COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 4-15 FFULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (pOrinted on 20% recycled paper) • YEAR 38 #8 • EARLY MAY 2016 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com H T I M S G H Y B 7 8 8 1 A C R I C O T O H P First Woman on US Paper Money US Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew announced that Harriet Tubman will be the first woman on the $20 bill. From the Underground Railroad to her home in Auburn, NY, Harriet Tubman was truly a fearless leader in the fight to end slavery. She also supported women’s suffrage. Oddly, the back of the bill will still feature L an image of slave-owner president Andrew E G N Jackson. New designs for the $10 and $5 A L I bills will retain Alexander Hamilton and B N President Lincoln but add images of A R Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor F Y Roosevelt, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia B O Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. T O H Anthony, Alice Paul, and Marian P Anderson. For more information visit https://modernmoney.treasury.gov/ CALIFORNIA HISTORY IN A FUN WAY : Fullerton School District teacher, Bethanie Collins (center) with the cast of the musical play, "California Here We Come." Cast members pictured are: "Ike & Betsy" Morgan Ang & Francine Vudoti, "Native Indians" Chloe Yi and Binny Park, "Californian" Rowan Yeo, and "Fr. Serra" Anthony Casillas. Story page 13 7 . A 7 S D . 5 C I D 1 U A E . Settlement Nears in N P T D O New Project and Zoning Proposed O E R R N T Clean-up of Toxic Site G A O R T A S D by Jane Rands traffic impact fees and the I E Public Hearing T E L Pitney Bowes Inc. and Novitex N S M R L General Plan to “address the A O P on Mixed Use R A four-story two-block deep proj - T Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (the “settling U P E S intensity of new housing F P ect at the former site of Mullahey Overlay parties”) of the 7.5 acre former Chicago development.” At that meet - Chevrolet at 600 W. Zoning Musical Instruments site at 350 S. ing Commission Chair Commonwealth was presented as 7pm, Wed., Raymond Ave, in Fullerton have proposed Kathleen Shanfield asked to part of a study session on a new entering into a settlement with the May 11th “take a look at density zoning tool called Mixed Use California Department of Toxic Planning changes” before moving for - Overlay (MU-O) at the April 27 Substances Control for the remediation of Commission ward with the DCCSP revi - Planning Commission Meeting. both on-site and off-site contaminants. meeting sions. At the April 13 Planning The settlement includes a reimburse - at City Hall. Commission member Commission Study Session, revi - ment to the DTSC for $866,484 in past T Johnson registered her dis - sions to the Downtown Core and response costs and requires the settling N Corridors Specific Plan (DCCSP) were pre - comfort with the proposed locations and E parties to pay for future costs related to L Commissioner Bennett questioned the fea - L D sented by Community Development the site remediation. A I sibility of Mixed-Use development. Next C S Director Karen Haluza. MU-O zoning was 2 E Contamination includes PCE, TCE S E steps were presented including drafting new 0 R I one of three new methods that were dis - and DCE which leaked from several con - E 4 R T codes, creating new standards and prepar - V 6 R cussed as a means of streamlining commer - crete sumps within the building used for - R T E ing amendments to the General Plan. E 5 cial zoning on 204 acres throughout the V degreasing. The clean up is designed to S N 2 There was no mention at the April 13 D B E city compared to the 1310 originally pro - 5 treat soil and vapor and inhibit continued A - meeting that the April 27 meeting would R O posed under the DCCSP. 4 migration of VOC plumes into portions O R delve into a large scale project that would E 1 At the first study session Director Haluza of the aquifer used for drinking water. T 7 U H leverage the new MU-O zoning. T presented future discussion topics to update C According to DTSC officials there is no continued on page 4 N immediate health risk. I R Written comments may be made to the O NORTH OC C OMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT DTSC through May 30, 2016 by email to ESPONSE TO ROFESSORS EEKING ENEFITS Project Manager Hossein Nassiri at R P S B [email protected]. The North OC Community College District Especially in the case of negotiating bene - Information on the site is available at submitted the following statement in response fits where not all employees are interested the Fullerton Public Library and at DTSC to the Mid April frontpage story “ Professors in the same level of care, those decisions EnviroStor website https://www.enviros - Protest Lack of Dependent Health Benefits. will have to go through the formal process tor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp? of committees and negotiations, and will global_id=60001251 The North Orange County Community most likely take some time to figure out. College District is proud of and values its Here are some considerations: 4 ISTRICT LECTIONS 3 employees and shares their frustrations with D E 8 N 2 Salaries and Benefits R our current salary and benefit amounts. 9 1 UBLIC EARING P H O 5 E A In 2015, NOCCCD conducted a Total 0 The District administration and Board of T V 7 C 6:30pm Tuesday, R Trustees is considering every possible, fis - Compensation Comparability Study to R X N E E O O cally responsible, solution to increasing our provide us with information about where May 17, 2016 L S B T R L our salaries and benefits for all member B comparability with other area districts. We O E Council Chambers P U L have already made some advancement units were in relation to twelve other O L F Fullerton City Hall U toward comparability and we will continue regional community college districts. F 303 W. Commonwealth to make progress as quickly as we can. continued on page 8 Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER OPINIONS & NEWS EARLY MAY 2016 Open Letter to Council: Election Map Selection map. If they are now submitting new maps that will be considered without pub - Fullerton Dear Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, you on April 19 may not be what you lic discussion, and if the council happens and Council Members: wanted, but they were the result of many to like and choose one, the council will be Observer months of labor. The process requires ignoring the hard work of all meeting par - I am writing to express my thanks to knowledge, patience, hard work, and ticipants. That would be unfair to say the you for working hard for our beautiful The Fullerton Observer Community attention to detail to arrive at the infor - least! Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie city. I also would like to share my mation that was submitted to you. All the I also need to mention that the option Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is thoughts on the city council meeting input and discussion at those community of six and seven district maps was staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, April 19 regarding the Public Hearing on meetings, which was sometimes very con - publish, and distribute the paper throughout explored and defeated at the community Voting District Mapping. tentious, were documented. meetings because it was decided that for our community. You have selected the right people (Mr. This venture is a not-for-profit one with I am impressed with the many speakers the Latino and Asian American popula - all ad and subscription revenues plowed back David Ely and Compass Demographics) to who took the opportunity to explain to tions to have only one representative each into maintaining and improving our inde - work on this important project, and they you why they supported the sample map out of seven districts would defeat the pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - have done a great job in educating the 2B. But some frequent speakers stood in munity newspaper. original purpose of reaching equal presen - public, explaining the process, answering front of you saying they went to these tation. Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - questions, guiding the discussion, solicit - dents about the institutions and other socie - community meetings and didn’t support People say “It’s easy to destroy some - tal forces which most impact their lives, so ing input, and tabulating the results. the final results. As someone who attend - thing, but it’s much more difficult to that they may be empowered to participate The level of participation in the second ed all the meetings I can say they weren’t build it,” so I am asking you to please do in constructive ways to keep and make these round of public meetings was as low as in there. I didn’t see them at the meetings, private and public entities serve all residents the right thing, which is to consider the the first round. I guess the residents who and their names were not on the sign-up suggestion and recommendation from in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible intend to vote “No” stayed home and the ways.