Remarks by Nelson Esparza
210 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“Thank you. Next speaker is going to be Joseph Rodriguez. Yes.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yes, Joseph. You have three minutes. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Alright, thank you. Next speaker is going to be Bill Betts.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Next speaker is going to be Christina Soto.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you. Next speaker is going to be Lisa Flores.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Next speaker is going to be Brandi Nusviegas.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“So it's 1215. We're going to, at this point, break for lunch. We'll be back here in the chamber at 145. Council Member Perea, you're punched up.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“A motion by Council Member Broaddus, second by Council Member Vang. The motion is to approve the good cause given the medical emergency. Is there any opposition to approving the motion? Seeing none, that item passes 4-5-0. Thank you. Thank you. We'll be back here at 1.45.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Resuming session. We left off, we're doing some public comments on the workshop regarding the public financing of SATA. We're gonna go back, continue on with Zoom. First speaker is going to be Pete Weber. Pete, are you with us? Let's move on to Natalie Ortiz, we'll see if we can come back to Pete.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right. Next speaker is going to be Dee Barnes.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you, Dee. Next speaker is going to be Kimberly McCoy.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Oh, yes, clerk. Sorry, you're punched up.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you for the clarification on that. Yeah, there's no vote on this item. This is just a workshop and public comment, but for the remainder of the voting items. Okay, so resuming back to public comment, Kimberly McCoy, who'll be next.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Next speaker on Zoom is going to be Pete Weber. Pete, are you with us? Clerk, is he unmuted? Pete, are you with us? Let's move to Shelley. Spencer will figure that out.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right. Last speaker on Zoom I see is again, Pete Weber. I'm not sure if the microphone's working. We'll give one more shot before I move back to the chamber. You're muted. Yeah, I'm muted, clerk. Okay. Probably technical difficulties. Okay, well, we're gonna come back to the chamber if there's any additional public comment in the chamber on this SEDA workshop, the public financing. Now would be the time. Seeing no more speakers in person or on Zoom, we'll bring it back up to the dais. I know the mayor had asked to round out the presentation, and we'll come back up to the council members…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, we're going to come back up to the dais. Council Member Vang is punched up, followed by Council Member Richardson.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right. I don't have anyone punched up right now. Question for the consultants or whoever might want to oblige, you know, in speaking to some of the community members and their concerns. These numbers, you know, these numbers look great. I mean, the numbers that's presented, they pencil. But I think there's concern with just sort of, the methodology, how these numbers were arrived at, some of the assumptions that were behind it. And so I won't nitpick at any one specific component, but for the benefit of the public and transparency, would you mind elaborating on the different methodologies…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I don't want the five-minute. I don't want the one-hour. Give me something in between to help folks understand, again, these numbers look good. How did we get there?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I think for a public meeting like this, yeah. Obviously, I think there's a deeper level we could go. I'm not sure it's necessarily helpful in this forum. But I appreciate the kind of overarching. To kind of go back to the beginning as you were listing off some of the assumptions and what you utilized, the mayor kind of alluded to this as well when he was speaking. but I mean, what, I guess I would ask, what independent evidence gives us confidence that the city, the Fresno can absorb the total square footage of the dwellings and the industrial? I know there was some allusion to Visalia and…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Sure. And then, this is more of a physical question, maybe for you, maybe for your admin. But at Build Out, we're seeing this $17.2 million surplus.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“But notice in the report identifies about $7 million in additional street maintenance costs. Yes. Does that $17.2 million surplus account for that cost already?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, just trying to get, you know, make sure it's an accurate number. We're not supplanting it or, you know, overlooking, right, what the ultimate net effect would be. Okay. I'll leave you there for now. Okay. I'll give my colleagues an opportunity here. Council Member Arias.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, thank you, Council Member. At this time, We are going to, it's 4.30, I didn't know we were gonna go this long on this item. We do have to hear one time sensitive closed session item. We'll do that one item and then we'll come back out here to wrap up the rest of the open session. So at this time, City Attorney, would you please read the closed session items.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“All right, we are back. At this point, we're going to take on item 2N. I know folks have been waiting for this one. This is the Councilmember Richardson's item related to the prohibition of data centers. So I'll give the floor to the sponsor.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, this was, Council Member Arias pulled it, so I'll go to him, and then Council Member Perea is punched up as well after him, as well as others.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026