Remarks by Joel Anderson
97 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Thank you. I My concern is this is not our lane. And once we start going down the Fed's lane, the state's lane, there's always things that need to be done in the county that aren't our lane. And I've opposed being outside of our lane, no matter what the project was, if it's not our lane. In the board letter, The sense and the direction I got was not even to look at using the leverage of the water that we sell. And I get it. That's Otay Water District that does it, not us. But we're not even taking into consideration. We're already committing to $1.8 million in a long-term strategy without…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Sure, I'll be happy to. I want to express my sincere appreciation to Vice Chair Montgomery-Stepp for partnering with me on this item. and to our previous El Capitan board letter that started this whole process. The El Capitan Reservoir is a very special reservoir. Not only does it provide some of the best boating, fishing, and recreation in the county, it is a vital part of the City of San Diego's water supply. It's owned by the City of San Diego, but is located near Alpine in the Unincorporated. It is used by thousands of residents in my districts and throughout the county. Because it's such…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. Sheriff, I just want to thank you for the hard work. When I first got elected, our numbers were astounding. You've reduced them substantially in terms of deaths. I get you can't control everything, but clearly you're controlling something. And it's the right trend in the right direction. And kudos to you and your team. Keep up the good work.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Let's call it public comment, and then I'll be happy to.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. So this is a board that consists of 11 members. There are two members that come from each district, all five districts, and there's one seat at large. The concern I have with this is we're now reducing the standard where Two districts could control all the policy coming from this. The whole purpose of coming from each district, I believe, is to have better representation and diversity on the board to represent both the coastal communities and the inland communities. And yet, this change would allow just two districts to set all the board policy. The other issue is it…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I forgot to include. So right now, it takes 54.5% to pass something on the board. So you have a board majority. This will reduce the standard to 36.4%. And it would require, for someone not to show, it would require that five, that six members don't show to stymie things. So I get it. It's a difference of opinion, and I'm good with that. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“One of the issues with this is unlike other committees, we have given them extraordinary power. We have gone back and and really empowered this committee to do investigations, to do other things. In lowering that standard, I don't know that I would have voted to give them more teeth and more ability if I knew the goal was to lower the standard so that simply two districts would have the authority to use the teeth that we gave them. And I want this to be a powerful committee, and I don't want to take away from it, So that's my concern. Unlike the other committees that they described, those…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I certainly appreciate when people don't show up or people don't get appointed, but that's where the focus should be. It shouldn't be lowering the standard of representation. You know, right now we have a board that gets along, that is of good nature. What if the next board majority decides the club's not important and they simply don't make the appointments, and then only two districts, four people, vote for the 11th? and control the direction. If we hadn't empowered them with additional, and I don't remember off the top of my head, maybe, Ebony, you can share with us the additional…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Now, do you have subpoena power or what? Because you didn't have that before. That was a huge step. We've always had subpoena power. I thought there was more to it. Monica, you had a whole deal in Supervisor Montgomery's stuff. I mean, I liked it, I supported it, but I knew that we'd have a full board reviewing it and that, you know, it'd take three districts to actually pass things.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“If When I do this stuff, I'm not thinking about this board. I'm not worried about this board, but I don't know who follows us. We have to confirm every person that goes on CLRB. If somebody wanted to hold up that confirmation... because they liked the direction and they didn't want the direction to change. I just don't want the process to be politicized. And I appreciate where everybody's coming from. And I just want to tell you, you know, thank you. And look, we all vote our districts. And I agree with that because we were elected to represent our districts. But to me, it's not about us.…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Let's see though. You'd still have the board majority. You'd have three people producing six people. and the CAO, a district-wide person, that would give you seven people. So even if two people decided they're not going to do their appointments, the process still would include the board majority of the votes passing. And even today, under the circumstances of six, it's a board majority that passes it. It can't be done with just two districts' appointees doing the work. It takes more than 30... What did I tell you, 34%? 36%? It actually takes 54%. So I always feel like if 50% plus one, you're…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to offer a friendly amendment that reflects our county's takes on misuse of public funds seriously. And I think that I have it here if we could post it. And I was thinking that we could either replace paragraph 10 or put it in after paragraph 10. I'm flexible on that. But with all the brouhaha, I don't want to have any confusion about over where we stand on fraud and at the same time how our constituents are in need and their needs are our concern. So it's not a big difference, but it would make it easy for me to get to yes.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Either in lieu of paragraph 10 or after paragraph 10.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“It can be done with any money. The question is, where will we get a large enough chunk of money? The lost revenue strategy? We do it all the time.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Would you like to go first from where you want me to?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Well, first of all, I would like to thank our Vice Chair Montgomery Stebb for partnering with me on this very important initiative. As you've heard, this is really important. This money is going to draw down $400,000 in federal funding to help give small loans and emergency businesses in East County the step they need to get started. We've had tremendous success with programs like this in the past. You'll serve La Mesa, Lemon Grove, CNT, El Cajon, and it's an absolute fantastic program. I'm very happy to support it. In past years, it's helped more than 570 businesses, created more than…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, I just want to point out that none of the loans go to big, evil companies. They're all small, family-oriented, tiny companies that a small loan would really help.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“If I'm not confident, then I'm not going to violate the law with my questions or my constituents' questions.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I just want to thank you and all the people that put the plan together and are executing the plan on behalf of my constituents. Thank you for the great work that you do. We appreciate it each and every day.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I'm good with all this. What doesn't work, we can change. It's not in stone. And so while thinking in terms of where we want to head, I'd like to amend this to include to direct the CAO to report back to the board within 180 days with options to increase the size of ADUs from 1,200 to sizes such as 1,400 or 1,600 or larger. I just want to know what the options are I don't want us to move forward with it. I just want to know what those options are, because if we're talking about moving for this independence and allowing people to purchase, perhaps 1,600 square feet is a better number that…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“It's just to discuss because we don't even know what we're up against.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I'm good voting with what you've suggested.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“All I'm saying is in addition to it, since we're looking at all this. Just direct staff, specifically. So...”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I am... I'm going to hand my note over. Okay, all right. I'll be able to read it. It's right here, but I have notes in the back.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I think staff's going to come back and say, we can go to here, but then we have to jump through these extra hoops to go bigger than that. And I'm just looking for, well, what is it? I'm not. I'm not thinking it's going to be 2,400 square feet.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026