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Open the full recording on YouTubeTuesday, June 6, 2023
Mayor Amezcua moved to lower the specialty contract threshold to $100,000, and members added affordable housing projects built with city money and an annual report to the council.
▶3:10:56No named councilmember contribution could be reliably linked to this item.
Trades members filled the chamber, several of them describing apprenticeships that let their children stay in the city.
▶3:06:00No named councilmember contribution could be reliably linked to this item.
The 2023-24 budget had its public hearing and first reading, at $413,900,000 of general fund spending including $29,400,000 of one-off spending, with about half going to public safety.
▶5:00:54Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And I agree with you. I agree with you, but I also want to give everybody an opportunity, right? And so if you're going to ask to break it down, then we're going to be here for another three rounds of three minutes. So we already had two rounds over here, two…
and the City Clerk's Office on modernizing the city charter, and we carried out a community-focused engagement initiative to prepare an ordinance to establish the city's first police oversight commission. Some of the goals of the office for the upcoming year…
which is being developed, and we will also house a support position for the Police Oversight Commission. The City Attorney's Office is one of the departments that works on nearly every agenda item that you see every two weeks on your agenda. The office also…
So for the record then, you did not hear four votes on this council to actually dedicate officers to an area that generates a second highest sales tax in the entire city? We can check our spreadsheet. No, that's fine. If you didn't, that's fine. But I just…
Staff reported nearly 1,800 public contacts during the budget process and recurring asks on public safety, homelessness, infrastructure and parks.
▶5:01:25Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And I agree with you. I agree with you, but I also want to give everybody an opportunity, right? And so if you're going to ask to break it down, then we're going to be here for another three rounds of three minutes. So we already had two rounds over here, two…
and the City Clerk's Office on modernizing the city charter, and we carried out a community-focused engagement initiative to prepare an ordinance to establish the city's first police oversight commission. Some of the goals of the office for the upcoming year…
which is being developed, and we will also house a support position for the Police Oversight Commission. The City Attorney's Office is one of the departments that works on nearly every agenda item that you see every two weeks on your agenda. The office also…
So for the record then, you did not hear four votes on this council to actually dedicate officers to an area that generates a second highest sales tax in the entire city? We can check our spreadsheet. No, that's fine. If you didn't, that's fine. But I just…
The budget adds $75,000 for discounted neutering and a trap and return programme for feral cats, paid from the trash hauler's contribution.
▶7:41:18Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And I agree with you. I agree with you, but I also want to give everybody an opportunity, right? And so if you're going to ask to break it down, then we're going to be here for another three rounds of three minutes. So we already had two rounds over here, two…
and the City Clerk's Office on modernizing the city charter, and we carried out a community-focused engagement initiative to prepare an ordinance to establish the city's first police oversight commission. Some of the goals of the office for the upcoming year…
which is being developed, and we will also house a support position for the Police Oversight Commission. The City Attorney's Office is one of the departments that works on nearly every agenda item that you see every two weeks on your agenda. The office also…
So for the record then, you did not hear four votes on this council to actually dedicate officers to an area that generates a second highest sales tax in the entire city? We can check our spreadsheet. No, that's fine. If you didn't, that's fine. But I just…
A conditional use permit to upgrade a restaurant's alcohol licence was refused seven votes to nothing after the council called the planning commission's decision up for review.
▶4:45:11No named councilmember contribution could be reliably linked to this item.
A police oversight commission nomination passed four votes to three, Councilmember Penaloza saying the candidate had been stood up for the interview a colleague asked for.
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Pulled the item over bias, while saying the commission welcomes different views.
Seconded and said she supported all four appointments.
Nominated her and moved to appoint, saying she had been stood up for the interview.
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Splits in votes or reasoning
Pulled the item over bias, while saying the commission welcomes different views.
Seconded and said she supported all four appointments.
Nominated her and moved to appoint, saying she had been stood up for the interview.
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