Remarks by Lee
191 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 8
- Play at 4:30:20
“Thank you, Mayor. Well, first I want to start by saying that I heard everybody that spoke, and I listened intently to everybody, including the young man from my district, and I really appreciate your civic participation. Um, I'm a little bothered by the idea that none of us are listening. The decision was already made as you read your phone, ma'am, because we actually came in here very open-minded and very eyes wide open to hear everything. And so it's a little offensive when we are paying attention, uh, and have done lots of meetings to understand how we got here. Uh, uh, this is not an…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:23:49
“Thank you, Mayor. Tony, thank you. I will say this has been a very bumpy experience. And I'm going to say that in part, probably in large part, it was a lack of leadership. And I think that I'm one that's big on accountability, even when it feels like people are feeling attacked. That's what accountability sometimes feels like. I feel it sometimes. But I want to say that your staff has been nothing but professional throughout this whole experience. They're very kind in the hallway. They're kind to the public. Your improvement in terms of how you deal with the public, I just want to publicly…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:28:24
“So, okay, no, that's great. And again, I think the content piece for me is the piece that's missing, but is a piece that I think with a smaller group can kind of give some ideas on because when my team complains about, because just looking at this, you know, maybe we're thinking about social media, but we're not thinking about website. We're not thinking about broadcasting this. We're not thinking about all the things, right? I think understanding like my my team gets frustrated It's like there's filler content that we can come up with like what is an ass stocked in? Five pieces of content…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:29:21
“Okay. And then where are we with, I don't know if this is an optic thing, but where are we with AskDoc and that? Is that an optic project or is that?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:29:54
“So we won't give that responsibility to Optic, but we need to figure that out, too, at some point.”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:30:22
“I appreciate that. Okay, no, but in terms of just overall, I mean, this is a great presentation. I just, again, want to commend you and your team for working with the City Manager's Department in response to Council's request and actually working towards that plan. That makes sense. I think, again, a follow-up with Meta. And then also, how are you engaging the public on social channels? Are we communicating with them on social media or no?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:31:07
“Does your department or your division have established policies yet for how you all are kind of conducting business? Are you still developing that?”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:31:36
“Again, thank you for the presentation. I look forward to the follow-up. Thank you.”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:01:36
“thank you mayor okay no well first of all I appreciate tonight's meeting was a lot of stuff to talk about and lots of public comment and I just want to thank the mayor for allowing us to have all that debate and taking a break when we needed it because the Lord Lord knows I needed it and thank you to everybody that came out I want to address one of the public comments somebody said that there was there was a comment made that the meetings in the corridor aren't being organized we broke down our district in district six in three parts and have regularly monthly meetings of the constituents in…”
City Council and Authorities · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 18:33
“Your commitment, hard work, and dedication throughout your career have made a lasting impact on the people of Stockton and your Public Works team.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:08:45
“thank you Mary thank you both of you for the presentation quick question so like obviously I represent the district that has the most infrastructure challenges in the city oldest part of Stockton why is it that I don't see more areas identified in my district that may need the attention”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:09:18
“When was the request from a stock in makers, I know people put things in a stock in all the time.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:09:29
“Well, I mean, before I vote to approve this list today, I want to know what was the duration that staff looked at submission. So was this in the last 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days a year, two years?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:09:50
“And while you walk up here, the reason why I asked the question is because I didn't see an email that went to council to say promote to your districts. I want them to catch this, I know they're trying to meet. I didn't see an email go out to council to say, hey, please promote to your districts, you know, we're going to do a survey of streets that need to be repaired, but I know how many streets need to, you know, just by driving around my district that need repairing. I want to make sure that we're all given the opportunity to get that information out. I mean, obviously we want to approve…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:10:48
“It is it's been a while since we've been at council so we're gonna be asked to approve a list of streets to be repaired under this item and And this item list came from a process that we promote to the city called Ask Stockton. But we don't know how long that process of evaluating the needs of the whole city as it pertains to this repair. We don't know how that process came about or how long we looked at that process. Because I know Penny did a great job of driving throughout the entire district with my commissioners looking at everything. And I know our list is huge. of stuff that needs to…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:11:55
“And I know council has asked in the past, I don't remember if it was Padilla, myself, or the mayor, we asked in the past about a tracking system or a system for council to be able to look at at a glance by district or a master list of all the requests that are out there. I don't know if we have that level of intelligence as a city today, which we should. Maybe the city manager can update us on that. But I guess my question is, is there a way for the preservation of peace among our community that we can get that information today before we decide? Because I know that people are going to be…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:12:55
“And so is this this is not the exhaustive list that I think the mayor went through all the shoes we have this is not an exhaustive list of everything that's come in. So then my question is how do we select these”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:13:21
“What is it what is it that gave the Council for what is it 30 versus 70.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:14:10
“So maybe what may be helpful if we approve this list tonight, which I'm assuming we are, is if we can get a more comprehensive list, a presentation to council on how we rate, how we do the work, and then a list of what's outstanding so people will know that.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:15:35
“You know, I think a study session would be great. I would add traffic calming to that. And I think all of us talking about infrastructure taxes at some point for a future item, we should consider that. But I do think that that's important. Now, I know we say 45, 60 days, and then somehow when we say it here, it gets forgotten, and then 90 days later, we add a topic.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:20:49
“Thank you, Mayor. I'll save all of my future agenda items for later during council comments, but one, based on the public comment I heard about flock cameras, obviously there's a lot of concern from the community around flock cameras. I will say I do know about the national conversation about flock cameras, but given our city, I am a supporter of flock cameras, but very much interested in opening, open to hearing from our community around their concerns. I know that when we passed the conversation, Mayor, about flock cameras. We talked about the caveat of protections and ownership over data…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:21:55
“Okay. Do you need four of us to say that?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:51:52
“I guess I have a question before we get started for our city attorney. With respect to recusals, I know that typically when there's a recusal for financial reasons or for reasons that are personal under the FPPC guidelines, we state why we're recusing. Is that not required?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:52:26
“Okay. All right. Thank you. So noted. All right. Well, first, let me thank the mayor, the city manager, city attorney, and the council for entertaining this item item 10.1 first i want to introduce our is it interim or acting it's interim interim city attorney donald larkin um donald if you can just before we get started just briefly introduce yourself and then if you can set the stage for this discussion item i appreciate that”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:54:27
“Thank you. And as I mentioned to you privately, I appreciate your advice and we'll take it under consideration, but still do the work of the city as I feel fit. All right. Before we do that, we'll go ahead and entertain public comments. So city clerk, if we have public comments. Yes. First, we have Zoila Moreno.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026