Remarks by Nick Bavaro
49 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Follow up, Mayor? Yes. Thank you. This is still questions. Yes. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So what you're saying is by your interpretation of the law, if a LLC transfers product to another LLC, not a member, but to an LLC, that is a taxable event. And regardless on who owns it. Okay. If we were to amend that ordinance, it would be in a future date if we wanted to change that. That is not the issue tonight.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So we would have to follow the ordinance law and if the council so sees in their judgment to make changes, we would direct staff and then in the future that would be corrected.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Mayor, point of question or point of inquiry. Is it possible now that this has passed that the council would speak and give their thoughts or their direction to staff on reviewing this ordinance and making recommendations to the council on... No, we didn't do that. We didn't do that. So I guess my point is that I'm going to say that we need to give staff direction to review this ordinance to clean up the language on the transfer of one entity to another entity and not making that a taxable event. I think we need to review that. And so if there's any other council members that would like to…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. From 2026, to, I'm sorry, 2016 to 2026, their fees more than doubled. Did their, did Grover's scope of work increase or is it the same, the same scope?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“On the five-year agreement or service contract, the first two years are, you have like the first two years, and then after that, the third year comes up separately, the fourth year separately, and the fifth year. So I assume that the first two years, the CPI is going to be part of that contract, correct?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And the third year, we then go to Western Urban CPI, make the adjustments. Same with the fourth year and fifth year. And on the Western Urban CPI, they have the fuel bucket, fuel economic bucket. Are we going to be providing a separate fuel bucket as well in addition to Western Urban CPI?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So you're using, okay, you're not incorporating that, so...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Will the fuel bucket be reviewed the first year and the second year?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. Does that come out of the 8% contingency? The CPI?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think the city got a good deal on the fuel bucket. You know, I mean, with the, the way diesel prices are going up, and then being able to project the cost of fuel for the next two years, I mean, it's impossible to do that. So I think that's actually a plus to the city. And that was just a statement. I'm pretty much done with my questions. I'll wait until council comment.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Dittoes to my colleague, Councilwoman Rosa. We actually, during finance committee, we did vet out this process and you know, prior to this contract that we're having tonight, this contract was a citywide landscape maintenance contract and we opened it up to people to bid and it seemed it was only one bidder and that was that bid it on the contract and only because of the size of the contract. This time, this council saw the wisdom to open up the process to get more landscape maintenance companies in the process to be involved in the bidding process and we as a council broke…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR. LAST SATURDAY, I HAD A DISTRICT FOUR NEIGHBORHOOD REPRESENTATIVE MEETING AT MY HOME WITH 12 MEMBERS IN MY DISTRICT. THE DISCUSSION WAS ABOUT DATA CENTERS AND JUST GETTING SOME INPUT FROM MY DISTRICT. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A RETIRED SCIENTIST FROM LIVERMORE LAB a retired engineer from Livermore Lab and other people who gave great suggestions and also what we should be, what I should be looking for in my due diligence as we go through this process. Highlights were on concerns were on the environment, noise, water and energy usage and just basically the cost benefits…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Your Honor, and council members.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So right now, out of respect to you, we're listening to you. during council comments, that's the time when council members and the mayor can speak.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I would bring request agenda item to first implement or vote on a moratorium that I would do first. I don't believe we're at the point now to put it on the agenda because quite honestly I have not gathered, done my due diligence and I haven't gathered all the data. This is something that's come up just in a couple of weeks. And so I am not prepared 100% take a strong position one way or the other because I still need to gather data. But I would request a future agenda item to put a moratorium to give us time to look into.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I would ask the city attorney on the process of how I would make that request.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“On the appraisal, my question during our briefing was I thought that that was somewhat expensive to pay that kind of money for that partial 1.8 acres or whatever. Can you explain to the council the process and also to the public the process by which how you came up with that dollar amount? Absolutely. And who did the appraisals?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yes, Mayor. I would like to ask the city attorney for guidance on how we would put an agenda item to have a moratorium. Is this the time to bring this up or how do we do this?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“No, it's actually Jeremiah who's asking the question.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to, I was originally gonna talk about my write out with the police department, my quarterly write out, and also, you know, national night out. I'll save that for the next meeting due to time. But I just wanted to say a few things about the data centers. And quite honestly, the council works in the beginning of the year, January, February, city management, will listen to the council on what our priorities are and our vision on how we're going to move forward with the City of Modesto. And you know we talked about the priorities this year were the general plan,…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I also enjoy this one evening. It allows me the opportunity to meet and listen to many of my constituents in District 4 who, under normal circumstances, probably wouldn't have a chance to talk to them and listen to their concerns. And it just gives me more of a... a full perspective of what my district's about. And it's a night that I do enjoy. I think I did cover 23 last year. Yeah, you know that. So I outdid Jeremiah last year, first time. So let that be noted.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Mayor. Just for clarification, Kevin, this is internal. It's whenever we're hiring potential or future police officers. Polygraph is going on those individuals, not people who are arrested. And it's taking more than two weeks to get this done. The one we have right now only does 15 a month. And So we're losing qualified candidates who are going to other departments because of the time lapse. And so we need to get this done quickly. So it's police officers, not those who they arrest.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026