Remarks by Cesar Zepeda
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
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Thank you. Anyone else? Yes. Thank you for the presentation. Just a quick clarifying, I want to make sure that people understand. There's a difference between the poll that was done and the survey that was done. The survey did not necessarily give the data that was in there. Will you mind just clarifying that?
Yeah. Okay. Well, then. I'll read the motion that was .
So just adding on the charter. So the charter says that the mayor shall have the authority at any regularly scheduled meeting of the city council, which we are in to make appointments to, or remove us from all city boards, commissions and committees with the concurrence of at least three other members of the city council. So yes, the mayor does have that, but he does need the concurrence of three others. So, And then I just want to put out there for the record, I think everyone knows I am the one that's been more on the rules and charter. I wanted to be on the commission as well, but I…
Yes. Are we able to do a, I don't know if this requires closed session, but can we do a study session during the break? And that way, because we need to get the rules done. There's no three people that are going to vote on this way, so it's... Well concurrence according to our charter so maybe we just meet over and has this has work already started on this because I think there's already work been started on the updating of the rules maybe we could all just get feedback over email to miss christian and at the next council meeting we just I mean we're still going to have to hash it out here at…
It's just... Can we take... What if we take a test to see who knows the rules right now and whoever gets the highest score gets to be on it?
Thank you. Thank you for coming back and bringing this update. I'm just looking at the comparison between what the original draft and then what we would, it looks like what we would have to align with with the county. So our original draft says large retailers defined at 4,000 square feet and the county is 2,000 square feet. When we were presenting, I believe there was a list of potential retailers that will be impacted. What, because we're essentially halving it. So now that it's 2,000, what other retailers will be impacted? Do we know? Or how many more?
So 33. And are these, I mean, we don't have any grocery stores. So are they, these are mom and pop shop at the corner stores or?
Thank you. And then I want to make sure that I also understand the definition within the square footage is the whole store, even if Target, for example, they only have a little bit of a section of grocery. The rest of it is clothing or whatever else they sell. So we're still defining that even if it's only a small section of it. Thank you. And then a question in regards to the red dye. Proposition to include language to exempt food or reverges with red dye. I'm trying to remember, did we really say we want to exempt red dye or add red dye because red die is a bad thing so I don't know that we…
You're a speaker, right? All right. Go ahead. Hello again. We're not at midnight here almost. Thanks for being here again. Thank you for the presentation. In general, I think it's great to be able to have this. San Francisco has programs like this closing down the streets. They've been doing it for a long time. When this came forward, I was in support of it. I think in general it's good. But then looking at the cost, And I think if I remember correctly from last meeting, I think it was Council Member Brown who might have said, if I'm wrong, but 145,000, that is almost a full budget that we're…
Thank you. So you mentioned 2.6 miles or so. I'm trying to figure out what other streets we've closed that are that long of a route. That thing is just Cinco de Mayo and Juneteenth, right? For Cinco de Mayo, because I've helped set up the event in years past, We close it on Saturday because they're starting to prep because the event is fairly large. So we're already closing it on Saturday for the Sunday event. In years past, we used to do the parade on Saturday. So the streets will be closed. They would kind of start setting up some stuff and then kind of reopen temporarily for the parade to…
And you might. We're going to make it back in January.
Or next week. We can have a special meeting next week. Just kidding. I made a motion.
Just to confirm, is it coming back sometime early next year or with options and whatever now?
Yeah. I just want to make sure the time frame and what it is. Okay. Yes.
Yes. So this is for future. So in August, August 18 through August 21, we are going to be celebrating our 65th anniversary with our sister city, Shimada. They'll have a delegation visiting us. There'll be various events happening throughout that week. They'll be attending various meetings and occasions. But there will be some events open to the public. So if you want to come and meet, and celebrate with us our 65th anniversary. Please come and do so. It's going to be between August 18th and 21st. keep an eye out for the list of events.