Remarks by Ernest Sumrall
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 6
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“I believe cameras are effective. I believe they're important. I believe $240,000 is a lot of money. Even if we had two separate services and it saved us 50 grand, I would be interested. I mostly would just like to hear, and this is the reason, a lot of companies get very complacent and very comfortable working with municipalities. and and they're very comfortable and happy to just do whatever with their prices i'm not saying this these guys are i'm not please understand no i understand um but just to keep them honest not that they're being dishonest hell i would just love to see another quote…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Well, you're describing sounds a little unethical. not on your part well it's just it's the way some of these vendors work and i totally understand because i get it and because of the way these vendors work i just would like to see it sure the only thing i could do is go to another vendor that deals in verkata and ask them to re-quote it but i would get the exact same quote it's okay to it's okay to even consider a completely different system the fact is you could have two homes right next to each other with a completely different security system and still get alerts from either one i'm not…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Where, okay, where are they made? Who's the, where are they manufactured besides China? Verkada makes their own cameras. Besides China, where are they located?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay, I'm good. I just, I'm going to, I'll support this. I just. I love seeing various quotes. It makes me a little nervous and scared when we have such a good relationship with a vendor that we don't even bother getting quotes.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:08:47
“So even if a quote supported and showed how amazing the prices were, wouldn't you feel better? Hey, man, we saved 50 grand going with these guys. Absolutely. So would it cost anything to get another quote?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I'm 100% sure council's got your back me personally I just love to see quotes, but understood we are where we are. Okay”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“No, no hard feelings, man I come from a business world and and I would be scared to death to go to my boss with a cost of like that without other clothes Understood. Just just just as plain as that.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“But I'm sure they're good. You guys are very confident, which I'm sure they're good.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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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