Remarks by Roxanne Stephens
310 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 13
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“Okay, so let's bring it back. Any other questions or comments on the consent? Okay, so can I call for a motion?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, so we'll move on from the consent agenda. And we're going to move to get my item 7.1. And this is a public hearing. So I know that we are we do have a little bit of an issue because we have to have four members of council present. So I'm going to turn it over to the city clerk to explain a little bit about those requirements.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. So apologize for any inconvenience, but we did have some last minute things come up with two council members and they couldn't be here. So I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing at, let me check the time, uh, 6 48. So do we have speakers for the public hearing?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, so then I'm gonna leave the public hearing open and at the next city council meeting, we will be looking at the approval for the initiation of general plan amendments and pre-zone for three project sites. So we will continue that and have that heard at that time and have the vote at that time.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, so we're going to go ahead then and move on to item 8.1, a resolution rescinding Resolution 23-164 and approving the new traffic calming measures requesting, I'm sorry, let me reread that. A resolution rescinding resolution 23-164 and approving the new traffic calming measures request policy and procedures. Okay, so can we get a staff report?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Thank you. And if I can just like, if I can just add a little bit of a reframe because I think ultimately The traffic calming measures that we hope to put in place is really about, as best as we can, make our streets as safe as possible for cars, people on bikes, pedestrians, just in general, looking at safety. That's really what it's ultimately about. it will create it is it could create some inconveniences for the general public which is part of what are some of the complaints that we heard about the speed humps people didn't like them they didn't like the way it felt when they were driving…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So Binu, are you able to unmute and just, I just want to, what I would like for you to chime in on, I asked Binu if she would be willing to be on standby in the event that there was any questions around what calming measures we would be considering for within the city limits of Hollister, how that would then play with the broader plan for roads and transportation and safety measures that are happening all over the county and specifically on our highways. But what I'm going to ask you, if you don't mind being new, if you can just talk to us about what you and I spoke about earlier in terms of…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you for that, Binu. Let me check in with my fellow council members to see if they have any specific questions, more broad questions. She's not here to speak specifically on what we should do on our policy, but just in general, given her expertise. Any general questions for Binu?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. Well, thank you so much for that, Bino. I really, really appreciate your thoughts around this. I mean, I think those are a lot of things for us to consider as we move forward, really good things. Thank you. Thank you, Bino. So let me check in. Do we have any public comment speaker cards on this item?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Right, so we have to have four people present for an item such as that. And so please feel free to contact city staff or any one of us about the postponement. But we do have to have four people here on the dais and we don't. Today we had two last minute unexpected absences from council members. So we aren't able to vote on that. But please feel free to contact us since we're now moved on to another item.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“All right. Okay. Thank you, sir. And then to the next speaker.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So bring it back to the dais. And so for their discussion, what would we like to have staff do with this item so that we can bring it back for, I guess, maybe consideration? What are your thoughts?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, we need to give direction on what we're going to do. So we'll bring it back.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah. And what would you like for them to do when they bring it back? What are your thoughts about what should they bring back?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Do you have any comments, Councilmember Pichet?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So my thoughts are that if this is possible, looking to city manager, to bring back a draft of an ordinance of a policy that has some basic information that we can chime more into, considering all the things that we just sort of talked about right now, i mean i think that traffic calming i i do like the way uh miss abraham from cog uh talked about looking at it from different perspective not just simply traffic you know when we think of traffic we think of the cars only but just thinking about it in terms of what are we addressing in the traffic calming policy related to pedestrians, related…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“updates and then and then also I mean obviously we we need to resend and let me check it I think what might make more sense is to resend next time when we have maybe more members on the dais and then at that same time address and like an updated draft what do you think that's fine let me let me check in with”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. So then we will consider then like a little bit of an updated version next time. And then we will have further discussion. And then we'll encourage the public to respond and give us feedback. And is next meeting enough time to do that? Okay. so i expect it then to be on our next agenda which would be um i mean our next city council meeting which would be um on the 8th of september that is actually a tuesday because the day after labor day so it'll be a tuesday then the night september night Oh, it's the 9th. Sorry. Oops. Sorry. September 9th. No, it is 8th. It's 8th? Okay. It is 8th.…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So let me give a little bit of background. So Vice Mayor Priscilla DeYanda and myself, we've met with members of the public regarding some of the animal services and got some feedback. So we also got some feedback from individuals like by telephone, by email. And essentially through this process, first of all, can I just mention something really quick? And I just wanna, I see Lisa Sears in the audience and I wanna thank her because we, through some of these discussions, we got a donation from her group to install a PET scanner. And I'm not sure that I'm calling it right, the PET…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, we have one. You can pass that along to the city manager.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thanks for that information. Appreciate that. Okay, so I'm going to bring it back to the dais for further questions or discussions. So we brought this item as a point of discussion. So we want to, I guess, just get a feel for the thoughts of the rest of the council. And I realize that we don't have all our members here. However, I wanted to get a sense of where everybody's thinking is because I do agree with the general sentiments of the public that we should have an ordinance that's more robust than what we have right now related to spaying and neutering and stray animals. So…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, we're just having an initial discussion. That is all we're doing today. We absolutely will have future meetings. This is not the only one. I mean, the next one would be to come back with possibly some, like, research. I mean, we have to give direction to staff. Research on this, maybe a draft. other things, and we will look at it again. And then we will have another, at least one other meeting before we make any kind of decisions. I mean, it's definitely going to take multiple meetings. This is not the only thing. All we're doing today is starting an initial discussion.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026