Remarks by Anissa Williams
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Councilmember Williams You mentioned that in order to become accredited there has to be a full-time person dedicated I know like Downtown Brentwood coalition they started out as an all volunteer force So does that full-time person have to be a paid employee or could it be a volunteer? Who's just focused on the Main Street portion of things? I?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for explaining my sheet for the challenges in the room.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. What is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, what do you feel is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What would you say is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner can bring to this role?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Could I just ask a question? If we're reviewing the record and deciding, no new evidence can be introduced, right? It's just reviewing?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“OK. Thank you. I just needed that clarity.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm just having a hard time, because I was leaning towards the second public hearing. And the reason for that is because I think we should take anything that has to do with people's property very seriously. But that was a good question that you just brought up, because that does make a difference. The zoning was already light industrial. So I don't know if I can be the tiebreaker yet on this one, though.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“it might not just be for the chief it might be just a general um because i know you've been trying to make that domestic violence stat go down um maybe we could invite one of those organizations to come down for i mean a presentation i know you know the audience isn't always packed with people but hopefully through all of our channels we could get people to pay attention so i don't know if we just have them come give a presentation to us at account at a council meeting or maybe we can Talk about doing something like what we did for the fentanyl awareness, but just something to get a little…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I know that he did that they did a lot of that last year because we were getting a lot of questions too about it So yeah, I mean I think all the things we can do for sure just like how you were saying You're all gonna step up like the DUI enforcement, right? I think when when it's presented to people maybe the they can see and know that there's some options out there so”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Aaron wants me to take up some time. I attended coffee with the principal at Freedom. He did provide really interesting data regarding fights on campus, GPA goals, enrollment numbers, state testing outcomes and goals. And he was also highlighting the partnership and what a good partnership he has with the city. So I don't think he was just saying that because I was there, but maybe he was. I went to Studio 55 hot August nights, the ribbon cutting for Oakley Optometry. All right, Tri-Delta Transit. So we had a discussion of SB 63, as always, and a review of the expenditure plan.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“In light of the fireworks presentation that we just got, I don't know if this needs to be a future agenda item, but can we discuss some of the recommendations from our police department?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, sorry. The recommendations that Lieutenant Morris gave us for firework follow-up stuff.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, great. I was going to pull those. So I will also pull 4.9.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I just wanted to pull this because I think it's important to highlight to the community the capital improvement projects that we're doing. So I just wanted to call it out, our 2526 Street Repair and Resurfacing Project. I know often people want to know where their tax dollars go. So I just wanted to pull this out and let people know that they can look at 4.9 to get the info on what's being resurfaced and repaved. And that was kind of all I wanted to pull it. So thank you for Having all of these items on here for us to look at and with that I will move that one Second so we have a first and a…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“We do. I just saw her button, so I wanted to wait.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, so I know the unhosted stays are a little bit different from the vacation rentals. So I'm assuming that we would not be providing those same notices to permits for short-term rentals for the unhosted ones?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“OK, perfect. And I think for the what will be people's recourse, the neighbor's recourse, if they need to contact somebody at an unhosted stay, what is going to be their recourse? Are we going to provide any education so that people know what they're supposed to do in those situations if something's blocking or if one of the rules are sort of being violated?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, I think I've expressed a little bit of hesitation on this item before. I see the intent of it, but... I just have some concerns about if we're taking options away from folks. By nature, the downtown area would be a more affordable place for an Oakley family to buy a house because they tend to be smaller. They're a little bit older than some of our neighborhoods. So those are the things that sort of worry me is that we're taking an affordable option away from folks. people who potentially would be able to buy a house if it wasn't sold as a vacation rental. That being said, I do see the…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Sorry. You mentioned that the health benefits for the full-time would be the, is that the same with the deputy city clerk or is it because we're creating basically a different position for that?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, since our last meeting, I attended the Joint City Council Planning Commission meeting, the Liberty Union High School District Convocation, National Night Out. I also attended a webinar on poverty rates in California. Contra Costa County is now at pre-pandemic poverty levels. Our poverty rate is 13.8%, and our child poverty rate is 15%. We did have a meeting with Tri Delta Transit CEO to catch up and talk about Oakley's specific planning with Council Member Shaw, as she mentioned, Mayor's Conference in Oakley. Council Member Shaw took all of the thunder. It was really good. I'm…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Um, I obviously am super excited about this project. I think it's good because, you know, they brought up a lot of this stuff about, uh, just the downtime, but downtown vitality and neighborhood vitality. And I think it's important for people to feel, you know, we obviously provide the homes, but are we really giving people a place where they can be proud of? So I'm really excited to just have things that get people excited about the beauty of where we live. So I'm really happy about this. So thank you for. Finding them. Thank you for being willing to work with us. I'm super excited about this”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, we're going to save the hometown hero best part for last. I attended the Rockies chicken ribbon cutting. I also went to the ABAG meeting. It's our annual meeting. We did have a presentation from Libby Schaff on Bay Area Council. And she was just speaking on the importance of regionalism and local government versus state and federal. One of the things that was interesting is she was talking specifically about how many buildings are entitled currently in Oakland for housing, because I know we talk about that a lot, and that they can't pencil for the developers. So there is a lot of…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And I would also like to thank him for coming on his day off, because there was a little bit of timing issues. So we appreciate him so much.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Council Member Williams. OK, I have kind of a lot. Shocker, I know. So I guess I have a couple of questions, because I I want to know kind of what the reality of this. So you gave the two examples, right? And I realize the first one is kind of wordy and stuff like that. But to me, it also feels like who's benefiting from it? If we're just streamlining this and making it more bland, which the second design standard, the objective design standard seemed to me, Are we concerned at all that developers are going to put things down to the bare minimum, and we're still not going to have anything…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026