City Council — June 30, 2026

Good evening, I want to call the meeting to order for Oxnard City Council for Tuesday June 30th 2026. Madam Clerk may we have the roll call and posting of the agenda please?

Councilwoman Pesua? Here. Councilmember Perallo? Here. Councilwoman Perez? Here. Councilwoman Rodriguez? Present. Councilman Starr?

Here

Mayor Pro Tem Teran? Here And for the record, Mayor McArthur is absent The agenda for this meeting was posted in the kiosk at City Hall, the Oxnard Public Library, the city administrative offices and on the city's website on Thursday June 18th Thank you.

Thank you very much Prior to closed session, we will take public comments on the closed session agenda. Anyone wishing to make a comment please proceed to do so. In the meantime can the city attorney provide a statement prior to closed session?

Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. The City Council will recess to a closed session pursuant to government code section 54956.9 subdivision D1 to confer with its attorneys. The matters being discussed are Campbell Council members there are no requests to speak in person or virtually for closed session.

Thank you. Okay, the council has emerged from closed session and we'll ask the city attorney for any announcements to make.

Mayor Pro Tem there are no actions to report out of closed session this evening. Thank you very much.

So good evening everyone I want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council Tuesday June 30th 2026. Madam Clerk may we have the roll call?

The agenda for this meeting was posted in the kiosk at City Hall, the Oxnard Public Library, the city administrative offices and on the city's website on Thursday June 18th. Thank you.

Thank you all.

Okay

Mr. Medina the floor is yours. Good evening council members. My name is Ramiro Medina, I'm a recent graduate of the Oxnard EMS Corps Cohort 3. And proud to be from Oxnard, born and raised here in Oxnard and still currently live here in Oxnard. Growing up in my community I saw firsthand how important emergency medical services are and the positive impact our first responders have on people's lives and this motivated me to pursue a career in EMS.

I came across EMS Corps during my search and it's been the best decision I've ever made Being from Oxnard, you know we have a sense of pride being from the city and having a program like this has been extremely beneficial from the incredible staff. The Oxnard Fire Department and all those involved, and all the valuable knowledge and hands-on skills. And the confidence I've gained through the program has been extremely rewarding. And like I said, I'm from Oxnard and just being someone from Oxnard, I am grateful to have the opportunity to learn from these professionals here from Oxnard and hopefully one day take these skills and hopefully serve the community the same way they do.

And I just want to thank everyone here. That's all I have.

Thank you, Ramiro. Actually hang out for just a few moments longer. Do you have some folks here with you today from FHIR or EMS Corps?

Yes we have the two chiefs and then we have Jovia Senor who's one of the lead instructors or directors of the program.

Thank you. We have this certificate for you for leading us today and for sharing with us a little bit about your story and your journey, so if you want to come up and you can invite your supporters here as well.

Okay.

So we have this Certificate of Achievement for you, Ramiro, for all of your hard work and dedication to the EMS Corps and to yourself and to furthering you towards your goals. And so it is signed by the mayor, Luis A. MacArthur, and we want to thank you for being here, for leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance but also keep up with great work. You're doing good stuff. You're making your city, your community, your family proud of you. So awesome job. Congratulations! Do we have any words from Chief or our instructors who'd like to share a little bit?

I can hear myself. Good evening everybody, thank you for first of all uh all of your support in this program Chief. It would not be possible without all of the work that you guys do day in day out whether you think it affects it directly or indirectly um it's making an impact on these students here locally and we're excited to have them we're excited to see where they're going We just had from our first cohort, two students just enroll in paramedic school.

Hopefully be serving their community in further capacity and we're looking forward to the things that you're gonna do specifically so congratulations.

Thank you.

All right, any final words here? I just have a funny story. MacArthur was actually he organized the Powell Soccer League and I grew up playing soccer here and I remember him like very vividly so this is like a full circle moment for me so it's I mean from him being a police officer to then Being the mayor, it's pretty cool to see and then for me being a young boy playing soccer and him organizing that And then now being up here.

It's rewarding again like I said during my speech you have a sense of pride being from Oxnard all the opportunities we have here and Without you guys that would not be possible Thank you

very much We'll send those remarks to the mayor yeah alright so let's get a photo Thank you very much. Let's have another round of applause for Amino and his supporters up here. Okay, we're gonna move into our ceremony items now so don't take your seats yet So item F, ceremonial items. This evening we have one item presentation of the 2026 Ventura County Fair poster and let's please welcome President Guillermo Ceja Jr and Director Miriam Mack who will share remarks about the upcoming fair as well as some youth leaders they have brought with them Hello, my name

is Marissa Calderon and I am a 10th

grader from Fillmore California.

Hello my name is Aurora Arellano. I'm from Oxnard and I am a graduated senior.

Hi my name is Milo Puebla and I will be a sophomore at Fulmer High School.

We are members of the Ventura County Junior Fair Board. The JFB is an organization for high school students throughout Ventura County focused on youth leadership development and community engagement during the fair we put on classic games like watermelon eating and karaoke

We are here on behalf of the Ventura County Fair to present the official 2026 fair poster. Over 300 young artists submitted their work for consideration this year's youth poster contest we have seen a remarkable increase in submissions over the last few years and can attribute that to the elimination of any fee to enter the competition The incredible artwork created by Ventura County youth never ceases to amaze us. Submissions were judged by a panel of community partners and their fair team members, the winners were announced as in third place Simon Shapiro, a sixth grader from Simi Valley. In second place Mika Sanchez, a 10th grader from Ventura and this year's winning poster was drawn by Annalise Cohen, a ninth grader from Camarillo

We are excited to share that the grandstand concert lineup for the fair is July 29th Bush, July 30th Marshmello, July 31st Aeration, August 1st Jake Owen, August 2nd Gerencia de Patrones featuring Magway and Benatoro. August 3rd, Ashanti and Bow Wow. August 4th, Switchfoot and Hoopstank. August 5th, Nate Smith. Three days of rodeo, August 7 through 9. We'll have special admissions days on Wednesday July 29th $5 before 5pm.

Friday, July 31st, Youth Day. Tuesday, August 4th, Seniors and Persons with Disabilities Day. Wednesday, August 5th, VCC Youth Member Day. Thursday, August 6th, Community Heroes Day. Friday, August 7th, Food Share Day.

We would also love to see you at the Junior Livestock Auction on Friday, August 7th where exhibitors and hundreds of other Ventura County youth exhibitors will be selling our livestock projects. We hope to see you all at the fair.

Thank you. Hi Guillermo Ceja here. I'm proud to be standing next to our Junior Fair Board members. You know, this gives them an opportunity to work on their public speaking and meet all the different city councils in the county. We're going one by one and presenting posters like this so we look forward to seeing you all at this year's fair Come on out.

Okay, thank you. I'm Miriam, I'm on the Fair Board too and our theme is Find Your Fun! So we've got an entire new carnival with new rides. Wristband days are every day and we have actually a new policy. I am going to leave this with our city council. It's a clear bag policy so we're encouraging everybody to bring a clear bag. Don't bring so much stuff Thank you.

Transportation, I think at the Oxnard PAL and the Government Center, Ventura High School, De Anza High School, Kimball Community Park. $10 to park at the State Beach so try the free ones. So anyway we're very excited and thank you very much for having us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

All right, that's it. Thank you.

Good evening City Council, staff, members of the audience and people who are listening to this meeting. I'm speaking regarding my opposition to the proposed sales tax. The sales tax is basically a renewal at an appropriate time of measure O. This is a sales tax continuance. Despite the language in this measure, it's still a general sales tax. The city manager will be able to spend the money any way he wants to.

Even though the language specifies that all we're going to use is public safety, we're going to use it for a number of items but at the end of day, it really just comes down to the fact that the city manager can spend the money anyway he wants. A large portion may be going to public safety Public safety we do need, but public safety has headcount percentage of 39% of total head count of city employees.

But public safety still takes 50 percent in the budget. Perhaps a reallocation of funds might make an adjustment more satisfactory to me The fact that a large percentage of general funds being used by public safety and spending use for other things like street repairs and park repair. The continuation of the sales tax should be avoided. The city has had a significant increase in sales tax already, so last proposition and additional sales tax should not be presented. The purpose of Measure O initially was to provide funding for one-time projects such as swimming pool.

The swimming pool has not been built, the other one-time projects have not been built and we have other needs such as the seawalls and there's no funding set aside for seawalls so I suggest that if the City Council wants a sales tax it should be passed by two thirds majority with a specific purpose of that sales tax, not a general sales tax Again, the City Council has this discretionary to say that the budget should not be allocated all by a city manager at his discretion at the budget hearing meeting. The City Council can say look we want our say at their meetings and not give it to the city manager to appropriate any way he wants to.

Perhaps budgets be separated between headcount allocations and general funding allocations for administrative costs and overhead That does not take place in the budget, has not taken place in the budget last 30 years. Perhaps it's time for a change. Again I speak against the sales tax initiative. Thank you very much.

And just as a quick reminder typically after the speakers will observe decorum so we'll refrain from audible noise booing hissing or applauding as well thank you And so we have Joseph Tabinsky Jr. to be followed by Sarah Wachewski.

Good evening, my name is Joseph Tabinsky Jr., I'm a resident of Camarillo, I'm also the 805 UndocuFund Rapid Response Organizer for Ventura County and I spend my mornings outside of the ICE field office tracking ICE activity and just this morning I had a far right chud who supports what ICE is doing repeatedly refer to me as the homophobic F-slur. It might've been something I wore today.

The numbers for the last month have been brutal for Oxnard. In the 805 area code, 2,249 people at least have been abducted. Ventura County has seen 1,081 of those at least and in Oxnard we have gone up to 226. The last two months have been particularly hard in Lemonwood, Cuesta, Colonia and other parts throughout Oxnard. Thankfully both rapid response networks are out there every morning uh, making sure ICE is playing by the rules that they're supposed to be playing by and if not making sure that people know about it.

Um what I do want to talk about though are some of the systemic concerns that the undocumented community faces right now and in two very particular ways. Uh one has to do with the DUI checkpoints that are happening right now and the second has to do with fears of calling 911. Uh regarding the DUI checkpoints Everyone knows that ICE is not at those checkpoints. They know that OPD is not working with ICE, that's not the problem. The problem is the system that exists because if anybody does get picked up through a DUI checkpoint they're going to go to jail and the minute they are released from jail ICE will know that they're being released from jail using the public website and they'll probably be picked up I don't have a solution to that problem, but it is a problem out there.

The same goes for their unwillingness to call 911. Previously we had been told by other officials that we are actively telling people not to call 911 and that is not the case in either rapid response network. What we are doing is feeding these concerns back to folks because they know if they call 911 and somebody that's involved pops a warrant or does something that requires them to go to jail, they may be picked up the very next day by ICE. And so with those systemic concerns it's never ever going to have the trust put back in law enforcement especially with our folks going to the county jail afterwards and then being picked up because the sheriff has no concern at all with ICE being in there virtually every day to pick people up as they're being released The last thing I'd like to ask the City Council about, it refers to an incident that happened this morning near El Rio out by the Vallarta.

There was a law enforcement training that took place that involved cars speeding through places, folks with automatic weapons and flak jackets. And we did not see it. We saw a sign that was about maybe this big that said police training happening here but nobody knew about it ahead of time. I would ask just for like DUI notifications when you let us know that something like that's happening. We would also like to know about any particular police trainings that are happening in the city so we can curb The fear that people feel in this community and rightfully so. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. We have Sarah Wachewski to be followed by is it Ray? Just Ray.

Hi good evening City Council. Joe already went over the numbers, but I wanted to talk tonight about what people can do to help the undocumented community and help their neighbors. It doesn't take much if you can as you're leaving just take a look around and see if there are any ICE vehicles present. And if there are, you can call 805 UndocuFund at 805-870-8855 We will also have trainings if you want to get more involved coming up that you can find our website at 805undocufund.org and you can also check out our social media and if you see something happening in your area, you can let your neighbors know who might not be aware.

Just it's important that we all look out for each other so thank you. Thank you

very much. Our next speaker is Ray, to be followed by Sylvia Robles.

I got an additional speaker card.

I'm sorry?

In addition to Sylvia, I have another speaker card as you suggested.

We spoke before the meeting, Mr. Blattel.

I'm sorry?

We spoke before the meeting that you'll have three minutes tonight.

That's a group. It's more than one. Three is more than one. On June 16th, I appeared before the body to comment on the LMD assessments. Recall that for my LMD our assessments increased a whopping 224%. If percentages mean nothing to you The 224% means the assessment more than tripled compared to last year's. And why is this? Why it is, it's beyond me. Notwithstanding following my comments a member of the city staff belittled and denigrated me, my character which I don't appreciate and I believe it's inappropriate for a member of the city staff to do so.

Comments were made that I was either negligent or perhaps even ignorant for not properly researching my property prior to purchase. Well, let's face it, the LMD assessments are nothing like HOA dues when a purchaser of used properties provided a four-inch thick ring binder containing all the CC&Rs have been in HOA. Alternately, the LMD assessments are like a ghost fee that appears on your property tax bill. If you don't look at it, you don't even know what's there.

Realtors don't mention the LMD assessment and I seriously doubt if they even know they exist. My realtor didn't mention it As a matter of fact, I've spoken to several original owners in my community and even they said that the Centex rep, Centext was the builder of that whole community. Never mentioned LMD assessments prior to them purchasing their properties. And other non-original owners in my community don't know what an LMD is either. It was also mentioned that if I knew the property was in an LMD why did I buy it? But just as I mentioned, I did not know.

I had some pictures to show, probably not going to have time now of the area in my LMD maintenance district. There was a median on Bahia that is just filthy, weeds, trash. I got an email here from the Public Works Director saying the irrigation to the median comes from private property, Topper Shopping Center. In the past, the city has not been responsible for routine maintenance for the median landscape in the past.

Now, I find it strange that the landscaping and the bushes and everything in that poppers area are all beautiful, maintained green. And here's this one spot that they don't care about. There's something strange going on there. Then on Caliente, there's no watering. It's been dead for months and months and months according to that email from the public works director. So as a district had a couple of back flows stolen these past few months Thank you.

And

just for the record we did have the photos handed out by Mr. Blitzel to the council and they were shown briefly on the screen, and Madam Clerk do we have these pictures to be entered into the record as well?

Mayor Pro Tem, yes they will be included for the official record and it will be on the website tomorrow morning.

Our next speaker is Sylvia Robles followed by Dan Pinedo. Okay, she's declining to speak. Okay our next speaker is Mr. Dan Pinedo followed by Mr. Eric Andrist.

That speaker card was a donation from Mr. Blattel.

Thank you. Just so we're clear here for the record, our council procedures say that a large group may give their time to a single speaker to represent them for a time of up to 10 minutes. Previous time I did work with you Mr. Blattell when I was presiding when you had virtual people who signed up to give you their time if we had a large group here who was willing to give you your time we would accept that. Last time I think we gave you five people If you had two additional people to give you time tonight, I can see that but we'll have to revisit as a council what seating time looks like to people. But just to be fair, I'm gonna give you your three minutes that you took so thank you very much.

And just to confirm Ms. Robles and Mr. Piniello, you're not gonna be taking your three minutes this evening? Thank you. Okay, we have Mr. Andrest followed by I believe we have a virtual speaker with their hand up Madam Clerk

What a joke this is becoming please play the video Eric Andrus, Public Advocate. Tonight I want to address a pattern the City Attorney's Office giving this Council incorrect advice on public comment and this Council deferring to it even when that advice creates legal exposure for the city. Stephen Fisher has told this Council the public does not get to comment on each agenda item. That is wrong and the proof is in Oxnard's own ordinances. In 2018, this council unanimously adopted the Sunshine Ordinance 2948 and Fisher signed it. Section 2-230C says every action item must give the public a chance to address this body before action is taken. And yet we have watched Fisher passive aggressively reprimand the mayor for allowing exactly that. That is the city attorney contradicting an ordinance he signed.

Measure M goes further, three minutes to comment on any agenda item, not just voting items. Now look at tonight's agenda. It promises comment after each item is announced and Section 2-230E requires staff reports come before comment yet comment on the City Manager's report and the Council reports is shoved into Item G before either report is given. That is not an accident It is the City Attorney's Office using procedure to stop the public from responding to what the city manager and this council actually says in defiance of the agenda's own rules and the ordinance Fisher himself signed. So let me be clear, when this council reports tonight I intend to comment if I am refused the violation I am describing will have happened on camera against the rule printed on your own agenda.

This is not the only barrier. When I submit a video comment, I am told I must appear in person on Zoom or by phone to introduce it. That appears nowhere in the code. Section 2-1.5c says the opposite. Reasonable accommodations shall be made to facilitate videos during public comment. I identified myself, submitted the video, treated my email as my speaker card and provided the written copy. The city attorney's office added a condition the code does not contain. That is not facilitation it is obstruction. This is bigger than me. The Santa Barbara County grand jury just warned that agencies create barriers when they make people believe speaker cards are required before they can speak. Oxnard is doing exactly that and the mayor has been warned about this.

Council members, this is your meeting. Staff advises you staff does not own the public's right to participate when the City Attorney's Office narrows comment blocks videos with unwritten conditions and stops residents from responding to reports that does not protect you it exposes you You may not like my style, but style is not the issue. The issue is whether Oxnard will follow its own open meeting laws. Right now on camera your own ordinances are being hollowed out by the city attorney's office and this council is allowing it. Okay

thank you Madam Clerk can we have the virtual speaker please? And if there are any other individuals who wish to speak before we close public comment for items not on the agenda, now would be the time to come forward. And then if you're on Zoom please hit star nine to raise your hand.

Virtual speaker if you can press star six to unmute and you have three minutes starting now.

Hello this is Manuel Herrera calling Madam Clerk I submitted a video for you to play But while you get that ready, I just wanted to use my extra time to give a message to the Aaron Star clan in regards to the recall. You can try to shut us up by filing an FPPC complaint against us and you can try to get us suspended on next door for posting videos about the recall but your intimidation tactics will never work.

Facts are facts And facts cannot be disputed, no matter how hard you try. So Madam Clerk if you would please play my video.

You might be asking yourself why am I the one standing here at the podium instead of his own neighbors from District 3? The answer is simple while many of your constituents want you gone they have seen what happens to people who speak up against Aaron Starr and his small circle They have seen you file lawsuit after lawsuit. They have seen the character assassination attempts, they have seen AI video hit pieces to mock people and twist the facts that isn't leadership.

This is a culture of intimidation If you want to know what local

political intimidation looks like, take a look at this. Right now volunteers are working to give their neighbors in District 3 the choice to recall Councilman Aaron Starr in November. But instead of answering to the voters, the Starr camp seems to be trying to silence some of them. Someone filed an anonymous and frivolous complaint against two private citizens who posted videos criticizing Starr from their personal Facebook accounts. Then, according to sources, there may have been a coordinated effort to make mass reports to get one of those same residents temporarily suspended from next door just for sharing public information and lawsuit updates about Starr.

Let's look at some of the unspoken facts here. Whoever filed the anonymous complaint knew at least a little bit about elections laws. And let's be real, Starr's inner circle should know it well by now. But notice that they didn't argue that anything in those videos was false. They couldn't! The videos were entirely factual. Because they can't defend his record, are they now trying to weaponize inapplicable election laws? For what? To try and chill free speech? To intimidate everyday neighbors into submission?

But honestly this is typical of how Aaron Starr operates.

Okay do we still have a speaker? He's ended.

Mayor Pro Tem, I believe he disconnected. Okay thank you

and we have an in-person speaker Alicia Purcell. Excuse me after Miss Purcell will go to the additional virtual speaker thank you

Well, that was interesting. Mr. Herrera is sounding more and more desperate and trying to use this council's meetings to run a recall effort but now he's just gone to making things up. Pretending that he's some kind of victim and this is a very convoluted plot that he's concocted. Political efforts are not always nice but it's another thing to take things Too far, as Mr. Herrera has on many occasions.

He doxed us in a post on his own Facebook account with 21,000 readers in an angry post about us and shortly after I had a freshly swept driveway and a nail appeared in curious place in my driveway that's never happened before. Luckily I spotted it before I ran over it and destroyed a tire We've had several meritless complaints filed against us. He's only had one, you know and these are all anonymous as well.

AI videos, Aaron has never made an AI video so I don't know why he's connecting Aaron with that. He mentioned an alleged coordinated effort to get him suspended on next door and I don't know what that is either. I argue back with him on next door, that's how I handle him. At the last council meeting he played a video in which it showed a document when Aaron described his personal notes during council meeting as being on a document on his local hard drive not shared with anyone. The video went on to falsely allege, oh well it's probably a Google Doc and he is using it to communicate with Alicia during meeting. False.

Just false. Mr. Herrera has on Facebook and some of the recall proponents are telling people it's Aaron's fault the sports park hasn't been built at the corner of Gonzales and Oxnard Boulevard Falls, that's a 30-year project that has been sitting there for 30 years You know, not being fulfilled to the West Village residents. A promise not fulfilled. When I play games on my phone sitting in council meetings or I text other people Other friends that I have, you know Aaron's not the only person I talked to. Mr. Perrello claimed oh I'm texting Aaron all through the meeting no false false guys. You're making assumptions and flinging accusations based on meritless assumptions so this is what we get.

Thank

you and can we have the next virtual speaker Madam Clerk?

Yes

And this is the last call for anyone else in person or online who would like to speak. I see we have another hand that's come up.

Virtual speaker, if you can press star six to unmute and you can start your three minutes. Hi, can you guys hear me? Yes, please proceed.

Hi, good evening Mayor Pro Tem and Council. I am an avid watcher of the council meetings first time commentor. And honestly, I struggled with speaking up because it is a known fact that Mr. Starr and his mom, Ms. Purcell, they do come after people. Maybe they didn't file those reports but they do come after people them and their friends. And although many people support the recall, they're afraid to speak up because they don't want to get caught up in all that mess. So I just want to say that You know, Mr. Starr on the newspaper article you called us phony.

Your website says something about the sham recall and I'm very offended because we are not a sham and we're not phony and we're not made up like I'm a real person. I signed, I am going to sign again so that we can get you on the ballot to get your recalled You need to realize that this is not phony, this is not made up. This is not a game. The people that you represent in your district, La Colonia and Rose Park, like you don't represent them. You don't understand them and you're harming them.

And one of these past meetings for the five-year priorities, you threw a tantrum and you just sat there in silence. Why? Because you don't agree with the rules? You're like a little kid. You're losing and you don't want to play anymore. One of the council members even gave you the opportunity to speak your mind, to at least state what your thoughts are You refuse to speak, like your district is not even being represented by you and they voted for you to represent them. Not to sit there with your thumb in your mouth throwing a tantrum and not say anything and not vote because you don't agree with the rules You know, I don't know Mr. Herrera personally but I thank him. I thank him for being outspoken and for speaking the truth what your mom said what Ms.

Purcell said is not true you guys like you guys do that stuff if it's not you like again if it's not you personally it's you and your friends and it's just It's just not, it's not working out. Thank you your time is up with Oxnard. Thank you.

Thank you very much Madam Clerk do we have an additional speaker?

Virtual speaker if you can press star six to unmute

Hello Council, how are you? This is Eduardo Huerta. Well this is just a reminder by just hearing the same personalities I mean argue and kind of just really not concentrate on what's really important for our community right now that Gabe Turan is sitting as Pro-Ten Mayor personally you know he has a little bit more control of where everything goes on in the city because at the end he was backed up Obviously by Carmen Ramirez and a lot of the work concentrated on the Colonia area, the Colonia district.

And so I think it's very important that you know Gabe takes control of you know the a lot of his friends you know they're not saying um you know but a lot of families have a lot control over the city and so I think it's time for change and I think it's that it's time for our City Council to wake up like Gabriela you're new on your new on the council It's really time for you to kind of just step in, take some control. You know these are all personalities that really have put a lot of harm into our farm working community. A lot of labor laws have been broken the work is really really a lot of dedication behind the work And so, you know, let's put value into the work and really concentrate on the issues that these communities really need. But to hear Aaron Starr feud with Herrera, that's just the same stuff.

It's just a sidetrack or community try to get people into council that really don't protect our communities. And I think we need good representation. And personally, you guys all know my dedication to this community, my connection and obviously we sometimes look the other way on issues that are really important. And it's time that we take control of it. Thank you for your support guys and good luck.

Thank you very much. Do we have any additional speakers, Madam Clerk?

I'm here pro tem and council members yes we have an additional virtual speaker

okay

virtual speaker if you can press star six to unmute and you have three minutes starting now.

All right can you hear me?

Yes please proceed

Oh, hi. Good evening Council and staff and the public. And I really wasn't going to speak tonight but you know I just once again have to listen to Mr. Herrera go off with his pathological hatred of Aaron Starr. And i agree with Lalo. I think it's really a distraction. I think a lot of people in Oxnard are really getting tired of this sideshow And I think that this use of the recall is inappropriate.

There is an appropriate use of a recall, and basically recalls are just to get rid of bad apples. And Mr. Starr was elected. He was elected by the voters of District 3, and he's been representing them to the best of his ability. He comes prepared. He hasn't changed his stance on anything that I've seen, Council and other meetings regularly. Now people may not like his stance, they may not agree with this philosophy but that's okay I mean i think that's the way our system is supposed to work we're supposed to hash through disagreements to get to the ultimate goal and the ultimate goal is for you all on the dais to legislate in the best interest of the residents And I think it's unfortunate that we've got to go through this process, that I think is very inappropriate.

I think it is led by Mr. Herrera and his hatred of Mr. Starr. It's extremely unfortunate. I think a lot of our time would be better spent dealing with the issues that Oxnard deals with. Now what's achieved by this? He is a minority vote on many votes. You all are getting your way. It's my understanding is actually a sitting council person that's been out with the crew for the recall effort. I know that's inappropriate, and I don't think that's a good look for Oxnard. I think if you have a disagreement with any Councilman or concern go to that Councilman and voice your concerns but don't waste We're going to The way that they at times don't follow the rules, it's actually Mr. Starr who is holding them accountable to do a better job with our money and to give better services.