Remarks by Suzanne Jones
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“Thank you. Just wanted to report a couple of things that me and my team did since the last board meeting. This past week, we did a trash tour. We toured the facility, the . Yeah, this last week. And I just wanted to tell people how amazing their new equipment is. It's amazing, if you ever have a chance, they do give tours there. But they have, all of this is fairly new anyway, a couple years old. But all of the belts, everything, the machinery sorts everything. They sort very little by hand anymore. And the way that the equipment is designed, it really does cut down on the smell. It was…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, I'd like to comment. Thank you for that and thank you for the invitation for another year and I will be there, of course. It's always exciting to see. I remember the first year you did it, you didn't quite hit your goal and then last year you had so many stuffed animals. I think you were trying to find offices to stuff them and hide them in because people were taking home bags and pillowcases and stuff and they still had so many left over so you're going to bring them out i don't know if you gave them all away or not you eventually oh good good okay well i'm hoping you hit your goal…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“If I could follow up on that, Madam Chair.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was only going to chime in on some of the callers. I think they were mistaken as far as the fees were concerned that we haven't had an update on this for, what was it, 20 years or longer?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, but we're woefully far behind by the numbers after the study's been done, and so We need to start thinking about the future. I mean, we've talked about planning for growth as it is. And as more people move here, we're going to need more houses. More houses are going to be developed as more houses are built and developed. And we need more staff to process all of those things. I mean, it ultimately falls back to the same thing. And so it's going to cost us more to take care of more. And so if we don't do it now, then we'll be even probably could”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm fine with removing that fee and moving to move.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Supervisor Jones. Yeah, I just wanted to mention a couple of kind of public service things that we did last week. We were invited by Silver Wishes to help deliver flowers to some of the senior citizens in my district. That's always an enjoyable thing to do. A lot of happy faces. And then in addition to that, the Friends of the Library invite me every year to give a chat to a group called the Boys Team Charity in Granite Bay. And they clean up the grounds around the Granite Bay Library every year. And so she invites me every year to talk to the boys about leadership and volunteerism and…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, I'd like to thank you, Rob, for all of your assistance over these last couple of years. You've helped us, or me especially, untangle a lot of many complicated issues that we've had to deal with here on the Board of Supervisors, and I really appreciate it. You and Karen ganged up and gave me a lot of help, so I really appreciate it very much. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, there you go. All because of the commendation. I would proudly, proudly vote to approve this.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I just want to say thank you for stepping up into that position. The food bank is an amazing place. It is. And the commercial kitchen and everything that you have that you offer even for the public to use, it's a great facility and it's wonderful. And so thank you for that. Thank you for stepping up.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“the rest the neighbors don't have to be might like that with planning we have to do you know three hundred feet or thirty residents that's right so that's not the same requirements correct in eric and correct me if i'm wrong but that is following the streets and highways code right so we did it was a problem can clarify the process uh... as it happened uh... when they realigned eureka uh... that left the old eureka place and that part of the parcels were not built yet. They were built afterwards. So then one day the gate goes up and of course the neighbors complained because it restricted…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. I can chime in on that also as well, Anthony. But first of all, I want to start out by addressing the comments that were made about me and I said that so my comments were taken completely out of context by taking just a segment of a sentence out of several sentences that I addressed to the person I was emailing. Second, my comment was not an endorsement of the abandonment. What I said was, and I told everybody, that the proponents who had applied for the abandonment had done everything that was required for them. They submitted the application until they got it right. They did the survey…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, as I said, I had already investigated that option, and it was an option. So I asked the proponents if they would be willing to move that gate to the front, and they declined. Okay. Yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, I do have more additional questions. So first of all, one of the questions that the constituents asked is if all of the pertinent parties' residents signed the abandonment application.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm just curious why they think that not everybody signed it. Are there residents, all of the parcels that bound the old Eureka Place, all those residents signed that application?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, legal owners. Okay, and then I have a question on the portion of the trail the one, the DG trail that goes from the road down and then eventually to Sierra College.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. And so if it, when it gets degraded from rain or water or whatever, do you guys always go out and make repairs to it or, I mean, is it? Yes, we do. Okay. Okay. So I wasn't sure I heard some word about it not being a maintained trail.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Because that's where some concerns were that the trail would not be usable. Right. So I'm happy to know that it will be. So then I'm wondering, too, about there are, on that picture, there are a couple of big boulders. I notice there are stakes there and boulders. I didn't notice those stakes there previously, back when this whole thing began. There we go, okay. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So my question is, and the boulders as well, because it's in the pictures here where they've got the stakes and the boulders in front of it. So in the event that, let's do a yes or no. If it does get abandoned, do we remove the stakes and the boulders? Because now we're preserving that trail for people to go in and out. And it doesn't look to me like I wouldn't go through those big boulders on my bicycle.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I mean, if we abandon the road, I don't think we have to worry about any traffic or small vehicles going past that. So I just think it should be opened back up for bicycles and pedestrians.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, is it a possibility? Because they never used to be there until some people in vehicles decided to try it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay. Good. For sure. Good. I appreciate that. And then so some of the things that I'm kind of worried about. Supervisor Gustafson brought it up, is about the proponents agreed to maintain this, the trail area and the clearance on either side. So I think, as Council was saying, is if we can get something in writing that's signed by the parties and recorded, or however, so that it follows with the land, because let's say one of them sells their home and they're no longer living there, but whoever buys their home Will they feel like, well, it's not my responsibility. I don't have to take…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah. Well, it's not so much for maintenance as it is they had agreed to keep it clear on the sides of the gate for pedestrians, bicyclists, and also horses as well if they think they can fit through there. Part of my question is so keeping those weeds away and also to kind of make sure that the dirt stays level. as it is right now on the other side of the road there are little small rocks at the end at the edge of the road which you couldn't even drive on that edge of the road with those small rocks in there i think that the rocks should be cleared out of that little Path right on the edge…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Maybe we can get the cost out of my lighting and landscape district. I don't know. We'll have to look into it. But I think anything we could do to widen that would be most appreciated because I just don't think it's. I don't know much about horses, but I think that if they're put in narrow spaces, don't they get a little icky? I don't know. So I'm just trying to look out for the horse owners. But anyway, so those are the things to promise to keep them clear at all times. And then... I think that maybe Parks or DPW, if you guys could just go in and make sure at the beginning things are set the…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, I want to address the part where you felt like it needed to go before the MAC. This has been an ongoing discussion. It's been heard in the court of public opinion on social media, next door, and everything else. So really, all interested parties have been opining both ways for better than two years while we wait to see if the abandonment might whether it could even be a possibility with the application and everything. But in addition to all that and the school traffic, it is a mess. It's a mess. And DPW has agreed to meet with me out there to see if there are any possibilities of easing…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026