Remarks by Ted Bui
204 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
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“Well, Rob, thank you for the report. I think the only question I have is I want to thank you, Council Member Grandes, for sharing the information as to it was like two or three meetings. What is the consensus of the committee? Because it was, what, seven and four? So four members is the committee. What is the consensus on that?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I think in the PCDA it's clearly always said that there's no political filming anyway. That's my understanding. I think you summed it very well, Danny, which is as long as it's governmental, as long as it's information to the public, that's it. I remember last time I checked with you and you said, no, we can't film anything political. It's already in there already, so I'm not sure why you're trying to go with this.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, we only control whether a parameter that was outside or a parameter, there's nothing there. If you're saying that, there were some candidate that runs here, they were campaigning, but that's nothing we could do.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I think at the end of the day, Danny clarified me, there was no filming of any moment of any elected official speaking or anything like that. Am I correct?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“That's great. So I hate to say this, but I'm not sure why you didn't like the potluck. That was not the intent of the entire program. I would, you know, welcome you to go speak to the community that formed that. That was not at all. And I do like what Vice Mayor Harper have said, you know, if you should look at other city, what they're doing. I think we have not, the city of family have not done anything wrong here. How they've been conducting the PCDA, the program. What you brought up, Megan, it was on point. If budgets shrink, spending shrink. That's been spending responsibly. And I really…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilman Bowie. But before I start, I want to make sure Councilman Greenwich is done with his thought.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you. I concur with what you said earlier. There's one thing that I kind of want to talk a little bit is the budget, which is the PEG. I think you projected for spending for what, next year, about $70,000, I think? $71,000. 71,000. And of that 71,000, you mentioned core government programming, and we saw those lists, and city and community program. And then you mentioned at the end is reference to different multi-language media outreach and all that. Of that peg, how much have you allocated the allocation for those type of programming? Have that been considered to those?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, I think it is worthwhile to look at other means of communicating to the public. For example, I'm going to speak to a different group in the community, and they do not look at some of the way how we give out information. That's probably why you don't have a different search of resident that engage because they don't watch that platform. so we should consider you know study what platform are they watching evaluate those and bring those back and present to us and we can look at it if it's worthwhile to implement those and of course keeping the budget that set forth moving forward so we're…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. Well, thank you, Council Member Granitz, for that clarification. But the methodology that you referenced, the survey, may not apply to a certain group of the populations because they're not into survey. That's number one. One of the biggest media, TV media, in Orange County is actually right here in the heart of Fountain Valley. And they have a viewership of 30,000. So the survey not saying it's right is wrong, but it's not the indications of the whole view of certain things. I could tell you that the different groups here, they are into radio, believe it or not, and that's how they…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Mayor, I didn't know you could speak Spanish. That was good. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilman Blay? So Emory, I have a question for you. How long did it take you to become an Eagle Scout? Because I know that there's hundreds of Boy Scout that goes through the rigorous discipline, I'm going to call it training, but not many of them make it.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I was trying to get... Yeah, yeah. The question is, first of all, are you the first one in your family that has earned the Eagle Scout? Oh, no, I'm not the first, yeah. You're not the first?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah. So you have siblings that are Eagle Scouts?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Wow, that's quite a bit. So the question is, how long did it take you to achieve the title of Eagle Scout? Because I know that there's hundreds of Boy Scouts that goes through it, but not too many make it all the way to the end to Eagle Scout.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. How about two years, three years, four years? How long did it take you personally?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“All right. I'm thinking for my son. I'm going to give him a challenge. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I thought you were going to say what happened in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, Dan, thank you for the invitations, but I'm going to be a very cheap date because I don't drink. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilman Bui? Thank you for sharing those thoughts, but I have a different perspective on looking at things. Basically, what you're saying, you're sending a message to the business owners in the city that your voice does not matter because you don't live in the city. So therefore, you cannot participate in any advisory committee. And keep in mind, this is a volunteer position. They don't get paid for this. But there, in my view, there are stakeholders of the city. And they contribute a lot of tax to the city. The successful for any city are the small business owners. Do they have…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“It's a combination, right? Yeah. Okay. To me, any city is going to be successful if we don't have some good business. They're not going to be successful. And to the Vice Mayor's point, we're not saying that we appoint everyone. Any one of us can appoint whoever he or she chooses to be. It's not because we leave that open, that means all the councils are going to pick non-resident. And you're reaching out, which is great, but any council can appoint anybody. If you choose to pick a resident, that's your choice. Great. If the mayors want to pick a person who is a business owner, that's great.…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“You just didn't like the answer you got from the Chamber of Commerce. That's not true. They already told you by several. Council Member Bowie, this is not your business.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“you know and i apologize to mr hay for interrupting him i thought he was going in a different direction um but again we're getting into campaigning here and i hate the whole thing i i concur with i concur with councilman grandus um and i apologize uh maybe i started it but i just wanted people to understand the bitterness that was behind the scene it's not really the business people the business people here will are the victim of it that's the way i looked at it She's just not happy about it.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilman Bowie? Well, when you say that there's no business in that portions, there can be business in that portions because they bring the expertise that can bring into those event. I'll give an example. Coach role, right? You can have a business owner that has a lot of experience in the coach role and they can bring their experience in there. That's an example. You could have someone who is, I'm going to give an example, Randy, who handles the UCI Health. He doesn't live in Valley, but he could bring a lot of his experience on the seniors at the hospital. That's the experience that they…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I have no more requests to speak. I just want to add one point to the speaker that just spoke. Jim, you were a past board of Tracy at Fountain Valley Unified School District. Can you share your thoughts on that process on that side, on the students and they don't live here? I saw that. I think you have some experience.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026