Remarks by John Marchand
169 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 7
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“Okay. In that case, I'm going to close the open forum. We'll move on next to the consent calendar. Is there anything that anyone wishes to pull for comment and consent? Council Member Barrientos? 6.8 and 6.9. Okay. Is there anyone else that wishes to pull anything for comment? Okay.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“No speakers. All right. In that case, I'm going to close the public comment period for consent. You had 6.8 and 6.9. Any questions?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“The contract, yes. Amazing how fast time flies. 6.8 is what I do. A couple of questions, just some clarifications. So the water system in Livermore is an enterprise fund. So no general fund dollars go into this. This is all paid for by the users that are using the water system.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And Within the last couple of weeks, we've had some episodes where the water had kind of an off odor to it. And I heard from a number of people that were concerned about that. And it turned out that the State Water Project had to do some repairs and some maintenance on the South Bay Aqueduct. And that was the switching of the systems. But according to our agreement, at all times, the water that Zone 7 delivers must meet the primary drinking water standards, which are related to public health and safety. They're nodding yes.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, great. There was a fair amount of language in here about the independent quota, which is something that water agencies are allowed to pump a certain amount. But Livermore doesn't own any wells. So the independent quota was more important for Pleasanton, but it doesn't really impact Livermore.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. I was surprised to see, but I imagine it's probably just the boilerplate that they produce. And similarly, for agencies that have their own wells, if they pump beyond their independent quota, they have to pay a recharge fee. That does not affect Livermore because we don't have a recharge fee or we don't have wells. Okay, great. This has always bothered me. 6.9. Anybody can talk to anything to the council as long as it's in the subject matter jurisdiction. We have a number of people here that speak on things that are beyond the subject matter jurisdiction of the city. But in order to…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you. So with that, if there's nobody that has any other comments on the consent calendar, I'll entertain a motion. I'll move consent. Okay, Councilmember Branning moves consent. I'll second. Seconded by Councilmember Dunbar. Any discussion on the motion? If there's no opposition, it passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Moving on to public hearings 7.1. This is the authorization to negotiate a development agreement on a development agreement and stand. Yes.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Is there anybody else that wishes to comment?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, I'll open the public hearing then.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“OK. In that case, I'm going to close the public hearing, bring it back to the council. Does the council have any questions?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Mayor Mrakas, The comments are considered very intense vice mayor.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“seconded by the vice mayor. Any discussion on the motion? If there's no opposition, it passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Get Council Member Dunbar back. All right, matters for consideration, this is a resolution approving the executive management management confidential and confidential compensation plan.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Any questions for staff? Do we have any public comment?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We have no speakers at this time. Okay. We have no speakers. Okay. In that case, we're going to close the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Is there any questions or comments? I'll entertain a motion. Okay. Moved by council member Berrientos. We have a second.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Seconded by a council member Dunbar. Yeah. There's a discussion on the motion if there's no opposition. Thank you very much, thank you. Okay, bringing it back to the Council for. Matters initiated and Council. Oh, are there any online, there were no. In the beginning okay.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So there are no speakers online. In that case, I'm going to close the public comment period for the online portion of the open forum. With that, bringing it back to the council, council reports and matters initiated. Council Member Dunbar.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And we had eight buses altogether. So it was quite a success.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Very good. Thank you. Again, I've got to give a shout out to the 4th of July at the airport. What an amazing event. There were literally thousands of families, thousands of children. There were, we had the Alameda County helicopter was out there. We had the sheriff's helicopter there. We had the Veterans First Program from Las Positas College. The police and fire departments were out there. We had the only flying Marine B-25 in the world was out there. It flew in. We had one of only six Japanese Zeros in the world fly in. We had the F-6F Hellcat. which was actually the first plane…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026