Remarks by Bryan Bain
86 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“So if I live in the city of Mineola, unincorporated Mineola, unincorporated Claremont, if I live anywhere other than the city of Claremont – And I come and I say, I want to launch my boat, but I'm taking my trailer and taking my car over to my buddy's house, and I'm going to go park there. Can I do that for free? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay, so we're talking about parking.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Should we just do nothing? Robert's Rules does not require us to take action. We can just let it go to the next item. That is correct.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. I don't know that there's been an item discussed more in the last, and put a number to it, years in Claremont. If we leave here tonight without making a decision, at least on location, I personally believe that would be an absolute travesty. I do think that there's more information we need to inform the specifics of a structure at a location that we can get once we've made the determination of the location. So we pick A or B, And then we get the information that we need for A or B. And here's that stuff. And then we determine what I would recommend is a design build, RF, fill in…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Are you talking about on the right side up there?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“No, I was asking for some clarification on was it just for land or what the next steps were.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. It is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Kudos to everyone involved in the Sips and Salsa event this past weekend, especially those who helped organize it, set it up, tear it down, and work to keep us safe and clean during it. I also want to congratulate Officer Mencarelli and Lieutenant Ness from our PD and FD for being recognized at the annual First Responders Breakfast and Event. that was last Friday. Proud to be a sponsor of that event again this year. Next Tuesday is a fifth Tuesday, and that means I'm hosting a fifth Tuesday forum at 6 PM on the 29th. This time it's going to…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. You said end of this week? Yeah. When will that come back before us for presentation, workshop?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sure, yeah. I would expect that you would have a chance to review everything, but I'm just curious what the schedule is moving forward. Good afternoon, council.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And will that be through a workshop, or will that just be an item on the agenda? What's the plan moving forward with that? Because I know we had them here, I think, previously, but they didn't give us any specifics about the actual rates for post-2027, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“When you say look at that, you mean changing rates? Yes. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It does. So I guess then for further clarification, if we vote, if the vote ends up being in favor of the fee schedule, it implements the fee schedule, all of the ones that are in here. Yes. If we vote, if the vote ends up being no, none of these fees are implemented in at a new rate. So the continued rates, so like what it costs to rent a pavilion or, you know, all that, because that's all included in here. What happens to all those other things if we don't approve this fee schedule?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. So even if this resolution failed, unless there's specific action through a different resolution or vehicle, the rates would still go into effect as presented in the fee schedule.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. I think those are, my only other question to the city manager in final is, with these fees, I think it's important to understand the perspective of staff and particularly all of these other fees that are included in here. I mean, we've got, gosh, 20 some pages of different things. Are these all fees reasonable, adequate, and where they need to be from a staff perspective to operate the city and cover the costs?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Those are my own questions. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I agree that this fee schedule isn't the appropriate venue or vehicle to actually address the rate per what the city attorney has indicated. I guess I would want to know from staff if we do make a motion to table this because the budget is built as such that these are going to go into place at day one of fiscal year 27, what does that mean for us financially? Because again, whether this gets tabled, and please city attorney correct me if I'm wrong, I ask the question if we vote yes, they're implemented. If we vote no, I'm talking utility. If we vote no, they're implemented. If we table, I'm…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. And so I feel like my recommendation, we approve the fee schedule and then we address the rates. We address the rates, whether it's in the current fiscal year through that appropriate vehicle or not. And I read this as this is through fiscal year 26, 27. So they end at the end of this next fiscal year. The fee schedule is no longer going to be in place after this budget that we're putting in place at the end of this month for fiscal year 27. So we have the ability then to really address the fees moving forward. I don't think we should be putting the city in a position for bonding and…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Is the four and a half percent, is that a, if I can ask Council Member Myers, I think you were the first one to bring it up. Is that based off of what a merit increase that we've given all staff or is that a number that you came up? I'm just curious how you came up with that number because I was going to ask the question about what we did for staff and department heads.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The directors for their staff? To go up as high as five.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then I agree with Council Member Strange, her comment about the project management. You know, I think there's a couple different things that we talked about trying to accomplish in this process, which was potentially doing an evaluation for a merit increase. And then also, do we want to set goals for Some sort of specific goals for the next calendar year so that moving forward when we do this, the city manager can actually report back. Here's how I accomplished what you asked me to do. And here's also what I accomplished on top of that. So that going into the evaluation process, we…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. And I mean, I think they're all good ideas because they came from us and we have a real, well, but I mean, okay, that sounded, that sounded, that didn't mean the way that sounded. I did not mean the way that sounded. What I meant was, is that obviously we cared about what they meant to us to put that in a goal. And so I think that's important to recognize. However, I also don't want to give a list of I don't know how many there are here, but even if it's eight or 10 goals that are pretty intensive, I don't think that that sets him up for, for success. So, um, I don't know if there's a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“May I just ask, how do we want to handle the goals piece of this?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We didn't decide. That's why I'm asking if we want to just make... Council Member Strange brought up Sorry. The five items under Evaluator 3. There's another one for project management. There's another one about community outreach. I just don't know if we want to set that here or if we're asking for something to come back to us. I just don't want to not do anything and then we...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think hearing him say that, I think accepting just the motion of accepting the evaluations and issuing the 4.5 merit increase for this year is absolutely justified and warranted.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026