Remarks by Darl Bruner
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“I know I'm getting a reputation for hurrying things along and being on time. So it's 5 o'clock, so Linda, everyone, let's have a seat. I'm calling you out, yeah. I know I will. I regret a lot of things I say. Sebastian, you're going to join us? Okay, thanks. Okay. We'll let him get up here, and then we will do what I always say is my favorite part of any meeting, and that's going to be our prayer and pledge. And tonight we have Father Shaparo. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Okay. I just thank you for being here, and if you would come up and say the prayer and also lead us in the pledge,…”
“Thank you. Thank you, Father. And by the way, Father's with Grace Episcopal Church here in Nampa. Thanks again for being here and doing that for us. Okay, we, Madam Clerk, I believe we're ready for roll call.”
“Okay, we have a couple of things that are not, well, probably on the agenda. We're going to do a public forum first, and then we have a couple of... One is, well, I guess the muscular dystrophy is on there with the boots, but we also have a very, very important presentation to do right after that. We're going to do the public forum first. This is where our non-agenda items have a five-person limit. We have a three-minute limit. Any individual that comes up, of course, please state your name and your address. And so we'll get started with those. So, Madam Clerk?”
“You know, what I tell these folks here when I forget their name, if it's a guy, it's just Sam, and if it's a girl, it's just Sue. But I won't call you Sue. And by the way, I don't have a vote, of course, unless there is a tie. But as far as especially the start time, that will be looked at closely. Okay. All right. Next, please, Madam Clerk.”
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
“Thanks. Is that Madam Clerk or anyone else? Okay. All right, we're ready to move on. And so we're going to, first of all, start with our Nampa Fire Department presentation, the annual feel-the-boot drive for muscular dystrophy, and firefighter Ivy Denon, who I heard may be chief someday. Anyway, she is Ash. I understand you run the show, is that right?”
“Do you think the traffic has changed since 1954?”
“Firefighter, I'll let you come up and get this money. Then we'll go ahead and move on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
“Okay, while we're doing that, she's clicked into money. I think this is maybe his first appearance, but we have a second attorney here for the city of Nampa, Blair Larson, and I appreciate him filling in tonight for Preston, so thank you. And by the way, you're dressing, I think, a little sharper than what he dresses. Well, thank you very much, Mayor.”
“Did you just turn your credit card over? Yes. Not yet.”
“Okay, just a couple more things I want to say before we go on further here. I want to just congratulate a couple council members. Sebastian Griffin is now officially a lawyer against our federal media. He passed the Idaho Bar. And I guess from federal news, you need to kind of pass the bar before you can be titled an attorney or lawyer. Is that correct? For right now. We'll see how it progresses. Okay.”
“The other thing is I want to give – I've got to be a little careful with this one. But Councilman Rodriguez, Police Chief Huff has told me he has opened the doors like you cannot imagine to – so many forums to at least speak to the issue and educate on this public safety levy. So thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor.”
“All right. Just a couple other things, too. I just got received word today that Napa, for the first time by Walnut Hap, has been said to be the 23rd safest city in the nation out of 180 cities. Boise is number nine. I'll have to give them credit there, but only two cities in the state of Idaho, and Napa is one of them. So, Blue, thank you for what you're doing. Okay, I think we're ready to move ahead, so I'm going to have Luis Granados. I'm sorry, I probably just fouled that name up more than once today, Luis. COME ON UP, IF YOU WOULD, AND JUST COME TO THE MIC AT THIS POINT IN TIME. I'M GOING…”
“And I guess she's been at that for two years. And so just appreciate your service in that area. And I know you work closely with individuals like Louise here as far as what they're accomplishing. So, Louise, what I'm going to do here, I'm going to read a little bit. Most of this is off your website. I want you then at the end to actually tell these folks what this is all about and anything else that you would like to say. So I get this correctly. Okay. I'm going to put my glasses on and read through a few things. Luis Granados, Executive Director of Breaking Chains Academy of Development.…”
“Dean, you can come up and put an arm around his shoulder. Give me a second shot. Yeah, need a little support sometimes. Okay.”
“Usually you're made those things when you're not there.”
“Louise, we're going to have a photo, so if you come up here, anyone that you would like to have join you in this photo? Okay. And I'm just looking back at our blue again in there. Blue, is this not something when individuals like this, their lives are changed, and then they're affecting so many other lives? I mean, what's better than having support of that sort?”
“Boy, you're even going to let Representative Cornelius come up? Okay.”
“Okay, that was special, wasn't it? And Louise, you don't need to feel obligated. It gets a little boring down the line, so anybody that's... Thanks. By the way, at about 11 o'clock, be thinking of us, okay? Okay, we'll let a little bit of clearance here, and then we'll move on. Council, are there any proposed amendments to the agenda?”
“You'd like to pull that off? 16A. Everyone get a chance to look at that, please. Take a look. Would you like for that to be then on the main action item?”
“Okay, so currently we are removing 16A from the consent agenda. Is that correct? Okay, and so we just need to adopt then the action item as far as we need a motion in a second.”
“Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, now we'll move to consent agenda. Okay. Discuss this item. So moved. second second any discussion all in favor say aye aye all right moving along staff communications need to go to what one one six a first okay then staff can make thank you see it's so nice to have a clerk that knows what she's doing So I appreciate her very much. So we'll go to 16A and then we'll go to communications. Thank you. Thank you, Daniel.”
“Okay, good deal. Mayor Bruner. Yes, Councilman, did you have a follow-up, Councilman? Yes. Okay, go ahead, Councilman Rodriguez.”
“Any other discussion from this side of the room? Okay. Legal, Blair, is there anything you would like to add?”
“So clarification, Daniel, I thought I was pretty much hearing that because of state, our hands are tied. Is that correct to a certain extent?”