Remarks by Christina Fugazi
341 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 14
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“Because we do get a number of applications for those positions. And last I heard, we were fully staffed with our code enforcement. That's what Omarosa told me, that they were fully staffed, which was a good thing, but maybe it's not enough. Who knows? But anyway, I digress. Continue.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Chief, I think I brought up during budget how nice it would be just to have somebody designated, and maybe Eric can be that person to do it all for you. I don't know, just throwing it out there. He might not be interested, but it seems like he knows his stuff.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“well I just fortunately you have Commissioner Sherman here and I think she's heard you loud and clear and needs to make sure working with the city clerk's office about scheduling those special meetings so that we get people you know hired and on their way to working for the city of Stockton they've been amazing by the way where they have reconvened for special meeting and they're responsive and it's been working I heard they they don't have any problems with quorum either yeah”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“No, no, thank you. And it sounds like Eric is somebody we should really look into for this so we can get the ball rolling. And Padilla had her, so I'll come to Vice Mayor after Councilman Padilla.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“I was going to say, we do have more slides in some of them. Oh, Chief Carr wants to be called up.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“OK. Eric, you can continue. Are you still? Or who's up next?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Are there any questions? This is an informational item, so we're not voting on anything. Okay, thank you so much. With that, I would like to take, if possible, a 16-minute break, having us come back at 4.30. Okay, so 4.30, come back. Are we good, Gabriel? Okay, let's call the meeting back to order. We are moving on to item 10.3, a presentation from Restore the Delta, Restoring Mormon Slough, a Community-Led Economic Development and Green Space Revival.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Okay. Oh, we have public comment. Go ahead with the public comment.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Thank you. So I just want to say back after I got elected in 2015-16 when Kurt Wilson was the city manager, I had talked to him specifically about Mormon slough and I had said, hey, what's prohibiting us from allowing water to flow back down the slew and he says, oh, can't do that. There's an agreement with DWR and they'll never have water in again. And I was like, wow, you know, that's sad because everything, you know, kind of comes full circle. and we should be doing habitat restoration. It's something I did with my students. We put the elderberry bush back in, so then we would have a…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Yeah, because you know we're talking well actually it's the it's for peace of public private philanthropic partnership, so it's there's for peace and all those people have to be peas in a pod working together moving in the same direction and if we leave. If we leave anybody out, we don't want to face objection on things of this nature, because to go all the way through the process and then have people say, nope, I don't want it done. I don't know what that would mean for a project as magnanimous as this. Because it's not just a little, it's that whole slew needs attention. And if you just do…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“And I'll just add, you know, there's other work that's happening that will be in tandem to both of your districts because you have the Stockton Diamond Project that's going to have a flyover that will also be creating issues in the SLU. They want to, of course, work with others, too. They already have... terms of what it would be like they work with Paul Schneider who was here last week with Siegfried and associates so they've done a number of community meetings on that project but just so that we're clear would we have to have a or the people that own these properties or parcels would they…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Yes, hello, Mark Thomas has a lot of business in this area, I would say, between COG, rail, us, so happy to have you.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Okay, before you go to the next slide, got a question. What we have found, and I'm wondering if you have, is that we have residential, we have mixed use, with commercial on the bottom and residential on top. That's within this footprint. So you have the Medici building, you have Grandview, ours is just outside of it, but We have people who are some, well, I'd like to say like landlocked from getting to a grocery store. They're gonna have to use one of these modes of transportation in order to get to, well, they're gonna have to use RTD to get to a grocery store or they have to have their own…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Because we have a number of vacant buildings that are within this footprint as well. And when you have vacant buildings, you have people that maybe won't come downtown, then they can't support the businesses that are downtown in that area. working smarter, not harder, and you say, oh, what do you do? Do you build the workforce and then ask an employer to come, or do you find the employer and then build their workforce? So that's kind of what I feel like here, where we've created spaces, but then nobody will use the space. So, Jordan, go ahead.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Yeah. And I think outside of CMC, where would people go to like a drugstore? I mean, there's nothing there. You'd have to go to CMC and that's not always convenient for people. So, OK, thank you. Not a problem.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“And one more quick question. Was parking at all discussed during any of this? Because since we're talking about transportation, if you've ever tried to find a parking place downtown and the parking garages are full, because they've diverted all juries”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Any questions from Council? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“We have a motion and a second. Council, please vote. Thank you. 7-0, it passes. Relatively painless, right? Okay, moving on to item 10.5, a resolution ratifying the local emergency proclamation due to the golden muscle infestation.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Yes, and I'd like to say this is our first time. I'm thinking of mitten crabs.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Remember mitten crabs, the hyacinth, nutria, and now we have this golden mussel. It's like we get a new invasive species every couple of years that falls upon the city of Stockton.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Yes, and I know that there's a grant because Supervisor Gardea called me and said they did their state of emergency and then time ran out to get the grant. So I know I talked to City Manager Ford and said make sure we have that and that we are on the timeline to get that funding so we can try to eradicate as much as we can to keep that flow. Okay, so there's no public comment. Oh. One final question.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“I was joking because when they have their offspring and you can't even see it with the eye, but you Let's say you swallowed some water. Is it going to be in your stomach or whatnot? And we're talking about muscles, but not that kind of muscle.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“Not that we're drinking that water. Vice Mayor.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“I wasn't sure if you were going to say you were sending divers, but I thought you got rid of your diving equipment.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“So we have a motion and a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries 7-0. Moving on to item 10.6, receive a presentation on Rosenberg's Rules of Order.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026