Remarks by Andrew Whitman
56 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“So does this policy apply to a staff member using chat GPT?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I agree with that sentiment, and there's part of me that would say AI is evil, and it's going to replace human jobs and all that kind of stuff, but it's way too powerful of a tool to ignore it, and so the trick is to use it responsibly.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:27:28
“yeah so it can be used for any public records request or for full transparency of what we're looking at here so the city has all kinds of confidential records mainly employment records but also potentially healthcare records.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then some of the AI tools Send the info to the cloud where it gets processed by AI and the cloud Our system is not doing that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:29:32
“They don't have it. And everything that's loaded into the system is a public record that anybody could get if they sent a request to the city saying, I want this record. Yes.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's the, that's the point. But then. I mean, whenever, when we get to that point, I think you have to say, you know, the conclusions have to be independently verified with, the planning department because there are so many circumstances in the law where you can read, okay, this is the law, but there's some case that says that that law doesn't apply. So a disclaimer would clearly appear. So there would need to be some type of a disclaimer that says you need to verify this. Yes.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“you haven't done the training yet but i'm looking forward yeah i've used ai a ton yeah and you know so for you know my work there's like a there's an ai for doing legal research that's been you know vetted for attorneys at that level and you pay lots of money to use it um but you know then i use chat um to sometimes just to figure out what questions it is that i need to ask all right well i would move to approve the ai policy that's the vote”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I do have a question. I think I know the answer. But, you know, just out of an abundance of caution. I'm assuming this tower is only taking on your government function communications, there isn't going to be any type of a private or, you know, commercial piggybacking on your tower.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And so I also will just... that you could have taken a much more flippant attitude about communications with us because i'm convinced from the reporting we got i did a little bit of my own reading to verify we have nothing to say about your installation of that tower it but it but it certainly is helpful to have the communication for our planning purposes so i i appreciate you uh recognizing and acknowledging that we're gonna be good at communication”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“has ideas either from a community member or from their own thought processes about how to tweak one of our tactics. or even maybe take a new direction, a similar but new direction. What's the right process for doing that? Do we have to come back with a five-person meeting or? I don't know.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So process-wise, have a conversation with you. and then you'll decide how to move forward, if at all.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I also have a question. Let's just take the bike trail agreement. My understanding is that there's kind of two components to that. One is the trail from the western boundary to Whispering Oaks.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And then there's a goal of whispering out to Soul Park.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Here's what you're in for on the long Okay, and then my understanding is on the On the Whispering Oaks to Soul Park end, we're not looking at doing Whispering Oaks out in Portland. We're looking as the most likely solution to go through Soul Park. Well, there have been excuse me, the golf course.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, so I mean, and that's part of that's kind of at the heart of my question. So as negotiations are taking place, you know, a, you know, a direction is potentially forming. then how and when does it come back to us to say potentially, well, maybe we shouldn't.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I think maybe we ought to have some There's some items that I think are going to move forward naturally. There's some items that are going to potentially have a lot of variability, and some of those maybe hear more about in your weekly reports. Not saying you do it every week, but because I'm very interested in how some of these things are going. I'm interested in knowing what the negotiation process is.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But as you explained to me, the golf course has – the massive bridge over the river, which is, no, it's great, except for you're potentially running the bike trail through golf balls.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I have a question. Well, I've got, yes. Okay. I have no understanding of what's happening with the big business incubation concept. I'm interested in that. But maybe that's an item for discussion.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And there are some cities that have done innovation programs. That's right. Ventura and so my last question on the bi-monthly town halls I'm assuming that means we're kind of have a general goal of doing about six of these a year”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I was going to comment on that one also. Sure. My recollection is that I brought this up and asked that we have a general plan element that was actually not, the concept wasn't an economic action plan, the concept was addressing the feasibility or best methods of Making oh, hi more livable for its residents in the face of a onslaught of. And and now, you know, that was my goal and I keep watching the label of the plan. Heading more and more towards it's like we're trying to figure out how to generate business, which goes in a different direction.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So thank you for that. And I'm probably just going to keep Reminding everybody that my goal is that we figure out if we can make Ojai more livable for its residents. I appreciate what you're saying. Makes sense to me. And I'll keep that in mind.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Now, I'm not saying build 10-story anything. And I'll also add that... know maybe 20 years ago the city council decided to create the bryant you know industrial air kit it was kind of the label for it and um what didn't happen after they did that or you know maybe they tried i don't know but you know there there wasn't a lot of uh emphasis put on now we have this area, let's attract the businesses that pay more than service industry rates. And so I support the idea that we figure out how to attract those businesses and those jobs.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“No one wants to hear me talk about this.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I have lots of ideas. Probably not the time to discuss those, but I think that... You mean today? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, great, great. Yeah, I did, you know... it wasn't completely lost on me that we had scheduled a joint meeting and then the school board announces you know what they're gonna do again without like you know talking to us about what we might be able to do so you're you're i'm taking from you you think they're ready for a conversation i'm almost willing to have a conversation yeah yeah so i think we again we can make more progress with a couple of people and then bring it…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“At least that could I don't think we ever dissolve the 2 plus 2.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026