Remarks by Mark Armstrong
62 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Okay, good evening. I'm going to call to order the special meeting of the City Council for September 8th, 2026. Please call the roll.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Here. All right, we're going to move to item two, closed session. Item 2.1 is convened a closed session pursuant to government code 54957.6 to meet with the city's labor negotiators, Megan O'Donohue, Stephen Spadowski, and Martin License for direction to city negotiators Regarding a grievance brought by SEIU and the POA concerning retirement contributions, any settlement will also apply to retirement contributions to unrepresented miscellaneous employees. And let me ask if anyone wishes to make any statements before we call for public comment. Vice Mayor Rubio?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. So then at this time, I'm going to open up public comment on item 2.1. Public comment is open. Do we have any speaker cards?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, again, public comment is open and please limit your comments to three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Any other comments?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Thank you. Then I'm going to close public comment and we're going to convene to close session. We will come back at the end of closed session and report out and we'll be back in a few minutes.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, we are going to report out on the closed session. The city council met in closed session, and we gave direction to our staff negotiators, and we had nothing to report at this time. I would like our city attorney, city manager team to make any clarifying comments on what we heard earlier, though, during the open session.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. And with that, I'm going to adjourn the special meeting of city council. For everyone else, please stand by. We'll begin the regular session.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Call to order the regular meeting of the San Ramon City Council for September 8th, 2026. Please call the roll.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Here. All right. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Please be seated. All right, item three, announcements. Do we have any announcements?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I'm going to now open up public comment. So at this time, the public is permitted to address the City Council on any non-agenda item related to the business of the City Council. Items that are on the consent calendar, including a request to pull an item from the consent calendar and the reason why you wish to pull the item or items, please note that the decision to remove the item from the consent calendar is strictly at the discretion of the City Council. You may speak on requests for future agenda items or on special presentation items under six of tonight's agenda, and we…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, do we have any other speaker cards?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Thank you. Next speaker, please. All right. Gary.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. All right, next speaker, please.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I'm sorry.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, then I'm going to close public comment. Do we have all the contact information for all the speakers?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“With that, then we will move on to item five, the consent calendar. Does anyone wish to get clarification on any of the items on the consent calendar, or wish to pull any of the consent calendar items? I move the motion for consent calendar.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, we have a motion by Councilmember Verros, a second by Vice Mayor Rubio. Okay, motion passes unanimously, so we will then move on to item six, special presentations. Item 6.1 is a proclamation declaring September 17th through the 23rd, 2026, as Constitution Week, and I have a proclamation that I'll be presenting to Heather Bilhart, Regent, and Sue de Luau, Chair at the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, or any other representatives that you have, but let me bring the proclamation down. Proclamation of the City Council of the city of San Ramon designated September…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You want to come on over for a picture, and then I'll give you the opportunity to say a few comments.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. All right, Sue, did you want to add anything? Okay. All right, she did a great job. Any council members wish to say anything? Okay, we have a council member for us.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. And I'll just close things out. Thank you, Heather. Thank you, Sue. I was stationed in the nation's capital while I was still in the Army back in 1987. It was the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, and it was a pretty big deal back then. And it's a big deal again this year. This is 250 years since the founding of our nation, and I just want to thank the DAR for all that you do in terms of – educating our residents and promoting our nation's history, promoting patriotism and all the work that the DAR does. So thank you and we'll see you again next year, I hope.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let's get pictures at the end after you introduce all of the award winners and what they did and things. And then we'll do individual pictures and then maybe a group picture at the end, too.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And if you wanna come up and just receive your big set.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's all right. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Well, let's get the city council. Let's get city council. Let's all go down, and we'll take a picture with all the winners.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026