Remarks by Javier Fernández
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“Further comments? No. Welcome aboard. Good luck. Thank you. Big shoes to fill, but we sure do a good job. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.”
“Thank you, sir. I do have one question in the report. I'm sorry to even ask it. I forgot. What are, what exactly are we doing at Murray Park with the residing? I thought we'd resided the field previously and now that I'm actually going to the gym, I saw that recently. Murray Park? Yes, sir.”
“Again, I just, thank you for reminding me. I don't recognize you right now, I'm sorry, ma'am. I know we passed the item for SOMI on a one-year basis, and it's just something for us to keep in mind as we try to think about cost recovery. Again, I'm not trying to, I don't wanna make a profit on a school, but just wanna make sure that we're having a move that it's fair and allows us to kind of keep the facility up to par, right? So kids actually have a good place to play and recreate. Yes, you're recognized.”
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“Okay, thank you. Okay. Did we take action on N1? No? Nope. Does it require formal appointment or is it just, do you need to read in the record?”
“Thank you, Madam Clerk. Okay, colleagues, we've got the final report from the Charter Review Commission that we convened to talk about. There's a lot in there. If I could just offer some observations and see if there's some consensus. Maybe we can narrow the list to a subset, because I don't know that all of us want to put all 14 items on the ballot this year. And I don't know if there's any way to do it in a consolidated fashion if we got to. District attorneys, is there one way to kind of adopt a document or as a single item, or do we have to take these in?”
“The work product, is the work product there to support that right now or not?”
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“That we adopted, so we can make modifications as needed in our ordinance as opposed to having to go back and constantly amend the...”
“Colleagues, are we in agreement that maybe four is the right number of ballot items generally? Anyone have any thoughts on the total number?”
“Okay. Mr. Vice Mayor, any thoughts? We've never done more than four before, but yeah. Madam Commissioner, any thoughts on the number before we get into expanding the list?”
“Let's go left to right and see. Are there any items that you want to add to the list? No, but there's one I want to talk about. Okay, but it's on the list so far?”
“OKAY. PERFECT. VICE MAYOR, YOU'RE GOOD? YES.”
“I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT A LIST OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO FOCUS ON. COMMISSIONER KAYA? NO. WE'RE GOOD? OKAY. SO LET'S GO THROUGH THE LEFT TO RIGHT AGAIN. LADIES FIRST. WHICH ONE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS FIRST?”
“Oh, okay, that's not what I had on my list. Okay, now what is number 10?”
“Got it, I was trying to add it so we knew what we wanted to talk about. Okay, we'll add 10, let's go there, yeah.”
“So I think what this is, as I read it, what it does is puts us on the August primary as opposed to a November election, which generally has lower turnout.”
“Well, so what I thought was absurd and why I thought it was one of the ones I think was ready to be discussed or considered is because let's assume you've got three candidates in the race. Let's assume I ran for mayor and I won with 80% of the vote. the way this is drafted would require me to run in November again, right? So I just, you know, I don't know what the logic was. I talked very briefly with my appointee about it. I wanted to kind of review the record and kind of understand what the discussion was to get to this recommendation. But as it was drafted, it just didn't intuitively make…”
“Yeah, that's why I didn't include it in my list for that reason. Any other comments on that? Anyone want to discuss that?”
“Sure. I think it's an easy cleanup. So again, I think really the goal I have on the list, okay, the manager said 1, 7, 13, and 14. Do you want to talk about the franchise ones since that's the most complicated?”
“Of the ones that we have potentially, Mr. C. Attorney. So as I read the item, it didn't really, the recommendation did not necessarily decouple It defined franchise, correct?”
“The feedback I got from my appointee who I talked to was that the committee wanted to keep leases to not longer than 50 years. But they did want to distinguish between leases and franchises.”
“My understanding is, again, I don't want to speak for the whole board, but Manny Chico, who I appointed, who I kind of debriefed with, Said the discussion essentially was Franchises are distinct. They're a privilege, right? All right, they should be for a shorter term leases obviously confer rights in the realty or property They saw a distinction as a board but notwithstanding the distinction They didn't want to allow leases to go beyond 50 years without going to the ballot”
“Okay, why don't you explain what you understand the language to read?”
“So to understand the effect of this, you're saying we have to read the section four modifications Concurrently with what other section of the charter?”