Remarks by Chip Henderson
36 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“That's all. Okay. Councilman Henders. Thank you, Ethan. All I've got to say is you must really have a passion for this in order to come and face this kind of questioning to serve on a volunteer board. And I admire you for that, by the way. And I tell people all the time of all the developers since I've served on council, you're the only one that I know of that has come to me and said, what do you think about this project? And if I've told you I couldn't support it, you've not gone forward with it. And I can appreciate that. I think you do bring that wisdom, that insight. And one thing that I…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. We did have a marathon budget and finance committee meeting. I think it was started this morning. I don't know. Where we discussed budget amendments concerning police service center, holiday bonus for city employees, the WTCI endowment fund, Purpose Point Learning Academy, Bessie Smith Cultural Center, and the Eastdale Collective. We did reach some consensus on the WTCI Endowment Fund, Bessie Smith Cultural Center, and Eastdale Collective. They need a little bit more work ironing out some details on the Police Service Center and then the holiday bonus for city employees.…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, you said here about – I do have a question, I guess, for Karen about 0095, just to confirm the applicant does want to withdraw that application, which, I mean, we'll have to take action on, but.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. And then I did get an email confirming that 0100, the applicant's attorney, did request withdrawal of that application as well. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Karen, let me make sure I understand this. Yes. Under this old C2. Yes. We allowed The drive-thru standalone or as accessory? That's right. We didn't make that distinction.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And all we're doing, if I understand you correctly, is now going back to the way we used to do business under the C2.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Explain to me the significance of number four, the stacking beginning at the first point of service.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. And that looks like that would create less stacking to me.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilwoman Hill. Let me back up just a minute. Sure. Councilman Elliott, would you get me the list of questions that you have for the committee hearing that you requested so that I know kind of who to line up and what to line up?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Keep pushing buttons. That's right. Thank you, Councilman Elliott, for bringing this forward. one of the things that i've always felt like since i've been on the council that these our committee our current committee structure has always been clunky to me i mean it just committees of the whole didn't make a lot of sense and to be honest i never i never wanted to put that much energy in into trying to change it and i appreciate you putting the energy uh forward to to try to make this better i support the proposal as you've presented it right here i don't know if you're considering other…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So while we're building this in the air, this plane in the air, I don't know if we're going to present an alternate version at a later time or what. If we're going to state that any council person showing up to a meeting constitutes as a quorum, in other words we're starting out with three committee members like here we know a quorum is five for us because we have nine committee members if we're going to establish that every council person that shows up to a committee meeting constitutes a quorum at what point will we constitute a quorum it will it be at when we start the meeting will it be…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER I'M CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING MORE THAN THREE MEMBERS PRESENT AND THAT CHANGES THE QUORUM.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But you have established a new majority.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“At what time will you determine the quorum? When you open the meeting? When do we determine quorum now? Normally when you open the meeting. All right.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And I guess my point is, does the chair then state what the quorum is so that they will then know what the majority vote is? You follow what I'm saying?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'm just saying, we're changing what you proposed. And I think if we do that and we go to this, every member that shows up is going to be part of the quorum. And what if somebody shows up 10 minutes late and they want to be part of that quorum?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'm just saying we're changing your original proposal and increasing the quorum.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I just think we need to fix... the issue that we could run into by having these quorums not set.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. And Councilman Henderson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have, as I brought up earlier, concerns about these two amendments being included. I don't believe they're fully baked yet, so I will be voting in opposition to both of these.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Councilman Henderson? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Baron, I want to, just a little bit in conjunction with some of the line of questioning of Councilman Hill, but the sanctioned homeless gap really never did what we expected. Sure. other than the obvious, how do you see this being different?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Procedurally, it was just flawed is what you're saying. If you like, you've got a better plan. The reason I'm asking this, if it wasn't successful there and we're going to put a bunch of money into this, why do we think we'd have a different outcome? Other than the fact that I guess it's probably a little warmer in the winter and maybe a little cooler in the summer.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“The other thing that I would say, I can see some potential problems with such a large site in one location. But the difficulty in finding one location has been so difficult I can't imagine trying to find multiple sites. I think probably this might be the best answer of a large location and I can see the benefit of having all those wraparound services in one location as well.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I mean, I think you take full advantage of that opportunity there.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Councilman Henderson. A couple of questions. While we're on this slide, Rita, I think one thing maybe that I would like to see, and I don't know about the rest of the council, actual taxes paid versus maybe what they would have paid without the pilot.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“We do. I mean, if we could put another column there that would show what our gain is, like what kind of difference we're making. It seems like we do have some companies that have not lived up to their actual jobs at this point in time, but I'm assuming that they have more time to meet those requirements?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026