Remarks by Doug Weiss
427 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 18
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“Good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us here tonight as I called to order the city council work session for the Pflugerville City Council at 5 o'clock on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026. First item on our agenda is public comment.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Moving along, item 3A. So you'll notice, council members, we have a full work session agenda. I'm going to make every effort to get through this. We do have the executive items repeated on Executive session items repeated on the regular agenda. So let's do our best to get through these other discussion items as we move through. Item 3A is a discussion regarding downtown east update. uh we have the illustrious deputy city manager barone and corinne crawford uh thank you for joining us uh tonight uh what what do you have to tell us about downtown east it looks like it's really coming along i'm…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Corin. I'm sure Council will have a handful of questions for you. I'm going to lead us off here. I love the tenant update. I'm really excited about the possibility of different local businesses moving in there but I know a lot of the folks who contacted me that I've passed along to you are probably looking more at you know the next phase the next building that comes along I'm wondering if you have any timeline established and commitment or encouragement excitement around the next building to go up in downtown east? We do.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I would expect that to be true. I don't want to cannibalize the opportunity to execute this by opening up retail over there, especially considering that I think that's going to be a fun little park area next to the parking garage. It's going to be a nice little place to relax and chill coming out of the Monarch. That's right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“put it in the bank until we're ready to use it. The one thing I'm curious about, I didn't notice any office space included in this phase. Any opportunity for second floor office, or is this just all retail? Well, I think that the city, on this project, second floor office space.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I know I've sent at least one person to you who wants some there.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Council, any other quick questions? Very exciting to get moved in there. I think it's going to make a huge difference for our town. We're going to see a lot of great development there. Thank you so much. That brings us to item 3B, that is to conduct a presentation on the People and Culture Department. We've got our People and Culture Director, Robbie Craig. Robbie, thanks for being with us this evening. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER COUNSEL, ANY P PLUS C QUESTIONS? NEW SPEAKER COUNSEL, YOU KNOW, WITH”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“She represented it. All right. Any other questions for P plus C? Thank you, Robbie. Thank you for being here. Thank you for all the work you're doing. I know it's been a journey this last year with some of that turnover, so I really do appreciate how resilient your team has been.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“That brings us to item 3C. This is a discussion regarding performance and efficiency audit. Council members, this was requested by a council member to be placed on the agenda. I can tell you prior to that request, I've been working with James coming from our charter amendment process. We did have some feedback and some noted desire to pursue something along those lines, although what was presented at that time was not exactly workable i'm always excited to have things that are executable and provide value and do so in an efficient way uh so i know we've uh we've been pursuing some of that…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“As we bring on each year moving forward, we're going to be bringing on, obviously, our fleet maintenance building. We're bringing on our public works building, bringing on the Monarch and the City Hall. I imagine there will be quite a few processes that are in place today that will not survive those moves. And I do think if we're trying to be as responsible with the budget as we can be, it makes sense for us to do this in bite-sized pieces. So that's James, thank you for making that happen so far. But this was a council member request. Council member Ryan, I'm going to ask what you have to…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Rudy, do you understand? You okay with it? You know, we talked about what we're... Oh, no.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“David, before you do, is there anyone else... before we have rebuttals?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OKAY. NOW, MY EXPECTATIONS ARE WE GET AN ARCHIE, AND I THINK COUNCIL SHOULD PROBABLY IMPROVE uh that would be the guidance that says hey james picked this topic this topic looks appropriate it looks like the scope is appropriate it looks like something that we can accomplish within the time frame i do think also at our annual retreat uh we should likely revisit and discuss as we're discussing priorities discuss uh the opportunities and the goals for future uh audits like this and that may mean that if this one goes super smooth and super quick We can add another one in the year, provided we…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Performance evaluation and optimization. Performance evaluation, optimization of processes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. Excited about moving that forward. And speaking of moving forward, that brings us to item 3D. Discussion regarding financial and budget reporting. Bless you. Council Member Ryan, this was your requested item.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Full-time employees. Our headcount is, labor is always the most.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, this is a discussion. Yeah, we're having a discussion tonight.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I have an assistant. Questions, discussion, ideas? Not at this time. I'd really like to go through it a little more. We got it yesterday. I would say my main concern looking at many of these, you know, you've got these what's actually new consolidated semiannual summary, consolidated quarterly summary. It looks like most of what you've got on here is information that's already available, but you're asking for it in a different format, whether that's a consolidated view or some way somehow combining information that exists. Would you consider that an accurate interpretation?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“No, my apologies. So all the information is available. It's not in the format that is most comfortable for Melody. The question is, are those tools available?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Did you just say what you're requesting may not be easy for other people to understand with your account? Your accountant brain operates different.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You see it different, but is the way you see it already available or you're asking for what is created to fit the way you see it?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I mean, this is indeed the challenge, right? The more reports we produce, the more bureaucracy we introduce, the slower the projects go. That's often how that works, right? So I want to make sure that, yeah, these are, if the information is already available and there's a problem with the information, then I think that should be called out, that should be brought to our attention. But if the information is available and everything's moving just fine, then I don't need a summary to tell me everything's doing just fine. I need an alert when something's not going well. That's my technical brain.…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So yeah, when we talk about the performance goals later, I think a lot of this would be encapsulated in there.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, I think apart from that, what I'd really like to see is... If we were to move forward with an ordinance, an ordinance that codifies what we're doing already, I think I heard... Well, it not codifies what we're taking out, what's being proposed to be taken out of the charter.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026