Remarks by Bert E. Perello
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“Yes. The first part of the thing was helmets. When an individual buys it, I don't know it's going to be a young kid going to buy one. It's going to be mom and dad, uncle and aunt, grandpa and grandma, whoever. There must be an expectation, at least in my mind, that they would also get a helmet. But if there isn't an expectation, the person that sells them the scooter, is the person going to tell them what the rules are in the city of Oxnard? You got to have a helmet? Because I don't want to be providing kids with helmets, not because I don't want them to be safe, but because the people that…”
“And I'm wondering how does the parent find out about the requirements with respect to speed or anything else other than walking in and the kid wants one because his buddy or girlfriend or somebody's got one. I want one too. and the holidays are coming up and the prices are going down.”
“Second second questions questions well With the amendment just for clarity.”
“Respect to the mayor Pro Tem asking the question is there any other business that requires us to inform the buyer of? Obligations I could be wrong, but it seems to me the last time I bought a water heater There's a requirement by a local source on the water heater you got to comply with the city rules Can somebody in the staff tell me if I'm right or wrong? The water heaters Isn't there a requirement a local seller of a water heater in the city of Oxnard has to tell the purchaser of the local requirements in the city of Oxnard?”
“And I'm bringing that up because the mayor implied that there is nothing else in the city that does that with respect to my question earlier if a bicycle seller is going to require to tell the buyer. And if I'm wrong, I'll admit it publicly right now.”
“Is there somebody from development services or a system manager or public works attorney? knows the answer to that?”
“State it one more time. Okay a purchaser of a water heater in the city of Oxnard for many say Home Depot Lowe's I don't push Home Depot because they gave money to the city recently Is there a requirement that they inform the purchaser of the water heater? That if it's installed in Oxnard there are rules required about the insulation such as earthquake straps, etc, etc Thank you for that question.”
“Okay, thank you very much, and I stand corrected.”
“Excuse me, Mayor, I'd make a motion we extend the meeting past 10 o'clock, because we're going to make it. Thank you, sir. I know Mayor Pro Tem thinks we're not going to. We tried, yeah. I second. We're going 10 o'clock, and I've got to tell you, and this is interesting, but as long as I served on this council, this is the worst example of making sausage I've ever experienced. Okay.”
“But the deal is there's a levy that protects District 1 and District 2 that's significant, so I don't want to fool around with 10 o'clock, Mayor Bertram.”
“Yes. Can you share with the Council if you get flood insurance and there is a flood, what does the flood insurance pay for? Who gets the flood insurance?”
“Not the individual buying the house, but the person holding the mortgage.”
“The only comments that I have, counsel, in the very center of those icons, there was a group called Flood Zone Justice. I was heavily involved in that, but I was involved with a lot of other neighborhood councils. And it was South Bank, Sierra Linda, River Ridge, Windsor North. Victoria Estates They were all involved in 6,000 homes. That's how this happened and at least me 15 years involved in this thing I knew mr. Kapusi when he had a full head of hair and And I was much younger, but the issue that this addresses People had to stick together because I learned a long time ago It's very easy…”
“Does the city's engineer have anything to add before we end this? Because I know you've been heavily involved, a significant part, and your quality of work is tremendous. Do you have anything to address or add?”
“Oh, thank you, but I'd like to go get smaller Mr.. Wolf when when we're using some of these funds one of the funds is a bond fund if if we'd had the bond monies that a specific member of council's organization sued to prevent us from using, we wouldn't be touching these other amounts of money, is my understanding, going after general fund, measure O?”
“Thank you. And in my view, with my personal opinion, the time lost and the lost opportunity and the expense if we were to do the sell the bonds now, we can lay at the feet of specific individuals and groups. And I just wanted to say that. And I would also like you to introduce, I don't serve on public works committees anymore. So the gentleman that you've conversed, I don't, I've never met him and I feel it's disrespectful if I don't say hello and I apologize not having met you and I don't even know your name. What is your name?”
“Thank you very much. And thank you for your work here.”