Remarks by Bakari F. Burns
7 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“All right. Thank you, Mayor. And if you're so inclined, please bow your heads and join me in a word of prayer. Gracious God, we come before you this day with humble and grateful hearts. We pause first to remember 25 years ago on a clear September morning, our nation was struck by tragedy and thousands of lives were taken from families who still carry that loss today. We ask your continued comfort for those families and we ask that the memory of the fallen never fade from our country's conscience and that we never forget. We lift up those who ran toward the danger that day, the firefighters,…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. Thank you, Mary. And good afternoon, fellow commissioners and everyone in attendance. First, I'd like to say thank you to OPD and OFD for the excellent manner in which you all held the 9-11 remembrance ceremonies. But also thank you for what you do to keep us safe right here in our great city day in and day out. Also, this past weekend, I joined the Carver Shores Neighborhood Association and Neighborhood Watch for their prayer breakfast and national night kickoff at Poppy Park. It was a wonderful morning of prayer, fellowship, conversations as residents came together to pray for…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“UH YES THANK YOU MAYOR UH AS YOU'RE AWARE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS I'VE SERVED AS THE PRESIDENT CEO OF THE HEALTHCARE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS I HAVE FILED FORM 8B MEMORANDUM OF VOTING CONFLICT WITH THE CITY CLERK AND WILL BE ABSTANDING FROM VOTING ON THIS ITEM THE ARRANGEMENT TO SUPPORT AND FUND OUTREACH PROGRAMS TO ASSIST PERSONS IN REGAINING SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND MINIMIZING THE IMPACTS OF HOMELESSNESS ON RESIDENTS”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. Thank you mayor and thank you for that presentation and kudos to our to the team because this is a very dynamic budget process. So so thank you all for that. I did have a question there was a mention of costs associated with overtime. I think about 18.3 million. Do we know what departments or areas are really driving that overtime. And the reason why I ask that, because we have reduction in personnel, but I'm interested to see what will that further reduction increase more of the overtime.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Yeah, because I think that's something we have we have to look at because we do show you know a reduction increases in some areas, but if in on the back and we're now paying you know how overtime we may have to kind of just that thinking so thank you for that.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I wasn't saying that we shouldn't have it. I was just... Wanting us to really look at the impact of having not having been fully staffed and the impact on because I know we have to have you know the overtime, but I wanted to make sure that we're not not filling positions within is driving a higher overtime than would have been budgeted if we had we were staffed correctly.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“But also, I think that's an impact reflective of the growth of the city. you know so it's so it's not like you know because that military has stayed the same but think those increases are really driven by how will the city is doing so. We want to show that we're doing well, but also I agree we want to make sure that people recognize that that increases not because we've raised taxes.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026