Recommendation to adopt resolution  in opposition to the September 14, 2021, recall election of the Governor of California.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Item 32 is the last item, please. Before the budget. Report from City Attorney a recommendation to adopt a resolution in opposition to the September 14, 2021 recall election of a governor of California city. Wide. Caters to public comments. Gary Levy and Jordan McKnight, please come forward. Go ahead. Good evening, City Council. I'm Gary Levy. I live in the fifth district. I think when you have a vote, an issue that's left to the voters for the people to decide, I think it's wrong for a government agency to put its thumb on the scale officially. You all are elected officials. But when you come together here to conduct the city's business, your cities employ your city employees conducting city business. Just as these uniformed police officers here, it's improper for them to put their thumb on the scale and tell people how to vote. It's wrong for city officials conducting city business to do that. I think it stinks stinks of corruption. I hope the city attorney speaks out about that. It stinks of interference in elections. It's wrong to use that city seal, this letterhead, city resources and city time to tell people out how to vote. I think it also means if you're for this, that you're a bunch of cheapskates, that you're using city resources when you should be using your own private resources to speak out on this and your own private time to speak out on this. We saw this with Marjorie. We saw this with other charter amendments where you get city correspondence in your water bill. Again, city resources. It's unfair to opponents of this. It's just wrong. I've gotten phone calls on measure from city lines. It's wrong. It's a violation of the law. And I hope the city attorney can tell you that and recommend that you don't do it. That is all. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello again. I just want to say, from my understanding, the city cannot support a candidate. But you're that a loophole getting around that is by saying this is a ballot measure. But by opposing the recall, it is very much supporting the candidate. And I think it's a very dangerous precedent you all are setting sitting up there by by opposing this recall. The the polls show it's about 5050 split down the middle for the recall versus not wanting to recall. So I believe you should allow the voters to make their vote known, their opinion known, and you guys should probably stay out of this one. Thank you. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Members, please cast your votes. Council members who were not. Motion carries. It. Motion carries with that, we are going to go ahead and take a recess. The Budget Office is still putting information in that will be presented to us as we conclude the budget. So we'll take a recess for about 10 minutes and then we'll be back for the final items on the budget. But I don't know about what I'm about. Out. Boop. Boop, boop, boop. I can have the council back to the staff is ready to present the rest of the budget so we can adopt the finish the budget for adoption. We're going to go ahead and call the meeting back to order. And if I can go ahead and do a roll call, please, so we can go back into session. Councilwoman Zendejas. Is it. Councilwoman Allen as in Councilwoman Price? Councilman Superstar. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilwoman Zero. Councilmember your UNGA. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. Mayor Garcia. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and take the next part of the budget, which is item 13, which is the emergency declaration. And it's a 13. I can have a motion in a second on item 13. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes.