Remarks by Chris Robertson
791 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 16 of 32
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“I understand, but you trust our police chief. 100%. And I believe that's what he's saying. Let's do this right. And I don't think we just let Veritas... Wag the dog. Whoever they are. Because what's happening is if we just let them lead us down a dark path and say, no, no, we'll be fine. We'll cover your lawsuits. We're going to keep them planted right there. We've already told them we want them to move them. I think we enforce that. And if they don't move them, we tell them to take them out. And then we get a company in that will put them in the right spot. And if we don't do that, then we…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“You're in a great room with highly educated elected officials, the mayors, the other folks. Are there law enforcement agencies turning them on?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I love these cameras, and it breaks my heart that they're not. Obviously, it was working. I believe it obviously was effective. That company, I don't know why they haven't moved them. Did they pull a permit yet? Have they attempted to do anything?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Then that's the path they need to go down and not just say, hey, we'll cover any lawsuits.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“We want them to move them. That's if... And if they don't move them, we wait till the law changes.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Have we spoken with our government affairs lobbyists on this issue?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“How many agencies do we know that have kept them on when they are outside of the school zone?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“says they're safe in their interpretation.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“We've already taken public comment. Anyone else from council want to? All right. Chief, do you have anything else to add? No, sir. Thank you very much for the presentation and for answering our questions. All right. Next up, first reading and introduction. We have absolutely no first reading and introductions.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Are we getting any revenue? It expired two years ago, but are we getting the revenue?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“For what? 2025? Why did we collect that if the agreement expired?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“We should have mailed it back. I was... What was it, $225? A little less than $300. $268, okay. And what do these things rent? I mean, there's signage all over it.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“City Manager. I just wanted to clarify about the payment. The last payment was $246.60, and it was for the time period of January to December 2025. So he typically pays us”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“His agreement expired in December of 24.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, that's why I would not receive another... If we get one in, ship it right back.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Right, I know, but you're acknowledging. The moment you cash that check, you're saying, okay, we can continue on.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“So, again, we— Well, at this point, it's 100 percent because there is no agreement. And, you know, thanks for doing the work for us. So the next step is— For the taxpayers, so—”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Right. And I mean, nothing's really changed other than they entered into, I'm not going to use the word illegal, inappropriate agreement with somebody else while we still have it under contract. Right. So we're still within the due diligence time. We're still just moving forward on how we gave direction last meeting right yes october 20th october 20th we still have due diligence for another month and i don't even know what day it is september 11th a month and a week and a half um so i say we just keep moving forward and get real numbers on on renovations and and we don't have to drop it until…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“If we decided not to, we have a whole other council meeting next month.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, have we had anybody go in there and do any estimates since three and a half weeks?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“All right. So do we have a roof number yet? Because that doesn't need inside access. Do we have a roof number? Do we have any numbers in the past three and a half weeks? I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“And we should have just kept moving forward like business as usual because we still have it under contract.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“What we said was we were going to ask for due diligence time to do more investigation on the estimates for the repairs, and if they granted it to us, that's when we'll do the estimates, and they granted it to us. Well, so if they weren't, they were going to drop it that day. That's what that's what we agreed on. And so we're three and a half weeks later and we have nothing.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I just don't want to sit. If we know your legal interpretation is we still have it under agreement. Why would we wait three and a half weeks to come back to us and say. Well, what do you want us to do? Well, I mean, you got us the 60 days. Let's get some estimates. Well, I think it's important as long as the council understands that. Because I think those numbers, I mean, how do you go from, well, it's going to take $60,000 to $400,000 to repair this. What the hell does that mean?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think we would have made that last meeting. I think that's why we extended it out. We asked for the extension. They granted it to us. We still have that extension until October 20th.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026