Remarks by Bruce Guyton
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“Next department, please. And who bright idea was to add another at the USD tonight?”
“I told y'all if it go past the certain time, I'm not.”
“Okay. Okay. I'm with that. I'm with that.”
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“Mayor Lawson and then he'll finish his presentation.”
“Thank you. Okay, just a couple of things for me. I noticed that one of my colleagues spoke about the dredging costs. So you'll be bringing that back to us?”
“With the approximate costs? Somebody's taking notes, right? And what would have to be eliminated We understand that we got to balance the budget and something may have to go if we so decide to go that way. We used to have, I noticed when I came back elected again, that a lot of the vehicles, not necessarily in public works, but maybe they are in public works too, are not owned by us, the fleet. Are they leased now?”
“And what was the rationale behind that move? Do you know?”
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“Okay. This is not my first ride at the rodeo. I've served on the NPO before. A lot of the funding cycles are not that long. Some of them are. Not all of them. Even if they were, we need to be at the table in order to eat. We're not even at the table now. We're not even applying. That's the problem. I wouldn't care if it was 15 years down the road. We need to be in that funding cycle pipe. And whenever it drops, we're going to use it. I know that we can be competitive for some of those funds. And that's various funds. We were talking about humps and striping and all that. That's all, they do…”
“Applying for something moving forward. I don't want to sit down there and I don't see my city even in the cycle trying to get anything. Yes, sir. Um, but that is something that has been disturbing me because our taxpayers face some, for some of those cycles, um, rights, care, spirited, um, has been serving on that too. And, um, you know, we represent a wonderful city that pays taxes like everyone else does. And we want to compete for some of those funds.”
“NEW SPEAKER OKAY. DID THEY HAVE TO REACH OUT TO US?”
“Thank you, Vice Chair. And I definitely agree with everything you just said. OK, are there any other questions for Public Works? Have you completed your presentation? Yes, sir. If there's no further questions, we'll call the next one up, the next Department of Human Resources as they come. Let me remind my colleagues that when it was suggested to add USD, I said at 9 o'clock, I was going to start winding it up. And we may have to move some things to another day. And it looked like we may have to move some things to another day. So as HR comes up at about 8.42, after this discussion, I want to…”
“One of the critical positions that exist in all public agencies is the risk management position. And that position gauges the type of risks that we're taking and the level of the risks. Do we have a position, one, in that capacity? And two, is it filled? And if it's not filled, when would it be filled? And that's about the fourth question. I'm going to let you answer the first three.”
“Okay. Do you think we should have more than one prospect in case one doesn't work out?”
“And I say that because I've had a couple of calls about it and they were indicating they have the insurance, but I don't know what is required. But there have been at least two people reached out to me who said they had the qualifications.”
“My last question is, is risk management an industry that has an organization locally or nationally that you can tap into for prospects?”
“What I would suggest is that we get a little more assertive. I know that we have, we up to the city, maybe, um, someone in Georgia that may be retiring and want to move to Florida. We putting the eggs all in one basket concerns me. I think that we need to have more prospects to choose from. I'm not a HR person. I'm just talking as a lay person, trying to think logically to have some options in case something doesn't come through with people you may have your eye on.”
“Yes. Vice Chair Spirit, this is Dan Mayer Lawson.”
“okay i think it was mary lawson um um the city attorney did you want to comment on this discussion that um vice chair spirited said or you just had some general comments if they're general comments i'm going there briefly i'm sorry just brief yes just briefly um from historical perspective before um miss jenkins returned to the city we did look at privatizing it dr spiritus and that uh it was determined by”
“I'm sorry not to interrupt you. All city employees don't have emails?”
“Wait, wait, wait, slow down, not to interrupt you. Is there a reason why they don't, but working out in the field doesn't mean they're not an employee and can occasionally check. I'm not understanding that.”