Remarks by Shirley Gonzales
62 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
- Play at 2:06:48
“So, right. And it's not just the $5,000 that we're suggesting today. It's also the 14 days that he'll be closed. So every day he loses business. I suspect you still have to pay your employees for some time. Otherwise, they'll all go out and get other jobs and you won't have any more people. And also that we do have flexibility. I would suggest the minimum fine, as this is the first time in all of the years you've been operating that this incident has come up. And again, it's a licensure issue, which I feel differently from some of my colleagues about how punitive we need to be about…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:32:05
“Yeah, my questions were for the developer. If you could just come and introduce yourself and tell me a little bit about your company.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:33:10
“Thank you. And what is the name of your company?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:33:14
“Okay. And good. So you have experience doing all of these types of projects. So I'm glad to hear that.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:33:24
“And how about, do you all do environmental studies on the parcels?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:33:49
“Okay, that's good. And so that mitigation is done by yourselves or by the city?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:34:07
“OK, great and so you have plans to break. I guess there's you got a three year window to complete the project or at least break ground.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:35:22
“Alright, well, that sounds great. Hopefully everything moves according to plan. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. That's all the questions I have. OK, anybody else?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:50:35
“And then let's see if I can do it better on this one.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:57:05
“I move to approve the resolution affirming Durango's commitment to Vision Zero goals and directing future implementation thereof. I'll second.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 2:57:28
“I mean, it's so good. I mean, it's like all I could have ever dreamed of. I mean, when I started working on Vision Zero so many years ago in 2013, it was because we had had so many fatalities. And I never really could get buy-in from the staff, especially in my previous role. And so to see that you work so hard on this and that you like really touched on so many of the things that were so important to get, you know, to include the community piece of it, to do the multi-phased approach where it's multi-departmental. And so much of the things that you included were all things like I like in my…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 3:00:58
“Yes, well, I know. And I think that's really key is because you really do need the community buy-in as well. And having that advisory group helps to like for compliance or for people to agree with or to support the projects that then we, that the staff presents. And then also the cross-functional teams were so important, you know, that the police are involved, that the law enforcement piece is there, that the engineering piece is there. that you have Public Works also there. It really does work best when it's a cross-functional team. Really everything works best. But I think especially on an…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026