Remarks by Patrick Harper
116 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Yeah, I'd like to make a comment. First of all, I appreciate the speaker's comments, and I would like to ask for the attorney's input on this. It's my understanding that campaigning is not appropriate on any city property or city events, and so if that is happening, I'd like to just kind of clarify it at this time.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'd like an answer now. I mean, is it appropriate to campaign on city property and city events? Yes or no? Or what's – it should be a quick answer. I think the answer is no, but if it's not, then I'm interested to hear why.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. On August 19th, attended the PCTA meeting. August 20th, OCTA Finance Committee meeting. Also on August 20th, the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Committee meeting. August 27th, attended the Pickler Ribbon Cutting Grand Opening. Very nice facility over in the old Rite Aid on Magnolia and Talbert. and on the August 24th attended the OCTA board meeting and that concludes my report and the board the OCTA I guess the latest thing happening there is we the they're testing the streetcar in Santa Ana and try I think they're shooting for opening end of this year beginning of next year…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“What's the most common thing you get from a workers' comp or a liability? Is it a slip and fall?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Vice Mayor Harper, you're up. Thank you. Yeah, so I think we have, you know, it says you want to wait until you have five years of data. I mean, we have five years of data. You could just go back to 2022 and 21, right?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah. So then the other thing that we might look at is looking at a lower SIR, seeing how it affects the premium. So maybe not down to zero, but maybe $500,000 if it would. And, you know, leave it up to you to make that determination and JPIA if it makes sense. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But I just want to also take this opportunity to say congratulations on the risk, winning the risk award. That reflects really well on Fountain Valley of EU and the RIC and the risk management team really done a great job. So congratulations.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“i think option one's a default unless there's yeah so i i um i i tend to uh agree with option one uh however i think that uh during the olympics there will be a uh a demand and possibly an opportunity for um residents of fountain valley to who property owners that choose to maybe they have i don't know maybe they have uh people visiting from other countries you know and and i think um uh there i think we if we were to do a program i think it should be around the olympics not something like brea where they're doing you know thinking of more of like a permanent program So my thought would be to…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Option one for me. Like I said, I'm option one now, but I would consider something around the Olympics.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you. Yeah, you know, in my career I've led finance departments, and I know how difficult it is. There's so many moving pieces. You've got to payroll. It's like the mail. It never stops. It's always another pay period that's coming up, and people are putting in hours. you got to get them right and so you've accomplished a number of things which I want to share with the remind people the public of one is we switch to a biennial budget which means we do the budget every two years this is the first year and that's projected to save about 500 hours a year of budget preparation measure HH the…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes, I don't need to pull it, but I'm going to register a no vote on item number.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Item number nine, the creative ordinance, as I stated when this was brought up, I don't think we need to draft an ordinance for this. I think it's unnecessary. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Are we going to vote on this software? I'm not there yet with the consent calendar.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I have a question. So with regards to the funding sources, according to the staff report, the total budget is $4,500,000. And the estimated project cost is $3.7 million, roughly. So it's an $800,000 difference. So does that mean that, and then there's various funds listed, the general fund, Measure HH, RMRA, Measure M, Water Fund, Sewer Fork. So the $800,000 difference, will that come out of the general fund? So it'll end up with the general fund being under budget by the $800,000? About, yeah.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Can we get some sound effects with the future?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Vice Mayor Harper. Can you go back to the map of the city hall improvements? The map?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Which one? That one. That's good. Okay. So it says you're going to install two additional fiber optic cables in the existing conduit, and the purpose is to provide redundant cables. So I guess my question would be if the purpose is redundancy, wouldn't you want to put it in, like, a different conduit? Because theoretically, like, the reason it would fail is because somebody drills and hits the conduit. So why would you put it in the same conduit if you're redundant?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“okay it's still I guess I guess it still doesn't I guess I don't quite understand the the it's not a value it's not for it's for a separation of data not for uptime or backup yes okay so it's just a kind of just adding additional capacity exactly or the redundancy okay all right thank you I'd like to move item number 14 first one Ted your turn”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll second councilman Bowie's motion Yes, I had a question so just from a timing standpoint, so do we pay this entire amount up front in a lump sum I”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“When you say we get the payment back, do they, what is that? Do we get it back all at once or we just get higher rate? Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Is it a dollar-for-dollar amount that we get back, the 541?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so I don't quite understand. So I thought that the reason we do this is because we can charge a higher rate per transport.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, to the provider or to the passenger?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so there's two rates. There's a range of rates that Medi-Cal will pay. And so without this program, they pay the lower rate. Because with the program, they pay the higher rate per transport, right? So we're getting the higher rate for each transport.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, got it. I think I got it now. Okay, thanks.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026