Remarks by Carlos Roque
37 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I have a very quick one. There'll be 6.8.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I do have a couple questions. So up to now, how much money have we spent on this current project going forward? How much have we spent so far up to this point? on consulting. And I don't mind, I like the project. However, like I mentioned on my previous statement a while back, for me a priority is this is great. We have a sports park that I don't want to start another project, and we're not going to have the funding to finish it. We're going to have a lot of different scattered projects throughout the whole city, and none of them gets done. What are we looking to finalize? So the first phase…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And so my question is, how much money have we spent so far up to now on Volton?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So we're looking at about half a million dollars just to get the basic conceptual plan. Correct. Now, how long have we been working on this?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“How long have we been working on this project?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“We're looking at almost half a million dollars. Two years later, we're nowhere near finalizing.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And so pretty much what I'm getting at is we're almost two years, two and a half years later. And how long is it really going to take to even get the first face off the ground? When I feel, my opinion is half a million dollars. we could have adopted those half a million dollars into the sports park, additional parks that we have already started. For me, it's like, if this is my money, why am I spending all this extra money where we haven't even got off the ground? I think we should finish the projects that we have started, and then look into this. Me personally, like I mentioned on a previous…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Um, I mean, this is like I said, for me, just an opinion. I'm only one. I still believe we could use better tax dollars in finishing up projects that we're already currently working on. We have big issues coming up here, like I said before, on infrastructure or water, which is a big, and I just feel this is gonna take, we've been two and a half years now. By the time we get off the ground, what, another two, three years, maybe, if we're lucky, and then to finalize the project, how much is it gonna cost us to finalize the whole project? What are we looking at? What are those numbers? Phase one…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And moving forward, where all this additional funding is going to come from? General funds, CFDs, or I don't know, where are these additional, where are we going to get this additional funding from?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I really love that. Hopefully we do move forward and get this, you know, we're third time applying for it. And what has changed? What factors are going to change? Because I know they base it on certain, what's called scale, right? You have to figure out if you meet certain criteria. What do you think is going to make the difference this time versus the last two? What makes a stronger case now?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Do we have a slide of the first survey that went out from the RECS department that you guys submitted, and to see where that is?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So we're only banking right now on just grant funding to get this started. And if we don't have a plan B?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Do we have a plan B? I mean, if we don't get this grant funding, what's going to happen?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, that's the thing. We're going to keep looking and looking and fire, you know, two years, three years down the line. And it's like, I just.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. I have another question. You mentioned, all right, old Patterson. Yeah. What's old Patterson? We've got North Park, South Park. We've got Gaza Park. We've got different parks. I'm saying it's $5 to $7 million. I don't mind. But if you have the money, allocate them there, my opinion. Second thing is, you said, you just mentioned right now, you're looking at every avenue for funding. And I'm asking you, what's your plan B?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“You also mentioned direction from council. To my direction, last time I mentioned, I asked you if you could provide me the priorities on the last bond. What would be a priority for us as a council? I don't think, I don't know if anybody, this information was brought. What was your priority as a council from the previous bond that we were going to have a $5.8 million? Did you guys ever discuss this with Fernando? Because I sure didn't.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“That wasn't one of mine, because I made this a priority. It's like we need to see what's a priority as a council, and I have different things that I would like to move forward. Incorrect. Hold on, one more question, please. Could you finance, could you let us know how much money do we have in our general fund now?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So we have, just for me to understand, less than $1 million right now on general funds?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So we have less than $1 million, and yet we still want to dump money on this project. I wouldn't have other priorities myself. I just, sorry, I just wanted to get that information out there.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“One last one. I just want to say, Tiffany, I really appreciate all your hard work, and I'm sorry it's not me coming at you. It just, for me, is where's the money really going to come from? It's not that I don't want this project. It has nothing to do with that. I think it's a good project. It's just, for me, if we don't have the money, how are we going to build this project? And that's just what it comes down to, is I don't think good or bad, I'm just worried about the money. Where are we gonna get this money to? And I wanna identify what our community needs are versus the wants. That's the…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Absolutely. One other question is, how did this, how could this work? This is just me and my opinion, where we could somewhat table it and just move to finish what we have working on right now. And if we don't get the grant funding, right, we just table the project because we're going to be dumping money and more staff time, more money. What would be the best way to motion that?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I've got a question. Sorry. So what happens if just two, two, ones, we come up with an idea? It's like, oh, I think we could go this route. Could they come back again and change somewhere at the staff report? No.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“No, I agree with you. The only thing I would change is maybe when things come up like this, maybe we should be ahead of the game. I'm thinking you would have those two-to-ones before we get to this point and see what options we have before we're here at the dais and seeing what decision are we going to make. I personally feel like we would be at this point where we kind of want to proceed just because we don't lose those $500,000. But if we would have been informed before of all this, maybe have those two-to-ones, we shouldn't be asking, let's have those two-to-ones just to see we could fully…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I just want to say, compared to this litigation that we're settling now, it's way better than the one we had previous, an account, was it about two years ago, maybe a year ago? So it's a way better outcome than last time.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026