Remarks by Diosdado Matulac
207 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
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“So moving on to the action calendar item 9A. City Clerk Abrahamson, could you please announce item 9A? I can do that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And thank you for that introduction. And so I'm going to ask Manny to please start the two-minute clock. Anyone wishing to address the council on this item both in person or virtually must either sign up using the electronic kiosk located in the back of the council chambers or raise their hand virtually by the end of the two-minute clock. Anyone signing up to speak or raising their hand virtually after the end of the two-minute will not be recognized. Go ahead, Assistant City Manager Nalungo.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Are there any questions from council? Council Member Palmares. Thank you for the presentation.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, and I'll go ahead and close out this first round of questions before we open it up for public comment and close it out with our second round of questions and comments from the council. So we use the analogy of weather. So last I checked, this year's weather, we're scheduled for super El Nino. What typical, I mean, with that analogy, are there any barriers or things that off the top of your head right now are things that can be that super El Nino in your financial planning that we may have to impact for already.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And I'm just talking about inflation, is it going to get worse and things of that type of, the cost of living type of stuff to where that's going to impact a lot of the stuff that may impact our Measure P and all the other stuff that's going to be happening. So I just want to make sure, I'm just asking that question rhetorically to make sure that we're taking into account basically the unexpected of some some some typical thing that's out there so I'm not saying that like I said that's a rhetorical question or a comment right at this point for that since we brought in weather as an analogy…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, and I very much appreciate that clarification and the pushback on the rhetorical portion of it because that is a practical question or issue that may eventually come up when forecasting business models like this. And to your point of the February deadline of getting this, I guess, let's just call it a report or analysis by that time. So we talked about a lot of development here, which is built in with a lot of infrastructure that we're challenged with right now. So hearing that, are you, as part of your getting down to the weeds portion of it, does that include, so I wasn't clear, are…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I appreciate that because I think when we talk development, I think the thing that gets undersold or under-talked about is the infrastructure. Because I think many conversations we've had with development starts with what does our infrastructure look like? And what we're identifying is a lot of that is insufficient right now. So I'm hoping that those numbers are taking into your model of how that's going to impact.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“and i think that's where this council has been asking a lot of these development questions of looking at other finance methods of how we can support a lot of these infrastructure lack of infrastructure or future developments that we had i think city manager murr c manager um black has any has some comment to that no i was just going to add obviously they're going to be looking at every available document okay including the cip they're looking at everything yeah uh... this will be a super”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And thank you for that follow-up. And another clarification point that City Manager Black and I have had this conversation is the fact we're talking about long-term planning. As a friendly reminder to everybody, we've been close to two years without an economic development director along with a finance director. And City Manager Black, can you give us an update on any timeframes on those positions?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I appreciate that and I only bring that up to talk about these two missing important key pieces will be part of this important conversation and obviously you're going to get them up to speed sooner rather than later to meet this February deadline and stuff like that. And so I think that for this first round, I think that should be it to close it out. What is that? What was I going to ask? Questions. No, so are there any in-person speakers? willing to speak, wanting to speak on 9A? No, we do not. Okay, Manny, do we have any speakers to speak to 9A virtually?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And so with that being said, I'm officially opening the public comment session, and please call the virtual speakers.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And no last second in-person speakers? Seeing none, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing portion of it and open it back up to our second round of questions and comments from our council. And I see Council Member Gordon.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Any other follow-up questions or comments for this last round from council? Seeing none, the chair is open for a motion.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Clarification, the report says $225,000.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“assuming our electronic voting is working. Please try to vote.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think for technically, I think we do. Just to make sure it's for the record, the appropriate motion.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you for that and for those that weren't here at the beginning of the council meeting, this is the time that I'm officially gonna continue the rest of the council meeting so we can go back to closed session to finish the two items that we need to complete. And I just want to pose it now while we're out here is looking at what's left on the agenda and the fact that we had five items pulled from consent, we might want to start looking at what we may be tabling because it's already 9 o'clock and who knows how late we're going to be going to. Just throwing it out there for everyone.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you for the logistical clarification. So I'll go ahead and call a recess to this current council meeting and go back into closed session.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And reconvening the closed session item. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“We're not tabling anything at this point. I was just bringing it up to the rest of the council is depending on how long these closed session items, we'll take a look and identify if we are, if we will be tabling anything. I'm sorry? Yes. Yes, we are coming back.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“going to go ahead and call us back to order here and reconvene for the close, I'm sorry, for the regular city council meeting and do our report out for the closed session for item A and item E and for both I will do the report out for both of those items. For item A, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D2, one case. We as a counsel provided direction to our outside counsel, and that's the report out for that. And then for item E, or I'm sorry, item... D, CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS,…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, and are we going to officially request item 9B to be continued out of respect for? Up to council. So I'm going to pose that since we may be losing quorum here soon, so. Got it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So the question is for item 9B, are we willing to either continue that to respect Director Pollitt's time needing to be here or... What's the item again?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so with that said, we will go ahead and table item 9B. Thank you for your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience for you having to sit here to find out at this time for that. And so let's go ahead and move on to item 9C.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Oh, I thought I did, but I said... Oh, maybe you did.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026