Remarks by Andrea Sorce
244 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
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“What is it that you want agendized for the city council? What is within the city's power, the city council's authority, that we need to agendize for us to vote on?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That's information the city manager can provide. Because that's actually not within our purview.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. I'm going to move all of these in one block. that we add them to the hopper.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“We have to vote. You all, I wanted to adjourn minutes ago, and you all decided to add all these things to the hopper, so we're going to vote on them. I didn't create this process. All right. We are going to adjourn at 1141. Thank you, Don. We're going to adjourn at 1141 p.m., and we are going to adjourn this evening in memory of Calvin Ellington Saucedo.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“If everybody can make their way to the dais and or your seats.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. With everyone's cooperation, I'm gonna go ahead and call to order our regular meeting of the Vallejo City Council at 7.03 p.m. And to begin, I'll go ahead and ask our city clerk”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THAT IS GOING TO BRING US TO ITEM THREE, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. IF EVERYONE WOULD PLEASE STAND AND JOIN US FOR THE PLEDGE. all right thank you all that brings us to item four report out of closed session and the council did meet in closed session immediately following this meeting i will turn it over to our city attorney to report on our first set of closed session items and i'll encourage all of us at the dais to take our items so they are not blocking us while we do that”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“THEN OUR VICE MAYOR WILL PROVIDE ONE OTHER UPDATE.”
City Council · Sep 8, 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 one this evening we are going to be give me one second so i can see everything We do have one presentation this evening, which is our proclamation recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month, which takes place between September 15th and October 15th, 2026 and every year. And this year we are presenting it a bit early because we have our Fiestas Patrias event this Friday during art walk and some other events that will be happening between now and our next council meeting. and we wanted to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I am proud to be part of. I'm sorry. We really want to be able to hear you. I didn't want to interrupt, but I'm going to ask folks to move away from the sliding doors so that they close because the noise is coming into here. So we're just going to wait for those doors to close and thank you to our, why aren't they closing? Oh, my goodness. So our folks back there, thank you for trying to help kind of have folks keep it down out there. I'm sorry that I had to interrupt you. You all are doing an amazing job, and we wanted to make sure we hear everything you have to say. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, we'll have Maestria Jairo come up and then maybe we'll all do a picture together.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you all so much. So we'll come in front here and we'll take a picture together.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, and while we transition, I'll again just express my gratitude to all of our community groups that just make Vallejo so special as a place, and in particular our representatives that received our proclamation this evening. Thank you all so much. so we had a little bit of i know that's that's actually where i'm headed we had a little we had a little bit of uh noise issue during that last presentation so i'm just gonna remind this is a difficult room and for those of you that are in the audience the the noise carries spectacularly even a whisper, it really carries. Then that back…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You can actually raise up the podium if you want. On the lower right down there, there's a little toggle. There it is.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much. And I want, before we call the next speaker, I wanna thank our confunction members again for joining us, for all you've given to Vallejo for being ambassadors, and for the gifts that you left us. We've already had a couple conversations with city staff. To our council members, we're gonna make sure that we adhere to the gift limits, and anything over it is gonna go to a worthy, worthy cause. So thank you, thank you so much again.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And you can raise the podium lower right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay. That way everybody can hear you. Can you hear me?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And this will most likely be our final speaker. Thank you again for everyone who signed up. We'll make sure to get you an opportunity later in the meeting.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“all right with that we'll close our first community forum and those that didn't have a chance to speak will have an opportunity both in person and online later in the meeting when we get to our second community forum that's now going to bring us to items seven and eight which are our consent calendar we'll go ahead and open up public comment on our consent calendar items for any members of the public who wish to comment on items a through t on our consent calendar And I am going to make a adjustment to the order on our agenda in order to accommodate some of our honorees, representatives that…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING FOR CONSENT? SO FOR OUR CONSENT SPEAKERS, IF YOU CAN JUST SHARE WHAT ITEM YOU'RE SPEAKING ON. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO SPEAK ON ON CONSENT?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, just let us know the letter of the item so we can find it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let us know the letter of the item so we know where to find it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, have her come on up. Sure. And you can lower, yep, you got it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, I know I did pull up the consent item S, which is the HUD required consolidated annual performance and evaluation report or CAPER. I know we have many people here that wanna speak on housing. For this particular item, we will have to keep it focused on that report on the CAPER and more general comments about the department and Section 8 vouchers will have saved for the community forum. So we'll go ahead and call our next speakers.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“SO I'M JUST GOING TO REMIND YOU, WE DO HAVE TO KEEP, FOR THIS ITEM, WE HAVE TO KEEP THE COMMENTS ON SPECIFICALLY THE CAPER REPORT.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026