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Open the full recording on YouTubeTuesday, April 16, 2024
Councilmember Bacerra framed it as the county seat standing up to lead for the whole of Orange County.
▶5:13:39Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And here we have a supervisor who said, "'You know what? "'This matters.'" And we have our state and federal representatives who said, this is not okay. hey, you cannot continue to pick on the city of Santa Ana, and they've done it for years, for decades. They…
here and so we do not want that and so I really appreciate all the work and I really want to thank you because we have the community town hall town hall on Saturday and on Monday afternoon by 2 p.m. the template letters were up on our on our web page the…
Thank you. Thank you, Ken, for that presentation. I think you touched about something important, right, that this is not new work to the city. This is something that staff has been working on that, you know, precedes this council. And unfortunately, last year…
want to to thank everybody that came out today to speak in support of this resolution unfortunately this isn't anything new and this is something that we've had to do multiple times in the city we keep having to fight this battle i don't know why but but it…
Councilmember Lopez said she is not an enemy of public health or evidence-based policy, but that families are the backbone of the county.
▶5:17:22Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And here we have a supervisor who said, "'You know what? "'This matters.'" And we have our state and federal representatives who said, this is not okay. hey, you cannot continue to pick on the city of Santa Ana, and they've done it for years, for decades. They…
here and so we do not want that and so I really appreciate all the work and I really want to thank you because we have the community town hall town hall on Saturday and on Monday afternoon by 2 p.m. the template letters were up on our on our web page the…
Thank you. Thank you, Ken, for that presentation. I think you touched about something important, right, that this is not new work to the city. This is something that staff has been working on that, you know, precedes this council. And unfortunately, last year…
want to to thank everybody that came out today to speak in support of this resolution unfortunately this isn't anything new and this is something that we've had to do multiple times in the city we keep having to fight this battle i don't know why but but it…
It passed seven votes to nothing.
▶5:32:56Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And that's why I wanted to say this is that it is a historical moment and you've only been here what 12 working days you said I get that right but you knew and your staff everybody knows here what this means and so you know from the month before I was elected…
to before I think staff for all the work they've done I had to give a shout out to the family for their years and years and decades actually of advocacy for this neighborhood as well as as every other resident that has spoke up it's been years years and years…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank my colleagues. I agree with Councilman Becerra and Peñalosa. This has been a longstanding issue for residents in the Lacey and Logan neighborhood. I want to thank my colleagues who were here on the council when we…
and give our staff the opportunity to prepare the necessary policies to address these issues and limit the ability of these non-residential uses to proliferate through the Logan and Lacey neighborhoods. So with that, I'll go ahead and make a motion to adopt an…
The council also adopted a 45-day moratorium on new or expanded industrial uses in the Specific Development 84 area, which covers the Logan and Lacey neighbourhoods.
▶5:36:22Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And that's why I wanted to say this is that it is a historical moment and you've only been here what 12 working days you said I get that right but you knew and your staff everybody knows here what this means and so you know from the month before I was elected…
to before I think staff for all the work they've done I had to give a shout out to the family for their years and years and decades actually of advocacy for this neighborhood as well as as every other resident that has spoke up it's been years years and years…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank my colleagues. I agree with Councilman Becerra and Peñalosa. This has been a longstanding issue for residents in the Lacey and Logan neighborhood. I want to thank my colleagues who were here on the council when we…
and give our staff the opportunity to prepare the necessary policies to address these issues and limit the ability of these non-residential uses to proliferate through the Logan and Lacey neighborhoods. So with that, I'll go ahead and make a motion to adopt an…
Councilmember Bacerra thanked residents there by name for their vigilance in defending the neighbourhood.
▶5:42:35Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
And that's why I wanted to say this is that it is a historical moment and you've only been here what 12 working days you said I get that right but you knew and your staff everybody knows here what this means and so you know from the month before I was elected…
to before I think staff for all the work they've done I had to give a shout out to the family for their years and years and decades actually of advocacy for this neighborhood as well as as every other resident that has spoke up it's been years years and years…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank my colleagues. I agree with Councilman Becerra and Peñalosa. This has been a longstanding issue for residents in the Lacey and Logan neighborhood. I want to thank my colleagues who were here on the council when we…
and give our staff the opportunity to prepare the necessary policies to address these issues and limit the ability of these non-residential uses to proliferate through the Logan and Lacey neighborhoods. So with that, I'll go ahead and make a motion to adopt an…
Councilmember Hernandez brought an item on the Juneteenth festival and how the contract to run it was awarded.
▶6:22:02Said the council cannot legally direct who wins on the grounds being discussed.
Questioned him closely to establish nothing had been done in the dark, and argued the real test is treating every organisation on an even playing field.
Brought the item and set out his own history of funding the festival, while accepting he could not touch a contract already awarded.
Said the answer is a tender everybody has equal access to.
Members turned it into a discussion about giving every organisation equal access through the tender process, with Mayor Pro Tem Phan pressing to establish that nothing had been done in the dark.
▶6:14:22Said the council cannot legally direct who wins on the grounds being discussed.
Questioned him closely to establish nothing had been done in the dark, and argued the real test is treating every organisation on an even playing field.
Brought the item and set out his own history of funding the festival, while accepting he could not touch a contract already awarded.
Said the answer is a tender everybody has equal access to.
The ordinance prohibiting short-term rentals came back for its second reading, two weeks after the urgency version passed.
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Said the council cannot legally direct who wins on the grounds being discussed.
Questioned him closely to establish nothing had been done in the dark, and argued the real test is treating every organisation on an even playing field.
Brought the item and set out his own history of funding the festival, while accepting he could not touch a contract already awarded.
Said the answer is a tender everybody has equal access to.
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