Remarks by Dolores Morales
39 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I'm here. Are you able to hear me? Hello, can you hear me? Can you hear me?”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“No questions. Thank you for the presentation.”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“I think Council or Vice Mayor De Anda kind of asked my question, which is appreciate the framework. I know that's moving forward. We don't need a resolution for that. But declaring the state of emergency for the city, that's really the action we're taking right now. So if we move forward with that piece, can you tell us the significance of declaring a state of emergency for the city?”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“You did. And can you share, are there any negative consequences if we move forward?”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yes, no, just what an amazing presentation. Thank you so much. And you can feel the love and support from your parents and your grandparents, your family. And I think the totality of what you did is just amazing. And I don't think people understand the depth in terms of being able to reach out to your community for support and to be able to negotiate at cost. I think those are just the...”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I wanted to make an additional appointment to 6.3 to the Finance Task Force.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“wanted to add an additional appointment. Are we able to do that?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So I have two community members that would like to be part of the Finance Committee. One, Michelle Chick, C-H-I-C-K. She's an accountant, very much interested in reviewing finances. And another one is a community member, Armando, and I can give you the last name. and contact info.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, thank you. I know a lot of my residents are asking about the audits. I know we finished 2021. We're working on 2022. Can you give us a timeline if possible? I know that there's been a lot of questions. So I'll answer them and then go to my other question.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. I think for those, I know that we've had a lot going on for a couple of years, but we did have a long-term strategy with former city manager Dave Marioni. I think it was a five-year plan where we talked about revenues, expenditures, revenue, looking at not recognizing revenue. I'm wondering... Can we review that document or is that document gone? Because I think I don't want our community to think that we didn't do a short term, long term or five year projections in terms of how do we address our needs right now and how do we kind of plan for stabilization in the next five years?…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Is that a question? I know that when the reorganization was done that a lot of people had concerns and there was a comment that the community was not going to see an impact and I think this financial report reflects that prediction and so I just want to say thank you for that. I see a lot of work here. So in terms of efficiency and outcomes, I think this reflects the outcome of that. So thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yes, I attended 3CE with our Community Action Council. City Manager also attended. We had great presentations in terms of clean energy and the future. There's a lot of discussion about what various jurisdictions need. Looking at the property we have, we learned that there's funding for things that we may want to do, like converting a fleet to green energy cars, charging stations. having solar. So being able to be environmentally sustainable and be able to get financial support from 3CE. So there's microgrids was another area of discussion. So there's a lot of opportunities for us to save…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“the council for any other comments questions um go ahead council member morales yes uh thank you for that information can you james can you tell us what would be the average amount that a homeowner would see on their property tracks um if a home was anywhere from 500 to 900 thousand dollars”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just, I have a clarifying question because I think Council Member Foucher talked about the total cost of the home and I heard James talk about costs on the property tax bill. So is it both? Potentially could be both?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so potentially if, let's say, it costs $200,000, but the house next door is valued at $900,000, they're not going to sell at $200,000. I mean, it's going to go based on market price, and they're going to have to pay anywhere from an additional $13,500 on the property tax”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, completely understand somebody will pay and I think things will eventually get covered. However, I think my concern, at least for residential only, is that, you know, I think buying a home is overwhelming. It's like a stack this big of paperwork. I think people are, you know, people read it, somebody will tell you about it, but then I think it doesn't really sink in until later. I think when somebody looks at their property tax, It is pretty high right now. I think what I've heard residents say is right now there's an affordability issue. And I think if there's homeowners and looking in…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, thank you for the presentation. I did ask for numbers. I was wondering if those were ready. So we've heard from the school district that young people, students have gotten hurt, right? And we also heard at some point that we also need access for police and fire to get through. And you mentioned that there was clickers. So can you... share the data from both perspectives from the the school and from our police and fire or I can address that Councilwoman.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm wondering then can we, of course, this is just my opinion. When you're dealing with people's lives, lives and, and we know minutes count. I feel very uncomfortable just making a decision because I also don't know if we move forward. Is it going to be easy to when we do get the numbers right $20,000 versus our liability and people's lives in terms of any potential death or disability are very concerning.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Completely understand. However, I think this is foundational information for us to make a decision. And I understand that, again, I go back to liability and potential future litigation. If we know that we are making a decision that's going to cause potential death or disability due to the response time, and we have those numbers, we have that data, then, I mean, $20,000 For the property and you know i'm. Again, these are, I think these are decisions that have significant impact to the city so overall general fund budget and we know the potential impact to people's lives.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, thank you, I definitely appreciate and and respect the school districts. And I actually you know I can't imagine anyone not caring about our youth and their safety, I just want to give you some general statistics at least from my district, so that you are at least our Community can understand my perspective in my district and district three. I have 53% of my Community members that are over the age of 45. 45 to over 65 and 23.2% of my residents are over the age of 65. To me, that is just because of life. A high risk area for the need for ambulance police and we know fire also so paramedic…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would like to see the data, and here's why. We have one that didn't know that this was on the agenda, right? Again, I have 53% of my residents are older. If anything, I'd like to, when I make a decision to make sure that they understand, we looked at the data, right? Seven hits to a fence versus, you know, we already know one community member waited 20 minutes that could have been reduced potentially, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026