Remarks by Rolan Resendiz
55 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 1:23:47
“Told you so. That's all I'm saying. You can vote whatever you want. And I'm not putting out anybody directly. I'm just wanting to be clear about the pattern of development and annexation and sphere of influence and growing the city. That's all. And it might not even matter because we have an urban growth boundary that's been put on the... whatever, on the ballot by the residents because they're so tired of it anyway, right? They're so tired of the games up here.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:24:42
“So anyway, if everybody has, that's okay, that's fine. That's understanding or logic that you do that we're also an issue in Seattle.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, okay. So I can ask for roll call mayor Stevenson share us that one. That's okay. Thanks.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll move to adopt, Mayor Stephenson. I'm not asking for roll call on the next two.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“yeah so i know we're gonna hear from the public and i think the uh representative for the high school's here too but i was never a part of this conversation the last time this council discussed it i'll just be honest with you guys but i have been over the years that i've been here and i think councilmember morales was here as well um so yeah let him litigate ted obama wants to go into another lawsuit with us fine But I was there in those meetings with the community members. We worked this out with FIRE. We worked this out with the PD. This is a bad idea for you guys to do. I'm telling you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, I'm going to be a no, but I certainly will support. I think it's Council Member Morales wants the data. So I certainly support that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. So thank you for putting this on the agenda. I really appreciate that's important. I didn't know it was on there, but I did hear from a community quite a bit about this. So I really appreciate you providing the space for us to talk about it. And then just on a personal note, the very first thing when I got elected to office was this. It was... And I was surprised because I wasn't really aware of the passion and the community that was around animals. But the very first thing that I got approached and sat down about and I was educated on was animals. the rights of animals. And I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:26:24
“I mean, one of the biggest things I hear is that law enforcement should not be overseeing animal control. So I'm just wondering, what does it look like with other regions? Is that something common, not common? Can you just explain to us? what that model is versus what's the, I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But it does sound like, Chief, if I can, that there is a world where you can have animal, quote unquote, experts or people very passionate. Law enforcement is still going to collaborate with them and work with them. It doesn't necessarily mean that law enforcement has to oversee them. And I've seen you guys, like there was a fire at my house and I've seen you getting the animals, putting them behind the truck. I've seen the cops do that. So essentially, I'm thinking there could be a world where there's”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:31:20
“And just in... Full transparency. I don't remember who went with me, but I was on the Animal Ad Hoc Control Committee when I first got here. I toured the Santa Cruz Animal Shelter, JP. This was under Westrick years ago. So there's options. There's different models. And I don't remember if some of the committee members are here were involved in that when I went. I can't remember. It was so long ago. But there are different models. I think law enforcement is always going to have an important role. But I'd like to just hear from everybody about. how we can provide the best services for our…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:53:42
“Thank you. So that's interesting to me. So we have in place policies that are more restrictive than what the state allows. Are we following the state policies?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:54:23
“Yeah. And just to talk about, not the elephant in the room, right? Let's be honest here. We can say whatever we want. We can talk about what happened. This is what happened recently. We have every right to speak about that if you choose to. But again, I think what we want to be careful about and We don't want to bash anybody. We've got to be very cautious to not walk that line. So I've got questions. I have questions about the most recent incident, obviously. I do want to hear from the public. And I do. I've got questions about our policies in place and whatnot. And just for full…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:44:22
“Thank you. Thank you for everybody for staying this late. Thank you for everybody coming out here. I have a question for the ad hoc committee members. When you have these meetings, I've been to one or two, do we typically have the volunteers from the animal shelter there, or is it just the community partners that we have?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:44:55
“Okay. Interesting. Okay. Again, thank you guys for your service. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you for everything that you do for our community partners. Thank you to our law enforcement officers, our animal control. But I do want to get to the point. And I think what Councilmember Morales was talking about earlier, it does need to be answered. And what the Pearsons are bringing up, we do need, we have an obligation to look into that. We have an obligation to scrutinize that. So this is my understanding, but I do want to get support from my colleagues on this. My understanding is that…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:48:30
“We can't do that anymore. This has been this. It was that 300,000 years ago. We can't keep doing this. So I see chief coming up here. Maybe he wants to speak to the Helen Ross Fund. I'm assuming we need to get the money.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:48:57
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“My two main points is I want an internal negotiation audit of our processes. I want to scrutinize our internal process regarding what happened to Bub and Stewie. I want to do that. We have an obligation to do that. Second one is I want to look at a JPA. Third one is where's the Helen Ross money? That's it. And why hasn't it been spent? And we have the power to allocate those funds.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I do remember everything you're talking about. Here's my challenge to you and to the community members to please remind me because I'm getting older and I'm forgetting to. I want to see that money spent before I leave this dais. That's it. Okay. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:25:53
“Thank you real quick. So thank you guys for being here. Obviously, you're not the state though. You guys are an organization or you are the state?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:26:01
“Thank you for being here. Yes. Are you guys going to pay for the infrastructure? Okay, then let's go. I think that's been our biggest gripe.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:32:56
“I'm ready to move to adopt Mayor Stevens.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:34:33
“Dolores has been our person. I'm just going to, and I'm assuming she's already ready to go. So I'm going to, she's been our delegate. I say, Dolores, you and I are not going to be here. So the other two delegates have to be the vice mayor and Council Member Boucher. So let's make that easy.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:34:50
“I'm sorry. Because this is like a one-year term or something. And Dolores has been doing it. So that would be my suggestion. Okay. I'm too lazy.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026