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“Let’s open this right away! It’s so pretty! What could go wrong?”
From a Facebook post between 10-11 am by Gina Clayton Tarvin on behalf of herself and Jack Souders, acting individually and not in any official capacity:
URGENT CALL TO ACTION AT 6PM TODAY
OVSD Trustee Jack Souders and I need to stop a dangerous new proposal from Huntington Beach that could harm all of Southern California. Can you make a phone call? It will save lives. Thank you for your continued actions to protect the health and safety of OC’s residents.
*Note: Although I am the president and Jack Souders is the clerk of the OVSD Board of Trustees, this action is our own, and not that of the School District.
Tonight HB will vote whether to define any HB businesses as “essential,” allowing any businesses to reopen as they wish. This could create an instant Southern California epicenter for viral transmission, and could cause cascading outbreaks. The proposal comes days after an OC Superior Court judge ruled against HB in its lawsuit against Governor Newsom for closing OC beaches. We can stop these partisan crusades if we take action NOW.
Who: The concerned public
What: Give comment via telephone (no video) at Huntington Beach City Council meeting to “Support Item 19” and “Reject Agenda Item 20”
When: Monday, May 18, 2020, at 6pm
Where: Call (669) 900-6833 and enter Webinar ID: 962 9013 0517Talking Points: I am calling to ask that you REJECT Agenda Item 20. This proposal is lawlessness. It could spread illness and cause death. This is an arbitrary attack on the CA Stay at Home Order. This is a violation of the science driven plan to get our economy back up and running as soon as possible in a safe manner. In contrast, Item 19 is well thought out and in accordance with Governor Newsom’s Plan. It mirrors the plans of Fullerton and Irvine for gradual reopening of businesses. Vote YES on Agenda Item 19 and Vote NO on Agenda Item 20.
You don’t have to give any identifying information when you audio call, no video is used. Using your first name is sufficient, per CA Brown. You won’t be targeted for speaking your mind. See agenda Item 20 below to understand why we must speak against it and in favor for item 19 instead. We want businesses to reopen in a safe manner.
Gina attached Councilmember Erik Peterson’s letter to the rest of the council:
In the vast majority of the relevant instances — the 1918 flu pandemic, the states and countries that have opened this year before science says they were ready — re-opening business as usual before real containment has led to reinstatement of the outbreak. And we now know that it is not sparing kids and young adults, but subjecting them to a different and potentially worse set of symptoms.
Gina and Jack are absolutely right. We have to stop the virus in its tracks and stamp it out like a forest fire before walking away. This would throw dry tinder on the smoldering embers — and the whole county’s safety is at stake Make the call! (669) 900-6833; enter Webinar ID: 962 9013 0517.
Erik Peterson.
*They just need to close down Main Street, open it up to Bat Hockey with girls in Bikini’s.
That should bring back the economy….eh? Maybe Jacks could have a ONE DAY SALE
since, they have never had a Sale in their history? Maybe they could paint the cement
icon in front of the Pier….with the names of luminary Prior City Council people – Red/White and Blue for Memorial Day. Maybe, they could pass an ordinance that their is a Local’s ONLY Bar where only residents with ID can go? Maybe they could ask that Dukes offer up Complimentary Mai Tai’s with every Lunch or Dinner Entree! Maybe……they could actually test everyone for their temperature for every restaurant, before they go in? Ah, all these Ideas probably have as much chance at every member of the City Council Shooting the Pier on a 60’s Long Board without a wet suit! Where is Chuck Dent…..now that we need him?
*Actually, the HB City Council needs to remind everyone that DESAL is in their future Covid-19 or not! They probably need a Viking Horn that they can blow to call the God Poseidon!! They should also start a web page entitled “Postcards from the Fringe”……but then again….we ask too much!
Will fit right in with the other flavors of idiocy.
Kathy Slattery wrote this update from the HB meeting last night:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1617839941826636?view=permalink&id=2599081287035825
Who else watched all of last night’s HB City Council meeting? That was a long meeting. Some highlights:
*Agenda items 19 and 20: 19 passed 7-0, 20 died. Several Board members stated the HB City Council does NOT have the authority to reopen all businesses—that is under the County and State authority. One commented that it was “ridiculous” that Erik Petersen even submitted agenda item #20, and I agree. HB needs to continue working with the County and State to help us meet the Phased requirements. Stop the political rhetoric.
* Several speakers claimed that Newsom’s Emergency Order expired on 5-1-20. City Attorney Gates is on the record almost at the very end of the meeting to tell them that is false. The Order continues until the crisis ends and did not expire
*OC meets all requirements to open under Phase 2 EXCEPT: OC needs to obtain 80,000-100,000 PPE (masks and gowns), and arrange for housing 15% of the city’s homeless population.
*Council urges small business owners to create plans for safely opening their businesses, what does that look like? A committee was just created to help SBO’s in several ways
Jeff LeTourneau, in a partisan take, posts:
“VICTORY IN HB! Faced with a alt right attempt to reclassify all businesses in HB as essential, thus avoiding Gov. Newsom’s step by step health driven plan to reopen the economy, the residents and their allies came forth in opposition, hour after hour until after midnight. The result….the motion, thought to be a done deal, failed to even get a second!!! Thank you to all those who answered the call led by Oceanview President Gina Clayton-Tarvin! DPOC in the house!!!!”
AH but now I see EARLIER in the day, after Gina’s post (which was shared by the Democrats) the OC Republicans put out THIS:
“Huntington Beach Republicans:
“Tonight, the HB City Council will vote on allowing many businesses in the city to begin the process of returning to work. This is excellent news for business owners and employees, and a great first step toward reopening our community again.
“Unfortunately the OC Democrat Party [sic] has come out against this vote, and they have asked their entire team of activists to call in to tonight’s meeting to fight against the reopening of the city. Many of these activists do not live in Huntington Beach, and the Democrats have gone so far as to instruct them not to reveal their names…
[WAIT A SEC, bullshit alert – As you see above, Gina’s post does not “instruct” anybody to call anonymously, plus the GOP has a lotta nerve bitching about out-of-towners after all the numb-nuts protests of the past 3 weeks! – V]
“…This is absolutely unfair to the citizens of the great city that outside activists would try to influence your local leaders. [LOL] We must stop this RIDICULOUSNESS and let our councilmembers know that we are ready to get back to work.
“Tonight’s Council meeting begins at 6pm. If you are passionate about this and would like to call in… etc.”
First it’s weird how this is becoming partisan. I’ve already observed that MANY Republicans are perfectly sensible on this Covid saftey issue.
Also, Erik Peterson remains the only HB Republican Councilmember smart & honest enough to realize what a ripoff Poseidon is; he also pissed off his party by endorsing Gina Clayton-Tarvin last time she ran, and putting Victor Valladares on a board. But sometimes, as I’ve said before, The Tea Party Is Strong With This One.
NOW the HB alt-right (centered around the first HB Community Forum) is REALLY mad at Gina. Time to make her into Hitler!
Stay classy, HB Community 4chan.
*This is all so ridiculous. The City Council is supposed to do what? Empower the City Attorney into looking into the legal issues that contravening a State or County Ordinance, Regulation or Legislation might incur to the city. Like economic sanctions or even a possible Federal suit….charging each one of the City Council members with personal financial responsibility for any law enforcement or legal expenses. 2ndly, the City Manager had to stand up in the Council Meeting with a detailed report on how the Council might
proceed. Anything else ….is strictly Trumpster Tyranny!
Huntington Beach has just passed up the 300-mark for Covid fatalities, and they remain in third place, after much-bigger Santa Ana and Anaheim BUT about twice as many fatalities as IRVINE which has a larger population.
I really don’t much like Irvine, and want to take away the Veterans’ Cemetery from them and put it in Anaheim Hills because they don’t deserve it. But as far as Covid they’re doing SOMETHING right. Their rate is below four other cities that are smaller than them – HB, Orange, Fullerton, and Garden Grove.
In other words Irvine is OC’s 3rd largest city, but has the 7th highest rate of Covid infections. I would write something boastful about that if I were Chemical Lewinsky.
All this info from https://occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc, where I also find out that we had the biggest number of fatalities ever, yesterday – TEN. Also, hospitalization rates and ICU just keep going up. Where will it end? (You can click here for a larger view)
My sense is that Irvine has relatively few low-income people — IF you don’t count college students, who until recently have been thought to be largely immune. I could be wrong, though: it would be interesting to check the age-by-class population distributions for each city.
Anaheim and HB are both reasonably well-off, but each has their areas that would not be out of place in the middle quintile of Santa Ana.
Or as my wife puts it, “In Irvine they’re not living all on top of each other.”
*And FOURTEEN OC Covid deaths yesterday.