Remarks by Alyssa Garza
151 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 7
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“I think that there's a lot of times when it appears that that's the case with Amanda, people directing it, like, would you be okay to the mayor, Amanda? But that's also because they're largely the ones who post like thoughtful and like staff answered questions on the message board. So like it just follows that we would be like exchanging with the people who engage the most. Like I don't, does that make sense? That's just my perspective.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Fine. Since we're all just doing weird math, then yeah, I guess. It's just so hard.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“You guys, oh my goodness. It's because y'all don't like each other.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And that's, that's when it took longer. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right. So, okay, I have a quick question on that note. Thank you for walking us through this. This is something I noticed when I was looking at the Axon agenda item. Once upon a time on the, like, legislature, whenever you, we were just contemplating anything in the bottom where it said history, those, like, past conversations or, like, the relevant, history that you just gave was listed, but I have like, I think, I'm in this conversation for another time, but that we used to have that and we don't anymore is my point. Um, and I tried to look up just using like keywords, um, just on the same…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, and I can send you guys screenshots of what I saw in the past, just so you could, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Um, I think there was like a discrepancy that I saw between what the resolution says and the resolution says 130,000, eight 77.19.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, yeah, and also Exhibit B, the last page of attachment, the third attachment, that also has another amount.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So basically that logic or whatever, that is how it ended up on the resolution.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“You said it was different somewhere else.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“To follow up on that, and I feel you, Lorenzo, But the 36% shares based on San Marcos' historical submissions?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Does that guarantee that 36% of the testing capacity, like we have that, or does everything get pulled into a shared pool?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Gotcha. And the 36%, is it based on the number of cases submitted or the number of individual items tested? Because, you know, some cases have multiple, right? Usually I saw those posts on the Internet.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Gotcha. Yeah, I only ask because, I mean, historically I do feel like whenever sometimes the county's operations are a little bit messy. I mean, clearly they didn't bill us for a minute. Like, I don't know. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that we were, you know, what we were contributing to, we were getting our fair share. And then you said it's the, that gives us like a better chance at a 30-day turnaround, right? Because they're going to attempt it, right? They're not going to, like, it's not guaranteed.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean I was just trying to get out like the the cost sharing of it all but I think that's you answered my question.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“You're welcome. We'll vote on this one. Oh, we're not doing push? Oh.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:08:20
“You're on mute. Just do a thumbs up or thumbs down.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, so I pulled it because our community has been continuing the broader conversation around the ecosystem of surveillance tech. Today, it's still today for the next 10 minutes. It's still today. In particular, Hayes County had a major contract with Axon, so thought on the consent agenda and I think it's important to flesh some things out through open discussion just so that we can let our neighbors know that we hear them. So I do have some questions. but I don't know if anybody else wants to add to that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so I think my first question is just like a brief history of the contract. So I remember, I think y'all have been using this technology for a while, is that correct? Like 2016?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so what was the contract in 2020? Did it change, like the evidence.com?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, gotcha, see, I went and I know we talked about Axon on 7285 and 720, and I was trying to figure out, because we, this isn't the first time that I see the evidence.com type of thing, so I was just wondering, because we've been using this cloud, have we not? Since when?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I guess, okay, because the... This item on, it was issued on 8-17-2023. It does include in the line item, where was it, I highlighted it. Yeah, evidence.com, evidence.com unlimited Axon device storage.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Gotcha, gotcha. Thank you. I was trying to, like I said, the contracts that were up, they weren't even uploaded. I went and I kind of dug through it. Didn't give like a narrative, I guess, on what the use was, so I appreciate that. I think while I was looking through these contracts, I was also asking or trying to figure out what policies guide any data retention for anything that Axon is hosting, I guess.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“That is helpful. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Where is the, that was really helpful. Thank you. I have a couple of other that are, it's more about like who has access to that data, but if anybody else has questions that they want to jump in on.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Because for that part specifically, it says unless otherwise agreed to by the parties in writing, and I don't know what, like if we did that, I didn't see.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026