Remarks by Andrea Sorce
244 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“All right. Thank you. Does anyone else raise their hand online?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. We're going to close public comment on the item. I am feeling a short recess would be helpful before we get into council discussion. I think we all agree we've been sitting here for about two hours. So why don't we take 10 minutes and we'll aim to come back at 935. All right, I'm going to ask everybody to make their way back. All right, we're going to go ahead and come back. And I'll just ask everybody in the audience to keep it down so we can get started again. I will gavel, thank you all. All right, we have received our staff presentation on item 9A. We have taken public comment.…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. I'm in agreement with a lot of what has been said. And I'm going to truncate what I had prepared because a lot of it has been said. I think the big thing to remember for everybody, I want us to look forward. Boy, do I wish I had a time machine. But I want us to look forward. I wish I could get that $6.4 million back. But I do want us to sit in this for a minute because this is a master class on how not to go about doing something in the public sector. Not for any of us here. Like everybody is new. This is a master class that should be taught at schools of design and public…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I want to make sure the city manager gets in. I think he has a follow-up to the question.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, I'm going to add that I was, I didn't realize that was citywide IT in there. That is just, I mean, again, that just is another example of really not thoughtful decision making going into this. I'm going to go over to Council Member Letajieu and then we'll, and then Council Member Gensler, and then we'll try to get a motion on the table.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I see, all right, I see Council Member Bergenzer and then back to the Vice Mayor. And then we've all gone once, we're about through twice, and then I think we're going to try to move to a, we'll try to move to some direction.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. I'm going to go over to the Vice Mayor. Before we do, though, I'm going to ask, I have a quick question to build off the previous two comments. What are the staffing levels that this design was intended for? Like, what are we building for here?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay, so what is that? 1.44, I can put it in my calculator.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Okay, I'm going to just, that's why I asked it. We have 86 sworn staff and we are designing a building for 200 sworn staff. If we have the funding to triple the size of our police department, we can build a palace for them. We are not going to have funding to triple the size of our police department. So can we, this is, I mean, and how many unsworn staff?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“How many unsworn staff is it designed for? 95.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So we're authorized. So again, I just, to get back to the, none of this is on you, by the way. My frustration is at the ether and our predecessors. I hope I'm not giving the impression I'm frustrated with anyone here. We are authorized for 129 police officers We currently have 84 and we spent 6.4 million dollars to design a building for 200 plus officers Yeah, I mean someone in the audience laughs that's what we should be doing at that idea so I would like Thank you vice mayor for letting me interject. I wanted to ask that question. I Would like for us to just go back to the drawing board and…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And if this came from, if this was what they said they needed, that city manager needs to have a conversation with PD about what a realistic expectation is for the next 30 years.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. Vice Mayor has a follow-up comment, and then we'll go over to Council Member Gordon.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I'll make a suggestion in a second, but I'll let the city manager get in.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I think that's really helpful because that was going to be what I said. BEFORE MY SUGGESTION, I THINK WHAT WE'RE CENTERING ON IS PROBABLY WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED WITH THE FINANCING MECHANISMS AND OPTIONS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND THEN THE REASSESSMENT, BUT WITHOUT PUTTING A TON MORE INTO DESIGN, JUST A REASSESSMENT OF WHAT THE SCOPE WAS OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DESIGNED VERSUS WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO NEED PROJECTED IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS. BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO, COUNCIL It sounds like we might be able to significantly scale back the scope of this and reduce the cost…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thanks. Do we need a motion on that, or is that good direction to come? It sounds like we're coming back with some additional information. Would it be helpful to make that motion? I can make the motion.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“WE SHOULD PUT IT IN WRITING. I WILL MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE GIVE DIRECTION TO THE CITY MANAGER TO RETURN TO COUNCIL WITH BOTH OPTIONS FOR REDUCED SCOPE THAT BETTER FIT OUR PROJECTED NEEDS OF THE DEPARTMENT GIVEN THE FEEDBACK THAT HAS BEEN EVALUATING WHAT WE NEED AND THEN ALSO COMING BACK WITH FINANCING OPTIONS AT A FEW DIFFERENT LEVELS THAT ARE COMMENSURATE WITH THE SCALE OF THE BUILDING WE'RE LOOKING AT. THAT'S THE MOTION. WHY DON'T WE VOTE ON THAT MOTION SO WE CAN MOVE ON FROM THIS ITEM.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Here is my suggestion. Thank you. Thank you. This is, by the way, just a really important, this is just an important discussion we need to get through, so I appreciate everyone. And I am going to suggest that we do items, quickly do, oh my goodness. So I have, I will say, I didn't mention this earlier in the meeting, I have some really big meetings tomorrow on behalf of the city that I don't want to be here too late for the sake of us all. I'm going to suggest that we, yeah, you're in it with me. I have C, I'm going to suggest that we take C quickly and potentially E and…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, thank you. We'll open up the public comment period on this item. This is going to be a public hearing, so we will take our presentation from staff. I will open up the public hearing. We will take public comment. We will take any very brief clarifying questions from council, factual. Then we will close the public hearing, have discussion, and vote. I will turn it over to our planning director for, hopefully, a short presentation.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Thank you very much. If there are quick, very, very quick questions, just clarifying elements of the presentation, we can take those now. Otherwise, I'll do the public hearing. Council Member Gordon.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. APOLOGIES, I'M HAVING A SNACK. WE WILL GO AHEAD AND OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SORRY, EVERYONE, IT GOT REALLY LATE, REALLY FAST. WE WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, AND DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTERS IN PERSON?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTERS ONLINE?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Going once, going twice. We will close the public hearing and we will now invite deliberation and discussion from staff or from council. We will start with Council Member Gordon.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, I'm not seeing any other comments from council, so I think we're ready for a motion on this item.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. So we're going to move on to, per the original plan, item 9E. I'll ask our clerk to announce this item.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026