Remarks by David M. Sander, Ph.D.
95 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Just on the, I'm sorry. Just on the traffic front, most of your categories showed increases. More citations, for example. Someone could characterize that, I suppose, as a negative. I would characterize that as a positive. because I think, I'll just make numbers up, but in our city we probably have a thousand, let's say, serious traffic violations a day. That's like running a stop sign or something like that. Some number, 500, whatever it is. And we probably give out 25 citations or something a day, right? So it's like there's a very big market and we're nipping at it, right? And the question…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I've noticed some drivers that sort of have a pattern of traffic violation that's really extreme. You can imagine a red light, and they're coming up to the red light, and there's cars in the two lanes, like on Folsom Boulevard. They'll swing into the left turn lane, slow down a little bit, see is anybody coming, and just run the red light, like from the left turn lane, and go straight. And they'll do that time after time after time. You can see them do it all the way down the boulevard. Or in a neighborhood. Just through stoplight after stop sign after stop sign after stop sign.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Oh, wouldn't that be awesome? Yeah. I'm almost wondering if it isn't some kind of a thing that they see. Is there something trendy in social media where they show people driving like that? Because when I've seen that, it all kind of looks the same. I mean, the pattern of how they drive it. I don't know. Neither. I wish I did. No, I wish we could crack that.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“generate revenue but it really is about behavior and increasing the safety in our streets and in our community so there's a several hundred dollars speeding ticket and that's us about a buck 25 i'm not exaggerating right it's just a couple of dollars you're not you're not exaggerating yeah if anything at all joe”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I think we missed a timeline. That's probably the right people.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd rather let the community vote, but I think it is a little awkward. As a candidate, I mean, you're sort of of two minds. Yeah, I'd love to have people check the box and ask for my name, but at the same time, as a city, it makes us look slightly odd. Why'd you put this on the ballot when there's no election?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Good point. Except for the senator from Alaska once, I think. There was three people. In that situation, I think, Borkoski. That's the first one. Not many write-in successes, yeah.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, if he did, he wouldn't get to put down that he was elected. I don't think that there's a point. I don't think there's a difference.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And obviously you had far more people show up there than anticipated. Because I think you ran out of t-shirts, which normally that would not be a thing that would happen. And I know we ran out of food as well. That would also not normally happen at a Rancho Cordova event. So did you have unexpectedly large day of turnout of volunteers?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“This is the third annual Spring Service Day here in Rancho Cordova, and we've got volunteers from the community coming to help other organizations and people in the community. That tells everyone that we love this place.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Well, it has been an interestingly quiet couple of weeks as most agencies are on summer break. And so I have had not too many duties that call me away to other meetings. So I am going to limit my report to just hoping everyone had a great vacation season this summer. And that will be my report.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I should report on my non-holiday, I guess. I did do one little mission on behalf of the city, and that is a self-directed tour of libraries in Yolo and Sacramento County. So I visited three in Yolo County and three in Sacramento County. I specifically focused on middle to small size libraries, looking for unique things they did. And I've noticed a distinct cultural difference between the Yolo County library system and the Sacramento County library system. And it's my recommendation that we join the Yolo County system. They are very innovative and kind of edgy in all of their locations,…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“That's a really nice mid-sized design. That's the best design I've seen so far.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“The police one could have policeman hats. And this is what we do with unmowed lawns? Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“If you have a problem, the goat will listen to you. They will also leave fertilizer behind.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“That's not creepy at all. Go get on the bus some morning and see what happens.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I just want to congratulate you on this. It's very attractive and fun. I think I'll try to post it to Facebook or something to share it.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yeah, that's nice. You've grown this organization a lot since the last time I sort of paid attention to what you guys were doing. And it's been a while, like almost pandemic era probably. What has been the source of funding that has allowed you to grow to the size I saw?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“That's good. What would you say is your best measure of success? Because it's been said if you can't measure what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing. So it's always a challenge in government to figure out exactly how do we measure what we do. So we're not selling widgets, but we are doing things, most of which should be measurable, although it may be hard to do so. But if I challenge you to that, what is the measure of your success? How do we know what we're getting for our dollar?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Uh-oh, hold on. The National League of Cities has a civility pledge, which a lot of cities nationwide are signing up for this particular year. I think we've actually talked about it and not done it, so I'm gonna ask for this on a future agenda item, as a future agenda item.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I saw that in the slide as well. Hopefully that's not what a constituent would see even just on the front side. Because it doesn't even say really what that, I don't even think it says that this is a code section. It just has a series of four numbers.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So it's just missing the, you've got a car parked on your lawn. Correct. Correct. Whatever the, whatever the thing is. Yeah.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So it didn't have an example of what the more explanatory, the better. Correct.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So the chain link fence item or any of these that we have up there, is this sort of a standard thing we have, or do we flip that up for different arguments? Like, do the people who have chain link fences in their yard get that? And then four months later, they get a, if you want your neighborhood to be safer. And then three months after that, if you want your housing value to be higher, you know, is it like a multi-point sell or is it just sort of that thing hangs out when we do a mass mailing?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“You can have all the reasons on all of them. Just highlight a different one on each one. Try to grab their attention.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026