Remarks by Ric Galvan
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to all the staff, from every single person who does the frontline work, to the folks who do the budget, to the folks who do the supervising, and every single person in between. I want to thank my team and each of my colleagues for all the hard work on this budget. We knew this was going to be difficult since last year and even a little bit before when we looked at what we're looking at the horizon with our five-year forecast. And despite all the arguments had here, I know that each of us has put in a lot of effort to come to the best conclusion possible to…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Just really quick to clarify, I don't know if Maria could help answer somebody. How many police officer positions have we added over the last three to five years?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, great. I'm sorry, really quick. We're also adding, we've also put the CBA last week, so that's another $102 million over the next three years that we're approving for police resources, primarily through pay. How much are we adding in this budget for police resources or SAPD's budget?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. And then we're also adding nine fire positions this year.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
- Play at 2:32:48
“Okay. Just wanted to make that clear for about the public safety budget that we have this upcoming year and have what we had historically as well as other budgets and departments are not seeing any increases and apparently seeing tremendously more decreases as well. Thank you, Maria. Thank you, Mary.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Mary, and thank you all for being here today. Of course, I want to thank Richard Gonzalez for all the hard work you do. I know we had a great conversation the other night when we were celebrating and kicking off this work that you all are doing and kicking off the celebration that's coming up very, very soon. Very excited. I want to invite folks out to go celebrate with you all at the Market Square this Saturday. I just want to say this is an incredible time in our year when we talk about the celebrations that we have here commemorating many of the cultures and lives and histories…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mary. Just really briefly, I want to say thank you all for the work that you do and for all the partners that you also work with to make sure that we're addressing this issue as much as possible. This is something that's near and dear to my heart with folks in my life who have struggled with different forms of all kinds of different issues, right? And it's something that is difficult when folks read it on a report or look at it in a news article or think about it in terms of what it could mean for someone who's suffering on the street. I mean, this is someone's life, right? This is…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, man. Thank you to Salome for the all the work that you've done here for the city and all of the the conversation we've had up to this moment. I want to think also, of course, the manager's team, Maria, Eric and everybody who conducted a thorough search for a new police chief, along with the district six residents, Lisa Connect and Ron Long, who gave an important resident perspective in the selection process. Having folks in District six from both the inside the Loop 410 as well as outside Loop 1604 was really helpful to kind of shape, you know, what experiences we we have in our…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. First, I just want to thank city staff, Maria and Liz, for all the work you did on this, as well as, of course, Johnny and the folks with the union for bringing a tentative agreement to us today. These negotiations are never easy, but they're necessary, of course. Our officers do a lot of difficult and important work here in our city to help keep our neighborhoods safe, and that work warrants fair compensation. I think that's true for all employees. That's exactly what a union's meant to do and meant to fight for, and I hope this conversation inspires workers across the city…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. There's just a lot going on. But that's, I mean, I'll just say first before I go into anything else, my honest reaction is this is exactly why, this is actually the problem with tours that I have. We have separate pots of money for separate little islands in our city that go to a separate board that come back to us and then we debate them sometimes. and we unravel them when it could have just been that same pot of money in our general fund coming here during our budget conversations. That's always what this could have been. That being said, we're here. We're on this topic. I…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I mean, I guess another, just to clarify, is it going to be a similar kind of view as the one that we're looking at today, the paper sheet, the kind of broken down by each project within the total financing plan, or is it, how's it going to be presented, I guess? I know I'm reading too much into it, but I'm just asking if we're going to be able to clearly see which project, how much the total cost is, and therefore how much capacity we need, all of the above.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“The different options and everything. Yes.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 4:46:15
“Okay. Yeah. Got it. Well, that's helpful. I mean, I don't think I'll speak any more beyond this one on the main motion either, but I just want to be clear. More so than I thought I would receive, residents reached out to the District 6 field office and let us know their thoughts on this conversation. A lot of questions at neighborhood meetings about what TURs are and everything of the sort, because District 6 doesn't have any TURs. What does that mean in terms of how this all works? I can see a little bit of an understanding of where tourism can be helpful when we talk about investing in…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026