03/10/2026
OUR EMAIL TODAY TO MANY STAFF MEMBERS AT CD 12:
Hello Council District 12 Team,
I’m writing on behalf of Save Porter Ranch (SPR), and our community at large, to request a status update on the actions your office committed to at the recent PRNC special meeting regarding the potential loss of major parts of the PRCMP/Argos community air monitoring systems. At that meeting, CD12 representative Ron Rubine was the primary speaker for the CD12 office. Your team stated you would take specific steps to help protect the monitors, including identifying who, at the City level, to engage, and initiating the appropriate outreach.
Respectfully, this can’t be treated as “the City’s decision” and left there. CD12 has the access and leverage to move this through the right channels, apply pressure where needed, and make sure the decision-makers understand what’s at stake. We need CD12 to help make this happen, not simply observe the process. SPR is ready to support—providing documentation, context, community backing, and joining any meetings or calls you set up to keep the monitors in place.
As of today, we have received no update on those promised actions. Additionally, Assad Alnajjar who works for the City, is instrumental in the monitor implementation, and is a PRNC board member, (CCd here) has told us there has been zero action or information shared to date that he knows of.
Given how critical these monitors are to community health, transparency, and accountability, we request clarity immediately.
Could you please provide, in writing:
1. What actions CD12 has taken since the PRNC special meeting (calls, emails, meetings requested/held), and on what dates
2. Who you’ve contacted at the City level (names/titles/departments), and the outcome of each contact
3. Who CD12 identifies as the decision-maker(s) with authority over the proposed removal of the monitors
4. What the current status is inside the City process (what is pending, what is blocked, and why)
5. Your next steps and timeline, including whether CD12 will request a meeting with the relevant City department(s) and include SPR/PRNC
If it’s easier, we’re also available for a quick call, but we still need a written status update for the record.
Please reply with an update as soon as possible, ideally by 3/13/26.
Thank you,
Matt Pakucko
President and Co Founder
Save Porter Ranch
19360 Rinaldi St., Suite 454
Porter Ranch, CA 91326
Councilmember John Lee LA Parks
