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Residents urge park equity, consumer protections and warn about scams during public comment
Summary
Public commenters spoke on several topics: tennis players opposed converting a Westwind Park tennis court to pickleball, an assemblymember's office announced an event and internships, a resident suggested regular land acknowledgements and questioned consent-calendar use, and another resident urged attention to household cost pressures and consumer pricing.
Several members of the public addressed the council during the public-comment period on a range of local concerns.
Kevin Nelson (speaker 6) said he represents a tennis group active at Westwind Park for 15 years and warned that converting one of three Westwind courts to pickleball "would basically put our group out of business." He proposed alternative locations, including converting the remaining tennis court at Creekside Park to additional pickleball courts or adapting a basketball court elsewhere in the city.
Roxanna Gracia (speaker 12), district director for Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez, announced a "Senior Scam Busters" event on Friday, May 30 (9–10:30 a.m.) at the Landesina Community Building in Upland featuring the Department of Insurance and the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and publicized an internship application deadline of May 23 for high school seniors and recent graduates.
Tina Silva (speaker 9) offered a land acknowledgement for the Gabrielino peoples (Tongva, Shoshone, Serrano, Keach) and urged that the council adopt regular acknowledgements; she also warned that placing significant items on the consent calendar can "undermine transparency" and that private pre-meeting discussion could violate the Brown Act.
Maria Galvan (speaker 8) described household struggles with rent and food prices, and recounted a retail experience where an unexplained "miscellaneous tax" was listed as "eggs" on a receipt, asking the council to consider supports for those struggling.
Collectively the public comments covered parks and recreation, senior consumer protection, housing and cost-of-living pressures, and civic practice issues related to board procedure and transparency.
