Remarks by Nelson Esparza
210 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
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“All right, good morning to everyone. Welcome to City Hall. I'm going to ask if you're a council member, please come on up to the dais. We're going to get this meeting started. We're going to get this meeting started here at 9, 11 a.m. Clerk, if you'd go ahead and please call the roll. I think I saw all the members here in the room.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, thank you, clerk. Next, we're going to have the invocation. It's going to be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. So I'll ask if you can stand to please stand. Our invocation this morning will be by Deacon Nancy Key from St. James. Welcome.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Councilor Radius, will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, we'll move on to the approval of the agenda next. Clerk, do we have any announcements, changes, items removed, et cetera?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, Council Member Arias, do you have any other changes? No, thank you. Council Member Perea?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Council Member Richardson? No changes. Okay, great. All right, I don't have any additional changes. I do wanna, I'll go ahead and do a disclosure. I think now would be the time. Item 2J, I'm required to stay on the record. I'm employed by the State Center Community College District, but do not have an interest in this agreement pursuant to Government Code 1091.5. All right, I'll entertain a motion. We have a motion, we have a second for approval of the agenda.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“That was D. Clerk, got that? All right. Sounds good. All right, we have a motion, we have a second. Is there any opposition to approving the agenda? All right, seeing none, agenda passes six to zero. We'll move on to the fun part of the meeting. The reason I suspect most of the crowd is here today. We're gonna move on to our ceremonial presentations. celebrate different folks and groups here. Our first proclamation on the agenda for this morning is a proclamation for the Valley Volleyball Academy, and that's sponsored by Council Member Vang.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, great. Our next proclamation is going to be for Constitution Week. That's sponsored by the Office of the Mayor and the City Manager.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, so his next proclamation is, again, celebrating the Babs Swimmin' Out the End of the Era of Fresno and presented by both the mayor and Council Member Richardson.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, great. Our next proclamation for this morning is going to be a proclamation for the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band Centennial Celebration. That's sponsored by the Office of the Mayor and City Manager, as well as Vice President Maxwell.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right. All right. Second to last proclamation for the day is going to be a proclamation for Dolly Parton Day. It's sponsored by Vice President Maxwell. I'll be filling in for the Vice President. So I'll welcome down our friends from First Five and the Dolly Parton cutout. Look at that. That's incredible. And while we're on the topic of Vice President Maxwell, he did inform me that he has a family emergency and we'll count that as an excused absence for him for the record.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, that works. Good morning, welcome to City Hall. Great to be here with you all. This proclamation's very timely, given our loss of Dolly Parton just last month, less than a month ago. We're here today to honor her legacy. She founded the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in 1995, marking this year as its 31st year. And that's still a shorter time than when the mayor was at her concert here in Fresno, 41 years ago? 1985, he went to the concert. He was telling me about it a little earlier. So this is something that Vice President Maxwell is very passionate about. He's leaned very…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Well, you know, we'll let the clerk read it to the record, but I did just want to read this last part that, therefore, be it resolved that we, Mayor Jerry P. Dyer and the Fresno City Council, encourage residents to carry forward Dolly Parton's extraordinary legacy by reading with a child, supporting literacy efforts, and helping place the lifelong gift of books, imagination, and opportunity into the hands of every child. And we do hereby proclaim What would be with a little early Friday, September 25th, 2026, as Dolly Parton Day here in the city of Fresno presented to our friends here at…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So last but not least, we have last proclamation of the day. It's going to be a proclamation for the Fresno chapter of the Hmong Nurses Association. And this is sponsored by Council Member Vang.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Fantastic. That'll conclude our proclamations. Only an hour and 22 minutes. Not too bad. Council Member Vang, before you leave the chamber, come back up to the microphone here. I was given a tip to ask you from our first proclamation, who was the MVP of that tournament? Yeah, someone told me to ask you that, little birdie.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Congratulations. Thank you very much, Council President.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, we're going to move on now to our council member reports and comments, and we'll just come down the line here. Council Member Perea.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, City Manager, for reminding everyone about Greek Fest. It's a great time. I encourage everyone to get out there. One of the couple times I barbecue every, each year. Council Member Vang, you have not gone yet.”
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 17, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Any additional public comment from the chamber? Seeing none, we'll go to Zoom. We have one speaker on Zoom so far, Lisa Flores.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, good morning, Lisa. Yes, we can hear you.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Any additional public comment either on Zoom or in the chamber regarding the 920 AM item? SEEING NOW WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS ON THIS ITEM COME BACK UP TO COUNCIL.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, we have a motion. We have a second. Is there any opposition to approving the 9.20 a.m. item? Seeing none, that passes six to zero. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Great, fantastic. All right, thank you all. We'll move on to our 10 a.m. item at an appearance by Neil O'Brien. Neil, are you with us? Welcome on down. You have three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, next item we're gonna hear is the 9-10 a.m. item to hearing to vacate portions of the city-owned right-of-way northeast corner of Milburn and Dakota for Dolores Huerta Park. Let's see here. No presentation, okay. All right, we'll go out to the public for the public hearing portion here. Open the hearing. Is there anybody who would like to provide public comment in the hearing on the 9-10 a.m. item? either in the chamber or on Zoom. Seeing none, we're gonna close the public hearing for the 9.10 a.m. item. Bring it up to the council.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026