Remarks by Gil Hernandez
106 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“Thank you. We do have some local preference in our bid. policy, I believe that was brought to us a few years ago, but I think that only applied to within Corpus Christi. I don't know if it applied to the state as a whole. I forget the preference.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, so... But to Councilman Paxson's point, there's really no reflection in the memo saying that this is under a specific type of procurement that you couldn't go with the second lowest bidder that was local to the state. I know we're kind of talking nuance here, but... It does give us a bad impression that we're picking New York over Texas. So if you can, for future purposes, I'm going to believe that you're saying to us is what's correct. But in the future, when you have this kind of situation, you need to tell us in the agenda memo that you can't do that. It's required for the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. And this is something I pulled because I know it's something I've been working on for a while. There's currently work on being done over by Caffey Middle School as part of the Bond 2024 project from Proposition A for the District 5 trail connectivity. And I'm sure we're using that funding as the matching funding. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right. Yes. Right. So, OK. And I'd like to, you know, Sharon DelSouza actually made some public comments at the very last at the end there. but I'd like to thank her because she brought a lot of attention to this trail aspect, which actually encouraged me to look at it closer. And so I want to acknowledge her publicly that she had a lot to do with bringing this to my attention. And I appreciate us. I know we've been pounding for grants and the MPO, and I'd like to thank Robert McDonald over at the MPO and the staff over there for working to get this thing done. So I appreciate it. That also…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. Are we still doing Vision Zero? Yes, sir. Well, I mean, these projects for 11 and actually, you can actually make an argument for all three of these to be part of Vision Zero in terms of creating safe walking spaces. And I'm wondering why we didn't mention that at all.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I understand. But it is part of our initiative to have safe. Yes, sir. safe areas and we just uh if we adopted the policy we should include that in from i hear you yes sir part of that in there so i agree i don't want to you know sometimes we do something then we forget about it yes and i want to make sure we still have that in mind top in mind when we are doing projects and justifying Safe routes to school, right? Correct or safety for pedestrians, right? We want to make sure that people aren't getting you know, I'm being put in a dangerous situation Absolutely.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Go ahead. I apologize for this. I see the people from the museum, and we approved it during the... consent agenda, but they've been sitting out in the audience. I thought we'd give them an opportunity to at least say something since they've been sitting in the audience. Would that be okay?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, has Colsa Bend Basin Estuary still against this, of us not releasing water? or opposing this temporary halt on releasing water? That is correct. Do you expect them to testify at the board meeting?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. When we brought this up in years past, it had been a recommendation from CCW specifically Stefan Ramos to not open this can of worms is it is it still his position or CCW's position on that or.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so it's your position, CCW's position, that we do want to move forward and go to a more permanent solution as opposed to just a temporary one?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, and I noticed you're not doing a water report today, and there was some question I did want to ask on that, but specifically the, I know that Sinton has refused to provide us their hydrology report, and we submitted an open records request on it, and did we, or can you give us the status of that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so I want to be clear on this because did we provide them the hydrology report that was done by the Evangeline group?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So they were provided with Steve Young's report, the hydrology report.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But you're saying that they're refusing to provide their hydrologist report to us.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so did we, when that report was provided to Sinton, was there any redactions to that report? No. Not that I'm aware of. Okay, so we provided full information about the hydrologist report on the Evangeline property. To my knowledge, yes. But they refused to provide it to us. Yes. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, the area he's talking about is actually in District 5. It's around Sneed. There's an area there that is an older neighborhood, but this was kind of a result of us doing the pavement-only aspect. They have a lot of gutters that are turned up the wrong way, and then you see where it doesn't drain properly. We actually have to send a vac truck out to those neighborhoods, that particular neighborhood that he's referring to, in order to suck up water because the way the street was designed, the drainage is on each end of the neighborhood. So the whole section, if it drops down, doesn't drain.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, they're aware of it. Ernie's well aware of it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Peter, I mean, I was, you know, in terms of how you look at this, you look at particular programs, which you don't look at it as an overall, concern. What is the percentage of the budget that $820,000 represents?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So what are we looking at the general fund? $360,000? I'm sorry, I didn't look at it. It's about $350,000, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Less than half of 1%. So if you did a small less than half of 1% across all departments, would that be an issue?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Next year we have to look at our... Can you articulate that a little bit better?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, I did have an issue with the way this was done. Did we make any changes to the cost of living allowance versus merit pay? We did not, Councilman. We kept the recommendation as we had it. Okay, well, I didn't vote for all the items from 4 to 13. I did not vote for 4. I also did not vote for, I want to say it's... Item number 12. So, Rebecca, on this thing, since we're voting them all at once, can I select certain ones that I'm not voting for?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I believe so. I think there was one other one that I voted against. I think I also voted against six as well.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just for clarification, this has to be a supermajority, six vote?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You know, a while back, just a month ago, we made a suggestion to put before the voters the final two cents that probably would have addressed some of these issues. Now, ultimately, I think the voters should be able to decide on some of these things, right? Especially on something like a tax increase for streets specifically. I don't... You know, I didn't vote for the budget last week because I thought there were some issues there, but I did vote for the tax increase just so we could get to this week so we could get some information put forward on some options. I'm disappointed we didn't see…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026