Remarks by Monica Matteo-Salinas
36 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“So, thank you. I'd like to make a motion then to move this item with a favorable recommendation to the commission, including our comments about everything that we discussed up here, the sunsetting and the events and the members, and then also include, if you two are okay with it, eliminating the commission committees, the three commission committees. I support that.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I think I said it. It was in there. To eliminate the committees, the three commission committees. Yeah. Let's get more work done better.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“And also look at which committees can be reduced to seven members. Seven members, correct.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“And the workshop will be a short agenda.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, we'll work on it. Okay. As long as a bunch of staff time isn't, you know, like the Hispanic Affairs, there's just so many departments that all throw that together, and there's a cost to it, but it sounds like Sister Cities is different, their events.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“And it will. We'll define events and how those are clarified. Okay.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd support that. I'll second that. I just want to make sure that the developer, is that a fair and safe timeline for the developer, or is it going to be in September? He goes, oh, I need six more months.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I did a walkthrough recently with some of the residents south of fifth and they, um, you know, have expressed concerns about the safety and the lack of lighting in south point park and also near Smith and Walensky. So I put this item on the agenda to discuss, uh, what can we do to improve the lighting in that area? And I have some thoughts about some tree, right? Tree lighting, tree wraps, and also some of the extending the bollard lighting that is on, um, the beach walk extending that west on the cut walk. So, John, I'll let you take it away and explain what you…”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“Well, I want to just add real quickly that so the tree lights that are wrapped that will be next to Smith & Walensky wouldn't be visible from the beach.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“So, John, can we bifurcate and move forward the $24,000 into, you know, move that to the commission so that way we can get started on the tree lights west of Smith and Walensky and then bifurcate the lighting that would go east of Smith and Walensky and then bifurcate the other lighting that would go closer to the ground on the cut walk. Can we bifurcate those items and pass...”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026
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“I'd love for staff to just further explore it because we already have the lighting, the small bollard lightings that are all along the beach walk. And I just want to extend that. to West now heading towards Smith and Walensky and see what the price would be to do that.”
City Commission · Jul 15, 2026