Remarks by Ted Bui
204 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“Let me find out. I can remember. And there's a few others that are on the committee.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm sorry. Not cultural. They're not cultural. This is new. This is new. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayors, I would love to give the report, but I'm going to have to submit it in because my phone just died.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Councilman Bowie? That's a great thinking, but I think everybody understands at the end of the day, it's the power of the purse, right? How much money do we have in our coffer? I think that's your really big challenge right there. We always talk about find new ways to generate revenues, and that is the challenge that the, I know we don't have an economic development department anymore, but that is something that our city manager will have to strive, find new ways, be creative, and of course, with the help of our planning commissioners, that are here in the city, look at our ordinance. Is…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, the cost for the part time for the officer to go to the academy, we have to pay them as an employee, right?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right, do we know roughly by the time six months how much we're paying them?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Here's my point I'm trying to get with this. So let's say with the part time, six month, and the cost of the tuitions, I would say give and take 5,000. Let's say the whole thing comes out, let's say 15,000. Let's put that 15,000 to recruit, the other officer comes in as a bonus. That was trying to get at. And then you got someone that comes in, laddering from another department, who has experience, which is great, right? And then you get them on right away. You don't have to wait for the six month, that three month interview, and that two year probation to make sure he pass all that. You got…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And the only reason why I'm bringing this point, because I've just learned something new the other day. And it's actually better for our city if we are able to put that money set aside and have those officer laddering. Because for those that we're putting through them, the academy, we pay for the school, we pay doing their educations. And at the end of the day, if they choose not to go with us, we lose all that money. As far as the other way, we don't lose. We have not had a record of people leaving, but as you heard from our captain earlier, in the last few years five of them leave for…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I want to add one point to what you just said, City Manager. So you say $43 is that for the police recruit. Is that eight hours a day, 40 hours a week we're paying them, or how do we pay them?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so if 40 hours, six months, we look about 41,000, plus the $5,000, that's 46,000. So I think if we can come up with an incentivized, let's say half of that, 25,000, to your point, I think you'll get your six-month recoup, right? Because instead of getting a student going through it, we give an incentive, 25,000, to come work for a fine body. That would incentivize some of the officers, I think. Just a thought, something to think about.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Ashley, can you go back to the structural recommendations, Rick?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, the city recommendations. Well, first of all, like you said, Council Member Ingram, I do appreciate the Family Community Foundation stepping up their plate once again, you know, serving the community. I believe they have a lot on their plate already. So that's another task, right? which is wonderful, and right now you do have the resource, that's definitely, you do have the member to help out. The only thing that I would have a second thought, and it's something to consider, is as my colleague has said, that this organization has so many activity in the city already. And the sister…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Great point. I guess my point I'm trying to get at is I want to protect both entity, not the city, but also the family community foundations. Should something happen, remember, we're doing a program, we're going to be dealing with kids, right? There could be minor kids. If for some reason there's something that goes wrong, they find a way to sue the organization, and they're going to tag on the community foundation as well because they're leading organizations. I want to make sure that We set in a way that it protects not only the sisters city organization, but also the other end. So we…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. I'm going to leave what you're best at. I'm going to raise this issue now so that way as you draft the MOU and other contracts, be mindful of what I'm concerned of so that way you find a way to make sure those concerns are being addressed so that way we don't run into issues down the road.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, one more thing. So at the last meeting, the money was being given to the , right? What, 37,000 I believe, roughly around there? So now do we need to have a motion or talk about that the money needs to be going toward, what's the process?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, for me, I think we need a little bit more time. I'm trying to figure out what are we going to accomplish this second round going to Japan. We are very appreciative and thankful to the taxpayers for the first round going there. We have learned quite a few big information from going over there. What information they have given us, what are they looking for from us if they were going to join us, vice versa. So I'm trying to figure out, I understand there's in the report, but is there really anything that's going to stand out that's going to make it really different from the…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, I respectfully disagree with you. I'm not mixing the funding. You are. Whether the funding is coming from the general city funding or the organization nonprofit, it's still money. I'm not mixing it. I respect any money that is given to any organizations how we want to use it. I'm not mixing the fund. You did. Now, okay. Okay, it's 9,000. Now, reference to networking, like I said, these days there's so much technology. If it's networking, you want networking, you do Zoom. Unless there's something really concrete that you think that's really a must to be there. That's my opinion, that's…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, first of all, thank you for the presentations. So one of the flyers you show in the design on that, as you know, a little bit of a history of the Vietnamese American and old culture, a lot of it was influenced by the French. And part of that, because I saw some of the dining, as you know, that the French dining, a lot of it is outdoor. So I didn't see too much of that in there. It's just something for you to take a note of. Yeah, if you've noticed, I don't know if the last time you've seen, or at least seen any pictures in Vietnam before and now, there's a lot of influence of…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“You always can pick up them and call them.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“If I step in concern, you have the right. If you reach out to the Cal State Fullerton, one of the, I can't remember, the PhD professor that wrote about this article. I believe he has a more recent map on his latest study. It goes a little bit deeper than the beginning of my square part.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Most of the grant that you have, half a million dollars, it was referenced to, it was, most of it was, it's in part of the requirement, is to pay the consultant to get, identify the three area of the city.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I would like to comment to what Council Member Granitz have said and my colleagues say agree. Well, I assure you one thing. I mean, I'm very close to the Vietnamese community American in business. I assure you probably one of the best customers and loyal customers are non-Vietnamese. It has nothing to do with us versus them. If you reference to more than one language in the sign, they're okay with it, but a lot of that, you need to change sign ordinance. It needs to get bigger because you can't have two languages, a tiny writing. So to your point, if you do that, there's going to be a lot of…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, what's your bottom line? Are you for it or not for it? I don't understand what you're trying to say. Get right to the point.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So let me enlighten a little bit more on what Omar just said. What they reference to when they go to Little Saigon in to the Vietnamese American, the new generations, it's the high end of Beverly Hills. That's where they come to Fountain Valley to experience the high end food. That's what they mean by coming to Fountain Valley, the new destinations. Westminster is great, but that's the old Little Saigon. They don't say it, but in their head, that's the old Little Saigon. What the professor's trying to say is the trend is Little Saigon's moving south. Believe it or not, it's going to pass…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I want to add to City Manager Magali. She's absolutely correct. That is the reason why Westminster understand that. That's why they want to protect that asset, because they know the next generation are moving toward Fountain Valley to spend the money. That's why they don't want to be part of it, because if they're part of it, they know that they give a helping hand to expand that. That's why they want to stop and protect the asset.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026