Remarks by Allan Branch
83 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
- Play at 1:24:11
“I love it. And the department's gotten much better to work with than when we opened history class in 2018. It was a nightmare.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:49:45
“Tiny man. Hey, so I didn't know if I didn't bring this up. I didn't know if I was going to bring this up previously when we talked about CNG. This was a conversation I had with staff earlier. I'm going to kind of mix the two points along with this slide. We have a very complicated organization in general, in my personal opinion. And just picking on CNG, you know, none of us, I don't think it was our idea to do CNG. But, you know, I see all these cost savings of CNG and we see this slide of revenue. And if CNG is such an amazing thing and we're just the smartest people in the world, how come…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:51:36
“Yeah, I would suggest us sending a simple email letter every six months to anyone who could, every fleet, Bay District schools, just reminding them that we have this station. It's ready for them. Whenever you're making equipment purchase, consider CNG. We're happy to discuss refilling costs, all this stuff. Because if it's such a great thing for us, surely everyone else would notice that as well. All right.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 2:20:48
“Okay. So go back to the previous one. So based on the numbers, we have 23 kids in this facility. Why wouldn't they just use the playground at the rec right there?”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 2:21:06
“Why wouldn't we just use the playground or add to the playground facility? at the MLK Rec where everyone can use it all the time, even a basketball court. Why wouldn't we have, like, to me, or is there no fence? I mean, is this facility open to the public as well? No.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 2:21:49
“Okay, they can't use the playground across the street or across the parking lot?”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 2:31:06
“So I think the virtual workshop will be good. And I agree with Robbie about having it in person because this is a very personal thing to have. I agree.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 2:37:07
“That's all good information for the workshop.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 10:34
“Do you want questions at the end of each district or after each slide, or how would you like to do that?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 13:17
“Yes. Just clarification. The 752 operational expenses. I see the very bottom. I apologize. I'm on my phone. It's very tiny. It says 454 paving project. Can you jog my memory on what that paving project is?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 13:59
“Yeah, I totally agree. The numbers make sense. I would prefer if it's allowable for us to separate those line items because citizens' initial reaction to that is going to be, whoa, my goodness. So I think separating that out might give them more clarity and a little less hysteria from locals or people paying attention. I think that would be really good. Yeah. Yeah, we can break that down further.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 18:55
“No, I think that's a great question. It's almost, you know, there's a lot of along that Fifth Street corridor. There's a lot of vacant land and we could set aside. What I would want to do is go spend a whole bunch of money on something that can never happen.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 19:10
“But I think we could. There are people like John Anderson who could sketch something out for like a thousand dollars. that would add to their, their sales packet. And Robbie can maybe even add to that of like, what can we potentially give or help an agent within that area that would help them with their listings? Or maybe we shouldn't be helping them at all. I don't know. But you know, when I contacted a few of those people that didn't have aerial photos, they didn't have all these things that helped sell a property. So that's a great question.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 20:08
“Yeah, you know, part of the hard part, there's just not a lot of businesses in that area, you know, past get you a box to about... the old dollar general is there's there's just not many things and um and so uh maybe there is some hesitation on investing in the area because people don't know what should go there what should be built laundromat daycare restaurant um office spaces i don't i don't really know and maybe maybe it would be wise or prudent for the uh cira to get some sort of I don't know how we'd get it, and maybe Robbie knows. I get some data that shows here's what needs to be…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 37:23
“Yes. A couple, I think all the projects are great. I am a little worried that we haven't fully gotten the Sandy Marina back online. And we potentially might need something extra for that that we're unaware of or something beautiful for that. We also have large amounts of property in the new corridor of the CRA, including your CPAR, where the old canopies was. And I'd like to see us hold back a little bit of the money to ensure that if those opportunities come around, that we are not left without options. That's my little concern there. There was one other point I wanted to make before Josh…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 38:14
“There are situations where often the developer wants to add a public amenity, like additional waterfront access, and they say, oh, well, I want to do this, and I need you to come in with some cash for this additional thing. Not an insurmountable amount of money, 100 grand, something like that, or even looking at those pieces of property or other ones in that area and continuing to keep a vision for those and using neighborhood evolution. for those properties. I do agree about the CDBGB money in those parks. There was some other comment about St. Andrews I forgot. Oh, I remember. The…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 39:50
“Yeah. The lighting in McKenzie park has, it was a test and, um, I'd love to see, I know this is a separate district, but my point is lighting and parks changes at night. We have people now that were sitting in the swings on like first dates or they're just sitting there swinging at night, watching the, uh, Watching the lights change in the trees. And so it does help to activate a park and then kind of deter bad activities with good activities. So I would love to see that project happen. And then I was told also bonding will help us extend our CRA timeline too.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 41:14
“I would prefer waiting till November to know. Yeah.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 51:02
“Great. Hey, I had a quick question. Yes, sir. And this I'll just care about today. I had a man on Facebook ask me about tennis courts. And I sent Jonathan an email.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 51:22
“Yeah, that's okay. I've been called worse. But I didn't know if there was an appetite of looking at, you know, the rec is an amazing facility, heavily used after school. If there was a way to put in a lot of these nets for pickleball and stuff are not even attached to the ground. And would we maybe be able to use that basketball court using CRA funds and retrofit it for daytime use on weekdays for tennis and pickleball?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 52:04
“Or is there another place we could put one down somewhere?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 54:00
“What about even looking at, and just giving it to the Neighborhood Evolution folks, looking at the way to activate the, we call it Amerigas, but it's the property behind the wastewater treatment plant, saying maybe it could be a building where people are living or whatever, but maybe it's,”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 54:50
“I would wonder, too, if there's not a surface that you could put on that where you could use it. I hate to say a parking lot occasionally if you don't want to tear it up. Is there something you can lay down where it's a once every six-month parking lot for an event? I don't know.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 57:28
“It's good. It's good feedback, Commissioner Idea Crusher.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:01:52
“Yes. Um, I want to really put a pause on, uh, us paying for amphitheater. especially when we haven't gotten, we may need to come in with some money for railing or lighting or benches or sprinklers or landscaping or signage or Benches and pavilions, I think the vast majority of citizens want those spaces back before building new ideas, especially before the timing of us not getting Martin Theater off the ground. I think we should have that before we even discuss amphitheater stuff is my personal opinion. And I think the amphitheater could be – I just already discussed it with Jennifer Vigil.…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026