Remarks by Ernest Sumrall
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
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“Who's doing the migration of our current data?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay. And that's kind of the question I was going to ask. Go away is sort of ambiguous. Who's going to destroy those? That data storage medium so it can't be exploited?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Perfect. Okay. That's where it's headed. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Can you make it sound like John Wayne? I was going to say make it sound like John Escotto.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I think that would be fantastic. And we have plenty of audio from all the council meetings you could use.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“They're actually quite good. They're loose. They're fluent. They're actually quite good.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“We're going to have two classes of people who are calling in. Those who literally genuinely want information and those who want someone to console them and understand that they're hurting and emotionally damaged from some city policy. The AI is not going to emotionally connect. And those people are not going to be happy with it. However, if you genuinely want information, you'll get it. The others will be routed to a voicemail. And they can leave their passionate, impassioned plea for whatever in the voicemail. Well, then we'll be directed to someone who is there.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So we're gonna try to come below this but we want to have the option to go here we have to”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So it looks like, I mean, if I'm reading this wrong, please correct me, it looks like our total yearly new recurring cost is somewhere around 800 grand.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, for police, pay parity, municipal court, net impact, bulk trash, equipment replacement contributions.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“And then even if we go up to 0.19, as high as we can without having a tax election, What what is that going to give us an extra 165 grand if you go to the VA but just below the BAR?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So the biggest one is? Equipment replacement contributions. That's a one-time deal.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“If you guys will just give me a little bit of forbearance. I'm still trying to get my feet on you. Sure. I've got a very complicated, sort of a complicated question. And part of it is for CBB. And part of it is for our reserve policy.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“These aren't separate questions. OK. All right, so the other separate question. So my question is this. I know this is an impossible question, but I'm going to ask anyway. Is there a way for you guys to predict general fund returns on CVB expenditures? I know that beds and beds is our phrase of choice. I'm sorry to ask this question now, it's difficult to predict, but are you guys able to look into the future and say, you know, our activities are probably going to generate so much money for the general fund?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“You guys have done a great job, and I'm not questioning that. And maybe when we get to that section, I'll restate a different question. And I guess what I was trying to get to is this. We have a budget challenge, it looks like, in front of us. And my question was, and maybe it's because of my experience, is if we could revise our budget surplus policy enough to help bridge based”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“In a sense, if we could project activities to future income, only because we, I think we have the statutory right to have a budget stabilization. We could generate a budget stabilization if we adjusted our surplus policy. I think we could do that maybe one time. I don't know how many times we could do that. And you're right. aware of the swings in the economy and i apologize i'll i'll switch this to the cbd discussion later i was just curious because it's a complicated thing um i don't want to i mean i mean our we provide services we provide protection we provide continuity for all everyone…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah. Do we have an official austerity plan already? Have we already looked in case something happens?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thing to do All right Can municipalities share court facilities and split costs are in split revenue I”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Is it appropriate for me to just say what a pleasure it is to work among a group of people who aren't yelling and screaming at each other? Thank you guys, all of you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I came here worn out today. It's been a very intense month for me. But all I wanna do now is smile because I know that my family's being taken care of here. And I really appreciate all of you guys, all of you, I really do.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I suspect this is more an issue of poor planning for me and my neighbors rather than an actual need for an additional day. And I also imagine that if we raise taxes to cover additional pickup days, the hue and cry would be far greater than we need to have more bulk trash days.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So I really don't, for me, I personally wouldn't support any additional heavy trash days because you guys have this amazing, we have this amazing yearly deal here anywhere. If you have a bulk, if you have a, I don't know, a can of plutonium, you can bring it here. No one's asking any questions. So I think, and I'd like to. You just made that public. Seek us out. You can buy uranium on Amazon.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“But the thing is, the only thing that I've heard that is curious to me is when people have said that, hey, they missed my cans today. Now, that's unacceptable. If we're paying the guys to take care of the business, they need to take care of their business. That's an administrative thing between you guys and our vendors. Other than that, I like the new service. I love the new cans because they're not dragging mine across the pavement to make holes where water will get out. I think for us it's been working well. We are one of the 2% that pays for the extra can. We use it. We're happy to pay it.…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Is that how I'm not strong enough to pick up a car?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So Home Depot has these really strong bags that you can put pretty much anything and just wire it shut. I'm just saying.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026