Remarks by George Turner
146 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
- Play at 24:49
“I mean, but that was an expectation that would have a certain amount. In the tree bank.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 25:03
“OK, is that in the package as to what the.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 25:27
“Okay. Okay. You report on SPLOST 2 funds. Are there any SPLOST 1 funds that are still not used that we have access to?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 25:47
“Well, I bring that up because I remember us approving something that had to do with the fire department, with the fire stations.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 25:55
“With the Cab County and some of the SPLOST funds. I'm not totally sure, but I would like to understand.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 26:02
“What happened with those funds that we committed during Splash One? Are there some Splash One funds sitting, resting somewhere waiting on us to get the fire stations off the ground? And I know two of them that are in the city limits that we have not, well, we haven't completed them. I don't want to say we haven't started, but we haven't completed them. okay i would get that detailed information over the council okay and you also mentioned the development authority funds remain financially stable what is that budget i could look it up but if you have it handy uh you know what i'll just i'll…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 27:13
“Now, I can get with you on it. I'm ready for that, as well as the mid-year budget amendment considerations.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 27:23
“It says mid-year budget amendment consideration on the financial monitoring items. You're monitoring the mid-year budget amendment consideration. Let me get with you on that. Okay. And we'll be ready because I know it is About that time, it is past that time to make that adjustment. If there's a necessity to make a mid year budget amendment, we had a preliminary list made.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 28:01
“Okay, very good. And I know that it's almost budget time. And usually there's a budget calendar. I know that the budget calendar already out. Will there be an adjustment in that calendar? So take a look at that. Okay, as well. July is almost gone.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 30:40
“Not necessarily a question, but a comment. And that is that according to the charter, we should also get a financial report from our city manager on the 15th of the month for the previous month. So I know that you'll be involved with making, help to make that happen initially. So I'm not sure about the month of July, because you were not here during all of the month of June. But if you check the, it's a charter requirement, and there was some difficulty with making it happen. So we'll see if we encounter that same difficulty. Okay. Just wanted to make that comment.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 34:22
“I know we want to get things done as quickly as we can and in order, but is there any reason for any urgency to make this happen within the next 30 days. That's why the you are for the city attorney.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 45:17
“Since there is no deputy finance director and the parties that will be on the bank signatory are going to have to sign, I do believe, so that person couldn't sign anyway, which means you're going to have to revisit this. If we move forward without the deputy finance director and revisit it once there is a Deputy finance director in place, they will equal the same thing you're going to have to revisit regardless. So to go without it. And we visited once the deputy finance director was in place. Would that allow us to move forward.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 46:14
“They may have put him if need be once we come to consideration of the vote. I would offer that as an amendment.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 46:28
“I said once it comes down to a vote, I would offer that as an amendment to consider approval without the deputy finance director as a part of the signatory group. I'm not going to leave my department until one is hired, but just leave it out.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 47:01
“Once the resolution has been read, did I miss it?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 47:34
“Move for approval of the resolution removing, after removing, the position of deputy finance director as a signatory.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 50:17
“Council member Tim, I have no discussion other than to say that we could amend it in the same fashion. And when we get a deputy finance director, we can revisit this item.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 50:51
“I'm sorry, did I hear you say this will be a first read?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 51:33
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 52:02
“Yeah, I mean, other than it just being in the records that we officially say, we hereby acknowledge the first reading and waiting on the second read. I'll just like you said, just move on.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 56:55
“We had the auditors that come before us and they outline basically what they intend to do and their approach and I'm looking at the engagement letter and it appears to be consistent with what we had discussed. And I know there is some urgency to get this process started so we can reach our end on schedule. And if we find that there is something, and I know we don't want to keep on muddying the water back and forth, back and forth, but if there are some issues that we find as we go along, we can't always correct them. But again, I yield to the legal team to understand this 10-page legal…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 58:30
“All right, I'll hit it again. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 1:04:33
“This court's legal. How long will it take to get this contract together? I'm willing to do a special call meeting.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 1:05:08
“You're saying that any preliminary work that they've done still counts. It's just that if there's a big problem with the contract, that's just too bad. They don't have a contract and it's over. But we approved it pending the contract being satisfactory by both parties.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 1:05:32
“And there was no contract set to ink yet. For how long will it take to make that happen?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026