
Said nobody had made personal attacks and that the council had previously gone against the advice of its own attorney and manager on serious questions.
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Councilmember Hernandez, who nominated her, said the commission needs members willing to be critical and that he feared she was being rejected for her opinions.
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Said nobody had made personal attacks and that the council had previously gone against the advice of its own attorney and manager on serious questions.

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Seconded the nomination.

Nominated her and argued the commission needs members willing to be critical, saying he feared she was being rejected for her opinions.
Mayor Amezcua replied that the exchange had turned into finger-pointing and recalled other occasions when the council went against staff advice.
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Said nobody had made personal attacks and that the council had previously gone against the advice of its own attorney and manager on serious questions.

None

None

Seconded the nomination.

Nominated her and argued the commission needs members willing to be critical, saying he feared she was being rejected for her opinions.
Several residents asked the council not to oppose an air quality rule, and one item on the agenda proposed exactly that.
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Thank you. So I know Mayor, Council Member Fanon, I'm just gonna say something really quick. So thank you for the study, Mr. Hercie. I really appreciate it. And I know you, I believe you met with each council member and shared with everybody and with myself.…

or I think the little parking station, the little pay stations can be a little annoying because you have to walk around looking for them, but I'll leave it to staff to figure out the best way to handle that. We should be digital, yes, exactly. QR codes…

area that are around the downtown area. I was at Art Walk and I was really upset because I saw a car being towed right and part of that is because so many people come into our city during Art Walk and so when this is the experience that people from outside the…

traffic area. So we obviously need to pay attention to make sure it's clean and attractive, That's a minimum mandatory from our perspective, but I just want to clarify that that any Revenue from our parking is shared citywide also right in other words for…
The council held a work study on the parking fund that pays for downtown parking structures.
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superintendent who already makes over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year let's talk about comparing his income to the families that live in our city they have lawyers many many many lawyers as they need them they need them because of all the…

I am supportive of a parking meter fund committee. I saw that we had one of our businesses mention that today. I think that would be great for the downtown businesses and stakeholders to have a seat at the table. And in terms of the hours of operation, the…

key though right because again we'll provide the contract for example for the parking enforcement right and there is no easy way to make parking enforcement fun right that's that's what they we hired them and so the idea is to we want to cancel the contract…

parking meters, but I like to first take a look at why those parking meters were added in the first place, because I know there's a lot of businesses and schools and office buildings in the area, and I could, I wasn't here, but I could imagine that way back…
Everything else passed on the consent calendar, with one recorded no vote and two recusals.
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The vote is seven ayes, no nays with a noted nay vote on item number 10 by Councilmember Hernandez and recusals by Councilmember Fan on items 13 and a portion of item 14. Motion carries. Thank you.
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Said nobody had made personal attacks and that the council had previously gone against the advice of its own attorney and manager on serious questions.
Seconded the nomination.
Nominated her and argued the commission needs members willing to be critical, saying he feared she was being rejected for her opinions.
19 items in agenda order
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