Remarks by Garrett Gatewood
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“He doesn't want to be appointed. It's messed up Did a bunch of work he wants to go on the ballot and be clicked off on by let everyone in the community see his name I”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, I mean, you go around and look at it. The thing is the community wants to see the person. I want to give that district, that's their person that ran. He's the only person that stood up and did the ballot statement, all that stuff. He wants to have his name shown that the community has someone from his area. That's the whole reason we do this. And next time he's going to have competition and they'll get to see his name and someone else's name. So I think it's only right, since he took the time to raise the money, get ready, get all the stuff in place, that he should get his name on the…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“The candidate would like to be on the ballot.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But I think that's right. I think we should give everyone the opportunity. And that under-ballot always be taking a lot of votes. All right, call the question. Call the question.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I would like to move a motion that we go ahead and put him on the ballot.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Option number two. Second. Roll call, please.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“All right, now we're moving on to future agenda items. Anyone got anything they wanna talk about? No. Then lastly, I'm gonna adjourn the meeting in the name of, and I lost this. Steve Nelson. Steve Nelson. May he rest in peace. Meeting adjourned.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“All right, I'm gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order and ask Stacy for roll call.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Here. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and stand and ask Maria's daughter to do the Pledge of Allegiance. You have to.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can you guys stay standing? We're going to have our invocation by Walter Little. Come on, Pastor.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you very much. I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND SIT DOWN. NOW LET'S HAVE PRESENTATIONS BY THE SHINING A LIGHT ON THE SERVICE. SPRING DAY SERVICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR RANCHO PEDROVA MAY 16, 2026. AND WE CAN GO AHEAD. Okay. All right, and this presentation is by Lorianne, and behind her is, of course, the city of Rancho Cordova's boss.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“we can waste more time if you want no I would love to hear mayor if you have any comment well I mean like it was an amazing event I got to go to a couple but my favorite was going to of course the mineshaft and then seeing one of our volunteers with a broken ankle still try to go around and do the volunteering that's how much If you know him, Lee loves the city. Like, he literally had his ankle separated and was like, it's fine. I took some aspirin. I'm just going to knock this out real quick. I'm going to knock out, fixing the entire. I was like, go home. He's like, no. He said, then who's…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Can I say something? You wanna say something about your wife? You know, we're all watching.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“There you got your kudos. All right, thank you guys. Moving on, so let's get Brenda Roach up here and you can talk about all the people we've tricked into staying with us for over a decade.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“All right, before you go on, Maria, I've been here a decade, and you came in with me, and so I've always appreciated someone that can be like, please don't say that out loud. And honestly, you really took, and this is just from someone on the outside that actually had a company that basically did this type of communication, you truly took us from a different level. The way you communicate, the way you engage us, the way you keep us counseled, engaged on what's going on with police and fire is truly amazing, and I appreciate everything you've done for our city.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“All right, moving on. Public comment. We will now move to public comment. Members of the public wishing to address the council for any matter not on the agenda may do so at this time. Public comment period is limited to matters that fall within the council's authority, known as councils for subject matter jurisdiction. It's new. For the items that are on the agenda, speakers will be called by the mayor at the point on the agenda when the item is heard. Speakers are asked to keep their comments to three minutes or less and asked at the beginning by stating their name for the record. To submit…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you, that was awesome. And good job on this.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yes, can you hear us? There he is. All right, go ahead.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, who's next? that is it we do not have any additional public comment let me just follow up I think his name is Marcel and Jermaine yes all right good news is and just so you know this right now the city is pursuing a full stadium inside the stadium there's going to be fine dining in the area along with other cool hotels possibly if you've read it maybe movie theater possibly bowling alleys but Increasingly number of fine dining will become into the area with that So keep your ear to the ground and we have some pretty amazing stuff getting ready to get announced in the…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. I'm going to move on to council reports, and we're going to start with David. David, what's going on?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thanks for bringing that back from India for us. Really appreciate that. Yeah, I know. Couldn't bring food back. At least you didn't bring the humidity.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“All right, moving on to me. I had a very, lots of stuff. All right, met with the California Black Chamber of Commerce. They are very interested with all the stuff that we're doing on jobs and job placement and technology, and they want to know how they can get involved to help people get jobs. I got to see the animal barn. It was cool. It's kind of unique that we... It was funny because Sean came to me. He's like, hey, I really want a good long speech, even though you were told to do a small speech. And so I went to Maria, and I was like, he wants a really in-depth speech because he wants to…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“We can name the goats after the employees. So rancher of the goats? Yeah. And the fire ones could have fire caps.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yeah, council could be on there. I could have a cool-looking goat. I like this idea. Well, fertilizers, they go. They fertilizers do it.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Oh, fun thing. They started talking about people were getting in line to read to the sheep because of that movie at the thing. And I was like, that's fabulous. But the sheep. There's no goat yoga. You know what? Moving on. Congratulations to Walk Your Place.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026