Remarks by Dion Bracco
56 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“I would like to make a motion, Mr. Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I would like to make a motion that we go with staff's approval and go ahead and clean up the camp and then see what happens when the subcommittee reports back and have... our city administrator, however he deems necessary, to try to put something together to manage it a little bit. It's not fair to try to make Arbery self-manage it over there and I think that's some of the problem is some people have moved in there. I mean, he's not a security guard. Poor guy. Right. Do we have a second?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. My motion is to have staff do what... Matt's recommending with cleaning it up reset however, he deems necessary to do it and then try to Come up with a plan to manage it.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd like to say that you voted against, so you need to come up with something that you can support.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm concerned that this really doesn't do anything. We currently notice a project, right, to the neighbors, 500 feet?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, and 1,000 square feet, or 1,000... If you're going to notice 1,000 feet, take, like... the Amazon property on 10th Street. Would any residents get notified?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“None would be notified from the existing project. I was expecting something a lot more tonight. This all started because of data centers. And there's no mention of data centers here. I think it needs to be more specific. Because we did a terrible job of communicating with the public. And that's what we need to work on. And this doesn't do anything to help with that. This just shows more distrust. So I would like to see us have a more specific data centers, battery storage facilities, this kind of thing, that we would notify the community, even if we had to mail out a flyer to every house in…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I feel like we're being herded into a decision that the city wants. And I agree with what Stephanie said. This has taken way too long to get from the fair memo to here, seven months. You know, it just, we need to, listen to the community and make some changes. I think I don't support what staff is recommending. What I would support is stopping all this and having a commission of community council and planning commission to come up with guidelines for development in our city. They haven't been visited in 30, 40 years. We need to be ahead of the developments that are coming into our town. We…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, council member, I just want to say I really appreciate that you came and asked us.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Most of the time we don't know what gets done.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah Councilmember Rocco Yes, um What if They get all done and they're using the recycle water and they call and say, you know, it's too salty I don't we don't want to use it anymore What happens?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, they still need to use it and treat it and what happens right now With the water that doesn't get sold where does it go? I”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“The water we don't sell because we make more than we sell.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And then so that water now with this reservoir and the customer will be making money off of that water instead of it just evaporating and going into the ground.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And will the existing rate payers at any time pay for any of this?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“On these fatalities you listed, how many of them happened when they were obeying all traffic laws?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I've been responding to accidents for 45 years. Never do they happen unless somebody screws up. Either they're drunk, they're on their phone, they fall asleep. It's always, it's nothing that can be predictable. No one can predict where it's going to happen or when it's going to happen. Otherwise, they wouldn't happen. So, okay, that's all I have.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I noticed driving around Gilroy, it looks like about half of them are gone. The stores are empty. They're boarded up. Do you know how many have just left?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“You don't categorize them into the smoke shops or vape shops?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Okay. And like Council Member Fugazi was saying, I mean, it's been a year. If we don't adopt anything, you still have rules that you go by, right?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“And how long of a moratorium are we looking at?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm not sure what our end goal is here. We have rules a thousand feet from a school and I think we're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. These mostly are all legitimate businesses that there's no problems with. So I think we should just leave it the way it is.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So, we have grocery stores in town, so Costco, Walmart, Knob Hill, Safeway, they have a big rig in the back unloading, reefers running, so you could go out and site them for that?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“And how many noise complaints have you gotten in the last six months?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So, I guess this is for Council Member Hilton. What is our goal here? What are you trying to fix?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026