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4. INVOCATION — Dennis Logie, Police Chaplain 5. SPECIAL ORDERS: None 6. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND CONSENT CALENDAR - CITY COUNCIL: Marc Manuel, on behalf of the Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club, explained last week's annual event of distributing contributions to the Redwood City community. Over 20 organizations were presented with funds and acknowledged for servicing the needy, providing leadership, and improving the quality of our community. The work also involves leveraging of Rotary International funds and the global network for tremendous programs in Mexico, Ecuador and Ghana, Africa. He thanked the community for its generosity and the sponsoring organizations for the annual Irish Night fundraising event that include the Danford Foundation, Pete and Paula Uccelli Foundation, Butler Construction, Mid - Peninsula Bank, Wells Fargo, and the major underwriter San Mateo County Credit Union. Joe Webb stated he was present to talk about the problem we have with the Hispanic community. He distributed a photograph taken at Montebello High School depicting Mexican kids hoisting the Mexican flag above the American flag and holding the American flag upside down. He stated that on the National Report summary page it says, 33% of citizens of Hispanic origin consider themselves American first. The rest consider themselves Hispanic, Latino, or their former nationality first. He further referenced the oath of allegiance taken when naturalized and stated his suspicion that illegals are even worse than the 33% figure. He stated that the gun culture is very big amongst Mexicans and that we have a very large group of people that are not loyal to this country. Mayor Pierce clarified that the flags referred to and the handout was sent to her in an e- mail form several weeks ago. She stated that when receiving items through the internet it is very difficult to judge the validity so she advises going to snopes.com, which she did to look up the referenced article. She further stated that the story is that the flags were not flown upside down by the students, that there were many demonstrators on their way to an anti - immigration and immigration rally, and they actually took over the student campus. M/S Foust/Bain to waive reading of the Consent Calendar except the ordinances by title, adopt the resolutions and the ordinances, and approve other items. The motion passed by a unanimous roll call vote. 6.1 Section —Motions - A. Approve the Joint City Council and Redevelopment Agency meeting minutes of June 4, 2007 as submitted. (301) MINUTE ORDER 07 -099 SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES JUNE 18, 2007 PAGE 2 MINUTE BOOK NO. 61 Page No. 422