Remarks by John Marchand
169 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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“Okay. Seeing no additional comments, I'm going to close the public comment period and bring it back to the council. Questions or comments from the council? Council Member Dunbar.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. It's been moved. And I will second. Seconded by Council Member Dunbar. Any discussion on the motion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Abstentions? It passes unanimously. Thank you very much. We can bring Council Member Berrientos back in. All right. You're back just in time for the adjournment. We're going to adjourn to a regular hybrid city council meeting Monday, September 14th at 7 p.m. We'll see you here. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Good evening. Welcome to this, the July 27th meeting at the Livermore City Council. I call the meeting to order. Roll call, please.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Here. If you'll please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“OK, very good. Thank you. OK, so we've come to the end of a long journey. No, I'm not talking about tonight's meeting. I'm talking about in September, we empaneled the September of 2021. I had actually termed out of office. And I was fortunate to be appointed to the General Plan Advisory Committee. And every 20 years or so, the city council goes through the general plan to update it. And so I had updated the plan in 2002 and figured since I had so much fun doing that, I'd come back and do it again. So we impaneled 19 people, and it was a wide cross-section of the community. Our first meeting…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And I'd also like to recognize the three people who were on the committee but are not here. Krista Alexie, Arun Bhatia, and Ellen Peet also stuck out the whole five years here and sincerely appreciate the tremendous amount of work and commitment that everybody did. So once again, thank you so much. It's greatly appreciated. This is the blueprint for the next 25 years. So certainly appreciate the fact that they got it right. 748 pages in the final document. So thank you. Advisory body appointments, we don't have any. Next, moving on to the open forum. This is an opportunity to speak…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I'm going to close the public comment period for open forum. Moving on to the consent calendar. Is there anything that anybody wishes to pull on consent?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And I have some comments on the sewer proposal and then I'll be abstaining on 6.7. But if you want to go ahead and make your comments.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, it's just a win for everybody. And the fact that, again, thanks to the staff for taking a lead on that and negotiating was a great benefit for everybody.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Actually, did you have a, okay. With that, if there's no other comments on consent, I'll entertain a motion. We have one public comment.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“No, I don't have a comment. I got that myself.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Perfect. Thank you. OK, so if that's the comments, then if there is, I'll accept a motion on the consent calendar.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Oh, do we have public comment? I'm sorry.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Yeah, this has been, I think the state of California recognized that the homeowners were responsible for the site of Lubbock in, I think, 1947. So this is, as people move in and out of neighborhoods, there have been some cities that used to fund that. And with all of the other requirements on cities now, we just don't have the resources. And it's up to the homeowners to decide to mitigate that. So this is an opportunity to make a huge difference. And again, I applaud staff for taking the initiative to make that happen. Any other public comments?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, I'm going to close the public comment period for consent calendar. Is there a motion to move consent? Do you want a motion on all items or was there one? I will just say that I will be abstaining on 6.7. Okay, then I'll move consent. Okay, that work?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, seconded by Council Member Dunbar. Any discussion on the motion moving everything except 6.7? Oh, we have to do roll call, that's right. Type your meeting.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, moving on to zero motion from 66.7 almost 6.7 and I'll second. Much me by customer branding seconded by customer Dunbar any discussion on the motion. Will call please.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, that quote moving on from consent. This is item 7.1, hearing to place delinquent sewer accounts on the property tax roll.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, in that case, I'm going to close the public comment period, bring it back to the council. Do we have any questions, comments? Okay, seeing none, I'll accept a motion. Moved by Council Member Berrientos.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Seconded by Vice Mayor Wong. Any discussion on the motion? So since we are hybrid, we have to do the roll call in each one, correct? Okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Aye. Okay, passed unanimously. Moving on to 7.2 is the hearing to adopt the fiscal year 2026-2027 sewer service and use charges. Presentation.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. In that case, I'm going to close the public hearing, bring it back to the council. Any questions or comments from the council? Okay, so we just did a repair on the sewer line. I saw that $28 million is the ballpark revenue. We just did a repair of 3,400 feet of sewer line, which came into about $3.5 million. And so... ballpark, we have about 300 miles of sewer line in the system. So doing the math, that comes out to about $1.6 billion to replace our sewer system. And this is bringing in $28 million. So hoping that the sewer system lasts for but 58 years based on that. But that doesn't…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And so we're branding I don't remember Dunbar I vice mayor Wong I remember Sean I passion amously moving on to the point 3. There are a few people who are sticking it out to the final final episode here.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Do you have any public comment?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, so we're going to take a brief recess while we work the technology. Sort of see heads nodding. Okay, we're going to take a brief recess. So we will be back shortly as we work through the technology.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026