Remarks by Dawn Tiamson
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 38:20
“I have a quick question. Go ahead. I just wanted for the record, Lucette, Santiago, did you say that the total monetary was, can you repeat that amount? Because I don't know if that was a typo on the agenda or if I just heard it differently.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 38:46
“Yeah, I'm seeing $4,610. So I guess the fee waiver that we're subtracting from that, is that what that is?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 39:02
“Looking at the agenda item, it says $4,610. So I just wanted to double check because it looks like that's the difference. Is that something that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 39:35
“It's the $50 special event application fee waiver, so that might be what it is. It just needs to be subtracted instead of added. So that's what's on the agenda item. I'm looking at it now, and that's what I think it is. Is that the difference?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 57:12
“Okay, thank you. So with regard to the budget amendment for $192,200, obviously that's going to be in advance too because we have not gotten the funds that we were awarded, which was the $7,581,430 with 100% forgiveness from the SRF. We... approved this in November 12th. But so the 192, it will be put back into the budget obviously and it'll probably be a different budget year. However, I just wanted to know if we don't complete the facility plan by November 12th, does that jeopardize the money that we would get? Because I know we have to check boxes and I just wanna make sure that we haven't…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 59:19
“Okay, and then to piggyback on that, I was just curious if there was, a location that we provided them when we received these funds or if it was just this is your funds and you move forward and present us with a plan. It sounds like we're kind of moving things around a little bit for ease of use or what makes most sense as far as the topography for the city. Is that right, why you're putting those at the other?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“situation to mitigate that we're doing it that way correct yes ma'am we're we're we're going to use okay yep i'm good so then my question would be do we have any monetary i'm sorry it's kind of hard on the phone i apologize a little skip but um anyway the is there anything monetarily involved already in the the elevation of the Rhode Island project that we will be just basically, you know, we did a study or we did a this and we did a that and it cost the city money?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, perfect. Well, thank you. Gotcha, gotcha. Thank you for that clarification. That was a couple of the things I was concerned about since we are making some changes, which sounds feasible, but I just wanted to make sure monetarily that we weren't going to jeopardize anything or lose any money for the city.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:08:41
“Yes, I don't have any more questions, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:09:01
“Yes. Sorry, I would like to recommend the motion if there are no public comments. Do you call for public comments? I apologize.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:09:16
“So I want to make a motion to adopt budget amendment resolution number 458-26 to approve work order number 360-26 for SRF. F facilities plan for Rhode Island and industrial park flood improvements with Jones Edmond and associates in the amount of $174,694 and authorized the city manager to execute the work order and any subsequent change orders not to exceed 10% or an additional $17,469.40 for a maximum total of $192,163.40. I second.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:28:53
“So I'm looking at the timeline for the next discussion and the differences that I'm just seeing on that is gonna be February 23rd, March 23rd and April 13th, it looks like. So those would be omitted on the, sorry, the expedited schedule will bring those things out, mail first class where it wouldn't be on the other trim schedule, is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:29:27
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City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:30:30
“The Florida, correct. Right. Florida 4th CCA of 2017. It was City Cooper. City versus Joe. And if you pull that up, we should take all those things into consideration. The one from 2000 or 2002 and then 2010 and then 2017. I'm just saying they all kind of like work in tandem together, especially when all cities are kind of, you know, established differently and have different budgets and those kind of things. So we pretty much all be taken into account.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:31:33
“Right. Yes, there was a distinction between the two. And yeah, the original one, S&M Properties, rejected treating EMS as a special benefit while the other one integrated fire EMS together. And so that's where all that, when we had this discussion before about, you know, if it was a call that was supposed to be for EMS, but it was really not a call for anything whatsoever, it still got listed under there. So I'm just putting it out there for public record if anybody wants to educate themselves on it so they can have more clarification on that because I know that there's a lot of myths…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:48:07
“I actually do have a question. I was looking back. Sorry. Do I have the floor? Go ahead. So I was looking back at some of our meeting minutes and sometimes I like to go back and just read it, especially when we've discussed this, um, the fire assessment fee in particular, because I want to go back and look at historical information. I know at one point I asked for meeting minutes that they were not done yet. So they sent me the whole transcription of everything that was recorded. And I just kind of read through that, you know, sometimes you get, um, you get texts that is just picked up and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:50:11
“That would be amazing, because you are the You're the head of the fish over there at the clerk's office. I know there's a lot of public records requests and I understand that the meeting minutes may be kind of cumbersome. I didn't know if there was maybe something that you thought that could be a remedy to either or of those problems because it seems like public records requests and meeting minutes take up a bulk of time in the clerk's office, and now that there is three of you, I was just curious, is there, if you've gotten a, changing the way that you're doing it to where it would make it…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:52:08
“To interrupt you there, so it sounds like some of these jobs need to be shifted somewhat. It feels like maybe you're saying that it's a little overwhelming on that side.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:53:17
“Yeah, no, I think once we get caught up, we can stay on top of it. Um, the, you know, I'm just putting it out there just so the public is aware of it as well. And so, I mean, these are the struggles and the strife that the clerk's office has as far as, like, what you have going on in your office and the amount of people that you have in your office. So that's why I wanted to bring it up. And also, I'm very excited to see the minutes and go through those because I do have some questions with the past. I know we can public records request, but why go through all of that? It seems very messy. So…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:54:27
“I'm sorry, Councilman Knight, I can't hear you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:55:13
“Yeah, and to your point, I know that we just paid $6,000 for a chat CBT business model and it would just take a drag and drop into that and ask it to perform meeting minutes and it would definitely be able to take Everything that's been recorded and do that for you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:57:51
“Yes, I just wanted to say, so it sounds like AI is not a viable solution at this point. It sounds like it puts a little bit more work into your plate, as it were. So thank you for that. Just wanted to make sure that we are getting caught up regardless.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:00:09
“Yeah, I just wanted to bring it back. My point was this, I was just wanting to get our meeting minutes caught up, and so that was all the point I wanted to make on that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:11:21
“Yeah, so then I would say if we are that much further ahead, and I don't know that you said that just one city is 300, but if we are that exponentially inundated with public records requests, I would have to say that there's a red flag somewhere. So we need to kind of figure out what's going on and maybe do some sort of investigating what records are being requested. And is it the bulk of it police? Is it fire? Is it city staff? Is it normal everyday business? Those kind of things.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:30:01
“I do not, but I do want to piggyback off of what Councilwoman Stafford mentioned. I feel like we are doing our due diligence to the city when we ask questions and questions that they do have, whether it be on social media or face to face. And we bring that to city council and ask those hard questions, whether or not it's in your timeline or someone else's that's just something that we need to do so that's what i want to say to revive thank you councilwoman richardson nothing at this time thank you um i'll just close with um”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026