Remarks by Mauricio Galante
30 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Yes, Mayor. I want to pull out item 719, Tarrant County, November 26th, 2026 election polling places for separate voting.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Mayor. So this resolution about the polling places. We have new locations for polling places. I'd like to make some remarks for the residents of Arlington. There was a concern. the reduction of polling places in early voting, and also a significant reduction of polling places during election day that affects every resident's will to cast their ballots on election day or early voting. We discussed this this afternoon. I thought it was very interesting, some stats that one of my colleagues, that I invited him to say some remarks. I'm glad City of Arlington has the via that will…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Pretty much the same question my colleague Jason Shelton had. I mean, I'm okay. I'll support you taking care of Mamacita and doing what you got to do. It's family first, right? Yes, sir. But I just have a hard time changing the master bathroom, right? To accommodate for that. I mean, you said it would be difficult for you guys, but it won't be impossible, right?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I'd love to see you following the recommendations from the staff. And think about those recommendations, not just because they want to.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“There's implications for safety, for transit inside the house. In case of an emergency, you have another egress opportunity, you know what I mean? So when you build those things, There's a reason why they recommend, and I'll urge you to agree with those recommendations. And I'll put a stipulation on that, that you will abide for the staff recommendations. Then you have my vote. What do you think?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“It will affect you economically too hard. It will be too hard for you to do it. Because of the staff recommendation. Mayor's right.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“We don't want you to incur such a big extra cost. But if it's not going to be that big, if you agree.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yes or no? You agree or not with the recommendation? That's all I need to know.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for all showing up today. My guests here, they're all buddies, right? Glass-blowing buddies on the UTA in the same realm, right? We are friends. But I'm going to follow the opening of my colleague, Jason Shelton. That is a hard one. It's a hard decision to make. Especially being a small business owner, also on the District 1, which I represent, 10 years of sweat, blood, and tears to make it happen, and then they are faced with this. I just wish we had more time. to get this agreement to accommodate the local business here in Arlington. And at once, we can all start it…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Jennifer and Brent. Great, great work. This is when you do your victory lap, right? The victory lap was a lot of learning, a lot of accomplishments. Quick question. We got a lot of learning from this event, right? What stands more in your mind that is the biggest take that we got from the World Cup in understanding big events and worldwide events?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I APPRECIATE YOUR FOLLOW-UP. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR BRENT. ON THE HOSPITALITY SIDE, I'M REALLY CLOSE TO THE HOSPITALITY COMMUNITY. WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME RESERVATIONS BLOCKED AHEAD OF THE GAME, THE GAMES, AND THEN WHEN YOU COME REALLY CLOSE TO THE EVENTS, THEY'RE SENDING BACK TO THE HOTELS, THEY HAVE TO SCRUMBLE. AND THEY DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB, RIGHT? SO WE SHARED THE SAME BOARD WITH THE CVB BOARD, WHICH I'M PROUD OF IT. AND WHAT LEARNING EXPERIENCE WE TAKE FROM THIS AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR THE HOSPITALITY ASPECT IN RETURNING INVESTMENT FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IN…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, guys. Congratulations again. Cheers to you all. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“All right. Amy, thank you so much for the follow-up, and I think we work a great deal already on looking at updating the stormwater plan that we had before, the review, plus this work that you've done, so congratulations, really good information. Questions really for Trey here, so what are the options here we have for a program, right? At least take a look at a program, not define what the program is, but what are the options for a program here? A dedicated program, erosion program.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Trey, just complementing what he's saying. So the argument out there is that in 1961, the city was 44,000 people. Now we have 400,000, basically almost 10 times bigger than it was. And now this water that rains affect everybody in a different way. They flow to city-owned infrastructure that we take care of it with the $20 million. We're not going to talk about if that's enough or not, if this is enough or not. but also goes to some private creeks, and what they're saying is that there's more water being handled by those creeks and they have more erosion now. If that's true or not, so leave…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Let's wrap up. We're going to continue exploring solutions for it.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Jennifer, for the update. Some of those, can you send a digital copy for us on an email? Okay, so we have it on file. And a lot of those priorities here, we're going to double check on the fall retreat, correct? That will be the opportunity to go ahead and... And cycle some of those priorities.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yes, Mayor. The Economic Development Committee met this morning with Full House, and we discussed the C-PACE, so we had a presentation from Marty and his team about the C-PACE commercial property assessed CLEAN ENERGY, WHICH IS ONE OF THE, AN EXTRA TOOL FOR CAPITAL STACK FOR THE DEVELOPERS IN THE CITY. SO C-PACE WORKS ON OFFSETTING THE COST OF THE INVESTMENT FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM SAVINGS ON CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVES, WHICH ARE ELECTRIC OR WATER OR BEST PRACTICES ON MANAGEMENT FOR ROOM OCCUPANCY, ESPECIALLY FOR HOSPITALITY AND DEVELOPMENTS LIKE THAT THAT CAN BRING IT DOWN THE EXPENSES ON…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Go ahead. Thank you for coming out. Yeah, just following up on what you said, the RFP process does not have a heavier weight for a local business, right? This is a standard procedure for all the RFPs, RFQs in the city. I mean, by law, we cannot give that, right? Yes. By law, we cannot give that heavy weight, right?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“And the committee is not looking for the lower bid, right? It's looking for the best service for the price, right?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“And how many people are in the committee?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“If they have success, they get paid, right? Right. Success is their payment. For small business out there and local businesses that ask, are we giving priority for business that are not outside the city or inside the city? There is a process. There's a committee, seven people that put the work and effort in a most fair way To give the proposal for us, right? To propose which company is going to win the contract, correct? Correct. All right.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you. I know, I know. Hey, how are you? Hey Mike, how are you? Look at you and Gary being here today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. But you also do a study on understanding what is going to fit in to the entire area, right? So there's a market over there. So you want to fit something that doesn't compete with other brands. That way you maximize your, what do you do different here on this location?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I would like to see some lighting. You put up the towers, right? The towers look so good with some lights out there will really call the attention for anybody driving. Hopefully not 50 miles per hour.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026