Concerned Citizens of Cerritos, Cerritos, CA (2026)

09/11/2026

7,774 SIGNATURES.

The City Clerk has completed its initial count of the petitions submitted for the Water & Sewer Rate Repeal Initiative: an estimated 7,774 signatures.

To put that number into perspective, only 8,494 ballots were cast in the entire March 2025 Cerritos municipal election. Our petition signatures equal approximately 92% of that entire election turnout.

And remember the Proposition 218 process earlier this year? The majority-protest thresholds were 7,575 for water and 7,500 for sewer. The number of signatures submitted for this initiative exceeds both of those thresholds.

This petition effort was built community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and volunteer by volunteer. Residents gave their time, opened signing locations, walked petitions, talked with their neighbors, staffed tables, and helped thousands of Cerritos residents participate.

7,774 signatures is a remarkable measure of public participation in a city where 8,494 people voted in the last municipal election.

The signatures must still go through the official verification process. But the initial count shows the scale of community participation behind bringing this issue before Cerritos voters.

Whatever happens next, thousands of Cerritos residents made their voices heard.

09/04/2026

RESPONSE to MAYORS PERFORMATIVE POST RECALL MESSAGE

Apparently, our current mayor does not understand the gravity of her actions nor the insignificance of her words. To make a post that says the recall is not going forward and now is a time to heal means nothing if your actions don’t support your words. Her actions are still the same now as they were before and during the recall. Lynda calls me out for not wanting to heal the community. The irony of that situation is that she blocked you from commenting your thoughts about coming together and healing the community. So Linda, how do you really expect people to heal if you block them from being able to voice their opinions? Don’t come at me with your same old stupidity. Either you want healing and you wanna hear people’s opinions or you just wanna look like your auditioning for a healing role and you really don’t care if it happens.

If she wanted healing, why didn’t she try to ask for healing during the recall?She’s done nothing for the street takeovers but tells the community that it takes time to come up with a good decision. However, Compton has already figured it out and has a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to eliminating the street takeovers. She speaks of unity but 99% of the time only post about one ethnic community. She speaks of unity, but she continues to block people from commenting.

She speaks of coming together as a community. How do we come together as a community when she approved and voted to support cutting the city council meetings in half? She approved just having one City council meeting a month. She approved the other city commissions, going to quarterly meetings. That reduced our ability to come together by 66%. She doesn’t allow post on her weekly mayor minutes. How is that coming together? Finally when there is a volunteer recognition event both her and Frank Yokoyama ask one of the volunteers, what are they doing there. Then tell them they should leave. They don’t need to be there. Is that an example of coming together?

She says let’s focus on the work ahead. How do you focus on the work ahead when the mayor won’t listen to sound financial advice? How do you focus on the work ahead when she continues to support a theater that drains the city of 5 to $7 million yearly? How do you focus on the work ahead when she doesn’t listen to the citizens and her constituents with ideas for balancing the budget? How do you focus on the work ahead when they did not genuinely as a council listen to the budget task force that they themselves put in place?

The entire essence of her most recent post about healing and coming together is performative at best! If she really wanted those things to happen, she could’ve started them back when she went under recall in the beginning of April. She doesn’t care if the changes happen or not she just wants people to think she tried.

Apparently, she only cares that five of her friends are healing and coming together. Because once her friends posted on this topic, she closed comments and no one else can post. Does that leave you wondering if that’s a healing tactic or coming together approach? I think it’s the worst theater I’ve ever seen! Please know the healing is coming because the community of approximately 6000 voters came together and said enough is enough. The healing will be complete in March 2027 when those 6000 to 7000 voters (about twice the amount she’s ever received in an election) will come out to the polls and vote against the water and sewer rate increases and keep her from having a second term in office. The best medicine for healing of our city is for her to be voted out of office!

08/13/2026

🚨 CERRITOS RESIDENTS — THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SIGN! 🚨

The Water & Sewer Rate Repeal petitions are entering their FINAL DAYS.

If you want Cerritos voters to have the final say on the water and sewer rate increases, please don’t wait. Come sign this weekend or stop by one of our weekday locations.

📍 THIS WEEKEND
Saturday, Aug. 15 | 10 AM–5 PM
Joe A. Gonsalves Park

Sunday, Aug. 16 | 10 AM–5 PM
Saddleback Park

✅ Signing only takes a few minutes.
✅ All Cerritos voters can sign.
✅ No household limit.
✅ Even if you submitted a Prop. 218 protest form, you still need to sign this petition.

Already signed? Please share this post or send the flyer to your Cerritos friends and neighbors. Every signature matters, and we need your help spreading the word.

💧 Help put the Water & Sewer Rate Repeal Initiative before Cerritos voters!

08/04/2026

🚨 THIS IS IT, CERRITOS! 🚨

These are the FINAL petition signing events for the Water & Sewer Rate Repeal Initiative.

If you believe voters—not politicians—should have the final say on massive water and sewer rate increases, now is the time to sign. Every signature brings us one step closer to putting this issue on the ballot.

✅ Bring your family, friends, and neighbors.
✅ It only takes a few minutes.
✅ Petitions must be signed in person with a wet signature.

📍 Weekend Signing Events

Saturday, August 15 • 10 AM–5 PM
Joe A. Gonsalves Park
13611 E. 166th St., Cerritos
(166th & Carmenita)

Sunday, August 16 • 10 AM–5 PM
Saddleback Park
13037 Acoro St., Cerritos
(Shoemaker & Artesia)

Saturday, August 22 • 10 AM–5 PM
Artesia Park
18750 Clarkdale Ave., Artesia
(South & Elaine)

Sunday, August 23 • 10 AM–5 PM
Liberty Park
Near the 195th & Studebaker Junction Street Parking
19211 Studebaker Rd., Cerritos

📍 Weekday Signing Locations (through August 25)

🏢 Office Building (Near 7 Leaves)
12140 Artesia Blvd., Suite 102, Artesia
Monday–Friday • 9 AM–5 PM

📚 Gospel Book & Church Supplies
11748 Artesia Blvd., Artesia
Monday–Saturday • 10 AM–6 PM

This is our last opportunity to qualify the initiative. Don’t assume someone else will sign—your signature matters. Let’s finish strong and give Cerritos voters the chance to decide.

07/27/2026

Join us for a Peaceful Protest Against Intimidation from Councilmembers on Monday, July 27, 2026 at 6pm at Cerritos City Hall.

Councilmember Frank Yokoyama:

Repeatedly confronted elderly immigrant petition circulators at their place of business

Threatened commissioners with removal from their appointed positions for circulating petitions

Demanded that petitions be removed from designated signing locations

07/27/2026

IMPORTANT PETITION SIGNING UPDATE

V&W culture is no longer a signing location.

V&W Culture was previously listed as a petition-signing location on flyers delivered to Cerritos homes.

After recall target Frank Yokoyama went in person to this small, immigrant-owned business on two separate occasions and confronted the owners about collecting signatures for his recall, they no longer felt comfortable continuing to serve as a petition-signing location.

We are deeply disappointed that local business owners were placed in this position simply for helping Cerritos residents participate in the democratic process.

Please respect the owners and do not ask them for petitions.

07/25/2026

CERRITOS, WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE!

Come sign the Water & Sewer Rate Repeal Petition this weekend:

Saturday, July 25
📍 Cerritos Park East | 10 AM–1 PM
📍 Liberty Park | 2–5 PM

Sunday, July 26
📍 Don Knabe Park | 1–5 PM

It only takes a few minutes. Every signature brings us closer to letting Cerritos voters decide.

Already signed? Bring a neighbor!

Petitions must be signed in person.

07/10/2026

Every signature matters.

We've brought petition signing locations into neighborhoods across Cerritos because we want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to participate—especially our seniors and residents who may not be able to travel far.

Our goal is simple: make sure every voice has the opportunity to be heard.

If you've been frustrated by your water and sewer bills, signing the Water & Sewer Rate Repeal Initiative petition takes just a few minutes and helps give Cerritos voters the chance to decide this issue at the ballot box.

Bring a neighbor. Bring a friend. Tell your family. One signature can inspire many more.

✅ Petitions must be signed in person with a wet signature—they cannot be signed online.
✅ It only takes a few minutes.
✅ We have convenient signing locations throughout the city to serve every neighborhood.

Thank you to every volunteer who has hosted a signing location, every resident who has signed, and everyone helping spread the word. This is what neighbors helping neighbors looks like, and together we're making sure every voice has the opportunity to be heard.

07/04/2026

This Fourth of July, we celebrate America as a melting pot: a country built by people from many languages, cultures, and backgrounds.

But democracy only works when people can understand what their government is asking them to approve, oppose, or pay for.

Prop 218 gives residents the right to protest rate increases. But that right is only meaningful if the notice is understandable.

Other cities and agencies, including San Gabriel, L.A. County Sanitation Districts, Mountain View, Fairfield, and San Francisco, made translated Prop 218 resources available online.

Cerritos provided notice in English only, despite being a majority-Asian, heavily immigrant, multilingual city where more than half of households speak a language other than English at home.

Our elected officials should have insisted on translated notices as representatives of all Cerritos residents, not just English-speaking residents.

Instead, residents had to do what City Hall should have done: draft and translate flyers, pool their own money to print flyers and protest forms, and go door to door to inform their neighbors.

That raises serious language-access concerns.

Residents cannot meaningfully protest a rate increase if they cannot understand the notice.

Meaningful notice means notice for all residents.

Now residents have another chance to be heard. Please sign the Water and Sewer Rate Repeal petitions and help put this issue before the voters.

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