 --> 03:55:05.891
CANCER OR THROAT CANCER OR

03:55:05.958 --> 03:55:07.693
BRAIN CANCER THAT GOT HIM.

03:55:07.760 --> 03:55:10.196
THERE'S ABOUT 13 TO 14 OF THEM.

03:55:10.262 --> 03:55:11.330
I KNOW THE PEOPLE IN MY

03:55:11.397 --> 03:55:13.098
COMMUNITY BECAUSE I WORKED ON

03:55:13.165 --> 03:55:15.501
THE ADVISORY, THE ADVISORY

03:55:15.568 --> 03:55:28.314
COMMITTEE FOR THE. COMMUNITY,

03:55:28.380 --> 03:55:29.515
AND THE WORD GETS AROUND ON

03:55:29.582 --> 03:55:31.383
WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW. IT

03:55:31.450 --> 03:55:33.219
LOOKS ABOUT MAYBE 13 PEOPLE

03:55:33.285 --> 03:55:35.054
HAVE HAD CANCER. HALF OF THEM

03:55:35.120 --> 03:55:36.789
ARE NOT WITH US ANYMORE. AND

03:55:36.856 --> 03:55:38.557
I'D LIKE TO SEE A CHANGE TO

03:55:38.624 --> 03:55:40.659
THAT, BECAUSE I'VE GOT A LOT OF

03:55:40.726 --> 03:55:41.694
NEIGHBORS THAT HAD THEIR

03:55:41.760 --> 03:55:43.896
DAUGHTERS, THEIR WIVES,

03:55:43.963 --> 03:55:45.097
MISCARRIAGE, MY DAUGHTERS. ONE

03:55:45.164 --> 03:55:47.500
OF THEM, SADLY TO SAY, THAT WAS

03:55:47.566 --> 03:55:49.301
MY FIRST GRANDBABY. MY OTHER

03:55:49.368 --> 03:55:51.103
DAUGHTER JUST HAD TWO BABIES.

03:55:51.170 --> 03:55:53.305
AND IT'S SO SAD TO SEE THAT HER

03:55:53.372 --> 03:55:56.141
SISTER CAN'T HAVE CHILDREN. SO

03:55:56.208 --> 03:55:58.344
IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME TO SIT

03:55:58.410 --> 03:56:00.145
AND LISTEN TO SOME OF THESE

03:56:00.212 --> 03:56:02.014
PEOPLE'S STORIES, AND WE HAVE

03:56:02.081 --> 03:56:04.083
TO SIT HERE AND GO TO THESE

03:56:04.149 --> 03:56:05.851
MEETINGS WEEK AFTER WEEK, MONTH

03:56:05.918 --> 03:56:08.020
AFTER MONTH AND YEAR AFTER YEAR

03:56:08.087 --> 03:56:09.889
WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE

03:56:09.955 --> 03:56:12.391
HERE AND WE'RE FORGOTTEN. IT'S

03:56:12.458 --> 03:56:14.527
VAL VERDE, IT'S IN CASTAIC. I

03:56:14.593 --> 03:56:16.295
THOUGHT IT WAS THE WATER. IT'S

03:56:16.362 --> 03:56:18.864
NOT THE WATER. THIS WAS DURING

03:56:18.931 --> 03:56:20.299
COVID, RIGHT BEFORE COVID

03:56:20.366 --> 03:56:22.801
REALLY EVEN HIT THAT I WAS

03:56:22.868 --> 03:56:24.136
WATCHING MY FRIENDS DIE, AND I

03:56:24.203 --> 03:56:25.337
WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL

03:56:25.404 --> 03:56:27.873
WAS GOING ON IN NORTH BLUFF. A

03:56:27.940 --> 03:56:30.409
FRIEND THAT MY HUSBAND'S COUSIN,

03:56:30.476 --> 03:56:32.278
WE WERE CAMPING AND HIS BUDDY'S

03:56:32.344 --> 03:56:34.680
A BIGWIG, GOT A NICE BENTLEY,

03:56:34.747 --> 03:56:36.415
LIVES IN SANTA BARBARA. AND HE

03:56:36.482 --> 03:56:38.117
GOES, JANET, I'D REALLY LIKE

03:56:38.183 --> 03:56:39.752
YOU. I'D LIKE A TEST OF YOUR

03:56:39.818 --> 03:56:41.186
WATER. AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT

03:56:41.253 --> 03:56:43.455
WAS IN THE WATER. MARK WORKED

03:56:43.522 --> 03:56:45.124
FOR DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND

03:56:45.190 --> 03:56:46.926
POWER. THEY CUT ALL HIS HAIR

03:56:46.992 --> 03:56:50.930
OFF. HE WAS IN OVER 22 HOURS OF

03:56:50.996 --> 03:56:52.331
SURGERY AND SOME. SOME OF MY

03:56:52.398 --> 03:56:53.799
OTHER NEIGHBORS, THE SAME THING.

03:56:53.866 --> 03:56:55.601
THEIR. THEIR SPOTS WERE ON THE

03:56:55.668 --> 03:56:57.403
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR SKULL.

03:56:57.469 --> 03:56:59.905
BUT IT'S REALLY SAD TO SEE YOUR

03:56:59.972 --> 03:57:01.640
CLOSE NEIGHBORS AFTER SO MANY

03:57:01.707 --> 03:57:04.543
YEARS. HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS

03:57:04.610 --> 03:57:05.978
AND WATCH THEIR KIDS RUNNING

03:57:06.045 --> 03:57:07.446
DOWN THE STREET CRYING THEIR

03:57:07.513 --> 03:57:09.348
EYES OUT. IT'S REALLY HARD TO

03:57:09.415 --> 03:57:11.016
SEE. AND THEN FOR THESE PEOPLE

03:57:11.083 --> 03:57:12.885
NOT TO DO ANYTHING. I WAS THERE

03:57:12.952 --> 03:57:14.286
THAT NIGHT. THAT LADY TOOK THE

03:57:14.353 --> 03:57:15.921
PICTURE BECAUSE I TOOK THE SAME

03:57:15.988 --> 03:57:18.257
PICTURE. ONE WAS ON HER PHONE

03:57:18.324 --> 03:57:19.725
AND THE MAN BEHIND HER, I WAS

03:57:19.792 --> 03:57:22.561
IN THE FRONT ROW. I PULLED HIM

03:57:22.628 --> 03:57:23.996
AND I'M LIKE, GET HER OFF HER

03:57:24.063 --> 03:57:25.664
PHONE, GET HER OFF HER PHONE

03:57:25.731 --> 03:57:27.566
NOW! AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS

03:57:27.633 --> 03:57:28.767
ASLEEP AND I GOT THAT ON MY

03:57:28.834 --> 03:57:30.636
PHONE AT HOME. SO THE NEXT

03:57:30.703 --> 03:57:31.704
MEETING, MAYBE YOU'LL SEE THAT

03:57:31.770 --> 03:57:33.572
PICTURE I GOT THE OTHER GAL

03:57:33.639 --> 03:57:34.873
SNORING AWAY UP THERE. THANK

03:57:34.940 --> 03:57:40.346
YOU. BUENAS NOCHES. MI NOMBRE

03:57:40.412 --> 03:57:51.123
ES MARIA MORALES. BUENAS NOCHES.

03:57:51.190 --> 03:57:53.258
MI NOMBRE ES MARIA MORALES E

03:57:53.325 --> 03:57:56.195
VIVO IN CITY TERRACE, PARTE DE

03:57:56.261 --> 03:58:03.569
VÚI DE LOS ANGELES. AHI. GOOD

03:58:03.636 --> 03:58:05.037
EVENING. MY NAME IS MARIA

03:58:05.104 --> 03:58:07.239
MORALES. AND CAN YOU HEAR ME

03:58:07.306 --> 03:58:10.442
OKAY. MY NAME IS MARIA MORALES.

03:58:10.509 --> 03:58:12.344
I LIVE IN CITY TERRACE, WHICH

03:58:12.411 --> 03:58:14.346
IS ON THE EAST SIDE OF LA, AND

03:58:14.413 --> 03:58:19.818
I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 50 YEARS.

03:58:19.885 --> 03:58:20.886
TAMBIÉN NOSOTROS ESTAMOS

03:58:20.953 --> 03:58:25.224
SUFRIENDO MUCHO MENOS DE

03:58:25.290 --> 03:58:28.761
TUVIMOS DOS DESASTRES PRIMERO Y

03:58:28.827 --> 03:58:30.596
LUEGO EN LA ESTARÁ. LAS COSAS

03:58:30.663 --> 03:58:33.699
CHÁVEZ VEINTICINCO DE PETROLEO

03:58:33.766 --> 03:58:36.702
SE DE RAMON Y ESO JUNTO CON LOS

03:58:36.769 --> 03:58:40.005
QUIMICOS C¯ LEÓN ESTARÁ SE HèA

03:58:40.072 --> 03:58:43.208
AL MÀ. I'M HERE TO SHARE THAT,

03:58:43.275 --> 03:58:45.744
AS YOU HAVE BEEN SUFFERING HERE

03:58:45.811 --> 03:58:47.880
IN LESS THAN A MONTH IN OUR

03:58:47.946 --> 03:58:49.682
COMMUNITY, WE HAD THE LINEAGE

03:58:49.748 --> 03:58:52.584
FIRE, BUT WE ALSO HAD 25,000

03:58:52.651 --> 03:58:55.087
GALLONS OF OIL THAT WERE

03:58:55.154 --> 03:58:59.058
SPILLED AND CONTAMINATED THE

03:58:59.124 --> 03:59:01.193
RIVER AND TO THE LA RIVER AND

03:59:01.260 --> 03:59:05.297
WENT INTO THE OCEAN. QUÊ SON

03:59:05.364 --> 03:59:07.232
LAS CONSECUENCIAS C¯ VAMOS A

03:59:07.299 --> 03:59:10.669
TENER DE PETROLEO COMO DE MI

03:59:10.736 --> 03:59:13.472
ESPOSA. YO NO PODIA RESPIRAR

03:59:13.539 --> 03:59:16.341
ANSIEDAD EN LA NOCHE VIVO A DOS

03:59:16.408 --> 03:59:18.811
MEUS MEDIA DE LINEAGE Y

03:59:18.877 --> 03:59:24.583
SUFRIENDO. AND TO THIS DAY, THE.

03:59:24.650 --> 03:59:31.090
PHªN MAYO. SO THE THE OIL SPILL

03:59:31.156 --> 03:59:33.692
HAPPENED IN MAY, AND SINCE MAY

03:59:33.759 --> 03:59:36.495
THERE'S BEEN NO COMMUNICATION

03:59:36.562 --> 03:59:38.263
ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD DO, HOW WE

03:59:38.330 --> 03:59:40.799
SHOULD PREPARE. MY HUSBAND'S

03:59:40.866 --> 03:59:44.436
ARMS GOT FULL OF RASHES AND

03:59:44.503 --> 03:59:46.238
UNEXPLAINED WAY. THERE WAS NO

03:59:46.305 --> 03:59:48.006
INFORMATION EITHER ABOUT THE

03:59:48.073 --> 03:59:50.976
OIL SPILL OR ABOUT THE LINEAGE.

03:59:51.043 --> 03:59:55.581
FIRE DE CANCER DE LINFOMA EN EL

03:59:55.647 --> 03:59:57.416
ESTOMAGO EN MEDIO DE LOS

03:59:57.483 --> 04:00:00.619
PULMONES Y AQUI. EN ESTA PARTE,

04:00:00.686 --> 04:00:04.223
ESTE TENGO MIEDO DE MI CANCER

04:00:04.289 --> 04:00:07.793
VUELVA ESTOY EN LA MISION Y POR

04:00:07.860 --> 04:00:10.696
ESO VENGO A. APOYAR LOS Â

04:00:10.763 --> 04:00:12.564
ENCONTRANDO LA SORPRESA DE AQUI.

04:00:12.631 --> 04:00:14.633
LA SENORITA SENORITA SENORA

04:00:14.700 --> 04:00:18.237
ESTE QUÊ HABLADO MUY BIEN

04:00:18.303 --> 04:00:20.372
LUCHANDO POR USTEDES AQUI SU

04:00:20.439 --> 04:00:22.941
COMUNIDAD. I AM A CANCER

04:00:23.008 --> 04:00:25.778
SURVIVOR. I HAD STOMACH CANCER,

04:00:25.844 --> 04:00:27.212
LYMPHOMA. AND I'M AFRAID THAT

04:00:27.279 --> 04:00:28.647
EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED MY

04:00:28.714 --> 04:00:30.115
CANCER, THE CANCER MAY COME

04:00:30.182 --> 04:00:32.618
BACK. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO

04:00:32.684 --> 04:00:34.086
YOU FOR ALL OF THE ADVOCACY

04:00:34.153 --> 04:00:35.888
WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING TO RAISE

04:00:35.954 --> 04:00:37.289
AWARENESS ABOUT THIS. WE CAME

04:00:37.356 --> 04:00:40.893
TO SUPPORT THIS ISSUE AND MORE

04:00:40.959 --> 04:00:42.728
AWARENESS. AND SHE ALSO SPOKE

04:00:42.795 --> 04:00:45.197
EARLIER ABOUT HOW SHE HAS

04:00:45.264 --> 04:00:47.032
ANXIETY AT NIGHT. AND I FAIL TO

04:00:47.099 --> 04:00:48.100
TRANSLATE THAT. AND SHE'S

04:00:48.167 --> 04:00:49.168
CONCERNED ABOUT HER MENTAL

04:00:49.234 --> 04:00:53.605
HEALTH. SHE CAN'T SLEEP. CERCA

04:00:53.672 --> 04:00:58.177
DE DIOS PARA MI LA CASA.

04:00:58.243 --> 04:01:00.779
EXTERIOR ES NUESTRO PLANETA. SI

04:01:00.846 --> 04:01:03.248
NO CUIDAMOS NUESTRO PLANETA DE

04:01:03.315 --> 04:01:07.152
ESTOS DESASTRES O QUIMICOS

04:01:07.219 --> 04:01:09.721
PASANDO LA TIERRA. YA ESTA

04:01:09.788 --> 04:01:12.491
DANDO GRITOS GRITOS POR ESO SON

04:01:12.558 --> 04:01:14.393
ESOS DESASTRES. QUÉ TENEMOS

04:01:14.459 --> 04:01:16.562
AMBIENTALES DE ACCIONES DE QUÉ

04:01:16.628 --> 04:01:18.597
AMAZONES DE ESTA PASANDO EN LA

04:01:18.664 --> 04:01:20.866
TIERRA? PORQUE ESTA LO ESTAMOS

04:01:20.933 --> 04:01:22.301
VIENDO CON ESTAS PERSONAS C¯

04:01:22.367 --> 04:01:24.436
SOLO VIENEN A LINEAS DE LAS

04:01:24.503 --> 04:01:25.904
BOLSAS Y NO LESS IMPORTANT,

04:01:25.971 --> 04:01:27.306
NUESTRA SALUD Y NUESTRA

04:01:27.372 --> 04:01:30.976
SUFRIMIENTO ALREDEDOR. BUT I

04:01:31.043 --> 04:01:33.812
WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT HOW THE

04:01:33.879 --> 04:01:36.348
EARTH IS OUR HOME, AND WHAT'S

04:01:36.415 --> 04:01:37.749
HAPPENING INSIDE OF OUR HOME IS

04:01:37.816 --> 04:01:40.285
THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE MAKING

04:01:40.352 --> 04:01:43.188
OUR HOME SICK. THEY'RE THE

04:01:43.255 --> 04:01:45.324
EVERYTHING FROM THE FLOODS, THE

04:01:45.390 --> 04:01:47.492
CHEMICAL DISASTERS, THESE TYPES

04:01:47.559 --> 04:01:49.294
OF ISSUES HAPPENING IN THE

04:01:49.361 --> 04:01:50.529
CANYONS, THESE ARE ALL THINGS

04:01:50.596 --> 04:01:52.564
THAT ARE DEVASTATING OUR

04:01:52.631 --> 04:01:54.733
COMMUNITY AND MAKING OUR HOMES

04:01:54.800 --> 04:01:56.501
SICK. THEY'RE MAKING ALL OF US

04:01:56.568 --> 04:01:58.604
SICK WHILE THEY BECOME RICH. IF

04:01:58.670 --> 04:02:01.573
YOU COULD WRAP UP YOUR COMMENTS.

04:02:01.640 --> 04:02:04.409
DE LA MANO DE DIOS SIGAMOS

04:02:04.476 --> 04:02:05.477
LUCHANDO. POR QUÉ ESTAS

04:02:05.544 --> 04:02:09.147
PERSONAS FOREVER Y MÀ SALGAN DE

04:02:09.214 --> 04:02:10.916
ESOS ESOS PUESTOS? QUÉ TIENEN?

04:02:10.983 --> 04:02:13.085
QUÉ NO NOS ESTAMOS HACIENDO

04:02:13.151 --> 04:02:15.187
NADA POR NOSOTROS DEBEMOS DE

04:02:15.254 --> 04:02:17.389
CARLOS C¯ AFUERA CARLOS NO

04:02:17.456 --> 04:02:19.892
SIRVEN. AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED

04:02:19.958 --> 04:02:22.895
TO BE IN GOD'S GRACES AND FIGHT

04:02:22.961 --> 04:02:26.031
FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SPECIFICALLY

04:02:26.098 --> 04:02:28.200
REMOVING FERRER AND REMOVING

04:02:28.267 --> 04:02:30.435
MUNTU DAVIS FROM THEIR ROLES

04:02:30.502 --> 04:02:31.536
BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING NOTHING

04:02:31.603 --> 04:02:34.306
TO HELP US AND THEY NEED TO

04:02:34.373 --> 04:02:39.711
LEAVE. THANK YOU. YEAH. Â

04:02:39.778 --> 04:02:42.948
SABEMOS C¯ ALREDEDOR DEL HAY

04:02:43.015 --> 04:02:44.049
MAS DEPARTAMENTO BODEGAS DE

04:02:44.116 --> 04:02:46.518
COMIDA COMO LA C¯ SE COMO UNA

04:02:46.585 --> 04:02:49.054
ESTAS DONDE ESTABA FARMER JOHN

04:02:49.121 --> 04:02:50.856
ANTES EN LA SOTO Y LA OTRA

04:02:50.923 --> 04:02:52.491
ESTAN CIRCUS. ENTONCES QUIERO

04:02:52.557 --> 04:02:54.793
POR FAVOR PEDIRLE QUÊ LUCHEMOS

04:02:54.860 --> 04:02:57.696
TODOS JUNTOS Y NOS VAMOS PARA Q

04:02:57.763 --> 04:02:59.498
SIRVEN ESTAS ESAS BODEGAS

04:02:59.564 --> 04:03:01.300
PORQUE A PASAR LO MISMO. QUÉ

04:03:01.366 --> 04:03:03.802
PESO CON ESO? NO ES BUENO PARA

04:03:03.869 --> 04:03:05.637
NOSOTROS PORQUE VAMOS A MORIR

04:03:05.704 --> 04:03:07.072
TODOS. MUCHAS GRACIAS. THANK

04:03:07.139 --> 04:03:09.207
YOU. OKAY, SO HER CONCERN ABOUT

04:03:09.274 --> 04:03:12.110
THE SIMILAR REFRIGERATION

04:03:12.177 --> 04:03:13.912
WAREHOUSES THAT SURROUND THE

04:03:13.979 --> 04:03:14.947
COMMUNITY THAT ARE JUST A

04:03:15.013 --> 04:03:16.415
DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN,

04:03:16.481 --> 04:03:17.683
THAT WE NEED TO FIGHT TOGETHER

04:03:17.749 --> 04:03:19.051
TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES AND

04:03:19.117 --> 04:03:20.752
MORE SUBSTANTIAL WAYS SO THAT

04:03:20.819 --> 04:03:23.722
THEY DON'T KILL US ALL. THANK

04:03:23.789 --> 04:03:29.828
YOU. HELLO. MY NAME IS TIMOTHY

04:03:29.895 --> 04:03:30.896
TROTTER AND I'M A 38 YEAR

04:03:30.963 --> 04:03:34.032
RESIDENT OF CASTAIC. I JUST OFF

04:03:34.099 --> 04:03:36.601
SUBJECT, SENATOR VALLADARES, I

04:03:36.668 --> 04:03:37.869
TOTALLY, TOTALLY APPRECIATE

04:03:37.936 --> 04:03:39.604
WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT A COMPANY

04:03:39.671 --> 04:03:41.273
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT IS

04:03:41.340 --> 04:03:43.075
WILLING TO CLEAN UP THE DUMP.

04:03:43.141 --> 04:03:45.277
I'VE ASKED THAT QUESTION AT CÁC

04:03:45.344 --> 04:03:46.678
MEETINGS. I'VE ASKED THE DUMP.

04:03:46.745 --> 04:03:48.280
I'VE ASKED BARGER'S OFFICE.

04:03:48.347 --> 04:03:50.282
THERE'S ALSO A FELLOW HERE IN

04:03:50.349 --> 04:03:52.417
SANTA CLARITA. BRUCE, 14, SAYS

04:03:52.484 --> 04:03:54.152
HIS COMPANY CAN CLEAN THE DUMP

04:03:54.219 --> 04:03:55.988
UP. I'D HAVE TO AGREE AT THIS

04:03:56.054 --> 04:03:58.190
POINT NEEDS TO BE A SUPERFUND.

04:03:58.256 --> 04:03:59.992
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE ALL REALLY,

04:04:00.058 --> 04:04:01.760
REALLY WANT. SINCE WE'RE HERE

04:04:01.827 --> 04:04:04.329
TONIGHT TO TEAR UP DEPARTMENT

04:04:04.396 --> 04:04:06.365
OF PUBLIC HEALTH, I THINK A LOT

04:04:06.431 --> 04:04:07.566
OF AGENCIES NEED TO BE TORE UP.

04:04:07.632 --> 04:04:09.568
I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PLACE

04:04:09.634 --> 04:04:12.604
TO START. YEAH. THE GIVE I

04:04:12.671 --> 04:04:15.107
AGREE 100% WITH THE SURVEY THAT

04:04:15.173 --> 04:04:18.710
THEY THE STATE AUDIT DID ON

04:04:18.777 --> 04:04:20.879
THEM. I THINK THEY NEED TO CUT

04:04:20.946 --> 04:04:22.814
THE HEADS AT THE TOP. I DON'T

04:04:22.881 --> 04:04:23.982
THINK THEY SHOULD EVEN BE ASKED

04:04:24.049 --> 04:04:25.884
FOR KEEP THEIR JOB. THEY DON'T

04:04:25.951 --> 04:04:27.719
FOLLOW STANDARD OPERATIONAL

04:04:27.786 --> 04:04:30.355
PROCEDURE. WE'RE JUST I DON'T

04:04:30.422 --> 04:04:31.390
EVEN KNOW WHERE TO GO.

04:04:31.456 --> 04:04:32.724
EVERYTHING THAT EVERYBODY HAS

04:04:32.791 --> 04:04:34.559
TESTIFIED TONIGHT IS ABSOLUTELY

04:04:34.626 --> 04:04:36.028
TRUE. I'LL TELL YOU MY STORY

04:04:36.094 --> 04:04:37.429
REAL QUICK. I'VE BEEN BRAIN

04:04:37.496 --> 04:04:38.897
DOCTOR. I'VE BEEN TO LUNG

04:04:38.964 --> 04:04:40.298
DOCTOR. I'VE BEEN THE HEART

04:04:40.365 --> 04:04:41.767
DOCTOR. I'VE BEEN THE SKIN

04:04:41.833 --> 04:04:43.602
DOCTOR. I'VE BEEN IN THE

04:04:43.668 --> 04:04:44.603
OPHTHALMOLOGIST. AND THEY ALL

04:04:44.669 --> 04:04:45.704
SAY THERE'S NOTHING MATTER WITH

04:04:45.771 --> 04:04:47.606
YOU. I ASKED THEM, YOU HEARD OF

04:04:47.672 --> 04:04:50.042
BENZENE? NO. SO THIS IS WHAT

04:04:50.108 --> 04:04:53.945
THE. EVENTUALLY, WHEN LA COUNTY

04:04:54.012 --> 04:04:55.414
BOARD OR HEALTH DEPARTMENT GETS

04:04:55.480 --> 04:04:57.282
SHUT DOWN, WE'RE NOT SHUT DOWN.

04:04:57.349 --> 04:04:58.717
BUT NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY NEED

04:04:58.784 --> 04:05:01.153
TO DO WHAT WAS SUGGESTED IS, IS

04:05:01.219 --> 04:05:03.055
LET OTHER DOCTORS IN THE

04:05:03.121 --> 04:05:04.489
COMMUNITY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

04:05:04.556 --> 04:05:05.490
WE JUST DON'T WANT SURVEYS

04:05:05.557 --> 04:05:06.858
SAYING, OH YEAH, THIS HAPPENED

04:05:06.925 --> 04:05:07.959
HERE AND THIS HAPPENED HERE.

04:05:08.026 --> 04:05:09.061
THAT'S NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING

04:05:09.127 --> 04:05:11.263
FOR US. WE WANT REAL SOLUTIONS

04:05:11.329 --> 04:05:15.934
FOR OUR HEALTH AND ALSO

04:05:16.001 --> 04:05:18.503
SOLUTIONS FOR SHUTTING DOWN THE

04:05:18.570 --> 04:05:19.971
CATASTROPHE AT THE DOME. THANK

04:05:20.038 --> 04:05:26.344
YOU, THANK YOU. BUENAS NOCHES.

04:05:26.411 --> 04:05:28.914
MY NAME IS SANDRA QUINTERO. Â

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TENGO CÁC PORTANTINO'S VIVIENDO

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AHI. EN PRIMER LUGAR QUISIERA

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POR FAVOR. ESTE C¯ SI USTEDES

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PUDIERAN BUENO ENTRE TODOS

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PUDIÉRAMOS REMOVER. ESTAS DOS

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PERSONAS QUÊ ESTAN ENCARGADOS

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OCUPANDO EJERCEN SU TRABAJO DE

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DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUD Y CÁC

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PODIAN PEDIR ESTE ORIENTATION A

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LA PERSONA. JONATHAN FIELDEN,

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C¯ L L L DIRECTOR DE

04:06:01.746 --> 04:06:05.617
DEPARTAMENTO Y EJERCER SU. SU

04:06:05.684 --> 04:06:09.187
PROFESIONAL DE LA SALUD DE

04:06:09.254 --> 04:06:10.388
TRABAJAR CON LA SALUD DE TODAS

04:06:10.455 --> 04:06:13.525
LAS PERSONAS AQUI EN ESTA VIDA,

04:06:13.592 --> 04:06:16.428
QUISIERA C¯ NO ORIENTAR CON

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ELLOS POR EL BÀN DE NOSOTROS.

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ESAS PERSONAS DE ESTE LUGAR C¯

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NO ES EL TRABAJO SE DEBEN DE

04:06:22.601 --> 04:06:30.809
HACER TAMBIÉN O PERDON. OKAY,

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MY NAME IS SANDRA LUIS QUINTERO.

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I COME FROM BOYLE HEIGHTS. I'VE

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LIVED THERE FOR 40 YEARS. I

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WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE TWO

04:06:37.349 --> 04:06:38.783
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE CURRENTLY

04:06:38.850 --> 04:06:40.118
LEADING THE DEPARTMENT. THEY

04:06:40.185 --> 04:06:42.320
SHOULD BE REMOVED. I ASK YOU

04:06:42.387 --> 04:06:45.223
PLEASE TO LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS

04:06:45.290 --> 04:06:46.691
DIRECTOR WHO DID KNOW HOW TO

04:06:46.758 --> 04:06:48.126
EXERCISE HIS JOB, JONATHAN

04:06:48.193 --> 04:06:50.262
FIELDING, HE'S OVER AT UCLA, I

04:06:50.328 --> 04:06:52.030
THINK. I RECOMMEND I PLEAD WITH

04:06:52.097 --> 04:06:53.231
YOU TO PLEASE REACH OUT TO HIM

04:06:53.298 --> 04:06:55.100
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO

04:06:55.167 --> 04:06:58.937
RUN THAT DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU

04:06:59.004 --> 04:07:02.174
SENORITA. QUÊ ES MUY

04:07:02.240 --> 04:07:05.277
RESPONSABLE PARA LA SALUD DE

04:07:05.343 --> 04:07:06.344
TODAS LAS PERSONAS ESTA MUY

04:07:06.411 --> 04:07:07.646
INTERESADA VERDADERAMENTE EL

04:07:07.712 --> 04:07:10.081
APOYO ESTA DANDO COMO SERES

04:07:10.148 --> 04:07:12.617
HUMANOS. HERMANOS EST LE DOY.

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LAS GRACIAS. I THANK YOU LADIES.

04:07:15.187 --> 04:07:16.588
I THINK THE WAY YOU'VE

04:07:16.655 --> 04:07:17.589
EXPRESSED YOURSELF, YOU REALLY

04:07:17.656 --> 04:07:19.291
WANT TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY.

04:07:19.357 --> 04:07:20.525
SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR

04:07:20.592 --> 04:07:22.394
DOING THAT. YOU'RE DOING A GOOD

04:07:22.460 --> 04:07:23.562
JOB. THAT'S WHAT I TO ALL OF

04:07:23.628 --> 04:07:32.037
YOU, THANK YOU. ASAMBLEÍSTA

04:07:32.103 --> 04:07:33.471
ESTAS PERSONAS KANSEN

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ENCARGADOS EN LA SALUD PUBLICA

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EN EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUD. NO

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HAN HECHO NADA, NADA DE SU

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TRABAJO SE DEBEN DESARROLLAR

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CIERTO Y LOS DE ABAJO NI

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BASADOS EN ESTE DEPARTAMENTO.

04:07:50.455 --> 04:07:55.093
QUIERE DECIR CæA VENENO CIERTO

04:07:55.160 --> 04:07:56.895
SABEMOS TODOS CAÑADA ESTA BIEN

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MAL. IF I COULD HAVE YOU WRAP

04:07:59.197 --> 04:08:01.900
UP YOUR COMMENTS, JUST ONE MORE.

04:08:01.967 --> 04:08:03.835
YEAH, THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT

04:08:03.902 --> 04:08:05.170
THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE

04:08:05.237 --> 04:08:06.238
WORKING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF

04:08:06.304 --> 04:08:08.740
PUBLIC HEALTH AREN'T DOING

04:08:08.807 --> 04:08:11.276
ANYTHING. THAT'S TRUE. WE KNOW

04:08:11.343 --> 04:08:13.111
IT. WE ALL KNOW IT. WE KNOW

04:08:13.178 --> 04:08:14.412
THAT WE'RE BEING POISONED AND

04:08:14.479 --> 04:08:18.783
THEY'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING.

04:08:18.850 --> 04:08:21.720
NOSOTROS AQUI A MENOS CRIMINAL.

04:08:21.786 --> 04:08:23.154
MANO CRIMINAL PARA TODOS

04:08:23.221 --> 04:08:24.623
NOSOTROS. SOMOS CONEJOS DE

04:08:24.689 --> 04:08:26.324
INDIA PARA SABER COMO VAN A

04:08:26.391 --> 04:08:27.926
ACABAR CON NUESTRAS VIDAS. ES

04:08:27.993 --> 04:08:30.695
LO C¯ AQUI NO HAY CRIMEN. PERO

04:08:30.762 --> 04:08:32.530
NOSOTROS TENEMOS Ã USTEDES

04:08:32.597 --> 04:08:35.700
TIENEN EL PODER Y JUNTOS

04:08:35.767 --> 04:08:37.269
ADELANTE Y GANAR COMO SE DEBE

04:08:37.335 --> 04:08:39.704
DE JUSTICIA DIVINA Y POR EL

04:08:39.771 --> 04:08:42.574
MUNDO. CIERTO GRACIAS. MUCHAS

04:08:42.641 --> 04:08:44.776
GRACIAS. THANK YOU. THERE IS A

04:08:44.843 --> 04:08:48.346
CRIMINAL HAND HERE. WE KNOW IT.

04:08:48.413 --> 04:08:50.148
MÐI. AND THEN, YOU KNOW,

04:08:50.215 --> 04:08:51.950
THERE'S A DIVINE JUSTICE. AND

04:08:52.017 --> 04:08:53.184
YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO

04:08:53.251 --> 04:08:55.086
BE DONE. SO THANK YOU. WE HOPE

04:08:55.153 --> 04:08:56.288
YOU MOVE FORWARD. AND YEAH,

04:08:56.354 --> 04:08:57.956
THESE ARE ALL CRIMINAL ACTS.

04:08:58.023 --> 04:09:03.194
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HI. MY

04:09:03.261 --> 04:09:04.963
NAME IS ELIZABETH JEFFORDS. I

04:09:05.030 --> 04:09:07.098
AM A COMMUNITY MEMBER HERE IN

04:09:07.165 --> 04:09:09.634
HASLEY HILLS, CASTAIC. FIVE,

04:09:09.701 --> 04:09:10.669
SIX YEARS, SEVEN YEARS. I DON'T

04:09:10.735 --> 04:09:12.437
KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT'S BEEN

04:09:12.504 --> 04:09:15.373
NOW. I MOVED IN ON JANUARY AND

04:09:15.440 --> 04:09:20.745
JANUARY OF 2020, AND IT'S BEEN

04:09:20.812 --> 04:09:23.248
NOTHING BUT A NIGHTMARE SINCE.

04:09:23.315 --> 04:09:25.450
UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A GREAT

04:09:25.517 --> 04:09:26.518
COMMUNITY. THERE'S NOTHING THAT

04:09:26.584 --> 04:09:27.952
I CAN SAY THAT HASN'T ALREADY

04:09:28.019 --> 04:09:31.523
BEEN SAID A THOUSAND TIMES OVER

04:09:31.589 --> 04:09:33.692
AGAIN. BUT WE'RE HERE TODAY.

04:09:33.758 --> 04:09:36.261
THANK YOU MISS, FOR YOU'RE THE

04:09:36.328 --> 04:09:37.696
ONLY PERSON ON. GET OUT OF BED

04:09:37.762 --> 04:09:41.266
FOR I'M HERE. I'M HERE FOR YOU

04:09:41.333 --> 04:09:43.068
BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR US

04:09:43.134 --> 04:09:48.940
AND YOU'VE. YOU LITERALLY SAVED

04:09:49.007 --> 04:09:53.511
MY LIFE OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

04:09:53.578 --> 04:09:54.946
AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE HAS SAID

04:09:55.013 --> 04:09:57.082
THAT. BUT WE'RE HERE TODAY TO

04:09:57.148 --> 04:09:58.917
TALK ABOUT THE FAILURE OF THE

04:09:58.983 --> 04:10:00.685
HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN LOS

04:10:00.752 --> 04:10:02.520
ANGELES COUNTY. I, I WAS NOT

04:10:02.587 --> 04:10:03.855
BORN AND RAISED IN CALIFORNIA.

04:10:03.922 --> 04:10:05.724
I WAS NOT FORTUNATE ENOUGH FOR

04:10:05.790 --> 04:10:08.560
THAT. BUT THE REASON WHY I

04:10:08.626 --> 04:10:11.129
MOVED TO CALIFORNIA WAS BECAUSE

04:10:11.196 --> 04:10:13.298
UNDER WHAT I COULD SEE OUTSIDE

04:10:13.365 --> 04:10:15.066
OF THE STATE WAS THAT

04:10:15.133 --> 04:10:20.839
CALIFORNIA IS THE LEADER IN

04:10:20.905 --> 04:10:22.674
EVERYTHING HEALTHCARE AND

04:10:22.741 --> 04:10:24.109
SUNSHINE, YOU KNOW, RUNNING

04:10:24.175 --> 04:10:26.678
OUTSIDE AND SMILES ALL DAY LONG.

04:10:26.745 --> 04:10:28.446
AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,

04:10:28.513 --> 04:10:30.615
NUMBER ONE, RIGHT? PROTECTING

04:10:30.682 --> 04:10:32.717
THEIR PEOPLE. NUMBER ONE

04:10:32.784 --> 04:10:35.320
PRIORITY. WE SET THE TONE FOR

04:10:35.387 --> 04:10:37.422
EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY.

04:10:37.489 --> 04:10:39.724
AND TO BE HERE IN THIS POSITION

04:10:39.791 --> 04:10:41.726
AND TO BE BEDRIDDEN FOR FOUR

04:10:41.793 --> 04:10:44.996
YEARS WHILE PAYING PROPERTY

04:10:45.063 --> 04:10:47.499
TAXES FOR 20 YEARS IN LOS

04:10:47.565 --> 04:10:50.735
ANGELES COUNTY. I AM DISGUSTED

04:10:50.802 --> 04:10:54.005
AND I'M EMBARRASSED TO EVEN

04:10:54.072 --> 04:10:56.474
TELL PEOPLE THAT I'M A PART OF

04:10:56.541 --> 04:10:59.043
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, THAT I LIVE

04:10:59.110 --> 04:11:02.547
IN THIS STATE BECAUSE NO ONE IN

04:11:02.614 --> 04:11:06.050
MY FAMILY, MY MY ANCESTORS EVEN

04:11:06.117 --> 04:11:07.519
CAN BELIEVE THAT I'VE STAYED

04:11:07.585 --> 04:11:10.722
HERE THIS LONG AND PUT UP WITH

04:11:10.789 --> 04:11:12.957
THIS MONTH AFTER MONTH, YEAR

04:11:13.024 --> 04:11:14.793
AFTER YEAR. WE GO TO THESE

04:11:14.859 --> 04:11:17.996
MEETINGS AND DOCTOR QUIGG

04:11:18.062 --> 04:11:20.865
BARELY LOOKS UP FROM HER PHONE.

04:11:20.932 --> 04:11:23.768
ENGAGES YOU. I'VE WAITED IN

04:11:23.835 --> 04:11:25.537
LINE OVER AN HOUR TO SPEAK WITH

04:11:25.603 --> 04:11:28.406
HER, AND SHE TURNED, LITERALLY

04:11:28.473 --> 04:11:30.208
TURNED HER BACK ON ME AND SAID,

04:11:30.275 --> 04:11:33.478
NO. WHERE DO WE GO FOR ANSWERS?

04:11:33.545 --> 04:11:35.246
I'M PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

04:11:35.313 --> 04:11:37.415
I'VE LOST MY ENTIRE RETIREMENT,

04:11:37.482 --> 04:11:39.551
MY LIFE SAVINGS, GOING TO THE

04:11:39.617 --> 04:11:42.120
HOSPITAL, CHECKING FOR ALL

04:11:42.187 --> 04:11:43.922
THESE TESTS, SEEING WHAT'S

04:11:43.988 --> 04:11:46.825
WRONG, WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND

04:11:46.891 --> 04:11:50.361
EVERY MONTH THEY TELL US IT'S

04:11:50.428 --> 04:11:52.931
ACUTE. THERE'S NOTHING TO WORRY

04:11:52.997 --> 04:11:56.868
ABOUT. WHEN WE COULD HAVE JUST

04:11:56.935 --> 04:11:59.370
BEEN TOLD UP FRONT THAT THIS IS

04:11:59.437 --> 04:12:01.039
THE SITUATION. WE'RE NOT GOING

04:12:01.105 --> 04:12:02.740
TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. IT'S

04:12:02.807 --> 04:12:05.143
OUT OF OUR HANDS. BUT AT LEAST

04:12:05.210 --> 04:12:06.578
WE WOULD KNOW TO GET THE HELL

04:12:06.644 --> 04:12:10.882
OUT OF HERE. BECAUSE FOUR YEARS

04:12:10.949 --> 04:12:12.717
AGO I WAS A COMPLETELY

04:12:12.784 --> 04:12:14.519
DIFFERENT PERSON. AND FOUR

04:12:14.586 --> 04:12:16.988
YEARS AGO EVEN THEN, I COULDN'T

04:12:17.055 --> 04:12:18.089
IMAGINE MYSELF IN THE STATE

04:12:18.156 --> 04:12:21.693
THAT I AM RIGHT NOW. AND SO

04:12:21.759 --> 04:12:23.127
THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID

04:12:23.194 --> 04:12:26.397
ABOUT NOT JUST LETTING THE THE

04:12:26.464 --> 04:12:28.566
HOSPITAL, THE MEDICAL STAFF

04:12:28.633 --> 04:12:31.769
AROUND OUR COMMUNITY BEING TOLD

04:12:31.836 --> 04:12:33.938
WHAT'S GOING ON. IT'S A

04:12:34.005 --> 04:12:35.773
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING TO

04:12:35.840 --> 04:12:38.009
WITHHOLD THAT INFORMATION FROM

04:12:38.076 --> 04:12:40.678
THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE AS FULL AS

04:12:40.745 --> 04:12:44.782
THIS ROOM WAS TODAY. WE HAD TO

04:12:44.849 --> 04:12:47.619
MAKE THIS HAPPEN. THERE WAS NO

04:12:47.685 --> 04:12:50.855
LA COUNTY HEALTH MASS DOOR

04:12:50.922 --> 04:12:54.826
KNOCKING, EMAILS, TEXT BLASTS,

04:12:54.893 --> 04:12:56.995
NOTHING FOR ANY OF THOSE THINGS

04:12:57.061 --> 04:12:59.998
THAT WE FOUND IN THE AUDIT, ANY

04:13:00.064 --> 04:13:01.332
OF THOSE SURVEYS, ANY OF THE

04:13:01.399 --> 04:13:03.268
REACH OUT. BY THE WAY, I DID

04:13:03.334 --> 04:13:04.602
NOT GET ANYTHING ON MY DOOR,

04:13:04.669 --> 04:13:07.438
THAT'S FOR SURE. BUT INSTEAD

04:13:07.505 --> 04:13:09.574
I'M THE ONE EMAILING LIKE AN

04:13:09.641 --> 04:13:11.743
IDIOT EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR TWO

04:13:11.809 --> 04:13:14.279
YEARS. THE COUNTY HEALTH NURSE,

04:13:14.345 --> 04:13:17.181
MY SYMPTOMS CRYING EVERY SINGLE

04:13:17.248 --> 04:13:19.050
DAY. DO YOU KNOW IT'S WE'RE

04:13:19.117 --> 04:13:21.853
TALKING ABOUT 1500 DAYS OF MY

04:13:21.920 --> 04:13:24.689
LIFE SPENT CRYING IN TEARS,

04:13:24.756 --> 04:13:26.558
TRYING TO FIND ANSWERS TO GET

04:13:26.624 --> 04:13:30.128
OUT OF THIS SITUATION. WHEN WE

04:13:30.194 --> 04:13:32.263
HAVE A HEALTH DEPARTMENT WHO IS

04:13:32.330 --> 04:13:34.799
SUPPOSED TO BE DEDICATED TO

04:13:34.866 --> 04:13:36.601
SOLVING THOSE PROBLEMS FOR US,

04:13:36.668 --> 04:13:37.802
AND TO LETTING US KNOW WHEN

04:13:37.869 --> 04:13:39.604
WE'RE IN DANGER, WHEN OUR LIVES

04:13:39.671 --> 04:13:40.905
ARE IN DANGER. HAVE NO PROBLEM

04:13:40.972 --> 04:13:42.707
TAKING MY TAX MONEY EVERY EVERY

04:13:42.774 --> 04:13:46.277
YEAR. BUT WHEN I REACH OUT, NO

04:13:46.344 --> 04:13:49.581
ONE'S THERE. NO ANSWERS. EVEN

04:13:49.647 --> 04:13:50.915
TODAY, WE'RE GOING INTO THE NEW

04:13:50.982 --> 04:13:52.116
YEAR. IT'S GOING TO BE MY FIFTH

04:13:52.183 --> 04:13:57.855
NEW YEAR IN BED. PHYSICALLY

04:13:57.922 --> 04:13:59.691
UNABLE TO GO ANYWHERE OR THE

04:13:59.757 --> 04:14:02.193
WANT TO CELEBRATE ANYTHING

04:14:02.260 --> 04:14:03.995
BECAUSE THERE'S NO PART OF THIS

04:14:04.062 --> 04:14:06.130
LAST FIVE YEARS THAT MAKES ME

04:14:06.197 --> 04:14:08.633
WANT TO CELEBRATE OR HAVE JOY

04:14:08.700 --> 04:14:13.671
OR HAVE HOPE. WE SIT THERE

04:14:13.738 --> 04:14:15.873
EVERY MONTH AND LISTEN TO THE

04:14:15.940 --> 04:14:18.977
GASLIGHTING AND THE WE'LL GET

04:14:19.043 --> 04:14:20.178
BACK TO YOU. WE'LL CIRCLE BACK

04:14:20.244 --> 04:14:22.780
NEXT MONTH AND THE LYING WITH

04:14:22.847 --> 04:14:25.183
THE MONITORS BEING FAULTY.

04:14:25.249 --> 04:14:27.018
THERE'S NO THERE'S NO WAY.

04:14:27.085 --> 04:14:31.322
BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS

04:14:31.389 --> 04:14:35.994
EVIL AND WE'VE ALLOWED THIS

04:14:36.060 --> 04:14:38.863
LANDFILL TO DICTATE OUR LIVES

04:14:38.930 --> 04:14:40.331
AND THE LIVES OF OUR

04:14:40.398 --> 04:14:41.032
CONSTITUENTS AND THE LIVES OF

04:14:41.099 --> 04:14:45.003
OUR NEIGHBORS. AND THAT'S NOT

04:14:45.069 --> 04:14:47.171
FAIR. NONE OF THIS IS OUR

04:14:47.238 --> 04:14:48.640
PROBLEM. NONE OF THIS IS

04:14:48.706 --> 04:14:51.142
BECAUSE OF US. WE DID

04:14:51.209 --> 04:14:52.210
EVERYTHING WE WERE SUPPOSED TO

04:14:52.276 --> 04:14:54.345
DO. SO THE LEAST WE COULD DO IS

04:14:54.412 --> 04:14:56.280
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN

04:14:56.347 --> 04:14:57.515
YOU GUYS SIT UP THERE IN THE

04:14:57.582 --> 04:14:59.384
CHAIR SAYS, WE'RE GOING TO DO

04:14:59.450 --> 04:15:00.418
SOMETHING, WE'RE GOING TO FIX

04:15:00.485 --> 04:15:02.286
THIS WHEN BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE

04:15:02.353 --> 04:15:03.521
TO SEE THAT DONE BEFORE I DIE.

04:15:03.588 --> 04:15:05.289
YEAH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

04:15:05.356 --> 04:15:06.557
I'VE BEEN REALLY LENIENT WITH

04:15:06.624 --> 04:15:08.292
TIME. SO IF YOU CAN TRY AND

04:15:08.359 --> 04:15:10.595
KEEP IT. THANK YOU. HI. GOOD

04:15:10.662 --> 04:15:11.996
AFTERNOON OR GOOD EVENING. NOW

04:15:12.063 --> 04:15:13.765
MY NAME IS MACKENZIE HERRERA

04:15:13.831 --> 04:15:15.967
AND I'M A RESIDENT OF MONTEREY

04:15:16.034 --> 04:15:20.638
PARK WHERE I. MY CHILDHOOD HOME

04:15:20.705 --> 04:15:22.907
IS IS ALONG THE PLUME PATH FROM

04:15:22.974 --> 04:15:26.444
THE LINEAGE WAREHOUSE FIRE. I

04:15:26.511 --> 04:15:27.845
JUST FIRST AND FOREMOST WANT TO

04:15:27.912 --> 04:15:29.213
SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO

04:15:29.280 --> 04:15:30.648
HAS SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCE AND

04:15:30.715 --> 04:15:32.183
THEIR STORY, BECAUSE I FEEL

04:15:32.250 --> 04:15:33.885
LIKE I'M GETTING A GLIMPSE INTO

04:15:33.951 --> 04:15:35.820
THE FUTURE OF WHAT THE NEXT FEW

04:15:35.887 --> 04:15:36.954
YEARS IS REALLY GOING TO LOOK

04:15:37.021 --> 04:15:39.357
LIKE FOR US, WITHOUT REAL

04:15:39.424 --> 04:15:41.159
ACCOUNTABILITY AND REAL CHANGE

04:15:41.225 --> 04:15:43.294
FROM OUR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

04:15:43.361 --> 04:15:48.332
HEALTH, I AM TRULY JUST IN

04:15:48.399 --> 04:15:51.302
SHOCK. BUT TRULY, I THINK AT

04:15:51.369 --> 04:15:52.970
THE ESSENCE OF THIS SHOCK IS

04:15:53.037 --> 04:15:54.839
JUST DISGUSTED THAT THEY ARE

04:15:54.906 --> 04:15:56.307
CONTINUING TO GET AWAY WITH

04:15:56.374 --> 04:15:59.877
THIS WITH NO ACTION, NO TRUE

04:15:59.944 --> 04:16:01.312
ACCOUNTABILITY. AND MY QUESTION

04:16:01.379 --> 04:16:03.881
TO ALL OF YOU IS WHAT IS REAL

04:16:03.948 --> 04:16:04.949
ACCOUNTABILITY LOOK LIKE? THE

04:16:05.016 --> 04:16:07.452
QUESTION OF WHEN? WHEN IS LIKE

04:16:07.518 --> 04:16:09.587
ENOUGH TIME, ENOUGH TIME?

04:16:09.654 --> 04:16:11.055
BECAUSE THE FACT THAT THIS IS

04:16:11.122 --> 04:16:13.224
WE'RE ONLY A FEW MONTHS IN, BUT

04:16:13.291 --> 04:16:16.461
THIS IS YEARS. THIS IS YEARS OF

04:16:16.527 --> 04:16:18.596
PEOPLE'S LIVES. LIKE NEW

04:16:18.663 --> 04:16:20.064
GENERATIONS AREN'T EVEN BEING

04:16:20.131 --> 04:16:22.934
BORN. AND SO THE QUESTION OF

04:16:23.000 --> 04:16:24.368
MISCARRIAGES HAS ME NOW

04:16:24.435 --> 04:16:26.137
THINKING, OKAY, WHY AM I

04:16:26.204 --> 04:16:27.205
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE ALREADY

04:16:27.271 --> 04:16:29.073
GETTING, YOU KNOW, TARGETED AS

04:16:29.140 --> 04:16:31.209
A YOUNG WOMAN, I'M IN MY 20S,

04:16:31.275 --> 04:16:33.010
BUT ALSO IT'S NOW HAVING ME

04:16:33.077 --> 04:16:34.545
THINK, OKAY, DO I NEED TO START

04:16:34.612 --> 04:16:35.880
THINKING ABOUT WHAT DOES THIS

04:16:35.947 --> 04:16:37.682
MEAN FOR MY FUTURE, MY FUTURE

04:16:37.749 --> 04:16:39.550
AS A WOMAN IF I WANT TO BECOME

04:16:39.617 --> 04:16:41.452
A MOM, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR

04:16:41.519 --> 04:16:43.087
MY FAMILY? I'VE ALREADY BEEN

04:16:43.154 --> 04:16:44.522
EVACUATED FROM MY CHILDHOOD

04:16:44.589 --> 04:16:46.324
HOME, THE ONE SAFE SPACE THAT I

04:16:46.390 --> 04:16:48.126
HAD, AND NOW HAVING TO GET

04:16:48.192 --> 04:16:49.560
ADJUSTED TO A WHOLE NEW

04:16:49.627 --> 04:16:51.028
COMMUNITY. I LIVE BY A HIGH

04:16:51.095 --> 04:16:52.463
SCHOOL. MY COMMUNITY BEFORE WAS

04:16:52.530 --> 04:16:54.932
VERY QUIET. IT IS VERY, VERY

04:16:54.999 --> 04:16:56.801
DIFFERENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE

04:16:56.868 --> 04:16:57.869
REALITY OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE

04:16:57.935 --> 04:16:59.137
LIVING. I'M VERY GRATEFUL I

04:16:59.203 --> 04:17:01.072
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE

04:17:01.139 --> 04:17:03.241
SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT MY HOME IS

04:17:03.307 --> 04:17:05.309
CONTAMINATED FROM TOXIC AIR. I

04:17:05.376 --> 04:17:08.546
SMELLED THAT FOR DAYS UNTIL MY

04:17:08.613 --> 04:17:10.148
MOTHER AND I CHOSE TO EVACUATE

04:17:10.214 --> 04:17:12.150
OUR HOME. WE RETURNED BECAUSE

04:17:12.216 --> 04:17:15.353
WE BOTH HAVE. HAD WE RETURNED.

04:17:15.419 --> 04:17:16.420
IF I COULD HAVE YOU WRAP UP

04:17:16.487 --> 04:17:17.522
YOUR COMMENTS? ABSOLUTELY. WE

04:17:17.588 --> 04:17:18.990
ASSUMED THAT OUR HOME WAS SAFE,

04:17:19.056 --> 04:17:20.491
BUT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE

04:17:20.558 --> 04:17:21.626
HAVE UNDERLYING HEALTH ISSUES,

04:17:21.692 --> 04:17:23.628
IT IS NOT SAFE. WE'VE GOTTEN

04:17:23.694 --> 04:17:25.830
SICK. I HAVE SUFFERED FROM FULL

04:17:25.897 --> 04:17:27.698
BODY RASHES, AND BECAUSE OF THE

04:17:27.765 --> 04:17:29.033
LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT

04:17:29.100 --> 04:17:31.602
PUBLIC HEALTH FELT, THE

04:17:31.669 --> 04:17:33.237
HOSPITALS THAT I WENT TO, AND I

04:17:33.304 --> 04:17:34.806
QUOTE, SAID THAT IF THIS WAS

04:17:34.872 --> 04:17:36.274
REALLY A PROBLEM, IF THIS WAS

04:17:36.340 --> 04:17:38.009
REALLY SERIOUS, WE WOULD KNOW

04:17:38.075 --> 04:17:39.844
ABOUT IT. SO YOU'RE PROBABLY

04:17:39.911 --> 04:17:41.612
JUST HAVING AN ALLERGIC

04:17:41.679 --> 04:17:43.114
REACTION. BUT I'VE NEVER HAD A

04:17:43.181 --> 04:17:44.749
REACTION LIKE THAT FROM MY BODY.

04:17:44.816 --> 04:17:47.051
MY BODY IS NOW SCARRED AS A

04:17:47.118 --> 04:17:48.519
RESULT OF THE FACT THAT I HAVE

04:17:48.586 --> 04:17:50.688
SEVERE SENSITIVITY NOW. SO I

04:17:50.755 --> 04:17:52.824
JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT REAL

04:17:52.890 --> 04:17:53.858
ACCOUNTABILITY LOOKS LIKE. AND

04:17:53.925 --> 04:17:56.027
I WOULD HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU

04:17:56.093 --> 04:17:57.862
ALL HAVE THE COURAGE TO ALSO

04:17:57.929 --> 04:17:59.664
ASK THESE QUESTIONS AND ALSO

04:17:59.730 --> 04:18:01.465
REMOVE THESE PEOPLE FROM THEIR

04:18:01.532 --> 04:18:02.633
JOBS. THE FACT THAT THEY ARE

04:18:02.700 --> 04:18:03.968
STILL CONTINUING TO GET PAID

04:18:04.035 --> 04:18:06.838
TIME AND TIME AGAIN IS BEYOND

04:18:06.904 --> 04:18:08.172
DEPLORABLE AND TRULY DISGUSTING.

04:18:08.239 --> 04:18:10.541
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK

04:18:10.608 --> 04:18:15.246
YOU, THANK YOU. MY NAME IS ALMA

04:18:15.313 --> 04:18:19.450
AND I'M A MOM. I'M VERY

04:18:19.517 --> 04:18:21.252
GRATEFUL THAT MY DAUGHTER HAS

04:18:21.319 --> 04:18:23.721
ALSO BEGUN TO FIND HER VOICE IN

04:18:23.788 --> 04:18:26.657
THIS. AND IT'S DEVASTATING AS A

04:18:26.724 --> 04:18:28.426
MOTHER, TO SEE YOUR KIDS SUFFER

04:18:28.492 --> 04:18:30.595
THE WAY SHE'S BEEN SUFFERING.

04:18:30.661 --> 04:18:33.130
AND IT'S BEEN DEVASTATING AND

04:18:33.197 --> 04:18:34.232
TRAUMATIZING TO HAVE TO KEEP

04:18:34.298 --> 04:18:37.034
TELLING OUR STORY OVER AND OVER.

04:18:37.101 --> 04:18:39.537
AND I'M LEARNING THAT THERE IS

04:18:39.604 --> 04:18:42.139
A TRAUMA BY ACTUALLY TELLING

04:18:42.206 --> 04:18:45.009
YOUR TRAUMA. AND I WANT TO JUST

04:18:45.076 --> 04:18:47.511
STAND IN SUPPORT OF ALL OF YOU,

04:18:47.578 --> 04:18:49.413
OF HAVING TO DO THAT FOR THE

04:18:49.480 --> 04:18:50.648
LAST FOUR YEARS, BECAUSE WE'VE

04:18:50.715 --> 04:18:52.416
BEEN DOING IT FOR THE LAST FOUR

04:18:52.483 --> 04:18:55.786
MONTHS, AND IT IS UNBELIEVABLE.

04:18:55.853 --> 04:18:58.322
WE STARTED PROTECT ELLIE NOW

04:18:58.389 --> 04:19:01.225
BECAUSE WE WERE NOT PROTECTED,

04:19:01.292 --> 04:19:03.728
AND PLAN IS THE ACRONYM. THERE

04:19:03.794 --> 04:19:05.663
WAS NO PLAN. THERE WAS A PLAN

04:19:05.730 --> 04:19:07.665
TO COVER THINGS UP. THERE WAS A

04:19:07.732 --> 04:19:09.867
PLAN, A PLAN TO LIE. THERE WAS

04:19:09.934 --> 04:19:12.737
A PLAN TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM THE

04:19:12.803 --> 04:19:15.306
TRUTH. AND THERE WAS A PLAN TO

04:19:15.373 --> 04:19:17.041
JUST MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT

04:19:17.108 --> 04:19:19.176
IN SPANISH WE SAY, NO PASA NADA.

04:19:19.243 --> 04:19:19.844
NOTHING'S HAPPENING HERE,

04:19:19.911 --> 04:19:22.079
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. AND THERE

04:19:22.146 --> 04:19:23.881
IS A LOT TO BE SEEN. THERE'S A

04:19:23.948 --> 04:19:25.750
LOT TO BE HEARD. AND THERE'S A

04:19:25.816 --> 04:19:27.518
DOCUMENT THAT I WANT YOU TO

04:19:27.585 --> 04:19:30.021
NOTE. AND I WANTED TO BE ON THE

04:19:30.087 --> 04:19:31.856
RECORD BECAUSE WE DID A LOT OF

04:19:31.923 --> 04:19:33.257
RESEARCH, INCLUDING ON WHAT

04:19:33.324 --> 04:19:34.358
HAPPENED, AND WE'RE LEARNING

04:19:34.425 --> 04:19:36.460
ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE AND

04:19:36.527 --> 04:19:38.296
THE COMPARISON OF WHAT THE

04:19:38.362 --> 04:19:40.398
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES,

04:19:40.464 --> 04:19:41.933
SPECIFICALLY PUBLIC HEALTH

04:19:41.999 --> 04:19:43.000
DEPARTMENT, AND HOW THEY

04:19:43.067 --> 04:19:44.769
RESPONDED TO OTHER DISASTERS

04:19:44.835 --> 04:19:46.938
AND WHAT THEY DID ACROSS SEVEN

04:19:47.004 --> 04:19:48.072
AREAS, AND AND WHAT THEY DID

04:19:48.139 --> 04:19:51.575
NOT DO TO ISSUE ANY INFORMATION,

04:19:51.642 --> 04:19:54.612
ANY GUIDANCE, ANYTHING IN THE

04:19:54.679 --> 04:19:56.714
BOYLE HEIGHTS AND EAST LA PLUME

04:19:56.781 --> 04:19:58.449
PATH COMMUNITIES AND THE SAN

04:19:58.516 --> 04:20:00.618
GABRIEL VALLEY, BECAUSE IN OUR

04:20:00.685 --> 04:20:03.554
SITUATION, IT CUTS ACROSS THE

04:20:03.621 --> 04:20:05.656
COUNTY AND MULTIPLE CITIES. SO

04:20:05.723 --> 04:20:08.225
IT'S NOT JUST ONE CITY, IT'S

04:20:08.292 --> 04:20:09.994
VARIOUS CITIES. AND THEY'VE

04:20:10.061 --> 04:20:12.630
BEEN NONRESPONSIVE. AND I THINK

04:20:12.697 --> 04:20:13.998
THAT THIS IS CRIMINAL. THERE'S

04:20:14.065 --> 04:20:16.500
BEEN A CRIMINAL WARRANT ISSUED

04:20:16.567 --> 04:20:18.302
FOR US. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

04:20:18.369 --> 04:20:20.471
THAT THE STATE COME IN AND DO

04:20:20.538 --> 04:20:22.974
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, ISSUE

04:20:23.040 --> 04:20:24.375
RECEIVERSHIP, TAKE OVER. IF

04:20:24.442 --> 04:20:25.876
THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR

04:20:25.943 --> 04:20:28.379
THIS COMMUNITY IN THE LAST FOUR

04:20:28.446 --> 04:20:31.248
YEARS, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT WHEN

04:20:31.315 --> 04:20:33.017
WE'VE BEEN POISONED, WHEN WE'RE

04:20:33.084 --> 04:20:34.518
SICK, WHEN WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE

04:20:34.585 --> 04:20:36.620
BURNING FROM THE INSIDE? AND

04:20:36.687 --> 04:20:38.489
THEN WHEN WE DOCUMENTED

04:20:38.556 --> 04:20:40.624
EVERYTHING AND SHARED OUR

04:20:40.691 --> 04:20:41.826
CONCERNS WITH THE COUNTY PUBLIC

04:20:41.892 --> 04:20:43.861
HEALTH OFFICER, WITH THE LETTER

04:20:43.928 --> 04:20:47.465
DATED JULY 6TH, WE WERE

04:20:47.531 --> 04:20:48.899
RESPONDED WITH A LETTER THREE

04:20:48.966 --> 04:20:51.469
DAYS LATER THAT SAID, GO AND

04:20:51.535 --> 04:20:53.604
TALK TO THE POLLUTER WHO MADE

04:20:53.671 --> 04:20:55.406
ALL OF THIS HAPPEN. IF I COULD

04:20:55.473 --> 04:20:56.507
HAVE YOU WRAP UP YOUR COMMENTS,

04:20:56.574 --> 04:20:58.609
WE WILL NOT HAVE A RESPONSE FOR

04:20:58.676 --> 04:21:00.378
YOU. YOU NEED TO GO AND ASK

04:21:00.444 --> 04:21:01.579
LINEAGE. SO I'M GOING TO SHARE

04:21:01.645 --> 04:21:03.280
THAT LETTER AS A MATTER OF

04:21:03.347 --> 04:21:05.249
PUBLIC RECORD FOR YOU, BECAUSE

04:21:05.316 --> 04:21:07.618
THAT IS A PUBLIC IT'S BASICALLY

04:21:07.685 --> 04:21:09.754
THEM SAYING WE ARE NOT

04:21:09.820 --> 04:21:11.222
RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH.

04:21:11.288 --> 04:21:14.058
THIS CORPORATION IS. AND SO IF

04:21:14.125 --> 04:21:15.893
THAT'S THE CASE, LET THE

04:21:15.960 --> 04:21:18.062
COUNTY'S RESPONSIBILITY, QUOTE

04:21:18.129 --> 04:21:20.231
UNQUOTE, BE THE STATE'S

04:21:20.297 --> 04:21:21.665
RESPONSIBILITY, TAKE IT OVER,

04:21:21.732 --> 04:21:23.434
HAVE IT IN RECEIVERSHIP, AND

04:21:23.501 --> 04:21:25.269
FIRE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WHO'VE

04:21:25.336 --> 04:21:27.071
ENDANGERED ALL OF OUR LIVES.

04:21:27.138 --> 04:21:34.712
THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY

04:21:34.779 --> 04:21:39.650
NAME IS BERNARD ARAMBULA. I'M.

04:21:39.717 --> 04:21:42.887
I'M A RETIRED POLICE COMMANDER.

04:21:42.953 --> 04:21:44.789
I CAME TO THIS COMMUNITY. LOVE

04:21:44.855 --> 04:21:46.190
THE COMMUNITY. IT'S A GREAT,

04:21:46.257 --> 04:21:48.025
GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT AREA. AND

04:21:48.092 --> 04:21:51.228
THE DUMP MAKES IT TERRIBLE. I

04:21:51.295 --> 04:21:53.697
REALLY WANTED MORE THAN ALL

04:21:53.764 --> 04:21:55.533
MORE THAN ANYTHING TO THINK

04:21:55.599 --> 04:21:58.402
BECAUSE I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW

04:21:58.469 --> 04:21:59.670
IF ANY OF YOU WOULD BE HERE

04:21:59.737 --> 04:22:02.706
WITHOUT HER. SHE LISTENED TO US

04:22:02.773 --> 04:22:05.009
WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD. AND AS

04:22:05.076 --> 04:22:06.844
A POLICE OFFICER, WHEN YOU KNOW

04:22:06.911 --> 04:22:08.879
THE ONE PLACE I WANT TO BE SAFE

04:22:08.946 --> 04:22:10.614
IS AT HOME FOR MYSELF AND MY

04:22:10.681 --> 04:22:12.683
FAMILY. AND WE'RE NOT. WE'RE

04:22:12.750 --> 04:22:16.454
NOT SAFE AT HOME. YOU KNOW, AS

04:22:16.520 --> 04:22:18.089
A POLICE OFFICER, IF WE DO

04:22:18.155 --> 04:22:19.590
SOMETHING WRONG, THERE'S

04:22:19.657 --> 04:22:21.158
MALFEASANCE OR OPPRESSION UNDER

04:22:21.225 --> 04:22:23.194
COLOR OF AUTHORITY. AND WE HOLD

04:22:23.260 --> 04:22:25.362
ACCOUNTABLE. THESE PEOPLE ARE

04:22:25.429 --> 04:22:27.198
DOING THE SAME THING WITH THEIR.

04:22:27.264 --> 04:22:28.265
WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS

04:22:28.332 --> 04:22:29.366
MALFEASANCE AND OPPRESSION

04:22:29.433 --> 04:22:32.670
UNDER AUTHORITY. AND THERE IS

04:22:32.736 --> 04:22:34.405
NO CONSEQUENCES. THEY GET THE

04:22:34.472 --> 04:22:38.008
DUMP, GETS NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS,

04:22:38.075 --> 04:22:39.410
THOUSANDS OF NOTICES OF

04:22:39.477 --> 04:22:40.878
VIOLATIONS, AND NOT ONE FINE.

04:22:40.945 --> 04:22:44.081
NOTHING HAPPENS. IT'S. AND I

04:22:44.148 --> 04:22:45.916
GENERALLY THINK THEY WANT US TO

04:22:45.983 --> 04:22:47.685
JUST STOP GOING TO THE MEETINGS

04:22:47.751 --> 04:22:48.886
SO THEY CAN STOP BEING THERE.

04:22:48.953 --> 04:22:50.654
BUT WE STILL KEEP GOING. THE

04:22:50.721 --> 04:22:51.722
MEETINGS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO

04:22:51.789 --> 04:22:54.592
STOP. BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING,

04:22:54.658 --> 04:22:56.594
THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

04:22:56.660 --> 04:23:00.297
THANK YOU. SO CAN I JUST SAY

04:23:00.364 --> 04:23:02.133
SOMETHING TO THE COMMUNITY REAL

04:23:02.199 --> 04:23:05.703
QUICK? 10S 10S 10S. NEXT

04:23:05.769 --> 04:23:08.038
TUESDAY IS ELECTION DAY. PLEASE

04:23:08.105 --> 04:23:09.707
GO. EXCUSE ME SIR,

04:23:09.773 --> 04:23:10.808
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THIS IS

04:23:10.875 --> 04:23:12.910
A STATE HEARING. THANK YOU.

04:23:12.977 --> 04:23:15.779
THANK THANK YOU SIR. OKAY.

04:23:15.846 --> 04:23:16.947
THANK YOU. SO WE'RE GOING TO

04:23:17.014 --> 04:23:18.782
BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE.

04:23:18.849 --> 04:23:19.850
AND IF THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN WOULD

04:23:19.917 --> 04:23:20.951
LIKE TO OFFER ANY CLOSING

04:23:21.018 --> 04:23:22.820
REMARKS, I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU

04:23:22.887 --> 04:23:25.156
SHOULD PASS LEGISLATION. SO,

04:23:25.222 --> 04:23:26.924
MA'AM, MA'AM, I'M GOING TO.

04:23:26.991 --> 04:23:28.726
MA'AM, WE'RE WE'RE IN A STATE

04:23:28.792 --> 04:23:30.961
HEARING. THANK YOU. WE CAN TALK

04:23:31.028 --> 04:23:34.598
AFTER Tð JUST I, I, I WANT TO

04:23:34.665 --> 04:23:36.567
WRAP IT UP. I KNOW IT'S BEEN A

04:23:36.634 --> 04:23:38.435
LONG NIGHT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT

04:23:38.502 --> 04:23:41.705
OF TEARS SHED AND AND A LOT OF

04:23:41.772 --> 04:23:44.208
FRUSTRATION FOR GOOD REASON.

04:23:44.275 --> 04:23:52.883
AND. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO

04:23:52.950 --> 04:23:54.051
FIGHT THIS HARD. WE SHOULDN'T

04:23:54.118 --> 04:23:56.086
HAVE TO FIGHT THIS HARD. IT'S

04:23:56.153 --> 04:23:59.757
SO FRUSTRATING. IT IS SO

04:23:59.823 --> 04:24:02.960
FRUSTRATING THAT IT TAKES THIS

04:24:03.027 --> 04:24:04.461
MUCH AND THIS MANY YEARS AND

04:24:04.528 --> 04:24:06.897
THESE MANY, THIS MANY STORIES

04:24:06.964 --> 04:24:10.501
AND TEARS AND SUFFERING THAT

04:24:10.568 --> 04:24:12.303
OUR COMMUNITY IS GOING THROUGH

04:24:12.369 --> 04:24:16.941
TO GET JUST BASIC ACTION TO

04:24:17.007 --> 04:24:19.476
HAPPEN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF

04:24:19.543 --> 04:24:21.278
PUBLIC HEALTH THAT IS

04:24:21.345 --> 04:24:23.847
RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH.

04:24:23.914 --> 04:24:27.785
IT IS. IT'S UNBELIEVABLE. IT'S

04:24:27.851 --> 04:24:29.853
UNFORGIVABLE. AND IT JUST HAS

04:24:29.920 --> 04:24:32.022
TO CHANGE NOW. IT HAS TO CHANGE

04:24:32.089 --> 04:24:33.257
NOW. AND AS I'VE SAID BEFORE,

04:24:33.324 --> 04:24:35.125
IF IT DOES NOT CHANGE, IF THEY

04:24:35.192 --> 04:24:36.760
DON'T CHANGE THE THE COUNTY

04:24:36.827 --> 04:24:38.229
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS TO

04:24:38.295 --> 04:24:39.463
CHANGE IT. IF THEY DON'T CHANGE

04:24:39.530 --> 04:24:41.465
IT, THE STATE HAS TO CHANGE IT.

04:24:41.532 --> 04:24:43.601
WE CANNOT KEEP WAITING AND

04:24:43.667 --> 04:24:45.069
CROSSING OUR FINGERS AND

04:24:45.135 --> 04:24:46.604
BEGGING AND PLEADING FOR THEM

04:24:46.670 --> 04:24:49.006
TO SHOW UP AND DO THEIR JOB AND

04:24:49.073 --> 04:24:51.575
PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY. WE NEED

04:24:51.642 --> 04:24:53.777
ACTION AND WE NEED IT NOW. AND

04:24:53.844 --> 04:24:55.813
SO THAT'S WHAT I WILL CONTINUE

04:24:55.879 --> 04:24:59.450
EVERY DAY TO FIGHT FOR WITH YOU.

04:24:59.516 --> 04:25:01.018
AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE

04:25:01.085 --> 04:25:02.453
THAT CHANGE COMES TO THIS

04:25:02.519 --> 04:25:03.954
COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, EVERYONE

04:25:04.021 --> 04:25:08.826
FOR ALL YOU DO. THANK YOU AGAIN,

04:25:08.892 --> 04:25:10.027
ASSEMBLYWOMAN. I WILL HAVE

04:25:10.094 --> 04:25:11.161
NOTHING TO ADD BECAUSE THOSE

04:25:11.228 --> 04:25:12.763
WERE PHENOMENAL CLOSING REMARKS.

04:25:12.830 --> 04:25:13.731
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

04:25:13.797 --> 04:25:15.332
ON THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU TO THE

04:25:15.399 --> 04:25:16.700
AUDITOR. AND WITH THAT, THIS

04:25:16.767 --> 04:25:33.617
HEARING IS ADJOURNED.