Remarks by Dan Arriola
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“Second. We have a first and a second. Roll call, please.”
“Yes. Madam Clerk, will you please read the title of the proposed ordinance?”
“Yes. All right, and thank you to Police Department. We look forward to enforcement at the Cemetery District. That brings us to regular agenda items, and we have item 6A, which is related to flock cameras. Staff report, please.”
“Thank you. With that, we'll go ahead and open the public hearing at 9, 12 p.m., and I just want to go ahead and start really quickly. Just given concerns we've heard related to data collection and retention, data sharing, surveillance concerns, confidentiality, can you give us a little more detail on what the city and or flock is doing to prevent misuse of automated license plate reader systems and data?”
“All right. Council, do you have any additional preliminary questions? Seeing none. With that, will there be any public comment related to item 6A? Seeing none. Chambers, do we have any online?”
“All right. With that, we'll go ahead and close out public comment related to item 6A. Return to council for discussion or motion.”
“Thank you, Council Member Nygaard. Any additional discussion? Just briefly, I just want to thank Chief Millington because flock cameras were utilized to locate my stolen vehicle a few months ago outside of the city of Tracy. But I've seen it firsthand how effective this can be. So thank you, Chief, and thank you to your team for the incredible work. With that, I'll entertain a motion.”
“We have a first and a second with Councilmember Nygaard. Roll call, please.”
“Yes. All right. Thank you to Tracy Police Department. We look forward to stronger enforcement. That brings us to item 6B, related to short-term rental regulations. Staff report, please.”
“Thank you. I just have a quick question regarding slide 17 about requiring the primary residents to maintain the housing market. Can you provide a little more detail on what that framework would look like?”
“Okay. And then are there abilities to restrict on who could enter the market? For example, are there ways to permissibly allow... small local folks from doing it, but prevent out-of-state corporations from doing it, et cetera, or no?”
“And then with regards to the 88 that are operating illegally currently, Are they geographically distributed in certain areas? Are they throughout the city? What does that look like?”
“Understood. Thank you. Council, do you have any other preliminary questions? Council Member Nygaard.”
“With that, we'll go out for public comment. Would any members of the public like to speak on item 6B? Seeing none in chambers, do we have any online?”
“Okay. With that, we'll go ahead and close the public comment portion for item 6B. I believe we're just trying to build. We have four options. We're just looking to build some type of consensus. Who'd like to start?”
“THANK YOU. I'M GOOD WITH OPTION 4. OKAY. AS FOR MY COMMENT, I THINK INITIALLY I WAS ACTUALLY REALLY VERY CONCERNED WITH THE RAMIFICATIONS IN THE HOUSING MARKET, AND I WAS LEANING TOWARDS NOT PERMITTING. However, I would, given what staff has provided, I think I'm open to it. The question I have is if we determine that this becomes more problematic in the future, is there a particular trigger or Would there be an ability to easily pivot? Should we identify that it doesn't work for our community?”
“Understood. So with that, I'll be supporting option four. I definitely want to highlight the distance between one another. I think, for example, you know, we want to really develop our downtown. We want to encourage people to live downtown, have it be a walkable downtown. And I would hate for it to be only short-term rentals. I want to make sure people are living there, part of our community, and provide that opportunity. So I think that would be important.”
“Okay, so that would be my... And then secondly, as I brought up before, if we put in particular restrictions to prohibit kind of these big conglomerate corporations from taking over, you know, I really support our local folks and having investments, that's fine, but I want to, I'd be, I would not be in support of, you know, having these huge corporations come and take over our city. So those would be, those would be my requests. So with that, I believe we've built consensus around option four. Does staff need any additional direction?”
“Okay. We believe we have consensus on that. All right, so we provided direction. Do you need a motion?”
“Yes. All right. Thank you to staff. We look forward to additional work on this. With regards to Item 6C, that was killed by motion earlier in the night by Mayor Pro Tem, so we will not be looking at that item. Next up, that brings us to Item 6D, related to a merit increase for the City Attorney. Staff report, please.”
“Thank you. Council, do we have any preliminary questions? And we'll go out for public comment. Do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on item 6D? Seeing none in chambers, do we have any online?”
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“We have a first and a second. Councilmember Evans, roll call, please.”
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“With that, I'll go ahead and close out items from the audience. That brings us to staff items.”