Remarks by Shirley Gonzales
62 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 1:12:19
“Yeah. That's by the city or by the developer?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:12:24
“Okay. And is that pretty standard for the type of development they are maintained by the developer?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:12:32
“Okay. And you mentioned part of the fair share program, but is there something in here that says it cannot be sold to developers? Do they have to be sold to homeowners? Or is there any restriction on that?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:12:54
“Okay, so only for seven years they have to be unoccupied? Okay. All right, thank you. That's all the questions I have.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 28:52
“For the update, so you mentioned in your opening remarks that water restrictions and fire restrictions are not related?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 29:00
“And so could you elaborate? So the city determines water restrictions, the fire district determines the fire stages?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 29:07
“But it comes from the council. Didn't we make the announcement at one of our meetings that we were in stage two?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 29:50
“But equally dangerous. for our community. I guess, you know, that we need to take both those seriously. I just, I think as a constituent, like they're both very urgent. You know, stage one doesn't seem like that urgent, but it actually is quite severe. And so I don't know if that, how many stages are there and when do we need to be alarmed?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 30:41
“And I guess, you know, that's also as when one looks at the animus, it looks very low. Like the lowest I've ever seen it. So is that not a correlation of the water usage? The fact that there doesn't seem to be hardly any water flowing in certain parts?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 31:43
“You know, that's sort of where my questions lie, because I've heard you say, and I think here before, that we are not at risk of not having sufficient water, that we actually have sufficient water through the sources that we have. But I don't know. It doesn't appear that way. So perhaps, I don't know if you could, is it really just based on usage, based on the restrictions, that we actually have sufficient? Because many people have approached me and said, why do we keep saying that we have sufficient water?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 33:31
“it just feels different than I think I've sensed it before to have the high concern with the fire and then the water restriction as well. So is it common that we would have be both in stage one and stage two?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 34:10
“Okay. All right. Well, thank you very much. And you mentioned here, and I think you answered my question regarding commercial use and residential. So you're saying everything that's not residential is commercial. So is multifamily residential or commercial?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 34:28
“Okay, commercial. So because they're obviously going to have more water usage just based on the number of units in the building, but that's considered commercial, not residential.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 35:13
“So, and is that, when you say always, like historically the last 10 years or always?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 51:53
“Thank you, Chief. So that return of vehicles is a phenomenal record. I feel like having studied some of these things, it was like less than 1% of vehicles were recovered in my hometown. And so I think this is a phenomenal number. Do you have what you had before the flock cameras, how many vehicles were stolen and then returned?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 53:18
“I mean, it's really phenomenal. And if I remember correctly, it was actually an insurance company that funded officers to address all the stolen vehicles. Maybe it was State Farm or Allstate or a big insurance company that funded that program. And I always remember being really shocked because they almost never recovered any vehicles. And I was like, well, I wonder why they keep funding it. if they never recover any vehicles. And, you know, it was a very large grant that the insurance company gave. Are you familiar with any of those programs?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 54:48
“Well, if I remember correctly, this program from insurance companies funded officers. And so, you know, if that opportunity exists, I would hope that you would look into it, you know, because it wasn't funding technology. It was actually funding people on the street. And so anyway, this is phenomenal. I mean, I would be curious. perhaps you could do a comparison of similar size communities, how often vehicles are returned, because I've never heard of a number quite as impressive as what you're presenting today.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 55:50
“Yeah. I, well, I'd be curious to know what was before too, just to see, I mean, maybe again, like it wasn't, I mean, the city had probably 400,000 vehicles stolen a year, but none were returned like 0.01 was returned. So, um, I think anyway, this is great. Um, I'm glad to hear that. That's a, that's happening in Durango. Thank you, Chief.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:48:22
“I think for, perhaps it's Faye. So again, like this is all new to me. I've always been concerned about why we don't have briefings beforehand. I've never been briefed by any licensing agency, and yet we are often the licensee for institutions like this, marijuana, other things. But we've never had a briefing by the state or even here in the city. about what's required. So I'm hearing it for the first time. But I did want to ask, you know, as we are talking about dual licensing or even the issue of having a license, does the city go, once a license is issued to a business, does the city go and…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:50:07
“To ensure that licenses, do you get them like a... Nothing in your system that triggers when a license is expired?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:50:27
“Okay, so we do have a system to remind people of that. But this gentleman has never had – you didn't get reminded because you never had the license. Is that fair?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:50:45
“Right. Well, I am sort of asking just generally speaking, do we normally remind people that they're, and are they renewed annually? All business licenses?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:51:07
“He never got a reminder because we don't do that from our office. So, okay. And I'm just trying to understand, you know, functionally how it works, because, you know, there's been a delay. It seems like you're trying to rectify it, but you haven't rectified it yet. You haven't applied for the local license yet. You mentioned that the state has not, has taken no action, or you will eventually get a fine, but they have allowed you to, the state has allowed you to continue to operate under your current license that's expired. That's correct. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:51:48
“No, I mean, I have to ask the question. I don't know. Right. I mean, I'm asking, did the state allow him to operate?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 1:52:44
“I mean, having worked under a state license, they do often give you a grace period. So that's why I'm asking. I think you said 180, 180 days. Right. OK, so I mean, I'm just trying to understand from a licensing perspective, which is, again, like we have never been briefed by any organization, any state agency about what's legal and what's not legal. So I'm only hearing it for the first time since there's been two incidents since I've been on the council and about a year and a few months related to alcohol sales. And I often don't feel fully informed to make a decision. So I can only ask…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026