Remarks by Christi Fraga
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“Okay. And now I need a motion to appoint Deputy City Manager Frank Rios as our interim city manager. Motion. Effective January 1st through when we have a city manager. Okay, motion to approve by Councilwoman Reynoso, seconded by Councilwoman Cabral. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“I'm asking for a moratorium to be placed on council-initiated events. I'd like to review the policy with the administration. So basically the direction to staff would be that no more council-initiated events be scheduled, neither in this building or in any building that go through this policy or that would go through a SCADA, for example, in this building.”
“Anything past December 31st has to be put on hold at this time.”
“Everything has to be put on hold at this time.”
“Well, I haven't seen anything advertised, so there's nothing that should be affected at this point. The decision would be to make it effective January 1st, so anything through December 31st would take place. Anything after that would be on a moratorium until further notice.”
“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. I need a second. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
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“So, yeah. Are you seconding the motion? Yeah. Okay. It's in the charter. Great. All right. We have a motion and a second by Councilman Cabral. Any other comments, questions? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Yes. Vice Mayor Porras? Yes. Mayor Fraga? Yes.”
“Okay, Councilman Pinero, this is also your item.”
“Thank you, Councilman Pinero. Any questions, comments for the mayor? I have a couple.”
“So I have a couple of things that I'm going to actually update on this policy or recommend on this policy as well. I have no problem with when it was originally this way before it was changed so that the mayor didn't have the authority to approve or deny the certificates. I never denied a certificate. I would not deny the signature of a council member that was requesting it. So I have no problem striking through on that. So if you're okay with that, Councilman, I have no problem striking it through. I would not deny a signature of a requesting council member. I've never denied, and maybe…”
“It would have both signatures on the certificates, which you see it's customary in the county. I have no problem with that. So thank you, Councilman.”
“So we can strike through subject to the mayor's discretion. Certificates may also include the signature of the requesting council member. Or if you want, we could just strike through, sorry, subject to the mayor's description and leave certificates shall include the name and signature of the requesting council member to be placed in addition to the mayor's. That's better.”
“Thank you that's all thank you. Okay, I do have a couple comments just technical under proclamations there should be the word the before mayor. And then I'd also like to strike through. At the end of the first paragraph. where it says, and only the mayor will have the authority to present. There's a lot of times that proclamations are requested from organizations that someone is affiliated with. So if like Councilman Pinedo, if you ask for a proclamation that's approved through my office, I'd like for you to go give it. So I think that that should not be just the mayor. If anybody's…”
“Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second second second by Councilman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Oh, I'm sorry. I have one more amendment I forgot to add. I would request that under policy and procedure that not only requested through my office or the mayor's office, I should say, but also copy the city clerk's office for purposes of record keeping. So please add to also copy the clerk's office. for purposes of record keeping.”
“Councilman Pinedo, this is also your item, I believe.”
“Thank you, Councilman Pinedo. I appreciate it. Any comments, questions? Concerns? I have a question.”
“So I actually wanted to make a comment about this. We've had space planning on the table for the third floor for years, since I was a councilwoman. we had space planning discussions on the third floor. So what I wanted to request of Councilman Pinedo in this item is that allow me to work with the administration that comes in next and actually with the current administration too, but this will take some time to bring back a plan for third floor space planning so we can have a final say and then build out the spaces for the legislative analysts, every section that we've talked about for years…”
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“Okay, good. Also to do the offices for the legislative aides.”
“Okay, motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Did you get that part, Madam Clerk?”
“Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Madam Clerk, please call over.”
“All right, I don't have a report except to say congratulations to my colleagues. I'm excited for these next four years and all the great things that we will do. I wanted to thank everybody for coming last night to our swearing-in in State of the City. It was an absolutely beautiful event. public affairs, thank you to IT, thank you to police, thank you to the city manager's office, everyone who really made it such a spectacular event. I think everybody really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Councilman Reynoso's speech. You did a great job. And Councilman Pinedo's speech. You guys did wonderful.…”