Remarks by Javiera Caballero
61 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation. As somebody who's been involved from the beginning of this work and many years ago now, it seems like, and definitely remember the artists coming. I think, if I'm not mistaken, in our budget, our 2020-2021 budget pre-pandemic, we had an arts grant program, not a ton of money, but a little bit of money funded in that budget that we had to then put on hold because of the pandemic. So this is a long time coming. Thank you to all the residents. Thank you to the DCAB members. I know you all have worked diligently on this, and I look forward to our…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. And then as we stand up a table of sorts, thank you so much. That was my only question. Thank you. As we stand up a table of sorts, I hope that we make sure to include folks from Cultural Affairs Board and also Durham Next. I do also want to just thank staff and Durham Next folks for really aligning that festival process. That's something that we've heard a lot of quite frankly, complaints about for many years. And so I know that this cycle seems like it was much smoother, very well aligned. When money's going out the door, all of those really hard pieces for festivals, I know that…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. No, you're fine. I just I'm just too excited.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“a proposed legislative federal and state legislative agendas to the full council for consideration which will be an agenda item that's publicly available um thank you for that uh we have to decide we had had a standing legislative committee meeting at noon with the state lobbyists but that has been put on pause because they're not really meeting right now so we'll have to go back and decide when we can meet as a legislative committee”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I mean, the election is in November. And so I think that depends. I think the at least what we've heard from the state lobbyists is your strategy depends on what happens in the election.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Cook. Council Member Burris?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Can I get a motion to settle?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Any opposed? OK, motion carries. And that is all the business we have in front of us today. We are adjourned at 3.47 PM.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026