Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“All right, we're opening the public comments portion at this time for this item. Item 25-6013. Anyone would like to speak, please approach the podium regarding this item and this item alone. I have no comment cards, being none. Public comments is now closed. Madam Clerk, let the record reflect. No one has chosen to speak at this time. And I will now turn it over to the city manager's office. Wembley Finance and our assistant city manager have a presentation.”
“Thank you very much. All right, this is the second reading of the budget amendment. If there's no questions, we need a motion to approve.”
“We have a motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo on the floor. Is there a second? I have some questions. You'll have an opportunity. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso and I believe Vice Mayor Forrest has a question.”
“They will be reporting to the chief of staff of the mayor's office, but they work with mayor and council to handle constituent services.”
“The job description in the first paragraph, the last line says, this position reports to the chief of staff of the mayor.”
“I believe you would like to discuss these items when we come up with the positions. Right now we're discussing the budget amendment where there's no allocation of specific funds for positions like the Sergeant at Arms. Those are not positions that are requiring additional funding. Some of these are reallocations or classifications. So I think your questions are more appropriate for the actual positions that are being allocated. requested, not for the actual budget portion of the meeting. So if that concludes your questions, we'll go ahead and call the roll.”
“I think that if there's any questions, I believe maybe Vice Mayor Porras would have a question or anybody else since the floor is open.”
“Okay, that's it. All right, thank you very much. So just for clarification's sake, the positions that have been added, because I believe there was a correction to the memo, it's not an additional four-person headcount, it's actually two positions that are being added”
“Correct. So just for clarification, there is two new rules that are being added to our positions available within the city. One of them is a position that's just being retitled, but actually already existed and was part of the headcount, the original headcount. So I don't believe there's any other Anything else that needs to be addressed, the positions that are being created so that they're available, is for constituent services. So basically in an effort to meet our commitment to increase constituent requests and services to the public, that's what these positions are here to do. And they're…”
“Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“All right. Thank you very much. If there's nothing else at this time, then I need a motion to adjourn.”
“Motion to adjourn by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso. All in favor say aye. Aye. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much.”
“Council meeting for January. Today is the 15th of January and it is now 10.08 a.m. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilwoman Nicole Reynoso.”
“Okay, before we rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, I need a motion to excuse Councilwoman Cabral's absence. She had a medical... SITUATION WHICH I BELIEVE HAS BEEN CIRCULATED. MOTION. I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY VICE MAYOR PORRAS. IS THERE A SECOND?”
“MOTION PASSES. PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF”
“Thank you. We had an invocation today by Father Israel Mago, but I don't see him present. So I've asked Councilman Pinedo to please lead us in the invocation. If you could please bow your heads. And as we do this, I would ask that we please think and pray for those in L.A. with the wildfires and also praying for the people in Venezuela and everything that's happened this past two weeks.”
“Amen. Thank you, Councilman. Okay, we now have our agenda order of business. Go ahead and start with the city manager's office.”
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“Anything else, Vice Mayor? Okay. Councilwoman Reynoso, do you have any items to pull? No items, Mayor. Okay, thank you very much. And Councilwoman Cabral is not here.”
“All right, I have nothing to pull as well. All right, we will now move into the public comments portion of this meeting. The public comments portion is now open. You will have three minutes to speak to this council. Please approach the podium, say your name and address for the record, speak in a respectful manner, and anything that is on this agenda or germane to this council. I do not have any comment cards at this time, so if there's anyone in the audience that would like to speak, this would be your reasonable opportunity. Okay, being none, public comments is now closed, and I need a…”
“All right, and we'll hear 6C after our discussion items, correct? Correct. Okay, I need a motion.”
“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinero. Need a second.”
“Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, I'll show the consensus agenda approved unanimously. We will now. Section 7, approval of the minutes. Yes, approval of the minutes. I need a motion on the minutes.”
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