Remarks by Ben Brown
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 8:13
“Excellent. And young men, if you would like to come up over here so we can all grab a picture with you.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 9:56
“Well, not disclosure, but the information items. Okay. I just wanted to add in that if you hadn't had time to go down and check out our, um, Thursday night, um, Farmers market, please, please do is like from four to like eight or eight 30, something like that. It's, it's pretty amazing. It's been, it hasn't been going for a long time. It was just reinstituted recently. I've been a couple of times and I think it's a real big community booster. So.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 11:04
“The other information, I'll let you take over and do the plug, but the wings and wheels.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 12:42
“I appreciate it. Bring your fast cars and wear your best swag.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 1:05:30
“You've got the chair right next to you. I am just beside myself that it has taken this long to come together to make a determination of what is acceptable based on things that have been said already tonight. The whole point of a JPA for for all of these communities to come together, for us to work together. Everything I've seen in this year that we've gone through is beside that. It has not been at all coming together and working together for the benefit of all. In my opinion, based on what I've seen and how I've, been party to it is there was one word that was left out and because it was…”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 1:09:24
“is why are we here tonight more than a year later going over this when collaboratively you could have said hey you know what it really doesn't need it based on a word that we really need to have in there why don't we bring it to the board and provide a solution that makes it easier for everyone to collaborate yeah and do that instead of just digging your heels in and causing what we're going over now.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 1:10:16
“And so we were trying to figure out a way to get you the deferral. But that's in your point of view, right? Yes, that is the legal opinion of counsel. Correct. So is there any reason that you couldn't have said, look, we don't agree here. Why don't we just bring it to the board and say, hey, board, We don't agree with what they're doing here. This is what they're proposing. Ultimately, it really needs to come down to what you say. Why are we so far in the process? We have not crossed that road yet.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 1:12:07
“Not the way that it's crafted. Again, as Holly had clarified, although there's three in there, the language ultimately shows that the city has the first say of how those are going.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 1:26:52
“With some concerned citizens, I feel that it would be a good idea to maybe do a workshop, community workshop, so that we can involve the community members that are very concerned about it, allow them to present information that they feel like they've gathered, allow us to collaborate back and forth to get some good education on the matter so that the concerned citizens.”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
- Play at 9:56
“Well, not disclosure, but the information items. Okay. I just wanted to add in that if you hadn't had time to go down and check out our Thursday night presentation, Farmers market, please, please do is like from four to like eight or 830 something like that. It's just pretty amazing. It's been hasn't been going for a long time. It was just reinstituted recently. I've been a couple of times and I think it's a real big community booster. So”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 11:04
“The other informational, I'll let you take over and do the plug, but the wings and wheels.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 12:43
“Bring your fast cars and wear your best swag.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 47:22
“And I'll take a motion and move to authorize the issuance of bonds.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:05:30
“OK. You've got the chair right next to you. OK. Yeah. I am just beside myself that it has taken this long to come together to make a determination of what is acceptable based on things that have been said already tonight. The whole point of a JPA for all of these communities to come together is first to work together. Everything I've seen in this year that we've gone through is beside that. It has not been at all coming together and working together for the benefit of all. In my opinion, based on what I've seen and how I've been party to it, is there was one word that was left out and because…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:09:20
“But the thing that makes me super sick, Matt.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:09:24
“is why are we here tonight more than a year later going over this when collaboratively you could have said, hey, you know what? It really doesn't need it based on a word that we really need to have in there. Why don't we bring it to the board and provide a solution that makes it easier for everyone to collaborate and do that instead of just digging your heels in and causing what we're going over now.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:10:18
“But that's in your point of view, right? Yes, that is the legal opinion of counsel. Correct. So is there any reason that you couldn't have said, look, we don't agree here. Why don't we just bring it to the board and say, hey, board, we don't agree with what they're doing here. This is what they're proposing. Ultimately, it really needs to come down to what you say. Why are we so far in the process? We have not crossed that road yet.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:11:07
“It's not just one sided. Did you want to say something?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:12:07
“Not the way that it's crafted. Again, as Holly had clarified, although there's three in there, the language ultimately shows that the city has the first say of how those are going.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:26:37
“There's been, as you are all aware, quite a lot of talk about flock camera misuse and so on and so forth. uh with some concerned citizens i feel that it would be a good idea to maybe do a workshop community workshop so that we can involve the community members that are very concerned about it allow them to present you know information that they feel like they've gathered allow us to collaborate back and forth to get some good education on the matter so that the concerned citizens.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:28:29
“Perfect I had a question, can you use this, I know that this is awesome by the way I can't tell you how many times. I couldn't find how to report, you know fix the pothole here or there, let alone the number of times that i've tried to help one of the residents do that, but a question about code enforcement. Would it be the same thing where, Hey, you know, such and such neighbors built his fence, you know, whatever, let me take some pictures. Can I, can you put that into the, say, and it'll take your right to where to report that.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 1:29:32
“Okay, cool. Yeah, because I get that one a lot too. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 1:32:58
“Well, thank you. I just want to report back that the calendar deal that Jen and her team put together for nonprofits and whoever to, sorry, to- Oh, the community calendar? Yeah, the community calendar was a hit. I think that there was a standing ovation and it was very, very well received.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 2:49:12
“For any. really good outcome. You have to have an amazing vision of what it can be or what you want it to be. And. With an analogy of getting an airplane to fly, it takes a lot of fuel to get that thing going to the point where you can then, you reach that speed that you can cruise or it lifts off and you can maintain. But that's one of the reasons that you feel like you're doing, it's like every day you're doing airport, airport, airport. Well, once you get that and you break into it, then the beauty uh the vision of what it is you know you'll be able to sit back and just kind of do a little…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 3:03:20
“PCT, or PCTPA, we, towards the end of the month, I'm sure I'll get an update on all I talked about.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026