Remarks by Andy Ryder
92 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“I agree. How we dealt with that in the past is when we got the letter of resignation, they put the date on it. So that's what started the clock in the past, just for heads up.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So in this case, they must be a city resident for at least one year once the appointment's made. Correct. So they could right now be here less than a year, but by the official appointment date, if they're here for a year, then they qualify.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We really won't know that until we see how many applications come in. Because if we have 10 applications come in, we can probably agree, have some sort of agreement of who we're going to interview at the mall. or get that done at night, but if we had 30, right, that might take a couple.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, and so what happened was, and how we typically did that is, we did it in order of when they turned in their application. And then we interviewed them all. Same questions, one at a time. It's on camera. Everything's on camera.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I brought this up. This will be my fourth time going through this. The last two times were different than the prior two times. The prior two appointments, we did go to an executive session to talk about qualifications of each candidate. We decided the next two, either it was a recommendation from Dave or I'm not sure how it worked out, to skip that process.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And that's where I think it caused some confusion because without sort of talking about qualifications and hearing from each, you know, council members where they believed, you know, the qualifications to be council, we had no idea, right, what was going to... We had no idea where a majority of what they were looking for in a candidate come out. And so then... it was just the first person to get four votes was in. It was really, it did kind of throw everything off. But we've got to be careful. I don't want to break any rules, but I would prefer that there was an executive session where we did…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, and that's how it goes, though. It's a person who gets four... First person get four.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And I do think, you know, we need to get this out and get the applications coming and cut it off as soon as possible so we know how many applications we work with We may need a day to go through the applications and make a decision point at that point. Again, I do think the conversation about an executive session or not an executive session is really important. After going through this a couple of times, I would prefer the executive session. I just think we can have some sort of agreement the expectations of the qualifications for the next person, you know, because without that, I think it…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But discussing those qualifications, missing that the last couple times, I think it caused a lot of confusion because I think it's really important that the council sort of agree on what what we expect for the qualifications of the next council member is. And if you can't really have, if you can't discuss that at all, then it just, it's a, it left a lot of ambiguity during the whole thing.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm happy to have that conversation. I think where that becomes important is how many applicants we get. Hmm? If we get through a dozen or less, I think it's a little bit different than if we have 30 applicants. I think we have time to have those discussions. Let's focus on that sort of outline right now. This is one of those things that every council meeting between here and we're going to sort check in on where we're at and going along.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So that's where I'd agree with. If we have a bunch, then let's talk about maybe doing it that way. Because I think if we interview 30 people, I mean, that is... Is it that many, or is it always around? It totally depends. You know, one year we had like nine. We've had more than that. You know, we've whittled some down before. And so it's just I have no idea until we get the applications in.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, yeah, I think the outline here is pretty good. I think adding the, I think what, there's a couple step process here. There's this process to get their basic information and their vision, you know, tells us a lot, and then there's the questions we're going to ask during the interview process. And so we don't want, you know, we don't want those to overlap. And so those are, I think the meat and potato like questions of, of, of asking them, you know, what their thoughts are on X, Y, and Z that should be held off to the interview process. And this is more of a high level. What's your,…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that's a question we could ask during the interview process, but not necessarily here.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I mean, that's the only one I have an issue with. Yeah, I think that is a question for, but this is, again, different. than someone who's gonna be selected by the people, right? This is us making the decision and what do we see? What would we like to see as a council member representing the community based on the experience that we've had so far. And one of them is, will they fit in and be a productive member and can we work together? Not that we agree with them on everything, but can we work with them? And that's not always super easy to get out of in a small sample size, right? It's really…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“That's an individual, personal deal compared to a basic, do you get qualified, high level.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah. I think that's a, for a council member, that could be important where you want to make sure. And I think this has been a pretty good value on this council all along is we've we've tried to get a wide range of backgrounds and, you know, thoughts where we can, you know, may not all agree, but we can all agree to be, work together for the benefit of our community. So diversity is not just, the diversity of, you know, of ethnicity, you know.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I didn't come up with that, by the way. I appreciate you having my back on, I do ask that question. I was like, you know, during that interview process for our boards and commissions, the question was like, okay, what voice are we missing on? I've always asked that, you know, I asked that one to you. And so that's, I'm sure that's where that's coming from. But again, I think we can whittle that down better. If that's something that we can remove that one.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I think everything, I think we can learn a lot from, you know, why they want to run. what's their vision of the community, and what do you think are the biggest, right? I mean, that's a big deal, right? I think we'll learn a lot based on what, from there, and then we'll come up with interview questions and we'll dive a little bit deeper.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We can change that. I think all of the interviews I've been doing for all these years, at the end of all the interviews, I always ask, is there anything you want to ask us?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Right. And so I think that can be maybe a question that we ask at the end of it. I mean, I think we can talk about that more in the future. I've always asked it because I've always learned a lot about that, you know. And we do it on advisory boards. On advisory, I always ask that.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“No, and I think, again, a lot of that will come to light once we see our applicant pool and know how much time, because then we're going to be able to figure out, okay, can we do this in a night? We'll take two nights. so on and so forth, you know.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:21:03
“Well, you're right. Um, we've had this discussion back and forth on this council many times on, are we looking for someone? just to fill this out and that's all we care about? Or are we looking for someone who we believe, you know, does want to run again and not just be a placeholder? And that's a discussion that I think, you know, we can, you know, it's a tough question.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“You know, and again, that's why I do think it's nice to talk about qualifications, and we can have that argument, you know, we can have that over qualifications, is this something that we think is important or not, right, you know? But we haven't had that. opportunity last two times because we just didn't have it. We went interview and right into vote. It was like,”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I was going to, but I don't know about you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yep. If they resign again, then yeah, we have 90 days to appoint someone and start all over again. But we'll have a practice run. We'll have a practice run.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026