Remarks by Luke Cavener
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“Mayor Mrakas, For a quick follow up just together or liar missionary, would we be the then the last one to sign, so the developer than the city of napa then it comes back to us is that how it works. It can. Yes.”
“Can you hear us? I can. Can you hear me?”
“Yeah, sorry, Mr. Mayor. To the last person who gave testimony, she's made a mention about a notice being written in pencil. Can I get a little bit more clarity about what she was referring to, if she wouldn't mind?”
“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Ma'am, do you have any photos of that? And I apologize, I'm not there in person. You're probably just hearing my voice. But do you have any photos of that?”
“I'll try to be brief. If there was a vote this evening for denial, I would be in support of that. I think that this council provided some pretty good feedback back in July about what type of rock we were looking for. And I think that's been largely in line with the feedback this applicant has heard from Planning and Zoning not once but twice, and the many, many conversations that they've had with our Planning Department. I would certainly urge the council to be cautious about approving this because I think that when you start granting kind of a multi-use across an arterial, the question that…”
“Real quick, I'll be voting no on this. My perspective is the council has already granted this applicant an opportunity, both with meeting with staff and planning and zoning, to address much of the feedback, similar in nature to what we provided last July. So I don't think that a continuance is needed. I'm actually more in favor now of voting for denial, so I won't be supporting the motion for a continuance.”
“Sorry, I was running behind earlier today.”
“Mr. Mayor. Councilman Kavanaugh. Missionary question. So again, if somebody's charged but found not guilty or found innocent, they still would be pursued. They still would be impacted by this particular piece.”
“I appreciate you being here. I recognize you're trying to do your best to rehabilitate and be a productive member of society. That's noted and appreciated. Apologies that our code is so narrow that it won't grant you this type of an exception, but wish you well as you continue to pursue your endeavors.”
“Chief got a handful of questions. So it may kind of rapid fire through some of these. Talk to me about false positives. How many false positives have we experienced since we've launched?”
“What's the process when a license plate is flagged before an officer makes contact?”
“Mr follow up so. Personalized played out in the same scenario. So we get a hit, an officer pulls over this person. And maybe they miss like, what what does that process play out? I mean, does it conducted like any other traffic stop? And I guess what kind of redress do our citizens have if they're stopped? because of the use of these cameras. And it turns out that they shouldn't have been stopped in the first place.”
“Have we had any incorrect arrests? We have not.”
“There's maybe a couple more for me that's whatever to chief before I move back to the city of I was a newspaper writer and in our office we had painted on the wall if your mother tells you she loves you check your sources so that's where this questions come from your trust the verification you talked a lot about how you internally you're auditing use it is going on as a department discussed or explored an independent 3rd party body to independently review those audits to help ensure there's greater trust amongst our public. no we haven't okay mr mayor maybe in that same vein has the…”
“Okay. And then how long is our current contract with Axiom? For sure.”
“And would that contract auto-renew or would it require a separate action from the department?”
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“Mayor Mrakas, vote in favor of this this evening and may revise my opinion, as we get to a final vote and certainly invite the public to come in the way ended our public hearing is coming in in August, but i'm in full approval of this motion this evening.”
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“Will we close the public hearing on item number four? Second.”
“that's what governor straight and forward uh and uh modified development agreement apologies so i'm going to move that we approve application h-2026-0004 as presented in the staff report of july 21st and include all applicant and staff testimony second have a motion second to approve item four is there discussion on the motion if not correct call the roll”