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Estanislau, Robin COMMUNICAT/
From: Mary Urashima <mary.adams.urashima@gmail.com *V[ tO - 37
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2019 2:16 PM
To: Estanislau, Robin
Cc: City Clerk's Office; Peterson, Erik; Hardy, Jill; Carr, KAger4a 119M NO.:
Subject: Late communications: June 3 City Council meeting /Agenda item#12. 19-617 Commendation
for Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force
Please include this with late communications for the Monday, June 3, 2019 City Council meeting, Awards and
Presentations, Agenda item#12. Thank you very much.
Mary Urashima
Honorable Mayor Peterson and City Council Members:
Thank you for recognizing the time and efforts of the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force volunteers
and advisors. The task force was created by the City Council in July 2012.
A few of the accomplishments include:
• Sixteen (16)potential sites in Huntington Beach and ten(10) potential sites outside Huntington Beach were
evaluated during public meetings of the task force for potential relocation of the structures. T.
•National support includes the Japanese American National Museum, Manzanar Committee, Japanese
American Historical Society of Southern California, Japanese American Citizens League, congressmen, state
legislators, individuals, and organizations from around the country representing thousands.
• Media coverage has reached national and international audiences, including Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles
Times, Orange County Register, PBS,NBC, ABC,NPR, CBS, The Japan Times, Rafu Shimpo, the Japanese
American National Museum's Discover Nikkei, and others.
2013
• The Task Force arranged for an inspection of the property by the National Park Service in 2013, which
provided a written determination that the Historic Wintersburg property is eligible for the National Register of
Historic Places and retains "remarkable integrity".
2014
• Historic Wintersburg was listed as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation. This initiates ongoing national partnership with the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Washington, D.C.
• Historic Wintersburg in joint exhibit with the Smithsonian Institution, "Journey Stories," at Heritage Museum
at Orange County.
• Historic Wintersburg featured at Japanese American National Museum.
• Community Hero recognition from Japanese American Citizens League and California State Assembly.
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• Historic Wintersburg initiated discussions with new owner, Republic Services, regarding purchase of the
property for historic preservation, in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the
Trust for Public Land.
2015
• Historic Wintersburg designated a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, making it
Orange County's first and only National Treasure, and one of less than 100 National Treasures in the United
States.
• Task Force raised $35,000 to fund and implement technical analysis by the Urban Land Institute, with
participation by Republic Services, City Council members, community members, and nationally recognized
technical experts.
• Historical research provided to the City of Santa Ana for public art installation at the Santa Ana River Trail
honoring Japanese pioneer farmers. City of Santa Ana Board of Recreation and Parks presented recognition for
"outstanding contributions to the residents of Santa Ana."
• The PBS program, "Our American Family—The Furutas of Historic Wintersburg", premiered at the Japanese
American National Museum and aired nationwide on public television.
• Consulate General of Japan personally delivers copy of PBS program and book about Historic Wintersburg to
governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, which has historical connection to Historic Wintersburg.
• City of Huntington Beach City Council adopted General Plan Historic and Cultural Resources Element,
designating all six structures and Historic Wintersburg property as eligible for the National Register of Historic
Places.
2016
• The Task Force provided over$10,000 worth of professional tree trimming and brush removal, as well as
approximately 40 hours of volunteer cultural monitoring during work on Nichols Lane, at no cost to Republic
Services.
2017
• The PBS program, "Our American Family: The Furutas of Historic Wintersburg," distributed on Amazon
Prime in the United States and in Japan.
• Task Force partners with Trust for Public Land, Washington, D.C., in addition to ongoing partnership with the
National Trust for Historic Preservation. Five-year update presented at televised regular meeting of the
Huntington Beach City Council by the Task Force, the Trust for Public Land and National Trust for Historic
Preservation regarding the process and funding to purchase the Historic Wintersburg property.
• California State University Long Beach archaeology program offers to conduct archaeological survey of
Historic Wintersburg and educational programming at no cost.
• Historic Wintersburg in second joint exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution, "Hometown Teams," at
Heritage Museum at Orange County.
• Preserve Orange County names Historic Wintersburg to Orange County's Most Endangered list, noting its
historic significance and advocating for its preservation.
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2018
• City of Huntington Beach Historic Resources Board urges City Council to support full preservation of Historic
Wintersburg.
• Task Force begins partnership with Orange Coast Gakuen,the Huntington Beach Japanese Language School,
on preservation planning and future educational and cultural programming.
• Task Force collaborates with Chapman University's 1888 Center and California State Library on podcast
series, "Chapters", featuring history of Historic Wintersburg.
• The California Preservation Foundation presented statewide President's Award for outstanding achievement in
the field of historic preservation.
2019
• Public dedication event for permanent public art installation in the "Wintersburg/Furuta Courtyard" at Luce
residential honoring the history of Historic Wintersburg with presentations by Mayor Pro Tem Lyn Semeta and
Consul Shigeru Kikuma, Consulate General of Japan. The Task Force provided historic research and images to
the artist, Michael Davis, beginning in 2015, when the concept was presented by the artist to the City of
Huntington Beach Design Review Board.
• Upcoming webcast with the California Preservation Foundation, Los Angeles Conservancy, and Riverside
County Park and Open Space District.
As these volunteers move on and continue to work with the national, regional and local partnerships established
by the task force, the recognition by the City of Huntington Beach of their time and contributions to the
community, as well as their contributions to the preservation of local history, is appreciated.
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City of Huntington Beach
INTER-DEPARTMENT COMMMUNICATION
HUNTINGTON BEACH
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Robin Estanislau, City Clerkf-�
DATE: June 6, 2019
SUBJECT: SUPPLEMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS NOT ANNOUNCED DURING
THE JUNE 3, 2019 CITY COUNCIL MEETING
I am contacting you about an error that occurred in the reporting of Supplemental
Communications for the June 3, 2019 meeting.
We have a dedicated email address used by members of the public to provide agenda
comments. My attempts to open aaendacommentsCaD-surfcity-hb.org on both Friday,
May 31, and Monday, June 3 afternoons failed to display any contents -- the inbox
appeared to me to be empty. I typically rely on support staff to monitor this process,
but I managed the compilation and publication of the 6/3 agenda packet on my own.
Yesterday afternoon my Deputy discovered that the Agenda Comments inbox had
several communications (attached), and we will take the appropriate action to include
them as part of the record for each respective 6/3 agenda item:
Awards and Presentations #12— Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force (2)
Consent#18— IRC Recommendation "E" (2)
Public Hearing #26—Adoption of City Budget (2)
Administrative Items #30 (Pulled) — Finance Commission Ordinance (27)
To prevent this oversight from happening again, I sought assistance from a
representative in our Information Services department who flagged the inbox in a
manner that makes it easily accessible.
My sincere apologies...
c: Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, Interim City Manager
Travis Hopkins, Interim Assistant City Manager
Michael Gates, City Attorney
Switzer, Donna
From: Dombo, Johanna
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 8:46 AM
To: Agenda Comment
Cc: Fikes, Cathy; CITY COUNCIL
Subject: FW:Award to Mary Urashima
AGENDA COMMENT
From:Craig Frampton<cframpton143@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:21 AM
To:CITY COUNCIL<city.council@surfcity-hb.org>
Subject:Award to Mary Urashima
I feel very disrespected at Mary receiving any award. She took a city task force and turned it into a racist group.
My family was directly affected by pearl Harbor and Mary chose pearl Harbor day. To fundraise and made a
mockery of the day. After voicing my displeasure with her. She blocked me from a city page. And then filed a
false police report. Claiming that I threaten her. I think the city needs to cancel this award . Thank you. Craig
Frampton
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Switzer, Donna
From: Dombo, Johanna
Sent: Monday,June 03, 2019 8:18 AM
To: Agenda Comment
Cc: Fikes, Cathy; CITY COUNCIL
Subject: FW: Supplemental communications for 6/3/19 CC mtg--re:Wintersburg award-
AMENDED
AGENDA COMMENT
Johanna Dombo SUPPLEMENTAL
Executive Assistant COMMUNICATION
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From: Chris Epting<chris@chrisepting.com> ✓/' Ic76%�' ��-`5/�
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 3:59 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL<city.council@surfcity-hb.org>
Subject:Supplemental communications for 6/3/19 CC mtg--re: Wintersburg award-AMENDED
PLEASE USE THIS REVISED VERSION
Council:
I am writing to express my dismay that during the 6/3/19 awards and presentation, that Mayor Peterson is slated
to acknowledge the now-dissolved Wintersburg Task Force.
For what, exactly? After SEVEN years, the task force accomplished, essentially,NOTHING that it was created
to do. The buildings were never moved or refurbished and money was not raised to purchase the property.
Forgetting the fact that this private property issue never had any business being part of any city function, again,
nothing of substance was achieved - so what exactly are you rewarding?
Furthermore, task force chair Mary Urashima displayed remarkably unprofessional and unethical behavior by
continually playing the race card in the face of reasonable questions by citizens, attacking people, blocking
people from even being able to see social media pages connected to an official city task force, as well as
failing to even hold a meeting for almost two years. In my case specifically, she actually attempted to disrupt
private working relationships of mine by baselessly attacking me with lies and delusional accusations - simply
because I called out her unprofessional behavior. City council has been made aware of all of these instances,
with evidentiary proof- it's my understanding that others have written council expressing similar concerns
about Ms. Urashima- and yet she still she gets acknowledged by city council? I think this is an affront and insult
to all other citizens and groups that actually achieve legitimate accomplishments and are publicly acknowledged
by council. Ms. Urashima, in my opinion, was a liability to the city - not an asset- and rewarding her "efforts"
is extremely inappropriate, if not offensive.
Sincerely,
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Chris Epting
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