Remarks by Kaia Eakin
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Or encourage. Sure, that was just the point I was trying to make. That could be something about our downtown vitality strategy or our outreach strategy or some other strategy, but it's not about this ordinance tonight. Right. Okay, thank you. I just wanted to make that clear. I agree with my colleagues who have talked about, gosh, we don't want these hand carts to impede folks from being able to use the sidewalks. And so maybe that's... I trust you on your 36-inch determination because you worked a lot on it, but I think that's something the comparative cities had different determinations on…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you for reminding me about that. That's right. To Council Member Howard's point about the brick and mortar versus the mobile vending, they have pretty strict enforcement of minimum wage laws and all that kind of stuff. And my guess is with these multi-handcart folks, it's pretty loosey-goosey. So yes, thank you for that reminder. Very important to me. Oh, Mayor, your turn.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted a point of clarification. I think you said you were considering doing the outreach in-house, so it hasn't been decided if it's going to be a non-profit or in-house.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I just wanted to clarify that we haven't, we aren't for sure hiring a non-profit. So I just”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I guess I would just suggest that I don't want to micromanage staff. What our task to do here tonight is to approve this ordinance or not approve this ordinance. And yes, there are many moving pieces beyond implementing the ordinance, enforcing the ordinance. I will make a motion that we approve the ordinance.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think we have a request to approve the ordinance and a second.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So if I'm understanding, we have a motion and a second, and you've requested a friendly amendment. So I have a question for the city attorney, but I'll wait until we get that up. I have a question for the city attorney, but I'll wait until you get that up.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you so much. So my question to you, City Attorney, is... Okay, so let me orient myself again. So there's a motion and a second and a request for the friendly amendment. And the request for the friendly amendment is to extend the time in, what is the blue area called?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“The entertainment district to extend the time for mobile vending or non-mobile vending to, what did you say, 2 o'clock in the morning? Or what did you, what, 11, midnight till 2?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“You mean a brick and mortar? Correct. Yes.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I don't accept that expansion of, so I don't accept your friendly amendment if you're expanding it because as we discussed, we don't know where people live THAT'S TOO EXPANSIVE AN AREA. WE HAVE TO RESPECT THAT PEOPLE NEED TO SLEEP, AND IT IS NOT KNOWN, IT HASN'T BEEN STUDIED, SO NO, I DON'T ACCEPT THAT FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Then I accept your friendly amendment and Madam Clerk, should we have a vote? Pardon?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I just want to clarify, Councilmember Howard, when you say entertainment zone, we're talking about the blue, right? Correct. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, thank you very much, colleagues. That was a robust discussion. I really appreciate it. We are now going to matters of council interest. Do any city council members have reports on meetings and conferences attended?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Councilmember Howard. Anyone else?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you so much, colleagues, for attending CalCities. And I know... Mayor, I'm so sorry.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, it's fantastic that you all attended, and I know city manager and also city attorney did, as well as some other staff, so thank you so much. I'll just be very brief, but I see that Justin and Adrian are here, and I attended today the one shoreline event monthly meeting, and we got briefed on what is going to be a very wet winter. In particular, they're predicting that the king tides this year will be the highest in two decades, and that the tides will be six to eight inches higher than they are right now, and that they expect maybe one or perhaps more than one Kelvin waves which can…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I was just told by one shoreline that these two gentlemen were coordinating between the state, the county, one shoreline, and I just want to make sure our private property owners know about it so we can help those folks that might flood otherwise.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026