Remarks by Andrea Sorce
244 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 10
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“Thank you. All right. So my suggestion is going to be why don't we go ahead and open up public comment on this item? We do have to do two steps for this process that I know there's probably a lot we could talk about with respect to warming centers But given the hour and the need to be ready for winter My suggestion is going to be that we take public comment and then vote on step one unless anyone has objections Do we have any commenters in person at this time?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Do we have any commenters online?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Would it be possible briefly to answer the question of flat fee for, or I'm assuming it's flat fee for the coverage of the”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That's good to know. So it sounds like as it was established, the word got out and the usage increased.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying that. I'm going to go ahead and ask for a motion per my previous comment, unless there's anything. There isn't. Let's get a motion.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“MY QUESTION FOR EITHER THE CITY MANAGER OR THE PLANNING DIRECTOR WITH RESPECT TO ITEM D IS, IS THERE ANY ADVANTAGE TO US APPROVING THIS TONIGHT SO THAT IT CAN GET STARTED FROM A NEED STANDPOINT? IF COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS OR WANT DISCUSSION, I'LL SUGGEST THAT WE CONTINUE THE ITEM, BUT IF WE'RE ALL SUPPORTIVE OF THE BUILDING permit fee reduction pilot program for low-income homeowners, we may be benefited. Is there any value to doing that now? Through the chair. Let me have him answer. Okay, sorry about that. Yeah.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“It is something we'd be supportive of. I guess my question is, is it the type of thing that would take effect? I don't want to get too into it without calling the item. Is it the type of thing that would take effect January 1st? And if we heard it at the next meeting, it would be no different than now? Or is there an advantage to us going ahead and voting on it?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. I'm going to go ahead and announce the item. Let's have the clerk announce item 9D. Thank you. Sorry, Dawn. Would you mind announcing item 9D?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you very much. We'll start public comment period on this. And I'm hoping we will limit our discussion and just do a quick vote if we are supportive of this. But, Director Pollitt, is there anything you wanted to share? No. that you feel is important to get on the record i think the staff the staff report is pretty self-explanatory i i i mean if you're comfortable with it i'm i'm good yeah and we had one of the reasons why i'm comfortable having us do this a little quicker is because we had this discussion at length when we discussed the fee the fee increases over the summer a couple…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah, I do not want our low-income homeowners to be delayed by our long meetings. Let's see if we have any public comment in person.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And do we have any public comment online?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, going once, going twice. If there are no speakers, we are ready for a motion.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Wonderful. All right. My suggestion is that we continue B and F, take community forum, and then adjourn. If there are no objections to that, I will go ahead and continue B and F, and we will move to item 13, the second community forum.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And Council Member Matias, do you have a question or comment?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Thanks for staying up with us.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“THANK YOU. LET'S GO AHEAD AND CALL OUR ONLINE SPEAKER.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. My plan was to go ahead and adjourn. I did see a light from Council Member Matias. If it can't wait till next meeting, we can go to request an actions for future agenda items or special projects. Go ahead.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I confirm that. Okay, go ahead, Vice Mayor.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Can those be received and noted for the record? Or do we need to vote on them?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I loathe this process and I would like to change this process, but I'm asking the city manager what it takes to these are requests for things to go into the council hopper.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay, so can we move that we add to the referral list the exploration of facade improvement program, add the moratorium on data centers to our existing, we can just add that to our existing item of moratoria that we continued tonight, and the conversation about needing to update our, whether it's charter or municipal code, I'm not sure.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“It's neither. It's actually a policy. So potentially updating that policy. And then we'll follow up on the process for grocery stores. That's not necessarily an agenda item, but that'll be a follow-up from you.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“OK. This is why we need to change it. So my request is that we change this process, because I need to adjourn and get out of here. So if we need to vote on each one of these individually, we can vote on each one individually. Frankly, I'm going to start voting no until we change this process, because we add six items for every one that we get through, and we're never going to get through everything unless we change the process. So do we need to vote individually on each one?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026