Remarks by Terra Lawson-Remer
395 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 16
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“Thank you. Just I wanna note, I think it's helpful to put this into context. There is experience with states that have implemented these kinds of measures. And the modeling and the predictions we have of about 150 to 170,000 people losing healthcare is based on other states that have implemented similar kinds of measures. And I find it, ironic is too soft of a term, tragic, distressing, disturbing, but certainly in Congress that there's not, that we're looking at essentially death by red tape, like massive amounts of bureaucratic red hurdles, needing to fill out, come in, apply twice a year,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Aye. Thank you. Thank you all. Please let's not clap. I don't want to have to kick anyone out, but thank you for being here to testify and to participate and to share your own experiences. Okay, we're moving on to our next item. That is item 17, promoting economic development by authorizing 300,000 grants at East County Economic Development Council. And again, I think this is Supervisor Anderson's item.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Up to you. That's fine. We can start with public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. I'll turn the floor over to my colleagues who introduced this item.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further comments?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Good. I hope they're not cheating on their taxes. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you all so much. We now move on to the final agenda item before closed session. That's item 19, Supervisor Desmond.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, we have a motion for this item and we'll go to public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. Turning the floor back to Supervisor Desmond.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you very much. We have a motion on the floor. I thought I saw Anderson-Eager, Supervisor Anderson-Eager to second it. Was that?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“You were chafing at it and then I cut you off and went to public comment. Okay. We've got a motion in the second. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yep. Now turn to public comment for closed session matters.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. We now proceed with our adjournments in memory. Today's adjournment in memory will be presented by Chair Pro Tem McGarry in memory of Dolly Parton.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. That was a really beautiful one. With that, the board will proceed to close session and be in recess until tomorrow, Wednesday at 9 a.m. We'll take about a 13-minute break, 12, 13 minutes. We'll be there at 5.15, okay? Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Sir, if you wouldn't mind giving your address to the clerk. She's right there. Raise your hand. Right there. Look right there. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. We now proceed with the formation of the consent agenda. This today is only items 1 through 2. All items on the consent agenda are routine and will be acted upon with one motion. And we'll have public comment after supervisors pull or make comments on anything they'd like. So, Vice Chair Montgomery-Stepp, any comments or items to pull?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“We have a motion by the Vice Chair and a second by the Chair pro tem. Any comments or anything to pull? Okay. From Supervisor Anderson? I don't at this time. Thank you for asking. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you so much. We'll now begin with public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“A point of order, we always begin with non-agenda public comment in the morning. That's legally required. So that's what we're doing today. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“We are doing consent from today, currently. And then we have a number of time-certain items that we're running through today for Wednesday. And then as soon as we're done with our time-certain, we will do what we can to finish the yesterday's agenda items.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Just a reminder that your remarks need to be pertinent and germane to an item listed on the consent agenda. Your remarks at the moment are not. If you continue in that vein, your time will be forfeited. If you'd like to speak to an item on the consent agenda, please make the item you're speaking to and how your remarks are relevant clear. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you so much. We have a motion by Supervisor Montgomery-Sapp, excuse me, the Vice Chair, and a second by the Chair Pro Tem for approval of all the items on consent. Please go ahead and vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, well, we have a time certain for, okay, first of all, to clarify for everyone who's asking my order of agenda, we are now moving on to discussion items, and these are items three through six for Wednesday. We're going to begin with Wednesday item five, because that one's time certain, and we are joined here by Chief Meacham. Then we will move back to do items three and four. Then we will be moving on to the Tuesday items, because there's actually quite a lot of public interest in those items. So that's items 29 and items 30. And items 31 from Tuesday. And then, I'm sorry, and…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, before questions, we will go to public comment, and then we'll have a board conversation and questions.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. I had a couple of questions, but I also want to open it up to my colleagues, anyone else's comments.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026