Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 12
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“It's one of the reasons why many of them are going to this, too, is because of that, the recruiting issues. And I understand we have a vestigial desire to keep things the way they are. I just wonder if given the amount of medical, it's either they're making the wrong choice and we're going to keep with our right choice, or it could be their choice is right for them. But, I mean, exploring what that is and, you know, my belief Correct me if I'm wrong is that there's diminishing returns right in terms of your survivability with costs, right? So you can start raising your costs a lot and you…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“So it's kind of a trade-off on what level of service... Well, there's a trade-off, obviously, like I said, in costs to survivability that happens all the time. And you're trying to find what that number is. I know it sounds very... coarse and morbid maybe to discuss that way but it really has to be looked that way and in terms of yeah I mean my my reality is growing up and seeing the show emergency and you know seeing those guys go out and they didn't have as many you know calls and maybe not as many medical calls but just with the numbers that we see here it just something is not making…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Do you feel that the Los Altos annexation is really a good comparison to be used with Gilroy? Because in studying it, it looks like there's a lot of differences between what their situation was, and then moving to go to annexation, it seems way different than our situation.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. And you had said about with contracts that generally as a chief you'd want to have like a 10- or 20-year contract or what have you. But Morgan Hill's contract wasn't that long with CAL FIRE, was it?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“And with the contracts, obviously you can wait for them to expire, choose to do something different. Correct. The city takes on some risk because there's some unknown depending on the length of it. But with the annexation model, you're done. You can't go back on it pretty much. Isn't that correct?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“So I think it's actually part of this conversation they're having too, which is while we are part of Santa Clara County, making these comparisons to these cities up there is IT'S ALMOST FARCICAL FOR ME BECAUSE THE DOLLARS IN PROPERTY TAX PER CAPITA UP THERE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER THINGS, WE ALL KNOW THAT WE ARE THE REDHEADED STEPCHILD OF THE COUNTY NO MATTER WHAT. AND WE CAN SAY THAT THIS IS A DIFFERENT DIVISION OF THIS OR THAT, AND I REALLY DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS. ALL I KNOW IS WHEN THE COUNTY IS IN FRONT OF ANYTHING, IT'S SOMETHING WRONG. THEY'RE OUT OF MONEY,…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Sure, sure. In the county, they're a completely separate. Except we would have zero control. They're an independent district. So if you let, just let me, let me continue, cuz I'll listen to it all from you in a second. The Los Altos thing is certainly interesting in all of this, but when you look, as the Chief said, the CalPERS situation, the amount of assets that we'd have to give up, the amount of control that we'd have to give up, all of these different things that add on top of that, it takes a serious, deep look for us. And I think when I go back to what the City Administrator said a…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, again, I'm the farthest thing from the expert, which may be in some ways really helps because I'm just looking at it from a real common sense perspective, which says we have this many EMS calls. We have people who we have to have trained to do multiple things. We have fire engines going out on EMS calls. For me, it just seems strange. And then when I went out and did some investigation, I see that there are changes happening You know, quite rapidly, you might say, in a lot of other cities where they're creating these hybrid models to have, you know, EMS, paramedics, whatever, you know,…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“It's not really a statements question. Maybe Harjo is the one to answer this. When we're looking at these four stations and these assets and whatnot, I mean, a rough figure, what are we talking about in valuation here? Is this $200 million? Is this $100 million? Is it $50 million?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, no, but this doesn't take into account the property and everything else. So, I mean, it's just like where are we in our mind on this? Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I don't really understand all of those different intricacies. I just know what I read about what Palo Alto did, right, and other things. So that's...”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I mean, I want to say just outright I am completely against annexation. I don't even think we should go explore the idea. I don't know how many other council members feel that way. I think you should probably get a straw poll on that to see whether or not it even bears out. The whole idea of giving up all of our assets, all of our control, future costs, future large sums of our property tax, depending on how it's structured, All of it sounds like a super, super bad idea. I want to add also that the chief had talked about how an organization taking on a contract wants to take on a contract for…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“And so as part of this, you're going to be reaching out to these organizations to get firm numbers. That's what you're hearing. Yes. Good.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Just one little question. So do you anticipate any concern with the Amazon being there next to it, those increasing because of that? No, not at all. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Further development though of the area would potentially reduce that too, right? Because there'd be less farmland that would be percolating down the nitrates and phosphates that go into the soil from the fertilization, right?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Question on that one. It shows two lots there, right? Is that correct? that there's actually two lots in that space?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“To copper, okay, because I was just going by the picture here.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“So do you determine that with, like, a camera pig or something like that?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“THAT MEANS WEST OF SANTA THERESA THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO BEFORE IS NOT GOING TO BE DONE UNLESS WE GET THE FUNDS Correct.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“If you could hang on one second. I have one other question. You did have sidewalk repair on there, right?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“And I'm sorry if I'm confused with all the sidewalk repair stuff in general, but back in April of last year, I put in for the sidewalk repair on the southwest corner, for instance, of 1st and Monterey. And it still is an ad a issue and I don't understand how if we're paying for sidewalk repair We don't get priority in some of these areas of walkway And I appreciate us doing all the new stuff, but maybe just a quick explanation I will I will tell you this we're planning to come in January to talk sidewalk program and sidewalk prioritization and sidewalk liability issue”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'd like to pull 8.4 for further discussion and consideration.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“THE LAST MEETING WE OBVIOUSLY WENT OVER THIS QUITE A BIT WITH MATT JONES REGARDING THE EXTENT OF THE FENCING AND AT THE TIME YOU DIDN'T HAVE A MAP THAT WAS UP TO DATE AND REFLECTING WHAT WE HAD AND THEN ALSO I HAD ASKED WASN'T THERE OTHER FENCING AND DIDN'T SEEM LIKE THERE WAS AND Can you tell me how we came to get 900 more feet now of fencing in a couple of weeks? Ryan was actually the staffer for that one, so I just wanted to be clear.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Which I completely understand. And I thought, obviously, for asking the questions, that it might have been. So the next question I have is, why not have a map in our packet because that would have been easy for me not to pull this and recommend that maybe we bring it back even another time because it is a large expenditure. It's not really something that is a contingency. It's a third of the original ask. So does that seem reasonable to want to ask that?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026