I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.

The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.

I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.

If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.

It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City Council was that new streets be named after past presidents and possibly after the people that you talked about. We do not want to name existing streets because we are worried about what the cost would be to our neighbors who live on that street.

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.