City Council — July 21, 2026

Hello, good evening. Just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council for Tuesday July 21, 2026. I just want to clarify for the record, and it also should be reflected in the minutes that at least part of this City Council meeting is held pursuant to California Government Code Section 54943 parenthesis B. As Mayor Pro Tem Turan has participated remotely from the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center located at 300 South Court Street in Visalia, California The teleconference location has been listed on the agenda for this meeting.

Madam Clerk, can you please proceed with the roll call and posting of the agenda? Afterward we will confirm certain matters for the

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 July 9th And I would like to request that mayor Pro Tem Theran respond to the following questions. Mayor Pro Tem Theran can you hear me well? Yes Thank you. Were you able to hear our proceedings on this end up until now?

Do you have a copy of the agenda for this meeting?

Yes.

Have you posted the agenda at the location where you are located? Yes Is your location reasonably accessible to the public such that any member of the public could participate in this teleconference from your location if he or she wished to do so?

Yes

And the last question, is there any member of the public there with you who would like to participate in the public comment portion of this meeting or otherwise address any items for this meeting.

Not at this time, no.

Thank you. I would like to advise the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Council Members that any votes taken must be taken by roll call. Thank you.

Thank You Madam Clerk. Prior to closed session we will take public comments on the closed session agenda. Can the City Attorney please provide a statement prior to closed session?

The City Council will recess to a closed session pursuant to government code section 54956.9 subdivision D1, to confer with its attorneys the matter being discussed is the workers' compensation claim of Alejandro Rangel.

Thank you Mr. Fisher. Madam Clerk do we have any speakers for the public? Are there any other comments prior to the closed

session? Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members. There are no requests to speak in person or virtually for closed session. Thank you.

Thank you Madam Clerk. The City Council will now recess to a closed session at 6 p.m., we will begin the regular scheduled meeting. Good evening, everyone. The City Council has just emerged from closed session and I'd like to ask our city attorney Mr. Fisher to make any announcements before we proceed

Thank You mayor there are no reports out of closed session for item c1

Thank You mr. Fisher Good evening, everyone. Just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council, Oxnard Community Development Commission Successor Agency and the Oxnard Housing Authority for Tuesday July 21, 2026. I want to clarify for the record, and it should be reflected in the minutes that part of the City Council meeting is being conducted under California Government Code Section 54953 parentheses B.

As Mayor Pro Tem Teran has participated remotely from Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center located at 300 South Court Street in Visalia, California. This is in accordance with the Brown Act. The teleconference room location has been listed on the agenda for this meeting. Madam Clerk please proceed with the roll call and posting of the agenda after which we will confirm certain matters for the record.

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 July 9th I also have an announcement. Pursuant to Government Code Section 54952.3, each member of the Housing Board of Commissioners present will receive $50 pay for convening this meeting with the exception of Commissioner Starr who has declined to receive compensation. Thank you.

Thank You Mayor Burke.

Thank you, Mayor. And I want to thank Ashley for taking the time to join us this evening. She will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance followed by a moment of silence as the mayor had mentioned for the important reasons mentioned as well, followed by her sharing a little bit about her story. So I'll turn it over to Ashley at this point. Thank you.

Place your right hand over your heart Ready, begin.

Thank you again, Ashley, for joining us. We're all really excited to hear more about you. Go ahead.

It's my honor. Good evening Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and council members. My name is Ashley Baldera Sarsiga. I am a student at Oxnard High getting ready for my senior year. I'm a member of the cultural arts team. I'm involved in water polo, cheer and swim at my high school as well as founder and president of Mock Trial and the Garden Club Secretary. I am also part of OHS Law Academy who is ran by Mr. Jaime Moreno. Everything I do is what brought me here today.

Working for Cultural Arts has definitely been a wonderful adventure. I first started as an intern during last summer's Summer at City Hall program. When I first applied, I had zero clue where I would be placed and honestly I didn't try to find out. Moving towards the day I came to meet my supervisors, I was greeted with the most wonderful people. Julie, Diana and Peter.

Art has never been a thing I did or was good at but in the short month I learned how to trace paint And fix old paintings and even paint straight lines. As my summer wrapped up, I did a total of six projects with the art team. Later on, I was hired as a part-time employee and I couldn't be more grateful. Being on the team has really brought all my creative and talkative side out. I've learned how to communicate and socialize with others such as my team, and the community. And since I've been hired on, I have done small work as peanut character props in the largest mural at South Oxnard Library.

One of the biggest things that I've learned is that art is ugly before it becomes beautiful meaning it's a lot of trial and error And using everything we have to make it work. We definitely have our challenges, the sun being the biggest one but we have learned to overcome them and keep pushing. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to continue working because I have been able to save up for my senior year and treat my family.

Working for the city has also allowed me to use my experiences as a leader for younger kids, such as working with the PAL team for their cheer camp. I would like to thank the council members and city managers for allowing our program to continue doing such beautiful work for our city. for supporting staff to create a foundation, to have a wonderful program that allows teens like me to protect and participate in these projects such as this. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Ashley. We have a certificate for you but thank you for making those beautiful comments about us as a council and our executive leadership team. It just reminds us that we are, it just reinforces that we're making the right policy decision to allow young people like yourself to thrive. So thank you very much for those comments. Thank you. Do you want to introduce anyone who's here with you? You're all welcome to come take some photos and I'll present you with the certificate.

Firstly, I would like to thank my team and my supervisors that are here today. Also, my family that is here today as well and just everyone that has been supporting me is here today and I would like to thank them. Thank you so much. You

know, I met Ashley a couple years ago in Mr. Jaime Moreno's class when I went and presented And I remember, I know Mr. Moreno shared with me you're one of the leaders in the class and it's no surprise that you're here before us today. Great job Ashley. Yeah.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you again, Ashley. And thank you to the rec staff for being key leaders and shaping the lives of these young people. Thank you Julie. Thank you very much. And before we proceed I'd like to Before we go to

announcement. Mayor Pro Tem, I forgot to ask a few questions so my apologies. Mayor Pro Tem can you hear me well? Yes. Were you able to hear our proceedings on this end up until now?

Yes

And do you have a copy of the agenda for this meeting?

Yes

Have you posted the agenda at the location where you are located Is your location reasonably accessible to the public such that any member of the public could participate in the teleconference from your location if he or she wished to do so?

Yes.

Is there any member of the public there with you who would like to participate in the public comment portion of this meeting, or otherwise address any agenda items for this meeting?

Not at this time,

no. I would like to advise the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Council Members that any votes taken must be by roll call. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

item? Yes Mayor we have a few in just a minute.

I just want to make a reminder, anyone who wishes to speak on items not on the agenda and for non-action items you can come forward or you may fill out, you have the option of filling out a speaker card if you like. Or you're joining us virtually please press star 9 to raise your hand and I will call you if you want to join us virtually. JR Ruiz? Followed by Alexis Schmidt.

Good afternoon, I'm here on my agenda again because I'm here briefly for another couple of weeks so I kind of want to squeeze this in. So I'm really here to remind you that I'd like to meet with you about my mom's property and maybe building that stadium like we talked about and I also want Push my agenda for the public that I really feel that maybe we should do like music nights at the plaza, like maybe a DJ on Saturday and classic music on Sunday. They would bring in people and bring in more revenue for the taxes because people consume from local businesses.

There's things that we can also do over there that would be like we could add skate ramps and we can do like a sequel via. There's a city where I live at they have about 20 million And every Sunday morning they shut down the speedway around the city and they let the community come out there, skate with their kids and rollerblade and walk and exercise. I think we could do it here around the plaza at the same time. I'd be interested in taking care of that.

Also when I travel to different towns I notice that in every city like there's a place where the old men sit like in the center of plaza And they just relax and they meet because they retire, they got nothing to do but talk to their friends. And it seems like here at the bus station, they took those benches away for the elder people because of the business owner. And I think that we shouldn't do that because yes, that's something that every town has. And I think there are citizens like everybody else and they put in their time and they deserve to have benches there.

Also some other things that I wanted to bring into mind is I know there's a lot of people that are out and about from the mission to the community center. And there's an area there that I saw, that I think the city should accommodate, put some benches for them because sometimes you just need a place to sit and think about things. That was another project that I kind of had in mind that I think this city needs to do more for the people. Also in front, I noticed that they canceled the truck stops. You guys got to understand that these truckers that come to take our products to other stores That's the hardest job in the world. I worked in the trucking industry with one of the biggest corporations, and it's like really a sacrifice. And I think we should fix that for them instead of telling them they can't park there because at the end of the day, they're bringing in general revenue for the city, and we got to be more accommodating to people.

Also, one other thing that I wanted to bring up is a gentleman who has a bakery over here. I don't know the name. And it seemed he spent like 20, 30 grand remodeling his bakery, and the city blocked this parking lot out And I always thought, man that's kind of unsafe because when I want to pull in there, which I never do. It's kind of unsafe but it kind of anti-business. I would say that the, I don't know who programmed that but seems like it doesn't help situation and they should have just left parking spaces there for the public. I think it's called a rally outs or something like that? And one other thing is that I'd like to see if by my parents' home, there are some signs that were put up that says no parking. If we can work on that and the last thing More bike lanes to make it clear and safer for the kids.

I guess in the future, I'll be able to explain more about that.

Thank you. That's good. Thank you, JR. Alexis? And then followed by Angel Garcia.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. So I'm the chair of the East Village Neighborhood Council, and we recently were assigned a new B coordinator, Mike Cole And I have not been able to get in contact with him for a few months now over several complaints. He didn't come to our last neighborhood council meeting, and also I invited him to National Night Out and didn't hear back.

And I'm hearing from other people in the neighborhood that they're also not hearing back from him. And now, I'm receiving a higher volume of complaints about things going on. So I don't know if there's like, you know, if we're busier or if there is less patrol going on or something like that but I would really appreciate at least a line of contact so that we can as the neighborhood be at least informed when really there isn't a lot of communication going on,

so

thank

you.

Thank you, Alexis. Go ahead, Councilman Perlow. Can you... Excuse me, Speaker? Can you share the information with the Assistant City Manager?

We will... Do we have it? We actually got it. Thank you. It's a Mike Cole you talked about. Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Alexis. Angel Garcia followed by Heather Schmidt.

Hello, good evening Mayor, City Council and staff. My name is Angel Garcia, District 3 resident, lifelong resident of Oxnard. I'm going to try to channel my inner Reverend Runyon from my comment because you know I've never really made a comment like this especially before the city council and um you know when someone runs for city council You hope that that person runs with the mindset of serving the community, recognizing the needs of the community and the district and really working in partnership with community members, with staff to really make that into a reality. Right?

And as a District 3 resident I'm gravely concerned and I really want to raise the alarm about my particular council member and that's Council Member Starr. And I don't think enough people are really paying attention about what's going on and what his future and what he wants to do means for the city as an organization, and for a community. And for most folks that don't know, in May Council Member Starr attended a Libertarian convention and he made it very clear that he wants to make City of Oxnard his vision of a libertarian haven. And he's willing to put crazy amounts of money to make that happen. And those aren't my words, that's what he said and there's going to be clips later to show that And that's very concerning. I mean, that really just speaks to me as a resident and as someone that's been civically engaged since I was in high school that they're just in it for themselves.

That, I mean what an honor it is to serve La Colonia and Rose Park the beautiful district we have in District 3 And to put your agenda and your interests first, and if that means putting in a lot of money, I mean that is gravely concerning. And just the manner of the partnership between STAR and staff, the ridicule, I mean these are people that work night and day, and I think they deserve respect. And especially with the budget meeting to see him vote no on a budget that includes programs for our community, important infrastructure. For me as a voter and a resident I'm gravely concerned about that. I mean that shows that you're not willing to put community programs first programs for our youth for our seniors, union contracts for our hard-working police officers, firefighters.

I mean, I really want to make sure that residents of Oxnard and District 3 are aware of what's happening in these meetings what these votes mean and with the upcoming elections, what he's planning on doing by putting this crazy amount of money. I mean it's crazy to me to think that someone that's not from Oxnard wants to come here invest this much money for their way of thinking because they think they know what's best for Oxnard which frankly I disagree and you know I think it's important to have that good partnership but it's clear to me that you're not interested in that and it's either your way or the highway and that concludes my comments thank you

Thanks, Angel. Heather Schmidt? Followed by Oscar Sanchez.

My comments are in a video.

Thank

you,

Luis. Thank you. Diego, please play the video.

Good evening mayor, council and city staff. It's time for a reality

check. I'm going to change that what i've done is i've recruited three candidates to run with me uh in to run in november i'm not that not only have i been recruiting candidates but i've been raising money for them

some of you who have previously donated to Aaron's campaign are on an interesting map it's dots of where libertarians live all over the country so it's

Alicia and I interviewed dozens of people trying to find folks that would actually be part of our agenda.

So now we have confirmation that the following rumors are actually true. Number one, Council Member Starr has been raising funds for three candidates in an attempt at a hostile takeover of the city this fall.

By the way, I want to introduce my wife, Alicia Purcell. We are in absolute partnership. I could not do this without her. There's some folks that have actually called her the eighth council member Because she and I work so closely together.

Two, Council Member Starr works closely with an unelected member of the public to such an extent that violations of confidentiality ethics and other relevant laws including the Brown Act are now in question. Three, Council Member Starr doesn't care about good governance and transparency.

Any future whistleblowers you please contact me

If he did, he'd respond in good faith to public records requests and prioritize his district over partisan events. The truth is that all the ballot measures...

What's the point of having this conversation at all? Because it doesn't mean anything. Would you commit... The lawsuits. If you guys believe after looking at that it's a justified expense,

okay I don't give a lot of weight to your opinion. What what expense are you referring? All the drama. A point of order the mayor

has

a floor here.

That's just the libertarian playbook to destroy a city from the inside. And now we have confirmation that's been his plan all along. How embarrassing! This breach of public trust cannot continue, you have to take steps to secure this organization. First, Mayor and Council please consider reorganizing the city committees. It is not appropriate for a council member with a publicly stated goal of dismantling a municipal government to be on the Finance and Governance Committee of that very government. And second, please update the City Council Procedures Manual to include a more robust Code of Conduct and a clearly defined procedure for censure such that our neighbors in Ventura and Camarillo have already done. All have an obligation to rein this insanity in.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Mr. Oscar Sanchez, followed by Alicia Purcell.

Good evening Mayor, Council Members, Committee. You can call me Oscar. I'm a coach and mentor here in Oxnard. Throughout the years, I have worked with people of many ages, backgrounds, physical and mental abilities and conditions. Thanks to that experience, I've been able to develop something called the OM alignment or OM as a, you know, the mantra. A practical community-based system for emotional regulation, confidence building and personal leadership development. I work with people who are navigating things like stress, identity, parenthood, work pressures and the traumas of past experiences Many of them don't seek therapy. Many of them don't feel comfortable in a traditional wellness place, yet they show up and they're open to learn and train when it feels familiar, when it feels safe, and they're able to open up their heart.

That's the gap that the Almond alignment is seeking to fill. Over the past year, I've been piloting the program with adults in Oxnard teaching tools of self-regulation, conflict deescalation and emotional clarity. I've seen anger turn into patience, isolation turned into healthy routines and families reconnecting. I've seen people who felt stuck in life find goals and purpose.

This isn't therapy. It isn't exactly counselling. But it is a structured personal development with many layers rooted in discipline, reflection, integrity, love and community accountability. It's designed to be safe, neutral and accessible especially for anyone who doesn't respond to traditional support systems. Every part will be designed with intention and purpose to help towards the next step in our communities growth and connection. I'm here today because Oxnard is my hometown And I love this place. I've left multiple times out of state, out of the counties and I always end up coming back because there's just no place like here. You know, I love this place and for the people that have known me for a long time they know that I've always wanted to help others my whole life.

That's anything I've always wanted to do and after 42 years I've accumulated enough experience and wisdom to be able to use what God brought me here for and everything that I've gone through to help that, to teach others, to prevent them from making the same mistakes that I've made, that I've seen others make and just be better people in general. Our people will benefit from this in every aspect such as home life, relationships, work life, life choices, stress regulation, and overall better health, overall better life decisions because as the old saying goes you I apologize. You can see clearly in boiling water.

Thank you, Oscar.

Mayor, we have some virtual callers. Maybe we could recognize them?

Yeah. Alicia, do you want to...I know I called you up. Do you want to go up next or is it OK if I call some virtual speakers? Are you OK with that? OK. Madam Clerk, we'll go to the virtual speakers.

Virtual speaker, if you can press star 6 to unmute and you have three minutes starting now.

Hi, this is Eric Andrus, Henry Lee House owner. I'm not a libertarian, I'm just a resident trying to make Oxnard better for everyone, not just District 3. Council Member Starr, please move over to District 4 so your effort can really be appreciated and not distorted. These naysayers don't know what they're talking about and don't realize you work for the entire city, not just District 3! Everyone needs to remember that the public record advocate refuses to respond all the time There are far worse council members than Erin Starr, and District 3 isn't calling for their recall. What does Gabriella Basuah do during council meetings except play on her computer? Watch her eyes where they are the whole meeting. When she does speak it's word salad.

Mayor what policies are the administration making so that I can thrive here? Are those efforts only for select people who haven't yet needed to hold the city accountable? Last week, I told you I was assaulted adjacent to my home in City Hall's own backyard in your precious historic district next to a potentially dangerous park being built. Only Gabriela Rodriguez contacted me. Our elected mayor didn't contact me. He seems to have deliberately forgotten me after I spent more than a year helping him. I wonder if y'all would take a moment of silence for me if the assailant had killed me with metal objects he threw at my head?

Who else contacted me with concern? The people's elected treasurer, Phil Molina. He also told me about a strange man entering his office at City Hall threatening to firebomb and kill him. As I understand it the city attorney's office which has a clear vendetta against Mr. Molina refused to help him seek a restraining order against the man the police report identified as known to officers. Molina asked the police chief for protecting how to protect himself and got no response. Four days later, what was all over the news? An Oxnard police officer who had quote sustained minor injuries in a tussle with a perp paid city employees get press releases vocal taxpayers get ignored. Today I participated in a police lineup. Hopefully it will identify my assailant, but since it happened to me y'all don't care anyway right?

It has to happen to a police officer before you can feign concern with the press release. Days later, a truck trailer crashed into 2nd Street. An Oxnard police officer directly behind it saw everything. What did he do? Nothing! He sat in his car while the driver and passenger pushed it to the side. No help, no warning lights, no protection for passing traffic. The officer issued no citation under Vehicle Code 29004 requiring a safety chain or equivalent device or Section 24002 prohibiting unsafe or improperly equipped vehicles. Although city leaders often treat their city manuals as optional, OPD's Manual Section 316.2.2 says emergency lights shall be displayed when necessary to protect an extreme hazard scene including a roadway blocked by a disabled vehicle.

Policy 520.2 says an officer observing a disabled vehicle on the roadway should make a reasonable effort to assist. When exactly do cops ticket people? Only when they hold the city accountable? Thank

you Mr. Andres for your call. Thank you. Virtual speaker, if you can press star six to unmute and you have three minutes starting now.

Yes, can I be here?

Yes, please proceed.

Good evening Mayor, council members and city staff I'm a resident of District 3 and I live in East Village where Council Member Aaron Starr is my representative. I have grown pretty frustrated with the way Mr. Starr is handling his position. Many people thought that when he won his seat, he'd stop with all the lawsuits but it seems that wasn't true. He's cost voters over four million dollars in legal fees alone and it's only a matter of time before the city faces lawsuits relative to its behaviors towards staff or even the public.

And what if he gets away with this plan, they have to take over the council and fire a bunch of staff members? Will not will the city not face costly lawsuits over that too. He also promised us he would solve homelessness and lower the cost of living. I'd like to know how voting against the Oxnard Navigation Center and how planning to privatize all our utilities is going to save us anything.

And what about when he's voted against all the ordinances that said a landlord can't harass a tenant? As I understand it, that ordinance was about harassment. Mr. Starr you voted to let your constituents be harassed. Mr. Starr, I think the voters gave you a chance but you seem to be blowing it. The recent Libertarian video is very disturbing and it is evidence that you lied to your constituents and concealed the secret plan you had The public is seeing a real mess and I hope it will be resolved soon. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you for coming in. Madam Clerk, we'll go to the next virtual speaker.

Sarah if you can hear me please press star six and you have three minutes starting now.

Hi, good evening. Mary MacArthur members of the city council. My name is Sarah Chesky and I am a volunteer with 805 and docu fund and oxide resident. I'm just here to give you your update on. Um, ice activity in the 8805. Currently the latest kidnapping numbers as of 9 a.m on July 19th, starting from January of 2025 in the 805 area code 2358 people have been kidnapped in Ventura County 1142 and 233 of those are from Oxnard.

And just as a reminder, if you see anything suspicious, please call or text 805-870-8855. Thank you. Thank you

very much, Sarah. We'll go to the next virtual speaker.

Virtual speaker, if you can hear me, please press star six and you have three minutes starting now.

Hi, can you hear

me? Yes, please proceed.

Hi, good evening City Council and Mayor Pro Tem. I'm calling because recently i had seen a video on social media but apparently that video is old now because there's a new one but in this video it was of Star and Mama Purcell at a libertarian convention admitting that he has a libertarian agenda for Oxnard He said, and I quote, Alicia and I interviewed dozens of people trying to find folks that would actually be part of our agenda.

And end of quote but then he later on he also said, I recruited three candidates. Districts one two and five wake up because Aaron start things you're all stupid. I did a little detective work, and I found the actual—the whole video. And in it he also says—he tells his fellow libertarians that if they want to run for office to come to him because he knows what to say.

You know, he ran on lowering the cost of living and all these other things. And he hasn't done any of that. So he was just saying that to get your vote. District 3 already fell for it. Districts 1, 2 and 5 don't fall for him and his agenda and his puppets. I hope that you guys can clearly see now that Aaron Starr, Mama Purcell, his friends Mr. Portobello The angry man that always calls. They don't want what's best for District 3 or for Oxnard as a matter of fact, they just want to force their libertarian agenda on us.

Mr. I'm sorry Aaron is not even from Oxnard he didn't grow up here he doesn't know what's best for Oxnard. He just wants some kind of like control or to feel better about himself. I don't know. I can tell you that. District 1, anything that John Barrack, District 2 Lizanne Nanez and District 5 Noemi Corpuz tell you? They're all going to be lies. Why? Because Aaron Starr knows exactly what to say and he's gonna tell them what to say just like he said in his speech too that he'd share all this stuff with any other libertarian who's open to it. He also admitted to raising money for them so don't I don't know how he's going to deny that he didn't do this because why are you raising money for them?

At the moment, obviously like I said previously, he does not have Oxnard's best interest in mind, let alone District 3. Does

that conclude the virtual speakers Madam Clerk?

That concludes our virtual speakers.

I have to say it's amusing that some people think that the good club is entitled to a monopoly on candidate recruitment and fundraising for the people they support. Nobody else is allowed to do that. Interesting though, you know Oxnard has been Living under the policies of the Good Club supported candidates for many years and a lot of people are not happy with results.

All we get are high taxes and poor service levels, and a lot of businesses are driven away. You know our supporters contact us and tell us what recall proponents or supporters say to try to get signatures to qualify for the recall. One contacted us and said the person at her door claimed that Aaron owns a house in Simi Valley, like he doesn't even live here. That's just false. Property ownership records are public.

There is no basis to even believe it. This person ought to know better but they're just making things up to tell people. You know, I have a question for those of you in this meeting who are openly or secretly assisting the recall efforts. Are you comfortable with the racist images on the flyer that is being hounded out for the recall? In the second box here, you know there's a little map cut out of South Oxnard and there's a generic family of, you know with brown skin. And there's generic white person to the side and the white person has a red X over it. You know nobody is identified there but I find that pretty interesting.

I don't know if those of you supporting the recall are supportive of that kind of messaging or not You know, for somebody to accuse a person who doesn't even accept compensation from serving on the council of being in it for themselves is pretty interesting. Tonight's video allegations are just more baseless and vague allegations. And at the end of it, you know, it's pretty interesting to play a video of Erin being interrupted by other people and then suggest that he should be censored for decorum violations when he was the one being interrupted, and then the video turns around and violates decorum standards by referring to anybody that disagrees with them as insanity. I mean, you can't say that these council meetings don't give us entertainment value.

I'll say that. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Purcell. Madam Clerk I understand we have two other virtual speakers? Let's proceed with them.

Yes that is correct. Virtual speaker if you can hear me if you can press star six to unmute and you have three minutes starting now.

Good evening Mayor and members of the City Council what we are witnessing in District 3 is a profound betrayal of public trust We have a council member who explicitly prioritizes his personal political ambitions over his sworn civic duties. While his constituents were gathered in scheduled neighborhood council meetings looking for leadership and answers, Council Member Aaron Starr was completely absent. Where was he?

He was attending a National Libertarian Convention networking and soliciting campaign donations to fund his broader political takeover of Oxnard When an elected official values out-of-town partisan networking over the real everyday concerns of the working families who elected him, he has forfeited his right to represent them. Furthermore, Mr. Starr operates under the dangerous delusion that money possesses a First Amendment right to free speech.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows this is an absolute absurdity regardless of flawed Supreme Court precedents Money is not speech, money is power. Allowing unchecked financial influence into our political arena does not protect free expression. Instead it subverts democracy entirely by ensuring that only the exceptionally wealthy and powerful have a megaphone effectively silencing regular working class residents.

This brings us to the acute danger of outside money in local politics City Council races should be entirely about our community, about local public infrastructure and the direct immediate needs of our neighborhoods. But when candidates invite deep-pocketed outside donors and special interest groups into a municipal election they shift accountability away from the local electorate.

Local governance is meant to be a grassroots reflection of the community's collective will not a playground for wealthy out-of-town ideologues I strongly urge all district 3 voters to make their voices heard, reclaim the representation and sign the recall petition against Aaron Starr. For the rest of Oxnard, we must collectively repudiate this calculated effort to suspend our city council and replace it with an ideological public government. Our city belongs to the people who live and work here not the high dollar donors funding Mr. Starr's political machinery.

Thank you.

Thank you. We'll go to the next virtual speaker.

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

Hello this is Manuel Herrera. Mr Mayor I don't appreciate your favoritism to the eighth council member Alicia Purcell. Every time you ask her you tell her that it's her time to speak and then you give her the option to wait to hear what everybody's going to talk about or her husband about Then that way she can have the last word. That's not cool. So anyways, my real reason for calling is to talk about the takeover of Oxnard.

You know everyone always asks what is Aaron Starr's true agenda for Oxnard? Why is he willing to dedicate his whole life and his money to fighting City Hall? He must really love Oxnard, and he must really be a fighter for the people. And remember that's what he ran on right? Well that's what he wanted you to believe. Just like Donald Trump, Aaron Starr lied to everyone just to get elected. And just like Trump once he got into office his true agenda was revealed This past May at the Libertarian Convention, Starr revealed his real agenda for Oxnard. At the convention he literally said I have recruited three candidates to run in November to be part of my robust agenda reform for Oxnard.

He plans to replace his fellow council members Tarang, Basuah and Parelo. Star also mentioned he is funding these candidates And who are these candidates? John Baric, Lizanne Nanez and Noemi Corbus. So make sure you remember these Aaron Starr endorsed candidates come November because the only thing worse than one Aaron Starr Our four Aaron Stars. Imagine that, and if that happens then Oxnard will be a Libertarian World City. And if that happens look for this new Libertarian Council to outsource our Solid Waste Department, our Fire Department and our Police Department. And if that happens we are all screwed. So how does Starr pay for all this? Well he doesn't it's the Libertarian Party that is funding this takeover So what can you do about this?