Remarks by George Turner
146 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 6
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“Move to adjourn to executive session of personnel, litigation, cybersecurity, and real estate. Second.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Move for approval of the minutes from the second session. Second.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Before we leave, I want to remind all of the residents of Stonecrest to get your garbage out tonight because the collectors are coming an hour earlier than normal on tomorrow. So what, starting at 6 o'clock? Yes. So go home and put your garbage out. Mayor Pro Tem.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Mayor Pro Tem, you're looking for the first item on the agenda?”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Remember to this is a temporary rule you put it in specifically for this call meeting. The only concern so it's temporary just want this call me to thank you very much you're welcome.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Yes, councilman Turner. I don't want to get into a debate about the matter, but I do want to point out that all of these changes to the charter were created primarily by one person on the council, although the whole council approved the changes to the charter to remove that power from the mayor at the time. So the reason that it's in the position it's in now is because of that council member that put those requirements in place at the time. Be that as it may, the charter specifically says that the mayor is to sign all of these matters without any discretion in the matter, and I think it's…”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“I would hope that there is a forum to address all of that and I don't think it would be at this point in time. When it comes to signing the contract. Go redress grievances and if anyone wants to challenge what has been done. I would hope that there is a platform for such.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Just to be clear as to what we been asked to do here, I think I am just want to make it perfectly clear and that is to authorize Mayor Pro Tem, collectively the council to sign this contract.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“I think for the benefit of the public we should probably we need to feel the matters that had to be taken care of under the emergency. Agreement emergency operation.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“And you do any of the few of the activities that took place by counsel in this period of vacancy of the city manager that will executed under the emergency declaration. such as the payroll having to be met because there was no one in place to do it under the normal circumstances because the city manager was out of place. There were some other matters with employment or personnel for the summer camp. Can we give an example of some of the others, or are we in order?”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“I understand. I'm just saying that the public, that's it. Just doing a few for the public's knowledge.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Thank you. On January 2nd, the city council adopted a resolution for banking a signatory authority and operational continuity to expand the sign and authority of the city and to preserve the city's ability to meet its financial obligation. On January 8th, the city manager resigned, creating an unexpected vacancy of the city chief administrative officer. and resulting in a period of organizational uncertainty requiring immediate legislative action to maintain government operation and ensure continuity of executive administration. And whereas the resignation of the city manager, the mayor did…”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“I vote him. Again, I'm really trying to avoid any debate in the matter, but the fact of the matter is when the mayor makes an appointment, it must be ratified by the council. If the council does not ratify it, then the mayor has an opportunity to make another appointment. And that's where the breakdown occurred. That was never an attempt. In fact, it was stated, that's all I have, was one attempt of an appointment. So the opportunity to appoint someone else never disappeared until the time expired. So I think it's factual. The mayor failed to move to the next level to appoint an acting city…”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Move for approval of the resolution by the City Council for the city of Stonecrest Georgia to acknowledge and ratify the actions taken to preserve the continuity of the municipal government. Second.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“So I'm glad this item is for discussion only. So the part that we missed, we can get at a later date in terms of the discussion. But the part that I wanted to make clear is when you are acting above your pay grade, then yes, there is an expectation of additional compensation. If you are acting in a lateral position, that's questionable. But if you fill in the position that might be below your pay grade, is there compensation for that other than overtime for those who qualify for overtime?”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Okay. I'm going to have to compensate you for it. Okay, so it's for discussion, and it needs to be made clear. We put these rules in place, and hopefully we have them 100% correct, but we don't know that until we actually try them out, and we've had a chance to give it a go, and we'll see how well it's working, and we can evaluate it, and if we need to adjust it, we will adjust it, but we need to fully understand the... and if we are achieving the intent and uh without having to make any adjustments so i'm and we can get more discussion later on and fully understand what's going on and if we…”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“This will appear on the next agenda that fits your pleasure, just so we can have an in-depth discussion about it with all the parties necessary to be present.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“I will make a recommendation to add it to one of our work sessions or to a council meeting, so I'll take care of it. No problem. I got it.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“This item is listed for discussion only. No decision has been made, nor are we proposing to make a decision this evening. And that being the case, from what was read to us, I cannot imagine this happened without there being other witnesses to it. And their statements would be important for us to make a decision as to whether or not we go forward with this suggested resolution. This is not a hearing. This is us responding to a letter we got that we will simply not ignore because the accusation is very serious. And we treat it as such. And we will not be intimidated by the lawyers coming before…”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“Just to be clear, we are going to direct the city manager to initiate the investigation so we can get all questions answered before we address this question again of possible censure or not to censure. So I just want to be clear that that is the direction we're going in.”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026
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“The question is still there. Are we going to direct the city manager or whomever to initiate this investigation so that we can get all questions answered before moving forward with this idea of a censure? Is that our conclusion?”
City Council · Jul 2, 2026