Remarks by Scott Robertson
152 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 7
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“All right, we'll move on from our special presentations to our consent calendar. All items listed under the consent calendar category are considered routine. The complete consent calendar will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote. For purposes of discussion, any council member may have an item removed from the consent calendar and made part of the regular agenda. The council can then approve the remainder of the consent calendar. Does council have an item or items they would like removed tonight?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right. And I would like to take off item 2-6. Is there a motion to approve items 2-1 through 2-3, 2-5, and items 2-7 through 2-9? I'll make a motion.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So you want the school to pay for 60% or you want the city to pay for 60%.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Council have any input on the percentage that the city is paying as opposed to what the school is paying for the community service officers?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, because this is a contract involving two parties. We can't just say 60-40. They would have to agree.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I can tell you when I started, when I first saw this SRO come back with the school, it was the city paid 100% and the school district paid zero. So we're doing a lot better than we were before with the 50-50. The question I have, clarification is, Do these officers, they don't work 12 months a year at the school. They work, what, about nine months?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right. This is a, now an agenda items, public having the input on this before we bring it back to council, anybody in the chat, any comments?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We'll bring that back to the council. I'm looking at this and it's a two-year contract. Councilman Avalos, as we've heard tonight, it's a little late because the school year has started. What if we went with the 50% for this year and then revisited it next year for the renewal of percentage? Would that be amenable to the council? Okay. We have consensus on that? Yep. Okay. Do you have a motion?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Is there a second? I'll second. Call the roll, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. Item two, six. I pulled this off, um, tonight. We've got our, uh, replacement city engineer, Mohammed over there. I don't know if you're prepared to talk about this, but the reason I brought this, pulled this off was I just wanted the community to be aware of all the changes that's going to happen at second street, $3 million grant that the city's received. And it's coming just a couple of highlights, vehicular over crossings, non-vehicular pedestrians and bicycle over crossings and bridges and We've been hearing tonight about safe routes to school and about crossings. This will…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Everybody stay tuned. Second Street is going to look so much better and it's coming soon. Do we have any council comment or any public comment on this agenda item?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah. You know, we just have to keep moving our city forward. and taking these opportunities where we have it. There are always going to be issues in terms of how you allocate resources. In this time, this was a grant, so it's more of an allocation of city time and professionals who went forward with this grant to execute it and made sure it went forward. But this is bearing fruit, and it's happening now, and it's really an exciting time in Selma for this to be happening now.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Call the roll, please. Oh, did we do public input?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Oh, go ahead. Public comment. I thought we did it already.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So, you know, this is... the agreement that had to be signed before the grant could be implemented. So that is the nexus between the $3 million clean air grant and this agreement. So just spelling that out for you city manager in terms of the additional costs with Caltrans and the maintenance agreement. I know there's been, quite a bit of back and forth with Caltrans over this agreement and who maintains what as folks are in the city at this point.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Will the city be paying cash, making cash payments to Caltrans that's part of this agenda that I missed? No. According to the speaker's question. Okay. So there's no cash that the city's going to be paying Caltrans to to take care of maintenance. This will be in line with this agreement.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Got it. Thank you. It's a great partnership.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Come on up if you have a comment. What's your name? It is. Thank you. What was your name again? Just give us your name. Thank you for your comment. Yes. City's not billed for that. No. Okay. Call the roll, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. Moving on to departmental reports. This is city staff and contract employees present will be. recorded in the minutes after they make their report. City Manager.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right, Director. Glad to have you. Thank you very much for coming to Selma.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes, welcome. Okay. Community Services Director.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And that's all for community services. Director, thank you. Just an item on the animal services. Went to McDonald's last week, and the cats are back. So it's probably, I know it's private property. I don't know if they've reached out to animal services, but it would probably be a good candidate for the TNR program, the spay and neuter program. I don't know if we reached out. Maybe if you could check with Armando, the manager, and just see what the plans are regarding that, because there are a lot of them there. Yeah, I can follow up with Armando.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Good times. All right. Police Chief Al Perez.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Chief. Thank you for everything. The PD did that on a really grueling, dangerous, busy weekend. Thank you. Public Works Director Hahn.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026