Remarks by Robin Abad Ocubillo
71 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Wong. Yes, I'd agree with you colleagues that we haven't heard anything new this evening. And it was the department's opportunity to press a more vigorous case and to explain how a two-year suspension What are the logics of how that is proportional to the incident and the gravity of the incident? I don't have a clear sense of that from the commission representative. Maybe the committee of the Arts Commission did, does have some kind of rubric they're working from. It wasn't brought forward. It's difficult to understand that. But aside from that, Because we haven't…”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Excuse me, thank you. I'm sorry, will you repeat that last statement?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah. And can you help us understand, even though the commission can't take action, I mean, against that individual, clearly that behavior is impacting the atmosphere and is wholly counter to what we're all trying to encourage in our vendor communities and locations. How did the commission and the committee consider that videographic information? I mean, just curious if that...”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“It is in itself a piece of evidence, even though it's something that the commission can't act on, right?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Right. But sort of acting very much on behalf of his family is probably, it seems like a habitual, probably a habitual inhabitant of this location and these environs. So it's still just, I guess I'm trying to understand if the penalty that is being levied upon the vendor, which is a three-month suspension, if this other extraneous but related behavior at all relates to the proportion of the response that the department is having. I mean, it seemed to be, of all of the things that we are having a hard time understanding in terms of what actually happened, seeing that video and hearing the…”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thanks for that clarification. Thank you. And then so I guess, did the appellant, Zong Juong, push someone ever in this?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“OK. Maybe I misunderstand who did the pushing.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Perhaps I misunderstand or misremember who pushed.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“So it's just a verbal threat, but the pushing that occurred is not part of the... That's not part of this piece.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, President Transviña. Yes, that was the video that I've been asking about earlier. And a point of clarification for the Arts Commission representative. I'm sorry, I keep calling you that. Please remind me of your name.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Maysoon. Thank you. Apologies. No worries. Maysoon. So earlier I had asked for clarification that the record shown, and this is in the material submitted by the commission, by the Arts Commission, that Zongyu Wang had physically pushed Yingzi Gay. And it shows here on page 54 of the agenda packet, I don't know what number this is in terms of just the Arts Commission's brief, that at 1035 the arguments turn physical. So I just want to be absolutely sure that I understand correctly that that is what my question earlier was, was that the Arts Commission's finding? And I see it written here that…”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“CHRISTIE WOODARD- Staff have submitted that as part of the reason, presumably, that your committee decided to levy some kind of suspension, a penalty, right? To apply a penalty because there was physical altercation, right?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, I'm referring to materials that your team submitted. Got it. So I'm trying to make sense of that. So my understanding is that part of the reason, there are many reasons why the committee had decided to apply some kind of penalty in this case of three-month suspension.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Specifically, it's Exhibit B in the Arts Commission's submittal. And it's an incident summary, I think, is the title.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“So at 1035, it indicates that the appellant associated with item number seven of tonight's hearing pushed the appellant associated with item number six.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, OK. And that is part of the committee's decision to apply some kind of penalty, or it's not?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“So the fact that the physical altercation and then the yelling and the obscenities in the video an hour and a half later happened at 90 minutes apart makes them separate events? The commission doesn't consider those all part of a collectively as part of an incident?”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“OK. But the commission is submitting in their own written materials that the appellant for item number seven pushed the appellant physically. Right. I'm not disputing that. OK. Thanks.”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026
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“I think I'm looking at this a little bit differently than the last two cases that we've heard this evening for a couple reasons. One is I'm looking at all the evidence that we've received, testimony that we've heard tonight and in the previous one, to be honest, inclusive of that video. And in my mind, and I don't know if perhaps the department or its committee compartmentalizes this in a different way. But the entirety of that morning, what happened starting 10.30 through this latter incident where there was yelling, there was the N word, there was the F word, there was the C word, sort of…”
Board of Appeals · Sep 16, 2026