Remarks by Bradley Cassel
193 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 8
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“I mean, Sierra will tell you, okay, the most I've gone, okay, and signing off on one of these is about 12 hours, okay?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Yeah. As soon as I get the proper paperwork, I'm signing off on it, okay? Yeah. Okay.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Okay, let's move on to Sheila Scanlon then.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“August 14th. Okay, so that's a month ago. We need to make sure somebody is calling this lady every two weeks. and asking her to get her act together. The worst thing that could happen at this point is this lady passes and then we're in total flux. The problem with Sheila is that we're advised by her sister that she's not of good mental health. I'm guessing it's something like an Alzheimer's or something like that. I don't know exactly. But the bottom line is that We don't have an address on Sheila. We don't have a proper – I mean, she's moved three times, and we haven't had a proper change of…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“That concludes our report. Thank you. Okay. You sure?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Okay. I just want to make sure. Brent, did you have anything to follow up with?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Okay. So next we have Foster and Foster. One second. My daughter's going to have to wait. I don't.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Yeah, well, we still have issues and things we have to deal with and she's probably very unhappy in what I just did. Go, let's see, the state annual model. Oh, wait a second. We got money. Did everybody receive the ordinance that was passed in June? did everybody receive a copy of that do we know sierra was it sent out to everybody it was yes okay it was yeah i received it okay the ordinance okay the ordinance okay that was you're going to be my replacement andrew uh right okay but anyway uh They passed an ordinance, okay, and the gist of the ordinance were that the state required, the 185…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Okay. But the $103,000 is what we will receive each year from that pension. Okay. And now they're free to do with the rest of the money what they want to do or what they're required to do by state law and city ordinance. This is a big relief.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Right. Okay. So that's on regarding state monies. That's regarding the ordinance. Okay. Please familiarize yourself with these, with these issues. Okay. These, these questions will come up in the future. Okay. And you know, and if you haven't, if it's, if you've read it, okay. at least you have the ability to come back and say, well, I know it's in there. I just need to reread it. Okay. And that's important. Okay. So that's the stuff. There's an NCPERS meeting in October. Joe, where are you, Joe? You're up there on the court. Everything shifts every time somebody leaves. But you had a…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“My suggestion to you would be to go to the general meeting. There's a bunch of breakouts over those two or three days. And when you go to an education class, they're going to lecture you. I know you don't like to be lectured. Nobody does. I know you, but you go into these meetings, you got to make sure you're there for the breakfasts and lunches. Okay. Because you go in and get you walk in, you sit down at the table. I mean, when I went a couple of years ago, I sat with people from CalSTRS with New York pension plans. Okay. These are the trillion-dollar plans, and you're sitting at the same…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Go for the whole experience. Stay. It's at the Omni, okay? But you need to go. You need to go to those breakfasts and lunches, okay?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Hopefully, you'll meet somebody that will take you to dinner, but you can still get your daily stipend, okay?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Make a profit of a hundred bucks or something. But anyway, but I mean, that would be my suggestion. You make the final decision.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“I mean, I think you'll be bored in those classes.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Well, yeah, there's several packages that compound, okay? You go to those classes, they're $900 for one group of classes, $900 for another group of classes. Then if you want, the ultimate thing would be to get certified by NC person, okay, which in my mind, okay, is if you're a police officer or a general employee, You know, it's one thing. Okay, you're a business person. A lot of this stuff is common sense. To me, it would be more important, okay, to go to the three, was it three days? Okay, of just the general business. Because if not, you're going to be there for almost five days, I think,…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“You want to go to both of them and Kate will pay for it. Okay. I don't care. Make the decision and Kate get with Sierra or who's handling that in your office, Sierra.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Janice. Okay. Get with Janice. Okay. Tell her exactly what you want to do. Okay. And I'll sign off on the checks.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“If I do, it would just be for the conference, not for the education. I don't know. I've got some things going on around here around that time. It might become an issue. I've got to really discuss that with my wife. This is family issues.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“Well, your investment is the time, okay? You know, the money, listen, the city pays for this, okay?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“If it was my money, I'd offer you a one-day stipend not to go. There, you see Alfredo?”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“And Andrew and Justin, if you want to do this, okay, it's in Fort Lauderdale. So you'd be fairly close to home if you want. Once again, My suggestion, if you want to go up for the conference, okay, and get those interactions, okay, that to me, that would be step one is that first, okay, the other education is secondary to me. But that, you know, Randy, to you, I was going to get to you, Randy, just calm down, okay? Randy, okay, the city will give you those days off, won't they, Alfredo? It's paid time off. Yeah, of course we would. Of course, it would be great. Just so you know, that's there…”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“They're required to pay for that. Randy, I will go down fighting.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“And as soon as your other members of the union find out you're getting paid time off for this, they're going to question why they're not on the board.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025
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“And Alfredo, I would strongly suggest you go to one of these, and this is the closest, and we'll pay for you to stay up at the Omni. Okay, you can bring it.”
Pension Board · Sep 12, 2025