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Open the full recording on YouTubeTuesday, August 5, 2025
The council formally responded to an Orange County Grand Jury report on long-term solutions to short-term rentals.
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»» Mayor and City Council, that concludes the public speakers that are present. We'll now begin the Zoom speakers. Speakers on Zoom, when unmuted, please announce your name and the ward and neighborhood that you reside in within the City of Santa Ana for the…
Madam City Clerk, so we're gonna pull that item because there's a question, so, and I'm sure, it sounds like Council Member Becerra might have a question. So we're just gonna pull that item, please.
Yes I have a question and just wanted to make Councilman Fan leave the room. The only question I had Mr. City Manager and the previous speaker, oh he's in the room now, Mr. Helvick brought up a good point. I just want to because of the of the ongoing questions…
I have a recuse. You have a recuse, go ahead. Yeah, so I'd like to recuse myself from item number 17, as All-American Asphalt is a client of my employer, Rattan and Tucker, so if it is pulled for question, I will leave the room, thank you.
Councilmembers who had travelled to Santa Ana's sister city of Sahuayo reported back on the visit.
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people who live in Sahuayo who have homes in Santa Ana, and everyone was just so incredibly welcoming, so friendly. Everyone offered us a lot of food and something called ponche, look it up. And, but I wanna say, in regard to the specific work that we did you…
Yes, Madam Mayor. I'll be brief with my comments. I just want to fully concur with you, Council Member Phan, and I want to thank Anna and Gaston for being fantastic representatives from our city. The relationship that's being fostered between Sahuayo and Santa…
Go ahead with the public comments please. So before calling the speakers, I'll report the summary of emails provided as of today at 2 p.m. We received a total of 10 e-comments, seven on non-agenda topics, two on item number 10, and one on item number 12. Those…
Madam City Clerk, can you hold on? I apologize. It's okay. If you guys would allow me, I'd like to go, if we can, get an approval, a vote for item six seven eight so that we can appoint commissioners and then they can go home with their families or their…
The council approved money and a shared agreement with the city of Orange to rebuild a stretch of Main Street.
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And, Councilmember, there is no debate regarding that understanding, right? So it's one of those kind of aspects. We know that we have to take maintenance approach. We know we have to have primitive measures, right? A small amount now, it's better than waiting…
Okay, thank you for that, Mr. City Manager. I guess this just reminds me of, I wanna say it was like 10 years ago, before any of us were on this council, when the blue police poles were put into 4th Street, along 4th Street, knowing that at the same time there…
So, Mr. City Manager, the only thing I would add to that is that I've shared with you my concerns. There's so many projects going on. And, for example, you know, Bristol. I won't go into detail. Bristol and Warner and so many other projects. And I know you're…
Yes, I just wanted to thank our team for doing their due diligence and being in communication with the developer. And to provide a little bit more context to the public, this isn't just slurry sealing. This is also being in compliance with state law. There are…
Councilmember Bacerra was chosen to represent the city at the League of California Cities assembly, with Penaloza and Lopez as alternates.
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City Manager and Deputy, thank you so very much because our families use our bus stops and what a great place to put up the posters and the information. but at our bus stops right so it's a great opportunity for us as a city to provide that information first…
they're not going to pull over because they're ready for those hard harder phone calls they're They're ready for what the work that we've expected them to do when we call them. They show up, but they're not going to pull over like the quality of life. They'll…
and then go on, yeah, almost a $20,000 trip to Harvard on the back of taxpayers taxpayers is completely inappropriate. So I would hope that as we move into next year's budget cycle, all of the council members up here take a close look and look at what the…
That's fantastic. That's great news. I think a lot of folks will appreciate that. Last but certainly not least, tomorrow at 4 p.m. over at Taft Elementary, there'll be an opportunity for the community to provide input on the design of the new playground over…
Everything else passed on the consent calendar, seven votes to nothing.
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City Manager and Deputy, thank you so very much because our families use our bus stops and what a great place to put up the posters and the information. but at our bus stops right so it's a great opportunity for us as a city to provide that information first…
they're not going to pull over because they're ready for those hard harder phone calls they're They're ready for what the work that we've expected them to do when we call them. They show up, but they're not going to pull over like the quality of life. They'll…
and then go on, yeah, almost a $20,000 trip to Harvard on the back of taxpayers taxpayers is completely inappropriate. So I would hope that as we move into next year's budget cycle, all of the council members up here take a close look and look at what the…
That's fantastic. That's great news. I think a lot of folks will appreciate that. Last but certainly not least, tomorrow at 4 p.m. over at Taft Elementary, there'll be an opportunity for the community to provide input on the design of the new playground over…
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