Remarks by Tonia Lediju
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 6
- Play at 35:52
“How is your budget matching the dollars that I provided you?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“I understand that, and I understand we're not commingling dollars, but you're not showing me what you funded based on your prior year numbers. What did you fund last year that's part of whatever you want to fund? Whatever you're wanting to fund. And when you add the dollars from the city, how does that potentially increase the number of participants?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So I want to stop you because that's not my question. So let me go back. What was your total budget last year? You just balanced your budget, right? These dollars are only augmenting whatever your budget was. And it's what are you funding with your budget? As you just told me, we're not commingling dollars. I fully understand that. When you add whatever you want to use $100,000 of the 300K, when you add that 100K on there, what... what is the potential increase of participants removing the barrier of cost that you are expecting because now we are moving barriers and you should already know…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“For brand-new money. And the brand-new money is the city money.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 39:42
“For funding that you did not have, right? The $100,000 that you're going to use.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 39:47
“And is that only across these eight programs, nine programs, or is that across all of your programming?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Okay, so basically you're moving barriers for nine of, I don't know how many programs you have at GBRD. You're moving nine, you're moving the barriers for nine programs for affordability.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Okay, and so then how did you pick these nine programs?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Okay. And so I'd like to also know if we have children, youth, who opt to work around these nine programs, because there are some interesting programs in your portfolio, and they were wanting to do those programs. How would you work with those families, and how would you offer those to the families, those different programs? Because you've selected this based on a needs assessment that has been done probably almost two years ago. So how would you accommodate those families if they potentially said, these are not the nine core areas that I'm interested in. I want to do something else in your…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So what is your responsibility in making sure community knows that? Because you're running the programs. They're coming to you. They're looking in your booklet. So how is that going to be made known that, yes, we've picked these nine core areas. However, you know, we are committed to moving barriers to allow you and your family to have access to our programs. So how will you put that out? You're doing the advertisement. It's your responsibility to make sure that there's equity because this is what this is increasing. creating is equity and you've chosen nine and I don't have a problem that…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“And how do we reach out to our charter schools and our private schools? Not every school is, not every child is in Vallejo School District.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“And I think we can directly reach out to our charter schools and our private schools as well. So thank you for answering my questions. Yes.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So, City Manager, can you talk about the budget? Can finance talk about the budget?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So what I'm really interested in, not, what I'm most interested in is the total budget and how it's being funded. That's really what I want to know. I don't, you don't have to tell me the different categories and costs. I just really want to look at the full budget, which is $1.7 plus million dollars. I want to know that you have the CSIP grant that's giving you $831,000. You have a carryover that you believe is $100,000. And then because there's a gap of 963, and I'm just trying to fill the numbers in. and you have for 2026, 27, 238 from Connect, Protect, and you're assuming an additional…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“And that leaves us with a gap of a delta of what?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“You're waiting for the carryover, right? Correct. That's going to fill it. Correct. So that's the gap right there because we don't know the total dollar value of the carryover, correct?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“No, you've just given me the carryover for Measure P is $449,000 plus $275,000 that you're going to get for Measure P. Correct. So it's the grant that's the carryover amount that you're waiting for to determine if there's going to be dollars.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So the part that it's not going to fill is about how much. I can do the numbers if I need to do them.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“What I'm asking is you're saying you're not going to have, when we do the final carryover, right, from the grant, it's not going to fulfill the total need. There's going to still be a delta, right?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Additional measure P. Correct. Outside of the 449 that's carried over and the additional 275K, correct? Correct. So what is that delta? That's what I'm asking.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“No. So it's 1.7 whatever it is, million dollars. You have 831 coming from your SCIP grant. You have coming from your Connect and Protect grant for 26, 27, 238, 557. Yes, Peter, help me add. And then you have 275 for this year from Measure P. You have a carryover from Measure P of 449K. RIGHT AND YOU POTENTIALLY HAVE A HUNDRED K COMING OVER AS A CARRY OVER FROM CONNECT PROTECT GRANT FROM TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX IS THAT CORRECT ALL THE NUMBERS YES OKAY SO WHAT'S THE THINKING COUNCILMEMBER BERGENZER IS HELPING ME I MEAN IT'S WITH JUST THAT NUMBERS IT'S ONE POINT EIGHT NINE MILLION SO IT'S…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“So you won't have a gap. Okay. Correct. I was just trying to follow the numbers. Absolutely. To see potentially what the delta was.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“THANK YOU. SO PERHAPS WHEN WE'RE DOING THIS ANALYSIS, WHILE WE CAN BENCHMARK TO SEE WHAT OTHER CITIES DO, THEN THINK ABOUT WHAT IS A HYBRID MODEL THAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY START WITH. WOULD BE A BEGINNING POINT VERSUS NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL. SO AT LEAST HAVE A HYBRID MODEL, SUGGESTION OF WHAT CAN WE DO, WHAT'S REASONABLE FOR THE CITY TO DO AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, AND WHERE IS IT WHERE IS THIS FUNCTION? I FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT COUNCILMEMBER MATHEAS IS SAYING. WHERE IS THIS FUNCTION BEST HELD? AND IT REALLY, IF YOU LOOK ACROSS THE NATION, IT IS IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. THIS WORK IS DONE.…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026