Remarks by Claire Carmelia
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Thank you. Other questions? Councillor Eiland?
So, yeah. Thank you. All right. For those, we'll go around one more time. And those who haven't spoke, I'll hit first. Councillor Brawhouse.
Okay. All right. We'll do a quick poll. Yes.
It is a good point, but I support as well. So you've got 6-1. Great, thank you. And then, Councillor Johnson, did you have one more or do you have several more? Just so we can identify. I have several more, but I think a very similar one is N-N. Okay. And just so we all know where we're headed here, how many others are we going to take a look at?
So I think I'm proposing a different way to do this.
I don't think we have the time or energy to look at all of these. Traditionally, the city takes a look at the measures affecting us locally. We don't take a look, but since we wanted to, to be fair, the state has more measures on the ballot than I think they've ever had. And so I did want to address any immediate concerns you had. I'm open to looking at the two that you mentioned. Otherwise, do we have a proposal from staff?
I appreciate that thought. I'll make two quick points. So thank you, Councillor Azadi. I was thinking of something similar. If Council feels strongly enough to take a position on these, then I think that it can be done via email from staff in such a way that doesn't involve us all, right? Don't reply all. I do also want to note that this is not traditionally what we do. And so if we want to do this, we can take a new direction and we can say that we're taking a position on all of these items. I don't think that residents are looking to us to do that. And so if we want to do that, I think that…
Okay. Just to make it clear then, oh, Mayor Pertem, you've got one more point. I'll just add one more note before we go on with this discussion. The ask that I'm overwhelmingly hearing, and I do hear it, I just want to be clear that staff is on board and council's on board with the ask too, is that we're asking staff to do some more hours of work to provide some guidance or at least the impact municipally that it would have on our city for each of these ballot measures. And I want to be sure that council is okay with that ask and those hours.
Thank you. Okay, quick poll here. I'm gonna, in that case, we're gonna leave an end to the emails just with everything else so we can get through the agenda. That means that we will take a position on that and all the others requested. Quick poll, are we okay with this, Councillor? Yes.
Take a poll on all of them? Even if we haven't read them all yet? Councillor Johnson, do you want to reiterate your question one more time? That is a good clarifying. Are we only doing the ones that you've listed or are we doing all of them? And at this point, I would recommend we do all of them so we don't leave other councillors out if they suddenly want to come up with one. Feel free to.
Excellent. Thank you for that recap. Councillor Azadi.
We make modifications. Okay. Councillor Ireland, does that improve the time? I have a lot on my plate, Samara. Understood. Yes.
Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you all. We appreciate you. Have a great night. Thank you.
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Thank you. I just want to acknowledge that that was quite thorough and quite in-depth, and we appreciate all the details and the specifics.
Thank you. Okay, Councilor Barajas, and then we'll go around.
Thank you. Yes, thank you so much. We're gonna do a quick time check here in just a second. Has anyone who's not spoken want to go? Mayor Patel, I don't think you've spoken.
Okay. Thank you so much. With that, let's do a quick poll to continue this discussion this evening as it's 1030.
Yes. Yes. Excellent, okay, thank you so much. With that, we will continue. All right, I'll share my thoughts and then we'll go back around for further questions and comments and hopefully get to the questions that Councilor Zahle would like to ask. This is such an interesting topic and difficult topic because my job is to support the city and the citizens and it's to support you. And... you did give specific examples of how this has helped us, both the residents, get clarity on crimes and help you and the agency resolve cases. And so I'm sorry, I'll just say publicly, I'm sorry if it appears…
Thank you. Okay, with that, we'll go back to you, Councillor Izadi. You had some follow-up.
Thank you, Councillor. All right, I don't see any opposition. So we're just gonna go ahead and as you recommended, go through each ask and see where we stand on them.
Is there any questions or comments before we take a poll?
And then I want to clarify on this one as well, remove data. I'm not sure that that would be possible or, I mean, I believe our local data retention is 30 days anyway, so I don't think it would be.
Well, I was, when I got to my vote, I was gonna say I agree with this except for the parking.
And I apologize. My understanding is that these are all polls, right? And that we're asking to have this brought back to us to decide on the dais.