Remarks by Doug Weiss
427 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 18
“All right. Council, what other questions do you have?”
“She took mine, too. So, James, I do have one question for you. So the way we adopt these rates is through the budget process, and we go into effect October 1st with our annual budget. Is that accurate? Yep. Your master fee schedule is a part of your budget. All right.”
“All right. And that ordinance will be the master fee ordinance? Yes. Perfect.”
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“Rudy, before you dig real deep into that, I do have one person signed up for public comment on this item.”
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“I want to be clear with that. We want to get it drafted, but we need the professional review of our attorney and our city manager to ensure that what Any changes are, in fact, implementable. Because I don't want us to go say, hey, these are all the things we want to do, and then we look at it and we're like, well, that doesn't make any sense in our use case, right? That's something that would require three new headcounts that aren't in the budget, right? So I want to make sure that not only are we getting, if we are getting it updated, that we're getting it reviewed and solid, and that feels…”
“Can I jump in? How much free time do you have in your schedule to review another version? Sorry. Let's James jump in real quick.”
“I think it does make sense to memorialize some of those things. I do have one question. I'm not sure if this is attorneys being attorneys. But top of page 5 on the draft watermarked version, existing contract shall be brought into conformity at renewal, extension, material change, or the earliest lawful opportunity. I don't know if earliest lawful opportunity is there intended to mean... Before those things or after those things because it seems like those things, renewal, extension, material change, should all be appropriate times to make changes. I can't imagine any other scenario. So I'm…”
“That's the only one that really stuck out to me, and I don't know if... Yeah, I thought that, too. It's okay.”
“I'm going to ask, well, first of all, Jonathan, I know you put a lot of time and effort in with city staff. I would ask that we expend no more than and four additional staff hours on it. So if we can get a... I think that... That'd be my limiting factor for you all coming together and meeting and knocking it out and whatever you got at the end is done. Because you know I'm a big fan. A 95% solution that we can actually implement and has buy-in is a whole lot better than a 100% solution that no one wants to do.”
“If you had to estimate how many hours would you spend on this already?”
“Yeah, we're... We're at a substantial amount of staff investment already. Mike, I assume you're probably in that range as well. So I... That was a yes?”
“I really don't want us to take a huge step back and then our staff has a lot of work to get done. We've got a lot of demands on their time.”
“Is this a discussion, Rudy, on our standard template for contracts? Because I know we've got a standard template for PSAs and a standard template for construction, right? I don't know, Mike, what other templates we have, but it sounds like A lot of what I see in there is something that we may just need to adopt as a standard contract template.”
“You make a great point. Yeah, Rudy, are your changes, do you see them as changing the vector or just changing the extent? Is it something that you want to say, well, it's not going the right direction or just needs to go further?”
“I'm seeing it for the first time, so I can say I didn't have that expectation.”
“It was in the council packet. It is on the regular agenda this evening. It sounds like we'll have some time to marinate on that over the next little bit. I'm not sure I have clear consensus yet, but we'll see what we get in the regular agenda if we're passing it tonight or if we're postponing it to have some more folks take a pass at it.”
“I guess I haven't heard much more, Cesar.”
“Any other comments on this item at this point? It is on a regular agenda. All right. At this time, I'm going to take us to item 3D. We're going to retire to executive session on this one. This is deliberation regarding real property and economic development negotiations pursuant to section 551.087 of the Texas government code related to Project Opera. The time is 6.15.”
“evening it is 632 we've returned from executive session and no action was taken that concludes the items on our work session agenda for those of you here in anticipation of a regular agenda if you are wishing to speak make sure you fill out a form at the back of the room It does have a checkbox that says whether or not you wish to speak or just register your position. And there is a box for support and oppose as well. Make sure you fill that out. And we will see you at 7 o'clock. At this point, we're adjourned from work session.”
“Good evening. Thank you for joining us here tonight as I call to order the Pflugerville City Council regular meeting at 7 o'clock on this Tuesday, August 25th. I appreciate you all showing up. I'm sure there's some exciting things that we'll hear about on the agenda, but as we begin, I ask that you take a moment and rise with me as we recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, followed by the Texas flag, and then please remain standing for a moment of silence. to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with…”
“All right. If you'd like to speak, do I have a form filled out by you? No, he's just my personal. You'll need to fill out a form if you wish to speak. Are you wishing to speak now?”
“The next person I have signed up to speak is Amin Aboudaoud.”
“Thank you. I have Craig Reinecke. Where's Craig? I've got you signed up twice for public comment since 4C is on the consent agenda. All right. I get 15 minutes, right?”