Remarks by Liam Downey
21 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I guess the door is open. It's kind of stuffy. Get in.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“So if we turn this off, do we have an excuse? No. Do a darn good job.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Oh, yeah, it says it here. Climate action plan, GP clause 12 and 13, policy COS 12.12.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Chris, a couple of questions. So just to confirm what I think Jim was asking earlier, so I was trying to compare what was on your presentation versus the 130-page document we were sent, right? And a lot of those projects span across quite a number of years. Some have already started, for example. Is everything you put on your slides either already started or will be started and funded 26, 27?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“I'm asking more administratively because our function tonight is supposed to be to confirm but the next two years of projects that they comply. But if we can't tell which ones are in and which ones are not, if I help to say, if you could just tell us which ones are not included, because it sounds like most of them are included, right?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“I mean, do we want to know or does it matter to you guys? Does it matter?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Yeah, that would help. I think you answered that. Yeah. OK. You also mentioned, Chris, and this is more of a curiosity question. You said something to the effect of since we lost the RDA funding, right? I know a lot of the projects you would typically try and do, where that funding would come from, have kind of dried up. So you have to kind of either not do things or rethink how you do things. Just curious. We're not the only person with that, but what's everybody else doing? Are they all in the same boat? Have they come up with other creative ideas? Have they found other sources?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Okay, I'm just curious. On the parks and rec, well, actually maybe on a lot of them, but specifically on the parks and rec, I mean, most of the stuff in here is horrific. I'd love to see this and more. But to Steve brought the point up earlier, it's really concerning that the more you build, the more you have to maintain, right? And we can barely maintain what we have. I mean, don't get me wrong, we don't do a bad job, but I think we could do a better job at communicating some of the stuff we have. And we do all these projects, like, are we just putting more strain on the, like, because…”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“There's a dilemma in that. to Steve's point earlier, which was, you know, when you look, everything's funded, right? Yeah. And you've got funding from very creative places, right? But I assume if you don't spend it, you lose the funding, right? But once you spend it, there's a cost to maintain it. And I would assume, to take products and records as an example, I was trying to work out the numbers, but it was a little complicated. But I would guess at the end of the day, if you do everything on this list, even though some are revenue generating, the net is that it's going to cost the city more.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Money that we already don't have, right?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“I understand the dilemma. I get it. I'm just saying that. We need to understand that there's a cost to run these things, cost and money that we don't really have.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Okay. A couple other... Let me see here. Oh, last one. So... Probably the most disappointing thing in this report, which wasn't a whole lot, pavement rehabilitation and sidewalk repair. $150,000? What's that, like 150 linear feet? I mean, I'm serious, right? We know how much concrete is these days, right? It's nothing. We have no other way to get funds to do pavement rehabilitation and sidewalk repair?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Sorry, sidewalk repair was $150,000, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the pavement retention is $7 million. But even that, for the size of the city.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“I thought you were going to say levitating scaffolding.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“So the city has no other funds to do sidewalk repair?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Okay, I understand that it's a little disappointing that we don't have a bit more funds for that, but I understand the concern. That's it, Jim. Thanks. Thank you. Joe?”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“If you're willing to deal with the punchers, Chris, some of that trail is very rough. Some of that trail is pretty rough coming to the back way into Sobrato High School.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Right in the TV section of Costco, right there.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Gilroy does it, but the problem is they do the work and then they build the resident, but they really struggle to collect”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I don't know when you report this out, do you give a summary of how this meeting went in terms of the general consensus? No. And maybe the general maintenance of annexing land and building stuff, where is that funding? If you could express at least, that was our concern, not that there's much they could do about it maybe, but.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026
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“She was an anonymous. Oh, I thought she was like a consulting attorney or something, but she's an actual employee. Correct. Okay. Okay.”
Planning Commission · May 12, 2026