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AYN @qV710,W-1 ,10 _04mg flm@a 5904 N.El Dorado Street,#D Stockton,CA 95207 (209)477.6544 Phone ' (209)477.6438 Fax Date: October 9,2008 'ro: Mr. Richard Shaffer,President Morada tVea Association Rrshaffer2 a3 aac-corn Dear Mr. Shaffer: I was in the attendance of the MAA monthly meeting on October 7,2008.As you know that the proposed Madina Center of North Stockton was discussed during the tnccting., As the project eneitaeer for the above project, I.feel that I have to take issue to a statement'made by one of the speakers.The speaker stated that according to the applicant there will be truck drivers traveling on the freeway,stopping by the proposed mosque offering their prayers, thus causing traffic problems on the road.T.M- S,STATE-VENT IS NOT TRUE AT ALL.The facility dues not expect truck drivers with their big rigs conning to the mosque and such a statement was never nude. If some'MAA inembers have seen truck drivers with long beards and turbans, Clacy should understand that those people are most likely not Muslims but are Sikhs, a totally different religion. l:urthennore, there are other inaccuracies and misquotes about our application that I would like to clarify. Although, I do not have subscription in your publication the Marada Monitor but a i friend of mitre gets the Monitor and he gave me a tbw older issues which contain errors about Madina. Center. 1. In the May issue of the Monitor,it is stated that in a phone conversation,Amin Mabrnood confirmed that the building will have:a dome;but due to lack of funds the project does not include minarets,TEAS STATEMENT IS RIOT TRUE, :100",o.The dome v6 lI be included contingent upon funds but the minarets arc not included in tM project regardless of the funds. 2_ The same issue of the monitor states that according to Amin Mahmood.there will be classrooms for approximately a couple of hundreds students. THIS STATEMENT IS ALSO 1,AI,SE. The phrase "couple of hundreds-' was used to describe, the number of worshippers on Friday afternoon.. not for the students.This is a clear misunderstanding of Amy statement. 3. The same issue of the Monitor states that there.will beta kitchen.THIS STATFNI k;NT lS j TOTAJ,,I�Y FALSE AS THE KITCHEN WAS NEVER IN `fHh PLAN, Some of your i MAA members bring this issue again and again.During any tneeting'+with MAA officers. on September 8, 2008,one of the MAA officers in the aneetirn g su b ge.5ied that is will be 5a . good idea if we have fence around the property and a resident caretaker in the building to kccp an eye on the property as there are some illegal and criminal activities going on in the: neit hborhood. I: told hint these were good suggestions and I will discuss there with the client and the county. At that point, he said that the: caretaker will have a wife and three kids and as a result he will have a kitchen, ( XYFCHA), trying; to prove his point that our statement of not having;a kitchen is not true,This was really unfortunate that he extrapolated his own idea of a resident.caretaker into a full size kitchen.