Remarks by Maureen Porras
392 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 16
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“Vice Mayor, did you make that statement?”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“So unless the mayor wants to answer how she heard that statement. I absolutely would. Please.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“That was Wednesday, 9-25. Okay. And your town hall was after that, Mayor. So you had quorum during your town hall, and you still made those statements. So, again, you know.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“I'm not done speaking. You had your statement.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“Again, so I want to, this is my point. You guys here today have been told that we have not been participating, that we have not been supportive. This has been an issue that we have all agreed on and we continue to agree on. And so for me, I am going to support whatever, again, whatever is in the best interest of the city and of the residents. At this time, I would like to make the following recommendations. And again, this is based on the discussions that I've had, I've been able to have with our attorney, as well as the proposed... LETTER AND THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING…”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“So I would recommend moving forward with continuing the negotiations for 30 days, having a status check within 15 days after your first initial meeting, And then during that status check, you can give us more or less what your prognostic is of the situation, and then we can take up the issue of whether we want to move forward with that statute.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“I think that's fine. I think we should still have a status meeting before then. And then if, since the meeting's October 7th, the 14th,”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“I was just informed that we received a letter of resignation from our city manager, so therefore this item is moot, so I'm going to move to withdraw it.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“I also gave you the opportunity to, and offered you the opportunity to keep your salary with the option of making sure we made some, you've made some improvements and observations that I noted and you declined.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“Manager, I'm still speaking. I'm sorry. Let her finish and then I'll give you an opportunity. Absolutely. So I want to point that out and I want to put that into the record. I really do think that, and I did think that you had the experience necessary to help. to be the city manager um i think that the other the deputy manager and the assistant city manager that we have have been extremely helpful and i do think that i wanted to see some improvements in that sense too so again i've never mentioned anything about termination that was from you And I've offered you to stay and keep your salary…”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“I would have never used the words clean house.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“Again, you can seek whatever you'd like, but to answer your question, no, I would like to answer your question. This was gonna be the meeting where we would discuss your performance, so it was going to be done in the open, in public, and I think the direction needed to come from the council, right? And so that's why I put it up here, so that we could discuss it as a council. And then the direction would come from the five, the three, the four, whatever it is, because that's really the proper way to do it. Since I don't want to direct you alone, this is why I was brought here today.”
City Council · Sep 30, 2024
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“Thank you, Mayor. Through the Mayor? Yes. I'm going to pull 6D, 6O, 6P, as in Paul, and 6T, as in Tom.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“6D, like David, 6O, 6P, like Paul, and 6T, like Tom. That's it for me. Okay, vice mayor.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Through the mayor? Sorry, I need to make a correction to the items I pulled. So I'm withdrawing, if you guys are all okay with the items I pulled, because I was looking at the old agenda. So they have different numbers. Okay, so here we go. I'm gonna pull... 6N as in Nancy, 6O as in Oscar, and 6S as in Sam.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Yes, Councilman Porras. Thank you for bringing these great events to our city and also being you know part of our city My my quick question is I know that we are supporting the sponsorship for the police department budget, and I just wanted to Because I know that during our conversations. We had a conversation about an exchange or some sort of You know gift for the city, and I just want to see if you can mention that just very very”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“And thank you for the trees. I know Public Works was super ecstatic about the trees, so I'm going to trust them on this. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Thank you. So this is a request for the waiving the court rental fees for two pickleball tournaments in support of the Help for Venezuela Foundation. We previously approved one earlier this year, and this great foundation would like our help again with two tournaments, one for Saturday, October 19th, And the other one for November 23rd. The one for October 19th, one of the organizers has sent out a flyer. It's going to be dedicated to women's history or women. And so the flyer, I think, has been circulated to Councilman Cabral and Mayor Fraga. I think you have seen it. So they're seeking…”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“I'm fully supportive of this. May I suggest that in bringing something back, we provide some sort of protocol guidance agreement with whoever's asking to use our logo, do an event in partnership with the city, because at the end of the day, You know they are representing us the city and I think that they should be able to follow the same protocol guidance That we have in place for our city events I think that's a you know a suggestion that I would make and also to again, you know avoid a lot of confusion that comes with events that are have our city logo and our city seal or anything or using…”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“and it'll be brought back, right? You'll bring it back.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Yes, so the items I pulled, NOS, I just really want a presentation. I think it's good to have it on the record and to have the residents and the audience hear what the data is and what all of this is. So for the next three items, that's what I'd like to hear. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Yes. Did we add, and I know I think we talked about adding all of the pharmacies to the senior freebie?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Right, Navarro was the one that I kept getting asked for. Yeah, yes, we have.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024
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“Councilman Porras? Yeah, we just heard the presentation on it, so I'll just do a motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Porras, second by Vice Mayor Puig Corbin. Madam Clerk?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2024