Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 12
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“And to have it as a contingency versus, you know, what would it be, an addendum or something like that, why was it chosen to be done in that manner.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I don't have any other questions, Mayor. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Then... How might I move to bring this back with the proper, what I think is an addendum and a map so that the public knows exactly what we're getting for the extra 100,000? Is that, I don't know procedurally how we would do that.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I move to move this to a later date and also request that this be categorized not as contingency, but as an addendum and have the proper documentation.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So we haven't, just to be clear, we haven't received any other formal applications since this was put on the agenda on the 10th? That's correct. So in the staff report, the contemplated zoning proposal obviously defines the use and standards and whatnot. Is it also going to include You know looking at the current industrial designation on those parcels given the other three parcels are all commercial and that one happens to be industrial.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So could part of the standards be that even though something is zoned industrial, if you intend to have a data center there, it can't be within x feet of commercial property?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“AND THEN A PARTICULAR APPLICANT WHO MAY OR MAY NOT OWN SUCH A PIECE OF PROPERTY COULD CHOOSE TO APPLY TO LOT SPLIT AND CHANGE ZONING ON ONE PIECE OF IT OR ANOTHER? THAT'S CORRECT. THANK YOU.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“SO I JUST WANT TO SAY, I MEAN, FIRST AND FOREMOST, IN FAVOR OF A MORATORIUM AND POINT OUT THAT, AGAIN, A MORATORIUM IS NOT A BAN. And to that end, I would not support an outright ban of these types of business. I think there's standards like many different types of businesses in a city that have to be established and they have to change with the times. We have to look at what has happened and demand out of companies that they meet certain standards, but they have to be reasonable standards. And banning outright is not, in my opinion, a reasonable standard. So I think it's a good opportunity…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Great stuff on this. I think we've come a long ways. Just one question. In terms of these additional aspects to enforcement, given our last year of this particular experience, and obviously without naming any businesses or what have you, how would you see, if this was in place before, how would it have helped us through the years prior in order to, well, to have a better city in terms of tobacco and tobacco enforcement?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So maybe you can give me an example on the one that allows for immediate revocation or what have you in terms of health and safety. So if somebody were selling like they have been, let's say, packets of magic mushroom, whatever gummies or whatever they happen to be, Does that alone create that because clearly somebody could ingest, you know, an entire package of that and that's health and safety. Would that qualify or is there some other example you'd give me?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THIS TO ME IS WHEN GOVERNMENT IS WORKING. SOMETIMES IT'S PAINFUL AND I KNOW STAFF HAD SOME PAIN AROUND THIS AND THERE WERE SOME UGLIES AROUND IT AND THINGS THAT PROBABLY NOBODY REALLY WANTED TO NECESSARILY DIG INTO RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE IT DIDN'T SHOW THE BEST SIDE THAT WE COULD BE. For me, when you have an issue and then you try to legislate a quick knee-jerk reaction to whatever that thing is, and there were other reasons this came around, different ones from the mayor and different ones from Councilmember Hilton, it's better to step back, look to see what it is you're…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Did we not have CPI increase before or you're just stating that it exists?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And on some of those charts where we saw huge discrepancies is that simply because they didn't have as good a firm as we had hired and picked the wrong number? Because it's like nine times as much, for instance, for an appeal in Morgan Hill than it is here, which if it's full cost recovery, how could there be such a discrepancy?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Right. So it begs the question, did we include the right things? But evidently you're saying we did. And it just means, I guess, in some of these, especially with the fees, we just end up being more competitive. And if I'm correct, you did all that analysis, then you went back and looked at all of it. How did you choose which cities?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Before the Council Member Ramirez goes, Matt, can you also expand upon your staff report? Because you did give recommendations, did you not?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So based on the population of the homeless in Gilroy, what percentage is this?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So if there's only 40 in Morgan Hill, they really have nine? I mean, we have to go with numbers that we happen to have there. As far as the situation in the particular camp that's on city property, would our building inspector or our fire inspector, you know, go through there and feel pretty comfortable? With pallet buildings and the fire issues? I mean, I know if I had that on my property, I would probably get red-tagged or have an issue. Would that be fair?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So the situation there you said has degraded and we think there's 35. Did we actually do any counts? Have we ever done any counts?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“25 to 30 tents if you figure that most of those are single occupancy, but some of them are double occupancy gives you about about 35 individuals in the encampment But our conditioning on this the last time was really based around not growing the camp but we really don't have a an official way wouldn't you say that we've been counting to make sure that that would be the case or not the case? Correct”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, that's an interesting anecdote, I know, but there's no official count. There's no official count.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Or they abandoned it for some other reason. Maybe they didn't like their neighbor. I don't know. You were asking about numbers. Well, point in time. Yeah, go ahead, Chief.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We had individuals arrested, not in the camp, but somewhere else, is that what you're saying? In the camp. So we have had people arrested? For one arrest, yes. Okay. I think that was one of the conditions also that was up to that we wouldn't have any problems like that in the camp. The systems that we have, Chief, in place for identifying when we have incidents, do they use GPS in terms of when we have an incident to know within 20 or 50 feet where that incident happened, or do they just put in a location in those records?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And how many calls for service in that new area in the last month and a half?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Right. Got it. I'll hold my next questions after the next council member.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, so I'll follow up on that. So by that, what you mean is move everybody out, clean up the whole site back to original, and then let them move back in? Is that what that means? That's what that means. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026