Remarks by Mayor Lock Dawson
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“Good afternoon. Welcome to the City of Riverside City Council meeting for October 20th, 2026. Welcome everyone. I'm Mayor Patricia Black Dawson. I will now call our meeting to order. I would please ask Councilmember Hammonway to please lead us in an invocation and the pledge.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Amen. all right we will open today's meeting with public comment for items on our consent calendar closed sessions and any matters within the jurisdiction of the City Council”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you. We have a couple requests to speak in chambers. I'd like to please call Errol Kosiewicz forward.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. That was our last request to speak. So we'll close public comment and we're going to move on on our agenda. And we are now at item number two. This is our mayor and council member communications. I will start with council member Falcone.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Falcone. Council Member Cervantes is on her way. She had a doctor's appointment. She will be here soon. Council Member Robillard?”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Hernandez.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Hemingway.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Councilmember. Just a big congratulations to Chancellor Waldob Isak, who had his retirement celebration this last week, which I was able to attend and was wonderful to see all the great work he's done over the past 20 years. And thank you, Council Member Falcone, for attending the Rivers and Lands Conservancy Gala. I know how much you care about open space and conservation. So thank you for, and seeing the porcupine, I know. So I appreciate you being there. It's a wonderful organization. Just so folks know, we are in the middle of the Crosstown Showdown, the big competition between…”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“I'll let you know. Yeah, a mission and run. Everybody, I see Miranda Evans out there. She also ran, so I see, yeah. And your daughter did too? Wow, a lot of people. You know what's cool about that? I have to say, sorry. It's, you know, so much we're so into our apps and we're on our phone all the time. It was like the whole community came out for this, 7,000 runners. And so I saw people I haven't seen in years. It was just really fun. It was a really wonderful community event. So I appreciate being able to get out some safe face-to-face stuff. Some upcoming meetings. We've got our Safety,…”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“THANK YOU AND CONGRATS AGAIN. COUNCIL, I NEED YOU TO DECLARE ANY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OR EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS. ANYBODY? ANYTHING ON THE AGENDA? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, CITY ATTORNEY. All right. We are at our employee overview and recognition. And this month, it is our public utilities department. We get to hear from them. And I believe David Garcia, their trustee director, is here to give us a report.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“From the electric- Give him a round of applause anyway, he's not here.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“All right. We are now at item 5A. And we get to celebrate a retirement today. And I'm going to pass it to our city manager, please, to take us in this next item.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Councilmember Condor, would you like to say a few words?”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you. And how nice your whole family is here.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Um, let's see. We now have the introduction of our new inspector general. And for that, I'm going to pass it to council member Robillard, who happened to be the mayor pro tem and led the hiring, which went on and on and on. So we're going to let him do the honors of the introduction. Council member Robillard.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Everybody, if we could please return to our seats, we can move on on our agenda. All right. Thank you, everyone. All right, we are now at our consent calendar, and I will ask our city manager and council members one by one if they have any items they wish to pull. I will begin with our city manager.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026