Remarks by Lee
191 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 8
- Play at 1:43:56
“Okay, thank you. The one thing that I wanted to highlight in pulling this item too is one of our vendors here, 209 Cares, I do want to say, during the Wild and Out investigation, this individual who runs this company was all over social media creating narratives about me allegedly being involved in taking money and using my position, and they were going on and on and on bashing me. And I just want to be very clear that if we have vendors in our city providing services to our taxpayers that elected us to govern, I think they should be very mindful of how they utilize their time because I'm not…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 1:54:35
“thank you Mary yeah I want to echo what my colleague said and I haven't been on trash ride-alongs and I probably won't but what I will say is I do want to echo what he said that you know a woman stopped me yesterday and she said I just have to tell you district 6 has been cleaner than it ever has I'm not cleaning that up that's your team and I just want to say I appreciate You I know that you did a ride-along throughout the whole district with all my commissioners looking at areas hot spots The illegal dumping and you guys have put a plan together Thank You city manager for being responsive…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 1:56:59
“And, Mayor, we are bringing that to ledge.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 1:59:05
“Yeah, I have some that I put on. Okay, so let me go here to my note because I was going to do it during council comments. uh okay first you know we've had i appreciate us doing making the decision today thank you councilman padilla on the face cover band to take down the list but there were other things that i've seen uh that we've addressed here that we have not just taken a definitive stance on that i do want to agendize for a a very near upcoming meeting fire services at the port i want us to make a determination finally if we're going to direct staff to pursue that If I can get a second…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 1:59:43
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:02:47
“Give me a second. I didn't know I was going to have to come over here. All right, declaring the hearing open.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:05:46
“are there any questions for members of the council no okay thank you so i'm going to close the hearing and there's no public comments i'll bring it back for council discussion okay council member enriquez”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:08:20
“Passes 6-0 with the mayor absent, recusing.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:23:09
“Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to I just want to refer back to an earlier public comment around giving our officers the tools they need to keep our community safe because I know oftentimes when we have items like this come before us or flock cameras or other things, it becomes a topic where it's like, oh, well, why are we using this or why are we using that? And I will say, uh... i just want to use an example uh... last weekend uh... my family and i we decided to go to sacramento for the day and we went out there all day went to two different uh... situations and uh... everybody was…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:26:09
“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I mean, obviously this is disappointing, you know, and I understand, you know, affordability is a constant conversation and how we spend our resources and for some people limited resources is always a concern. I first want to say acknowledge staff for doing a great job of educating the community. Our community leaders who held multiple meetings throughout the city to talk to people about the need to consider this, and it's disappointing to see that it not pass. I guess my question would be, now that this vote has happened, can't come back before the council, can't come…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:27:00
“Got it, and it costs a lot of money. Got it, okay.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:27:09
“You say we have to accept it? Yeah. What if we don't wanna accept it? Just plain, just plain. I know, I know, I know. No, I'm just playing. But again, it is disappointing because we need more to do more. And when we look at district, again, I'm a little biased because I'm looking at my district where we're prioritizing economic development. I'm going to be talking about that soon. And part of our ability to develop, yeah, these side conversations are really hard for me to stay focused, by the way. In order for us to fully develop South Stockton, Southeast Stockton, Conway, some of our…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:46:46
“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I have a question. So in terms of this process that you just presented, How, is it outdated? Does there need to be updates? I'm assuming, when was the last time it was updated?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:47:37
“Is there a staff process to review and determine if there's needed changes that can go before, whether it's the commission, the council? I mean, I don't know, maybe some of my colleagues who have more experience. i just don't know how outdated this process is and if we're doing everything we can to to improve it if i may do the chair sorry”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 2:51:42
“Yeah, really quick. Yeah. Just looking at this process, we've had conversations about recruitment, retention. I think we heard earlier about supporting our departments to be able to recruit. I know we've talked about diversity and all these things. I'd be interested in hearing really quick while we're on this slide from Fire and PD, just their thoughts on this, if it's okay. I just gave them the heads up that I was going to be asking them to come out, so. You can start with whichever wants to start. My question is just looking at this, because I'm learning as I'm talking, are there needed…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:00:58
“Be careful what you ask for, all the support now to get this hiring process expedited. So thank you for bringing that up earlier. My question is, if you do a background, I mean, well, first of all, Eric, congratulations on moving to the police department. It's a nice building. The second thing is, I think there's consensus. When you put the 10 people through or the 15 people, if that's what happens, and say then you have... eight to make it through or whatever. Do you keep, I guess my question is if you fill all the positions with those that go through the background and we have extras, not…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:01:54
“But does that happen now or no? No, it does not. So that's something to consider. Right?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“But I guess the scenario I'm asking is say we say yes put 15 through there's 10 positions all 10 all 15 pass so now 10 are selected and they fill those positions do we keep those extra five that have gone through background on a list that we can just access say somebody retires or somebody quits or something like that.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:02:58
“This is kind of like ask for everything you want day.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:29:40
“Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mayor and City Manager, for scheduling this presentation. First, I want to say, as you're talking, I'm getting excited, and this is not even my project. I'm up here like, oh, my God, getting excited. But what I'm excited about is that In my opinion, this is really what community is about. And I think public-private partnerships and figuring out ways of us supporting initiatives like this that are critical. I look down at the end of the day as my colleague, And I recently had to be responsive to concerns from the Anderson Street Church that was responding to…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:33:37
“Well, the reason why I asked the question, I'll look at Mary Elizabeth on the CEQA piece. You can have a conversation with her on that. I won't touch that. But what I will say is, you know, the mantra at SEIU was stronger together, right? Like, we're stronger together. City government doesn't fix everything. I mean, I would have to ask my colleague, Councilman Padilla, what she was able to do with state. I mean, I don't even know who has control. Is it state lands? I mean, she was able to cut through a lot of yellow tape for Trinity Parkway. And I'm just, what I know is that I can get people…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:35:04
“But thank you for the presentation. Thank you for the work.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 3:49:49
“Thank you, Mayor. Okay, so I'm going to respond to everything I just heard and say that I'm very protective of my district and the neighboring district that I share with my colleague. And I don't like there being advanced thoughts or movement on my district without considerations that involve the public and me. And I'm not saying that that happened, I just want to put that out there because I will become a champion with CEQA. against anything that the city moves forward without the people and without me being involved so let me just start by saying that that's just put that out for the whole…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
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“I don't think that's gonna be viable at this location So I think it's gonna be a lot of mechanical type cleaning Yeah, some elbow grease Vice mayor has a question for yes I'm not afraid to ask what may be perceived as a stupid question because there's people out there there are people out there watching that don't know what we're talking about and I'm trying to catch on to everything because I mean, these look like the things I go fishing with, and I haven't been fishing in a while, so I don't know. Let me ask the question. So what we're gonna be asked to do is to ratify the recommendation by…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 4:20:22
“And so has this been something that's gradually happened, or it just came out? It's rapid. It's rapid. So we didn't see this coming.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026