Remarks by Terra Lawson-Remer
395 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 16
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“Okay. Well, I don't want to monopolize, but I think overall, I think this is great. It's like really going in the right direction. I just want to make sure that it's not just a piece of paper, that it's like meaningful. So let me null on that, like mull on that. But again, really good job. I just want to make sure we can enforce what we put out there. Turning the floor to Vice Chair Montgomery-Stepp.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“To the makers of the motion and the seconder.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“While Andrew's typing, why don't I, can we all talk to each other? One conversation, please. While Andrew's typing, the chair pretend my comments.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Just to clarify, though, that the amendment also includes exploration of deed restrictions. So if you want to add how you would like to say that, Vice Chair, on this piece of paper that Andrew's put up on the floor.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I liked it. I'm supporting the addition of the deed restriction option. I liked it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“So do you want to say at the same time report back with options for deed restricted, deed restricted units? At the same time, report back.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, and let me, I would love to make a friendly moment to the friendly moment. I think I'd like to have a discussion around enforcement, like what are the best options around enforcement for any, whatever we pass. How are we going to enforce this? And looking at all the tools in the toolkit. And just to kind of put some commentary on it. It could be things as simple as like publicizing a phone number or an email to submit a complaint so at least people know where to go to. Or something more complicated like putting this under the purview of of county council. Like, I don't know. I'm not…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, we have a motion on the floor and a second that includes now this amendment. And the motion included options two, three, and four. Okay, it's all written there. Answers ahead of all of us as always. Please vote.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. Great work, everybody. Okay, okay, okay. Now we're going back to Tuesday. This is another item people had opinions about, trying to get through all the things that the public wanted to participate in. I think we're on item 29. This is requesting presentations from County consultants contributing to ad-hocs of Coney research and the development of ballot measures Supervisor Anderson, this is your item if you have any introductory remarks, and then we'll go to public comment.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you so much. Do we have folks who have called in to comment?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“That's not the topic of this item. What it is not. The topic of this item is presentations to the board and information that would be presented to the board regarding legislative research.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay, thank you all so much. Put myself in the queue. I want to say I think I support the spirit of this item around transparency and making sure that the public has full access to information and that's why I already put online and posted publicly the results of the legislative research that we conducted on these two items. But I have a couple concerns about the way it's written and would love to be able to get to yes. So let me just kind of go through those and hopefully I'll be able to support this. I think the first is just regarding the first recommendation, which I could have been…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“So it's not so we legally could have a presentation but there's risks based on what was said and the timing what's said because it's within 90 days.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I mean, I'll be honest, that gives me a lot of pause, like the notion that we could be creating a discussion forum that you could say one wrong word or three wrong words in the middle of a conversation and it could then trigger an FPPC investigation I think that does not create is not an environment that's conducive to like a good exchange of ideas well let me finish let me finish what I'm saying um I think from my point of view um I think there's kind of two approaches either one would be would would address these concerns for me is either one would be to have some kind of report back that…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“This is not about whether the law is violated. It's about whether it creates an opportunity for a case to be brought. You know, you could be well within... You could not do anything wrong. Absolutely, but we've created a forum in which we're talking and saying things and someone could then make an FPPC complaint even though ultimately you're found to have not done anything wrong. So I don't I want to be clear right like the law is a long process and you could do nothing wrong but we are creating I think it's a huge risk to create a forum where we're we're essentially saying okay Now there…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“If somebody wanted to file... We're not talking about public records. We're talking about FBPC.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Can you clarify for me, though, Supervisor Anderson? We're talking about a couple different things, right? We're talking about the legislative research my office did that I've already shared and it's already public. And then we're talking, that's one piece of this. And then we're talking about the work the Sustainable Fiscal Planning Subcommittee did. has done and is continuing to do that's not yet complete and is not relevant for this, you know. So what, so what do you, when you're saying folks are hounding your office, is it about the work my office did on my legislative research?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I did hear someone say something they wanted, you know, just to build on what your point is that you're getting hounded by all sorts of random stuff. One person came here today talking about a different subcommittee, right, which wasn't the Sustainable Fiscal Planning Subcommittee. It was the Social Safety Net Subcommittee.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“So, I mean, I'm trying to get to like a coherent point here, just to be clear. Like, I think we are on agreement on number one. Maybe we can hold for a second on number three and go back to number two. Number two says direct the sustainable fiscal understanding committee to engage our own public affairs to present to the board on the body of work conducted to develop the regimen, petition revenue budgets, blah, blah. I mean, shouldn't we just direct all the subcommittees at some point to come back as soon as possible with presentations from all of the consultants?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“But I just said, yes, I hear you, but you just said that posting doesn't seem to be good enough for you. No, no, no. Because I just suggested we post.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Sorry, I'm not understanding what you're saying.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, I said like look, I think there's two possibilities here. One is we have a big robust discussion after the election so we're not worrying and sitting on pins and needles and worrying that one word is wrong and we can all really talk and not, and we all say sorts of things that maybe you wouldn't say if you're trying to be careful. And I think there's a value to that and vowing to have a robust discussion. I think we're going to have a better conversation if it's post-election. Or, I'm not comfortable with having that kind of robust discussion pre-election. I think there's too many legal…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“And they wouldn't come here to do it publicly, but we could send them the questions ahead of time, send it to Ebony, and then she could get it to... Is part of the report back? I would be fine with that, yeah. Like, we could all send our questions to Ebony ahead of time, and she could share those questions with the consultants. That would be fine for me. I think I'm just trying to prevent us all sitting here and not being able to really talk because we're worried about some frivolous litigation. So that is fine. I don't know, maybe I could give Damon some thoughts, some moments to think about…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“I think the question being, like what we're talking about is instead of having the consultants come and present to the board, instead we would have them write a report and send it to board offices. And then we would be able to give Ebony questions to ask the consultants that they could then include in the report they send to board offices. Yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
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“Gotcha. That's what I keep saying is that we might discuss and get in trouble. So that's what I'm trying to. Make sure we don't do. Do you want to try out, Andrew? I'm listening. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026