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Hi, first time poster here!

Which schools offer a running track that is open to the public?

There’s not a lot of info online so I thought I’d go straight to the community

Hi! I have ATT Fiber at my current residence. It’s currently unavailable at my future residence in Fullerton. I WFH and need great internet connection. Any recommendations?

ATT says I can contact them again in a few weeks to see if fiber will be available but I highly doubt it will

Will be visiting OC Friday morning and looking for some recommendations on hiking trails. Thanks .

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This Instagram video shows typical Ja'meee Valencia behavior. She goes between being lost and confused, apethetic, and angry. Lost and confused most of the time. Apethetic when it comes to serious issues, unless Fraud gives her premade talking points and tells her how to vote. Angry when confronted by the public.

The countless videos on Facebook, Instagram, and other places are quite entertaining to watch yet depressing when you consider some people voted her in. Recall away!

Do you think she realizes how she is perceived by most of the public in and ouside of Fullerton?

Hi community!

As school has started, I’ve not seen many post regarding the topic.

How are the parents in this community doing? How do you do it all?

This year I have started my kids (5&6) at different schools (not by choice). It’s been interesting to see another campus. See what another school in our district is like.

The school where my 6 yo goes has campus open 7:45-8:10. The school where my 5yo goes has confused us on their schedule. Before school started it was 8:10-8:25 when campus would be open. Every drop off last week, I guess the gates were opened at 8??? We checked our emails and no change was notified to us. My child kept saying I dropped him off late, which was 8:10 since I took my other child to school first. I admit, I did feel late since everyone was already on campus meeting teachers on the playground, getting to know new parents- they informed me the gates open at 8.

Does anyone else have any issues with receiving information from their schools? Has anyone ever had a school schedule change within the week of school starting?

Honestly, the 8:10 time worked best for us as my 6yo being dropped off at 7:45 just felt too early to us. We were able to drop off at 8 and then drop off our little at the new school at 8:10. Also with wanting to give them breakfast in the morning, we went from having to be ready by 7:45 to now be ready by 7:30 which just leads to the kids needing to be up at 6 which has changed how I saw my mornings planned out.

I know now there is a school in the community that opens their campus at 9 am. Why doesn’t every school start at 9 am if it’s possible? Or why doesn’t that school start before 9, if other schools do?

I guess I didn’t realize just how different each school really is.

How is it all going for all of you?? Would love to hear about your school experiences as I’m only 1y in, starting my second, with many more to come.

The Fullerton City Council will vote on the consent calendar for the August 18 meeting on a rewritten lease for The Old Spaghetti Factory at the city’s historic train depot that staff projects would raise the restaurant’s annual payments to the city by 54 percent in the first year and by 119 percent by 2041. For comparison, Bushala Brothers, Inc. leases the train station, cafe and adjacent properties at 120–140 E. Santa Fe Avenue from the city. They pay roughly $0.29 per square foot per month — about $3.48 per square foot annually — for 6,248 square feet, totaling approximately $22,000 a year, according to figures cited at the July 15, 2025 council meeting.
The proposed Second Addendum to the 1983 lease at 110 E. Santa Fe Ave. sets a guaranteed base rent of $260,000 for the year beginning June 1, 2026, rising to $275,000 annually through May 2031. It also raises the city’s share of restaurant sales above a rolling breakpoint from 4 percent to 6.25 percent. The city collected $227,961 from the restaurant in 2025 and $225,093 in 2024, according to the staff report prepared by Economic Development Manager James Wurtz and submitted by Community and Economic Development Director Sunayana Thomas.
Staff estimates the new terms would generate about $351,707 in the first year — roughly $2.03 per square foot per month, compared with $1.31 under the current arrangement — and roughly $500,278 in the fifteenth year. Over the full potential 15-year term, the report projects about $6.5 million in rent, or $6.72 million including a new $15,000 annual payment toward common area maintenance.
The council reviewed the negotiated terms in closed session July 21 and directed staff to proceed. The item returns in open session for formal approval of Resolution No. 2026-XXX, which would authorize Mayor Fred Jung to execute the agreement and the city manager or a designee to administer it. Council options listed in the report are to approve the motion, decline to adopt the resolution, or pursue other alternatives.
The addendum establishes an initial five-year term running June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2031, with two additional five-year extension options. Base rent would climb to $352,000 annually during the first option period beginning June 2031 and to $387,200 in June 2036, with 2.5 percent annual adjustments thereafter tied to the Consumer Price Index. The document specifies that total annual rent may not fall below the applicable base rent regardless of gross receipts.
The agreement also rewrites the definition of “Gross Receipts” to capture on-premises dining, takeout, digital orders, third-party delivery, merchandise, catering, events, surcharges and service fees — categories that did not exist or were marginal when the original lease was drafted. Sales taxes, gratuities passed to employees, bona fide refunds, credit card processing fees and third-party delivery fees are excluded.
Audit provisions are strengthened. The city may audit the tenant’s revenue once a year at the company’s corporate office with at least 10 business days’ notice. If an audit finds an underpayment of more than 3 percent, the tenant must pay the cost of the audit plus 10 percent annual interest on the amount underpaid.
A separate section addresses the adjacent public parking lot, acknowledging that the city has deferred maintenance there. The city commits to resurfacing the lot within the first two years of the term and to keeping it accessible during construction, with alternative parking for restaurant customers.
Staff argues the property has no true market comparison. At 14,436 square feet, the restaurant is more than three times the size of the average restaurant space available for lease in Fullerton, which the report puts at 4,382 square feet, with the largest available listing at 6,840 square feet. Independent data cited in the report supports a range of roughly $2 to $4.50 or more per square foot per month on a triple-net basis for comparable Orange County restaurant properties.
The report says staff reviewed CoStar lease data, comparable restaurant transactions, occupancy-cost benchmarks, Placer.ai foot traffic data, broker opinions and sales at other Old Spaghetti Factory locations, and consulted Cushman & Wakefield along with other brokers. Those brokers confirmed the terms are reasonable given the building’s size, historic preservation restrictions, limited pool of replacement tenants and the improvement costs the city would face if the space were re-leased, according to the report.
The city’s relationship with the restaurant dates to a lease executed June 21, 1983, between the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fullerton and The Old Spaghetti Factory of Fullerton, Inc., in connection with relocating and restoring the historic depot. That agreement required the tenant to finance construction at its own cost and to preserve the historical and architectural integrity of the Union Pacific Depot Building. Rent began at $1 for the period ending Oct. 31, 1984, then $15,000 a year.
Under the structure established by a first addendum in April 2010, monthly base rent functions as an advance against an annual percentage rent obligation, with the city ultimately receiving 4 percent of gross receipts. That agreement anticipated that a successor lease would be negotiated at fair market rental value on maturity.
Chris Dussin, president of the lessee entity, signed the addendum on July 24. Dussin and his wife, Letty, were named in the 1983 lease as permitted assignees; Chris Dussin is the son of Guss Dussin, the chain’s founder.
The documents are not fully consistent on the tenant’s identity. The staff reports names OSF International, LLC as the counterparty, while the resolution and the addendum itself identify Fullerton Spaghetti Restaurant, Inc., a California corporation. A rent table in the addendum also lists a period ending May 29, 2031, while the surrounding text sets the initial term’s expiration at May 31, 2031.
The project is categorically exempt under Section 15301 of the California Environmental Quality Act, and a notice of exemption would be filed if the resolution passes.

I live around the Fullerton/Anaheim area and was wondering where around me would have free or low cost horse feedings just for a couple of hours. Normally I would go to the racetrack in Santa Anita, but its becoming a bit too much to keep going that far just to feed horses. I also would be fine driving a bit if it's somewhere like Hunting Beach, Irvine, or even Cypress areas.

Kentro, Zama, and Larry’s all closed. My rotation has taken some hits!

Any recommendations on new places?

what is the average wait time at the DMV without an appointment? need to go and my actual appointment is at a further location.

FYI Tickets are on sale now and will definitely sell out by October. This is one of the best shows in Fullerton in my opinion. Great for a date night or out with your friends. It’s exciting. It’s good. It’s local.

My child currently attends Ivy Crest, but I’m looking to move her when she turns two, either to Discovery Gardens or CDES Lab School. I recently followed up with CDES and was told she made enrollment from the waitlist group for April enrollment.

What concerns me is the lack of communication and professionalism. I had to follow up about five times by phone and email after being told parents would be notified about waitlist decisions by the end of June or early July. I never received anything and only found out after calling and finally getting my call answered that my child made the enrollment. I was told me they had seen my emails and thought they had responded, and that they would send me the paperwork for the next steps after we hung up —but I still haven’t received anything.

I’m honestlyj wondering what’s going on. Has the school changed recently, or has the quality of communication and administration been declining?

This is a decision I’m already pretty nervous about -pulling her out of her familiar environment and moving her to a new one and hoping she aclimates just as well. So this is pretty important to me and I just want to make an informed decision.

Thanks

Hi everyone!

I recently moved to a townhouse community in Fullerton, and a family member was visiting this weekend. They parked in one of the visitor parking spaces.

Beforehand, our landlord informed us that overnight visitor parking is allowed on weekends, so we thought everything was okay.

However, this morning the car was gone. We first called the towing company listed on the parking sign, but they told us they weren't the company that towed the vehicle. so had to call the Fullerton PD. It turns out the community patrol had the car towed through a different private towing company.

What confuses me is the timeline:

• A warning notice was issued at 12:43 AM.
• The tow company was called at 1:04 AM.

That's only about 21 minutes later, so I'm struggling to understand how that qualifies as a warning before towing.

Has anyone experienced something similar in their community? Were we supposed to register visitor vehicles somewhere, or are there additional rules that aren't posted on the signs?

We're foreigners and just moved here, so we're still learning how everything works. I'd really appreciate any advice or similar experiences. Thank you!