Remarks by Terra Lawson-Remer
395 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 16
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“Hi, thank you all. Let me just ask a couple questions. The first is about 911 response time. And so I wanted to better understand what's our county's fire response time for getting first to the scene.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, that's very helpful. And what percentage of our calls are currently meeting those standards?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Great. I mean, first of all, that's amazing. That's great. And also still room to do better. So I think both to celebrate how good a job the team is doing and also to acknowledge that, you know, we can always be improving and would love to get those numbers to 100%. you know, as we kind of continue thinking about what investments we need to make. Are there places in our system today where county fire isn't evaluating additional stations, fire stations, or are there other investments we could or should be looking at that would help us get up to 100% in those response rate standards?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. So just kind of building on that a little bit, that's really about stations. What about fire engines and apparatuses? So yeah, just to, I mean, cause we, I think, didn't we just purchase a new truck for about 1.4 million or a couple of new trucks?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“So $67 million to maintain the fleet, and then it's, you know, $1.4 million more or less to add an additional vehicle that would, you know, to help to kind of chip away at improving response times. That is correct. Just back up to the fire stations. Okay. the kind of the big modern fire stations as we're looking in the future, what's the projected approximate costs like for stations like the East Otay Mesa?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Four critical, ten that need replacement, four that are critical, and that's not even building new ones.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. At a kind of a cost, if we look backwards, at about $17 million more or less per facility? That's correct. Okay. Thank you. This is very interesting. And first of all, just saying again how proud I am of... of you and of the team and how great everyone really is doing. And just really want to continue focusing on what do we need to do to continue making those investments and scaling the investments that we need to always be at the top of the game. I think the last question is about staffing. I know we've done a lot to make huge progress in staffing over the last six years. It's been…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. So that's only two of our trucks? Correct. So how many additional firefighters would we need to move all these units to four-person staffing instead of three?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“This was so helpful. Again, I'm really proud of the investments you've been making. I think they continue to be top priority in terms of what we do to keep our community safe. I think you all are doing just a fantastic job of doing everything you can and coming to us when you need support. I think we've made some really important investments, especially in our night-flying helicopter and A lot of big, important investments. But I think this is really helpful, at least for me, as we look forward to kind of thinking about, you know, potentially the need, you know, if we were really going to be…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Always a team player, Chief. Thank you. Supervisor Anderson.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much. I'm happy to make a motion to receive the presentation. Okay, we have a motion and a second on the floor. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you all so much. We're going to give folks a chance to get organized. Our next item is Wednesday, Item 3. This is Socially Equitable Cannabis Program Amendments to the County Zoning Ordinance and Code of Regulatory Ordinance with Certification of Final Program Environmental Impact, Sequel Findings, and Associated Permanent and Licensing Fees. And we will begin. with a presentation from the county team, then we go on to public comment, and then we will have board discussion.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, we'll now go to public comment. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Just pausing before the speakers, but someone from my team is here looking for the San Diego Planning Group member, so if she could go back to the woman in the pink. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you very much. I'm going to begin just with a queue of folks who've put up their hand to speak, starting with Vice Chair Montgomery-Stepp.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“We have a motion on the floor and a second. I just want to take a moment to express my gratitude for everyone who came today and for all the letters that were sent. I've been reading many of the letters all morning. So thank you. for those and I think this is really one of those instances where there's really legitimate points of view on all sides and really important considerations on all sides and really grateful for people who are here to express your views and what's important to your community in a respectful manner, in a manner that acknowledges that these issues are complicated and…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you again. It is now 12.40. We will take an hour. We'll be back here at 1.40. Thanks.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Sorry, I'm getting my notes. I had some questions. Give me a second if my colleagues have any questions. Okay, we'll go to public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you so much. So sorry, I was looking for my notes, and I found them, and I had a bunch of questions, most minor. But first, I just want to say thank you for the work. I know you had a bunch of kind of different options to put together, and you've done a really good job. I think the first one was just trying to better understand how we would verify what would be the verification. So for example, option three, enforce. requiring primary residence occupancy commitment, and it's an affidavit. Well, what if that's the affidavit, someone lied on the affidavit, how would we investigate this?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Who would complain? How would they know to complain?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I think this is great. I just feel like there's not a lot of... I don't know how you'd enforce this, right? So...”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“What would that enforcement action look like?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Sorry, I feel like I don't want to make a big hay of this. I mostly just had some small questions, but I'm getting less and less satisfied as we kind of unfold the onion. I thought this would be simple. I'm just like, who would do that? This does not feel enforceable, I think, from what you're describing to me. I don't know if Davia wants to chime in. So you get a fine? Who would submit? How do they even know who to call to submit the fine? How much would the fine be? It's too late. The person already bought the property. You can't undo the sale. I don't know here. What happens if someone…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, so it creates some kind of legal claim, cause of action, I guess, but who could bring a lawsuit, and then what would their remedy be? I mean, if you're basically saying, hey, we have no ability to enforce this, but we're going to set up a bunch of rules and people can enforce it against each other, you're saying bring each other, essentially you're saying bring each, you all sue each other, essentially. Like, that's all we got? What would they get? What would be the remedy?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“But what's the enforcement mechanism? I don't even know. What happens if someone lies on that?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026