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Mr. Charles Jackson, 2568 East Topanga Way, complimented the Mayor and Council for providing the flow of information to the citizens and said for any elected official to be ridiculed by any citizen at this time is unjust and unfair. Mr. Jackson said there is a misconception that the County Hospital will bring in all kinds of money to Colton. Mr. Jackson said the current hospital is located in a somewhat blighted area and there is no great business surrounding it. Mr. Jackson said he was against having Colton put one dollar into the hospital, the County should pay for it. Mr. Fredrickson said he has attended City Council meetings for many years and has been involved in the community and that he could not remember a time when he has sought information that it has been denied to him by either the City Council or any city office. Mr. Fredrickson said the City needs its citizens to be involved that is why he has always advocated having the Council Meetings televised. Mr. Fredrickson stated the hospital is needed and it is not a matter of making thousands of dollars or of making the hospital jobs available to Coltonites but rather, providing a very necessary service to the citizens. Councilmember Sandoval said any type of development comes at a price. He said he did not know to what extent the City of Loma Linda was involved in bringing the Metro Mall to Loma Linda; however, it was his assumption that the City was involved to a certain extent in helping that developer come to their City. He said it was very shallow and narrow in its perspective to say that not one single dollar of City money should be spent on the hospital. He asked where would the City be if the citizens' tax dollars were not involved in the type of development that has brought the Price Club or made the Cooley Ranch a success. Councilmember Beltran requested that any further comment be directed to the matter of the MOU, which the Council has already taken action on tonight. Mayor Fulp said he hoped everyone present tonight would leave with the understanding that the Council has voted to move forward to negotiate the best MOU possible in order to bring the hospital to the City of Colton. Televisina of Meeting Councilmember Bennett requested that Assistant to the City Manager Parrish give a history of televising the Council Meetings for the benefit of Mr. Fredrickson and the audience in general. Mr. Parrish reported that the matter of televising the Council Meetings had come to the previous Council three times; twice it was voted down, the third time it was tabled to mid -year budget and 6 aAtv v 995