Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Councilmembers Hernandez and Vazquez and Mayor Pro Tem Penaloza voted against the cut, and 55 people spoke over the following hour.
▶1:57:23Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
Thank you. Council Member Vazquez, thank you so much, Council Member Hernandez. I do have a question. In here it states, when residents cannot distinguish between local police acting in their official capacity and those same officers working for ICE on the…
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, for that last item. I wanted to propose that the city support support AB 1537 by Assemblymember Bryan because public agencies should not serve as a pipeline to a career and family separation. We know ICE is desperate to recruit…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I just want to say I support the premise of the bill, but I would ask that we support it, but be contingent upon amendments made to the bill that don't limit officers from serving in our military reserves. Because it sounds like it…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank Councilmember Ben Vasquez for his proactive leadership in making sure that this is an item that we addressed. I'm supportive of the item as it stands. I do also echo the sentiments of the community in that I would like…
The council then took up two items aimed at stopping police officers taking side jobs with federal immigration enforcement.
▶3:29:29Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
is that because we go above and beyond when we are hiring people to work as officers in our city. Secondary employment and policy alignment, the proposed legislative action will codify that the Santa Ana Police Department does not permit secondary employment…
do not need ill-trained individuals thinking that the Santa Ana Police Department is even a remote option. But what we also don't want, and through this item we want to make very clear, is that we also do not want our officers to have any secondary employment…
you know, we can pass a lot of laws, but if we don't have teeth in our laws, they are not as impactful. And so I would like for the mayor to consider when this comes back or supporting the request now, that when an ordinance does come back, that it also has…
guess the definitions of Department of Homeland Security versus immigration and customs enforcement just because I know that in the staff report that was submitted what one of the under the statistical I know up up above it says immigration custom enforcement…
The first asks the city attorney to write the existing police policy into an ordinance, and the second backs a state bill closing the same gap across California.
▶3:48:32Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
Thank you. Council Member Vazquez, thank you so much, Council Member Hernandez. I do have a question. In here it states, when residents cannot distinguish between local police acting in their official capacity and those same officers working for ICE on the…
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, for that last item. I wanted to propose that the city support support AB 1537 by Assemblymember Bryan because public agencies should not serve as a pipeline to a career and family separation. We know ICE is desperate to recruit…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I just want to say I support the premise of the bill, but I would ask that we support it, but be contingent upon amendments made to the bill that don't limit officers from serving in our military reserves. Because it sounds like it…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank Councilmember Ben Vasquez for his proactive leadership in making sure that this is an item that we addressed. I'm supportive of the item as it stands. I do also echo the sentiments of the community in that I would like…
Both were sent back to return in about ninety days, once the budget is finished.
▶3:54:42Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
Thank you. Council Member Vazquez, thank you so much, Council Member Hernandez. I do have a question. In here it states, when residents cannot distinguish between local police acting in their official capacity and those same officers working for ICE on the…
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, for that last item. I wanted to propose that the city support support AB 1537 by Assemblymember Bryan because public agencies should not serve as a pipeline to a career and family separation. We know ICE is desperate to recruit…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I just want to say I support the premise of the bill, but I would ask that we support it, but be contingent upon amendments made to the bill that don't limit officers from serving in our military reserves. Because it sounds like it…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to thank Councilmember Ben Vasquez for his proactive leadership in making sure that this is an item that we addressed. I'm supportive of the item as it stands. I do also echo the sentiments of the community in that I would like…
The council also approved the city's water supply plans for the next five years and started its budget work study.
▶3:28:53Representative transcript excerpts—not inferred positions.
of the public joining us by way of zoom or conference call who would like to make a comment for public hearing item number 21 only which is the 2025 urban water management plan and the 2025 water shortage contingency plan please dial star 9 from your phone or…
at this time we're going to going to end the public hearing and we're going to go to council member requested items that correct madam clerk yes mayor item number two is requested by myself the mayor and councilmember Becerra and let me just cover a little bit…
I'll make a motion to move the item. Second.
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Splits in votes or reasoning
Said he would rather everybody kept the three minutes they usually get.
Moved to limit speakers to one minute, saying the number of speakers would otherwise keep the council there a very long time with a budget still to get through.
Seconded the motion for one minute.
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…this item. This is very important considering the current climate. ICE is attacking and raiding our communities. They are arresting citizens and non-citizens alike. They are the reason why a lot of our small businesses are struggling. We need to…
▶2:06:53…technologies that are used to target our communities. We know that ICE will use these cameras and the data. We know that Trump will use these cameras and this data. Cameras do not prevent crime. Please stop surveilling us. End the contract.…
▶2:23:01…and start affecting our future more than it already has. As a student, I plan on attending a four-year university and POW encourages students to attend four-year universities as well. I think you guys shouldn't do budget cuts and you guys…
▶2:09:56…and City Council members. My name is Lillian, and I'm currently a student at California State University, Long Beach, where I am starting my sophomore year this fall. I understand the city's difficult budget decisions to make, but I hope like…
▶2:11:01…in your private property. You obtained an order and took out homeless people so quickly. Some of you cited public security as justification, but don't you see the illegal activity that Kingsley is doing as a problem? When your workers and…
▶2:44:54…that you have supported here from back in 2021 when there was an encampment right away. And because it was an encampment on private property right away, those people were kicked out immediately. It was unjustified. And now the only person that…
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