Remarks by Lee
191 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 8
- Play at 4:25:07
“Let me stop you. I heard you when you said that about the 10 CCs, and I worked in health care for 10 years, 11 years. This ain't that. You have to go deeper. You have to go to Audrey Jones-Taylor in the back. Did I get the last name right this time? Okay. You need to go to her and her staff and find out about all the CSD projects happening within the city in our community, in our city centers. You need to talk to our county supervisors who are amazing. You need to ask for Rhodesian Ransom, our assemblywoman who cares about our community, friends outside. Be outside. You've got to talk to…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:26:20
“And again, United Way, I can keep going on and on and on. There's people that have opportunities for outreach. But yeah, I think I said what I needed to say.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:29:33
“Thank you, of course Hey vice mayor Thank you, sorry, I missed I may have missed something So when the survey was, you know, I never understood during the last administration why the vice president's thing was internet I just didn't understand like why is internet your thing? You know, I have internet I have internet but then I think about all the people in the country that don't have internet. And when I think about the survey, I think about my grandmother. She's dead now, but she wasn't on the internet. She wasn't a texter and all those things. And in my district, I have the most challenged…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:31:38
“Yeah, no, the reason why I bring that up is, you know, and you literally just touched on it, where there were some, maybe some more affluent communities that may participate or be higher engaged. When we have, if you look at the social makeup of our city here, 46% Latino, I don't know how much of that is Spanish speaking. And then you have community leaders like Georgia Brownlee and Sierra Vista who can pull the whole housing unit together at a pop-up. So there are other opportunities. I heard the city manager say he'll work with you on that, but I just think if we go deeper into those…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:49:33
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:52:07
“So can I stop you and ask you a question? So I hear you. Is the feeding, you don't feed people, they end up on the street, they end up committing crime, starvation, poverty. We can go down a whole conversation about that. Mm-hmm. But my question is, is the ESG grant specific only for one service or for multiple services or just services in general for competing organizations that serve the same population? Just trying to understand what the grant is for.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:53:01
“So one thing I understood or learned in our meeting was that the number of people serving is not a qualifying factor for the NOFA consideration, right?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:53:13
“And so is that something that this council will have to decide if we want that to be a part of the process moving forward? It's not a part of the rating here, obviously, but I just kind of think that, and I also want to be fair in terms of capacity for organizations that may not have the capacity of it. Is that why there's not that consideration, or can you explain?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:54:26
“Got it. And then, you know, I see Red Rabbit advocacy constantly denied for various different reasons. I guess my question is for all of the organizations that are competing for this funding, you know, they all have needs and they all have passions to help our community. Are we making sure we're setting everybody up for the same level of success, whether it's the pre meetings, the post meeting debriefing, like what can you walk just walk us through that, that process briefly, so people can understand what we're doing to make sure people are set up for success.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:56:05
“In terms of my other question, hopefully I articulated it properly, is for organizations when they apply for this funding, if they have 307 projected service numbers versus 15, what would the implications of including that in the consideration have on our existing community partners? And let me ask, let me clarify. So children's home, well-established, been around forever, may have lots more resources than a Red Rabbit advocacy, may be competing to find funding for the same or similar service, but you're going up against Goliath for the money. Would it be an unfair consideration to add the…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 4:58:15
“And then I guess my last thing, but prior to getting elected, I remember Councilwoman Padilla and I had a meeting in Western Ranch with Mark from BCHIP. And we brought lots of community partners. That's where I met Michael Sorensen. And the question I had, I think the question Councilman Padilla had at the time, because she was a city council member, is how does the city get some of these resources? Obviously, I've learned that the city's not in the business of getting into those type of grants from the state. But if there was a way of exploring public-private partnerships with Friends…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:20:03
“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Alex, for the presentation. Now, we're paying for this advocacy group to go out and advocate on our behalf. Obviously, the Trump administration is looking for model cities that set up our fragile environment to experience things that it definitely doesn't want. My question is, how are we evaluating the performance of these advocates that are out, that are that we're paying to advocate for us shipyard buildings been a discussion I know the mayor's been passionate about that this council is supported figuring out for some time now do we how do we evaluate how that's…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:21:13
“Got it. I just want to, I guess, similar to the work that we just saw from Zen City, If we're spending taxpayer resources for people to go out and do the work for us and advocacy for us, I want to be able to know what are our tracking and what are our tools that we have in our tool belt to be able to evaluate the efficiency of that work.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:22:21
“Well, here's the reason why I'm asking. Yes. You know, if we've been pursuing something for a year and a half and we're not seeing them give us any real substantive moves towards that, we can always blame things on like the White House. But we need to know how realistic our pursuit is for things. And I would just like to know what we're doing, right?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:23:16
“So who's going to remind council of this?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:23:57
“No, that's helpful. And then the last question is, I know, you know, under the charter, we don't direct staff. How are we directing this agency? Staff does that? Does that come from city manager's office?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:25:21
“Okay, that last line is getting me. yes okay um i'm going to consider if i want to say something else but right now i'm not why uh no i'm going to just leave it there but here's what i will say right taking what you just said without saying too much yes we need to further consider all decisions that we make in pursuit of these things because if through our decisions uh our advocacy groups we're not able to achieve the the goals that we're setting forth then we always have As a council, I think the need to reconsider some decisions that we make.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:27:00
“So make it palatable to them. And the reason why I ask the question, Alex, is because we don't, as a council, interact with this lobbyist, right? And when Florence was talking about staff going to D.C., I've not gone to D.C. on a trip yet because I don't want to just go out there and have lunch. Like, I want to know how I can use some of my own personal relationships with Congress, men and women or whatever, to be helpful. But since we don't interact with the group, I don't know, at least for myself, who or how we're advocating for what we need or how we're making the determination of what we…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:34:46
“Yeah. And let me say this. And the reason why I haven't gone to D.C., honestly, one, I obviously don't believe Trump's going to give us anything. You can look at him all over the news. But but if he does, if there's any help or any way I can support, you know, I would rather like help phone up Congress people that staff can meet with or make phone calls to make connections. I've offered the mayor to help her with. access to people that I personally won't sit with but can help her talk to for it, but I want to be helpful in that way. I just don't think going out there and wasting, for me,…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:36:22
“No, I just don't believe we're getting our money.”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 5:58:15
“Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Chief. And thank you for all the amazing work that you and your team have been doing. I know we had a call earlier this morning related to this matter because I actually asked to bring this back to Council because, as you mentioned, we had this conversation over a year ago. And I just had a meeting last week with Mayor Karen Bass and having watched her go through a disaster in L.A. and it still be a thing where fire started in one area and literally hopped from city to city to city and she's you know she's going through a lot for seasons that was not even hers…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 6:03:30
“to support their needs and our needs as far as the hazards at the port so i think that's a realistic target six months and it'll provide some solid information from that working group yeah and again you all do the amazing work every day we don't we just help you when we can and how we can so i would trust your leadership in doing that i think that the other thing that the port director said why when he was here earlier and i and i think he does a great job out there is There's other business to be done here in Stockton through the port that would require, I think, more services or dedicated…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 6:22:29
“Thank you, Mayor. And I didn't have this in here, but I'll go off of what my colleague just said really quick because she said a quote. There's a quote that I live by, and it's a quote from the Bible that says, faith without work is dead. And we could want things, but we have to do the work in order for it to materialize and become a real thing. And I do appreciate a lot of our side conversations about how we individually or in small groupings want things to be better. And I know we're all working hard in pursuit of that. National Night Out, I want to say thank you to everybody that came out.…”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 6:35:13
“So can we commit today it will be posted within the next 10 days, and then can this council get an update on what the job description and all that stuff looks like?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 6:35:23
“Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. Also, we talked about CESP. I know that staff are working on that agreement between BIA and NAACP. Is that scheduled to come back soon?”
City Council and Authorities · Aug 18, 2026