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Councilmember Hernandez asked staff to come back with options that avoided so drastic a jump, and the annual increases that follow it.
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asking these questions I know the community is watching at home this is a big deal to them and so what you're saying is that because of prevailing wage and I'm not sure I agree that it would go that high but you're the expert prevent because of prevailing wage…
two units if it's a fourplex it would be built for four units that's correct okay thank you I guess my final comments to wrap this up is it's extremely unfortunate that our you know forbearers previous council did not look at this fee and and actually I sorry…
started with the public okay no no thank you for that director saba so so we've got something that's being funded through the fees that um i guess from the trash contract but you want to augment that with um with this increase that's correct and then so also i…
and that was a slippery slope i was worried about so i'm pretty sure that no one up here is using their council aids for campaign related purposes and i'm confident that they're not and i just hope that we are very careful moving forward as colleagues up here…
An addendum widening the affordable homeownership tender to allow rental projects split the council four to three.
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Described families tripling up in single houses because they cannot afford their own rental.
Wanted rentals kept and the hotel conversion area extended to the 55, with safeguards against corporate buyers evicting tenants.
Wanted the conversion area widened past the 55 to reach homelessness along First Street.
Backed his amendment, saying it was worth taking the tender back and looking again.
Moved to strip the rental component out for now, framing ownership as how residents start building generational wealth.
Councilmember Bacerra moved to take the rental component out for now, saying the purpose was to help residents build generational wealth through ownership.
▶5:14:58Described families tripling up in single houses because they cannot afford their own rental.
Wanted rentals kept and the hotel conversion area extended to the 55, with safeguards against corporate buyers evicting tenants.
Wanted the conversion area widened past the 55 to reach homelessness along First Street.
Backed his amendment, saying it was worth taking the tender back and looking again.
Moved to strip the rental component out for now, framing ownership as how residents start building generational wealth.
Councilmembers Hernandez, Lopez and Vazquez voted against, wanting the rental option kept and the hotel conversion area widened.
▶5:23:01Described families tripling up in single houses because they cannot afford their own rental.
Wanted rentals kept and the hotel conversion area extended to the 55, with safeguards against corporate buyers evicting tenants.
Wanted the conversion area widened past the 55 to reach homelessness along First Street.
Backed his amendment, saying it was worth taking the tender back and looking again.
Moved to strip the rental component out for now, framing ownership as how residents start building generational wealth.
The council approved buying eight electric Blazers from a Santa Ana dealership, which Councilmember Bacerra held up as the payoff from years of pressing staff to buy locally.
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WIDESPREAD AWARENESS OF THE RP. THIS INCLUDED PUBLICATION ON THE CITY'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE, A PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE OC REGISTER AND TARGETED EMAILS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATIONS SUCH AS THE CANDY COMMISSION, 211 OC AND THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA…
so um mr city manager on this item i just have a question for you so i was reading the information and there are some boards commissions that have never met or don't meet they don't reach a quorum and then we have some vacancies on some can we please make an…
Vasquez and I share close to Jerome Park it has been a very densely populated area for as long as it's existed many of those residents who live in the apartments have lived there 20 plus years so I think that that's a great opportunity for them furthermore I'm…
So a lot of young families cannot compete with the corporation, they cannot engage in the bidding wars that are happening when trying to buy a first home and also a lot of people for whatever reason or not we don't have to agree, the public doesn't have to…
It cleared the way for beer and wine to be sold at the Santa Ana Zoo.
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that we could tap into that's not necessarily another tax on our residents so i'm happy to see this before us i know it's been years and years in the making um i know we tried awarding uh or or pursuing this vendor at one point a couple years ago but for…
No worries. I know technology is imperfect, so we're going to bear with it. But I wanted to thank my colleague for his comments, Director Hock-Scott. I'm in line with what Penalosa shared. I think capitalizing on expanding alcohol services at the zoo is going…
Item number 38, a motion by Councilmember Penalosa, seconded by Mayor Meskwa, to approve the agreement with Bean Sprouts at the Santa Ana Zoo with the caveat of asking them to research use of Santa Ana vendors.
let's go to the business calendar at this time item number 42 is related to the nomination and appointment of an alternate representative to the southern california association of government's business meeting madam city clerk may we have some background…
Members asked whether the Youth Commission could meet remotely, and were told the Brown Act does not allow it unless the commission is reconstituted as something other than a legislative body.
▶4:55:29No named councilmember contribution could be reliably linked to this item.
The mid-year budget update passed seven votes to nothing.
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And so when Mayor Pro Tem went to law school, she didn't just say, well, I'm going to law school and everything's for free. You budget. You probably ate Top Ramen for a long time. Right? So I mean we budget. And so how are we as a city, I would ask you to come…
we have a lot of non property tax generating properties so I think that in THIS DISCUSSION WITH THE BUDGET I THINK THAT WOULD BE ALSO HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY IN THE CITY BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE OTHER…
LEAST AMOUNT OF MONEY OF GRANTS across the board in every department. I hear that other cities, Anaheim, Orange, Stanton, they show me numbers and tell me numbers. I don't know how accurate they are, but I could imagine that they are and that our city is not…
That would be correct, sir. Thank you. That helps me with clarity. I saw the two vacancies. I just wanted to ask that question so the public is aware. That's what those vacancies are. The topic of how are we going to recover from the loss of Measure X is…
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Splits in votes or reasoning
Described families tripling up in single houses because they cannot afford their own rental.
Wanted rentals kept and the hotel conversion area extended to the 55, with safeguards against corporate buyers evicting tenants.
Wanted the conversion area widened past the 55 to reach homelessness along First Street.
Backed his amendment, saying it was worth taking the tender back and looking again.
Moved to strip the rental component out for now, framing ownership as how residents start building generational wealth.
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