Remarks by Rudy Picha
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“I think I have a little bit more of a statement there. Sorry.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“okay other other um oh go ahead councilman so i must be a little bit confused so it's all three of them are separated and we can vote on them individually um when it comes to the one that it sounds like council member resendez has his concerns about it looks like it's residential mixed commercial right now and they want to make it general commercial and potentially what we're thinking is make it a gas station So can we put that property back up on the screen?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, the map of the Achilles. That little sliver at the end of 25 in Fairview. So right now it's residential, right? So who? Not that one. It's mixed. It's mixed. Oh, I thought it was, oh, it's mixed commercial residential. Okay. So, I mean, who would ever want to live on that piece of property? I just don't know if that's somewhere anyone would want to go.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, people could drop their fuel, head to the Pentacles, grab a Snickering car, throw their backpack. Am I missing something? Could this be bad for the city if we annex?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“In my gut, I feel like some of us up here have a little bit of concern that once it leaves agriculture and it goes to industrial or commercial, it's easy for it to be rezoned into residential and we have just more growth. That's one thing that a lot of people have concern about.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I just want to help somebody help me refresh my memory because sometimes I forget. So when Cielo Vista had their sewage issue and their filtration system was failing and they needed to – I thought that we annexed Cielo Vista in at the time that they're – we're doing that right now.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Oh, so there was no like, I thought there was like a certain number of years before Cielo Vista had to be annexed in after we provided the solid waste services.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So what's the negative impact to the city of Hollister if Cielo Vista becomes annexed into the city? Is there some negative impact for the city of Hollister? Are we super responsible for major cost outlay? we're giving them utilities now already giving them utilities we provide police and fire what else what is the it really i don't i'm not really okay yeah i mean somebody must i must be a caveman can somebody hit me on the head with a bat of some sort like a club because i don't see what how does it how is this bad for the city”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we're just kind of tipping Ciala Vista into the city now. And it's just, there you go. Now you're Hollisterites instead of San Benito Countians.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“yeah so um yeah my my concern is you know nash road is a good road to be traveling on it's so straight and narrow there is river parkway you can go that way there's was it west and then san benito street is that where it is west street um but um my question is like how So emergency services need to use Nash Road. Let's say school is out and there's a fire and minutes matter. Literally the first we were talking about the first four minutes or something is like the most important time for a fire and we need to get there. Do other communities have some kind of a solution like this that use…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so I guess my other question is, so that road would become part of the high school district, right? So... Do we have any assurances that they would not build like a building or put a portable on that road? Do we have any kind of assurance that, you know, it's not going to be like... No, we don't.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But effectively, we reduce the likelihood of litigation down to zero and whatever the costs that we would occur on that front. And then we get $20,000.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I, yeah, people, I don't know if people really realize, you know, usually when you come up here, I'm personally me, I'm about 70% of the way kind of made up. And then it's the other 30% is these conversations that we have. And I'm that 30% counts for a lot. So I thought I had my mind made up, but kind of myself kind of hemming and hawing over what like thirsting for more information on other municipalities and how these clickers work. Because in a perfect world, when first responders got to get through and somebody's having a major medical emergency, I'd like them to be 100%, right? I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I agree. I'd like to see more information.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“comments um go ahead so i'm trying to listen and read at the same time um because i don't know if there are any are there any links there's no attachments on this one so oh not the next l3 so there were let me just”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Oh, okay. So I guess in light of that, my question is how long are animals in our facility? How long are animals in our care? I've toured the facility. The quality of care seemed to me was more than adequate. It seems like almost a happy place for animals to be, but I don't know. I'd be wrong. My question is like, how long are they in our care? And the job is, of you know animal you know services is to rehome a lot of these animals like he's rehoming not one of the major concerns”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. So yeah, what are the goals and, you know, what is rehoming animals fitting? Cause I'm just a lay person. I feel like rehoming is kind of one of the bigger things.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, how long does it take us to rehome animals? And what are the primary goals of the facility?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, are we linked up with any other shelters as far as, like, what – are there forms? I don't know. Like, are there forms that people can fill out? Like, I'm looking for this type of dog. I prefer Frenchies or poodles. Are there, like, databases that we can tap into that can help rehome? I don't know what – I guess my question should be what – avenues or what options are we utilizing in order to find good homes for these dogs or animals?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“um well um obviously we need to listen to the civil grand jury and it sounds like you know there are some things that we learned in 2016 and we've made some improvements so let's continue to make those forward progresses um you know some some communities that are similar to ours have figured some of these things out And mirroring some of the things that they've found have been best practices, we can find solutions there as to how to run our shelters. And finding, you know, and utilizing rehoming techniques that'll work. And, you know, clearly we have to review our euthanasia policy. and how…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“yeah I see right here writing all the costs associated with this project will be reimbursed by the is it safe water resource control board is this the state water resource having what is the sw our CB.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'll make it quick. So I think it was last Thursday. I can't remember what day. It was like the 6th. I went to the San Benito County Business Council meeting hosted by Bob Tiffany, who was always great. Assembly Speaker of the House Robert Revis was there, and I recommend going on the website and viewing it because... One of the major hurdles, roadblocks, if you will, no pun intended to the 25 expansion, the vehicle miles traveled. Speaker Revis effectively lifted that. So that is not something that we're going to be concerned about. Yeah, it was major, major development. So, yeah, I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“6.2. Okay. Yeah, I just want to just say thank you to everybody, you know, working with the City on the Financial Oversight Task Force, our very own Councilmember Morales, Omar Rosa, thank you, thank you. Christina Reyes, always wonderful, thank you as well. Julie Roybal, thank you for helping out. Sean Herrera and Michael Brigantino, thank you for helping the city out and having some oversight on our financials. And you've got the same 24 hours in the day we've all got, and you're paid a little bit to be on this task force. But I just wanted to say thank you for everybody involved.…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So I just have one quick question. So when a traffic calming like feature, uh, anything, uh, roundabout speed bump, um, a road reorganization, it can't be changed for a year. Like we need to gather data and see how the traffic calming, uh, actually worked out and then we can review it after a year.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So, with this new policy, it sounds like there's a, there's a process, there's a framework, there's a, there's a steps that we can, you know, after it's been in for a year, we can see how it's functioning and how it's impacting people's lives. Because, you know, the documentation says that, you know, traffic calming, you know, saves police and there's a lot of good things to it. But there's a lot of like, it's kind of like a double edged sword. It's a coin that has two sides. So after, you know, that year, we can initiate like the community can initiate like a review of the features.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026