Remarks by Maureen Porras
392 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 16
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“OK. Well, it stays in discussion then. That's fine. I'm OK with that.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Yeah, I think that's fine. We can take it up at the workshop. Perfect. All right.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“I think that the city used to do a farmer's market, right? Or used to have one? No, we had a private one. Or someone held one?”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“And that was in the city held. Okay. What are the costs for the, you know, the vendor contractor that we're hiring to do this?”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Every Saturday? Every Saturday. Every Saturday.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“No, no. This would be a discussion. And then if you all agree to have the city manager and attorney kind of look into the process.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“To look into the process and see if, one, if it's feasible, what the costs are, and if it's something that can be done. So.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Okay. Any additional comments you'd like to address? You can all comment and I can follow up.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Okay, so I wanted to put on record the process for this, right? Obviously, this is not the first time that we submit items for donations through the donation ordinance or the sponsorship ordinance. And this one I submitted, I believe at least within the deadline. And after I realized that I had left out an organization, a couple hours after I submitted it, past, let's say, three, four, I don't know, five hours after the deadline, I resubmitted the memo that included the additional funding that was $2,000, which I brought today as a lay down item, which failed. So I know that the excuse was…”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Yeah, and so just to confirm, again, this was A memo that had been submitted already with all of the financial impacts to all of the organizations and a revision to add an additional organization with $2,000 was rejected because the change was a substantial amount. So I just want to make sure that it's on the record. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“OK, I have some follow-ups. So to Council Member Reynoso, I'm not sure if you understood what I said, but I think you proved my point that 2,000 is not a substantial amount. But anyway, regardless, I wanted to make sure that we had on record that editing an item that was already on the agenda by $2,000 was substantial enough to reject it, which is the first thing. Secondly, we have rules, but we also have exceptions, right? And that is why a laid down item exception exists, which is what I used today, which is what many of you have brought up on the dais and I have supported. So it's very…”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“So we have approved lay down items that are not emergencies. If you want to start justifying those, then we can go all day, seriously. But I'm letting you all know that I have been very supportive of lay down items because I understand the the complexity with deadlines. And I understand that we need to get these things done. But again, you all have the right to reject it, which you did. And I'm simply putting on the record that a $2,000 change to an item that already existed is substantial enough to reject it. And that's it. With that, I will make a motion to approve.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“I just want to say something real quick. I was also very sad to hear of you leaving. But it's a great opportunity. And I think that When we care about people, we're happy for that. So I'm extremely happy for you, for your family. You're a true professional. Honestly, I know we have great, great departments, and we have the best departments in all of the county, yours included. And you have great staff. You were always responsive. Your team is very professional and responsive. And we're definitely going to miss that. I'm sure that whoever's also coming in will do the same. And they've…”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“I have a motion to reconsider an earlier item, my sponsorship item from the morning, 6M. One of the donations does not meet the minimum donation of $500 and I need to amend it.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Thank you, Mayor. So I need to amend it. I need to remove actually one of the organizations, CEPI, that would be receiving $250 since it doesn't meet the minimum donation requirement. And I'll just add that back to Fundanife so that the first three A SAFE HAVEN FOR NEWBORNS, LATIN AMERICAN U.S. FOUNDATION, AND FUNDANIFE EACH HAVE $1,000, AND AGAIN, ELIMINATING THE $250 AND THE DONATION TO CFPI. AND WITH THAT, A MOTION. OKAY.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Can the attorney or the mayor clarify, let me see, hold on. Section 2-1.1.7, the use of mass communication in the form of bulk emails, and that would be for the city seal. Can you clarify what that means? Does it mean we can't use this? I don't really use the seal a lot, to be honest. But does that mean we can't use the seal on emails, essentially? Is that what it means?”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“So it can go on a letterhead. All right.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“on a position taken by the city council. And that's actually part of my second question. Now, are we referring to, obviously, disparaging comments as different than communicating our opposition or something that we're opposed to? We're not talking about that, right?”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Right. Yeah, I mean, I agree with the disparaging, making disparaging comments, which I honestly don't do. But disagreeing with a position or agreeing with a certain position and not being able to use the logo or the seal, because it goes for both, right? The logo and the seal? Correct. Now, just so I know, and we clarify on the legal side, wouldn't that be limiting freedom of speech? And again, I haven't looked into it. I don't know. I just want your opinion on it.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“No, and I understand the intent. And I'm fine with it. There's other ways to distinguish in my personal capacity, I disagree, et cetera. I just want to make sure it's not, again, You may have already explained it. It's not infringing upon our freedom of speech, is what I'm saying.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Just very quickly, after reviewing it, I don't think I can support penalizing businesses without a valid BTER. I can see how unintentionally it can be not uniformly applied, and businesses complain that they were targeted, et cetera. So I just wanted to put that on record. That's it. Anybody else? Motion.”
City Council · Oct 8, 2025
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“Yeah, I'll be pulling 6A. And I'm going to defer my item 20A to October and 20B to no time certain. That's from the evening. 20A? Yes, and 20B.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2025
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“I just want an individual vote. That's it. I don't want to have it in the consent agenda because I want to have my own vote on it. That's it.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2025
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City Council · Sep 10, 2025