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All right, ready you ready. OK. So.
Rudy 5 minutes on the clock Rudy Ramirez,
former council member and two of
instructor and business owner as well
for many years in terms of Vista running
for the mayor seat in 2022, Rudy,
thank you so much for being with us
today and here to the first question,
two of Vista. Of course,
fantastic city countless positives,
but there's always something we
want to work on in your eyes.
What is that one big issue in Chula Vista
and how would you address it as mayor? Yeah,
well, as you said there's 1000
things going on in Chula Vista.
Not all of them are great.
We do have a lot of very
very strong things happening.
Very good things happening in Chula Vista,
but one of the the areas that I think I
want to identify as one of the big issues
is the issue of homelessness in Chula Vista.
Not just because of,
you know, the human tragedy,
but also because of the degradation
to neighborhoods and.
And the quality of life you know,
for for for people,
both in the homeless community and
and the communities that they affect,
and so and apart from that.
Of course, the resources that they take up,
you know,
they take up tremendous amount of
resources and if we don't find a better,
more effective way to deal with it,
it's going to be draining resources
from now until you know who knows
when forever and and so people on
the on the east side of Chula Vista.
Are asking for more police patrols
if we begin to get a handle on all
of those calls for service that are
going to this particular community,
we're going to be able to do more
of that same thing on some of
the proactive work that we need
to do in in law enforcement.
I mean,
one of the things that we need
most in law enforcement is to
give our officers proactive time.
That's time when they're not
just responding to to to calls,
but are able to work in the community
and do some community based policing
and those sorts of things that.
Everybody knows works just we can
never really find the the time
and the resources to do that.
So I would have to identify homelessness.
I have a plan for doing that.
I I expect to be able to hit the problem
straight on and and you know I I see it as a.
That we need to be able to work
regionally with nonprofits and other
cities to enhance the ecosystem of support,
services,
and housing so that all the burden
doesn't come to Chula Vista.
And so so I would identify
homelessness as probably
a primary issue.
We've got 224 still on the clock here.
Rudy second question.
You've spent time and effort
putting together your campaign.
You've been in office in Chula
Vista before people can Google you
find out most things about you.
But what is one thing you want
the people to visit to know
before they vote about you that
they're not going to find in
Google or on your campaign?
Well, you're right.
We've spent a tremendous amount
of time on this campaign,
almost a year now since we started,
and one of the things that people
don't know and something they're not
going to see if they go to my website.
Is it one of the most important members
of my campaign committee is right here
with me and she's let me introduce you.
This is Allie
and she is one of the most important
members of my campaign committee
and she goes provides a lot of
inspiration and help at least say
hello to everybody. OK anyways.
Seriously though, as you can tell,
I am an animal lover and when I was on
the City Council I was served from 2006
to 2014 during the Great Recession.
Anybody who remembers that remembers
what a crisis we had people
were leaving their homes,
and one of the effects of that was that
people were turning in their dogs and
animals to the animal control facility,
and we had a tremendous problem with putting
down good animals that needed to be adopted.
We were just overwhelmed,
and so I took.
I took that.
Project on and ultimately created
the right balance in our and created
a new ordinance to make our animal
control facility a no kill shelter.
I don't know how well they've
done in recent years,
but it's something that I want to
focus on if I get elected mayor again
to make sure that there were working
with some of those rescue people to
place animals and then make sure that
we are continuing to be a no-kill
center in our animal control facility.
All right, ready.
We've got 30 seconds still left.
Clock the time is yours.
What else would you like to say?
I think I think I've said it all.
I've introduced you to my
team and and it's good.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate the opportunity
to speak to your viewers.
All right. Ready 17 seconds left
you sure, yeah. Rudy Ramirez,
former Council member running for the
seat on 2022 for mayor of Chula Vista.
Rudy, thank you so much for your time.
Thank you very much.