Remarks by Benjamin Foote
114 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“I have a motion to approve. Move the recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Any questions or comments? I know I visited this a couple times. If no other questions, Chris, would you take the roll, please?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I have a motion to approve. Move the recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, no other questions. Chris, take the roll, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, I would like to mention one, thank you for answering all those questions that I sent you at such a late notice. There are a couple of answers that I think we probably need to talk about just because it's if council would like, or if council approves. So that might be something that we need to kind of focus our discussion on. One, you talked about, or I had asked about the confidentiality part of an investigation. And you said we can add language regarding the confidentiality requirement under the internal investigation. So I guess that'd be one thing. Is that something that council…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, 5.2 in the personnel policy. There was also, of course, we had talked last time about non-union employees having someone, a support person, there during disciplinary hearings. And I know we kind of went back and forth on that. And I have that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I don't think the investigation... I don't think anybody can be in there with an investigation, can they? Even union? The intent was try to make union, non-union the same.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So the intent, I believe, of the comment last time we discussed this, and this was back in June, was that non-union employees would have the same ability as a union employee to have someone there.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So that was another thing. I think counsel, we need to talk about whether that gets added in. And then there was another, go ahead.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think that was appropriate. Is that the three things we talked about?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And that would be like supervisory. I do have a question in regards to that. And that's really where does council fit into this whole process? Because as we define the city, council wasn't mentioned. So in an investigation disciplinary process, where does council fit in?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And we have that language in here already.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“council was included in an investigation that might make us legally yeah that gets that gets muddy really really fast yeah yeah but i wanted to make sure to ask the question um the only other question i had in addition to the questions um when we're looking at the supervisor consultation with hr totally understand should it be the administrator that is told instead of hr So that's a question I would have, and maybe for consideration by council as well. So this was, I was just asking, if I remember the question correctly, it says that the supervisor then, if there is disciplinary action…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And to be clear, this is when a supervisor or department head needs to implement disciplinary action on an employee. So it's not the employee coming to HR, it's a supervisor or department head coming to HR or administrator. That's why I'm asking the question is if they're needing to take disciplinary action on an employee, who's the correct person to go to? Who does council want them to go to?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm wondering if just the verbiage of going to HR under the direction of administrator”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So with that discussion, it sounds like probably the three things that we've talked about as far as adding or revising would be whether we wanna have non-union employees have a support person, if we wanna add language regarding the confidentiality requirement under the internal investigation, And if we want to have clarifying language of the appeals process being different than the grievance process.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Consensus on all this, can I? We don't have to vote on them all, do we? You could do each one by consensus. By consensus? Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. So with that item that Congress member Galloway brought up the suspension definition, adding that term, the reference, is there anyone that disagrees with that? Okay. So by consensus, we'll add that. We'll move to the language about regarding confidentiality requirement under internal investigation is that language that we want to add. I'm fine with that. Okay. I guess what I would ask, is there anyone that disagrees with adding that?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So is there anyone that disagrees with adding that language to the policy? So with that, we'll add that per consensus. We're going to go to clarifying the city.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So is there anyone in disagreement as far as further defining what the city means with those terms? Okay, with no disagreement, we'll add that per consensus. I'm gonna move to the separation or clarification between the appeals process and the grievance process and that just states if council approves, I can add clarifying language so it is explicit that the appeals process applies only to discipline and does not replace or eliminate the existing grievance procedure. So is there anyone in disagreement with adding that clarifying language? Hearing none, then we'll add that. And then the final…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm assuming we would have something for them to sign.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And it could be the union representative as well on the other side of things.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026