Remarks by Mayor Lock Dawson
257 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 11
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“We are back from closed session and I will call on our city attorney please to report out on closed session items.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay thank you. Council anybody have any items for future consideration? Okay. All right, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Hi, everybody. All right. Let me just get my computer up so I can see. There we go. All right, everybody. Welcome to the City of Riverside City Council meeting for Tuesday, September 1st. And we have an afternoon-only session today, which means we have no evening session. When we go into closed session, we will come back and adjourn, but there will be no evening session. I will call our meeting to order now, and I will call on Councilmember Robillard, please, to lead us in an invocation.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Amen. Thank you. Will you please lead us in the pledge? the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Council Member Robillard. And this afternoon we start with our public comment, as we always do, and this is public comment on the consent calendar, closed session, and any matters within the jurisdiction of the City Council.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, thank you. We have a couple requests to speak in chambers, and I will call on Dave Stolte, please. Who's first? Is Dave here? Hello, Dave. Good to see you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Condor.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Mills?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And last but not least, Council Member Hemmering.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Connie is as well, so hopefully that will be done 27, yes? Oh, early 28, okay. Thank you. And also, where I was able to attend with Council Member Condor, the Regional Homeless Housing Subcommittee meeting that our Housing and Human Services, Michelle will talk about that, I think, today. But Michelle Davis and her staff did an amazing job bringing people together from across the county to talk about various solutions to our homeless and other issues around that, housing issues. And then finally, I wanted to thank the Building Industry Association of Southern California. They are recognizing…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Council, any conflicts of interest?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Was I under 10? This thing doesn't move. It didn't move.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I was wondering, but you did. I was looking at it, and I was pretty sure you hit it under there. So thank you for that. And wow, what a lot of work you all do. Thank you, all of you, for doing this very important work within our city. And can I add to you, Michelle, I thought that was very nice that you recognized your partners within the city and the different departments. That was very nice. Thank you. We have a couple comments from our council members. Council Member Condor.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Mill.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member. Just a couple things. Michelle, we get a lot of money from the state every year, HAP funding, which is the Housing, Homeless, and Assistance Prevention Program. Can you just very briefly say what those funds are used for throughout some of the programs that you've used? What do they go to?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. And I know we have a dashboard. We're looking at a dashboard to see the efficacy of where those dollars are going to programs that work, which don't work, and which ones should we shed, which ones should we beef up. Correct. And I know someone in my office is looking at that as well.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think she's great. And then I know you mentioned TAY youth or transitional age youth. That's who we focus on when we talk about functional zero for youth homelessness. I think there was a comment made at a committee meeting yesterday. Council Member Mill said that someone said we hadn't solved it, youth homelessness, because there were so many issues. McKinney-Vento students in the school district, I think they said there was something like 2,000. That's an entirely different group, and they fall under different designations and all these other things, correct?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I mean, that's part of the issue with that group, I think, so. And lastly I think one of the things I wish our public would know was we've I think all the council members up here got requests within the past couple weeks about why aren't we doing like other cities and doing police sweeps of our encampments and I think you showed we do them on the regular basis and we have done them every We do them a lot. So I think a couple cities around us have made it public lately that they've been doing it, but we've been doing it for a long time. And, in fact, I think your data show there was over 600…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Moving on to our agenda. Oh, wow. This is a fun one. We've got September is Deaf Awareness Month. So this is our last presentation, and this is in recognition of Deaf Awareness Month. And because CSDR is in his ward, I want to ask Councilmember Robillard to help make this presentation. But I just know our friends from the deaf community and CSDR, we worked very hard to get our commission established since I've been in office. We worked very hard to work with our folks at CSTR. We continue to. And thank you for sticking with us. We appreciate you just bearing with us. So thank you. And…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So thank you all for coming, and also just congratulations to everybody, and thank you, Councilor Robillard. All right, Council, we are moving on our agenda, and we are at our consent calendar, and I will ask our city manager if you have any items you wish to pull.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Ward 1? Pass. Ward 2? Pass. Ward 3? Pass. Pass. Ward 4? Pass. Ward 5? Pass. Ward 6? Pass. Ward 7? Pass.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026