Remarks by Blower
32 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 1:01:43
“Council member Pita kind of asked it, but I was just wondering what sort of other options, because I think that's great that you have more things within Sutter and more things within Kaiser, but I'm wondering, you know, what would it take to bring in like a third?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
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“Now, percentage-wise, what percentage of our employees have Kaiser versus the Sutter?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
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“So does that become problematic if it's more and more lopsided, in your opinion, with one of the providers?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, and it does seem like you'd get to a tipping point where that Sutter would pull out.”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Ricardo. I appreciate your presentation. And it's exciting to hear about the potential for things to come. My thought, and Council Member Enriquez kind of hit on this, is just being in the loop of what's going on. I really would like to know, again, what's in the pipeline. But then as new things come, like when you do land that Texas project, Barbecue, you know, we want to know about that. Or Roadhouse, Texas Roadhouse. Ikea, you know, when you can get things like that, and I know there's some sensitivity that, you know, when you're in the negotiations, you can't tell us. But once…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:41:31
“On this past Saturday, we had a park beautification event at Anderson Park. I want to thank Supervisor Paul Canepa for joining me on that effort. And I was just blown away by the amount of people. I've done quite a few of these over the years. And we had almost 100 people there. I mean, it was a great, great turnout. There was, like, a team from Amazon, just a lot of people, a lot of youth that turned out. We did things such as there was painting, planting trees, picking up garbage, a lot of time and effort put into cleaning it. But with that many people, gosh, we got it all done. I think…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
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“So this is kind of an interesting item where it feels like it's somewhat limited in terms of what we can say the fact that it is a personnel matter And so I appreciate Donald for giving us giving us advice and guidance on this I really do appreciate the public showing up and you know giving giving your input and and letting us know what you what you think about that and ultimately the mayor's PIO is the mayor's employee and so it really comes down to the mayor to you know do do the supervision and deal with her own employees so I think that's something that you know we'll all keep an eye on…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you. I want to thank you for the presentation. I did take statistics in college, and it was not my favorite class. But I did buckle down, and I did pass that. But I do remember some of the things about sample size and all that. And I do understand what you're saying, that my question is more with the methodology. Because it seems like there was a recruiting element to getting people to do this. How does that affect the people that respond? It seems like the people that if you're versus just a pure random sampling of people, don't the people that get recruited tend to have stronger…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
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“No, I don't mean that. I just mean that people that are responding to something online saying, you know, oh, yeah, I want to get my two cents. Do those people tend to be more like mad at the city or whatever? And does that skew the results? How do you account for that?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
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“I guess. I mean, I do tend to think that the people that gravitate towards those things probably have stronger opinions. And I know it's probably tough to I don't know. I just wondered if you reached out and randomly picked. And I know you want to have a good cross-section and a good representative group. But again, I just wonder how much that factors in.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:50:36
“Just a quick clarification. I'm curious with this timing, does the clock start like right when that 911 call comes in?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:50:53
“It's still pretty fast to pick somebody up, get them loaded up, and get them to the hospital.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:52:07
“Well, thank you. I appreciate that. It seems like a really good metric to be able to kind of judge how you're doing, and so thank you.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, I guess I'll be first out of the gate. It's been a while since our last meeting. It was, gosh, back in July. So there's been all these, yeah, it's been a busy summer. So some of the things that I've gone to, I was happy to go on July 25th to the Pioneer Village Grand Opening at the San Joaquin Historical Museum out at Mickey Grove Park. That is really an impressive event. new addition to the parks and to the Historical Society. They spent $5 million building that. And it's where they will do Valley Days. So I know when the kids, I think third graders, do Valley Days. And yeah, it was…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just for some clarification, this isn't the traffic calming, right? They're not talking speed bumps. Could you describe what this is?”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 21, 2026
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“That'd be great Councilman Blower Thank You mayor very excited to see this item on the agenda. It's something that I've been hoping would happen sooner than later. So I'm glad we're finally here. Last December, we had residents that showed up from Swain Oaks Manor Longview that had their meeting. They expected the speed bumps to go in last summer. Venetian Gardens grouse run as well. I mean both of those Neighborhoods expected that to be done last summer. So I'm glad that I know there were some funding issues that had popped up So I'm thrilled that this is going forward. So my big question.…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 21, 2026
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“Or do you have timelines you know? Can you tell us when these are going to happen?”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, and I would hope that you would give priority to the people that expected it and were told it would happen a year ago That it didn't happen. So hopefully that will factor in Thank you.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 21, 2026
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“First thing I wanted to mention, going back to July 9th, just wanted to again congratulate Deputy Chief Annabelle Morris for being recognized as Woman of the Year by Senator McNerney's office. I missed the speeches because I was running the Sajafka meeting, which started at the same time as that. But I did get in there and caught the tail end of the event. Just very, very happy for her, and I think that it's very well deserved. Other events that have happened since the last council meeting, July 11th through 12th was StocktonCon, and that was a great time for the community. I want to thank…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, I don't We're gonna get right on it Looking through this.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“on this and I'm glad to see a plan being in place and the one thing I really liked to see was the grand jury response matrix. So I like that idea of following each of the recommendations and having it very clear. I feel like when the report came out in 23 we kind of took a while to respond to it and I know some of the items from that are are still hanging out there. I'm glad to hear Ledge is going to take a shot at some of those things, but I'd love to see those items incorporated into the matrix as well from the 23 report. I think that's a good idea so we can see which ones, because I know…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah, so that will be presented then at the next meeting. Because I think the public would like to know, instead of just one big number, what is assigned to each one of those. So I'm glad to hear that. So that is. Okay, good.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I just want to talk about the Fourth of July. I thought the parade was a lot of fun. We had a fair amount of us were involved in that. And I just want to thank the Karl Ross Post for putting that on. I thought, you know, every year it seems like the crowd gets a little bigger. So hopefully that will continue to be the trend. And then that night, I got to see the fireworks downtown and it was one of the most impressive fireworks displays I've ever seen from the city. It just kept going on and on and you kept thinking you saw the grand finale and then something…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. City Attorney, I just have some questions about the lawsuit going on in Modesto. Have you had a chance to look at their ordinance and how does it compare to ours?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“So some of the questions like I that article that we're talking about and one of the groups. Pacific Media Workers Guild is a plaintiff and they're arguing that reporters routinely rely on helmets goggles respirators protective equipment while covering protests. The ordinance that you drafted seems to have a number of exceptions. So one of those including occupational safety. So would that mollify that particular group with that. I mean I would think if they could make the argument that they have occupational safety, that that would be an exemption allowing them to wear masks without.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026