Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 12
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“So obviously we have the staff are the ones creating the SLAs, right? And are the actual SLAs determined by what we can do, what we strive for, or what even the public might expect? Because those are all different things.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So there's a real, I'll give a real example. Since you say it's what we think it's close to what people should expect. So a dilapidated car on a public street in front of somebody's house that gets reported, you've got an SLA in here of 30 days. I don't think most of the public would think that that is a reasonable time frame to have the dilapidated car pulled off from in front of their street.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So what you're saying doesn't align with the SLAs that we think that they're close to what the public might expect. If somebody downtown wants to have a, what is the SLA for food trucks or food vendors downtown, according to our ordinance there?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. I believe it's 30 days, but let me double check. I think it's 15. Yes, 15 days. 15 days. So if somebody reports having a food truck on one weekend or a food cart, I should say, that's illegally on the sidewalk, their expectation is that it might be there for another two weekends before we get to it. And that aligns with the SLA. I mean, that aligns with what we would think those business owners would have as an expectation.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I know that's what you're committing to. That's why I asked the question. Is this what staff can do? That's what we think is close to what residents can.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Sure, we'll discuss that later in comments. But this is why the question was valid for me because when we show these things to residents, I think it's going to be a big disconnect for them on many of these to go, wait a second, Why does it take 30 days to get rid of this car from in front of my house? And I, anyway, I'll ask more later.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I'm going to have to respectfully disagree on most of that. The anonymous thing is there so people don't have retribution concerns and they will report things that they might not otherwise report, including the examples that I gave earlier of dilapidated cars in their neighborhood or, you know, food carts that happen to be on Monterey. So the anonymous thing I think absolutely has to be there. I don't know how much you've utilized the C-Click fix thing, but even as anonymous, You get all the responses back. It comes to your email. It's anonymous. And you can have that conversation with THE…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“CAN I SAY ONE THING QUICKLY TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE MENTIONED AT LARGE OF WHERE THINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, THIS IS REALLY THE BLIGHT ISSUES THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PUTTING IN PLACE. THEY'RE NOT HAPPENING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY'RE HAPPENING IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DON'T DESERVE THIS TO HAPPEN TO THEM. THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT PEOPLE QUITE FRANKLY CAME IN AND TOLD ME I WOULDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO. THOSE ARE THE ONES WHERE I'M PAYING THE MOST ATTENTION TO. BECAUSE THEY DON'T NEED TO HAVE ALL OF THIS BLIGHT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you. I just want to follow up on the one thing he said, which was this community involvement. I think absolutely when you're creating these SLAs, when I read the staff report, it said, well, that was decided by our little team of people who work on C-Click Fix. I think that whether it's even through email or a survey or whatever it is, you should be polling the residents or have a small group of people to help you, guide you with that. And if you need to have, like, this is what our target is, this is what your expectation now is, I think that would be really, really helpful.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So it says... such as drive-through facilities. So it's not just drive-through facilities? I'm very confused.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So is it, you know, as Council Member Bracco said, the supermarkets as well would be one of these, or it's only drive-through facilities?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So it would be specific to that kind of business? That is correct. Okay. And existing businesses, what would happen to them?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“No, I know the one that was basically for the new Starbucks over there near that other one. That was before I was on council, but I remember that issue. So.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So. Generally, for these drive-throughs, it's not the vehicles that are creating the sound. It's the intercom systems and whatnot. Is that what we're seeing?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“One could be mitigated fairly easily by the businesses and the other cannot.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“and other cities that are doing this, what would be a couple of examples that have done this that I could go look up?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Okay. And again, whether it's to city administrator or to our economic development director, do we see this kind of restriction having, you know, a significant impact at all in businesses that would want to bring drive-thrus and whatnot? Or, I mean, or we've got enough examples where we think it's not going to be a big deal?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yeah, it's twice as loud, 60 to 70. That's the way the decimals work.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“That's all my questions for right now. I got one follow-up one.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“So the drive-through part, all of the physical restrictions and whatnot that Andy happened to mention, I think I'm totally on board with. I think that's reasonable. 60 dB sound levels and whatnot in any part of the city I am not on board with at all. I think that's way too restrictive. I think when it comes to the landscape stuff, I don't know if this is only intended to be in commercial and industrial, but I would extend all the way across the city. I think that we have, I mean, if you really wanted me to say, I would say like four days a week and like no two-stroke you know in the city and…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“If you have to carve out golf courses, that's fine. I mean, the Gilroy golf course, isn't really a business when you look at the numbers. And then you have two other golf courses, one of which sits in the middle of a ton of houses already. But if you wanted to carve those out, that could be done also.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I mean, back to that point, an electric blower is still pretty loud.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“EXCEPT THEY SAID SUCH AS. SO HE'S BEING MORE SPECIFIC.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I'll make a friendly amendment to change that to citywide and 8 a.m. on weekdays as the ending.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Well, I will second it and add that as a friendly amendment.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026