Remarks by Kelly Ramirez
94 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“And there's going to be a significant, if we decide we want to abate this camp, completely abate it, there's going to be a significant cost associated with it, I'm assuming, to have an organization come in and fully abate and get rid of the hazardous materials.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Is there a cost associated with, you had made reference when you were giving your presentation about the accumulation of items that typically happen, you've seen it in Camp Hope, but you made reference to that happening in individual campsites or smaller campsites. If you don't get to them in a reasonable amount of time and they start to accumulate and then there's this, larger. When we do get to them and do abate them, there's a larger cost associated with those individual sites as well.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And when I read through this, I got the impression that it would be less impactful on our staff and our city resources if we did a reset and to completely abate. Am I reading that correctly?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“A few times that I've been down there and walked through, some of the campsites that you're referring to are vacant. They've been housed, and it's just left there.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“But maybe the chief has quality of life.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“You and Council Member Bracco and I sit on the ad hoc committee. We have our final meeting tomorrow. When do you anticipate coming back to Council with something?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So that's two months away. Obviously if Council decides on a direction it would take a while. This would be then a”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“AGAIN, WE'RE FACED WITH A VERY COMPLEX SITUATION WITH NO EASY ANSWER. I CAN'T ARGUE WITH YOU, COUNCILMEMBER HUGHAZI. YOU BRING UP VALID POINTS. I CAN'T ARGUE WITH COUNCILMEMBER MARX. I CANNOT ARGUE WITH COUNCILMEMBER HILTON. My concern is, you know, and I appreciate the optimism that you have for the ad hoc, because I do think that we're going to bring something back that will probably be a unanimous vote and be something very good for this community. But we're not there yet, and government gets in the way of government, and things take time. I'm looking at this from a couple of different…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“My request of this reset is instead of moving everything... No, I understood that part. ...starting over, keeping it so that nobody else can come in, and if there are empty tents, whatever, get rid of those and do not allow more to come in.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And hopefully, the ad hoc will come up with something like that.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“15 more, 25 more, 30 more is going to bother 25, 30, 15 more homeowners or business owners. And so I'm saying let's not add to what is already an issue by dispersing those that are in this.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Can I make a friendly amendment to that and add that we get a monthly report?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We can find out how many arrests are being made.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'M UNCLEAR WHAT THAT IS. CAN I HELP WITH THIS? JUST CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. reset, have staff provide a monthly report and end this at the beginning of November when the ad hoc committee brings back their recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“THERE'S NO STAFF REPORT. IT'S JUST A FAIR MEMO, THUMBS UP, TO HOPEFULLY GET THIS ON THE AGENDA. THE REASON I AM DOING THIS IS I HAVE COME TO REALIZE expense these types of lessons are and also to realize they are not swim lessons, they are life-saving lessons and I would like to see us come up with a way to provide this to the community.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“SO AS YOU KNOW, I SIT ON THE CITIES ASSOCIATION AND OFTENTIMES WE ARE ASKED TO VOTE ON DIFFERENT BILLS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH TO EITHER OPPOSE OR SUPPORT, AND I JUST FEEL IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF A COMMITTEE THAT WOULD REVIEW THE CITY'S POSITION, SO IT'S WHEN WE SERVE ON THESE INDIVIDUAL COMMITTEES, IT'S NOT OUR INDIVIDUAL VOTES, AND AN EXAMPLE OF THAT, WE TALKED ABOUT THE TWO NITROXIDE BILLS THAT ARE ON THE GOVERNOR'S DESK. WE ARE BEING ASKED AS CITIES TO SEND IN LETTERS OF SUPPORT a number of different items, including these. And so I just think it would be beneficial…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I understand because there are often times when cities that do have these LACs, they have to say that we abstain because we have not reviewed it. And so one of the things that I pushed for here when I came on was to get the packet ahead of time. We got it 72 hours. We both pushed for it. Terrence, thank you very much. And so it is one of the things that I am going to be pushing forward with Cities Association is look, We have a number of LACs that, you know, a number of cities that have these LACs, and I think it's imperative that they get it out in time. Awesome. So I move that we direct…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Can you go back just the month before this?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So when I read through this packet, I was surprised unless I read it long, which is very possible. that when you talk about our unemployment rate, it seems to be on par or whatever, and we have a high rate of those that are unemployed. But talk to me about the income levels of those employed versus the others. And when I read the packet, it made reference to $350,000 and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure I read it wrong.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Can you give an example? You spoke about different types of state-level financing and how critical it would be to do partnerships with the county.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“With regards to the contingency, and you said that additional things have been identified, how confident are you that the contingency will cover all of that?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“To finish my question here, I can appreciate you don't know off the top of your head the warranty on this, but was the length of warranty a part of what was considered when granting the contract? So if the next second closest YOU KNOW, TEN YEAR LONGER WARRANTY OR FIVE YEAR LONGER WARRANTY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, DOES THAT CLAY INTO THIS AT ALL?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So thank you for this presentation, all the work you have put into it over the last several months. Thank you to the community for all of your emails, phone calls, conversations. Just to kind of, as a reminder, we brought this forth. Council Member Marks and I, impetus was a concern about the data center, but we did not want to limit this to data centers. So I appreciate that that was not mentioned throughout because we're not sure what emerging technology may come as we wanted it to be. So my question is, to be clear, if impacts identified significant impacts IF IMPACTS CAN BE MITIGATED TO…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“OKAY. IF A PROJECT IS EITHER APPROVED OR DENIED BY EITHER ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL or if it goes to the Planning Commission, then it can be appealed by anyone. It can be appealed by a member of the community. It can be appealed by a group from the community. It can be appealed if it's denied. It can be appealed by the project developer. Is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS. YES, OKAY. GREAT. YOU ANSWERED NUMBER ONE, THAT IT CANNOT BE DENIED. NOW I'M JUST TALKING IN GENERAL ABOUT THE APPEAL PROCESS. SO IF EITHER AT THE STAFF LEVEL or at the planning commission level if the project goes to the planning commission. And if it is either approved or denied, it can be appealed. So if it's approved and someone in the community doesn't want it to be approved, they can appeal it. If it's denied and the project developer wants to appeal it, they can appeal it.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026