Remarks by Steven Robillard
30 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. By the way, my staff is right here in the back of the room. If you want to go connect with her, she's right there in the black and white shirt. Thank you. Yes. So last week, I had the pleasure of attending the UCR AI Summit. And we had a couple hundred people there all talking about the AI industry and UCR's role in it. We also had the Woodcrest Career Day. So my alma mater got to go back and talk to the students about what a career in public service looks like and also we hosted the aerospace ecosystem roundtable where we had industry partners from the companies in…”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Excuse me, Mayor. Sorry. I need to recuse myself from this item. I was the broker on the Ward 4 Victoria Grove project, and so I will recuse myself from this project.”
City Council · Oct 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Wanted to give a quick shout out to the Mission Inn Foundation. I enjoyed an evening of a history on the rocks with my team. We brought our spouses with us. And great to visit some local restaurants and learn some local history. And if you guys are very interested in it, it's a great way to go to a restaurant, You get served a drink, an appetizer. You're going to learn a little bit the history of the restaurant, but also the the building that it's in. And they finished the mission in and it's a great couple hour experience to have a good way to burn some time with some…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, I have one disclosure for the record. An applicant associated with item number eight previously made a $1,500 contribution to my campaign. Upon becoming aware of the potential conflict on September 3rd, I immediately directed my campaign treasurer to return the contribution, and the full $1,500 has been returned.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I did, in fact, use the library growing up. And La Sierra Library was my home library, and I remember there was a clown that used to read story time when I was five years old, and it scared me to death. Fair, fair. Clowns were a thing in the 90s. I don't know why, but clowns were a thing, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The big shoes. I can recognize the big shoes. But I remember I used to use it for the VHS rentals because Blockbuster was too expensive. Couldn't get any new releases at the library, but my favorite movie that I discovered there was The Attack of the Killer Mutant Tomatoes. If you're looking for a very, very campy 80s movie – It is hilarious, and the tomatoes eat everyone, and it's a fantastic movie. Thank you for that recommendation. Yes. You should check it out if you can ever find it. Probably not. But I think when people talk about the libraries, it's like, yes, there's books there. And I…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Thank you. I'm thankful for Ameriproton to be here so I don't have to pull double duty right now. So I just wanted to start off that this, I am a neighbor of this property. I live about a three minute walk from here. This is a part of my daily, well, not daily anymore. I get home too late, but I, you'd be my wife and my kids. We walk this neighborhood and this is part of our walk home and it is been empty for a long time and it's been an underused asset here in our city and I was very curious to find out you know when Allen Party Supply went on a business I was really…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, I'm going to go ahead and get it started, and I'll kick it over to our Chief Innovation Officer, George Khalil. The reason I wanted to call this together is artificial intelligence is going to change the way we work, the way businesses operate, and the way cities provide services. I don't think Riverside should wait for those changes to happen to us. I think we should be intentional about how we prepare for them. That's why I'm proposing the creation of a city council working group focused on artificial intelligence. I want this group to look at AI comprehensively. That includes how the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I was going to make a recommendation, but I'm also open to other recommendations.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So the basis of it was similar to how we did the Inspector General Working Group, where we selected amongst ourselves at the dais of who was interested in kind of doing off that. Since this is a working group, not a standing committee, I don't think it really applies for, you know, this is not an ongoing assignment, so to speak. And so I think if we added a committee to this, it would really screw up the chair, vice chair, member breakdown, because then we'd have... people that would be serving twice as chair, twice as vice chair, et cetera. So I think I'd kind of keep it the temporary…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The goal is to do it once a month. That's why it's a 13-month time frame. And have it on the same day at the same time once a month because it's just scheduling. It's going to be complicated. And that just is easier for everyone's schedules to do it that way.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, I do have some recommendations, and I wanted to suggest that I've suggested these council members out of a perceived diversity of opinions on AI and interest in AI, so that is not a dominated by one side or the other. And so the people I'm suggesting is myself, Councilmember Hemingway, and Councilmember Falcone, who bring different opinions and kind of notions on AI so that we are able to talk about more than just one type of thing. And because it's also a 13-month long commitment, I'm sorry, Mayor Pro Tem Cervantes. That is also part of the consideration as well. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“There's a motion by me. I make a motion to create the working group and to nominate myself, Council Member Hemingway, and Council Member Falcone to be the three members of that group. Second.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, unfortunately the athletic trainer who is needed at an athletic event. It is sports season right now and is unable to be here with us to receive this recognition. Rather than recognize her in absence, we would like to postpone this item until a later date after the completion of the athletic season so that we can properly recognize her and the staff who were involved. This recognition is especially meaningful because their quick thinking, training, and immediate response played a critical role in helping save a student's life. And I look forward to bringing this recognition back once the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor, if you would like to bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity to gather tonight in service of the people of Riverside. Grant us wisdom in the decisions before us, patience to listen to one another, and humility to remember that the authority entrusted to us carries our responsibility to serve. guide our council, our city staff, and all those who have come before us tonight. Help us look beyond the immediate challenges and make decisions that strengthen our community for the generations that follow. We ask for your protection over our first…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Riverside Police Department's awards and swearing-in ceremony at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Ward 3, along with Interim City Manager Tom Hatch. It's a great opportunity to recognize the dedication and service of our Riverside police officers and welcome those. Taking on those roles also attended the top and out ceremony with many of my colleagues here for the Museum of Riverside and that was a fun experience to see that last piece of steel being put together on the Skeleton of that new expansion of the museum and then with…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Councilmember Robillard. Thank you, Mary, and congratulations to the team. It's one of those very, very tough jobs that a lot of times the results are hard to find sometimes, and I think it's individual problems and issues that you're trying to deal with, and everyone's different. There's no silver bullet. If we had it, we would use it. But I think one thing I wanted to suggest for next year's faith-based gathering A lot of the churches I've talked to, they have ministries that they have within their churches that do outreach and have a heart to serve the homeless population. a lot of times…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, before we present the proclamation, I wanted to make a moment to recognize Riverside's vibrant deaf community. Deaf Awareness Month is an opportunity not only to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of deaf and hard of hearing community, but also to remind all of us the importance of accessibility, inclusion, and understanding. California School for the Deaf, Riverside, has played an important role in fostering that community for generations. CSDR has been a part of Riverside for more than 70 years and today serves more than 400 deaf students ages 3 to 21 from 12…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, thank you. And if you guys can go ahead, we'll come into the well right here, and we'll take a picture with the certificates. And everyone here, as well as our deaf commissioners as well, can come into the well.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I think efficiency is always good. People always say, why don't you run the government like a business? Well, if we ran it like a business, we wouldn't have any of this oversight and so forth. But there's importance to the oversight because it is not our money. It's the public's money, right? But I do want to echo some of the comments made by Councilmember Cervantes because we're seeing this kind of play out in real time in Ward 3. where we have this very long, complicated procurement process, and we're looking to replace flooring in a senior center, and they have purchased…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“We need to rewrite the recommendations, I think, to reflect that is what the city attorney recommended. Okay. That's fine. Okay. We'll do that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, just back to those numbers. That's someone who knows what goes into building housing. The majority of that cost, what people understand is the carrying cost, if you go back to it, is because these are affordable units. They are offsetting the profits and the rent that you would have been making if it was market rate. They're subsidizing that amount. And so when we talk about affordable housing, that's what it takes to make affordable housing is all that extra money. pays the the subsidizes that that fee and so that's why it's not actual per unit cost it's the rent abatement or rent…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“If we can go back to the staff recommendations page, because I think that's what we had to go back to now that we know what the changes are in the resolution.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026