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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - Agenda Packets - Regular Meeting 12/18/2010REQUEST TO SPEAK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM#:C2• 0 SUBJECT: C�>wi�ie �s DATE: j i jtc, IN FAVOR: ❑ NEUTRAL: ❑ IN OPPOSITION: ❑ Name: R(*flOG CC6tM1q- V12 Representing:. � AVE DM Cm tt C h ea C SOC Address: \76(Q CC. (cre.ra_ City: Telephone No: 9.s5/ - (9 5 tt- (a,3 Individual speakers wishing to address an agenda item are requested to complete this card. Although you are not required to complete this card, the information will assist the City in addressing the issue(s) you raise. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes for their presentation. Organized presentations with more than one speaker are limited to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. When speaking, be brief, stay on the subject. The Mayor will call you to speak at the appropriate time. Please make your presentation from the microphone. HAND SPEAKER SLIPS TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. REQUEST TO SPEAK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM#:2 4 SUBJECT: ✓ q DATE: 47,7//%e6 IN F, /OR: ❑ Name: Repr Addres City NEUTRAL: G� Telephone No: Individual '. ✓eakers wishing to address an agenda item are requested to complete this card. Although you are not required to complete this card, the information will assist the City in addressing the issue(s) you raise. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes for their presentation. Organized presentations with more than one speaker are limited to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. When speaking, be brief, stay on the subject. The Mayor will call you to speak at the appropriate time. Please make your presentation from the microphone. HAND SPEAKER SLIPS TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. IN OPPOSITION: ❑ REQUEST TO SPEAK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM#: t. - 0 SUBJECT: DATE: /2 in IN FAVOR: ❑ NEUTRAL: 0 IN OPPOSITION: ❑ Name: r� Al Representing: Address: City: Telephone No: Individual speakers wishing to address an agenda item are requested to complete this card. Although you are not required to complete this card, the information will assist the City in addressing the issue(s) you raise. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes for their presentation. Organized presentations with more than one speaker are limited to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. When speaking, be brief, stay on the subject. The Mayor will call you to speak at the appropriate time. Please make your presentation from the microphone. HAND SPEAKER SLIPS TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. REQUEST TO SPEAK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM#: DATE: / / �� . n [ ,Z IN FAVOR: Name: SUBJECT: C. ?$ NEUTRAL: ❑ IN OPPOSITION: ❑ Representing: ,ram Address: City: 5 Telephone No: 6` Individual speakers wishing to address an agenda item are requested to complete this card. Although you are not required to complete this card, the information will assist the City in addressing the issue(s) you raise. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes for their presentation. Organized presentations with more than one speaker are limited to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. When speaking, be brief, stay on the subject. The Mayor will call you to speak at the appropriate time. Please make your presentation from the microphone. HAND SPEAKER SLIPS TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. REQUEST TO SPEAK' CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM#: Js�. / SUBJECT: DATE: tp Z - / IN FAVOR: s NEUTRAL: ❑ IN OPPOSITION: ❑ Name: C Representing: Address: 610 5 City: 54 5, /Li Telephone No: C / 9 /0 -~ C2—c Individual speakers wishing to address an agenda item are requested to complete this card. Although you are not required to complete this card, the information will assist the City in addressing the issue(s) you raise. Individual speakers are limited to three minutes for their presentation. Organized presentations with more than one speaker are limited to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor and Council. When speaking, be brief, stay on the subject. The Mayor will call you to speak at the appropriate time. Please make your presentation from the microphone. HAND SPEAKER SLIPS TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. My name is Patricia Mayne. I live at 1766 Carrera Drive, San Jacinto. In light of the recent update on the fee to trust acquisition proposal presented by Rose Salgado, we felt it appropriate to also address this issue to the City Council. Save our Communities (SOC) is a group of citizens who live in close proximity to the Soboba Reservation. Our mission statement reads: SOC is opposed to the conversion of the Horseshoe Grande land from fee to trust and subsequent annexation to the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indian Reservation. We desire this land to remain with its current boundaries, jurisdictions and zoning. We worked diligently with the City to voice our communities' opposition to this fee to trust proposal and to impart the knowledge we acquired regarding this legal process. Over 400 citizens, many vulnerable elderly retirees, and hundreds of acres are involved. Subsequently, the City adopted a Resolution opposing the fee to trust acquisition and commercial venture for a variety of reasons. Contrary to some beliefs that this acquisition would be good for our community, the facts that were presented to the City Council, the Riverside Board of Supervisors, the State Legislators and the BIA are that: I. The Tribal Compact of 1999 allows the Soboba tribe to operate two gaming facilities on reservation land. If the fee to trust passes, the Tribe may choose to run more than one casino. 2. This would double the environmental impacts on our rural, light residential neighborhoods. 3. Casino development requires the explicit recognition of risk factors which takes into consideration the public attitude and the concerns of affected local governments to ensure the continued rights of all citizens. Our community citizens have voiced opposition to the proposal. 4. Removal of the Horseshoe Grande property from the property tax rolls, a major source of local funding for schools, parks, recreation, transportation services, law enforcement and District Attorney and jail facilities will directly affect the quality of life of the non -Indian community whose scarce tax dollars provide for local government services to the existing casino. 5. It is believed that there has been no TASIN money from the Tribe for the last two years to mediate casino impacts on the San Jacinto community. 6. An expansion of gambling would be detrimental to our citizens as proven by published studies on gambling's negative effects on family stability, the elderly who gamble away their retirement savings and those with gambling addictions who may turn to stealing to feed their addiction. 7. Reputable studies prove that what would seem like a boost in jobs, in reality show only a shift in jobs, low wages and an increase in child welfare assistance. 8. Gambling facilities bring an increase in crime to surrounding communities, resulting in a lowered quality of life and an increase in city emergency services and response. 9. The critical aquifer and blue line water source would be situated under reservation land, creating a complicated control of this water source and a draw -down of already low water supplies. 10. The three light residential neighborhoods and one privately owned ranch would become jurisdictional islands of city and county land surrounded by tribal reservation land creating a precedent setting myriad of problems. 11. Lake Park and Soboba Road would become Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) if the fee to trust is approved and the law states that the tribe would have full law enforcement authority over its members and non-members on that highway. They may stop people to check sobriety, driver's licenses, and other issues and may detain citizens to deliver to state or federal authorities. 12. According to the Soboba Tribal Compact of 1999, no matter what mitigation agreements are formulated to address these issues, the fact is that the tribe is not legally bound by mitigation agreements. We are asking the City Council for the following considerations: 1. For every member to become familiar with the Draft Environmental Statement on CD or on the website: httpliteam.entrix.com/clientsite/Soboba.nsf 2. Renew the City's commitment to the current Resolution in opposition of the fee to trust acquisition. 3. If not already accomplished, immediately determine the members of the City Council Tribal Affairs Committee and meet with SOC to discuss this issue. 4. Review the file of materials SOC has presented to the City in order to become fully aware of the negative impact this fee to trust acquisition and subsequent commercial enterprise would have on the citizens of the City of San Jacinto and on their quality of life. 5. Create city/tribal meetings on this issue and include members of the affected communities. WED. 61.2 3 //d 6 : a `l'fri 6 rob"- P'i