Remarks by David Rogers
111 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
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“Okay, so I want to make sure I heard you right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You're talking about authorizing the city manager to create temporary exemptions for zoning and building materials? I'm sorry, you said something else, but I didn't catch it all.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. If the variance has already been granted. It's already been granted.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You know, you can't just call the question. You know, you have to move. You're going to make the vote on what we have to vote.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Here's the question. Should I wear a jacket? Well, in order to know the answer to that question, I need to know what's the temperature outside. if I'm told, well, we'll tell you what the temperature is next week. But you have to make the decision about whether or not to put a jacket on right now.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And let me piggyback on that and what James said earlier. I do appreciate that the the change in the presentations from staff. I see that they are incorporating the answers to the frequently asked questions so that they come up, they make their presentation, and we don't have any questions because they heard the questions we were going to ask and they answered them before we asked them. And I find that very, very helpful and very impressive. We notice.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Wow. You and I didn't vote the same way for a while.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“This is 5c 5c Oh, yeah, that's a that's yet another option Where it might be coming from Hello, Mayor and Council.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And how does this compare to the previous year's contract for similar services?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“More or less, like a 3% increase, 2% decrease, what do you mean by that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Can you do that math for me? Because I'm looking at it. Oh, this is three years.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Is there an escalator in there, or are we paying them the same amount each year? It's a fixed cost contract? It's fixed. It's the same price each year for three years?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So about 1.2. So it'll be about 800,000 the first year and about 1.2 the second and third year? David, it's on screen.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“No. They're not anticipating any increase in labor or chemicals or tools or equipment?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“No. See, this is why we haven't really asked too many questions. Because she asks questions the rest of us don't even know exist. I think it is here. It is in the summary?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“look when you when you combine it for the total year both of them can i ask will we be allocating the monarch cleaning uh contract to the monarch enterprise fund that's exactly yes yes what about the consumables how will that be allocated will it be 50 50 between the monarch and the and the general that's broken out separately as well so that's going to be that'll be allocated partly to the monarch enterprise yes sir yes sir okay All right, I think you answered all my questions.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Motion passes unanimously. We'll try to give you more entertaining questions next time.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, just again, I want to compare this to last year's expense. Compare to last year. Shane's like, that's not me, that's the other guy.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so these are more complicated projects, but they are fewer miles, but each one of them requires more engineering.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Was that my motion? It was. I guess I should be for that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“5F is a professional services agreement with Tetra Tech Inc. in the amount of $596,200.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“the map in the past year you know with the in scope a it says a favor yeah is it the map and the scope of work on paragraph uh what numbers there are two uh under the the first paragraph under scope of work on the uh hvj associates september 3rd 2026 letter uh says that they're the building from aw grimes to faber lane That's it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And then the scope of services on paper 176 also says Faber Lane only.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Let's move to postpone this item until the next meeting.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Wait, wait, wait. Did we vote to postpone this to next month? Because I heard we vote on those things periodically.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026