Remarks by Adam Kwasman
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Madam Mayor, tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the horrific October 7th attacks A day that is something that the Jewish people around the world never thought we'd ever, ever be able to see again, think we'd have to ever endure again. Something that is truly... seared into the minds and the hearts of every person who loves freedom in the West and cherishes family, justice, and righteousness. Today, I am so proud to call as a person who's doing the invocation a gentleman by the name of Yaniv Rafiazadeh. And Yaniv, please come to the podium. Yaniv is a... true what…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want to just congratulate the process here. I'm somebody who was able to be in New York during the two weeks where Christo and Jean Claude did their gates, their beautiful saffron gates throughout Central Park. Parents are from Chicago, able to go and visit and see the bean quite often. understand when iconic art comes. The only question I had was where is the place for the next great, like the elephant migration that's going on and all the great traveling pieces of art that we make sure that we're on that list, that it's not just Miami, that it's not just the…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Council Member Whitehead, can you repeat the federal sharing aspect? And here's why I might offer an amendment. I don't want to be in a situation where there is a 9-11 situation or an emergency we need to share information if it's emergent and I think that the police officers can say this is not that wouldn't be an ongoing investigation that would be that would be a situation where there is an ongoing investigation will have warrants and subpoenas an emergent situation is a terrorist attack that needs to have that need that or a an imminent threat that needs to have…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I think. It's added explicitly, it's fine.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“then I would like to make an amendment to the motion that, and number seven stating explicitly that, all right, that's not number seven. to include in the proposed ordinance, policy, or both the provision prohibiting federal government access to the city's ALPR technology and data, except to the extent required by law, such as pursuant to a validly issued subpoena, warrant, or exigent circumstance, including but not limited to terrorist investigations or any other emergency investigation.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Right. Madam Mayor, can I just ask one more thing? Sure. So there is just an aspect here. I think you're seeing large-scale agreement for the principals right here among the council, but there is just a lot of... information packed into all the motions that were just made. And it looks like some people, because of open meeting law, were given information beforehand and other members haven't been able to get that information just on paper so that we could see it. Do we want to, I mean, to a point of like, I know we've been here a long time. I'm just throwing this out there. I'm spitballing…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Out of interest, do we have to go through a full debate over the final crafting of it?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“To that point, what is December 1 versus what is October 20th? Right, December 1 was to get the actual, was to get actual ordinances going. The only one for October 20th was only supposed to, was basically to get this on paper, which we all have now, which is the original, can we just take five minutes and get this on paper, but now we all have it on paper. So December 1 is still, is still what was the recommended, December 1st is still the recommended by both the police officers and the city to try to get this done right. And I think that with all due respect, we could add things to it and…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I'm so confused. Madam Mayor, can we not just do, let's do this as amended. We have it on, we have it hit, and then we just, and you have an amendment package to it, and whenever you want to put the amendment package forward, we'll just put an amendment package on this, but we have this. Why is that ridiculous? We do that all the time with...”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“But I don't even know what... You said 15 things. I don't know what you said.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I would support the ordinance as amended already with just the emergency aspect of it. And then I would gladly support a mayor's amendment package to clarify this.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Can the second name four out of the amendments?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, we could vote on this tonight. We now have it in writing. What I'm saying is that the original statement that we need to push that for a couple weeks is no longer necessary because we have this in writing now.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I thought you said you don't want the auditor doing the audit.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. I just want to get some clarity on the... amendment that talked or the the aspect that talked about different agencies having different standards than we did and so let's say you had the city of phoenix that had a different relationship with the federal government that our flock Framework has with the federal government. Does that mean because they have a different framework the federal government? Therefore we can't communicate or coordinate with Phoenix now and their flock which we would normally do right now Mayor and members of the council.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, we do it that way. Okay. Okay, so it's just a, I just want to make sure it's a smart approach as opposed to throwing babies out with bathwater.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Mayor, I wanted to move to make sure that we had a clear schedule last time.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. With discussions with the mayor's office, I would like to propose a friendly amendment because I want to make sure everybody has enough time to prepare and have it be a really well thought out conversation that's thoughtful and outcome producing. I would like to request that we amend this to have this done in 60 days, give a 60-day window to make sure that everybody's prepared.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, with all due respect, I'm really, this is such a controversial issue. I think that unanimity from this council is of paramount importance, and I think that we have a much better chance of getting a unanimous council if we adopt the amendment.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I think if we want to say no more than 90 days, that's fine. If you want to put a parameter in some way that you feel comfortable that it doesn't keep getting pushed.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Councilman Klausman, I'm sorry. Yeah, I just want to be very clear on the accusation that what I was trying to accomplish was subterfuge when I said when the whole reasoning is, first of all, the difference is 10 days, which is not going to change the the existence of our citizens in Scottsdale. We're gonna be okay for a 10-day difference. The fact of the matter is, is that the October 22nd meeting, 26, which, no, 20th meeting is going to go five hours. Five hours. And so we're going to have a three-hour discussion after a five-hour discussion, and we start at 5 o'clock at night. And the…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to suspend the rules and allow Chief LaDuke to be able to give his input on when we should have the discussion, not about what the good or the bad of Flock is, but whether or not he should.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm just going to quickly state that there's no There's no disagreement about any member of this dais that water and long-term conservation needs to be handled, of course, but let me just be the one to always remember that any type of large-scale plan like this is going to put individual residents and homeowners squarely in the crosshairs, even if they claim they're not going to do it. We've heard members on this dais say that homeowners are the number one users of water. Well, guess who's going to be regulated if they think that you are the target? It's going to be moms and dads. It's…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I live in an HOA in McCormick Ranch with some of the most beautiful and lush topography. It's one of the reasons why we live there. When a politician tells you that there's water that you need and water that you don't need in your home, run. And it's a real big problem. And I want you to know that whatever we come up with here, we're going to be voting on making sure that we protect residents and we protect homeowners and protect moms and dads. This has rationing written all over it. And if you can't read between the lines here, you're saying you got a deal when you have politicians and…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 22, 2026