Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 10 of 12
- Play at 2:07:11
“Again, every time we have something that we're trying to regulate in town, we don't enact a moratorium so that we can then figure it out for six, eight, ten months and then make the changes that we want and enact it, whether it's a card carrying thing or whatever it is. Yeah, card room, thank you. We do what we need to do and in the interim, until it gets done, it stays the way it was. And so if somebody can give me a public health reason why this should be stopped, then that would make sense to me. But if it's just, hey, we'd like to get it finished, what is possibly going to happen? We're…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:09:01
“So that's all TRPs, though. We're not talking about smoke shops.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“WAS IT ONE, TEN, 100? I MEAN, AGAIN, THESE ARE BUSINESSES THAT ARE TRYING TO... FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, IT'S A SMALL BIT, MAYBE ONE TO THREE. OKAY.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:19:06
“So it looks like quite a bit of coverage of the city. Probably with three more youth facilities, you'd pretty much have the whole city pretty much off limits if they were one over on 1st Street, one over on 10th Street, and one over by the outlets, I guess, or somewhere around over there.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:20:19
“Right. So that's, I mean, a potential area for filling station or C-Store as well as down on, you know, over by 10th Street and over that way. And if the ones over there off First Street are not, you know, you have a grandfathering issue there. So it's quite a bit of the city covered by that. The second question, maybe it's I think it's for our director of economic development, because I'd like to hear her opinion on this and how it affects the city. And if she was working with you and anybody else on this topic, how it affects our economics and what her feelings are about having this.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:21:30
“Would something like this be a concern? It's something that obviously is going to limit business and economic development.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:22:08
“Well, we have some new C-stores in town, one over off of 10th Street and whatnot, and a big component of their business is tobacco sales. And clearly that business is a big economic concern for us, gas sales and everything else. So, I mean, limiting these abilities would affect the economic return to Gilroy, would it not?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:23:39
“I mean, is there a concern from the city, from a health perspective, of a tobacco establishment, tobacco sales establishment, cropping up within 600 feet of a place that has five-year-olds in it? I mean, are we really worried that they're going to hop on over and grab a pack? I mean, I don't understand...”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:24:44
“Yeah, I understand. I get it. Again, you just said it right there. Is there an economic development impact? And I would expect that to come with your report for something that restricts the economics of Gilroy.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“But we don't know the impact. That's the thing that's what I'm saying is we know the impact of where it is, but it's hard to make a decision if you don't know what the intent the exact implications or even the unintended implications are of doing something like this to then go, oh, well, if we did this, it would restrict the city from earning this in the future potentially.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:26:11
“But you and the economic development director can have an opinion, right? Like that this is going to have a significant, a mild impact, a I'M NOT GOING TO KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT I'LL BOOK END IT AT 300 GRAND TO 500 GRAND A YEAR, SOMETHING, RIGHT? SOMETHING TANGIBLE. NOBODY'S GOING TO HOLD ANYBODY TO A NUMBER.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:29:21
“Are we still on questions? Are we still on questions?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:30:23
“All right, go ahead. You know, one of the things I wanted to bring up because it was brought up on council here is that tobacco establishments and some that are labeled as a smoke shop, which we tried unsuccessfully to try to define at one point, are bad because they sell illegal things. Well, if they're allowed to sell illegal things, then we're bad as an enforcement arm of the city to keeping them from doing that. If they are violating other ordinances around signage or smoking around the facility or any of these other things that are all written in there, it's a very comprehensive…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:32:50
“So let's say we decide as a group to tell staff that hey look Let's just leave it the way it is We just passed a moratorium for what reason that's why I said why did we put these in that order because if we came to this conclusion First, we might not have passed a moratorium.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:37:29
“And to be clear, what he's presenting to us is about youth centers, not about downtown. So that's a completely different thing.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:37:44
“Right, because again, back to smoke shops selling illegal things in order to make a profit. When they can't sell illegal items, they don't make a profit. So the reason C-stores exist is because they sell a lot of other things. They happen to be at a gas station and they sell cigarettes and it's part of what they do.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:38:03
“But the reason that smoke shops, the only ones that exist, the smoke shops, are the ones that are selling illegal things. So if you make yourself a town that doesn't allow illegal stuff to be sold... by tobacco retailers, then you won't have them here. The reason we don't have food trucks in town as much anymore is because we attracted all the illegal food trucks. Then we created a temporary food truck ordinance, and they all left because they didn't want to get county permits, and they didn't want to get all of the regulations. And so when you enforce the things that you have on the books,…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:39:38
“SO ESSENTIALLY, WE ARE STICKING WITH WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE ON THE BOOKS, WHICH DOESN'T REQUIRE US TO HAVE A MORATORIUM BECAUSE WE ARE STICKING WITH WHAT IS ON THE BOOKS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO BRING IT BACK FOR A NEW ORDINANCE, DO WE?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:03:20
“So to be clear, these practices you're showing are new practices that you intend to put in place, not practices that are currently in place? Because I was a little confused.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:03:40
“That's what I was asking. So the communication protocol is what's changing?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:03:46
“So to get a more enhanced communication back and forth with the public?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:03:56
“So to follow up on the escalations from Council Member Hilton, Escalations have been in place since its inception, have they not?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:04:04
“So when we get something that is out there for a resident that has taken 30, 45, 60, 120 days, those directors are getting those emails? As long as they're signed up on the escalation. So they're choosing to ignore C-Click fix? I don't understand how that can be possible.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:04:32
“Sure, but I'm talking about there are cases where there are ones that have zero.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:04:43
“I'm talking about where somebody said, hey, somebody will help you is the first response. And then three months later, it gets closed with no other communication, no other person coming in. So if we're doing escalations, I guess the question I'm asking is, are we going to improve our ability to respond to escalations? Because escalations have been in place. And that is where I think we're missing the mark on a lot of this.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026