Remarks by Angela Curro
201 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“I would move to approve to approve the letter of support to the governor's office.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“And I don't believe we have any presentation today. It's gonna be at the Indigenous, so if I can just make a comment on that. Number one, it's gonna be an honor to be a model at the Indigenous Fashion Show and Gala. I can't wait to see what I'm put in. My son is very excited about it. But I will be at that event and will be presenting this at that time. So thank you so much for the recognition.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, besides the event that's going to be on the Indigenous Fashion Show on Saturday, which is from three to nine, tickets are still available. Girls Inc. is doing their Taste in Treasure, which will be on September 26th. Let me make sure I have the date right. I'm pretty sure I have the date right. September. Yes, 26th is, and it will be at Dam Vineyards. Tickets just went on sale. Please support our local students by attending this event and sponsoring Girls, Inc. The last item is I did attend the CSAC Board of Directors meeting in Sacramento yesterday, or not yesterday, last week, and…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So I appreciate all the comments from my colleagues so far, and I agree moving forward with this ordinance update, absolutely totally support it. Where I'm struggling, a little like Supervisor Sotelo, but a little different. I am looking at this from a how can we set a rate and then come back in a year and say, whoa, that was way too low. I would rather set a very conservative rate and then come down. And the reason why is because of some of the things that Supervisor Sotelo has brought up. I think the zero tolerance issue is very important, but also staff, I want staff to be engaged in this…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, yeah, I'll just say, yeah, I understand that.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I appreciate that because that's exactly where I'm trying to go, is we should not have to punish the good characters for the bad characters, but we need to make sure that we have an enforcement for the bad characters that recoup the cost. And I want that fining and that abatement and that... staff time to be in some sort of a written fee structure that is a fine for in so that the good brings in the money and the bad you're never going to want to be a bad guy again sorry or gal So that's it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation and all the hard work that you guys have both done and all of the consultants. And I want to thank Supervisor Zanger for being such an active participant on the sanitary solutions ad hoc. I don't think any of this is a great answer for our community. With rates going up with PG&E and potential shutdowns of energy sources, we're going to see utility rates go through the roof. We also are going to see utility rates on trash go through the roof. want the most economical and environmentally safe program moving forward. I do want to say for being on the local area…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“But with a transfer station, understanding when we talk about congestion and truck traffic, we're still going to have trucks coming in and out. Because the small trucks come in and dump, the large trucks take it all and haul it out. So instead of the trucks coming in with trash, they're going out with trash.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Transfer vehicles. Okay, and just so, I don't believe we are, we're still not accepting any out-of-county trash. If trucks are being seen right now, these trucks, there is a reclamation project going on with Granite Rock that has nothing to do with the landfill. If you're seeing a large quantity of trucks, they're not trash trucks, unless I'm missing something. These large quantity of trucks that you see, and if these trucks, these haulers are on Fairview, we need that reported to the county because they're only supposed to be on 25. And it goes until the beginning of September. So I just…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“One can only hope. In having these conversations of who's willing to take our trash, it's gonna be a business. Okay, just wanna make sure the public's aware of that. When it comes to the fact that this is not, please tell me that this presentation is also being done to both cities.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“I think we need to make sure that all of our residents, including our cities, are fully aware of where this is going and that we are as transparent as possible. Because I see unforeseen consequences that are going to be coming that the public is going to say, we didn't keep them informed. I want to make sure that they're completely informed. since waste connections has stepped away from their appeal or waste solutions do i have that right which one is it both both okay whichever one the parent company or the laura company whichever they both stepped away i know part of our contract stated…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“And the reason I'm asking is because we need to look at how much this is gonna impact our residents and cost. The number one complaint I'm getting right now from all of my constituents are how much it costs to live here. they can't afford it and we're pushing them out and rate increases are going to do that even more i don't want the trash anymore than anybody else i don't want out of county trash but we have to look at how do we keep rates at a sustainable level so that the residents are not impacted so just something to keep in mind if i have to give a recommendation of how we move forward…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, Resource Recovery Park. But understanding that SB 1383 is going to impact us even more financially as a community because recycling and compost will be across, we're going to lose that exemption right now. That rural exemption will be gone.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“2037. So even though, I mean, we're talking, this is a lot of stuff happening over a long period of time. If we look big into the future, I'm seeing major financial impacts on our residents. And how can we minimize that? So I'm open to those suggestions and future conversations of what we can do and education to our public about where we're at and how this may play out. But we need both jurisdictions, both cities to be involved in this. And I would be recommending that we move forward with the resource recovery property, but continue the conversation with RJR. Those are my comments. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Is there a reason? So there's wording in the contract that limits, you know, we have to go through waste connections first. They have to refuse. But it also deals with the closure, the post-closure and the class one Hollister contract. So we need to be careful that we, what my comment was gonna be, totally agree with Supervisor Kosmicki, I'm just gonna say we need a closed session item and I'm just gonna stop talking.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“I move to approve the moving forward with the RFP per staff recommendation for the $250,000 estimate, understanding that we will be looking at other options and that that RFP process be brought back to us for contract consideration before execution.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I just, I wasn't gonna put that into the motion. I assumed that staff would just schedule a closed session.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“And thank you again to staff. I will say the ad hoc appreciates all the work that you've put in. It's been a real educational process.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the presentation. I know that the work that you guys do is very important for keeping our community safe. I have a couple of concerns and questions and maybe you can clarify. This for-profit rate, that we're paying we don't have another option to be able to reduce so that we could serve serve more people i'm just thinking how can we since this is only funding for 18 years i have real concerns about how we're going to continue this program”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“There's a lot of pluses there. Yeah. So the question I would have is how extensively have we negotiated with them on rates?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“And not to question, this is really just for educational purposes, who does the negotiations with these for-profits?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“And I'm sure you guys do a phenomenal job. I'm just looking at council right now saying when it comes to any negotiations, I'm not going to say I'm a trained or paid negotiator, and I don't claim to be one, but we have people on staff that are negotiators, and maybe there's a way that we can have a little more robust negotiation. So that's just a future maybe something to think about. So that answered that question. It did seem, it's a lot, when you have that amount of money, and when you talk about prevention, education, and treatment, and treatment of 20 clients for $400,000, I get…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“This is just me trying to make sure we make the money go as far as we can.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Are we screening people for they are from the unincorporated area as opposed to Hollister? Sorry, just trying to say we have funding, they have funding, we shouldn't be supplementing theirs, they shouldn't be supplementing ours, we need to have a playing field, a level playing field. So where does that happen?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“if we're already paying for it. So I would like to ask staff to assist behavioral health in this conversation and start a more robust conversation about how the Hollister funding could, I mean, if we're serving everyone and we're paying for the mobile, what are they doing with their funding yes so that would be the question i'd like to have brought back to the board um with that said i appreciate this and um it's definitely going to become a financial impact because i don't see opioid treatment going anywhere so it's not going away it's we're going to still have it we just need to find better…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026