Remarks by Brett Taylor
242 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
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“Thank you very much for your report. Council Member Pachigian, any questions or comments?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I just want to say thank you for the report. It's nice, you know, as everyone knows, we are in a housing crisis here in California. We're not producing enough housing for our people that live here, for the kids that are being born. And it was nice to get a phone call a few weeks ago from Cal City saying that we were the second best community in the state at producing enough housing for all of our of all of our kids, that we actually have a housing element that requires that we have the potential to build enough housing for the children that are born, for the people that live in our…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anybody else wishing to speak? Okay, if you guys could fix that on the website and make sure it's readable for our community, we'd definitely appreciate that. All right, any other comments from council? Or I'm sorry, anyone from online wishing to speak? Okay, wonderful. Let's go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to council. Anyone from council have any questions, comments, or a motion? No motions required, perfect. All right, well, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Next, we're going to go on to item number four, which is the urgency ordinance. And this one, we're going to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And how many times can we redo the moratorium?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much for that report. Council Member Soto, do you have any questions at this time?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Perfect. I just had one question. We met with some folks who are proposing the one at the fairgrounds in Tulare. And they kind of told us about what theirs is, and they're saying it's different from a data center There's data centers that are, you know, hundreds of thousands or millions of square feet, and then there's some that are smaller, you know, C-train or portable, movable. But an equipment building, let's say the hospital or the sheriff's 911 operating center or our 911 operating center, if we needed to put in, like, an equipment building with all the servers and everything in there,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Wonderful, yeah, we wanna make sure we're not, prohibiting those uses from our hospitals and police and fire and everyone else. Okay, so let's go ahead and let's open this up to the public. You can come up to the podium and speak. We don't take questions from the audience. Ma'am you can come up to the podium we're opening up public comments at this time.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Seeing no one else, is there anyone online wishing to speak?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Do we have anyone online who is wishing to speak at this time? We've already gone past more than our 15 minutes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, we're going to go ahead and close public comments, and I'll turn it back over to Council.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll turn it back over to Council with any further comments.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We have first and second. All those in favor, please vote. Item passed is 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Thank you very much. Next, we're going to item number five, which is a public hearing on development of the five-year PLHA plan. Staff report, please.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So Margie, I did have one question. So these are obviously organizations that we've been supporting in the past. But in the survey, in the top categories was senior housing. Were there any options for senior housing to be able to assist with senior housing?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So how did they end up on this list. Did they request to receive these fundings. Did you assign them on there. I mean how did we end up with the three navigation center emergency shelter in the house.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So the only way that they'd be able to receive funds from us would be through the PLHA? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, wonderful. All right, let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on this item, come forward and state your name and city residence. Seeing no one, we'll go ahead and close. Actually, anyone online who wants to speak on this item?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. We'll go ahead and close public comments and we'll turn it back over to council with any further questions, comments, or a motion.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Go ahead, first and second. All those in favor, please vote. Item passed is 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Thank you very much, Marjorie. Appreciate it. Any closed session report items? Nothing to report this evening. Wonderful. We're going to go ahead and adjourn, and we welcome everyone to come back at our next meeting, which will be Monday, September 21st, 2026 at 7 p.m.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Visayas City Council work session. We're going to go ahead and get started. We will start off with citizens' comments. So 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. This council meeting is considered a limited public forum, which means the council can…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Council Member Nelson, we'll start off with you with any questions or comments. I'll wait for public comment. Okay. Council Member Poochigan? I'll wait. Everyone okay with just waiting? I'll wait, yeah. Okay, perfect. Let's do that. So let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Anybody who is present in this room who would like to speak on this item, please come forward and speak at this podium over here. I'm going to start with your name and city of residence.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, so all your questions, we'll go ahead and get those answered when everyone's done with public comments. But, Jeremy, real quick, so are you saying specifically, like, you know, you had the wrestling event last year that I attended. Are you saying, like, would you need a specific one for that, or would all of them fall under one?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Anybody else from the public wishing to speak? Okay, seeing no one going up there. City Clerk, do we have anyone online who wishes to speak?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, so we'll go ahead and close public comment then and we will turn it back over to council. Actually, before we start with our comments, there was a few questions. Would you guys mind answering those questions for us?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“We'll turn it back over to council for further questions. Great, thank you so much. So we'll start off with Council Member Nelson.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I wanna thank the staff, our local businesses, Planning Commission, for all those who helped put this ordinance together. We appreciate it, because we've heard from our community that we wanna make sure we're protecting our downtown, that we're keeping it safe. And when we were first having these initial discussions, it was hard to create policies that were lumping nightclubs with someone who was just playing a violin. And so the way that you guys were able to put this policy together really shows you put a lot of effort into thinking about all the different possibilities. And I know…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026