Remarks by Terra Lawson-Remer
395 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 16
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“Okay, thank you very much. Before beginning, I'm going to go through our House rules. Public engagement is the cornerstone of a transparent and accountable government, and these Board of Supervisors meetings are one of the primary venues where people in our community can make their voices heard. Under the board rules, speakers may not use loud shouting, threatening, slanderous, profane, and abusive language to any member of the board, staff, or the general public. Second, all remarks and questions must remain on topic during the duration of your speaking time. Third, these remarks must be…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. We now begin with a non-agenda public comment. This is an opportunity for the public to address matters within our board jurisdiction, but not a matter on our agenda today. The only thing we may do is refer the matter to the CAO. Speakers can speak once per meeting for non-agenda public comment. That's either today or yesterday at your choice. We will have five speakers in person and five speakers by phone at the beginning of the meeting. The remainder will be held at the end of the session. And the first five in-person speakers will be selected by random in order to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. The next item on our agenda is approval of minutes and statement of proceedings for the concurrent special district meeting of the Sanitation District for June 24th and June 25th. Do I have a motion? Okay, we have a motion by Supervisor Desmond, a second by Vice Chair Montgomery Stepp. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, we now proceed with the consent agenda. These items are routine and will be acted upon with one motion. First, I will ask my colleagues if they have any comments or any items to pull, and then we'll go to public comment. Vice Chair?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. Supervisor Anderson, we are doing consent. Do you have any items to pull or any comments?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, we'll move to public comment, thanks.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Sir, can you please clarify which item you're speaking to?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Excuse me, sir. Please ensure your comments are confined to that item. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Sir, please pause. Which item, I've asked you now, I said you can be on item one, two, three, four, or seven. Which of the items?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, sir, which item is that one? Item one.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you all very much. We have a motion on the floor from Vice Chair Montgomery-Stepp and a second by Chair Parton-McGee. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, fantastic. So now we move on to item five, and this is notice public hearing approve the Starlight Solar Project to allow for the development of a solar energy generation and storage facility and certify the environmental impact report. We do have a county presentation, so we'll begin with the county team. Thanks.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Thank you. That was very thorough and very helpful. And it did actually answer some of the questions I had, so you anticipated them. Any of my colleagues have any questions at this time?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thanks. Okay. Seeing no further questions, we will go to public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“It imposes enormous costs, but does not make the community whole. The community is left sort of holding the bag on something that benefits others, and they're holding the costs. And I think this is the kind of environmental injustice that I think we fear when we look at big-scale energy investments.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Apologies. We really need to be consistent because we do have a lot of presentations, but I personally am going to ask you to come back when it's my turn to ask questions because I do have some follow-up questions for you specifically. Thank you. Appreciate that. And sorry, sir, what's your name so I can call you appropriately? Joe. Joe Raleigh. Joe Raleigh. Okay. Thank you, Joe.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“And they can continue on your same slides. They don't need to change slides if they want to. We just need to change people so they can do the rest of your presentation. We just have to change people.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“You only have about 25 seconds left, just letting you know. Vote now, then.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Ma'am, please, please. Thank you. This is your first warning. Thank you. Before we move on, I just want to first of all thank everyone. I know this has been an incredibly difficult topic and you all came really, really far to be here today. I would appreciate if we could not clap or engage in other behavior that would disrupt our proceedings because I'd really like us to have an opportunity to have a robust conversation and really consider this issue carefully. So please no clapping. If you want to show support, we can do this. Thank you. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. First of all, thank you everyone for being here, for all the community members who have been participating in this process and who drove really far to be here today, and also the community and project proponents that are also here to talk about the merits of this project. I just want to make a couple opening comments regarding how I'm thinking about this and how I'm approaching this. I have a lot of questions. But I won't ask them all at once because I'm sure my colleagues also have lots to say. So I will say a couple things, ask a couple questions, and then we'll…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Like, very big picture. We obviously need reliable, affordable electricity. I mean, we have lights on in this building. You know, I don't know anyone who doesn't use electricity on a daily basis. And the rising costs of electricity are one of the biggest challenges that people face throughout San Diego County and really across California and across our country. the rising cost of energy, and I don't know anyone who's decided to solve that problem by going and by turning off the lights and stop and just completely stop using electricity. So, and that means there's really not a lot of great…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, so it's a water quality testing in the beginning. and then regular water quality testing, and then including in people's wells.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“So my question, I think we'll start maybe with the developer and also the county team. I'm sure this was raised by the community initially. What's the reason that this has not been included? Is this not needed? Is this not a good idea? Like what's the deal on the water quality testing? Because as we all, I mean, I think clean water seems like a pretty fundamental issue. Yeah. Yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“I just want to thank you. That was very helpful. I feel like it's conflating two separate issues. One is where is the water coming from and the groundwater level? It sounds like the community is interested and concerned about pollution and groundwater quality. And those are different questions. I get it. Obviously, this project can't move forward if they can't buy water from somewhere else, and that water purchase would have to conform with assumptions. I'm not as concerned about that. I'm more concerned about this basic issue. Is there anything awful going into the groundwater that we don't…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, that's helpful. I think again, I have a lot more questions, but I would just say from from just from the outset, if I was to approve this project, I would want to see an agreement to do some kind of ongoing monitoring of the water. That sort of seems basic, like we should know that the water is clean. Is there any reason we couldn't? Do that that doesn't seem like super onerous.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 16, 2026