Remarks by Anthony M. DeMattei
63 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Just thank you, Rob. It's been great working with you, and I know you're looking forward to getting out of that suit and tie, so we won't keep you here very long, as I saw you incognito in shorts and a t-shirt at the library, and I didn't recognize him, and I'm like, who is this guy? Congratulations.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Do you need a walk-up song from Metallica?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“That means you can't retire yet, so you're sorry.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, and thank you guys for the work that you do. As a grower, we appreciate it because, you know, when we bring the food and you guys help us unload it and you guys get it to the people who need it, and it's actually, you know, we're bringing healthy stuff. A shout out to all my grower friends who do the same thing, that we are very appreciative of you guys, the gleaners and the shelters that help us bring that food to you guys. So thank you for your help.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. I see people with their hands up. Public comments closed in case the chair didn't see it. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up. Questions on Quail Lane? It's a private road. It's not a public road, non-maintained public road. It's a private road, Quail Lane? You want to maybe answer? Correct. I just want to make sure I'm correct.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So is that about 50, 60, 100 feet past the stop sign? I can check this.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So if it's a public, I mean, if it's a private road, and now Old Eureka Road is going to be abandoned, now a private road as well. Can all those residents just move that gate 50, 60 feet off of Eureka Road so the whole thing is private and they don't have to have, I mean both roads are pretty narrow. I drove there the other day with my truck. There was no cars on the road but I couldn't imagine those people having cars parked there and there's a horse property there trying to get their horse trailers through there. So is it possible to just close off the whole thing and what would that take?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Even though it's in, but if we put the gate just past the public easement on the private part, does that give enough space for the people on quail to put their own gate up? If it's a private road, why are they restricted from putting a gate?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So that way they just don't have one on Old Eureka and then one on Quail to stop the traffic, but just have one so they all access it. And, of course, the Knox box would be for emergency use only.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, but that also had emergency access vehicle. We're talking about two pieces of property that have dead ends, or two roads that have dead ends.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So as we do our community plan updates, we should look into that. Probably change a lot of languages throughout Placer County.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“so i i'm i'm okay with this project but i'm also would like to have more information on what it would take to just close off that whole section i know that we don't have control over what the school does that's their problem the traffic is their problem but now it seems like it's impeding other people's problems to get in and out of their own homes so if we can just close off the whole thing for them i would like to have information on that because it seems like that's what the public has been at. Those 10, 20 people who live, it impedes them. So if we can get some, if I can, if the rest of…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm aware we can't go put the gate up. That's why I asked. If they asked what I hear today, because they want both of them closed off, then it's up to them to put their application to close it off.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, it's private anyway, so they still have to maintain it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“They don't have to pay for it. I talked to somebody on the phone. They're like, we have asked to put the gate there, but we were denied by the county. So that's why I want to know why they were denied or if it was even denied. That's why I'm asking the question today is why can't we put it there if there was an ask for it in the past? Obviously, this is not the subject today is to close the whole thing. Ask today is just to close this. Yes, we can close this today, but if they come to us, why can't we put it there if they want the whole thing closed off?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Chair. To be clear, if you're looking at the south side of Old Eureka is a drainage canal. The north side is the easement. Is that correct? The access easement?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So we're not making anybody – the drainage is the drainage. That's not where people can walk. There's rocks there, whatever. We're not going to – that's not what we're talking about, right? The easement is only on the north side of Old Eureka Road.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“There won't be access on the south side, only on the north side. Correct. Okay, just wanted to be clear. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Just one question on the request for funds later. Is there a, say there's only 250, what's the limit that would have to come to the board for approval? Or if we approve the whole 7 million today, county staff has the obligation just to give it to them without coming back to us?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Nothing that has to come back to us until it reaches? Correct.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Because there's only like a million plus or minus dollars there, right? Currently, yes. Okay. Perfect. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you guys for the presentation. Just to be clear, for those in Penryn who I've talked to, neighbors, in the settlement agreement that the Penryn group had, in their agreement was to... to support this funding. So for those who have called and talked to me and said not to support this funding, which doesn't swayed my decision here today, but you guys did agree to, um, to back that funding. Also, I have a question. If Bigford has given us money and, and so say the board, for example, doesn't approve funding for this project, are we in, um, in noncompliance with Bigford and the…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for the presentation as well. I do agree that it's great that we're putting these projects before houses so we don't have to deal with what we've dealt with in the past and nobody else has to deal with that in the future. I guess we just have some money questions. If we're giving this out as a loan, is it coming from the general fund? How does this go on our books? Does it go as debt? How do we collect, you know, how are we collecting this? Is it coming from discretionary funds that we have? Because we have, as DPW came to us two weeks ago, that we have infrastructure for…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'll make a motion for the requested action considering this is only a consideration and it still has to come back to us for a final approval. The only other comment I had is a lot of people said, hey, we're making 4%, we're giving it to them at 3%, but I think a $90,000 haircut in our income might be a little bit beneficial, but that's it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026