Remarks by David M. Sander, Ph.D.
95 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, aside from the routine monthly meetings we all attend, for me, it's sewer, air district, um sacog a couple of other things of uh of interest cordova football team is now three and oh beating rio americano at rio americano except they don't have lights so they had to play somewhere else but they beat them uh 27 21 unfortunately it was out of town i didn't get to go to that game but um People who saw it said it reminds them of the Cordova teams of old, where they may not be the most talented kids on the field, but they are definitely the most tenacious.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Absolutely. So congratulations to them. If they stay on this path and they get another win or two, they will earn a playoff berth, which is pretty exciting. That hasn't happened in a couple years. So that would be a nice accomplishment for this year. They play this Friday somewhere in the East Bay, I think. and they are projected to win that one as well, so we'll see, we'll see. But we should be very proud of what they're accomplishing over there this year. I am chair of NLC's Suburban Municipalities Council. That used to be the First-Year Suburbs Council. The mission hasn't changed, the name…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Number two versus number three would be a heck of a game. Although I'll warn you, the last time those two teams met, it didn't turn out well for Georgia.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“That is just a great precedent to set, too, let me tell you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I'll move items 17-1 and 17-2. Second. Do I have a roll call, please?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I would just say I think this is probably the most significant project we've undertaken as a council. Maybe you would put the remodel of Folsom Boulevard up there on that level. but this might be more impactful than that in the long run. Virtually every resident in Rancho Cordova could be positively benefited by the sort of activities that will happen here. It's focused on doing this the Rancho Cordova way. This is not government doing everything. This is government providing a place where residents can do things to pursue their own passions and their own interests and improve our community.…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Right. I mean, in the modern sense, we were looking for independent theater space or independent veteran space. We thought Mills Crossing, we could do big public space there and kind of community center kind of activities. We thought remodeling the mine shaft might provide the other part of that. We looked at another building. We have a partnership with the community council looking at this. How do we best execute this kind of a plan for the city? I don't think anyone had decided this was the spot until we were undertaking all of those looks, all of those steps got us here. So I'm really…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“There are some things around civility we could do at our annual meeting. There are ways of describing civil behavior or uncivil behavior or rating yourself for how civil you can be as a group. National League of Cities has done quite a bit with this in the last year. So I was happy to bring sort of this idea here and add us to kind of a national movement to try to restore more civility to government.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, and being at meetings with constituents or public events with constituents around this issue has raised a lot. Most of them are kind of surprised to hear we're already home to five or six or seven or I don't even know what the number is, 11, already here. Yeah, not the modern mega form, but a different form. I think with our AI focus and our tech base, this is a different sort of an issue for us. I hope that this issue is turning a bit in the public mind, although I'm not sure it is. We're in a political season where that might not be in the interests of people running for office. But…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Lots of fun little things going on. I have had a couple of really interesting meetings with some people interested in developing property in Rancho Cordova. That's been a pleasure. I met with one of our old friends, Coach Roz, last week. I don't know if any of you actually remember Coach Roz. Coach Roz did a youth program at Meadows Elementary for us. It was sort of an after school football program, but it was really a reading program disguised as football. In other words, you had to do your extra reading stuff. You had to do your reading evaluation. You had to sit with your tutor or the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It was. That Swedish congregation you referred to was very old. It's been in Sacramento a very long time.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“David, what you thinking? Too many thoughts to be able to share in a meeting. But I can summarize. I think these corridors suffer from death by a thousand cuts. right, all these little things break. It's as simple as people don't get rid of weeds in their landscaping in their parking lots, so they don't paint the parking lot or reseal it, or they put duct tape up to make a sign instead of fixing the sign. It creates just an environment where other businesses may not want to locate or people may not want to shop because there are too many things that feel broken. Everything that feels broken…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, no, no, behind them, diagonally into that neighborhood. There's like, you know, RVs parked where you should have mobile homes, but people are just living in the RV that's sort of falling apart in place. So you've got, I mean, this is sort of the surroundings. And then on the other side, you've got a business that's on that corner that's been a problem for a long time and has been under remodel for, I don't know, three, four years, something. Total mess, right? And homelessness is now very present in that neighborhood because of all these other little cuts that have happened. That trail is…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Think of that number, 240 billboards in that stretch.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“As a long-time owner, has no interest in developing, just pays the taxes and holds it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have one last comment. You said partnerships were sort of buried in there. I think we really need to focus, like in all things at Rancho Cordova, we focus on what partners can we bring in to be the most efficient, make the bucks go the farthest. The Chamber has been a great partner in the past. on trying to figure out how to revitalize corridors. So trying to figure out partnerships. Maybe there are partners that can do things as well, like almost in a public works kind of area or adjacent area on private property.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, like work on private property that's harder for the city to do. No, no, no. Or bulldozer accidents in strategic locations. No, what is happening? Arsonists.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The other comment was maintenance of effort, which I think is a really important concept. Because in most jurisdictions in California, you'll see a new roadway or something built. The landscape is going to be great. It'll be alive. And then about a year later, you realize they didn't put in any irrigation or something like that, right? Or it failed and they didn't fix it. So great, you just spent millions of dollars on new landscaping and it's all kind of dead.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. And finally, you talked about the doorstep and how important it is. The one that's not really here but it is a corridor in the same sense as Highway 50 and the interchanges. Our interchanges look awful. Terrible. How do we get that much litter on a daily basis into those interchanges? I do not understand.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, just coming to City Hall just now, off 50, off Zinfandel, exiting at Zinfandel, look to the right. I mean, that's a trash truck load that is spread out there over that stretch. It's just ridiculous amounts of trash. You behave. You behave. Ridiculous amounts of trash. We have to find, that's our doorstep. I mean, somebody comes to Rancho Cordova, the first thing they're going to see, I'm exiting here. Oh my gosh, what is all this trash doing here?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And why is there graffiti patches on the wall here? I mean, all that little stuff. Why are there weeds growing up through this chain link fence? It's just all that little stuff is going to matter.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There was a vehicle involved, yeah. And as I remember, my very small son at the time attacked that wall with a hammer.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“ASKED. DAVID? DAVID? I GUESS I ALSO IDENTIFY I GUESS I ALSO IDENTIFY WITH LINDA'S COMMENTS. proposed housing development there just gives me pause it's probably something we need to think more about um before committing ourselves to any particular path there that particular treatment of the edge of the parking lot at the light rail station has not occurred to me before so that's an interesting thing i worry about what impact it would have on the paucity of parking that we're already dealing with and sort of had an impact on our previous discussion of what to do with Mills Crossing. That would…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think demonstrating that for sale housing works on Folsom Boulevard would be a major landmark for us if that could happen. Certainly in Mills Crossing we saw an awful lot of challenges around trying to accommodate that or trying to allow that to happen. Just economically, I mean, even not rent controlled apartments were deemed not functional at Mills Crossing, right? Everything had to be subsidy. So, you know, for sale housing could potentially be that spark that lights other property owners up saying, oh, wait a second, I can actually make money with this parcel instead of sitting on it…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026