Remarks by Emmanuel Hernandez Soto
66 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you for... coming here today and presenting this. And I know one of the questions I get is, is what happened to the high school? And I think you hit on that today. And so I hope people listen and people vote. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“What's keeping us from making fixed routes free and charging for these two services? Or are we generating enough that it's worth us to keep charging for the fixed routes?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Dennis, do you want to speak to this a little bit? Just to fix routes, so not the tier one or tier two. Yeah, I understand. I understand what you're saying.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you for the presentation. One more question. Would we ever consider maybe, I understand that we have to collect 20% back, maybe just as a marketing tool, providing like a couple months, two months, three months of fair service, just fixed route, of course. When this is implemented, if and when it's implemented?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And we promote that on the buses too or is that something that someone has to go to the office and ask for?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Hopefully that does pass so we can get that funding. Last question. I'm going to throw a wrench in here. If we were to bring bus workers into, to become city workers, so in-house, get rid of third party, since we're talking about savings, would that save us any money? Not just with turnover rate, but I guess you're not taking out the profit margin out of the question, essentially.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And do you know how long ago that study was? Just for the record? Or roughly?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And then do we sell monthly passes or passes anywhere else besides Transit Center? I thought we did.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“No, thanks for the presentation. It's exciting, you know, this happens. I'm sure people will enjoy the service, and I don't know, maybe I'll take it one of these days. Hey, there you go.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Just to help, I'm not interested in being it. So if we can choose tonight, I don't mind.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, if we have two tonight, I don't mind making that motion unless Vice Mayor Nguyen wants to be on it.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“No, no, I don't have any comments. Just let public get to have a second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“No questions, no comments. Thank you for the report.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I move to adopt resolution number 2026-68, authorizing submission of an application to the state's pre-housing designation program to designate the city of Isiah as a pro-housing city.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Just thank you and happy that we're funding these important programs here in the city. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yes, that data does not include license plate readers on cops. I know that on the correct right because that's separate.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And so the rest would essentially be the license plate readers? Correct. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Can they share it with outside agencies, the private ones?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, I got one question. This grant funding, besides the last three years, have we applied for it previous to that? And if so, what did we use that funding for previous to FLOC?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And then do we anticipate grant funding being able to cover costs moving forward for flock? Or is that something that we just have now and just will try to get in the future, but if not use like general fund money or something?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thanks for the presentation and thanks for what y'all do. I know you are one of the agencies that people look up to and I understand that we haven't found anyone misusing it internally. But my problem is that it's warrantless. And I know Chief mentioned that, you know, it'll probably get, you know, stricter potentially. And I think that case that was mentioned, that the Supreme Court recently ruled on, it's essentially heading that way. I believe we need to get a warrant to search this data. I mean, I know it doesn't track us. I know I understand that. but it can give you an idea of roads…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Essentially, it I know the word it was that it can it can essentially it provides a almost like a sorry, I wanted to use the word that was mentioned in the case. Give me one second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So the word I was looking for, it can reveal private matters, including a wealth of detail about a person's political, professional, religious, and sexual associations based on the profiles that you can create based on where you travel. And so... I would, I mean, I know we locally can't, you know, make local, you know, jurisdictions outside of here give us, you know, file a warrant. I know it's a state issue. But to answer your question, I didn't, I mean, we're learning more and more about it, just as PD is and everybody else, that's why. And we're just... you're seeing court cases like the…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“At what time, yeah. No, and I guess to clarify, it's the amount of these cameras that are being put. I know we started off, I don't know how many we started off with, but we're at, what, 20? We're going to be at 20?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“It's the amount of the cameras that essentially will now create that profile, right? I mean, if I travel through these on a daily basis at the same time, you can kind of create a profile of, oh, Manuel goes to the gym, you know, at 9 o'clock every day. And so, yeah, you know, it's more of that. And that's why I think it's leaning that way, right? I don't think we're there yet. I don't think five cameras can do that. I think 20, 30, 40 cameras can definitely now start creating that profile. And so, yeah, I hope that answers your question. Yeah. But besides that, no, I would like to see that we…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026