Remarks by Marina Alderete Gavito
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Go ahead, Councilwoman. Thank you. Just a quick, quick clarifying question. Yesterday we talked about the San Antonio Education Partnership and how those funds could potentially come out of our carry forward in each district. I didn't see that reflected in the presentation, so I just wanted to clarify.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Councilmember Alderete-Gavito, please. Thank you. Before I get started on my comments on the budget, I was going to do something a little bit different. I've been seeing stories about how council's fractured, and I want to show a different side of what's going on with my colleagues and I, and that is that we are unified. Whether we like it or not, we need each other. We need each other to push things through for our residents. And again, as Councilman McKee-Rodriguez noted, we were all elected. We all have the residents at the forefront. There are so many, I was talking to Councilman Castillo…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, so now now on to back to the serious stuff and it sounds like there's going to be a lot more fun amendments going on today. So once again, I just wanted to add some lightheartedness because there there is so much work that the budget team has done. So Thank you again to Eric and Maria and Justina and Freddie and Troy and Ben and every single person on y'all's team who has done so much work to get us to this point. I also want to shout out my amazing team, all in blue, all back there, yay! They've done such amazing work as well. Like Councilman McKee-Rodriguez was saying, listening to…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Quick clarification. So with the cuts with it. Well, first off, thank you for I do appreciate the effort and and thinking creatively on how to add 10 safe officers. I agree. I think we all know that our residents do say public safety is top priority. So I appreciate I appreciate the creativity in doing this. For the essay tomorrow sub area planning is that the 947 is that jobs and if so, how many?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you and put another quick. Thank you clarifying question mandated.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you for that clarification. So this does equal, there were some vacancies, so this would equal for people's position?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“councilmember I'll draw take a veto please a couple of clarifying questions so I appreciate the intent of not of trying to find more to not pass the burden on of a tax rate increase on to our residents also to I mean the project manager and me knows a deadline and we stick to deadlines and we all knew this deadline was today and our budget team knew that this deadline was today so I I'm not sure, what is the additional time gonna buy us? Is this where we wanna look at what the 1.6% cut and the 2% cut would do? Yeah, exactly.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Well, so what I heard yesterday, and Eric, I'll leave this to you, what I heard yesterday from a majority of our colleagues was that people weren't in favor of the 2% or 1.6% across the board. Eric, I see you shaking your head, so I think you're in agreement. And so that's what I'm saying. I mean, is this going to be an exercise where we're placing undue stress on our budget team just to place undue stress on our budget team? I mean, if a majority of our colleagues are saying they're not okay with the across the board cuts, either 1.6 or 2%, then I just don't know what we're doing. Are we…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yes, really quickly. Just also wanted to thank you all for y'all's efforts. We know that at times it can be trying, but we really appreciate y'all pulling together to offer this, the resources and the help that you'll all do for our community who needs it the most. Just want to say thank you. Thanks.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Villagran, for recognizing them. I've been on the 2M bandwagon for years, so this was so exciting. And I just have to say this. I'm a runner, and the last full marathon I completed, after that, I went to 2M. I mean, after running a marathon, you're hungry. And so thank you all so much. It was so exciting to see. We're all extremely proud. Thanks.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Today is an exciting day. I mean, it is great that we're seeing someone who was born and raised here in San Antonio come and, as Eric mentioned, take one of the top spots in the city. I won't hold it against you that you went to Edison, but... No, but in all seriousness, it is always nice to see someone who kind of went through the ranks. And as you just talked about, having that shared perspective and having that perspective through all of your years of experience is so invaluable as you will take the chief spot. I think also too, I mean, one of the things that I noted and I know…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Oh, I didn't realize I was signed up, but fully supportive. Yes, we have the best police force in the country, and I'm excited to get this going. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Councilmember all that I think if you don't please Thank you. I also definitely want to give kudos to councilman McKee Rodriguez. I know he's been pushing hard for this And so I'm excited that your seniors are finally getting this I agree with councilman via grounds comments and churches are not a bad thing and They do help with economic development. They help bring things like senior centers and other needed infrastructure to communities that have long been ignored. We can twist and turn those words all we want, but the chairs are working exactly as intended. I do agree with Councilman…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026