2021-12-21 CC Agenda - Public Communications related to Item #7 - Raytheon #22021-12-21 AGENDA PACKET
PUBLIC COMMUNICATION RELATED TO ITEM #7 - RAYTHEON
Harada, Patricia
From: Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk)
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 8:36 PM
To: *ALL CITY CLERKS
Subject: Fwd: Raytheon Development Agreement
Council received email below.
—Tracy
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From: Paul Lanyi <paul@bluepen.com>
Date: December 21, 2021 at 11:46:11 PM GMT+1
To: ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS <ALLELECTEDOFFICIALS@elsegundo.org>
Subject: Raytheon Development Agreement
Good evening Council,
I was a bit shocked to read that the Council overturned the unanimous decision of the Planning
Commission.
Respectfully, I request that you reexamine the Raytheon Development agreement. It should include
either a location for the 7.54 acre park or a comparable public benefit triggered by the new storage
building being built.
Please do reconsider.
Thank you,
Paul
Paul Lanyi
310.686.0077
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Harada, Patricia
From: Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk)
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 9:33 PM
To: *ALL CITY CLERKS
Subject: Fwd: Raytheon Park Space
Council received email below.
—Tracy
Sent from my iPhone
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From: Melissa McCaverty <melissamccaverty@yahoo.com>
Date: December 21, 2021 at 12:16:05 PM PST
To: ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS <ALLELECTEDOFFICIALS@elsegundo.org>
Cc: Jonathan Mccaverty <jmccaverty@hotmail.com>
Subject: Raytheon Park Space
Dear City Council Members,
We are writing to you to express our concern regarding the Raytheon amendment that is scheduled to
be on the agenda tonight for a second reading.
While, we may not understand every single nuance of the agreement, we do believe that giving up the
city's right to 7.5 acres of park space is unacceptable. Based on the growth of our city and the needs of
children to have park space, the amount of parks being offered in the current amendment to the
agreement is insufficient.
The current fields over at Raytheon are not in good shape & are baseball/softball fields only.
Is this as good as 7.5 acres? Not even close. 7.5 acres could hold a baseball field, a football field and a
soccer field. The field space that is being offered by Raytheon does not accommodate even a little
league schedule nor did it include playing actual games on the fields - it is just being offered for limited
uses such as practices. And our understanding is that the field use is restricted by a gated entrance and
can only be used when Raytheon employees are not using it (minus the two days a week currently
offered from 3-5 - a completely inconvenient time for people who work traditional 9-5 jobs) and
apparent Saturday/Sunday weekend practice use. This just isn't the same as 7.5 acres!!! While it's nice
Raytheon is offering any park space, the City giving this provision up now seems short sighted.
If the City does not get Raytheon to commit to building a park now, it will in all probability never
happen. Raytheon was not looking to sell this land in the first place, so the odds of ever selling more
land -knowing the park issue is looming seems to be slim to none. I am a huge football can, but I am a
bigger fan of families in town & park space for them.
An even broader concern is why the city bothers to enter into agreements at all if the city will later just
accept amendments relinquishing their rights under the original agreement - in what appears to be to
detriment of the residents in favor of businesses.
Also, the planning commission, which is comprised of members appointed by city council seems to be
unanimously advising the city to accept the amendment with the caveat that they nail Raytheon down
to a timeline for the 7.5 acres of park space for the residents to use as per the original agreement.
We appreciate you taking the time to read our emails and consider our concerns.
Melissa and Jonathan Mccaverty
El Segundo residents
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Harada, Patricia
From: Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk)
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 9:34 PM
To: *ALL CITY CLERKS
Subject: Fwd: Hold Raytheon to their agreement
Council received the email below.
—Tracy
Sent from my iPhone
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From: Robyn Arnold <rtearnold@sbcgloba1.net>
Date: December 21, 2021 at 12:16:21 PM PST
To: "Boyles,Drew (Mayor)" <dboyles@elsegundo.org>, ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS
<ALLELECTEDOFFICIALS@elsegundo.org>
Subject: Re: Hold Raytheon to their agreement
Mayor Boyles,
Thanks for the quick response.
In our opinion it would be more advantageous for the city to own and control 7.5 acres of parkland than
having part time use of approximately 2 acres of fields owned and maintained by a large corporation.
Thanks again and happy holidays
Tim and Robyn Arnold
400 block of Virginia street
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On Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 10:50, Boyles,Drew (Mayor) <dboyles@elsegundo.org> wrote;
Hello!
Do you know that we secured two fields every night for five hours, and possibly
three? And, two fields minimum all day Saturday and Sunday with no maintenance on
the city's part.
Drew Boyles I Mayor
City of El Segundo
310-524-2302
ElSeeundo.ore
On Dec 21, 2021, at 10:27, Robyn Arnold <rtearnold@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Hello ES City Council
I am writing as I am concerned with the councils recent decision to not
hold Raytheon to their agreement to provide 7.5 acres of parkland.
I am also concerned that council voted 4-1 to go against the unanimous
vote of the planning commission to hold Raytheon to their agreement
I hope the council will reconsider their position at tonight's meeting.
Very respectfully
Tim and Robyn Arnold
400 block of Virginia street
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