Remarks by Bruce Guyton
618 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 22 of 25
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“They need to be required to come out of the field and do what they need to do to maintain the email address. I'm not understanding. No employee not having it because they don't come, you know, when they're hired, they need to be told you need to maintain this and you be in here every 90 days if you're out in the field to make sure that this stays active. I'm not. That's our means of communications in 2026 electronically. I know we have phones and they may be, they can check it on their phone. Log into their phone and update their address. There's no excuse for that. And that's because we…”
“Regarding what we were just talking about, the email address?”
“Yes, they need to have a general place with computers.”
“We understand that. We went through the ACM to get to the manager. Thank you.”
“Okay. Any further questions or comments to HR?”
“And I have a question. You mentioned something about a policy committee. Who comprises that committee?”
“I'd like to get a list of the members. I didn't know that we had a policy committee and what their responsibility is. OK. OK. All right. Any further and if any of the other colleagues want that, just send it to all of the elected officials, please. OK. And Mayor. One more question, Mr.”
“Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Any further questions? Hearing none, we need to identify a... Can we come in? We need to identify another day to complete the one that we didn't complete tonight. We can't do it tomorrow, I don't think. We've canceled that one and we will have to probably re-advertise. and let the public know when we are going to complete this meeting.”
“That would be a legal question, I think, or a city clerk advertisement question.”
“I think the one for tomorrow was canceled. The public was notified it was canceled, if I'm not mistaken.”
“WE'RE GOING TO DO IT AS MUCH AS NECESSARY. so that we don't burn out. Wait, wait, you ask me a question. Let me finish. I think we should do it as much as necessary so we don't burn out our employees and ourselves doing something that we can do on another day. If we were facing the deadline right up back to back, I would agree to that. But when I came in, I was told that they would stay into meetings to 11, 12, sometime 1 o'clock in the morning. That's unacceptable. I'm not doing that at the chair. I'm not doing that to me.”
“And we're going to get it done in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not staying tonight.”
“Okay, my colleagues are down here saying it's a no for them. Why let them say it themselves? You all talk for yourself.”
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“No, I didn't. I didn't tell anybody. Okay, anyway. What other dates do we have?”
“And I didn't tell anybody. I just spoke for me. I told them what I was about to do. um what other days do we have the drop dead date that we have to get the budget meetings done it's going to be august 31st so anytime between now and the 31st of august we'll be fine okay so what what what are the next available days chair what are we planning on doing on wednesday at the ud meeting um do we have a budget hearing at the ud meeting um they're gonna do it josh I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT TONIGHT, BUT WAS IT ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR WEDNESDAY?”
“IS THAT THE ONE THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TONIGHT?”
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“YEAH, THE BUDGET. YEAH, THE QUESTION IS ASKED, COULD WE GO INTO THE USD BUDGET WORKSHOP”
“Okay, would you want to do that? Okay. And then if you have to. Yes, we're going to have it up to the USD meeting, but they would have to advertise tonight, though, 45. Okay.”
“Okay. The question is, was it advertised for that?”
“Well, we still have time to do it tonight and cover ourselves. UM EITHER WAY I'D RATHER BE SAFE THAN SORRY ADVERTISE IT AGAIN UM NOW ARE WE GOING TO COMPLETE THE CITY SIDE OR JUST THE USD PORTION OF THE BUDGET MR CHAIR NOW DON'T PUT TOO MUCH ON THERE FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT YES UM MY RECOMMEND MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT YOU ADVERTISE”
“Okay, I can make it. Councilwoman Miller-Anderson, there's a discussion about starting at 5.30 on Wednesday. What's your input?”
“um colleagues that there's a suggestion to do the um utility district budget hearing at 5 30 and go into the usd meeting and if we have time to finish up on the city side okay okay i'm okay with that too thank you okay all righty um closing comments acm”