Remarks by Kim Constantine
142 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“Yeah, I mean, this is just a real, there's something about having the presentation here by a staffer. It's timely. By October 1st, that's a little too late.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, yeah, it doesn't have to be long. Thank you. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, but I will put it out there to approve these items.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And I stand by my motion to move the item. And I will be voting yes. Actually on all the items presented.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Sure. The peanut sauce was good, but I didn't try the purple paste. Okay, so I did attend two of the grand openings my other colleagues mentioned. On August 19th, I was a speaker at the Fountain Valley Republican Assembly at IHOP in Huntington Beach. On the 20th, I attended the mayor's breakfast. Then as our city's trustee to Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District, participated in the monthly board meeting at their district headquarters. In the evening, I participated in the Community Foundation Grants and Board Meeting. On the 22nd, I stopped in at the library. They were having…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, I mean, it could be. That never happened before. There could be some untreated pools. I went around with Vector ways ago, and we visited several homes that they are treating for mosquito problems because of untreated pools here in the city. And, yeah, it's an issue. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Sure. Well, congratulations again, Heather and Rick. Very well deserved for the award. And I think it was, I can't remember when it was, I just recently did the workplace harassment prevention for local agency officials training on my tablet, and it was very, very beneficial. JPIA makes it very, very easy, and they offer lots of training, conferences, and more. And so I'm happy. Thank you. Thank you. Great reporting, too.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I do, actually. Since the letterhead from our attorney for the city provides a tremendous credibility weight, is there anything we can do to, instead of having the challenges that we may have that are very, very time consuming and staff consuming, have a letter from the attorney for the city at some point just kind of doing a reminder. You know what I'm saying? taking action at that point exactly but just maybe reminding of our policy or just something that we can put in writing just in conjunction with the attorney for the city so then maybe we won't have what we have sometimes.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So I have to say, the city of Anaheim, just on a regular basis, they do allow short-term rentals. It's something that they allowed many years ago. And they had several hundred approved. They were very, very tight with their rules and regulations. You could sell the property and the license would transfer over. It might have been a three strikes you're out kind of a thing as far as being able to operate if you had some violations. It's dwindled a lot. And I'm not even talking about this program. I'm talking about the regular short-term rentals. No. This would take a lot of staff. We're already…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“It would not be homeowners insurance. We're talking general liability. I mean, this is, it's not just, oh, we're going to get money from permitting. We're going to get, you know, TOT tax and everything like that. This is a big project. If we're going to permit this, whether it's on a short-term basis or forever, I'm not against short-term rentals in theory. If we have everything in place, I wouldn't do something like that. I even said way back when we were going to ban them, we had 220 some odd. They went up from whatever it was, the minimal we had in 2015 when we thought we had an ordinance.…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“OK, so Rob, can you go back a couple of slides? Not the very first one. I think the second one where it talks to seniors. OK, so I'm a little thrown. OK, so I get this. This is for Vietnamese. Cultural arts, recreation, sports, and seniors. That's where I get thrown.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So it's not only for Vietnamese, it's across the board. It's for everybody. Okay, well, no, I'm hoping to be very inclusive, of course.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I just want to say great presentation, Rick. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, Ryan, did I call you Omar once too many? Is that what's happening here? Just kidding. We miss you already. Thank you so very much. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, you know, in light of all these speakers tonight, I do have a question for our city. I don't know if it's the attorney for the city or our city manager, Maggie. You know, we are hearing, you know, a time deadline if we want to potentially exit the contract, you know, being October 1st. To my knowledge, we haven't received anything official. I think it was Council Member Grandis. You were going to get us some information from OCPA, what all the timelines were. Basically, the clock is ticking. We have two city council meetings in September. So that's it. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, you know, if we have to be in this waiting situation, I really would like to know from the attorney for the city, I just don't want the city to be on the hook adversely financially. So what is our, I mean, this is just a waiting game here.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“uh but again the liability would only be for if those contracts were sold for less than well i just want to be sure that the city has the upper hand here i mean to me cancel the contract start over again that's just a thought thank you okay so let's move into public comments on scheduled matters do we have any requests to speak i have no request to speak on scheduled matters”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'd like to move items number one through nine.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'd like to move item number 12, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“For about two or three years. See, I didn't know either.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much, both of you. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, Council Member Bowie, when you vote, do you just want to see if there's a red thing up there?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“for whatever was going forward that's what we understood from the last meeting so yes okay okay councilwoman constantine sure thank you okay before i forget the library is going to have a sale and It starts this Saturday. It's Saturday, August 22nd through the following Saturday, just every day that the library is open, the Friends of the Library, that is. They're going to have their annual half-price sale. The entire store is on sale. However, it does not include the items in the display case. So that's at the Fountain Valley Library, the Fountain Valley Friends of the Library. So some of my…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, I thought of it here. I mean, I always encourage public speaking, and I enjoy that part of the meeting. Sometimes people think the meetings here are a little bit of a mystery. I know I certainly did. I think it would be great if we could have a study session on what periods of the meeting people can speak on. I know they can speak on unscheduled matters at the beginning and then scheduled matters. And then at the end, unscheduled matters only if they haven't spoken in the beginning of the meeting, if I think I'm clear on that one, after all these years. So I don't know. I mean, I'm…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And I just want to say that because of when the RFP period closed, I want to say it was at the end of April. There was just not enough time in between. I mean, this is not something that's done all the time. It's just kind of a fluke. But I get it. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026