Remarks by Nick Richardson
106 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Okay. I'm looking at that now, 3806. That is, and I see the part about advertisement, which would make probably both sides happy out there. And it doesn't, except for its tie to Chapter 15, Article 26, it doesn't tie it to retail activity, just advertisement. Is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“See, I disagree that that's specific, not only because it talks about specifically administrative violations, administrative penalties, but it doesn't break down responsibility and who is to be held accountable for them in delineating the responsibility between the person making the point of sale, sale, right? And the person who is the owner and probably, you know, acquirer for the establishment.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, Angela, I agree with you. it is written down out there it doesn't delineate responsibility for different types of violations that's my issue not that it's not spoken to it's that we haven't specifically looked at these are different types of violations of varying degrees of problem i think we can all agree right that's not delineated that's the issue and i'm not honestly i'm not going to make you stand up here and defend it because it's not your idea council member i can i can address it uh i think a little bit better um in in the sense that i i think and i'll let the authors jump in um”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So that is- And I get that, but we're not asking for a consideration of every possible outcome. I'm saying there are four categories that every violation falls into. It's either you have stuff you're not supposed to, You're selling stuff in a way you're not supposed to. I mean, that's a whole business right there. Or you did your paperwork wrong, or your building is wrong. I mean, I can cut off my most offensive finger and still be able to count to four.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Do you guys have the mechanisms to be able to punish a teller and not punish the owner of the business under this legislation?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“and revoking or having an infraction against their tobacco retail license.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“If, if I'm going to take your word for this, if you're comfortable with the delineation there on how to hold people accountable and responsible, and we've got the ability not to have marks or infractions against the tobacco retail license, but rather to hold the employee responsible when appropriate. We have that discretion right now as it stands. If that's going to fluctuate at all or not be in the, in the spirit of this, maybe that's something that we talk about at our one year review, if they're amicable to that. Um, I think we're almost there. I think we're almost there. I would like to…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah, I think it's fair to say that some things are dingable and some things aren't, but I'd like that iterated as opposed to putting that weight of decision on every single code enforcement officer with the ability to be very clear.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Are there any amendments have been added to this or no?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Council President, would you mind real quick if I ask one question of the Planning Director who's sitting out there just to address some of the concerns?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Appreciate that. Jennifer. Director Clark, would you mind just joining us? I have a single answer question for you. And it will sound familiar from an email that we discussed earlier this week.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Now, I don't want to spoil the punch before we drink it, but is data center a currently listed allowable use for any zone, any zone code in the city of Fresno?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Not going to take long. The only thing I'd like to say is you learn after some time in the military that there's no such thing as an end. Inside our own minds, we kind of deceive ourselves and we convince ourselves there's such thing as the end or the finality of something. And really, that's not true. When you first had your first kid, that wasn't the end of your life as a parentless person. That was the beginning of your life as a parent. Things that we see as the end really aren't. So it's going to take a lot. I know I can't imagine what the family's going through, but I want you to be…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yep, keep it quick. It's a beautiful day in District 6. We, on August 3rd, celebrated the grand opening of UCP+. If you're not familiar with UCP+, it used to be United Cerebral Palsy, and now they've expanded their services to extend to a large community of varying ability levels that teaches life skills like cooking and, you know, taking care of clothing and balancing a checkbook and things like that. And just seeing the family and the people that are affected by this sort of resource in the city was a... It was a... Very emotional experience. So next time you're driving by the northeast…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Council President, real quick, do you have a time for that Beautify Fresno event tomorrow or Saturday?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“All right, let's. Sorry, was P added back to consent? Was P moved? I still have that as pulled from consent to contest. P, I believe, was removed.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yes, I did. Santino? No. Thanks for coming up here. Can you give us in the public just a little background on what this is talking about and the necessity for it?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay, so this time next year we will not be seeing this come back given the expiration of Measure C, is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Regardless of if anything comes back to us like this, it won't say measure C on it because measure C doesn't. That's correct, yes. Okay, that's all I had. Okay. Yeah, motion to approve.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“All right. Director Barr, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Not too bad. Just speak real quick, if you don't mind. to Owens Mountain and how Owens Mountain, as a retran site or otherwise, is able to augment the city's communication capabilities. It seems like it's a little out there.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay, so is it actively used by the city as a retrans? Is that the purpose it's serving up there? Is it a retrans site? Is it an amplifier? Is it connecting us with outside agencies? Or is it internal to internal?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Location, location, location. Okay, I appreciate that. With that, Council President, motion to approve to Mike.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay. Looking through, so I know that when we had the discussions about the smoke shops last year, and we also heard this echoed today from the audience, there's nothing in this ordinance that speaks to proximity from sensitive locations. Is that on purpose? Is that something that maybe we'd be open to an amendment to discuss? That's one of the things I'd like to talk about. I think that even the representatives here from their respective industries have spoken about being in favor of some sort of distance from schools and other sensitive areas. I think that would be something responsible to…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay, so when it talks about the applicability and the issuance of the license, that distance is something that, because we already have the TRO, would be taken into account along with everything else that's on page 11? Yes. Okay, copy that, thank you. I know it was brought up and I received from the public some, hey, kind of requests, would you consider this? Would you consider that when it comes to TRL? And I'll be honest, not all of them did I agree with. Some of them I think were worded differently, but I do think there's some opportunity there for what we get paid to do, which is kind of…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“when they're levied upon whoever we investigated. So say you go, you bust some business because they're, you know, selling vodka to kindergartners or whatever. When you go in there and you bust them for whatever the violation is, all of our investigative fees, all of our legal fees, if there's a legal challenge, whatever else, those costs are then imposed upon that entity we investigated.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026