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Councilmember Vazquez moved the date and said the police union has spent heavily on city elections and is trying to control the council.
▶6:53:53Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
officer i will not support you if you're a bad teacher when i was a school board member i didn't support you either and so i can go on about the school district for a long time about many things that happened at the school district level with teachers and…
Mayor and City Council, the item before you again this evening is for two procedural and ministerial actions in compliance with the California Elections Code, to accept the certificate as to the sufficiency of the recall petition, and to issue an order stating…
No, thank you for that. And I'm slightly amused tonight that on one moment we've got colleagues up here saying that we've got to bring down the temperature of the dialogue up here, then the next minute I hear terms like puppets. You know, being pro-public…
Ana more expensive to live here when she advocated for a better quality of life, protected residents, and helped our city get through a pandemic. Police want absolute control and they're not, they're willing to go through whatever efforts to make sure they get…
Councilmember Bacerra answered that being backed by the union does not decide how anyone votes, and the clerk confirmed the only discretion the council had was the date.
▶6:59:52Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
officer i will not support you if you're a bad teacher when i was a school board member i didn't support you either and so i can go on about the school district for a long time about many things that happened at the school district level with teachers and…
Mayor and City Council, the item before you again this evening is for two procedural and ministerial actions in compliance with the California Elections Code, to accept the certificate as to the sufficiency of the recall petition, and to issue an order stating…
No, thank you for that. And I'm slightly amused tonight that on one moment we've got colleagues up here saying that we've got to bring down the temperature of the dialogue up here, then the next minute I hear terms like puppets. You know, being pro-public…
Ana more expensive to live here when she advocated for a better quality of life, protected residents, and helped our city get through a pandemic. Police want absolute control and they're not, they're willing to go through whatever efforts to make sure they get…
Councilmember Phan said the election will cost over $600,000 for a seat that is up again in about a year.
▶6:57:34Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
officer i will not support you if you're a bad teacher when i was a school board member i didn't support you either and so i can go on about the school district for a long time about many things that happened at the school district level with teachers and…
Mayor and City Council, the item before you again this evening is for two procedural and ministerial actions in compliance with the California Elections Code, to accept the certificate as to the sufficiency of the recall petition, and to issue an order stating…
No, thank you for that. And I'm slightly amused tonight that on one moment we've got colleagues up here saying that we've got to bring down the temperature of the dialogue up here, then the next minute I hear terms like puppets. You know, being pro-public…
Ana more expensive to live here when she advocated for a better quality of life, protected residents, and helped our city get through a pandemic. Police want absolute control and they're not, they're willing to go through whatever efforts to make sure they get…
Sponsorship money from Congressman Correa's and Supervisor Sarmiento's offices for the Chicano Heritage Festival failed four votes to three, one short of the five an appropriation needs.
▶7:22:36Voted against, having supported the policy review instead.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted for it after her own motion, to accept the money and review the policy, was defeated.
Voted to accept the sponsorship money.
Seconded the motion to accept them.
Moved to accept the sponsorship agreements as presented.
Councilmember Phan had tried to approve it while asking staff to come back with a policy on sponsorships from elected officials and candidates, and that substitute failed three to four.
▶7:22:04Voted against, having supported the policy review instead.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted for it after her own motion, to accept the money and review the policy, was defeated.
Voted to accept the sponsorship money.
Seconded the motion to accept them.
Moved to accept the sponsorship agreements as presented.
A report on public intoxication enforcement, ordered in July, came back and drew objections from Councilmember Vazquez and Councilmember Hernandez that it is not best practice for people living on the street.
▶5:39:10Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
First thing, how are you keeping it safe? What is the response time? Why are you not coming out? And so that's what the discussion always comes down to. So I want to thank you. And I really want to make a point here, two things, because I think enough has been…
streets, because it's out of control out there. I mean, when you look, just driving up Bristol today to come to the City Hall and seeing all the folks that openly camp out out there, and they're shooting up, they're hiding. I think Councilman Peloza talked…
the strip mall behind 7-Eleven, Carlos Market, Brisas de Patzingan. I was there today because every single day there are people that are not homeless. These are men that are actually painters because they were wearing their paint-covered clothes, and they had…
Heavy-handed policing does not and has not worked. The housing simply did not disappear. As we have seen here in the city, it takes about 20 conversations with the homeless from the Quality of Life team with an unhoused individual to gain trust in order to…
Staff also reported on a citywide parking study, noting more residents had filled in the parking survey than the budget one.
▶3:23:57Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
All right. So next one, this is the time of the meeting for the City Council to receive comments from the public on agenda and non-agenda items pursuant to the Brown Act. The City Council may not enter into discussion at this time. speakers will have three…
and we bring it to Public Works instead of PD because Public Works is also working 24 hours and you know that's just part of the job and what that would mean as to cost because I know that we want to be able to enforce this but we want to be as efficient as…
more yes mayor thank you and prior to unmuting the colors on zoom i'd like to report out on the electronic comments received for this meeting we did receive 177 prior to 2 p.m today there were four on item number four the permit parking report two on item 13…
Push that button. I did. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Nabil, for the presentation and the update. You know, you hit the nail on the head. We need folks to fill out the survey. Now, the interesting thing is from the stats that you shared with me, more…
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Voted against, having supported the policy review instead.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted against accepting the sponsorships.
Voted for it after her own motion, to accept the money and review the policy, was defeated.
Voted to accept the sponsorship money.
Seconded the motion to accept them.
Moved to accept the sponsorship agreements as presented.
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…for a location with a humane care for lost, stolen, surrendered, and homeless animals, as well as a forum to review those animals available to shop when it's most convenient and take a new family member home. shelter has value and they they do have…
▶4:08:05…it all off, I hear how you all are allowing the police to harass our homeless population. This is something so harmful to our people. You are here, Ms. Mayor, to support our women, to support our Indigenous people. And as I stand here in front of…
▶4:11:25…that when you complain about those stupid condo owners, those stupid apartment owners, we're just trying to live in Santa Ana like the rest of you are. And all we're asking for is an equitable place to put our cars, not 11, one, maybe two, that's…
▶3:56:20…people of Santa Ana, it needs to focus on providing them with affordable housing and health care. Painting this as a struggle between ordinary people and criminals is reductive and frankly ridiculous when community programs benefit all…
▶4:26:14…as a person, now I want to give back to the community. And me as an artist, well, I want to do that through art shows, through exhibitions. and I would really love to use the El Salvador Park Community Center for the Chicano Park Heritage…
▶4:14:31…Moya, Jr. Abram Moya, Jr. If we can sit right next time. And I am an artist, a freelance artist. I do live in Yorba Linda, but however, I have coordinated and worked with the arts here in Santa Ana for over 30 years. I've worked with Emilio…
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