Claremont City Council Meeting 2/8/00
Part One
00:01:48 Presentation
00:05:04 Introduction
00:07:08 Jim Morris—Interim City Attorney Introduction
00:10:00 Public Comment
00:12:50 Tom Lamb: Request to be put on Redevelopment agenda
00:13:50 Mike Warshaw: Filed a successful intent to circulate a petition of
recall - notice that the circulation of the petition is to begin
00:15:20 Gregory Toliver:
16:35 What is not on agenda
00:17:30 Student comment—“Southardism”, 1000 signatures disapproving of
Glenn Southards performance
00:22:22 Patty Earle: former police officer involved in a shooting appears
in defense of CPD and at 25.00 offers a $5000 reward for the arrest
and prosecution of the person/s that intimidated Irvin Landrum's girlfriend
into recanting her testimony.
00:25:37 Student
00:30:01 High School Friend of Irvin Landrum
00:30:59 Local Businessman: "Disgusted" with council and Southards
actions. "For this city council to endorse the city manager is disgusting".
00:34:01 Student comment on local racism
00:36:50 Mayor insists that comment on police chief be held after closed meeting.
00:37:30 Mike Noonan: complains about size of hall,
00:41:17 Jose Calderon: Chicano Studies Professor—“Distortions”, “Get
rid of City Manager”. 44:48 Businessman “Every decision made has been
wrong”; “”Dismiss Glen Southard”; property values in Claremont have dropped
4% in the last year
Part Two
00:46:33 Obee Landrum: Stopped from comment. Mayor again insists that police chief comments be held until after closed meeting.
00:47:30 Councilman Held interrupts Mayor and suggests that comment on police chief be allowed.
00:49:13 Motion to allow comment —legal wrangling
00:52:00 Landrum continues—call for independent investigation
00:54:50 Matthew Gearhardt: Lexus Nexus search- Scheidecker background—UPI
00:58:54 Jane Herd: Police Chief qualities
01:02:18 Robert Clark
01:06:39 More on Lexus Nexus search, on Mike Noonan: “When he’s the one making sense, we’ve got a problem.”
01:11:00 Margaret Caruthers: call for Southard dismissal
01:12:00 Toliver: www.pir.org; attack on Southard
1:16:00 Student leader: dresses down city council; Is Claremont is "Klanmont", recall support.
01:19:50 Noonan again “one of the reds”, Peace and Freedom Party, attack on City Manager, “buying the library” (?)
01:24:00 Student
01:25:00 Student
01:27:00 Cindy Johnson: Claremont is a special place, wants to speak up.
01:30:35 Tom Ambrogi: Calls for independent investigation—“Amazing discrepancies between Sheriff report and DA’s report”.
01:33:35 Close public comment—recess
