Remarks by Nelson Esparza
210 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 9
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“All right, we have a motion. We have a second. Is there any opposition to approving the 9-10 AM item? Seeing none, that passes 6-0. Great. For the timed items, that leaves us the 915, the Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report, the CAPER for HUD. So we'll go ahead and open the hearing on the 915 AM item. If there's any public comment either in the chamber or on Zoom regarding the 915 AM CAPER for HUD. I don't see any in the chamber. On Zoom, we have Brandy Nusviegas. Good morning.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Brandi. Thank you. All right, do we have any additional public comment on the 9.15 a.m. hearing item regarding the CAPER for HUD? Consolidated annual performance. Okay, we're gonna go ahead and close the public hearing. Bring it back up to the council. I don't see anyone punched up right now. Does council have any additional questions? Everyone did their homework. Okay, all right. I'll entertain a motion.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, we have a motion. We have a second on the item. Is there any opposition to approving the 9.15 a.m. item? Seeing none, that passes five to zero. Yeah, five to zero. Okay, that's our timed items. So what we'll do is we'll move to the consent calendar. Before we obviously vote on it, we're gonna take public comments. So at this time, we'll open up the public comments for any item on the consent calendar, contested consent calendar, the closed session agenda, if anybody has public comment. With respect to those items, either in the chamber or on Zoom, you're welcome to provide input at…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Next speaker on Zoom is going to be Lisa Flores.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I don't see anyone punched up on Zoom. Council Member Karbasi?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Is there additional public comment? There was no one punched up in the chamber or on Zoom. Go ahead and close public comment on the consent calendar, contested consents, and the closed session agenda. Let me see here. Before we vote on the consent calendar, I did have a last minute change. What I wanted to do was... table one of the consent items, item two U. Clerk, attorney, how would I go about doing that since we're kind of late stages here?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, we have a motion to reopen the agenda and a second. Is there any opposition to reopening the approval of the agenda? I see none, this passes six to zero.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, that's unilateral, I believe. All right, so item two U is tabled in addition to everything else that was prior tables. All right, I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as it is. Second. Without two U. All right, we have a motion, we have a second. Any opposition to approval of the agenda? Revised? Oh yeah, everything, yeah, your registered no vote stands. Everything that we did prior still stands. We just did this one amendment in addition to the previous changes. Okay, all right, great. So we have approval of the agenda again. Let's go back to our approval of the consent agenda.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Second that. We have a motion, we have a second to approve the consent agenda minus the removals and minus the contested consent items. Is there any opposition to approving the consent agenda? Seeing none, the pass is six to zero. We've got some time here, let's dig into the contested consent items. I believe we have two of them, both pulled by Council Member Arias, and we can begin with item 2L.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I'll second. So we have a motion, we have a second. Is there any opposition to approving item 2L? Seeing none, the pass is six to zero. And we'll move on to item 2M. to Amazon McGill.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right. We have a motion for this item and a second. Is there any opposition to approving item 2M? 2M is in McGill. Seeing none, that passes six to zero. You know, despite spending an hour and 20 minutes plus on the proclamations, it moved pretty quick through the public agenda. That leaves, I believe, only unscheduled communication for the open session today. And so go ahead and move open to unscheduled communication. I did have one card that I received, but if anyone in the chamber or on Zoom would like to speak with respect to unscheduled communication, now would be the time to punch up…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the comment. The training is important. I think some of us have been in that situation before where we're trying to figure out what to do. We want to get that paper, if possible, Council President. Council Member Karabasi, you want the, yes.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“We can get a copy of it and get it back to you. You want it back, sir? No, I think he said we can have it. We can have it? Okay, great. Thank you. We'll get copies of that for everybody. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, great. Anyone else in the chamber who would like to speak with respect to unscheduled communication? Okay, all right, we're gonna move on to the Zoom speakers. We have a few. First speaker's gonna be Joseph Rodriguez. Joseph, are you with us?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, great. Our next speaker on Zoom is going to be Nikki Real.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Next speaker is going to be Alfred.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, next speaker on Zoom is gonna be Crystal Rocha.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Any additional public comments, Zoom, or in the chamber? We're on unscheduled communication right now. Seeing none, we're going to go to close public comment, close unscheduled communication. That is going to conclude our open session for today. Still got a lot to do in closed session this afternoon. City Attorney, can you please go ahead and read off the closed session agenda? And Council will be back here about 1.30, 1.45, but it will be in closed session that we return.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, thank you, city attorney. Thank you to everybody who participated today, and I'll see you in closed session, counsel.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, good morning to everyone. We're going to call today's council meeting to order. Clerk, would you please call the roll?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you, City Clerk. Next, we're going to have the invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. So I'll ask everyone, if you can stand, to please stand. Our invocation is going to be by Deacon Mark Schultz, the Chancellor of Diocese of Fresno. And again, once the invocation is over, I'll ask you to keep standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Welcome.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you, deacon. Council, Vice President, would you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, we're gonna move on to approval of the agenda. Clerk, are there any announcements or changes from the agenda?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, Council, is there any additional changes to the agenda? Council Member Broaddus? No, thank you, Council President. All right, Council Vice President?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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City Council · Sep 3, 2026