Remarks by Andrea Sorce
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“All right, everyone. We're going to make our way to getting started. We have a good quorum, and I'll talk slow as we get going. I'm going to go ahead and call to order the regular meeting of Vallejo City Council at 7.33 p.m. and ask our clerk to conduct the roll call. Mayor Soros.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. That is going to bring us to our third item, Pledge of Allegiance. If everyone would please stand for the pledge. All right. We're going to move to item four, report out of closed session. Council did meet in closed session immediately prior to this. I believe our city attorney and our vice mayor are going to have report outs. So go ahead. Or just vice mayor? All right.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay, and do we have other report outs from closed session? Yes.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“all right thank you that is going to bring us to item five presentations and commendations and we do have a couple of items here today first we'll be presenting a proclamation recognizing october 2026 as domestic violence awareness month this is our second year doing this proclamation to celebrate survivors and demonstrate our shared commitment as a city to standing by our survivors of violence. And we have invited our local organization, Vest Solano, as well as some of our other partners that work in Vallejo and Solano County. I'm not sure how many were able to make it, but we have the…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So if that's it for our organizations, we'll come down to the front and take a photo together.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, thank you all again. And as we... get settled back. I'll say also that this is a new proclamation that the city of Vallejo has been doing. And in my memory, I don't know that we'd ever done one for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. And it was something that was incredibly important to me and I know to my colleagues on this council and a commitment that we really want to reiterate. And I'll also remind us that there are so many survivors in our community who are carrying their stories. And we just want to let folks know that even if they aren't sharing their stories, that we see…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“We will make sure we get that pulled up.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“On your lower right, there's a little toggle switch. You can actually raise up the podium so you don't have to lean down. Down on the right, right where you're looking. There it is.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Perfect. Thank you so much. And I was actually, you answered the question I was going to ask, which is that we have a packed agenda this evening. And so I think it would be great if we could get the contact information for how to best follow up. Where could members of the public find information on the project? Is it on the STA website? Yes, it's on the STA website. Perfect. Okay. And then we'll make sure, Katrina, that the council gets your contact information in case anyone has questions. Thank you both very much. All right, that is gonna bring us to item six, our first community forum.…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, and again, I'm going to keep the three minutes because I know a lot of members of the public plan for three minutes, and I don't want to arbitrarily cut it down, but if you are able to cut it down, we can get through more speakers. So come on up. Please, please speak. We're going to put the three-minute clock, and I'll just ask that since we do have 12 folks here, if we have the ability to shorten, we'll ask you to do so.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I'm here with some issues for the... Lower right, you can raise up the podium.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you so much. We'll make sure we get somebody your contact information.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Let's call up the next speaker. We'll make sure.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. In that case, we are going to hold, we're going to pause you right there, and we're going to have you speak when we get to the consent calendar.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“You are all good. We will make sure you get heard on consent. Okay. That will give us more time to get through more speakers now. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Yeah, so we'll do the one that was already called by the vice mayor, and then unfortunately we'll have to save everyone else for the second forum.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, come on up. Do we have anyone online, Manny? We'll let the timer run a bit longer.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“You can raise up the podium again if you want. I think somebody lowered it.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Hold on, I'm actually going to pause you really quickly. Can we just see if we can shut the, we'll make sure you get your time back.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to do a specific clarification? THE THREE ITEMS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WAS THERE ANYONE ONLINE? WE WERE JUST MAKING SURE WE GOT EVERYTHING.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT ON CONSENT AND WE WILL SEE IF ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ITEMS THEY WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM CONSENT. COUNCIL MEMBER? ITEM I. All right, so we're going to take item I and turn it into 8.1. And, okay, if we pull too many items, we may move them until after the action calendar. Council Member Gordon.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, Council Member Letijoux. Item H. All right, so we'll take item H and turn that into 8.2. I am not seeing any other requests, so we will look for a motion to approve the agenda and consent calendar. And we are looking at potential, I'm going to asterisk it, a potential reordering and or moving of action calendar if we run out of time. We are considering continuing B and F if we are time constrained. We end hearing item A followed by item C followed by item E as the highest priority. So I don't know if we need to formally reorder the agenda now. Why don't we formally reorder the…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“The request, so I had asked the city manager in the event that we run out of time which items are the most time sensitive. And item C is a public hearing, which was already noticed. And item E is time sensitive because it's the warming center, which would be problematic if it got delayed. Yeah. So we're not going to continue anything at this point, but we'll just do that reordering to make sure we get through those high priorities. So A, then C, then E, and then we'll proceed through the rest. All right, we're ready for a motion.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026