Remarks by David M. Sander, Ph.D.
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“All right. David. A few things going on. There was a great pancake breakfast for Cordova High football kickoff on Saturday morning. I was there. That evening, Linda and I were at the Sun River Neighborhood Association 25th anniversary. And that was a pretty cool event because there were people who had been active in the incorporation of the city 25 years ago and people who were key to the founding of that organization celebrating 25 years of it. And all of them were incredibly positive about what the city has accomplished in the interim. And they all wanted to tell Linda and I about how great…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“In response to that. And I sort of think if that would not do us damage in some way by missing out on some national night out stuff, that might make sense. I do think it is an interesting and positive measure of how we're doing in terms of connecting citizens with the city and with each other. And that the bigger those events are, the more it reflects on the health of the community, so. I don't think that's a fake thing. I don't think it's a niche thing. I think it's one of the general measures that we can rely on. I want to congratulate transportation staff. I'm not sure. Albert's not in the…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“We have had some great funding outcomes at SACOG. I'm not gonna brag about it specifically here. I just want council members and anybody listening to know we have had some great success with grant writing.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“It might make some of our peers a little jealous.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But we're having great success with our grant writing and transportation, and so I just wanna give plaudits to the staff here at the city who are getting that done. Very, very good work.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“There's a series of them. The latest one is coming.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, you've got to come in the next meeting to hear about it, I guess. All right. I also met with some youth mentorship providers and some potential providers and some special needs programs for kids providers. including Coach Ross, who some of you may remember from years ago, the program he was doing at Cordova Meadows, which involved an after-school reading program, and if you really did all your work in the after-school reading program, then you got to go play football. So it was a football program masquerading as a reading program, which was actually a reading program that kind of looked…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Did you say the motherboard was pretty? Yeah. They made it look attractive. Is this supposed to be one of these transparent computer cases so you can have your motherboard lighting up? No, it's on the side of the wall.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“An IT guy's view of pretty. I'm just narrowing this down here.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Nice to see lawyers doing something productive.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I thought the images you showed of the secured e-bikes, which I think were all the dirt bikes.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, that are basically not legal on road or on sidewalk, right?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So you can take them to the OHV and that's about it?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Is how that lines up? Yes. But you do see those guys riding around town, so... We do see them occasionally.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I think a lot of parents or grandparents or whoever just purchase those thinking, boy, that looks cool. It does. But unfortunately, not legal on the road. So yeah, that's a huge learning curve here. So I appreciate that. And you guys did some enforcement at schools, I know, as well, like issuing tickets, I think, last fall, maybe. It's been a while. We did.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Cool. School resource officers, you mentioned we have two. We used to have three. Any interest at the school district in returning to three? Because that would allow us to have sort of one at the high school and then two others that floated.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I think it was budget on the school district side.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And a worry about law enforcement over presence or something in schools.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“And I've witnessed the rapport that they can build with students, particularly at Cordova High is where I've witnessed this. It's amazingly... positive and productive and in the off chance when something challenging happens there those relationships not only sort of long term in the life of the kid but in that moment are really important you know because we have had situations where there's been a police response to corova high particularly when they reduced this from three to two and there was no school resource officer available that day one was in training and one had a day off kind of…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Such a valuable thing. The accountability and safety angle I really like in terms of talking to kids about not just issue them a citation for what they do. It's kind of like what we do in code enforcement, right? You've got this problem. Let's figure out a way to solve it for you so you don't have this problem anymore because we don't want you breaking the rules, right? That's a very positive way to handle it. It's sort of like in society we talk a lot about freedoms, but we don't like to talk so much about our responsibilities. But you can't have one without the other. So the accountability…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But it seems like there's, and then community volunteers or civilian employees as part of PAL and a real effort to go out and find grants. And I'm always, back then I was always concerned that we took the badge and we had the badge go to Walmart and buy the food for the snacks, right? And it was just like, no, let's not do that. Let's get the badge in front of the kids. interacting with the kids where it's to the greatest benefit, and have somebody else go and buy the snacks.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“So I think it's great, everything we do. I'm very impressed with it. I'm a growth guy, so I'm always thinking, well, how could we get twice this big? What would it take to be twice this big, touch twice as many kids in a positive way? For example, we had a boxing idea once upon a time. I don't know if we still own that equipment or not.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“But there's other opportunities of things. You know, it doesn't have to be boxing.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'm just using that as an example. It's very effective in some other jurisdictions, I know. But it seems like there's a lot of opportunity there, and I'd love to see like a growth plan of how we're going to go out, capture some more money from grants out there, leverage what we've got more efficiently, effectively, and get more kids engaged.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, we're an innovation city, and we've had a great history of innovating on that front. It's just there's more potential.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026