Remarks by Mani Grewal
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice,”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, good evening, everyone. For Hispanic Heritage Month, my honoree is Maria Arevalo. And there she is. And unfortunately, she is traveling, but I will be sure to make sure she gets her certificate in person. But the reason I chose Maria is because of everything she does for us here in Stanislaus County. She's been a member of the community for over 40 years, and her passion is projects that develop youth leadership, increase civic engagement among underserved members of the Stanislaus community. A little bit about Maria. Maria received her undergraduate degree and law degree from the…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Motion to approve all consent items. Second.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I appreciate everybody that came tonight and brought up really good points. Obviously, this is a decision that comes easy. And I know that some have said to pivot and hold off on the budget. And the concern I have with that is the other departments that are doing the same essential duties and the essential services that it keeps to keep this county running. And for that reason, I will be supporting the budget, but I would direct staff to return to the board and I chose the date December 15th because that's exactly 90 days from today with an update on the community services…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Before I make the motion, I just want a couple more points of clarification. I know when I met with members, the concerned members, we had the Zoom call last week. One of the things that was brought up was management to employee ratio and then I know my colleague also brought it up today. So I did do my research on that with CEO's office. The community service agency has 51 management positions for a department of roughly 1,027 frontline workers, a ratio of about 5%. It's the lowest ratio for the entire county as far as management frontline staff. And then as we are going through this process…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm going to just make a few clarifications for myself in questions to staff. But first of all, thank you so much. Thank you for all the people that came to help with the presentation. So there's things that we're hearing from different member agencies, and that is a part that's a little concerning to me. We have at least one person on the phone and then the gentleman that spoke on behalf of MID that they feel that there is some redundancy. I, as one person, can get over the redundancy issue if I see that by doing this, this does build consensus. So I guess this is a tough question to ask…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“I don't anticipate... I've already stated the harm part. I just feel on doing it, if we do do it, do you feel that that will dispel or build enough trust that we could proceed forward with the study?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“And since we're the stewards for non-district east, with whatever comes of this study, okay to continue based on what the study presents to us.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“That's why I said this was a tough question to answer anyway. I don't think we can get any certainty that it's not going to happen. I just want to make sure that there's more certainty of it not happening if we expend these funds.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm just hoping that expending, I mean, these are taxpayer dollars, ratepayer dollars, hard-earned dollars, and there is a certain sense of redundancy because, you know, I know you mentioned third opinion. We got a first opinion, got a second opinion, now we have a third opinion. At some point, we have to stop taking opinions and just know that that's what the diagnosis is, right, speaking in medical terms like you brought it up. And I hope that that's this third opinion that just puts it to now a path of actual treatment of the issue, which is that we don't want straight intervention,…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“If I could just ask one quick question. So on the $495,974 that we're voting on today, only one, 22 would be, we're spending or additionally for a third option or third opinion on the study, regardless, whatever my math, $122 minus $495,373,974.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“would be spent regardless. Just to alleviate some of the concerns that Supervisor Seekon had brought up, that that would be spent up. So when we're asking for reimbursement, it would only be on the $122,000 because the other work we would do regardless of if there was consensus or not.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“Again, just sorry for my own conversation. We would be spending the remainder of that regardless to make sure that we're managing the GSA and the duties upon us as stewards for this region. We would be doing that regardless.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“I would just have a question on that. Yeah, go ahead. Is it you want our colleagues to go and bring this to the partner agencies, and if they are in agreeance then? What I would not find... fair to the consultants is they do the work and we can't build consensus because of internal issues or issues within our community and then we tell them we're not going to pay the bill. I can't.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“Before I vote, I just want to put a caveat into my vote. Obviously, we had a lot of discussions today. Trust is one of the reasons we're doing all this, and I'm putting a lot of trust in my colleagues. They're going to have these tough conversations. They're going to bring back to the board. I think transparency for everyone involved, including non-district east, this would be a third. Opinion on something that hopefully regardless of the outcome that our reputed Consultants find that everybody's going to go along with that and that will alleviate you know litigation alleviate further…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, thank you for the presentation. We had briefings on this. Obviously, this is a difficult decision. The hiring freeze, the soft hiring freeze to naturally, through attrition, maybe fill some of the positions that have been lost here is, I'm assuming, the reason we're doing this hiring freeze. And then again, in the presentation, a lot of you saw a lot of this is from federal and state funding as well, and we're already in process to look for backfill dollars if the opportunity presents itself, but we feel that it's responsible as a county to any of the shortfalls we're doing to get ahead…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026
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“National NIDOC tonight. Hope everybody can make it out of their neighborhood.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 4, 2026