Remarks by Long Pham
18 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“How about the inside? Will it be gravel or concrete that you guys pour inside?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“So I got another question for you. So with a strong wind, were there any dirt picking up and? blowing away through the neighborhood because they won't complain that they're afraid. I know the sound, but I don't believe any sound would come out of that area. If it does, it's going to be very minimal. But any dirt would come out because you have rock, you know, on top of it.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, Amy, on the slide, it says 140 stream miles. Is that all public, right, that we're working on? And to fix it, the estimate cost is $1.1 billion. Is that correct, on the slide that you show us?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Is that all together, public and private?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“And then the $10 that we collect currently, we get per month, we collect around $20 million a year, and that used to fix all the, like this District 4 key branch, remember, that that money used it for. So we only get about 20 million when we charge everybody 10 bucks a month, correct? Yes, and so we have a- So with that kind, the only way if the city council will get involved, they're going to cost a lot of money because we had to fix the, we had the public, and then we got private. Now, I was told that private, you have to, the HOA got to be responsible to keep maintenance, and some people…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Hey, Marty. Yes. So this won't go into effect until 1 January 27, right? That's correct. So for the Opportunity Zone, so if you in there, you have some investor willing to invest, you know, they'll be eligible for that incentive from the federal government. That's correct. That's correct. And there be a certain amount or, you know, there's some, how much they will be eligible for if somebody willing to invest.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“So this is one part of the Big Beautiful View or something? That's correct.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“It's good for 10 years, okay. Yes, sir. So we submit eight, we got four?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, Molly, I spoke with you, I think, last week about unregistered vehicle parking public street. I just happened to be in Grand Prairie, Texas, and I saw this lady come out, take a picture of the last time played a sticker, registered a sticker, and then put the red sticker. So I approached her, and she told me she would code compliant. So she put a red sticker on there, because that car parked there. illegally for quite a while. Some neighbor around there called it in. However, I asked her, what happens if you come back later? She said, well, I come back the second time, we're going to…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I thought we already reinstated.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Where's Gary? Great job on this briefing. I get a lot of complaint, the Pickleball Court, which you mentioned in here. Sometimes they have two court open and they block half of it because for basketball, but nobody's shut for basketball. There's a plan that your staff got in place. If nobody's shut for basketball, most old people like me don't want to play basketball. So you can just expand it out so we'd have more people get opportunity to play Pickleball.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I do concur with you, Mr. Mayor. If we go to the no new tax rate, I mean, three years in a row, we increased taxes. And I know it's not a whole lot of money, but there's a lot of people, they live on fixed income and it doesn't matter $1 or $200, it's too hard on them. And that kind of sent the wrong message. If $2.2 million gonna hurt our budget and we have to cut this, cut that, I understand I'll go to the new race, but last year we increased three pennies to bail us out because it's not our fault. But, you know, most people in here should know. That's why you be careful who you…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then, so I, the current rate, I mean, I support that to keep, leave it the same, you know, so. But you gotta remember, what you can do, you can hurt your city. That's all I'm saying. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Trey, you know how much it's going to cost the city for this general election in November?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“In the past, that's around $88,000, $89,000.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Now, has the commission, the court, voted in yet? They haven't decided yet how many polls will be closed, right? So we don't know. That's how can we do the resolution. What happened? They come back next week, they vote. They say, we're going to open all of them. And we do a resolution now. We've got to be careful. We've got to find out if they vote for that yet.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, if it doesn't cost us, I know all the main polls, six of them in Arlington, we open, and most people do early vote. They got 10-day early votes anyway. So they cut a couple of them during the election day only one day.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026