Remarks by Diosdado Matulac
207 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“We need to actually state the motion, and then we have to vote.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I move we adopt a resolution approving an honorary street sign designation for the entirety of Taper Avenue from Fairgrounds Drive to Taper Court to be designated Mac Dre Way and approve a certificate of recognition for the same. All right, we're ready to vote.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you Mayor and thank you for the report. First quick question I had is the one concern I have from the data that we've been getting over this period of time of getting these updates are hearing the deaths that are, vehicular deaths that have been happening. And so I'd like to see if we can get a deeper dive into whether that's through the VPD or traffic safety or traffic engineers of the the reasons behind it, is there human error from the city side or is it a human error from the vehicular side or the pedestrian side where some of these fatalities are happening and is there anything…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I understand that as more of an efficiency standpoint, but I think when we're going over that period of time, as opposed to the numbers and seeing some of these bar charts right here, I think a graph over that period of time or over a six-month period, I think that may be able to be a lot more graphically easily to read to see some of that incremental. UPDATES FROM THAT STANDPOINT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I CAN SAY WHAT WE'VE GOT ON THE AGENDA AND VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, OR IT SOUNDS LIKE WE WANT TO TABLE IT FOR...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“LET'S TAKE A STRONGER VOTE FOR TABLING JUST SO WE GET IT ON THE RECORD.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“YES, MAYOR. WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER SIGNED UP. CHRISTINE WATSON. CHRISTINE WATSON, ARE YOU STILL PRESENT?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“thank you for that and i know um council member matias is sitting in the back there having a conversation but i think this is um and he and i have had this conversation to where and i've had this with our planning commission of of this sounds like the ideal project for the planning commission and the economic development team to start collaborating and working with this being part of the community engagement part where we actually have um our our um council members I'm sorry, not council, but commissioners on both those commissions to be part of that community engagement to where they've been…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, we do have a new speaker that signed up, Crystal G. And did our other speaker turn up online?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sorry. I move we adopt a resolution one approving a consultant and professional services agreement with RC Design Collaborative, LLC, DBA, SiteLab, Urban Studio for the preparation of the downtown Vallejo specific plan and Vallejo waterfront specific plan for an amount not to exceed $2,009,400 Two, approving an environmental consultant agreement with Stantec Consulting Services Incorporated for an amount not to exceed $265,914 for related environmental review. And three, authorizing the city manager to execute the agreements.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And unlike Council Member Matisse, mine was a lot easier to pick because I only had one applicant, so I will go ahead and nominate that one applicant.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, and I think this is a similar conversation that Council Member Matias and I have had of other commissions and boards that fall under the same thing where they specifically can only pick for that. And I think we need to look at that similar language for those other commissions and board that fall under that same type of restriction.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, Mayor. I move that we adopt a resolution approving the HUD required consolidated annual performance and evaluation report, CAPER, for fiscal year 2526, addressing affordable housing and community development needs in the city of Vallejo, with the understanding that we will have a standing agenda item of addressing our housing shortcoming.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think if we leave it generally as a...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so with the housing shortcomings, what's the verbiage you would like to...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“YES, I MOVE THE ADOPTER RESOLUTION APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE RESPONSE TO THE 2025-2026 GRAND JURY REPORT REGARDING VALLEJO 911, FASTER RESPONSES, UNCERTAIN FUTURE, WITH THE ADDITION OF ELIMINATING THE LINE STRIKING OF ELIMINATING POSITIONS, AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND HAVE YOU READ”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And so as one of the more active participants two years ago when we were on the board and Council Member Palmares and I were tag teaming that one, So the background to this right now is there's been significant upheaval with MCE. So the CEO has left. And there's been some infighting with the entire, since it's Marin County, Solano County, and even Contra Costa County. AND SO THIS IS WHERE I CAUTION OF WHO WE'RE RESPONDING TO, WE MAY BE GETTING ONE MESSAGE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE ACTUAL TRUTH OR HALF TRUTH MAY BE. SO THIS IS WHERE I WOULD CAUTION US OF CHECKING WITH COUNCILMEMBER PALMERIS WHO…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would suggest that's part of the conversation that we need to have a better understanding of because we can't be giving, I wouldn't want to be giving false information out to our constituents to where, since MC, because this is a rate issue that we don't have control over, that it's a bigger issue. IT'S A BIGGER GOVERNING BODY THAT DETERMINES THAT BEYOND US, AND WE'RE JUST PART OF THAT CONVERSATION. SO THIS IS WHERE, AND I'LL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY WITH THIS WITH COUNCILMEMBER PALMERIS, AND THIS IS WHERE SOME OF OUR CONSTITUENTS MESHED THAT THE LIAISONS TO A LOT OF THE COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, and I think if my recollection of these topics and discussions we've had, it's been our lobbyists that have been driving us as opposed to us driving them. And this is where, and I think, not that they're doing anything wrong, but they're chasing the monies also to try to identify with us of what it is. But to Council Member Lettajew's point is that we should be driving that bus of where we should be directing them and they're supposed to be finding that money from that federal and from that state level, because we've had both of our lobbyists from the state and federal level come to us,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“SO TO BE CLEAR, ARE WE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“YEAH. OKAY. SO I MOVE WE ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSULTANT AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH AKIN, GUMP, STRAUSS, HOWARD, AND FIELD. to provide continued federal legislative consultant services and increase compensation by 170,000 with a new not to exceed total amount of 350,000 and authorizing the city manager to execute the same.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Move we adopt a resolution approving the First Amendment to the Five-Year Service Agreement with Target Solutions Learning LLC DBA Vector Solutions for additional software components for the fire department in the amount of $133,329.60 and authorizing the city manager to execute the same.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Just quickly, the fact that we did go dark in August after we went dark. A couple of quick, and I want to acknowledge a couple of these organizations. So I want to thank VFWD for having me attend the CASA conference from the 5th to the 7th. And the great thing that I learned from that was a lot of the infrastructure funding that they were able to share and a lot of the trainings they had for that one. ON WEDNESDAY THE 12TH, AUGUST, I'M SORRY, YES, AUGUST 12TH, I WANT TO THANK PAT HUNTER AND NAACP FOR THE TOWN HALL THAT THEY CONDUCTED. AND THEN SCHOOL OFFICIALLY STARTED FOR…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, no, no, I got the green one. The white one's mine, but I'm sorry. Oh, did you want the white one or you want the green one?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Oh, I think that goes to Dawn then. Yeah, that's what that is.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026