Remarks by Rohi Zacharia
19 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Amen. Are you joining for the salute? Ready? Salute.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you. And then it's... Anyone here representing the Pan Am and Frank Bagan Center? If you guys would come on up. All right, there we go. Come on, gang.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“So we're here to recognize these individuals. And I know when we think of retirement, we always think we're just going to sit at home and, I think, watch the Wheel of Fortune or the prices ride all day. And I don't think that's the case here. I think as we retire, we understand you guys probably work harder than you did when you had jobs, right? So today is just kind of to recognize those, the seniors in our community that are doing so much work for our community, still active in everything that you guys do. So, for today, we would like to recognize whereas national senior citizens day honors…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“I know Mike was going to. He was ready for this. So I saw the presentation. No, I wanted to start. I mean, I think everyone knows our family business has been around for about 45 years. I have a secondary business that's been around since 2012. Do the math. I think between the two businesses, we collect almost every single license available to city, state, federal. So, um, the point of the story is to say that I, I think the concern that I had when bringing this about. Is understanding from a business perspective, uh, 1. That, um, you know, especially coming on council. That seemed like a lot…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, sorry. I'll be quick. I'll be quick. Um, there was, uh, 2 questions for you, Mike. So, I know what I know under the, the, the, uh, peddler and mobile licensing stuff. things like Amazon, Uber, are these falling under that licensing, and are they licensed to be in the city, or do we treat them as an out of the city business, or do we get anything from these guys?”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“And the other question is kind of knowing that like for our security company, for lawn care, you know, a lot of industries have to have a license number on the vehicle on their item. Would that be something that would be helpful to the mobile vendor? So, I mean, like I know you can go look at the back of my car and you can look up that number on a website and it'll tell you the status of my company if we're active or, you know, closed or whatever. Is that something maybe, too, that would be helpful either to maybe even chief staff to kind of just say, I don't have to go get out of the car.…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“I mean, especially, I mean, for council, I mean, we get, you know, if I drive by and I see some random pop-up, I mean, I hate to bug Chief or all the time and say, like, or, you know, call Arnoldo and say, hey, is this guy licensed? Can they actually be out here? I mean, I think it would be kind of easy to say, well, there's their license. Maybe go look it up on maybe a city website and say, like, okay, yeah, they've gotten approved. This is licensed. I don't know if there's privacy issues or whatever as far as that, but I just know, like I said, on most of the stuff I deal with on the state…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“through, I guess, a proper program for that to not be 70 people, to be 100 people. I think everybody is saying there's more than 69 vendors on the street right now, especially when you look at special events and everything. There's probably a few hundred people we're missing when it comes to the money. You know, the idea was just to say if it could be a sliding scale on the fees for those mobiles to make an entry easy, but then as they improve their business. But I think, like, to your point, is there a way to kind of even know, like, what's a cap on a mobile vendor? Like, are they really, is…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Do you think the return would be outweighed by the amount of maybe work hours to go through the reporting of those or not really? It's hard to say.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“no CUP, no nothing, the simple fact of, like, I need to apply, like, what's the time it takes to kind of verify that? And then year two, when I need to kind of renew my license, I got a report, you have to verify the report and send them a license. Like, what's the kind of, I would assume a couple hours per applicant, or is it a more lengthy investigation that we're kind of doing when they report, right?”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Uh, just 1 in the spirit of, uh, licensing, uh, I would ask if we could bring about. Um, maybe some discussion about licensing related to our card rooms. It's my understanding that there's an individual that controls the entire. Licensing or licenses that we have for that, and maybe have some potential revenue loss. Since that was the license are not being executed from what I understand for a long time. Um, so if if the council would allow, maybe having some discussion related to that.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“I do appreciate these people so much. It is with their help that the event was able to continue. Every year it grows, and it's just a great event. I think the community was asking for it. I don't really want to take a lot of the credit. I was just the guy that said, hey, let's bring it back. It was with my fellow colleague, Rodriguez, that we made this possible. But again, it's through the generous donations that were brought by these people here that you see. So really give them the thanks, because without them, the event would not happen. So thank you again.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Again, I would like to say thanks, Joe. It was kind of a nervousness to handing over our baby to you. But I know you guys did a great job. I like I agree it was probably even better with your guys's partnership. So I do thank you for trusting in us and that my promise that wasn't going to be too crazy for you guys. You know, I know it's going to grow. And that's kind of where we saw the partnership is, you know, that only better things we're going to kind of come from it. So I know the only complaint is obviously about the Ferris wheel that we're not going to hammer you too much about. But I…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“just I'll give one last thank you to Joe and his staff for the 4th of July and kind of the conclusion with tonight's presentation and closing it out and just uh you know in future meetings Joe if you just let me know I'd love to be there uh when you guys start kicking that back off um but other than that just miss you guys and it's been long felt like a long time since we had our meeting so it's kind of nice to be back perfect thank you council member Montez wow council member Rodriguez thank you mayor”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you father God, we just always give you thanks and praise. We just ask for your continued guidance. And just leading this meeting, and let us do the goodwill of the city. We always ask this in your name. Amen.”
City Council · Jul 22, 2026
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“Just as I guess a quick You know, just looking at the map and more of just a question of why there's no facilities West of the 99. it seems like. East of the 99 is fully dotted with basketball facilities, but, um. The West side doesn't really see even 1. I know we don't have maybe as many parks and town country may not be ideal, but is there just. Is there a reason why we don't see 1 on the West side?”
City Council · Jul 22, 2026
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“And I guess there's a question. I mean, is there, is there, um, issues of, like, uh, proximity to, like, housing? Like, I mean, is people usually not want a basketball court, for instance, across the street from them? Do they prefer that? And all the reason I'm asking, because we have the westward development happening. And is there is there I know typically we don't put in, like, our recommendations for how they build out their parks if they choose to, but is that something. that we can maybe advocate for as these newer housing developments tend to have a park element to them that maybe…”
City Council · Jul 22, 2026
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“Because I mean, I mean, I agree that too. I mean, with Joe's thing, I mean, it's a low barrier to entry, but it's also a low barrier for maintenance. I mean, absolutely. Build it. You change the nets a couple of dollars, probably, you know, every so often. Then you're not mowing, you're not watering, you're not, you know, so I just would see what it would like to see a little bit more push for stuff like that. I agree. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 22, 2026