Remarks by Frank Scott, Jr.
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“There's a motion to second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Ayes have it. Madam Clerk, you will please read the group items for the second time.”
“There's a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Third and final reading.”
“Members of the board, we've had three readings. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it.”
“All those opposed say nay. Aye's have it.”
“And now we're going to open up the public hearing item number 11. Madam Clerk, you will please read that for the second time.”
“There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Aye. Ayes have it. Madam Clerk, would you please read for the third time.”
“I now close the hearing. We've had three readings. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? All those favorably say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Eyes have it. Before we go into a brief executive session, we'll ask JTS to give their presentation now. Briefly.”
“Yes, as again, we got some new information. Myself, the CFO, first and foremost, as I shared early on in the process, that short of something drastic happening, we will move towards self-funded as our recommendation in the budget. I'm still leaning towards that myself, the CFO, Chief People Officer and Chief Hubbard. But we did get some new information today. We want to make certain that we take that into extent and to context as well from a budgetary standpoint as we move forward. So that's number one, still on that trajectory towards self-funded, but When you get a reduction, you get a…”
“Again, the reason why is I think we all understand our health care insurance significantly impacts our overall budget.”
“And just for clarification, just so you understand, I'm sharing with them, we'll make a decision, but they won't vote on it after this.”
“You set aside the money for it. It has to go through the engineering and the bids and all that process.”
“And the wellness clinic is supposed to go into the 12th Street building where UAMS was. So we had to deal with all that and that transition from UAMS getting out and a lot of stuff goes into it. And we're grateful to fill that space with UAMS being out, so.”
“All right. Is there a motion to go to executive session? There's a motion. Is there a second? All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. We'll take, for those in the audience, we're going to executive session. As you just saw, we went through all of the reconvene meeting. We're still in the reconvene meeting. We'll come back from the executive session, report back from the executive session, then adjourn, and then swiftly go into our agenda meeting for those who are here for the agenda meeting. We won't take that long, too long. We've now reconvened from…”
“Director, what I would ask you to do is to get us those. And I'm sure people called you. But I can give you an instance just last week, a known vendor who's done some previous work with the city but hasn't done it in a few years for whatever reason. They have not signed up with Bonfire, so they didn't receive the email because they're not part of the system.”
“If you'll just make sure you give us the names that I'm just sharing with you that there's sometimes a user error that we've seen, even with people who are signed up. So just if you'll get us that, then we'll figure that out.”
“All right. Anything else on items 1 through 18? Any questions on items 1 through 18? All right. Any questions on item 19? All right. Before we adjourn, are there any questions or concerns? Going once. Going twice. Oh, thank you so much, Director Miller. For those in attendance and those watching online, our next scheduled city board meeting will be October 5th, which is a Monday, and not October 6th during our normal time because October 6th is National Night Out, where the city of Little Rock will have four to five National Night Out locations that we'll be participating in as it relates to…”
“All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Aye. Say aye. Meeting adjourned.”