Remarks by Scott Robertson
152 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“But this is the largest rink we can get with Ice America, is that correct? This is the larger one?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So let me ask you a question. Deputy city manager, HR director. How many layoffs have we had? How many layoffs has the city made for this budget? How many layoffs?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. How many people got lower salaries? How many people got salary cuts in our city? How many people got salary cuts?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So we've not laid off anybody and everybody's making what they made before or more. In our city, in our society, it's really tough right now. And people are not making a lot of money. People are out there in the private sector without the pensions and without a lot of benefits.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Are there questions on this? Anybody in the public with a question on these EIFDs? We'll bring that back to anybody in the chat question. Mayor, I see no hands raised. Okay. Then we'll bring it back to council.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Me too. Great. This is definitely helping us, giving us another tool in the box to develop Selma and move forward with these projects. There is a motion. I already have a second. Call the roll, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Item passes. Moving on to item 5-6, which is an overview of thrift and resale store regulations in the city of Selma.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you for your report. Any questions for the community development director at this time? I have a question.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We had somebody that came in and appealed for waiving the CUP, and then we had someone else that came in and appealed for waiving the CUP. And one of their claims of fame was they don't sell much used. Like a lot of the one was we don't sell a lot of used, a lot of it's new, and a lot of it's unique and gently used. And the other one was a similar argument. But I think, did you have a comment, Pony?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“How about some of these that are operating without CUPs right now? What's the statute on that? Can code enforcement go in and say, looks like you're selling more than half of your items are resale. You need a CUP.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“You know, here we are talking about how we're moving our city forward. We want to bring people downtown. And thrift and resale shops don't necessarily discourage people from being downtown. But too many of them is not a goal that the city has had or any city council, in my opinion. And we go down Van Ness and look at all those thrift shops on Van Ness and the city of Fresno. It just contributes to the blight. of an area. And I don't think, you know, having one, two, three, four, five, six thrift and resales shops is something that is particularly planned in a town of 25,000. And especially in…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“If it was a future agenda item, we could ask for that to go to Planning Commission as a text amendment to change that distance and number requirement. Obviously, the ones that are in are grandfathered in, but for any new thrift shops or a draconian measure of no more thrift resale moratorium until we reduce the numbers. I think that's for the council to decide. But tonight, I think we can move. We're paying attention. I think we can move it forward.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So I think what we're trying to do here is just address the increase in the number of thrift and resale businesses, and we want to make sure that that's looked at in the future. And we want to have a proper vetting process for that so they can't get through.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So we'll do it in the future. Can we do that here? Do we have consensus to add that?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And look at the number of. and look at the space apart, the distance apart, potentially bringing that back. I know it's gotta go through Planning Commission and all that. Do we have public comment on this?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Anybody online or on the phone with comment? Mayor, I see no hands raised. Okay. Bringing the matter back to council. So did we get consensus to add that as a text amendment?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right. With that, we will move on to... Our next item, which is future agenda items. This is council requests for future agenda items not subject to public comment. Items require a consensus. Councilman Avalos, you're up already.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm good with that. Everybody good with that? That's my trio.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Do you have items? Do you have any items? Future agenda items? Do you have any future agenda items? Any future agenda items?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll go. Okay. I'd like to, I think we already talked about changing the text in the ordinance on the thrift and resale. I'd like to follow through on that ordinance, changing the downtown storefront program. I think we still have it in the form where it's $10,000, but you got to get somebody and they have to be prevailing wage. I'd like to put something in the ordinance that says, and the city will provide a list of potential contractors, not necessarily the contractors themselves, but the city will, because I think that's what we're working on right now. Approved list of contractors who do…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“You know, I'd like the bid. They provided some really good discussion last night at their meeting, and they came back to, well, if we got to put it on the ballot, it's going to be, you know, all this, it's going to cost thousands to put it on the ballot, then forget it, let's not mess with it. If not, then, yeah, I mean, it seemed like the flat fee was... Director Moreno, you led the meeting last night. What was your sense of where the bid went with the fees?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“They're the ones with the expertise on this. Let them set the fee. All you got to do is approve the fee they've set by adopting a resolution that”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“City Council. It'll still say one times the business fee or. whatever the resolution says by the city council, will it have an or in there or how will you know?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“okay so you don't you don't touch you don't even need to touch the ordinance you just adopt a resolution that says from now on the bid amount's going to be x after the next bid whatever whatever they said they'll decide and then they'll send it over to city council to review so i don't think we need it as a future agenda item i think it's we're working working through that so that's good uh let's see okay um i'd also like to um I may have mentioned this or it's been a long night. Change that ordinance or look at that ordinance regarding boats and RVs and driveways. Okay. All right.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We'll move on then. All right. On to council reports.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026