Remarks by David M. Sander, Ph.D.
95 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“Keep tapping it. Whatever the normal sales strategy is for something.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“There's a business I could mention that's close to my heart, sort of. They have landscape violations at least annually. Like every year they forget, oh, I got to mow the weeds, you know, or I don't have any landscaping out there and I don't water it. Maybe that's a problem. And for, I don't know, 15 years, this has been a problem, 10 years, like. If I mentioned the name, you'd immediately say, oh yeah, 40 times we've gone and talked to them. The amount of time we've spent talking to them about the same problem over nearly a generation is nuts. It should just be, guess what? You're on year 15,…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Sometimes it's a choice. It's not a matter of I can't afford it or I can't do it or something else is in the way. It's just, yeah, that's a low priority for me. Well, it isn't to living in a suburb. It isn't. I think eventually on the sales part, it was enforcement on the left and sales on the right on the sales side. Eventually it's, you know, Diane's going to be hired to go out there and make the pitch and the sale for somebody. Right. Doesn't have to be internal. We might have an exterior partner. Yeah.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Are there cases where you could make it collectible in the current tax year?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Here's the fine you keep ignoring, and if you get a standard lien and they don't have to do it until they sell the property, they may not care. Never going to sell it. Right. Just hang out there with the mechanics lien or whatever that's called.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“while ago when we were doing a serious battle with bad landlords particularly apartment owners who were just bad actors slumlords basically one of the strategies was you call their bank figure out where the mortgage is you call the bank tell the bank what's going on figure out who their insurance company is call them it's like you start lighting fires underneath the bad landlord in a variety of ways so they can't dodge it i mean is that still a common thing we do”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“How often do you think we exercise that tool?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“We do letters as a step before the meeting?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That's just two or three times a year. Yeah. When you started that sentence, I thought you were going to say two or three times a month.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“i think i'm okay with increasing the fees as suggested um the way we talked about that in committee i think the the temporary use permit and these public events uh temporary use permit is something particularly on the special events side i wouldn't want to really increase a fee for them but that's not what we're talking about with the previous item right that fee is not proposed for increase for temporary use permit”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Right. There is, I have some personal experience with this. When people try to sort out in Rancho Cordova how to get a temporary use permit for a special event, they immediately run into challenges. On our website, the forms they're presented with, how they talk to people at the counter, it's very confusing. To them, because it's the same thing as, I don't know, Garrett wants to put up file cabinets behind his office, you know, and store 25 years of paperwork out in the back parking lot. Or someone wants to have a drone show on Tuesday. It's like, these are really different things. One's…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Do they endanger their underlying use permit if they do an illegal use?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I think this is an issue that is really core to the existence of Rancho Cordova. It's probably why we became a city, is to clean things up and sort of save the community from what might happen otherwise. If people weren't paying attention to the details and sweating the small things that make life unpleasant for some or make us feel dangerous or unattractive to others. So... I think up front, when we took this on, we recognized that we can't fix the macroeconomics. We can't fix broken families. There are certain things cities can do, but there are things we can do. We can do things like…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And I don't know, I hear from the team kind of what some different options are.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“You said finding efficiencies and do innovation, automation, et cetera. So I really appreciate that. I assume that's, we're always doing that. That should be in our DNA. Yeah. That should be just a normal reflex. And then measuring how effective officers are, how many cases are we doing, what's bogging us down, what's the bottleneck, all that kind of analysis. I assume that's always done. But I think we can talk about and have to talk about resources at some point with this. Another level of campaign I would suggest, this is one I had a dream of for about 25 years now, I think, is a mow your…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That was Linda's program, by the way, that she started back then.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“She broke the bank with our success in that.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“It's nice to know that's why. But we see things on Folsom Boulevard where it's an approved plan. We did it. They had grass. They had trees. They had shrubs. So they turn the irrigation off during the drought. Everything's dead. It's a dust bowl. Plants are out there. Oh, they poured some rock on it to make it look better. And it's like they're so far off from where they started. You know, the community is damaged by it. It's now a blight.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, it was designed as Highway 50, right? Highway 50 supported uses tiny little parcels.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Which is why I think if we came back with a grant program and on one hand we're enforcing the rules, on the other hand saying we'll help. That might be the magic to trying to turn that street around. And others. Others could benefit from this too. You can call beautification if you want. But basically, it's just trying to uplift those old commercial corridor communities. Grab stuff again.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026