Remarks by Dotty Nygard
100 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“BECAUSE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE THEN SLIDE 13 YOU HAVE AN ACTION PLAN AND THEN IT DOES SAY ON THE FIRST BULLET POINT THAT END OF 2026 COMPLETE THE DESIGN CIP FOR ZONE 7. SO I'M JUST KIND OF CONFUSED ON DOES ZONE 7 THEN FALL UNDER THE END OF 2026 OR UNDER WHAT SLIDE 5 SHOWS IN THE TABLE?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just to piggyback off what you were addressing, Mayor, I'm curious what it would cost just to address the failed roads, the red. I mean, there's not an enormous amount of red, but there is some definitely scattered red every zone. I'm curious, what would the cost be to just tackle the failed roads and bring them up?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“mayor can i ask before we go into this agenda for some clarification with staff um the the the agenda item actually um addresses you know two major issues um and i just wanted to kind of make sure that that the public is aware um it is you know one the zero um vehicle fleet and infrastructure program. That's our state mandate requiring, you know, us to transition to purchase clean trucks and buses or zero emission buses and trucks. The second issue is, you know, and that one, that issue we are being asked for direction. The second issue is an informational update on our citywide energy…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the report. And yes, it is very positive to feeling to feel that we are moving forward in addressing our state mandate and our energy goals. I do have a couple questions. So under option one, to purchase a portable, Are you aware of the Volt Vault program by U.S. Energy?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So that is actually a rental program where they can rent to you portable charging stations. These would be the DC, the fast charging stations for all different size fleets, so your midsize to large, up to eight ports in a portable unit. SO IT DOES MEET IMMEDIATE NEEDS. SO THAT IS AN OPTION TO LOOK, I WOULD SAY THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER OPTION TO LOOK AT AS FAR AS WHAT THAT COST WOULD BE. AND IT'S I BELIEVE OUT OF OAKLAND. SO THEY ACTUALLY DELIVER THE UNIT Fully charged, you use it for 24 hours. I believe they come back with another unit to take away the other one to recharge, but they keep you…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I have a question real quick. Go ahead. With your PG&E plan, must you purchase an EV charging station to qualify to keep that funding in compliance? We have”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Is there a minimum number of level three chargers that you must purchase?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“OK. Yes, I would hope that we don't fall in default with PG&E because I do believe what you've started is a significant project. I think if we could purchase a minimum number of EV to make sure that we stay in good compliance with PG&E. Could the EV be augmented then? Because your first option was to just purchase temporary or the portable EV charging. Does that fall under PG&E? So that option really doesn't help keep us in compliance then with the project with PG&E?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So with the energy audit that is going to be happening, You had mentioned that whichever company comes back, they will be exploring opportunity for grant funding, which could be meeting some of our EV need. We don't know yet. You're saying that it will have to be evaluated by the organization that wins the contract. And that will be about a six-month time frame. But there could be EV opportunities. opportunity in there?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So when we come... That's 3.6 million that we would have to come up with to put the EV charging at the four sites?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And that's, you're talking, this is strictly under the EV, the electrification of the fleet, not the energy audit?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just to clarify, on option three, you still are in the process of selecting an energy company to do the audit. When do you think that will be coming back for us to choose the company, because that company is then going to provide the data of what cost savings and energy measures could be brought back for us to review to make a decision on. So are we looking at this company being chosen in September?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mayor, can I ask a question? Yes. So I think we are very excited about moving forward with the energy audit. I think that will bring a lot of information to the table. That aside, and looking now only at your EV electrification program, You have an option to either purchase two portable that have eight ports each, is that correct? Or is it the two total have eight ports?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Each unit will have eight combined. Okay. Or the other option is to still explore VoltVault. I do believe they come as it's a mobile unit that comes with eight ports. And we could see what that price range is. So just and the fact that there is still grant funding coming open. There's some coming in October. There's some at the end of the year. We could still be exploring EV charging as we have either temporary EV present on site, either a portable unit or we purchase or we rent a unit or we purchase a unit. And that could come back to us when you compare the prices. But in the meantime, we…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Right. No, I understand what. Yeah, I'm just But in the meantime, if you're purchasing EV vehicles, if we had either portable or rentable, EV would help take care of the issue of having EV charging available for our state mandate in transitioning vehicles. We're still stuck, though, on this timeline with PG&E BECAUSE IT DOES MAKE IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE DATA FROM THE AUDIT TO SAY IF THAT'S GOING TO HELP THIS ISSUE OR IF WE HAVE OTHER FUNDING OPENING UP WITH OTHER GRANTS.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“If the energy audit does look at Boyd and the police station and say that they're viable for solar, the energy savings from PG&E on those buildings would then now be applied to help offset the solar cost. And then that solar cost, that solar would now be helping to provide the energy for your EV charging.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Right. No, I get that. But we would be having some savings.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“thank you mayor um i am going to ask that uh we actually bring the climate action plan back to council and for an ad hoc committee it has been um you know we we approved for an ad hoc a couple months back and then we decided that it would probably be more efficient just to roll it into the general plan but the general plan can take up to five plus years and i really think that you know the climate action plan is something that is um critical in a lot of the decisions we're making tonight if we had a climate action plan and expelled out a lot of these sustainability actions would already be…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And also that we could still utilize De Novo as a consultant if needed, if that's possible.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I have two more. So I have another ask. I'd really like to have a discussion item come back to the council on looking at how we could address our general fund parks and what type of opportunities or funding mechanisms we could use to just have a more uniform park appearance. THE GENERAL FUND PARKS, YOU KNOW, ARE NOT FUNDED WITH CFDs OR LMDs AND, YES, THEY'RE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE. SO WE'D LIKE TO TRY AND ADDRESS HOW WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THAT.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“and My last request is in our consent items tonight. There was a motion a item about you know Parking in downtown business district. I would like to at a future time Be able to see if we could do a parking study downtown parking is really coming to a significant issue. We've lost two of our smaller unit or vacant lots and we're having more activities downtown and it impacts a lot. If we could figure out how we can improve parking, maybe it's just signage. I don't know, but I think we need to really look at how we can address our downtown businesses and our events and have ample parking.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I can share on that. That is a private owner. He owns the little strip mall where we have Chapter 2. And yeah, he's very strict. And it comes with the old Penny's building. That is that personal parking lot.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“engage that property owner and see if there's anything we can do he did go through the expense I'm just not clear why he didn't well we asked that months ago about empty lots in the downtown business district that was one of the empty lots to see if there's a way we could possibly have conversations with all those parking lot owners and empty lot owners for leasing or whatever improving parking so um don't know if we include that and yes I don't know if we ever we didn't hear anything back I agree”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And last I just want to say thank you to fired PD and all of our community neighborhoods that actually celebrated National Night Out. It was an amazing evening. Lot of great neighborhood fun and I just thank our PD and our fire for coming out and just making that a really special night. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026