Remarks by Thai Viet Phan
57 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“I do. I will be recused from this closed session item as the property owner, Caribou Industries, is a client of my employer, Rattan and Tucker. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“About the Sunday event, what time is it?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Not pulling anything, but just announcing my recusal for items 14, 15, and 21 as AAA Oil or AAA Oil, Newport Beach, Iteris, and Think Together are clients of my employer, Rattan and Tucker. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, just for the city manager, I just have some clarification question for Council Member Lopez. So I definitely support Khmer being a language added, but are we talking about all notices? I'm sorry if I'm confused.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you to everybody who came out. I do have a quick question. And my apologies, I only got this information today. So how long have the parties been discussing this issue? Yes. Can you come up, sir, please, and ask her up here at the microphone. Specifically to this project, because I'm unfortunately not concerned with others that are not in Santa Ana.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, I really wish. Can you stay close in case there's another question? Yeah, I really wish that this conversation happened before we had the public hearing, just because I think that that's always the most fruitful conversation, right? Yes. Because then we wouldn't have had a staff meeting”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right. I guess I just wanted to make clear that the city council is not required to approve this. It's purely discretionary. It is a benefit that the city and many public agencies provide to developers. And I want to make clear that this project sounds like a great project to me. I've stayed on the record many times that I will support anything that will build more housing, that will get people into housing, that will keep people in housing. So, yes, I think... we all have stated that we do support labor. I think that it's important that whatever these allegations are, they get addressed. I…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, so I would like to see a 30-day return of this project. I think that we all know this is at, I believe, 60% affordability, right, for the county. That is generally better than the vast majority of, quote, affordable housing that we've built here, right? We do have a variety, but this is also in our downtown area, which is a really great location. I mean, I've seen prices at the Rafferty. I've seen prices at, you know, Artist Village. I've seen prices at these other developments, and I think this could be a really great project, but it can only be a really great project that's realized…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Because if we can bring it back by then, and if they're still not in conversation or things are not moving along, well, then that might be a different conversation. But let's get this back. Let's get everyone at the table and let's make this happen. I think we can do that here.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“30. Or I can make a sub motion. That's fine too.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you to my colleagues for bringing this issue forward, but I, as of right now, the way it's written, I am not supportive of this item. I'd rather staff just bring this information to us with the zoning code update. And the reason for that is there's no definition, The word data center is so broad. That's like saying industrial building. Data centers exist because there are many businesses, office buildings, that need to have off-site servers that store data so they can process it faster than going to a mega data center off-site in another state. These are necessary for…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes, the quick clarification is that it is not a water bill. It is the utility bill, which includes basic service charge, water, utility user tax, refuse, sanitation, sewer, So let's be clear. It is not the Santa Ana water bill. It's a utility bill. And if there are changes, it is possible that is from other agencies and not the city of Santa Ana. Thank you. Thank you for that clarification.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Wow, it's been a really long break since our last council meeting. I kind of forgot how all this runs.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“First off, thank you so much to Parks and Rec, our staff, our city team for Chicano Heritage Festival. just so hot, but so wonderful, and Fiestas Patrias, which was just, it's always my favorite event every year because it's just so wonderful to see everybody out and be so proud to be both Latino and American. We had a lot of events this time, even though there were no council meetings, just to name a few. We officially did the ribbon cutting for Palomino Elementary, so I'm looking forward to Palomino Park. We did the graduation for Goodwill of OC's EVSE program, which is the Electric Vehicle…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I actually first would like to thank the Garden Grove Unified School District, particularly Trustee Muñeton, for bringing this item to my attention. And, you know, I think that I think maybe it was you, Council Member Hernandez, and we brought up the discussion of the et al. of Westminster, Mendes v. Westminster, and I think it's just really wonderful that in the last six years or so that I've been here, we've worked really hard to unearth and relearn and remember a lot of the history in Santa Ana that was I don't think it was forgotten, but I think it was obscured. And I…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, because I definitely agree that speeding is an issue in this city. I think that we need to slow down throughout the city. I support changing our speed limits throughout the city. Everyone's always in a rush. We hear residents or maybe businesses complaining about the bump outs on South Main Street. We hear about residents complaining about the bump outs on Hazard Street. But those bump-outs are to slow people down. It's to create an environment that is safer for pedestrians, for students, for cyclists. Those are all a part of it, and people find it inconvenient because that's what…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes. So the Metropolitan Water District, it is the largest water importer in America, serving 19 million residents in Southern California, including importing water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project. This is a massive entity. I work with public entities in many places. There are, I believe, 36 board members. and it's a lot of work. You're looking at two full days of meetings every month, a number of committees, and you're dealing with a lot of very technical water issues, infrastructure issues, and a lot of personnel matters. Given that, as well as just me realizing that I…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, I would make a sub-motion. Sub-motion, excuse me. To appoint a member of staff. It is not the first time to have a staff member appointed to this position at the Met Board. If I recall correctly, prior to Councilmember Jose Solorio, we had a staff member in Santa Ana who attended those meetings. And currently, I believe in San Diego County, the San Diego Water District, they have a GM. a general manager who's a voting member. When we're talking about MET, we're talking about billions of dollars, not tens of millions of dollars. We're talking about highly technical water issues,…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“He just got a raise. I gave him a raise and you gave him an extra raise, okay.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Oh, this is a reminder. The MET board does not, as a voting member of the MET board, you do not have any salaries or stipends or anything like that. I believe either CSER... or Armando or one of our staff members already attend the meeting because they're nerds and they like water. And they talk about things like pipe sizes. I don't know. But that is my, I guess my motion.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, I actually mentioned it during the consent calendar item, but for item number 34, out of an abundance of caution, there was a pro bono item relating to Think Together as a client for my employer, Lieutenant Tucker, so I will leave the room while this is being discussed.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026