Remarks by Bert E. Perello
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“Thank you. Councillor Perlow. Thank you for the presentation. A couple of questions. With respect to soliciting outside people to help you with funding, do you advertise that you're looking for any businesses that want to donate, potentially have their signage hanging from a banner? Do that or do you consider it the second is when you show the pictures of the power washing of the sidewalk? We can all imagine what that is do we end up with any issues with the stormwater? Going into the beach versus going to the sewer plant are there any issues that are brought up by the state with respect to…”
“Back to my first question. I know that there are times especially when tax season comes in there are businesses that look to make a donation How do you get that information out?”
“Thank you very much. And the Halloween Haunt this weekend.”
“Thank you very much. Thank you to the speaker that has spoken. Since the last meeting, I've attended the Ventura Regional Sanitation District. attended a little bit of the Wilson neighborhood council and have walked in districts and had the fortunate opportunity in the Cabrillo neighborhood to watch the Halloween float. Tremendous impact with kids, a lot of kids. It's amazing, you look back and you think that you were once at that age and how you danced and everything when they gave the candy out, just like the kids do today. Very little changes in that respect. THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL…”
“I THINK THE POINTS ARE BROUGHT UP TREMENDOUSLY, BUT I'D LIKE TO ASK MR. PENGALY, DO YOUR STAFF HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT OF WORK? DO YOU HAVE EXTRA TIME TO LOOK INTO THIS? BECAUSE AS I LISTENED TO THE PRESENTATION, And I do appreciate bringing it out as a third party, not directly involved. It sounded to me like, and I could go back and watch the presentation to be 100% accurate. It sounded like he's casting a net for everything in the area that may have avoided having taken the benefits of the opportunity or not taking the benefits of the opportunity for the city of Oxnard. Would you have enough…”
“Before we leave the podium, thank you very much for that information. When it comes to something like this, is the city responsible for being the ultimate, as Councilmember Rodriguez asked, the authority on history, correct? Or it's this cultural thing, the county, that's more responsible? It sounds to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, please, that there's another agency that's responsible for that. It's not your responsibility, not that you're shirking the job. It's just not your responsibility. Is there a policy that says yes or no?”
“Then very similar to the city council. We're not experts, but we refer to the experts. Thank you very much.”
“Exactly she's the official caretaker custodian, and I'd like to have her weigh in on things get lost in the shuffle Thank you mayor pro tempter on and council members So there is a motion on item l4 the motion was made by council on basu and we're looking for a second”
“Okay, go ahead. City Attorney Fischer, you've kind of danced around the rule of necessity, and I compliment you on that. Might as well cross the line. If it came to a rule of necessity, those that could not vote, it would be a straw boat to pick which one would vote.”
“As having the opportunity now to clarify to the thousands that are watching this.”
“You're not going to let me get the answer to my question. I don't appreciate that. But if you are supported by organized labor, and organized labor is in support of construction. So then you would have to recuse yourself if you took an amount larger than the individual amount.”
“Tri-County Laborers has endorsed me, and Tri-County Laborers covers a lot of unions, and they are advocates for construction. And so if there's, I didn't deal with a developer, I've had no outside consultation, but I could see that someone, possibly a member of the council, would challenge me if I vote on this because I took something from organized labor that would have an interest in having construction and don't disclose that I have a conflict.”
“So then I have a clean bill of health on this.”
“Did you have something? I was just going to say if there are no questions, no comments, I'll move the recommended action.”
“with respect I hadn't heard in my district I've driven through and I didn't see anything but it was mentioned by Mayor Pro Tem the high winds my knowledge we haven't had any big trees fall and I think that's a credit to the THAT'S A CREDIT TO THE POLICIES THAT HAVE BEEN IN PLACE AND THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE GOT WORKING ON THIS. HAVE WE HAD ANY MAJOR TREES FALL DURING THIS LAST WIND EVENT?”
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“YOU'RE DOING IMPRESSIVE WORK. THANK YOU.”
“Two questions. One, on the homeless voucher program, you said they can be used anywhere in the city of Oxnard or the county of Ventura or the state?”
“Thank you. The second question. It's become kind of a hot issue recently with respect to the count that we have here on this page. And it states that the Ventura County Continuum of Care 2026 homeless count. Are there any concerns we have with those numbers? Because some people are claiming the numbers may be skewed.”
“Thank you, and I appreciate that because we are taking credit for reducing the amount of homeless, and I hold good faith in these numbers. Thank you for that.”
“Just for those watching who are going to rewatch this, can you please explain when you use the term HUD what that means?”
“I appreciate this report, but just... Oh, sorry.”
“Question, on that very last one you mentioned the various cities that are involved. Can I assume that the rest of the cities that are not named have no homeless problem?”
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