Remarks by Carol Marques
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Yes, just a very short one. Santa Clara County Habitat Agency met with their implementation and their governing boards. It was a very short meeting for my last one. And all they did was approve the two consent calendars and just go over a fiscal report. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yes. For the public's sake, you left out one really important part, I thought, of your report. So I'm going to use it. I'm going to ask it in the form of a question so you can answer it. Can any flag fly up there?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Explain to the public. I think that's very important for them to know.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Correct. And can the council ever deny a flag?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Maybe I misread it, but I thought your report said first come, first serve as long as the council approved it. Wasn't that in the report? Whichever hour.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Marjo, this was before your time, but do you, when you were looking at the records, do you remember how much the city of Gilroy paid to purchase the land that we had to mitigate?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Because, see, that is also part of the city's expenses in this. And I was just wondering if the cost, I don't remember what that cost was. It was probably around 2020 or 2021.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right. So then totaling everything up, we're about $2.5 million into this project just out of our funds.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right. First off, I want to say I'm with all of you people. I do not want an ICE detention center here at all, city limits, outside. But I was very concerned today when I spoke to the mayor because I didn't want any of you walking away with false hope because when I had read the staff report, when I had been Listening to other reports. It sounded like we didn't have a leg to stand on we got to get to a question I'm so sorry.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah, will you come back to me in the comment period of course?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right, Andy, this is for you. So let's say that ICE comes in without our knowledge and they open up a facility. We find out about it and we decide to file a suit. Would ICE be paused right there and then, knowing that it could go into a lawsuit and they would have to give up that location while the court case was going? Does that make sense?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“You waited too long. I forgot what I was going to say.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I was. I was talking to the crowd. It's coming back to me a little bit. I'm glad I heard all the clarification from our city attorney because I didn't want any of you coming out tonight thinking that, you know, If we voted against the moratorium, that we were against you or not. I didn't want anyone walking away with false hope that we could actually do something about it. And then when I started talking to the city attorney before the meeting, he was giving me hope that, yes, there are things that we can do. Maybe ultimately in the end it won't work out. But we could be that little pebble…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right. This is just a clarification. County, you said, was going to cost per year $23 million, correct? Correct. Who pays, or let me ask you this, does the city of Gilroy pay that $23 million to county?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“All right, so that's what I thought. I wanted a clarification for the public because If we're only investing $16.8 million, my question would be why would we want to invest more to another agency when we could be putting it into ourselves? But I think I know why. Because it's better benefits for the firefighters going with county. So that's something that needs to be talked about in deliberation. Also, how many calls are relegated to the homeless in that 5,000 number that you gave us?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“MS. All right, because that's important to know, too, if it's something in management that we can do to lessen the number. All right, thank you. MR.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yes, I have a few comments. Council Member Hilton, you talked about workers coming to Gilroy to a healthy place to work. However, the county isn't going to remodel our stations. City of Gilroy will, and we would have to absorb that cost.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, you're talking about, well, then you explain, what do you mean by coming to work in a healthy place? What does that mean to you? Because to me, it means coming to a station that's remodeled and, you know.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“And they're not probably going to because that's going to cost a lot of money because we've already heard the county is not going to pay for that.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“What I'm saying is don't mislead the people in thinking that if we go to county, all of a sudden.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Both. They're not going to pay for the remodeling.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“They're supposed to be responsible. That doesn't mean it's actually going to happen.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, let's move on because I don't believe that. I can't wait. Okay, and then we talked about, okay, you said earlier that When we talked about this a year or two ago, we were going to focus on looking at these models. Focusing and adopting it are two different things. To me, when we focus on something, we are learning about it. And what I'm hearing today does not make me want to jump at all because I've got a lot of questions that I don't think we're going to come out on the better end of this. This needs to be studied very carefully. You know, especially who is taking on the financial…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yes, my final comment is I don't think we're ready to make this decision now without a lot more studying and a lot more facts. For me to agree to this, I want to see the dollar and cents. And I also have problems with giving up local control because once you give it up, you don't get it back. And those are just my thoughts.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“JOHN, JUST REAL QUICK, WHERE ARE THE CHARGING STATIONS AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY GOING TO BE PUT IN?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026