On The Mark
KCAA: On The Mark with Mark Westwood (Thu, 26 Sep, 2024)
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Our guest at the three o'clock hours running just a little bit late. We're going to be hearing from none other than Rodney Allen Rippy in the next half hour or so with the school board candidate running by the name of Nicholas Dibbs out in Norwalk School Board Area A. And we're looking forward to talking to them. But since we have an extra half hour, I decided, well, OK, we talked it over and Joe Pudetto and Phil White will stay again. They're from the City of Ucaypa. We've been talking about measure S and budget cuts and difficult things on the challenges facing us. The City of Ucaypa is right now at a $7.3 million budget deficit. They have to learn how to address that, figure out how to address that, innovate it, innovate how they're going to address it, I should say. And it includes some deep cuts or some cuts that if this measure doesn't pass, it might have to happen or may not happen. Or the measure may not pass. I mean, we have an election November 5th. As I said at the beginning of the other hour, I will vote.com. This is your chance. This is your voice. You know, when you go to City Hall, you get three minutes in the microphone. They cut you off. The little beeper goes, you know, this is your chance to call in to at 1-888-909-1050 or 909-792-5222. I know we're talking about budget stuff. I know I can hear some snoring in the background from people, you know. To some people, this is just wonderfully exciting. I'm sure that Phil White is wonderfully exciting. Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. First, do you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price? Then there's cleaning, staging, repairs, and hiring a professional photographer. Next, develop a marketing strategy with the property on rental sites and schedule countless showings. Oh, don't forget to screenshot. 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And then, you know, just in general, this is your opportunity to talk about it a little bit more, you got a little bit more of a grace period. So this is your time. You know, I asked the tough questions before and I kind of had my little list and my little agenda and I blazed through it, then okay, okay, now we're going to go again. So two things, Mark, I think we can cover that a continuation, you talked about what is the city doing to be innovative and making sure that we're not there in the future. So I think we could talk about that and one, the other thing, to let the public know and anyone who's curious is why not just jump to cuts right away. And the city manager considered that and talk to city council. The reason is because the hypothesis is that residents and you kind of have come to enjoy such a quality of life. And as Phil said, we have some runway to make a smart decision. I'll be honest with you. Yeah, yeah. They're not interested in this very much. They trust their government's going to take care of it and when they flip their lights which on, the power grid is going to be maintained. They put their water faucet on, clean water is going to come through. You kind of has about three or four different water companies to maintain and coordinate for some reason or other. So that's the way that works. You know, when they flush the toilet, the sewer goes out somewhere, you know, and when they call the police, you know, they're going to get police protection. And for the most part, we've had some good fire protection. We'll talk about that again. Nothing, the fire department did, but you know, there was this little gender specific party that happened that created quite a problem that created quite an expense of five million dollars, did you say? Originally from the El Dorado Fire and then ultimately Tropical Storm Hillary. So now it's time to get creative. Yeah. So, but we did ask the community first through a scientific poll and the results came back that more than half of the community said we would be willing to pay a little more in sales tax, one percent sales tax to keep what we have. So, so this is, this is just putting that out. That's why, why, why we did that not straight cut, but in terms of being innovative. Is it a higher polling company to do that or what was your control group and all that kind of stuff? We did. We did. And a statistically valid sample in our city sizes considered 300 and we did a 350 sample size to make sure that we got a more higher level of confidence on it. So you didn't do like one council member and just go to Facebook. We did that too. Okay. Oh, okay. No, no, no, no. So, but, but you know, like you've mentioned though, or in Phil has mentioned and we'll talk more about is the sales tax was projected to measure as is projected to raise six million dollars. And with a deficit of seven point three and growing, that's not enough to fix it altogether. So we have to look at other mechanisms. We discussed a little bit about the franchise fee with Bertec. That's part of the mix, but also how do we increase revenue through good business industrial practices and just, you know, raising money through, through smart business. Because cities are corporations, they're a living entity. They have to have income. They have to have revenue. You have to figure out how to do that. And then you have to figure out how to pay your bills. So you know, it's going to try to survive no matter what you're incorporated under California law by the California League of Cities. And then from that point on, you're on your own. You make it some sales tax, you might get some state tax, you might get federal grants like the go-rounds, I call them the merry go-rounds, but the traffic go-rounds, those were mostly federal granted, you know. So if you come and say, well, you know, we're going to cut a traffic go-round or whatever you want to call those things, it really doesn't have a big impact. The big impact is revenue being brought in. And expenses. And expenses, right? And you know, I have to keep expenses down. That's the way a healthy business does. You know, lo and behold, everybody, they're just not money coming out of the sky. You know, they have to get that and they have to collect that and they have to collect taxes. And then, you know, they have to distribute it wisely and evenly. And you know, I don't know. What do you think the grade from the city of Citizens of U.K.I.P. overall would be on your report card? Yeah. And so that's an interesting one. The difference between corporations and cities is the profit aspect of a corporation. If a corporation has a business line that they're not, their profit margin isn't where they want it to be, they shut it down, they spin it off, they get rid of it. What the city does, we're not trying to turn a profit. We're trying to deliver service and we're trying to maximize the service delivery based on the revenues that we got. And so the what we would do in that situation when we say, "Hey, we got to control costs," we're saying, "We've only got so much revenue. We can only deliver so much service." And that's the list of cuts that you went down. That's trying to educate the community to say, "Hey, just so you know, if we can't bridge this gap, in order to bridge the gap, these are the things that we're going to have to decrease on our costs. These are the things that's not-- So Cal Fire or the San Mu County Sheriff's Department, one of the largest employers of law enforcement in the United States, by the way, they're not going to catch any slack. Absolutely not. I mean, we work with-- You can't go to them and have them bid. You can't go to other people of bid for law enforcement? No, no. We contract with the county for law enforcement and their rates are their rates. And it's based on number of deputies or whoever they're going to deliver for us. That's what the rate is. And so the way that we would control those costs is to decrease the number of deputies that we're asking for. And so that's what we've done. But when you do that, one of the things you mentioned was, "Hey, when you call 911, do you want somebody to show up?" Somebody will show up. Somebody will show up. No, no, no. And that's what I'm saying is, but it will be impact. The more people that they have, the more-- Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Like the rent and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. First, you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price. Then there's cleaning, staging, repairs, and hiring a professional photographer. 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He said, "What does it look like if we were to cut five deputies? That's the number in your thing. Five deputies." He said, "Okay, we're still going to figure it out." It would be a challenge, but we will figure it out. That's about a half million dollars in benefits and salaries. Five deputies? Roughly it's a quarter of a million dollars per deputy. It's a significant number. For security purposes, you can't tell me how many deputies there are. It's public information. We have 28 deputies at the city of Yekaipo. Would it end up with like 23 or something like that? You started carving them up and say, "Okay, what do those deputies do? The school resource officers are included in that number," and you start divvying it up and you say, "Okay, that ultimately comes out to like a 20 percent reduction on a number of deputies." You think, "Okay, that means that all the work with the SOP team. It's going to get pinched. There's not enough resources to go around to do this response times. Yes, somebody's going to show up, but it's going to be tougher because they're a little bit thinner." We don't want to cut fire because, "Hey, we've recently experienced the hillside on fire, and it's happened..." Yeah. Fire? Absolutely. I'm sorry. We're just not raking our forests better. Yeah. There's that. Also, a lot of what the fire department does is on the paramedic side and response to medical calls and things like that. They're in the same thing. That's why they keep asking for the paramedic squad is because they want to improve their response times. They're doing their best that they can, but they feel like we need to serve the community better and we're asking for more so that we can get there quicker, and we're having the conversations about, "Okay, we hear you, but we're trying to control costs here." We're really trying to have the open community dialogue with the community to say, "Help us fix..." Based on all the services, the other thing that I wanted to point out is, you've mentioned the report card. As we go to these meetings and we've had a lot of them, the report card on the cost, what the city's trying to do is deliver services. I have not heard a poor job of delivering service. All the services people say, "You can't cut this. These guys do great. I love seeing this thing. I love this service that is provided by the city. Protect that one." I've never heard this service is terrible. Get rid of that one, except for Joe, but Joe's not a service provider, he's the support and service. Just don't take this personally. Joe, I feel bad for you, but now we're going to have the, I think it's the fall festival or something... Autofest. Autofest coming up in like two days. That takes some money to stage, right? It does. Yeah. And we have a spring fest, and a summer fest, and a winter fest, and a Christmas fest. Maybe, I don't know, we might have to do without those. Yeah. So... I was upset when we cut the skating rink the other day. Well, the ice rink. The ice rink. The ice rink last winter. Yeah. The ice rink was a significant cost, but my goodness, what an amenity. It was a very fun thing. So these festivals, there is a revenue recovery component of that. Whether that's through vendor registration and sale. We get a component of sales. There's different things that go on where there's a revenue recovery. I used to be a market manager in three different cities. So I know what you're talking about, and the sales are okay. Yeah. Vendor sales, right? And so... It's more expensive. But where that is and up to you, Kaitba, it's just part of the feel of the community and the reason that we had those things originally is for the community benefit and create you Kaitba culture. And so there's a benefit. There's not all dollars and cents, but there's a community benefit. The net cost on those things is not significant. In fact, Autumn Fest, our community services director thinks that we are going to break even or better at Autumn Fest specifically. And so when we look at, "Hey, how do we solve this big massive $7 million deficit?" We're talking pennies on some of those things, even though you look at it and some people may say, "Hey, why are we having a party when we're talking to deficit?" Big picture, this particular one is we're thinking we're going to break even, maybe do a little bit better. But the net cost on a lot of these things is not significant. That's not where the problem is. The U.K.I.P.a. performing arts center, I'm bringing up all these. Oh, that's a problem, yeah. I love the performing arts center. So do I. I've gone to comedy nights there. I've gone to music there. It's a spectacular facility. When I drive people into my town and I drive them around those go-rounds and I drive down California Street and all around, I'm proud of my city and all the things that have happened and there's new businesses all over. I remember a few years back, it looked like Skid Row. So it's good stuff up there. But U.K.I.P.a. performing center, we can't run that to break even, even, or why is that a cost? Yeah. So the way it was built, there were decisions made at construction to limit the number of seats inside. And when you do that, it doesn't pencil, but it was built as a community benefit. Even though it wasn't going to pencil, it was thought, hey. So it's like the swimming pool and we're never going to make any money on the swimming pool. But it's nice. Or you think like that? Yeah. But it's a nice thing. And so that's why it was built. And now, since we're in a budget deficit, it's like, well, can we fix that? And that's a tough thing because we're doing our best and our community services directors doing a great job of minimizing the net cost of those things. However, the original construction was not intended to break even. It was intended to say a direct benefit. But a community benefit, where you drive around and you say, man, my town is cool. Just like the Sierra Sea Community Center and stuff, it is a great cool town. I love you, Kite. Yeah. So do I. And I want to, you know, so, you know, there's this whole wine thing. We didn't even get into this wine country thing. There's a concept of having a wine country. Yeah, 30 minutes are up. I've got to go. I bet. I bet. We got about five, six minutes. Depending on when Rodney Allen Rippy shows up, you know, you're going to, you're taking a lot of heat for that, you know, because it's the density and housing and stuff like that. And now there's a lot of infrastructure that has to go in there. There's nobody that's going to put that in. So essentially, this is going to stall out any kind of building out of that. If you've got a $7.3 million budget deficit, there's no way to do the extra things like that. Traditionally, developers pay those things when they come in as part of the, their approvals. Can't we just add some more money to that? Add more money to fees. Well, they'll pay their development fees. But most of those are just one-time monies, though, you know, and so that doesn't help necessarily fix the ongoing, but what their business activities could do with the establishment of wineries, restaurants, hotels, potentially, is generate transit and see occupancy taxes and sales taxes that will help the ongoing revenue of the city. So they're here? They're here. Okay. Well, we'll wrap this up in five minutes. Anyway, sorry, folks. Sorry, this is the record, stuff. So the city, you know, when I say the city, but certainly as staff, we're aware of strong opinions on the wine country-specific plan. But when you talk about what part of the intent is, it's part of the intent is to be innovative and open up business opportunities that generate revenue. And you know, so... Because that's the nature of the beast of the city corporation, basically, and I understand that. But you know, I have only about a few more minutes left. So you know, I want to be polite, and thank you for coming here, and I want to give you a few minutes just, you know, to educate, not advocate, right? You can't advocate. You're your city employees, and I know. So in just two minutes or less, we're going to introduce Phil White, who is the city finance director, who is fielding all these questions about Measure S and the budget more or less, and you know, how to be innovative and things like that. Talk to the citizens of the UCI website. So as a longtime citizen of UCIPA and as the finance director, really, Joe hit the nail on the head. We're okay with whatever the community decides. What we're really trying to do is answer all the questions, get all the information out there. But the choice that we have now is our costs exceed revenues, and so do we want to fix it on the revenue side and vote yes for Measure S to fund all of those things that are on the list. Or do we want to downsize the services that are provided for the existing business? We have one more phone call. Let's just play game here and I live life dangerously. We're going to take this phone call. You got about maybe a minute or so to talk and because we got to wrap this part of the show up. Who do we have on the line here? Who do we have? Hello. This is Lauren. Hello. Lauren. Lauren, thank you for calling the KCA. You're on the air. Please keep it clean. Jesus is nice and informative. Thank you. Go ahead. I understand that Chris Mann, the city manager has a Red Light Country Club membership that is being paid by the citizens of Yucaypa. Why is there a $10,000 fee? People membership being paid when we're trying to reduce funds and tax the citizens for this. That's not a city expenditure. It's something the city's paying for. So the city manager's contract is posted on our website and if there was a golf club membership that would be an item-ized item in that contract, so I don't think that's accurate. No. Well, that's an interesting thing. I mean, people are going to ask that question and they want to know, you know, golf memberships are a monthly thing, you know, if it's $10,000, that's a lot of money. The city is still paying it indirectly, right? Well, the city is compensating the city manager and the city manager is paying for that. So indirectly, he's taking his compensation and buying one, but the city is not funding that. The city is compensating him in accordance with his agreement. Okay, it's kind of like medical or dental or something like that, but it just happens to be golf tees and golf membership. It would be just based on his compensation number in the agreement and then whatever he does, whether he pays his bills. Well, if he had the eucipa golf course, maybe we get some of that back. All right. Well, thank you for calling. I appreciate it. I didn't catch your name, but thank you for calling. I have to wrap the show up. Thank you. KCA, 1050 AM, 106.5 FM and KQLH. I've been here with Chris Piedetto. Thank you. Thank you. Phil White. I'll be back again sometime. Thank you. Community Crossroads. KCAA, Loma Linda The legacy KCAA, 1050 AM and Express 106.5 FM. One of the best ways to build a healthier local economy is by shopping locally. Teamster Advantage is a shop local program started by Teamster Local 1932 that is brought together hundreds of locally owned businesses to provide discounts for residents who make shopping locally their priority. Everything from restaurants like Corkies to fun times at SB Raceway and much, much more. 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We're going to be starting the election, and people can vote right away, or they can hold off on their ballots. A little hint to people, if you want to get all those political mailers, don't vote right away. Because as soon as you vote, they take your name off the list, and you don't get the mailers. It's just a little something to tell you, especially if you're a political consultant or something like that, I learned that lesson right here. But today, we're here with a teacher, which is always good to have a teacher in the house. Welcome. Nicholas Dibbs, thank you. And his compandre here, Rodney. Rodney Allen-Rippy. That's right. Rodney Allen-Rippy. Yes, sir. Well, I thought about having some jumbo jacks here today, but I said- Hey! You know. Back in the '70s, you may remember him, like I do, if you're a little older, that you were the advocates for eating jumbo jacks, and you were that kid, that cute kid on the commercial that everybody loved before you got leveled by a hole, "Where's the beef?" Oh, no, no, no, but, and now advocate for vocational education, that's what it is. And that's why it's such a joy to have you here. With Mr. Dibbs, he wants to bring about positive change. He cares about people, family, students, and their success. You know, the Garden Grove Unified School District, along with a lot of school districts, have eliminated vocation training, which I think is a huge mistake because not everybody wants to go get a bachelor's degree or a master's degree or a doctorate. They want to work with their hands. They want to be creative. That's their outlet. And they also provide for society. We need those types of people. There are no less or no more than anybody else that has a degree, don't you agree? Yes, Mr. Westwood, thank you for allowing me to speak to your audience. My name's Nicholas Dibbs. I've been a teacher since 1992. I've worked in the Garden Grove Unified School District for over 16 years, left the district in 2017 after the first run of school board. This is a very important race, and it's not only significant for Garden Grove, but throughout the country because we see many school districts that have cut their skilled trade classes. These classes need to come back. It's very important that students have options to be able to get a skilled trade job if they're not going to get into an academic field. And so I do have my career in technical education credential as well as my academic financial. No, because you are a science teacher I noticed. I'm a science teacher, but last year I earned my career in technical education credential. But this is so important because it helps kids stay in school too. Yes, it does. Many students have told me how important it is that without these shop class, what we call skilled trade shop classes, and it broke my heart when I found out that the last two, we have 10 intermediate schools in the district, and the last two wood shops were being cut from those 10 schools back in June of '16. Woodshop teacher told me I was there filling in for the art teacher, and he said, "Well, the art teacher is retiring." And he said to me in about April or May of 2016, you know, in a month or two, they're going to make me the art teacher and close down to Woodshop. And he said the principal and him and the students and the parents all want this Woodshop to stay. Again, the district has 10 intermediate schools for seventh and eighth grade. They only had two left, and so he told me they're going to close it. I then went go to the school board and to the superintendent and asked them not to cut it. And the principal of the school went up to the fifth floor of the district office and begged the administrators not to cut it, but they're going to cut it anyway. So that's how I got into why one of the main reasons I decided to run for school board that year a few months later in the November 2016 race. But so this is one issue, but there are other issues in the district, and that is the cronyism, the unfairness, unethics, the fact that they used taxpayer money are taxpayer dollars to interfere in that first election. You see, the incumbent was appointed in January of '15, and I was against the-- And we're talking about a grove election. Yeah, but the incumbent, there was an open vacant seat for a couple of years. The man that was in there became Mayor of Garden Grove, so he had to resign from the school board. And that opened it up. I, myself, and six other people applied. So they have seven people. Now, who do they pick? They pick the one that had just retired as a high-level district administrator and appointed her to now watch over administrators. So she's part of the cabal or the click of people at the district office, and that she was appointed in January of '15. When I go to her in June of-- in May or so of '16 and say, "Hey, these--" and to her and the other board members in the superintendent, please don't cut the last two woodshop classes. Only two of the ten have them. Now you're going to cut them both. So she didn't stop it. So I ran for school board, and when I ran, I ran a clean campaign on the issue, and then it comes to find out that they use taxpayer money, staff time, school district resources, and interfered in the election by sending out a disparaging message against me to all the parents at one particular elementary school to over a thousand and eight parent phone numbers. Really? And so I-- It was a mobile message, right? It was an official. They paid for it. They paid for it as an official message from the district to these parents, and it was sent out on October the 18th, 2016, just as ballots were coming in the mail. Now I didn't find out about it until August of 2017. So defamation of character and also the misuse of public funds, misuse of public funds. So the cronyism, the unfairness, the unethicalness of this, and the allegations were put together in a 12-page amended complaint filed with the court back on February 5, 2019. Unfortunately, my attorney didn't file the tort claim on time, or there was a technical issue with the tort claim, and so the case never made it to be adjudicated. But the point is this. We fast forward from then until now, from then until now, and the school district is still using their resources to interfere in the election process by way of their actions of-- No, you can't do that. You can't do that. It's not a separate PAC. It's the actual government entity with taxpayer money. It would taxpayer money doing this, and it's wrong, and so I just came from a meeting last night at the school district. And how convenient--I've been pounding the payment, going to over 130 school board meetings asking that these trade classes come back at many of those meetings, bringing this up along with other issues, and how convenient that last night they said, "Okay, we're finally going to bring our trade classes back to one high school," and they did the announcement last night with a fancy presentation in a video. How convenient on September 25th, just before ballots are going out, that they're trying to hijack what I did. Still to keep advocating, still keep--you set the platform, you set-- Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. First, you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price. 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Yeah, Nicholas is fine. You said the stage. You made them talk about it. That's the win. That's the win. One part is that there is a lot of cronyism and unfairness going on in things that are wrong in the district. That's the second thing you need to find. So have you gone to the fair practices? I took this issue back in the 2016 issue, and they said it didn't fall within the scope of their jurisdiction. Everyone passes the buck more or less. Well, they use public funds to campaign with. How does that not? I tried to get—you know, it's hard to—you know, I file a private lawsuit and I couldn't get anywhere, and then because of my attorney messed up the case, unfortunately. Nick, you have videos, too. I have videos, but the point is is that we need to have people elected to local office who are going to hold administrators accountable. Now she had already retired the incumbent as a high-level district administrator, basically rubber stamping things and going along with the status quo. That isn't going to bring us accountability. That's not going to bring us checks and balances. I've been out there advocating on a number of issues, including this one, but yet there are other people in the district that also complain, and I see the litany—a litany. For instance, the superintendent two years later, after they interfere in my election, the superintendent is out campaigning for the incumbent board president with the incumbent that I'm running against, the two of them, in the 2018—November 2018 race where she's backing the incumbent board president. Should a superintendent of a school district be campaigning for an incumbent board president who sets her salary along with the other board members, and it's being done with the lady I'm running against who's the incumbent campaigning with the superintendent, so basically the incumbent is sanctioning what the superintendent is doing. How outrageous. You know, we've got a video to show. Okay, let's show it. Because we're not going to have enough time. How long is that? Three minutes. Yeah, about three minute video. Three minute video? Okay. Can you give that one up? What's it labeled as? And which one would you want to show, the one of the— Well, I guess— Well, we have a parent who complained about it. About the superintendent, and I think you want to show that one? What's the label? Yeah. Got it? Got it? Oh, right. Okay. Well, this is a video being presented by Nicholas Dibs from the Garden Grove area. From the school district, this is public comment, in public comment. Okay. And can we show the video as well on our story? The first step in public comments is double in one period. It's just an example of the unfairness that's going on. I give us a full screen. Good evening board members. I'm finding 7 up here, and it's come to my attention that your superintendent has acted in an extremely inappropriate and unprofessional manner. In the envelopes that I passed out, you will find a copy of an email that Dr. Moffee has sent to my employer, defaming my professionalism and character in an effort to harm my professional career. The only truthful or factual information that's in that email is my name. You will also find my official complaint against Dr. Moffee and her unprofessional actions. My question to you is this, do you allow your superintendent to contact the employer of every parent who speaks out against the actions of this board and GGUSD? Is it common practice for the superintendent to retaliate against parents who question the actions of this district? Is this behavior condoned by you as board members? I'm officially stating that my personal actions towards you, this district, have nothing to do with my professional career. I am acting as a parent, protecting my children who I believe were denied a fair and equal education by this district on multiple occasions. Dr. Moffee, your actions are considered defamation of character, and if they continue, we'll be harassment. I will not be intimidated. I will not be bullied. I will not be defamed. I will not be retaliated against for standing up for my children, and their right to a fair and equal education. Consider this public comment, your notice of a cease and desist, with all communication, with my employer regarding me personally, my children, my actions towards you and this board. I expect an official written apology denouncing the statements that you made in that email to my employer. As a board, I expect you to take action against Dr. Moffee for lack of professionalism, lack of judgment, and retaliation tactics. If you as school board members continue to allow this to happen, and Dr. Moffee to make these actions by your silence, you are in action. And we're hearing from a parent right now from the, it's at Norwalk Unified School District working, Garden Grove, excuse me, Garden Grove, Garden Grove Unified School District complaining about being attacked by the school board, by the superintendent, the superintendent. So we're listening to a number of videos, and we just have a little bit of time to play these videos. So I'd like to go into the next video if you wouldn't mind. Could you give a brief introduction? Okay. So this is a, I started a petition because I went to all these school board meetings. I couldn't get this board and this superintendent to bring back our skilled trade classes, beginning with those two wood shops that they cut at the seventh and eighth grade. And by the way, we're talking with Nicholas Dibbs, who is a candidate for school board for Garden Grove Unified School District area one. Yeah, I trust the area one, but this selection is very important for the whole country because we need to stop the cronyism, stop the unfairness and unethics, and we need to bring back our skilled trade classes. And before we go on, Nick Dibbs.com, Nick, just the way it sounds. So this is the car show where I get the petition, so I'm getting petitions of people, and this is one of the ladies that, oh, okay, that's my school. Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. Only have three minutes, I'll try to squeeze it in as best I can. I think one thing out of all these board meetings that I've attended, whether it's Mr. Chan or Ms. Joe, all the employees of the month, all the employees of the year, the staff, it's clear that they love what they do and they're trying to make help improve our district. And that's why I'm here at almost every board meeting is I don't do this for my ego, I do this because I care about the students, I care about the district, I care about the community, and when we have better schools, we have better communities. So I'm here to remind you not only to bring back the wood shops and auto shops that I have harped on you about over the years, the last five or six years, all ten intermediate schools need their wood shop and auto shop, wood shop and metal shops back, and four of the high schools need the auto shops back that were cut. In addition, I have, in the past, brought up something important which is history. And though I'm a science teacher, I think history's the most important subject. And we've been hearing public comments by a school board candidate at the Norwalk School District meeting. I'm sorry, Garden Grove Unified, but the issue there was that I've been to many, many board meetings asking for over eight years, going to the community, doing the petitions, getting people to sign up because they wouldn't bring them back. And now at the 11th hour, just before the election, they have a change of hearts, so called, and to only bring back a limited number, not bringing back any of the wood shops or metal shops to our ten intermediate schools, not bringing back any of the auto shops. So it's a start, but it's not enough. It's not enough. Clearly not. They're not... Do you want the students to win? Well, this is the thing, the seventh and eighth graders. How many of us, how many of the listeners here, when they were in the seventh or eighth grade or in junior high, had a wood shop shop? Sure, me. Okay. Now, it's important at the seventh and eighth grade level because that then gets them interested when they go on to high school. I know there were students at my junior high and at high school that they went to their auto shop or their wood shop or whatever, their metal shop. They did those shops. That was why they went to school. They did all the other stuff around them that kept them in school, that kept them interesting. People have to have a creative site. And then, otherwise, they would have maybe dropped out of school. Academics can't just be pure academics. And Mr. Westwood, one thing that we do want to say, we know that there is a huge push for STEAM, science, technology, engineering, the arts and math. We believe that there could be a hybrid, that there should be vocational trades, skill trades offered to kids because some children will never go into tech. That's just a fact. But other kids like to use their hands and we need more skill. It doesn't have to be a prerequisite. It just needs to be an elective. So after they cut these wood shop and metal shop, the district brings in the STEAM classes, which is fine, science, technology, engineering, art and math. But I'm saying it's not mutually exclusive. Let's keep the STEAM classes, but also bring back one or two of the or bring back our wood shop, metal shop classes to our intermediate schools because the district has a budget of approximately over a billion dollars. Back in June of 2016, why is it that they forced, when the art teacher retires at Alameda's intermediate school, then they bring in and force the wood shop teacher to become an art teacher instead of just hiring an art teacher. So we have one more video. And yes, that would be the. The Jukar Show. So here's a young woman who has children in those schools. Yeah. I think it was a public support. It was a public, we have a, it's a video of a lady, just by the one they have. Yeah. There's go the last one. There you go. Am I putting you on the spot here? I can't control them. I don't mean to do that. So we have petitions that I over 800 people signed these petitions. Then I'm resident of the Garden Grove advocate for better schools and communities. I'm here with Erica and Erica. Thank you for stopping by. It's a Friday at the Garden Grove Main Street Car Show and you were kind enough to stop by and sign the petition to the school district and the Board of Education to bring back our shop classes. And you have a couple of kids now in the public schools. I do. Do you think they should have woodshop and the shop and the vocational classes? Absolutely. And you were saying tell us about what you had when you were growing up, what kind of classes you had. I had woodshop class, I had music class, I played an instrument. I also had typing class and they were instrumental in my life and they stayed with me and it's very good to learn hands-on at a young age. But I definitely support that and now that I have kids, I definitely would like them to have that as well. Well, I don't know if you know that, but they know that the 10 intermediate schools cut the wood shops and the metal shops. So now they don't exist anymore. And so that's one reason I'm asking people like you to sign this petition here, bring these classes back. And did you have home economics? I did not have home economics because there are good sports and I have music. But if you think they should come back to some of the schools to cut those. So what is your message to the school board members and the superintendent and the administrators at Gardenville Unified about bringing these shop classes back? Are 10 intermediate schools having the woodshop and metal shop and our four high school loss-or-r shop? When should the school board bring those back to the next school here? Right away. Yes. You used to do it, if they-- Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. 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And we're sitting here with Nicholas Stibbs, who's running for Garden Grove Area One School District, Unified School District Board, and also with Rodney Allen-Rippy, who's an advocate and a friend. So let me just thank you, Mark, again. We're not wrapping up. We're not wrapping up. I'm just reminding our listeners who we're talking to. And what is your vision going forward? We need an independent voice on that school board, somebody who's not part of the crony network of being a high-level administrator being appointed there. And then in the first election, the district interfering in the election, we need somebody because the taxpayer funds are precious and they shouldn't be squandered and misused in places they shouldn't be. And so we need somebody who's going to bring ethical fairness, fairness, and ethics to the district. I've seen so much unfairness having attended these school board meetings that it's not right. And so we need to not only bring our trade classes back, but we need to have ethical and better leadership of the district because right now there's a litany of problems dealing with ethics and alleged problems that the district is having with staff. So you kind of view yourself as a reform candidate? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Absolutely. But you're also good at listening and addressing and the concerns of the parents, and we've got your up on the video screen, nickdibbs.org, Nick Dibbs, in Oregon, the skilled trades classes. I can't advocate enough for those and I love the fact you're doing it. Yeah, but it really bothers me that I do this for over eight years, and why did they wait until just before the election to bring a limited number of trade classes back, and then they announce it last night, just a week or two before the ballots come out. And I know how you feel about that, but I think you've had some influence on that. Oh, yeah. I think that you've already advocated for that. You're already being effective, even before you're in office yet. Congratulations. It's a win for you, and it's also, more importantly, who's it a win for? Well, the students. Absolutely. To bring these classes back to the seventh and eighth grade, and they're not doing that, and so this race is important. This election is very important, not just for garden growth citizens, but for the whole country because this can set an example. And so I'm asking people no matter where they live across this country, go to my website nickdibbs.org, make a contribution, endorse me if you want, make a contribution, and if you know anybody who lives in the district, you go on my website nickdibbs.org, there's a map, encourage people to vote, and maybe they can err if you could err just that 30-second spot that I've recorded. Sure. We can err that at the top of the hour, the spot. And so it's very important, and Ronnie, you want to add something? I just want to say that, you know, thank you, you know, KCAA, the listeners out there, the viewers, we are excited because we've reached out to major corporations like Gunal Lumber. We want people like Harbor Freight Tools. We want people, they have programs to get behind programs like this to get the kids hands busy. Just like in my last hour and a half, I said get creative, get innovative. That's what you need to do. Exactly. The answer is not to shut things down. No. That shows that you're lame. That's right. That's right. The other issue is protecting the children from the internet, and I have a non-profit website dibbsdigitalwellness.org. The other thing that happened during COVID is a lot of money was spent on buildings and stuff instead of spending it on remediating and helping the students. Well, we're going to have to have you back. So I understand. I can tell you've got a whole book here of stuff to talk about. Yes. So I'd appreciate coming back. I appreciate your compassion, and I appreciate your passion and your fire. I can tell you that, yeah, you're a science teacher and you're a wood crafts person and all that, and you want to be creative and you're passionate about helping kids. But I can't do this. And that's why you cast your vote for somebody, probably. And I can't do it on my own. I need the help. Okay. This is my third run, and I'm almost out of funds from my personal funds, and I need help. Okay. So please donate at nickdibbs.org, and thank you for your willingness. We'll have you back. And thank you for willing this to have me come back. And I know we got short in time here, because of traffic and things like that. Well, we'll have you back. Or maybe we'll have you calling next time around. Why? I don't mind coming back. It's a better in person. Okay. Better in person. And I hope you enjoyed your experience here. We're right at the top of the hour. And then we're going to have this video on my website too. Absolutely. Absolutely. Nickdibbs.org. We've been talking with Nick Dibbs, who is a candidate, who has been a candidate before, running for the Garden Grove Unified School District. He cares. He's a credentialed science, career, technical, technical education teacher. That's a mouthful. Just say it. Know us. Have achieved it. Congratulations on that. Thank you, Rodney Allen, for being here. My pleasure. And we didn't have quite a long time to talk about that, but I want to have you both back. And one last thing. I have the Dibbs on quality vocational education. That's right. He's got the Dibbs on quality vocational and what was it? Quality vocational and education first you go. Nickdibbs.org, get on there, donate, contribute, help this guy out. He's a rare species around that it really does really care about your kids. Not just his own kids or his kids that went through school or his science program or his vocational program, but he cares about all kids and you can tell that. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And good luck. The election is November 5th. Yeah, but the ballots come out on December 7th. Well, thank you. Thank you, Mark. We have one more minute left. This is your campaign stuff. Give us any seconds. If we want a better future for our country, for our local communities, a better future for future generations as well as current families, we need to have better schools. The key is having better schools gives a better future for everyone. That's why you need to help elect somebody to office who's not part of the click but it is going to do what's best for the students. That's right. It's got to be a win for the students always. It's got to be a win for the students. Don't be lame, innovate, create, and let's go students that are the Garden Grove Unified School District. Thank you. Thank you. Dibs.org. Thank you. Please donate. 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