Remarks by David Rogers
111 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“Presumably this will be traffic actuated. The lights will be traffic actuated, not just on a strict timer schedule?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But the other lights up and down 685, those are all TxDOT controlled? Is this going to be the only one that we'll control?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“TxDOT controls whether or not we put them there, but then we control how they're timed?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I remember FEMA approved everything before the Memorial Day flood in in Austin in 1983 and 81 And that didn't prevent Whole Foods and a whole bunch of other businesses going underwater so I'm just I want to make sure we go above and beyond so that we don't have a federally approved disaster.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So that looks similar to Austin Park and Pizza over at I-35. Austin which one? Park and Pizza. Is there enough space for something like that in there?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think this is actually my toy on this one. James and I had a very, I think, useful conversation about how to segment this, and I think he's right. The best way to do that is you maybe do a third of the departments or a quarter of the departments each year and do it that way rather than doing the whole thing all at once. Austin, in their efficiency assessment, does something like that where they break it up and they don't do all of theirs at once. When they have some of the bigger departments, they might have fewer departments looked at that year, like the year that they have scheduled for…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“David, you had a... Well, I just don't want us to get too hung up on the word audit because I'm thinking about this more as a performance rather than a financial audit. and maybe audit, maybe we need to find a different word, but performance review where we're looking at systems.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, any of those words would be fine. And I do think that, you know, we want to follow James' lead in terms of, you know, where are the pieces of string that need tugging on. And I do think that it's entirely appropriate, as Rudy said, to look at the things that we thought were priorities at the semiannual retreat and make those, you know, give James obviously leeway, but, you know, have him look at those first as possible places to go. But again, he may find areas that need improvement. to be reviewed that we hadn't thought about. And, you know, particularly the areas where there's been a…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Let me say a couple of things about that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. Did you get that? I think this plays into our AI policy, which we're still developing. But I think that once we have that in place and we're using more of those tools, that will make it easier for our staff to be able to develop this kind of reporting. Also, as the city has grown, we have more and more projects. And people get lost in them and they think, well, wait a minute, we voted for this in 2017 and it's not ready yet. And then we get more citizen reticence to approve anything else we want to do because, hey, you didn't finish the last thing and we don't know why. If we have this…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Except for BMA. Those two I don't want to pull. All the rest I don't want to pull.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes. So we were able to... do one of them with negotiations with the other two are both going to require condemnation. There's no movement on one and the other one is completely non-responsive.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah. My only concern is how much we're going to be crawling all over the members of the legislature. I think that we need to make sure that, and this is a The social media and residential mobilization strategy is a very powerful tool. We need to be careful about how we use that. That's all I'm...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, and it needs to be sparingly used because it's the kind of thing...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, we all have been the focus of particular pressure on particular issues. And we understand how it is. The people at the legislature have a lot more of that than we do. So I'm guessing they might be irritated if we do this. You're saying that people at the legislature hear from more people than we do? Well, they do have more constituents.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Would you like us to... That was my question.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Move to approve. Second. With the addition in Section 4 of adding Round Rock, Hutto, Mainer, and Taylor, to the community collaboration. Our neighbors.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Round Rock, Huddle, and Taylor. Round Rock, Huddle, Mainer, and Taylor. Mainer and Taylor, okay.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Austin. Elgin is fine. I'd be perfectly happy to add Elgin. Utah, Bastrop, Bee Caves.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I would say we have more in common with the cities that touch us. than with the general capcom but not always yeah because we've we've been on opposite sides of uh specific legislation and legal issues with some of them as well and it's the i mean the it says you know where they are consistent with pflugerville's interests i did have a question about that statement well yeah because that statement's key”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, and we might very well be on the opposite side of any one of those entities at some point for some thing. But the idea is being good neighbors.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, if we're just looking at those as covering, then we don't need any of these other agencies except CAPCOG and CAMPO.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'd like it to limit it just to the cities that touch us.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So I'm curious how, how much exemption and how much leeway we're talking about here. I know, I mean, it's the, you know, fire marshal walks in and they don't qualify into the fire code, they're gonna shut them down right away. So What are we talking about exempting for how long? We're looking at health and safety regulations. Are we looking about building material regulations? What are we looking to show some additional flexibility at?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026