Remarks by Steve Abercrombie
91 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“People can join this meeting remotely via Zoom. Are they going to put that up on the screen for us? Here we go. By following the information that's listed on the screen at this time. Let's make a note that Council Member Bedoya will Here at 531, no conflicts. Thank you. All right. With that, we have a request to conduct closed session. Do we, with conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. Are there members from the, no one in the chambers? Do we have anyone on Zoom that wants to make a comment? Okay. With that, we'll go to ask for a motion to go to class session. So moved. Do we…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We have a first and a second. Roll call, please. Yes.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Yes. We are going to go and we'll be back shortly.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar minus 3H. Second. We have a first and second.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mayor, I make a motion to adopt a resolution determining that amending Chapter 6.36, the Tracy Municipal Code, commercial cannabis activity is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378, Subsection B, Subsection 2, and or 15061, Subsection B, Subsection 3. Second.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Motion to waive the first reading by substitution of the title and introduce the ordinance. Second. We have a first and a second. Roll call, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So just thank you very much for the report. Just confirm right now we're at a 59? Is that correct, sir? That is correct. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to accept an informational update regarding the citywide pavement management program and pavement rehabilitation program projects. Second. We have a first and second. Roll call, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“thank you for that question i was asking about three it's hard to make a decision if you don't know what the cost is um is there a timeline you keep talking about pg e that we may have to pay back if we don't proceed is there a timeline that we have to show them we are moving forward do we have the six months to get the full report to figure that out what's the parameters regarding the PG&E funding?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. But we would have time at least to explore, as Councilmember Nygaard pointed out, if this Volt situation, we do have time with PG&E at least to Look at that so we don't even have to pick option like one tonight and do the 500. We have some time to look to see if Volt is a viable option or not.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“No, I understand. But hopefully we can find that answer out within six months, I would think. Right, Steph?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. And then if you could go to slide 15, is that possible to bring that up, please?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So we're looking at the purchase of, oops. So we're looking at vehicles to purchase. That 18, is that 18 EV vehicles or you need 18 vehicles to be purchased and they may be a combination or what are those 18 vehicles you're indicating there in 26, 27?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Is that... So... Did we budget in that? Because I believe the EV vehicles are a little more expensive than gas powered. Am I correct on that?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We've already got that in the budget to do that, right? Okay, cool. All right. so yeah i think we need i'm not i need more information and not making a decision on an option tonight because i would like to get the answer to council members night guards regarding the vote for option one and then i need to know what the cost is best we can for option three it's hard to make a decision on that because we were just previously talking about funding more funding for roads We also got an aquatic center that we're going to be coming back to. We got a police station we're looking at, substation,…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So if we don't pick anything tonight, when did, when would, and we're looking at a possible timeline of six months for PG&E, right? Possibly the, when would we be brought back some information so we meet that? Do you have any idea, staff?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I saw the head nod. So I guess I get are you asking is clarification council member Evans. So option the second motion the mayor made of option one is now telling staff whichever is if vault is less. We're just giving our approval to go with vault or if the 500,000 is less than going that and that would never come back to council for discussion. Is that what I'm understanding?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll give you a second on that. Does he need three? Okay. So I'll get a second on that.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I think it's Portuguese month, isn't that? Or it's some, I think that's the recognition of, I think I saw.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Are you ready? Okay. Ready? Okay. We're going to call this meeting the City Council special meeting to order at 5.30 on August 18th. And we have no disclosure of participation for government code section 549538. Roll call and declaration, please.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“People can join this meeting remotely via Zoom. Are they going to put that up on the screen for us? Here we go. By following the information that's listed on the screen at this time. Just make a note that Council Member Bedoya will Here at 531, no conflicts. Thank you. All right. With that, we have a request to conduct closed session. Do we, with conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. Are there members from the, no one in the chambers? Do we have anyone on Zoom that wants to make a comment? Okay. With that, we'll go to ask for a motion to go to class session. So moved. Do we have…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We have a first and a second. Roll call, please. Yes.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Yes. We are going to go and we'll be back shortly.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar minus 3H. Second. We have a first and second.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026