Remarks by Rosa Escutia-Braaton
20 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you for your service and thank you for making every effort to keep our personal possessions and our families and communities safe.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Congratulations, Doug, to you and your committee for representing The Chicano Latino, the Chicano community has really, in my opinion, done very well in evolving into a very respectable contributing members of our Central Valley community in Modesto and being really relevant to our conversation and particularly here with the city council. And that was done by choice and I think that's wonderful. That's a wonderful example for all community organizations to follow. And also to highlight the car culture because it's not only important to this community, but just to California…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you for being here, and thank you for putting a voice to a subject that didn't have a voice before, at least in this area. So I appreciate that. Thank you, and congratulations in getting to a better place than where you were after you had your baby. Not easy, but you're strong, obviously. Thank you for your service.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to mention an event that Vice Mayor Williams and I attended, which was in recognition of National PACE Month. The PACE program is a program here in Modesto City that offers services to the elderly so that they can remain in their home and be engaged with their community. So we went to the event, and we got to meet many of the patients, participants. There were several hundred there. and they were just all joyfully gathered in community and engaged in various activities, games, and a meal was provided. We had an opportunity to say a few words, but it was just lovely…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I just wanted to say that if Council Member Bavaro wanted to transfer his comments into a motion, I would second it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Point of clarification, if I may. What I understood the direction it was leaning towards was preempted by a motion that didn't sound like what I heard was correct. going to be the motion. So do we continue on the motion that was blurted out or do we clarify that that is the motion to entertain?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so the motion we're voting on is to just approve the staff recommendation and it does not include directing the staff to explore the language to be potentially clarified.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Right. I did not hear it either. I just wanted to clarify that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, and I'm very content with what City Manager just said. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. This is a very high number that we're talking about, very high costs to the taxpayer. This item went before the Finance Committee that's made up of Council Member Wright and Council Member Bavaro and myself, and we asked quite a few questions, and we really got into the weeds, no pun intended. But we got into the weeds on this item, and I, for one, asked a tremendous amount of questions in regards to the process of how we ended up with this particular vendor. And the process, I found it to be very fair, very equitable, and very transparent. As was indicated before, we…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do you want to go first, Eric? Go ahead. Sure.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, both the Mayor and I wore bright floral blouses to also celebrate with you all. Muchas gracias por estar aquí hoy. It's an honor for families and children to come and celebrate THIS MOMENTOUS RECOGNITION FOR THE MONTH OF OUR COMMUNITY. AS THE MAYOR INDICATED IN HER PROCLAMATION, VERY WELL SAID, THE FACTS STATED IN THE PROCLAMATION, HISPANICS, LATINOS CONTRIBUTE AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF VALUE TO OUR COMMUNITY, TO MODESTO, TO CENTRAL VALLEY. HAVING THE POPULATION BE 45%, THE LARGEST ETHNIC COMMUNITY IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY AND IN MODESTO, an…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for inviting us and thank you for the award. We appreciate it. It's nice to be recognized.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I am delighted and very excited to announce the build-out of Green Acres Nursery at the old Toys R Us location. Many of you might have seen the Modesto Focus and Bee article in regards to the same topic. But indeed, staff is diligently working with the management team and moving forward and finalizing the permits and incentive programs and what will be the official announcement of the grand opening that we much are looking forward to. But let's all welcome this new and family-owned business to our community. They are going to contribute immensely to our economy and to our jobs and just…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Modesto really shined, and it came out in its ultimate beauty last week during a national night out. And we all had the opportunity, all the council members, to engage actively with our first responders, the firefighters, the police department, and other first responder personnel with our community. All the community parties that we all participated in were done over hours in over three digit degree. It was over 100 degrees. So but nevertheless, it was a joy to have community engage with city officials and and just build bridges, strengthen our communication and our trust.…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Here. And due to my participation in the city-related conference, I am participating remotely under the just cause provision of SB 707. And there are no other individuals with me here. Council Member Alvarez. We're in the process of trying to...”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Excited to approve them with the exception of those requested, which were the two. 21 and 22 as read, yeah. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026