Remarks by Christina Fugazi
341 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 10 of 14
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“Okay, so we're going to take a quick break. It is 3.49. Please be back by 4.10. 4.10. Is that okay with everybody? 4.10. Okay, we will now bring our meeting back to order. Apologies, it's 4.14. The next item on the agenda, 10.1, is San Joaquin Regional Transit District Update. I know we received something like right before the meeting.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, so I know we have a meeting on July, I wanna say 21st, and then we have August 18th, and then September, first or second I mean I'm just throwing out all of our council dates so if there's one that he feels can fit would love to have him come or somebody from RTD come and do a presentation I know he has a I don't know if it's an interim or a permanent CFO because they presented to cog I know Two of my colleagues were at COG when they both presented, and if we could have them come, that would be fabulous.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. Oh, there's a question. Florence. What's up? Oh.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, understood. Okay, moving on then to item 10.2, community development department development process overview and process enhancements. Looking forward to it.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah, the item is continued to a date not certain.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Depending on the application type the municipal code dictates the level of approval that is required for a project Once an approval occurs a 10-day appeal period starts and once that appeal period is exhausted the permit is then issued Okay, so before you go to the next slide so that process How what is the average time for that for that process to go from application submittal to the 10-day appeal”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“okay so on this part I think this is something you know most of us have heard about and I know you go into more detail on that review do you have are you fully staffed right now”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“So I'm just thinking, you know, for continuity, I know oftentimes people have said it's almost like the goal line keeps moving or it's. abc you fix abc but somebody else then gets their hands on it and they want xyz so if you're fully staffed and if it's if if it's the ability is there to have one person try to you know see a project all the way through and i know you guys do a great job of anybody that wants to do something getting all the people around the table you know from fire prevention from building you know engineers all that kind of stuff from the city's point of view but you know…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“I think specifically about opportunity zones and the fact that Stockton had this designation, we're applying again for that designation, and what I've been told by investors is they need things to move quicker Because they have to get their money their investment in Within 60 days now. I'm not saying we're doing it outside or inside of that I'm just saying those are the concerns that I get from people who want to come into this city and do business Understood.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Now, I know there's more slides. AI, is there opportunities for, I mean, you still need humans, of course, to assist with this, but are they able to do like a quick, you know, to make sure all the documents are there, to look at some of the less, Well, I shouldn't say less important. Everything's important. But I think you understand what I'm saying. Are they able to go through some of the nuances that are tedious but still need to get done?”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“I would think maybe we could be like kind of a guinea pig on a project or two and we get the software for free. I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there as a possibility for us to help them figure out the kinks and we get something in return for that.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Any other questions from Council Informational, thank you so much.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, thank you moving on to item 10.3 submittal of the Stockton Opportunity Zones 2.0 prioritization list through the California State Governor Good afternoon mayor and council Jordan Peterson economic development department”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Jordan, we have some questions. Go ahead, Vice Mayor.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“on that lot there or, you know, something going on at the church there. And then there's another area that I thought the University of the Pacific owns. But that's what I'm thinking of, those two huge fields.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Any questions before we go to public comment? Do you have a question? Okay, public comment. Mary Elizabeth, please.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“We have a motion and a second by three people. Can we do roll call?”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. moving on to the next item 10.4 discussion on council initiated investigations and associated costs I know at our April 28th meeting I had requested that we get whatever information we have for the conclusion of the you know the fiscal year And I know that we got the grand jury report. And I think the audit committee also had a report done that was given to them, but it wasn't given to the full council. And so I wanted to know where we're at with the council-initiated investigations. If they've been concluded, if there's still an outlying, is there a cost? I know that there…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, so I had an opportunity just to briefly look at the full report that was 3,485 pages. I know that it will have to be up to this council whether or not they want to waive privilege. I know we did that for the previous one. It will be the decision of this council. I always recommend people actually look at those They necessarily waive privilege, but I think we've kind of set a precedent for that. Whether or not this council wants to stay in that same vein is up to them. But is that something people want? I mean, do people want a – oh, sorry, Vice Mayor. Stop.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“And I would agree with that as well. Councilwoman Padilla.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“So would that mean then Taryn, because Taryn was part of that, would Taryn be able to disseminate the findings in that investigation? okay okay um so is that a motion or no yeah i make a motion can we do that and because it's not agendized we have to agendize it yeah”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Second. Yes, everybody. Yeah, we don't even have to do a roll call. We've got two. So we're good. And I would have put it on that.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Well, we're doing them one at a time. So we just did the executive summary confidential investigation for OPTIC that was initiated by the audit committee.”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay. Do you have another comment on that item?”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026
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“I have not been able to get my hands on the full report because obviously there would be a lot of redaction to that. I have made a request for it. I don't know if anybody else up here on council has made a request to get that full report. But I will tell you that... as soon as i got it i started going through it and as you know yeah i have yellow i have red i have blue i have all kinds of colors in here and i will tell you because of the scrutiny of the 23-24 grand jury report. I made a commitment that I was gonna go through this line by line, item by item, recommendation by recommendation,…”
City Council and Authorities · Jul 7, 2026