Remarks by Terra Lawson-Remer
395 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 16
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“What's been the pattern of how many you need to have a quorum?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do any of my colleagues have any questions or comments?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I HAVE A QUESTION. WHAT IF YOU ONLY HAVE SIX MEMBERS SERVING? HOW MANY WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE A QUORUM?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“But just to, I'm just trying to be very specific. So we're talking about the difference between what you all put out and what Supervisor Desmond put out. The difference between if we have six people appointed, you need four to pass something. If you have seven people appointed, you need four to pass something. And if you have eight people appointed, you need five because eight's a majority. So the only time where you would only need four instead of five is if you had less than eight people appointed and serving at any given time. Have we had... any times in the last few years where we have…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Not present though, right? We're not talking about present because you just said that if you have eight appointed, you need a majority of those appointed. Am I correct? Not a majority of those present?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“It can't ever be less than six, even if you only have six people appointed? No.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I understand that. I'm asking a different question. You're saying you want to go with the majority of the people who show up. So I'm trying to understand what's the least number of people that you could have show up. If you have 11 people appointed, it's six. That's clear. I don't think we have a confusion of this. The question is, but we're not talking about, we're not problem solving for when you have 11 people appointed. We're problem solving for when you have like seven people appointed, right? Because we're not problem solving when you have eight, because then you're in the five bucket…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. This is super helpful. So let me just kind of, first of all, I appreciate Susan Anderson flagging this. I think it's valuable to remember that this is an incredibly important board with real power that makes real decisions, and it is important to have, you know, broad countywide representation. For me, it's a question of incentives and who's best positioned to, like, solve different parts of the problem. I think the, I actually am inclined to support, to just move forward the way with Claire framed this, I agree it would be better if we have like more people there and we…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Supervisor. I want to note that that's also my concern, is sort of nefarious people, not current members of the board, undermining a process. And I would worry, what if someone doesn't want to fill their spots because they want to slow roll things so they don't appoint people. So the approach you outlined would allow if you had one or two board members who really didn't want this board, the clerk to function to undermine the function of clerk by like not appointing their people. So I think that the point that I'm making is that these are, this is a valid concern, but ultimately we…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Just to remind people of the procedure of where we're at, there is a motion on the floor by Supervisor Desmond, seconded by Supervisor Anderson. That's a substitute motion, and that substitute motion puts the voting threshold at five. And prior to that, there was a motion on the floor. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think we all understood that in this conversation.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. So again, we have a substitute motion on the floor. The prior motion that this is serving to substitute for was from Supervisor Montgomery Stepp, seconded by Supervisor Aguirre, and that would adopt the item as presented and written without any amendments. So we will first take a vote on the substitute motion. Andrew, please call the vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. Now we'll return to the initial motion on the floor to adopt item six as written. Everyone please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you all very much. That was very interesting and helpful. And thank you for all your service. It's really important. Great. So now we are moving on. Again, we're sticking with the items regarding the sheriff and community safety and law enforcement generally. And so that's item 20. And this is protecting community safety, prohibiting wearable electric shock weapons. Turning it to my colleagues.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Was that a motion? Okay, we have a motion. We have a motion on the second. Supervisor Desmond?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you very much. There's a couple layers here. First of all, the notion that this is creepy and terrible, but we should support it because it's less lethal. What would be less lethal is if we didn't have ICE roaming around our neighborhoods trying to kidnap people. Just last week, there was an entire armed tactical unit that invaded a mall in Encinitas for hours. Everyone was terrified. Because that's, why are they there? It's completely inappropriate use of taxpayer funds, but also incredibly damaging to our communities. So to my view, if we would like to be the less lethal, they should…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you so much. We're moving on. So now we're trying to get back in terms of the order of the agenda. We had jumped ahead to take care of some of the public safety and law enforcement items. So now just looking for the remainder of the agenda, we have item 16, item 17, item 19. Then we'll have adjournments in memory. comments for closed session and then closed session. Okay, so moving on to item 16. This is an item that I brought forward and we can start with public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Can you please pause the speaker? Yes. We're on item 16. Okay, but you're speaking currently on the previous item. So this is your first warning. Please stay on topic on item 16. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Among us in the community and society... Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. We really need to be consistent on our rules, but you can come back, okay? I will cede you some of my time. The vice chair will invite you back up to finish your comments. Yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you very much. I'd like to make a motion to adopt this item and then turn the floor over to the Vice Chair.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Before we get into board discussion, I want to make a couple of remarks about this item and why I brought it forward today. We've been speaking for nearly two years now about the threats posed to health care in our region by the Trump administration and the cuts to Medicaid. And for the most part, we've been talking quite at length about H.R. 1 and the impact that H.R. 1 will have to San Diego County. This was signed last July and the combination of massive significant red tape and really increased burden on our eligibility workers, in addition to changes in eligibility…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“And where exactly you wanted to put it? After which clause?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. I'm gonna look at it and we'll think about it as the maker of the motion. And in the meanwhile, Supervisor Geary.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Supervisor Desmond.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you for your passion and your vision and everything you bring every single day, Vice Chair. I'm fine with this amendment. I think it's true. We do stand for this. I would note... just want to add an agreement that the fraud I'm most worried about is the fraud that's committed by the richest and the cheaters who are cheating all the regular people who are just trying to live their lives and the reason we're looking at these huge Medicaid cuts is because people like Elon Musk are not paying any taxes at all and they're cheating on their taxes every single day so I'm definitely stand…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026