Remarks by Jim Cunneen
313 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 13
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“Here. All members are present. Thank you. Announcement of supplemental communications.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thanks so much. Next, we'll move into city manager update. City Manager Maggie Lee.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“For the mayor's update. So the strategic planning session on Thursday, September 17th at 9 a.m. to noon at the Fountain Valley Recreation Center. So please join the city council and city staff at our next six-month strategic planning session at the Fountain Valley Recreation Center. This will start about 9 a.m. and generally goes one, a little bit after lunch. And the meeting is open to the public. What are you doing Saturday morning? You wanna join me for my next mile with the mayor? This will be the third and hopefully we'll be able to do another one. But this time we're gonna meet at the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So good thing you mentioned that. Please wear orange to recognize September as the Hunger Action Month in Fount Valley. Hunger Action Month is a national effort to raise awareness of food and nutritional insecurity in our community. We want to inspire members of our community to take action when they can to support hunger issues in Fount Valley and all of Orange County. No reservations are needed. All are welcome. We hope to see you there as we take steps toward a healthier and more connected community. The Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce legislative update on September 23rd will be at…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, I am. Great. So a lot's going on, and that concludes the Mayor's update. Okay, next we'll move into council items for future consideration. Are there any council members that have an item for future consideration? Okay, hearing none, we will move into presentations. We have one presentation tonight. And so tonight we're going to focus on hunger action month proclamation. So what I'd like to do is come down to the podium and I'll read some of the proclamation. And the proclamation is going to be accepted tonight by Liz Andrade. Liz is with 211 OC, which is actually part of what's called…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Okay, next is First City Council Successor Agency Housing Authority public comments on unscheduled matters. Do we have any requests to speak?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Public comments on scheduled matters only. Do we have any requests to speak? I have no requests to speak on scheduled matters. Okay. We'll move into consent calendar. Consent calendar items one through five will be approved simultaneously with one motion.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Let's make that six. Consent calendar items one through six will be approved simultaneously with one motion under separate action and or discussion if requested. Does anyone wish to move an item?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Next we'll move into public hearings. Each person will have up to three minutes to speak on each public hearing. Item 7, Public Hearing, Fiscal Year 2025-2026, Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, presentation by our Neighborhood Improvement Manager, Ashlyn Newman. Welcome.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Great. Hold that thought, Ashlyn. I'm going to open the public hearing. Are there any requests to speak? We have no request to speak. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. And now open to questions from council. Yes. Councilman Buoy.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Any other questions from Council? Well I also want to echo appreciation for really a banner year you know you set goals and a lot of those were exceeded by far so fantastic work also I would like to express our appreciation to the Housing Community Development Advisory Board for all the work that they do as a team you know helping to kind of move these forward as well so great work and thanks so much and okay so I'll call for a motion on the item make a motion to approve item number seven all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed item number seven passes five zero thank you thank you…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Great, thanks so much. Any questions from Council? Councilman Granis?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I just want to check with Councilwoman Constantine. Any comments or questions?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. Well, thanks so much for the presentation. I'll go ahead. Thank you. I'll move the item. First, from Councilman Grandes.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Second, from Councilman Bowie. Any other discussion? Public comment. Do you have some card that's still open?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Are there any other requests to speak? I'm seeing none. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Item number eight passes 5-0. Great. Thanks so much. Now we'll move into appointments. Item nine, appointments to the Cultural, Arts, Recreation, Sports, and Seniors Advisory Committee. We're naming this CARS for simplicity. And introduction by City Clerk Rick Miller.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, you know, kind of the larger background on this committee is, We have a lot of big decisions to make specifically regarding the parks master plan. We've got a brand new document. There are a number of items in there that really need a wide discussion. So we think one of the The value and benefits of a CARS committee would be to bring the Parks Master Plan in front of that committee and talk about, well, what are some ideas? We've got a lot of data, and so that's kind of a heavy lift that we think would be an effective use of that committee. I think, as Councilmember Bui mentioned,…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. I appreciate that. That sounds reasonable.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah. Jenny, would you like to come up and maybe shed some light on the structure of when meetings might be possibly planned in October and every quarter?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“yeah just want to get qualification there's no particular if the individual is a resident or business and you just appoint whoever you would want to appoint on the committee I think the speaking at least from my vision of what this committee can do it is it's a little bit broader than just our city boundaries because we're talking about Recreation that is regional we're talking about cultural and arts That come from you know from Little Saigon to honey from Huntington Beach from other parts of our County I just don't want to be limiting and not miss you know, I want to miss some opportunities…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“OK. A work in progress. I support that. And so we're going to table this. We'll continue to a future item. I'll still take public comments if we're. It's the last item on our agenda.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes Yeah, that was the purpose of tonight and so it's still important to have that at least in mind I think That's what the rest of us have been trying to do. I”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026