Remarks by David Penaloza
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“¿Quién ha probado el mazapán? Come on, levanten las manos, sé que los han comido. Okay, pues muy buenas tardes. Es un enorme honor reconocer al señor Jaime Enrique Velasco, un extraordinario empresario, líder, visionario y filantropo con una trayectoria de vida que ha impactado millones de personas alrededor del mundo. Y la razón por qué no me cierra el saco a veces. Porque esos mazapanes están bien ricos. Y los pulparinos y todo, ¿verdad?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“La historia del señor Velasco está profundamente en el legado de sus padres. Jesús González y Elvira Velasco Rolón. Que la perseverencia, fe y espíritu emprendedor sentaron las bases de lo que llegaría a convertirse en una de las empresas de dulces más queridas de México y el mundo alrededor. Tras emigrar a su familia a Guadalajara a principios de la década de los cuarentas, enfrentaron enormes adversidades. En 1944, un devastador incendio destruyó su pequeña fábrica de dulces. dejándolos únicamente con un modesto taller. En lugar de rendirse, perseveraron. De ese pequeño taller nacieron la…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Señor Velasco, ¿podríamos hacer el pulparino más grande del mundo pronto? ¿Sí? Lo hacemos, ¿eh?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“No items to pull, Mayor. I just have some clarifying questions for item 11.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank city staff for this. While I'm overall supportive of the item, I just wanted, same questions that I had previously. I know that I did bring it up when we first had a discussion about expanding this to other artists within the city, not just the two that had been identified at the time. So I wanted to just ask staff if there was plans to, and from what I recall, there was some of a consensus up here to go down that path, but now staff has presented just the two artists like originally discussed. So I want to make sure if there was anything lost in translation…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, and so from what, I mean, I understand that this council request that I'm with specific to the two artists, but when the discussion happened, as it's been done in the past, once the council direction happens and the conversation discussion up here happens, that item, when it comes back at whatever date we set, becomes whatever the council discussed at that time, not necessarily specific to the council requested items. So is that something that we're not following anymore?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“That'd be great. I think we should definitely focus on all of them. The other thing, just a quick point of clarification for myself, as far as the murals within private properties, specifically, for example, in the exhibit, the El Tapatio restaurant on Pomona Street. Inside. What is the plan there? I mean, does the city staff have a plan? I mean, I don't want to see... US FORCING A PRIVATE PROPERTY OR USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO INVEST INTO A PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT MIGHT INCREASE THE PROPERTY VALUE OF A PROPERTY WHEN OTHER PROPERTIES AROUND THE CITY AREN'T GETTING THAT SAME TREATMENT OR I SHOULD…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Beautiful to hear. Thank you so much, Ali. Thank you, City Manager, for this.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, I didn't mention it. It was listed in the staff report.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Awesome, well thank you so much. Again, I'm happy to approve and make a motion to approve the item. I just wanted clarifying questions on that. I definitely am not a fan of seeing items before us that are specific to one person when there is an overarching topic here that we could address. But I'm happy that it's being done, so thank you, Ali, and thank you, City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Mesk. I just wanted to thank city staff and Commander Sorensen for this presentation and for keeping us on track, Chief, and to my colleague, Councilmember Phan's point in regards to the drones, I definitely support a separate report, and maybe we could also use that report to highlight the massive savings we're seeing as a city by us not using Airship Duke as often as we once did. When I first got on this council, I remember It was every other month there was an appropriation request for additional funding to pay the Orange County sheriffs for their use of that helicopter.…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Esquan. Thank you, city staff, for bringing this forward. And Mayor, for your ringing the alarm bells on this. That's definitely something that is a never-ending and reoccurring episode that we see here in Santa Ana with the County of Orange and their continued support. that's dumping, literal dumping on our city and our residents of all those social services and these types of programs that exist out there. And I want to thank Council Member Becerra for bringing up all the previous instances where we've fought tooth and nail these different issues with the County of Orange,…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just wanted to make sure we could include those other cities and reach out to them and see if they could join us in these resolutions and bring a resolution of their own that this should not exist in Central Orange County. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I would like to just register a no vote on item 20 to be consistent with the last no vote I took last month. And also, I will be also registering a recusal on number 12 due to a campaign contribution and out of an abundance of caution. If the item is pulled, I will be leaving the room.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Mayor. Yes, Mayor Pro Tempore. Thank you, and I just want to thank Councilmember Hernandez for the condescending comments. First of all, this isn't your chamber, this is the people's chamber, and just wanted to make that point of clarification. And with that said, I just wanted to make a sub-motion to move forward with approving whatever the item was, item five, to appoint Giovanni Chavez to the Rental Housing Board for a partial term. And I'll make that sub-motion to move forward. And that's it, Mayor. I'll second that.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to, you know, support my colleagues in reiterating what I told you last week, City Manager, about the space at the train station and our desire to see something really, that space really activated. I know years ago there were staff members in CDA and Public Works talking about brewery in the works, you know, on the southern part on the first floor and numerous other shops, coffee places and whatnot.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“And to know that it's been seven plus years and that nothing has come to fruition in that area is also, you know, frustrating. But then again, we're the only city in America that can't seem to advertise on bus stops for whatever reason. So it's one of those never-ending repeating patterns that we keep seeing with just our inability to bring these landmark stores or storefronts in places like the train station. But those are my comments. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Mayor, I was going to just quickly suggest, I don't think two weeks is enough. I think we should do 30 days for...”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“It's in Anaheim this year, so that's a good thing.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Mezcua. You know, it's unfortunate that we have to even have this discussion. I just want to state for the record that not a single one of us up here on the city council today was present when this first came before us almost 10 years ago in 2018. It was an entirely different council, seven members up here that are not here today that left us with this poor bag of goods. I... You know, I have trouble with this just because I understand the number of services that we've been able to provide with this additional sales tax that's here today. However, one thing that this city and…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“ITEM 23 IS PRETTY SIMPLE. IT'S DISCUSSING CONSIDER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO REPLACE THE CURRENT RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT STICKER SYSTEM WITH A HANGING PLACARD SYSTEM OR ADDING TO, NOT REPLACING ENTIRELY, DEPENDING ON WHAT STAFF COULD BRING BACK. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF STUDIES HAPPENING. A PLACARD SYSTEM THAT WOULD BE DISPLAYED FROM THE VEHICLE'S REVIEW MIRROR, take on necessary actions to implement the transition. I know that so the reason and I want to just inform my colleagues a little bit of how we got here in the public as well with context and I appreciate the resident that came…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Mesquine. Thank you, Councilwoman Lopez, for bringing this item forward. A lot of good bills in this item, in this resolution package that we should support. However, there are a couple in there. I don't want to send staff down a rabbit hole or do work that It's not necessary. There's about three, and I know Councilwoman Lopez mentioned it, but there's three bills specifically that have been killed for a couple months now. I think they were killed in appropriations in early May. AB 1774, which is one of the items listed in there, AB 1677, and AB 2338 recently killed in…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Okay, so with that, I'd also like to add, if you accept, Councilwoman Lopez, that we look at AB 2493 and also follow that as well. That was introduced by... Assemblymember Cottey Pichinorris, and actually had, she's the chairwoman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, which would be a good, you know, she's 10 minutes away, definitely be worth our while as city staff to meet with her and see how, with our lobbyists as well, to see how we could work support these good bills. There's a lot of good ones and the only one that gives me pause is that SB 1359, just because of the very old…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Mezcua. I just wanted to thank staff for such a nice event on Saturday at Centennial Park. It was really nice to see everybody out there. And just wanted to also invite community out on August 1st. We're going to be having, my office is going to be having a backpack school supply giveaway at a You know what? I haven't confirmed the park, but it's scheduled. But we will be having that and probably releasing those details this week. But just keep an eye out for it. It is happening on August 1st, just in time for back to school. So with that, Mayor, those are my comments. Again,…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026