Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 12
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“So Then you have to determine standards now of what's reasonable or not reasonable. And we now create like the data center objective standards for homeless encampments. And then we go in and enforce those. And that sounds to me like we're managing a homeless camp without the resources assigned to managing a homeless camp. Yeah, it sounds like that. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“First of all, to address the subcommittee issue, I definitely support the ad hoc committee's work and I definitely want to get the recommendations, but It's a committee about homelessness citywide. This is about this particular site. We had a deadline in February. We had one in May. We've seen it fail. Not really interested in waiting to see what we might come up with that might still take another six to ten months to implement and require budget we may or may not have right now. I'll also say that I don't have an issue per se with having a homeless camp. that supports people and it gives…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Can I ask you a question? So you said you don't want it to go out and disrupt the other businesses and the residents, right? The inverse of that logic would say, why don't you invite more people from the general community to come to Camp Hope because that's going to be beneficial to all the residents and the businesses because you'd be getting them out of... I don't understand where you're getting... Because there's 90%, okay, of Gilroy's homeless, or 80% even, whichever numbers you want to use, are not in Camp Hope. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear to you.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“No, I understand, but you said the reason you don't want to just abate the camp was because these particular individuals would then be spread around the rest of the community. Correct. Right? And that would be bothersome to residences and businesses, because they would no longer be congregated in Camp Hope. They would be out and about. And the inverse of that logic is to say, well then, because the vast majority of the homeless are not in Camp Hope, and they're out there possibly disturbing residents and businesses, why not invite all of them into Camp Hope and make it bigger?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And right now, we would make it better for everybody.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“SO THE ONE SPRINKLE ON TOP OF ALL OF THIS IS WE'VE OBVIOUSLY ALL HAD SOME LEGAL INFORMATION AROUND OTHER POTENTIAL COSTS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE SHOULD NOT IGNORE. AND THIS SHOULDN'T BE JUST A COST EXERCISE HERE. because we're talking about city property, we're talking about a city ordinance that we're not just ignoring, we're talking about a situation where now we are actually more and more managing a homeless camp and not allowing one to just happen to congregate on our property. And we are increasing our risk, we are increasing our liability, we are telling the residents THE HOMELESS…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So I'd like to move to direct staff to provide notice and discontinue the encampment at 6th Street and Camino Arroyo Drive, also known as Camp Hope, with the abatement completed no later than October 19th and coordinated with the service providers so that available shelter and services, if they are available, are offered to residents in advance and to return with the ad hoc committee's recommendation in October, obviously, as scheduled.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“THAT WAY WE'LL GET CLEAR AND IF IT DOESN'T PASS OR WHAT HAPPENS. I WENT TO SOMEONE ELSE.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“since we are discussing it. Go ahead. I do believe that the risks associated with this have not been adequately discussed. If this motion passes to not completely abate this camp, I will have to inform the council and the public with all of the risks that are associated around this camp.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“IN LIGHT OF ALL THE BENEFITS THAT THIS CAMP PROVIDES TO THE GENERAL COMMUNITY BY BRINGING ALL OF THESE PEOPLE TOGETHER INTO ONE PLACE, I WOULD ADD TO THIS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO SAY WE INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE CAMP TO ALLOW UP TO 100 PEOPLE, AND THEREFORE IT MAKES IT THAT MUCH EASIER FOR THE CITY TO MANAGE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF ABATING THESE ALL AROUND THE CITY.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“She just needs to have a single button, red button. Button's underneath there.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'd make one suggestion to make it a longer time period than just before one of these meetings so it doesn't feel like it's crammed, so we actually can work on a study session. That would be my recommendation, especially when there's actionable items coming back from this.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Council Member Furgati. I've got a number of questions. The original warranty was for how long on these?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
- Play at 1:46:36
“We surpassed it at some point. Yes. And they were put in at what year? I'm sorry, I already...”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
- Play at 1:46:42
“So can you go back to the map of where this is? So you show it not encompassing the south side of the trail. Is it both sides of the trail?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
- Play at 1:47:03
“Yeah, it goes all the way down to Santa Teresa, does it not?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And then it goes under the overpass and continues on the other side of the overpass as well, right?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'm sure because I reported the broken ones there probably three times myself. Probably. So those are not included in this? That's correct. How many other places do we have in the city with the same latent defects that these seem to have?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I reported three of them that were obviously been replaced and so I know it also runs all the way down whatever the street is that runs next to the levee where they start the levee over there. There's a bunch of it there as well and I'm just trying to understand this is obviously coming out of a particular fund right from the development of that area but we have all these other areas and at the same time it stands to reason to try to find out what our overall liability might be here on all of this fencing.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But we don't know how much more we have in the city elsewhere that might.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. And with the people who bid on this, I know we picked the lowest bidder, but, and I haven't researched them. I'm just looking at their names. And one of them that we chose was an asphalt company. And the one that we didn't choose that was 10% more specifically does precast concrete. So can we get some confidence that we picked the lower bid one, but should we have paid 10% more to get the company whose name seems like it's more in line with precast concrete?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And what's the warranty on the new ones?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Would it have made sense to evaluate that and include this in a larger project in order to get economies of scale or other things that would be associated with being able to do more areas or more frequented areas? Yeah. To the Mayor,”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“One last follow-up, just so I have an understanding. So all of these contractors will be using the exact same manufacturer and model components. Okay, that would have been good to know. And so it really doesn't come down to them putting them in. It comes back to the manufacturer themselves, not that. Okay, thank you. Yes, thanks.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026