Remarks by Brett Taylor
242 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 10
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“Good afternoon and welcome to the Visayas City Council work session. We're going to go ahead and have our roll call. Council Member Nelson is out today and then I think we are expecting Council Member Soto to be here shortly. We are going to start this meeting by actually having a special presentation. So can we have our speaker come forward please?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Tracy, we are very excited for you. You've done a great job. I've known you for a long time. We've gotten to work on a lot of projects. I was writing some of them down. Sign ordinance, shopping cart, sweep, mobile vendor. You're the walking encyclopedia. Anytime I call you, you immediately know it. You don't have to go check. And honestly, I was kind of loving the fact that you were getting a little flustered over there i've never seen you like that i mean you deal with some pretty tense situations and i've never seen you turn red before um and as a councilman was saying uh typically when…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anybody else wishing to speak who's in the room? Do we have anyone online or on the phone? All right, then we will go ahead and close public comments and we will now turn our time over to the work session and action items and we'll start off with item number one, which is a park and recreation master plan presentation.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council Member Pachigian, any questions or comments?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“GREG BRUDNICKI. Council Member Rosado, any questions or comments?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you very much for the report. For community, a few months ago we were looking at potentially putting in a sales tax or a bond measure or do some type of park funding mechanism. And, you know, we kind of put the brakes on it because we didn't see this data yet. And so this is going to help us plan for the future. It's going to help us plan for our new east side regional park. And then also the other parks are, you know, we're going to be building. We have been a little slow on building parks in the city of Issa over the last decade or so. And we definitely need to step that up. And…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I second. We have first and second. All those in favor of accepting the report, please vote yes. And item passes 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. All right, so we're going to go ahead and adjourn right now. And we welcome everyone to come back to our regular scheduled session at 7 PM. And we will go ahead and adjourn. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Visayas City Council meeting. We're going to go ahead and get started. We'll start off with a Pledge of Allegiance led by Council Member Soto, and then we will please remain standing. We'll have an invocation led by Pastor…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much for that opening prayer. Now we're going to go on to public comments. Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visayas City Council and items listed on the closed session agenda. The council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive. Creative criticism presented with appropriate courtesy is welcome. The city does not tolerate disruptive behavior in our meetings. The council meetings are considered a limited public forum, which means the council can regulate the time, place, and manner of speech. Speakers' comment during…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, seeing no one else, do we have anyone online who wishes to speak? Okay, then we'll go ahead and close public comments. Does the council have any items of interest? I have one item I'd like to propose. I've had two churches reach out to me about temporary parking. and they've asked that we put this on a future council agenda item, so if you guys would be okay with that, I would like to approve having the discussion of temporary parking on a future agenda. Okay, perfect. We'll go on to the consent calendar. Council Member Soto, do you have any items you'd like to pull from the consent…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We have first and second. All those in favor, please vote. And the consent calendar item passed 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Now we're going to go on to regular items in public hearing. And item number one is a proposed elimination of a transit fixed route 17. Staff report, please.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Do you guys have any questions or you want to hear from the public first?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Any other questions from council? Okay, let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Oh, I'm sorry. Councilor, so did you have a question? Route 15.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Perfect. Any other questions? Okay. Let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Anybody from the public wishing to speak on this item, please come forward and state your name and city of residence.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anybody else wishing to speak? Okay, seeing none. Anyone online wanting to speak? Perfect. So we'll go ahead and close public comments and turn it back over to staff. So they're asking about ridership. If I remember correctly, there was on average one rider every three hours on this route?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I mean, it's just not being used. And then I believe there was two questions. One, if we could talk a little bit more about micro transit. And the other question is, where does this route specifically serve?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And so we were spending $800,000 to give one person a ride every three hours?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. All right. Any other questions or comments from council?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Any other questions? Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the fact that we originally opened this route up because in theory, we have an industrial park that's growing. There's thousands and thousands of people that are working out there. And so in theory, you would think people would be using it. So if they're not, let's not waste our money and let's give people what they actually want and not try to just spend our money. So I appreciate you guys reviewing all the different routes, making sure that they're worth our time, and then also providing great products like the Micro Transit that are a little…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All those in favor, please vote. Item passed is 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council. All right, next we're going to go on to item number two, which is a 2025 public hearing and CAPR approval. Staff report, please. Your microphone's not working.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, any questions for Margie at this time?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I had a question. On a few of these, did they use the full amount of funds that we allotted them, like the mobile home repair programs? Was that the total amount? I thought it was higher.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. How much is being rolled over for the 2026 project?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, very good, thank you. Any other questions for staff? Thank you very much for your report. Let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on this item, please come forward and state your name and city residence. Okay, and seeing no one, anyone online? Nope, we will close public comments and I'll entertain a motion.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We'll have first and second. All those in favor, please vote. Item passes 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Thank you, Margie, for the report. Next, we're going to item number three, which I believe you're also doing, which is a pro-housing public hearing.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026