Remarks by Terrence Fugazzi
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 12
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“Understood. This is super helpful. Thank you. Council Member Marks.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'm going to use four seconds to agree with him on the fair memo thing. So there you go. There's my four seconds on that. One thing I'd like to say to begin with is we started before this meeting with an economic development study session. And whether or not everybody really understands the predicament or how the city is funded, how budgets work, where the money comes from in general, uh... and and be clear i'm not even talking about amazon right now i'm talking just in general of how money comes from different places all around the city and when we zone we zone certain areas to to allow…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So some of the conversations that I what I'm hearing from what you're saying Let me let me just can I just add one thing that to make it more clear So what you're saying is almost all of them would end up there anyway, correct?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Can I ask a question on that one specifically to help you out? So if it went from 1,000 to 2,000, what would be the burden of impact on the applicant?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“You're at 1,000. So, if we doubled that to 2,000, what would be the increased burden on the applicant? Approximately.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“No, I'm asking you from 1,000 right now, okay, to 2,000. There's four times as many people on average, depending on where it is in the city. I get that. WHAT IS THE UPTICK IN COST TO THAT?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I GET THAT POINT. I'M SAYING HOW MUCH DOES A THOUSAND COST ON AVERAGE?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“THAT'S WHAT I SAID. I MEAN, MORE OR LESS. OKAY. SO THEN TAKE IT TO THE NEXT STEP THEN. EVERYBODY IN THE CITY. WHAT'S THE UP CHARGE GOING TO BE TO AN APPLICANT? to do that notification? Is it a dollar a resident? Is it five dollars a resident?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I get that. I'm asking you the question. That's why. So it's a dollar a resident. So on any, I'm trying to put this into real terms so we can understand what real terms mean. So on any uh... development that's over fifteen thousand square feet if it was supposed to go to citywide forget about the mile outside the city for a moment here it would cost sixty five thousand dollars or sixty three thousand dollars to notice everybody in the city is right Now you're in households. Okay. So that's why I'm trying to help everybody else here understand this as much as me. Okay. Because not everybody's…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. So that's what I was getting at too. Okay. So it might go from maybe $1,200 or $1,500 to $6,000 or $10,000. Right. Right. So it may be a big impact for somebody with a 15,000 square foot facility relatively, but it's certainly not going to be a big impact for somebody with a 30,000 square foot facility more or less. I mean, in my business sense, right? So if that's helpful for any of you, it's certainly helpful for me.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I do have quite a number of questions, so if you will bear with me. Can we do three-ish or four and then jump to someone else and come back to you? Sure. That is fine. Like three or four would probably get me through the first set. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Go ahead. So in terms of timeframes and whatnot, the timeframe for them to do the pipeline itself, okay, not just design the pipeline, but actually build the pipeline, has no timeframe associated with it whatsoever. Did I understand that correctly? No, that isn't correct. It does have a timeframe.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But that's not a date, right? So it is, if Amazon decided to not do phase two, they won't have to build the pipeline. They have to design the pipeline. That's in there, right? And they have to put a water tank on their site That's in there within two years, right? It's actually a little bit different, by the way, in the staff report than in 53 on that one. But there are, by the way, I'm pretty much in favor of this, but I want to kind of go through these things so we can see where the outs are that Amazon could have on this project. Am I incorrect if they abandon phase two? AND EVEN IF WE…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Understood, but that's a fraction of what the actual pipeline will cost. Very small fraction. The condition 53 says Amazon has two options to do the off-site work, right? They can either fund something for us to do it, or... you know, they can do it themselves. Obviously, we don't want them working out at the scrap plant. So we've decided to create this particular mechanism to do it. But it doesn't exactly follow kind of the way this condition works on 53. And it leaves what seems to be some sort of vague area in this. Is there anything that you or even a city attorney can can speak to in…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, that's when they get the pipeline done. Yes. They have to connect to that. That I understand. All right. I'll leave it right there for right now and then come back to me if you will.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I know I had some emails recently to the city administrator and even to the city attorney regarding EIRs and CEQA out there for this, and there was a little bit, I'll blame it on my own confusion, but I didn't exactly get it straightened out. Either one of you straighten that out for me now in terms of do we need to have that? Is it going to go through a whole new process? Is it going to ride on an existing one, et cetera?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So you're saying we don't know if it's going to require a full EIR or not?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And all the costs related to that would be within this contract?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So when you said that this was already part of the master plan, the reservoir is. Is the pipeline also part of that as well?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. And so Amazon gets to design the pipeline and it's not really going all the way to Scraw, right? It's going to another section of the pipe, right? Venture, I think it is, is where the point of connection is. Yeah. I was just saying that because I heard somebody say it's going to... Anyway, so... they get to design that pipe. We're already designing where it's gonna go because we've got a right-of-way of where it's gonna go. When it gets there at the corner of Camino Arroyo or wherever I think it's gonna stop, is it gonna go through to the other side? Is it going to be available for us…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Are there any binding pipeline contracts in the works already done already signed. How is that going to work with them or we just say hey go build this and they go kind of do it along with our advice on the plans.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So you guys kind of hash out what you're going to make them do, and they're going to say we're not going to do that, and then you guys come to some sort of an agreement, and it just kind of works out, or? Well, I mean, sorry, I'm done.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, and I get that. But I mean, there's only a page and a half on condition 53, and it says it's going to do a 12-inch pipe. So, I mean, we bind them somehow in this.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Now, to be clear for the public, as it was mentioned about sell the water from Council Member Bracco, we don't sell the water, correct? Correct. Valley Water. Valley Water sells. And do we get any portion of that money? Not that I'm aware of.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I understand the other benefits. I'm just getting the clarity. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026