HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - September 16, 2020 Public Comment(ESG-CV) application and authorizing the City Manager to enter into agreements with the
San Joaquin Community Development Department for a Navigation Center Project, in the
approximate amount of $400,000.
VOTE:
The above motion carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Council Member Chandler, Mayor Pro Tempore Nakanishi, and Mayor Kuehne
Noes: Council Member Mounce
Absent: None
ROLL CALL VOTE
The City Council held a ROLL CALL vote (all voiced their votes)
C-7 Adopt Resolution Authorizinq Submission of Coronavirus Aid. Relief and Economic
Securitv Act Grant Apolication and Authorizinq the Citv Manaqer to Enter into Aqreements
with the San Joaquin Countv Human Services Aqencv for a Meal Deliverv Proqram
($24.949) (Cp)
Adopted Resolution No. 2020-201 authorizing submission of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and
Economic Security Act Grant application and authorizing the City Manager to enter into
agreements with the San Joaquin County Human Services Agency for a Meal Delivery Program,
in the amount of $24,949.
C-8 Adopt Resolution Authorizinq Citv Manaoer to Waive the Bid Process and Execute
Professional Services Aqreement with Garland/DBS. lnc.. of Cleveland. Ohio, for White
Slouqh Water Pollution Control Facilitv Electrical Room and Diqester Buildinq Roof
Replacement Proiect ($140.593), Utilizino U.S. Communities Contract No. PW1925, and
Appropriatino Funds ($48,593) (PW)
Adopted Resolution No. 2020-202 authorizing the City Manager to waive the bid process and
execute a Professional Services Agreement with Garland/DBS, lnc., of Cleveland, Ohio, for White
Slough Water Pollution Control Facility Electrical Room and Digester Buildíng Roof Replacement
Project, in the amount of $140,593, utilízing U.S. Communities Contract No. PW1925, and
appropriating funds in the amount of $48,593.
C-9 Adoot Resolution Authorizinq Citv Manaqer to Waive Bid Process and Purchase Librarv
Database and Subscription Services from EBSCO, lnc.. of Birminoham, Alabama (LlB)
Adopted Resolution No. 2020-203 authorizing the City Manager to waive the bid process and
purchase library database and subscription services from EBSCO, lnc., of Birmingham, Alabama.
Comments bv the Public on Non-Aqenda ltems
THE TIME ALLOWED PER NON-AGENDA ITEM FOR COMMENTS MADE BY THE
PUBLIC IS LIMITED TO FIVE MINUTES.
Taylor Colapret provided public comment via email (filed) regarding the protests that took place in
the City of Lodi on Saturday, September Sth and Saturday, September 12th.
Police Chief Sierra Brucia stated that he has been in correspondence with Taylor Colapret since
having received Mr. Colapret's email. Chíef Brucia stated that the Police Department had been
monitoring social media regarding the September Sth protest and were aware of concerns about
the possibility of weapons being placed downtown and the Department found no truth to the
social media posts. The downtown area was searched daily in the days leading up to the protest
by the Police Department and Public Works for any items that posed concerns about safety.
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They didn't have permits to close the roads did they? It's against the law isn't it? Next time,
let them block traffic and then arrest them for it!!!! We regret putting the Lodi Police in
danger by not using our presence to get you to do yourjob again and get the help they
deserved, but we can tell you rest assured, this will not happen again. We will show up every
time from here on out to defend Lodi and suppoft the police in their regrettable job of having
to defend our town against these terorist incursions. I APOLOGIZE, it won't happen again,
we will be there again to support the police as we were on the 5th and won't let your letters of
denouncement hurt our feelings again. So go ahead from now on and plan to gain the
assistance of neighboring police depaftments to respond to these terrorist threats (even if you
are only doing it to protect the terrorists as you did on September 5th - that's fine, whatever
you need to tell yourself, at least they'll be there when these insurgents from Empact.org show
their true colors here). You can even denounce us afterwards like you did on the 5th - we
honestly don't care what you say about us - it can be our secret little arrangement that you use
us to justifu the increased police presence, get them there to protect the town against the
terrorists, and then denounce us for it! We are fine with it if that's what it take for you to act!!
Prior to the protest on the 5th, I had emailed you voicing my concerns and asking you to do
your job and defend the town, or to get out of the way so sorreone else could. You were
forced to do it the 5th, but I'll say it again - do your job and protect this town from the
BLM/Antifa terrorist organization, stand with the citizens of Lodi who overwhelmingly want
this from you, or step down and get out to make room for someone who will.
In sumnrary, your welcome for the 5th, and we're sorry we weren't there on the 72th, it won't
happen again.
Minimally respectfully,
Taylor Colapret
Sent from mv iPhone
to my "YOU'RE WELCOME". You're weicorne Doug Kuehne, Steve Schwabauer, and Aian
Nakanishi - the effofts of your citizens forced you all to do your jobs, ask for the help of
neighboring police depaftments, and defend our town that you are in office to serve.
Nevennind that you were protecting it from the second wave of counter-terrorism forces
instead of the terrorists themselves, but you're welcome all the same. If not for us, your names
would have been added to the throngs of other inept democrat leaders and terrorism aides
whose nalres are smeared throughout the headlines for their failures to protect their towns and
cities. You're welcome for helping you to rightfully defend Lodi and for saving the town from
violence, vandalism and properly damage. The city awoke on Sunday un-damaged and
unharmed due to our forcing you to do your jobs. If you rnight still be under the impression
that Ernpact is not as extreme as the other BLM/Antifa terror cells in the country, then you
should be aware of the events in Sacramento on 9/14120 orchestrated by Empact in which their
people jurnped on a California Highway Patrol cruiser during another "peaceful protest" and
were beating on it before the officer drove away causing the terrorist to fly over the car, get
injured, cause negative press nationally for the CHP, and undoubtedly will result in a lawsuit.
It's because of your citizens forcing your hand to have such an overwhelming police force in
addition to the patriotic citizen presence that the BLM/Antifa terrorist invasion in Lodi was so
overmatched that they had no option other than to remain peaceflrl. No baci press for you, no
injuries to police frorn being understaffed, no injuries to the citizens you represent, and no
property damage to our town. One last one - YOU'RE V/ELCOME!!!
Unfortunately, followingfhaf blazing victory over terrorism on September 5th, you and your
impotent colleagues wrote a letter denouncing the assistance from your citizens. You should
be ashamed - there was no racist language there from the counter-protestors, not that you
would know because you wouldn't be caught dead there yourself, you just picked tlie path of
denouncing it because i'm sure the temorist group said that there was racism and you found it
politically expedient to denounce racism, even though it didn't happen. Here's a future tip you
should remember: BLM/Antifa considers any and all resistance to them racist. No different
than Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Taliban considers all resistance to their will to be treason
against Allah by infidels.
The citizens who participated in putting down this invasion considered it a huge win for Lodi
that things went the way they did and we shou,ed that this town will not cower to the racism
and terrorism of BLM/Antifa and that we decisively will stand with the police and will put
down these types of incursions any day of the week - this wasn't a racist act, it was a patriotic
one. We don't harbor terrorists in America, and certainly not in Lodi!! We would respond the
same way if Al Qaeda wanted to protest in our town.... I'm morbidly curious....would your
response to that scenario be the same as it was as well? To protect the terrorist organization?
We felt that you bit the hand that fed you when you denounced us, and we decided to take a
less visible role next time there was a protest and let you deal with the problerns on your own
next time.
Which brings me to the apology...l apologize for us not shou,ing up in the same amount of
force on September 12th for the BLM/Antifa protest and leaving it up to you to handle. This
time there were many more BLM/Antifa terrorists present, and without your concern for their
safety from the overwhelming force of the citizens of Lodi, you decided not to properly plan
accordingly with the same police presence as on the 5th. The Lodi PD had their hands full the
entire time trying to contain the situation by closing roads around them when they marched
and eventually had to scramble and get assistance from the SJ Sherriffs department to contain
the terrorists. By the way - don't close the roads for these snowflakes! MAKE ARRESTS!!!
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From
Subject:
Date:
Tavlor Colapret
Citv Council Comments
Non agenda item9l16120
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9 :44:28 AM
To the Lodi City Council,
I have to write you today with two purposes:
l. To tell you you're welcome
2. To apologize
First for the "you're welcorne". As you are well aware, there was a BLM/Antifa protest on
Saturday, September 5th in Legion Park. I know you are well aware of that, because you
wrote a news release on September 9th denouncing the "racist, hateful, and obscene Ianguage
that marred an otherwise peaceful Defund the Police protest" (those are your words).
I'll pause there for just a moment - why didn't you address the fact that you were WELL aware
that these "peaceful protesters" had pre-positioned rocks, boards and mattresses in downtown
Lodi for the purposes of destroying and vandalizing our town? You know this because the
LPD as well as several citizens including rnyself had told you that we had picked them all
up...did you forget? What was the peaceful purpose of those items? Don't try to say that there
was no connection between that group and those items - they clearly posted tlieir intentions on
social media prior to the event, and you were made aware of that as well.
Before I'll continue, I'll also ask - are you aware of the definition of terrorism? I'll assume not,
so in short, it is the use of violence to achieve or affect a political agenda. Black Lives Matter
and Antifa are clearly in cooperation with each other nationwide engaging in violence for the
purposes of affecting a political agenda. So far, they are responsible for the irrjuries
nationwide of over 1000 police officers and the deaths of 36 people, not to mention 8 billion
dollars in propefty damage, all in the name of political agendas, mostly for the purpose of
defeating President Donald J Trump in the upcoming election.
Feel free to argue with me that this classifies them as a terrorist organization - I'd love to hear
you defend that. Once you are done displaying your ignorance, I'll point out that this
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION is the same group that you so graciously protected in Legion
Park, and assured the people prior to the protest that they \ryere a peaceful group, and that all
threats were known and were under control and that you didn't need any help from the citizens
of Lodi. Well, lucky you, you received our help anyway to contain this terrorist organization
and since you were so intent on protecting them, you decided to SORT OF do your job and
enlisted the help of several other police departments - not to contain this terrorist incursion
into Lodi, but to protect them from what you saw as a potential violent uprising from the
citizens of Lodi against them. You knew ahead of time that the people were there to back the
police (since you will not) and to stand ready to defend the town (since you will not) in case
the police were over-matched by the violent terrorist organization known as Black Lives
Matter I Anfifa. Make sure you reflect on what happened - this is the same organization that is
responsible for over 100 straight days of rioting in Portland, OR as well as several other cities
across the country and you welcomed them into OUR TOWN. This caused the city
governments of those war-torn cities to garner national affention and the criticism of the
President of the United States for their ineptitude at controlling this situation, which brings me