Remarks by Doug Weiss
427 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 18
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“And so... Well, as I noted, several of the items that were in the Charter were... Either not practical not not achievable.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I want to make sure we understand. So you're saying we need to codify the things that have been removed from the charter?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But until November, we don't know if they're removed from the charter. They haven't been removed from the charter yet. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah. I like the idea of ensuring we have an ordinance that codifies the... the necessary required items, the regular items that we do. I would say, I think if I'm not mistaken, Trista maintains a long list of what it is that as the months go on, each agenda needs to have certain things on because we do certain things on a quarterly basis. We do certain things on a semi-annual basis, certain things on an annual basis, some things on a monthly basis, some things on a meeting by meeting basis. So there are all those items that we do. I don't know that we codify a schedule for all those things…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I did a search and I couldn't find anything, so I don't know. I believe that's in the PCDC bylaws. In the old and early days, at least at one point in time, that was provided as a one-page report. I think it was satisfied through one executive session, meaning it was considered the quarterly report to council. It wasn't necessarily a financial report at the time. i don't know if it needs to be now wait you guys do the whole page so so i think there's in uh if you're if you're looking towards that i mean we do quarterly budget amendments that's not the same thing it's it's an update on on…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So it's just. So they're available. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“so all right um at this point i think i'd be looking for other council members my proposal would be we look into codifying what we do we look into doing that likely after the november election once any changes to the the charter or anything that's removed from the charter would be appropriate to put into an ordinance is there anyone who Do we need to move anything more quickly or more thoroughly than what I've described?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“There were several statements that this is probably available, it shouldn't be onerous. We don't know how onerous it would be or if it's available or if it's simple or if it's additional software, additional headcount needed to produce that. As you heard James mention, the staff has not spent time on this because it was not necessarily within the priorities. So the question is, do we want staff to spend time reviewing this, or do we want staff to spend time codifying what we already do? I mean, that's probably not bad for future performance optimization, whatever we're calling that audit…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I guess could staff spend an hour and a half on this proposal and figure out what's simple and what's onerous? Sure.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Probably not the first meeting in October, probably the second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. With that, we're going to move on to item 3E. This is a presentation and discussion regarding commercial drone use in Pflugerville. We have a presentation this evening by representatives of Amazon. Sam Bailey, thank you for being with us here tonight.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I want to make sure we get through this in the work session.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'd say the ROI probably plays into that, too. The density makes more sense on personnel deliveries.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And I know the FAA draft was recently released. Correct. Just last month, right? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well... Again, they call the sensing systems water perception system.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'm assuming the added cost you mentioned is probably very similar to my in-garage delivery.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So when I looked at the FAA draft report, it seemed like your numbers were actually a little bit higher than this. Do you count that atmospheric differences between here and Arizona?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“uh from each of these locations all right then on your next slide um you do mention aus3 and stx6 yes so us3 i i feel like that would be within the 200 foot ceiling for austin exact yes is it not it is so we are not talking about our very large amazon roblox fulfillment center we are talking about our sub same day fulfillment center which is stx6 okay i thought the faa study was done the the draft listed the pecan location”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“AUS 3 it sounds like even though it's listed it's a non-starter?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And is there a recharge? Is there downtime in between?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So you said seven to 10 minutes for flight time? Yes. So turnaround time, is that immediate? Is there a new package immediately in there or is it? a longer turnaround time flight to flight? From start of flight to start of flight?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You think the current zoning already allows it, but you want a determination, and we're probably saying, hey, maybe it doesn't. We've got UDC amendments coming out as it is, so really this is kind of a question. Do we think that this fits our expectation of what zoning is, or do we want to go through an amendment to allow it, or do we want to go through an amendment to restrict it?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Two months away. Are we really two months? Two seems aggressive. We might spend two months working on this.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“A refrigerator is 55, so those are sort of like... Well, if a refrigerator is 55, and you have to recognize that 10 decibels, it's logarithmic, so 10 decibels doubles the perceived sound. Yeah, I've measured the decibels in my house, and it's louder than what I'm seeing here. A refrigerator is louder.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Our ordinance is 70 to 75, depending on the situation.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026