Remarks by Miguel Arias
198 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 8
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“Ready? Salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Quick reminder, Fiestas Patrias is officially going to occur this weekend on Sunday, the PARADE WILL BEGIN 11 O'CLOCK BY THE TRADITIONAL GRITO AND THEN FOOD AND LIVE MUSIC THAT WILL GO TO APPROXIMATELY 10 P.M. ON SUNDAY. SO I INVITE EVERYONE TO ATTEND. A COUPLE OF THANK YOU'S TO THE PUBLIC WORKS TEAM FOR THE REPAVING THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED ON MLK. I KNOW THE MAYOR AND I WERE OUT THERE FOR THE KICKOFF IN THAT SUMMER HEAT. THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE NOW AND EVERYBODY IS APPRECIATIVE OF THE SMOOTH ROAD THAT WE'VE REPLACED AFTER DECADES OF A CRUMBLING STREET.…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. And I think the confusion is they're used to seeing construction vehicles park those areas and construction equipment versus passenger vehicles.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“If I may be free to speak, Council President, I simply want for the public's benefit, this is a historic building. It's been here for more than 100 years. It's an active church. And the owners are requesting that we designate the property historic in nature, which I'm fully supportive of, especially when it is the property owners themselves making the request. So I'll hand it off to the church now.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“IF I MAY COUNCIL PRESIDENT BEFORE I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RECOGNITION OF THE CHURCH AS A HISTORIC DESIGNATION I DO WANT TO JUST SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC ONE FACT THAT RECOGNIZES THEIR PERSEVERANCE AS A CONGREGATION. YOU KNOW THE CHURCH WAS STARTED IN 1926. AND THEY EVENTUALLY BUILT THEIR OWN BUILDING IN 1947. ONLY TO HAVE THE BUILDING TORN DOWN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATE ROUTE 99. EIGHT YEARS AFTER THEY BUILT THEIR CHURCH, THE STATE CAME IN AND SAID WE'RE GOING TO BUILD A FREEWAY ON YOUR LOCATION, WHICH REQUIRED THEM TO BUILD A NEW CHURCH IN 1955, WHICH IS THE CURRENT LOCATION. AND…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I'll make a motion to reopen the agenda.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I'll make a motion to table item two U from the consent agenda.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I just want to thank the administration for the very thorough update on the second round of the cultural arts grant awardees. I did want, for the record, for them to tell us a couple of additional points of information. One, can you provide us a list of all the grantees that declined their award? Do you have it now that you can give it to us on the record?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“And my other question for the record, Director, is this agenda item request that we authorize the city manager to approve certain contracts over her limit, I know there's only three of them, right?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So for the record, can you tell us which three are being recommended for approval? Absolutely. By the city manager?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. And again, thank you to your team for this extremely thorough memo that gives us the status of each of these round two awardees. I appreciate the time and the effort you all put into this. So with that, I'll make a motion to approve.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yes, just a simple question, Director. I know that there's been references to the second unit of bathrooms being damaged from an accident. What's the status of the second unit, and when do we anticipate it being back online?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“What does that mean to the schedule and the availability of public restrooms?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you for the information. Motion to approve, Council.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Arias. Thank you, Council President. Scott, where's Scott at? Did he leave the building already? Oh my God, Scott. Just my express, I want to express my appreciation to Scott Mosier. In my tenure here, he's been always a guy that gives you a direct and honest answer and a really unbiased assessment of what the challenges are on any infrastructure project. And for far too long, you know, it's been difficult for us to rebuild our older neighborhoods. But Scott has taken the bull by the horns when we've allocated the money, and he's gotten the projects on time and under…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Excuse me. Excuse me real quick. Council President, I missed the instruction portion. Would you like us to do questions while they're speaking or after they're done? Yeah, I didn't give instructions.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you. City Manager, do you want to take a stretch before we start?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I wanted to point out, City Manager, I know you have a little bell that you ring whenever you disagree with my statement, so I got a bell, too, that I will ring whenever you provide me a response that's not supervised evidence or whenever you guys answer a question without answering the question. Yes, that's a different conversation.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So in all seriousness, this is the most expensive decision that I will be a part of as I depart and complete my tenure on the city council. So what I am gonna ask of staff is that whatever questions I pose, you just give me a direct response. And if the response is we don't know, we'll get back to you, that's fair too. But not to give me a long-winded response that doesn't answer the question, because everybody's tired, I'm exhausted already, and this is a super complicated matter. So I'm not trying to do gotcha questions. I'm trying to understand a 150-page report that I got two days ago.…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, a trade memo that we, of course, trade memos are public so that people see the actual responses and we're all operating under the same assumption when we get responses to questions. So if I ask you the cost of a trunk line is a dollar, then everybody should know that the cost of a trunk line is a dollar. That way there's no misunderstandings. And prior to my questions, I wanna just start off with this. We're all temporary caretakers of this city. And I think our hope is always that we leave this place better than we found it. And I think this council and the last few councils and the…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah. And usually when we hear items, Director, as you know, we have an applicant. Either a development permit, somebody's applying for it, there's an interest, or the residents are pushing their council members to adopt a specific plan for their area to preserve neighborhood characteristics. In this case, walk me back through how we got here. Who exactly is requesting SEDA as a specific plan?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So when we put it on the shelf because of the recession, the housing burst, everything else, at what point was the decision made to reignite this? When did we make that decision that we wanted to proceed with SETA again?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thus far, have we had any residents from the SATA area expressing support or interest or advocating that we proceed with this specific plan?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So in your recollection, there's two property owners who express interest in Zeta moving forward.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026