Remarks by Dan Arriola
453 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 19
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“All right, so I'm going to go ahead and do public comment first before we go through council statements. But before we do that, council, do you have any preliminary questions before we begin? Seeing none. Okay, we'll go out for public comment on this item. Again, this is merely an informational update. We're taking no action today. This is to get more information, but we absolutely want to hear from you. Can I please see hands raised for folks who would like to speak on this item? Seeing one, per our public comment guidelines, we'll allow four minutes. So go ahead and allow public comment on…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. With that, we'll go ahead and close out the public comment portion for item 6A. We'll return to council, and I believe our finance committee did have a review of this beforehand. Am I understood? No? No. Okay. Never mind. Then we'll go ahead and start with anyone on council who would like to start. I'll go ahead. Mayor Paton.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Bertin. Who'd like to go next?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Nygaard. With regards to my comments on this, for notable challenges, I think the biggest one essentially would be to prevent urban sprawl. I remember that the first time I saw the City of Tracy in a textbook was while I was a UCLA student, and the City of Tracy was the literal textbook example of urban sprawl. And so I believe that in past general plans, We have grown in a way mostly to the south that hasn't been particularly balanced. I think there have been amendments to previous general plans, but ultimately many of our challenges today are now trying to meet the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We have a first and a second. Roll call, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. That takes care of item 6A. Next up, we have item 6B related to the council's 2025 to 2027 strategic priorities. Staff report, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, with that, I'll go ahead and close out the public comment portion for Item 6B. Do we have any additional discussion? Mayor Pro Temo.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEMP. ANYTHING COUNCILMEMBER BODEAU.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We have a first and a second councilor roll call please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, thank you. That brings us to our last general item of the night. That is item 6C, related to an ad hoc climate action plan committee. Staff report, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. We'll go over to preliminary questions. Are there any preliminary questions before we start? I'll go ahead and start with Council Member Nygaard. I believe he made the ask.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I did have just a couple questions. I just wanted staff to clarify what are the different types of commissions or committees that we're kind of looking at? Can you describe the differences for us so we can take that into consideration?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. I just kind of wanted to understand, just kind of as an example. So in the past, We had a standing committee, THAC, or Tracy Homelessness Advisory Committee, which was very open. But prior to THAC, we had an ad hoc homelessness subcommittee, and that was a scope and purpose for creating the homelessness strategic plan. So I think if I... I have a question, Councilmember Nygaard. When you brought this up, were you intending to model it after the homelessness ad hoc committee, which later kind of came into the standing committee, or did you, what was your vision for that?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And then the other thing I wanted to highlight, can you say what is our current sustainability commission, where do they fall into this?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Understood. Thank you. Council, do we have any additional preliminary questions?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, before we go into further discussion, I want to make sure we have public comment on this item. So we're going to go out for public comment. Can I please see hands raised for folks who would like to speak on this item? Okay, so with five requests per our public comment guidelines, each speaker will get three minutes. Do we have any speaker cards for this item?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, that's still three minutes at six requests. Let's go ahead and start with the speaker card, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“With that, we'll allow public comment from the chambers. Who would like to begin?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026