Name: Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting
Uploaded: 2023-01-30T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting

“Today's town hall is going to be exclusively focused on my role in the state senate.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 02:16-02:22

“This is an official town hall. It is paid for by the taxpayers.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 02:25-02:29

“I am not a career politician. I've never had run for anything before 2018.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 03:22-03:28

“I was a law professor at UC Irvine before coming to serve in the state senate.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 03:54-03:59

“The first bill I introduced when I was elected to the California state Senate was a bill to end gun shows at Orange county fairgrounds.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 07:14-07:22

“Since taking office in December 2020, my district staff and I have held over 15. This is our 15th town hall.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 08:58-09:07

“I've been the keynote speaker at over 100 events.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:12-09:15

“I've personally participated in over a thousand meetings with local groups.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:15-09:20

“The district staff has met with thousands of other meetings.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:19-09:24

“I've presided over 40 roundtable meetings with different stakeholders.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:24-09:28

“We've organized 25 workshops to help constituents, including on issues like fraud, targeting seniors, small business resources and other…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:37-09:48

“The district staff also has been working hard to try to help constituents that need that assistance. They have resolved over 3500…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 09:49-10:04

“When I took office in 2020, Orange county, and particularly this part of Orange county, was known for being one of the deserts of taxpayer…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 10:41-10:55

“We have brought back lots of money to the district for different priorities. Over $65 million in the last two years, including over $30…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 11:00-11:11

“We were able to pass SB 87 my first year, which brought $3.1 billion to small businesses around the state who are suffering from Covid-19…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 12:12-12:36

“On the legislative side, my staff and I were able to get 17 bills signed into law by the governor.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 12:36-12:42

“We passed first in the nation laws ending gun shows on state owned property.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 13:14-13:19

“We passed first in the nation laws recognizing reproductive coercion as a form of domestic violence.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 13:14-13:32

“We passed first in the nation laws requiring that autonomous vehicles, which we will have at some point in the future, be zero emissions.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 13:14-13:32

“We passed a bill that requires that gun stores have basic surveillance so that if a gun is stolen or shoplifted or something, they have some…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 14:21-14:40

“This year, we're trying to pass a bill that would be a companion to that. That would require that gun dealers have training for their…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 14:39-14:52

“We know these offshore platforms are a ticking time bomb.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 15:35-15:39

“I did introduce a bill last year. That bill got held up in a committee because of opposition from the oil industry. But we're going to…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 15:38-15:50

“We're going to be looking to ask the major agency, CarB, California Air Resources Board, to develop a blueprint for decarbonizing medium and…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 16:46-16:58

“A bill that I am very proud of, particularly given some of the recent tragedies we've seen, would be calling on a bill that would require…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 17:10-17:28

“I was proud to be named chair of the natural Resources and Water Committee, which is critically important for dealing with a lot of the…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 18:23-18:28

“30 by 30 is the goal, to get 30% of our space, our physical space, to be protected open space by the year 2030.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 18:51-19:00

“We are looking at something around a $20 to $25 billion decline in revenues from last year could be higher if there's a recession.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 19:57-20:08

“The governor is predicting something like 18 billion, and he just introduced his budget back a little earlier this month. The legislative…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 20:08-20:23

“The governor's budget does not propose any major cuts. What he proposes instead is a reliance on what's called deferred spending, where we…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 20:26-20:45

“We have an $80 billion budget.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 21:03-21:05

“Here in California, again, we have 40 million people.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 21:06-21:10

“We are, as you probably heard, the fourth largest economy in the world.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 21:09-21:14

“The governor's budget is the first proposed budget.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 21:52-21:56

“The Senate Budget Committee, which I sit on, and the Assembly Budget committee. We will have our say.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 21:55-22:02

“The final budget will be finalized sometime in August or September.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 22:13-22:18

“We need to be thinking longer term about what the budget situation looks like.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 22:24-22:30

“One of the core things we need to do is focus on class size, quality teachers.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 22:37-22:43

“I'm not here to represent LA county. I'm here to represent Orange county.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 23:01-23:06

“It's about making sure that our base budgets are higher.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 23:15-23:18

“We know that we are on track right now to really have transformative changes in our climate and temperature.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 25:34-25:41

“The goal that has always been set by the United nations and climate scientists is that we get to zero emissions economy by the year 2045.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 26:00-26:16

“We're not on track to meet that goal as well.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 26:37-26:41

“We codified the 2045 zero emission standard last year into law.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 26:44-26:52

“The only way that we're going to get to zero emissions by 2045 is with a lot of green innovation.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 26:54-27:01

“We're actually pretty close to an economy where we might be able to have zero emissions.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 27:03-27:09

“In the evenings and early mornings when there's not sunlight in California, we face a gross imbalance in renewable supply versus demand.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 27:32-27:42

“In the late summer and September, we know that we have peak demand.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 27:43-27:48

“With the summers getting hotter, with some of the electric lines going down because of wildfires, our challenges are being exacerbated.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 28:01-28:09

“One of the big things right now that we're focused on is long duration storage.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 28:09-28:13

“We're actually working on one bill right now that I'm co-authoring. That's a vehicles to grid idea.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 28:43-28:50

“The technology [for two-way charging of electric vehicles] is already there.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 29:26-29:29

“Since I got to office in 2021, one of the things I have emphasized over and over to the governor, to my colleagues in the legislature, is…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 29:30-29:45

“We were able to get a modest tax incentive last year for green companies that are headquartered in California. I think that's a good start…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 30:46-30:55

“I've been told by people that I, whose opinion I respect it, for the first time in ever, we're actually starting to see high net worth…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 32:58-33:10

“Two thirds of our tax revenue comes from the top 1% of our wealth earners.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 33:24-33:30

“California already has a very progressive tax structure.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 33:36-33:40

“Small businesses in this state, it's a really hard deal. You need a compliance consultant, basically, to open a lemonade stand because there…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 34:45-34:59

“We've seen a massive increase in natural gas costs, and the number one driver is the war in Ukraine.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 39:07-39:23

“In Europe right now, as I understand it, their natural gas prices are seven times the price of ours.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 39:22-39:29

“Our local natural gas providers have chosen to under invest in new exploration and drilling.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 39:43-39:52

“Instead, they've taken the record profits they've made over the last few years, and they've done stock buybacks, new dividends.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 39:51-39:59

“The bipartisan Infrastructure act is a positive step towards investing in infrastructure for a renewable economy.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 40:34-40:42

“The cost of housing and homelessness are probably the number one threat to California's economic viability going forward right now.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 41:51-42:03

“High net wealth individuals are maybe for the first time, I think, ever actually leaving the state.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 42:03-42:10

“The number one reason people are leaving the state of California is the high cost of housing.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 42:18-42:23

“There’s a housing supply problem fundamentally in this state.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 42:33-42:40

“I have tried aggressively to make sure that we have more housing in the state, more housing at all levels.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 42:43-42:50

“I’m proud to have been supported 100% by the yes in my backyard or yimby movement because of my housing record.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 43:10-43:19

“Young people, young companies are increasingly looking elsewhere just because you can’t afford a million dollars.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 43:30-43:37

“The starting cost right now is about one point one, one point three million dollars to live in Orange county.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 43:43-43:48

“You can get a mansion, literally a mansion for $400,000 [in St. Louis].”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 44:04-44:05

“You can get a starter home for $125,000 [in St. Louis].”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 44:08-44:08

“We just had our first ever Orange county wide delegation meeting where we just sat down over breakfast and talked about our priorities.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 46:27-46:36

“One of those priorities was transit.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 46:35-46:38

“There’s at least consensus that we want to emphasize public transit in this county.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 46:45-46:53

“We have to make public transit usable, safe and efficient.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 47:09-47:15

“The high speed rail, and we know that was a debacle. It’s overpriced. No one’s riding it.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 47:15-47:21

“They put it in the middle of nowhere. Right? It’s right in the middle of the state and in a line that very few people will ever use.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 47:22-47:29

“We’re going to have to reroute the Caltrans, the Amtrak rail around San Clemente.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 48:11-48:17

“We know that we’re going to have to actually reroute that significantly for it to be safe.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 48:32-48:37

“The challenge of transit, of any kind of public transit is getting people to ride it.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 49:08-49:13

“Unfortunately, my experience [with public transit safety issues] was very common.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 50:05-50:08

“Minorities, women, LGBT members are very frequently targeted for harassment on public transit.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 50:13-50:21

“We have to make public transit safe.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 50:20-50:23

“I was proud to support a push by Costa Mesa last year, which is very cutting edge.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 50:52-50:59

“Right now, if you ride a bike as transportation, it's very unsafe.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 51:22-51:27

“Some e bikes go very fast.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 51:33-51:36

“There is a windfall profits, I don't know if you call it a tax or penalty, that has been proposed by the governor.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 53:14-53:23

“It's just a handful of players, five refineries in the state that are responsible for our supply.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 53:37-53:44

“We've seen huge spikes in price that were not seen around the country.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 53:43-53:49

“California's gas blend requirements mean that we have a thin market.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 53:51-53:56

“The governor's pushing [the windfall profits tax] hard.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 54:41-54:41

“That's the bill that requires that gun dealers have some kind of training for their employees.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 55:09-55:16

“Bartenders right now are required to have training to make sure they don't over serve drunk patrons or serve underage.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 55:17-55:25

“Affirmative action has not been allowed at UC's in quite a long time.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 56:04-56:09

“The Supreme Court a few years ago said, you can't use [race as a factor in admissions] anymore.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 56:17-56:21

“Affirmative action does not exist in the places people claim it exists.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 56:35-56:39

“There is a lot of empirical evidence that diversity is very, very correlated with better outcomes.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 57:10-57:25

“If you're a company and you have a diverse board, you're going to be a more profitable company.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 57:24-57:29

“If you're a college campus and you have a more diverse student body, your students will go on to do better.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 57:28-57:34

“Until about 15 years ago, the idea that the Second Amendment clearly encompassed an individual right to bear arms was seen as very…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 58:45-59:06

“When the Supreme Court decided in, I think, 2005, in the Heller decision, that the Second Amendment did encompass an individual right to…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 59:09-59:18

“The Second Amendment is not limitless.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 59:26-59:29

“The First Amendment right to free speech is not seen as limitless.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 59:40-59:44

“Three of those [Supreme Court Justices] swore under oath that they believe that Roe v. Wade was settled precedent and if confirmed, that…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:00:17-1:00:29

“The Orange Unified school board has some new elected trustees, and immediately they called an emergency meeting.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:01:45-1:01:56

“At that meeting, they noticed that they were looking to suspend or terminate their superintendent and assistant superintendent.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:01:59-1:02:08

“The superintendent and assistant superintendent had exemplary ratings.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:02:19-1:02:24

“They serve at the pleasure of the legislature.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:02:36-1:02:39

“They serve at the pleasure of the legislature. They have duties that they're supposed to follow. There are laws they're supposed to follow.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:02:36-1:04:09

“There is something called the Brown act that they are supposed to follow, which says that if you are going to meet and decide business, you…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:02:50-1:03:01

“The fact that this school board did this in one meeting right before the semester was supposed to start is, to me, very suspicious on its…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:03:32-1:03:41

“I wrote a letter to them, I think, two and a half weeks ago. I have not received a response yet, to my knowledge.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:03:40-1:03:47

“I have already talked to the attorney general, Rob Bonta, about this. I've been in communication with AG Spitzer, and we're considering our…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:03:49-1:04:00

“This decision will, even if it was totally merited, it was rushed, and it will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:04:13-1:04:22

“AB 257 was probably the most controversial vote I've taken, and I want to explain it, because I did vote yes for this bill.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:04:50-1:04:57

“It is a bill that establishes a fast food council in this state.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:04:56-1:05:02

“This bill was going to pass regardless of whether I voted for it or not.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:05:24-1:05:29

“One of those was a joint liability for fast food franchises and franchisees.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:05:39-1:05:46

“It also has like a seven year sunset. So the bill will expire, I think, in 2030.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:06:06-1:06:12

“Just the electric grid expansion that we're going to see is going to create lots, thousands, tens of thousands of high paying electrician…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:07:30-1:07:39

“If California becomes a green hub, which I think we will, if Orange county becomes a green hub, the possibilities, I think, are endless.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:08:07-1:08:16

“We can be a green Silicon Valley and we know the economy of the future is around green innovation.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:08:16-1:08:23

“We can export that technology around the world. And that, you know, is trillions of dollars in economic benefits that we could take a huge…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:08:39-1:08:48

“I voted for the bill that would have prevented net energy metering. I'm sorry, against the bill that would have ended net energy metering.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:10:48-1:10:57

“We were able to kill that bill in the Senate.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:10:57-1:11:01

“I think we're probably going to see a bill come out this year or next that will reverse what the CPUC is doing.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:11:04-1:11:10

“I will certainly support that.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:11:09-1:11:12

“Proposition one last year was on the ballot, and that enshrines abortion rights in the California constitution.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:12:03-1:12:11

“We have certainly legislated in the state abortion rights, we have not made that part of the Constitution until last year.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:13:29-1:13:37

“The main proposals we've adopted [for housing and homelessness] is provide more funding for homeless housing, either temporary or permanent.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:14:34-1:14:45

“We're talking about at most with all the proposals that we voted on the last few years, maybe 100,000 new units in California.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:14:56-1:15:02

“I visited something like eight homeless services providers in my time in the Senate.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:15:09-1:15:14

“We're providing more money for transitional housing programs.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:16:54-1:16:57

“The state is starting to look at [wraparound services for the homeless] now here in Orange County.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:17:46-1:17:49

“B Well is doing some great work. We've got to give it up for B Well, they're really cutting edge, and they're seen as cutting edge around…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:17:50-1:17:58

“We need to do more in this state to try to make it easier for housing providers, those who cater to the housing insecure and homeless, to be…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:18:04-1:18:19

“We have started looking to care courts. This is the governor's proposal last year. It's something I support.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:18:46-1:18:53

“Care courts propose to create a fair process, a humane process by which someone can be put into a housing shelter with wraparound services…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:19:09-1:19:23

“China stopped accepting our plastics.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:20:30-1:20:33

“There's a major bill passed last year by my colleague Ben Allen that I was pleased to support.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:20:34-1:20:40

“It will create new recycling facilities to recycle things like plastic here in the state.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:20:50-1:20:55

“It'll be funded through different surcharges on different providers of plastics and other recyclable goods.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:20:54-1:21:02

“This is the biggest recycling bill we've seen ever.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:21:01-1:21:06

“We are facing a shortfall. We don't yet know how big that's going to be.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:22:54-1:22:58

“For the first two years I was in office, I did not have cuts, we had surpluses.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:23:06-1:23:12

“I sat as chair and founder of the Cybersecurity select Committee in the state senate.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:25:48-1:25:54

“Probably two thirds of Americans right now have their SSNs and addresses available for purchase on the dark web.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:26:18-1:26:28

“We were not the only state that saw massive EDD type fraud as they were rolling out those stimulus checks.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:26:36-1:26:43

“Our state agencies are way behind on technology. Like way behind, like decades behind.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:27:14-1:27:20

“Most of our agencies are just operating old software, old computers, old programs.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:27:25-1:27:31

“Part of the problem actually is money. There's not money there specifically for software upgrades.”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:27:47-1:27:53

“My colleagues want to run bills that like, you know, get them headlines, and no one gets headlines for a bill that provides funding for…”

Senator Dave Min Irvine Town Hall Meeting | Uploaded January 30, 2023 | 1:27:52-1:28:01

Dave Min: “There are multiple hearings that are occurring right now…”