Remarks by Lee
191 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 8
- Play at 4:20:34
“Right. So I saw on the news there was a business person who I know has come down here as part of the downtown discussions that we had, but he's at the marina, and it was impacting his business. So how is it impacting businesses or businesses?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 4:30:21
“Thank you, Mayor. Along with what Council Member Villalpudo asked in terms of whether or not this can come back and understanding that it can and the rapid rate in which they reproduce, we don't have an endless bank of money to deal with this. And my question is, are we talking to the state and the county? Are we coordinating with other funding partners on this?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 4:31:07
“Then the county, there will be stronger coordination with the county?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 4:33:27
“And this is why I don't go in the water. I just don't. I'm not a fan of the water like that. Yeah, this may be a no-brainer, but I'm assuming there's coordination with the port too, right? yeah i sent i sent a message over to one of my colleagues over there and i haven't heard back yet i would just email kirk directly i mean i don't know i know the mayor's in touch with him i can support that i do think we should talk to the port director um given the significance and the investment that we're going to make but um would love to get an update from the city manager's office on coordination with…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:21:35
“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, that was a question, so it's five votes. The second thing is you said that the question can be called at any time, but the rules require us to have some debate, right? You can't just, item 6.2 of this, call the question, right? We have to be able to discuss and debate or not? Nope.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:23:14
“Excuse me. You talk about a cane and all the weaponry that you just talked about a minute ago. If that ever happened over here, it would just tear this council apart. Not that we've not been there before. But my question was just to understand, to the point somebody made, it would take five of us to say we want to end the debate. So obviously this group's never going to get there out the gate.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:24:55
“remember to that all of these motions require a second so somebody can't just say i want to limit debate the five minutes okay five minutes you need a second the you need a formal vote vice mayor has a question thank you yeah i mean today has been a great example of how we can debate items and have uh... robust discussion but let's be very clear right with every action there's a reaction if you limit they had one thing you said here you'd be put Indicators there to emphasize your point is not to weaponize these tools. I'll use the word tools versus rules, but the tools are to guide us and…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:26:58
“I want my colleagues to hear this conversation because we can't afford to have another training on Robert's Rules of Order, and we cannot afford to have another breakdown because I've just resolved myself to saying that I'm going to come in here and fight for my constituents regardless of the optics and what people take from that. But I think part of it is getting to a place where Um, you know, we, we obviously will disagree on things and we will take position on them and we will do it publicly and we will do it on social media and we'll do it wherever we do it. But understanding how we…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:35:25
“Thank you, Mayor. No, actually, there were time limits placed on discussion on the dice. I think early on when we were really trying to get our footing and there was, you know, disagreements or whatever there was. And I think for me, there was a point where I attract how many times we change public comments, how many times we limited debate or whatever to just try to understand the method. i think it's it's it's helpful to hear this um i mean today i think was a great example of how far we've come as a council where we had great debate great you know we challenge each other's thoughts and ask…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:51:07
“Thank you, Mayor. So let me be clear. You have free speech rights on a plane, but you can't say bomb. We have decorum policies here that do set the tone for our chamber and how members of the public engage the council. For example, can a member of the community get up here and start saying homophobic attacks against council members who are openly gay? Are you saying they have the First Amendment right to do that?”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:51:33
“And so even our decorum policies, if they prohibit that, which I believe they do, that's still okay.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:51:47
“If we have a decorum rule for how we govern our council meetings, does that mean that we should change our rule? Because if we have a rule that says no personal attacks or address the chair or whatever, I mean, I'm thick skinned, I'm a public figure outside here, so I can deal with whatever and give whatever, I just wanna know the rules, right? And I wanna make sure we follow them consistently. So if our decorum rule for the chamber is that anybody can come and say anything, or we can say anything, I think it just becomes the Wild Wild West. So let me kinda parse that out a little bit. Yeah,…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:56:21
“So let me just say, again, this is less about emotional fragility for me. I can handle whatever, and I can also give it out. You say when they go low, you go high. When they go low, I go to hell. That's just who I am in real life. My point is understanding the rule and being very clear on it. If the rule here is anybody can say whatever they want, great, I'm done. It's just a matter of, like, Consistently being about that right so like if that's what it is the rule has to apply to Council Blower the same as Councilman Padilla the same as me. It's when the world switches up we've had people…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 5:58:58
“No, no, no. What you gave, what you provided was great. I mean, what she confirmed at the meeting with the mayors is consistent. I mean, if that's the policy, I think we just, I mean, if that's the right, we just have to review our policy and it is what it is.”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 6:07:26
“everybody's buzzing in at once okay vice mayor thank you mayor okay this has been a pretty productive day all right so first I want to say and coming right off that last comment that it is historic that you know we are the last council to be in this building this building has lots of history I remember coming down here as a kid and finding Gary Podesto I didn't know what a mayor was I just knew he was in charge and asking him to support my endeavors of creating the first teen club in Stockton, at least during my generation, and he wrote me a check, and I did that, and it was great while it…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026
- Play at 6:16:01
“Okay, yeah, and Miguel Villalpudo is now a consultant over there handling government affairs, so maybe talking with him too, maybe now that he's there, he can be helpful in helping us to get that. Also, we passed the CESP agreement where we had come to council and we extended for five years against the recommended 10-year extension. I know that I've had multiple conversations with BIA, NAACP, and staff about the follow-up to the CESP agreement, in particular the partnership between BIA and NAACP in creating a program to create jobs for the disadvantaged communities. I know staff has been…”
City Council and Authorities · Jun 23, 2026