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Sal Quintero: “We even had a lead based program in the county that if you…”

Featuring: Sal Quintero, Former Candidate, Fresno County Board of Supervisors District 3 | California

OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO

Published October 14, 2020 | Video Starts at 10:51

We've always prioritized the cleaning up of and bringing programs into our lower income areas. And so we've done cleanups, we've done rotary repair, sidewalk repair, trimming of trees. We even had a lead based program in the county that if you own a rental home, you're eligible to have that home cleaned up. If it has lead base on it, no cost, we take care of it so you don't have to live in that home. And so that's been real helpful. (10:51–11:04)

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Asserts the existence of a county program for lead-based cleanup in rental homes.

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Sal Quintero

“We've invested a little close to $4 million into [the Kalwa area] as far as cleanup, infrastructure projects and everything.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 04:40-04:51
“Amazon is going to build a warehouse, their distribution center [in the Kalwa area].”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 05:11-05:17
“We've rebuilt some of the streets [in the Kalwa area].”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 05:31-05:34
“We even were able to talk PG and E into installing some lighting in those alleys for safety purposes.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 05:45-05:53
“We've redone all the streets and done a lot of valley cleanups [in the Mayfair area].”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 05:57-06:02
“Kalwa park was formed in the 1950s by the residents of the area because it was in the county.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 07:10-07:16
“We've, to date, come up with about $266,000 to rebuild the old swimming pool.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 07:38-07:47
“Kaiser Permanente contributed $80,000 for the renaming of the pool.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 07:52-08:01
“I was on the city council for 14 years and now four years on the county.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 10:21-10:27
“The area I represent on the county portion is west of 99 to Peach Avenue.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 13:19-13:28
“The county has gone in there and bought at least some of the Palco buildings in there.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 14:17-14:25
“Our technology computer center is out there, our social services centers out there where we bought the old Costco building there.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 14:24-14:36
“A lot of times it's money that the state gives to the local, you know, the county governments say it's social services for them to contract…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 18:50-18:58
“They're nonprofits. They make money, and it's a business to them.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 19:23-19:29
“Right now [code enforcement is] busy trying to shut down businesses.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 22:35-22:40
“If it's a rental and you're the property owner and you have it rented out, you're eligible for [the program].”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 27:17-27:24
“All the permits and everything had to be approved by the county, not the city.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 33:51-34:01
“We're currently working in partnership with the city to install a pedestrian friendly signal light at Cedar and Florence.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 34:53-35:04
“We're working hand in hand with the city on getting that signal.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 35:11-35:17
“It's a new type of signal that I said is pedestrian friendly and it's called a hawk signal.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 35:30-35:38
“I believe it's the first one in the city of Fresno.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 35:37-35:41
“There's an old industrial park at...between north and Jensen and Chestnuthen Maple.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 35:54-36:05
“JD Foods is located there.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 36:09-36:16
“There's a lot of empty properties there for new industry to come in.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 36:18-36:25
“It has a rail spur and it has freeway access.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 36:24-36:29
“That's where the other, the original Amazon is at.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 36:28-36:36
“JD Foods, we worked with them to open a new warehouse there.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 37:26-37:32
“There's still land available out there for big companies.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 38:08-38:12
“Amazon coming into Kalwa, JD Foods being there, bet Springs. They're all good paying jobs.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 38:57-38:57
“There's a industrial park that got built over on the southeast corner of Belmont and Fowler avenues.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 39:25-39:36
“There's a company there called Pana Pacific, and that's a good paying job.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 39:40-39:47
“They relocated there when I was on the city council.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 39:50-39:54
“It's a division of Panasonic.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 40:21-40:24
“I was also involved when I was on the city council when the gap located in Fresno.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 40:29-40:40
“That brought in a lot of tax revenue for the city of Fresno.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 40:40-40:44
“We've done, like I said, a lot of work in [Mayfair] with rebuilding the streets, cleaning the alleys.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 41:30-41:38
“The homeless situation [in Fresno County] is a big concern, and the numbers are getting bigger and bigger.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 43:38-43:56
“Caltrans is letting [homeless individuals] live [on freeway 180 and Peach] because they don't have anywhere else to go.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 44:48-45:03
“We may have something that we can do through the Fresno County Transportation Authority.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 46:19-46:25
“There's a lot of housing going on west of 99 in the central high school district, central unified.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 47:59-48:08
“I do believe that the city has done some, you know, increased some police patrols within the tower district south of the tower.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 48:59-49:11
“A church-based organization moved into the Lowell Jefferson district and invested in buying houses and community resources.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 49:29-49:41
“The city person in charge of the homeless program, HSP's, lives in the Lowell Jefferson neighborhood.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 49:29-49:41
“The Fresno Bee was being printed out of Sacramento.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 55:40-55:43
“The bee is planning, or has already planned to sell their building in Chinatown.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 56:29-56:35
“Newspapers will tell you that the labor costs are too high, the printing, the ink, the paper, all this kind of stuff.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 56:53-57:01
“It costs them far less to go do it on the Internet.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 57:01-57:07
“Increases funding sources for public schools, community colleges and local government services by changing tax assessment of commercial…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 59:55-1:00:09
“Increased property taxes on commercial properties worth more than 3 million, providing 6.5 million to 11.5 million in new funding to local…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:00:40-1:00:52
“When a proposition says, oh, this increases funding for schools, I'm thinking, well, why did we create the lottery that was supposed to go…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:00:56-1:01:07
“You can still turn them in because, number one, you don't have to give your name.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:04:25-1:04:30
“A code enforcement person shows up. Are you selling these? Yeah, I'm fixing them. Selling them. Okay. You got a business license and your…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:04:56-1:05:08
“If you call the council member that represents that area, if you call their office, code enforcement will move a little faster.”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:05:25-1:05:33
“The 14 years I was on the city council, I think I got the record for turning in the most properties for code enforcement. We did about…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:06:42-1:06:49
“A lot of the rentals is the person that owned the property died and they passed it on to their children as a renter, as a property, as a…”
OCTOBER 9, 2020_ DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR SAL QUINTERO | Uploaded October 14, 2020 | 1:07:19-1:07:41