Remarks by Andrea Sorce
244 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
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“Motion carries unanimously. All right. Thank you. That is going to bring us to our first poll. We'll go ahead and take the consent items quickly now. We'll go to formally item 8i, 8.1, which was pulled by Council Member Bergenzer. Resolution of the City Council of the City of Vallejo amending the fiscal year budget to appropriate $256,000 from the Monsanto fund balance and $207,000 measure P for funding Axon Enterprise for our fiscal year. I'll turn it over to Council Member Bergenzer who pulled the item.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. And I'll ask one quick follow-up, which is that because Council Member Bergenser and I weren't here for step one, my concern with this was that this seems like a really important recurring expense to have in the regular PD budget and not have coming out of Measure P. So if the city manager is able to answer, do we have plans to put this in our proper VPD budget going forward so we're not continuing to rely on Measure P for...”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah, we don't need to belabor it, but I wanted to just raise that, and I know there was a robust discussion at the last meeting. So I think we can go ahead. I'm not seeing anything else, and we already took our commenters. As long as no one else is jumping up, we will go ahead and get a motion on the item.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So typo on the agenda, step two of two. Okay, we are ready to vote. It says step two in the recommendation. Motion carries unanimously. All right. Thank you. That is going to bring us to item 8.2, formally 8H, adopt a resolution to amend this year's budget to allocate $300,000 of Measure P funds to the Housing Authority of the City of Vallejo's Administration Fund. I will turn it over to Councilmember Letiziu, who pulled the item, and I imagine we'll want to get the gentleman's questions answered as well.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, city manager, do you have something to add? All right, I think the vice mayor has a quick question. We've been on this item for a little over 15 minutes, and we do have six action items to get to, so go ahead, vice mayor.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And I know the city manager wanted to get in as well.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. And I know this is going to be coming back probably at least once before the new year to talk about the housing authority. So if I'm not seeing anything else, then in the interest of time, I want us to get a motion to approve this funding. And of course, we'll be continuing to have discussions about all of these issues.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay, I see Councilmember Letta's view. We have got to move on. We've got six action items to get through. All right. Well, we'll go right over to you then.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And I'm going to hold that because I need to clarify that we are actually able to do that in connection with this item.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“We'll go ahead to the city attorney as well.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I'm going to let the city manager get in and I'm going to offer an interpretation of the motion.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Through the chair. So I'm going to, go ahead, Council Member Gordon. And then if we're going to talk too much more, we're going to need to continue this item because we have six action items.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“SO I'M GOING TO REINTERPRET SLASH FRIENDLY AMEND THE MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AS STATED ON THE AGENDA WITH AN UNDERSTANDING THAT AT A COMING MEETING AN ANALYSIS OF A POTENTIAL MORATORIUM WILL COME BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. CITY MANAGER BLACK, IS THAT ON YOUR END FEASIBLE? DO YOU NEED FURTHER DIRECTION ON THAT?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So we have a motion on the table. My concern is I don't want us to violate the Brown Act, and we have a financial item here that is step two of two to allocate funding. So I don't believe that we can give direction on policy within the housing authority, but we've got an understanding. I think we're all on the same page. We have an understanding, and it will be coming back. So we don't need to restate the motion. It's the motion as stated with the moratorium coming back either via memo and probably yes and memo and council meeting future council meeting. We have a public commenter. Let's…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“You are extremely faint. We can we can hear you if you could get closer to your mic, though.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. We are finishing the two-step process tonight, but that is a good reminder, and we appreciate it. All right, we have a motion on the table. It's as this item 8H as stated with the moratorium and updates coming back to council. Motion carries unanimously. All right. Thank you all. Thank you for being here. We're going to move now to our action calendar, and I will ask our city clerk to announce item 9A.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, and I'm going to quickly ask the council. I think we're going to be due for recess at some point just to stretch our legs. I might suggest that we hear the staff presentation and take public comment and then take a short break before discussion, but we might play by ear unless anyone has strong feelings at this point. We'll go ahead and turn on public comment clock for anyone wishing to address the council on item 9A, and I'll turn it over to our public works team and Director Jobe for the presentation.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“We got the wrong president. Manny's working on it. Manny's working on it.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Hold on one second. Sorry, I'm going to pause you. If our folks in the back could either, just the sound carries tremendously. It's shocking how much it carries. If you all can either step right out the doors to have the conversation. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“all right do you want to put up the last slide and then we'll i think we are yeah we were on here we have comments for sure from council what i think i'm going to do thank you both by the way um i know this has been a laborious and lengthy process i think what i'm going to recommend is that we take public comment and then we take a short break and then we'll do the council discussion if that seems okay to folks uh do we have any commenters in person on the item none signed up in person mayor okay how about online”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Let's go ahead and call them, and then we'll take a short recess after that. The vice mayor and I don't see it on ours, so go ahead.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Come on up. That's a perfectly fine way to sign up for public comment.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you very much. All right. Let's call our online speakers.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“we can't hear you we've got we've got you now okay we are you're a little faint we're just gonna hold on one second and all right let's try one more time if you can get close to the mic okay can you hear me better now we're working on it i think we're okay to go ahead”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. I think we had one more speaker.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026