Remarks by Glenn Grandis
175 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 7
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“Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't mean to interrupt. I just wanted to clarify, members of the public, we've had maybe two or three per meeting. It has not been widely attended. I didn't want to mislead anybody there.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 22:30
“Thank you. I appreciate you reaching out. I don't want to interrupt others as they're speaking. So, yeah, I mean, we just want to reach out to the library, see what the options are. I think the odds of us doing something with that building permanently is pretty slim, just based on the cost. But with The jamboree method of potentially purchasing and building property. It does at least give us potentially a way to do it and fund it. And 1 thing, I just want to be clear too, is that. The housing, if they were to purchase and we exchange. you know, and built housing on city property. We sell them…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, so I was the one who asked this to be brought back. And I was on PCTA Board for four years. I was treasurer, I think, for almost three years of it. So I was intimately involved with the numbers. And I would say that it's not just a 22 percent decrease. It's probably a 50, 60 percent decrease from five years ago. And I don't think we clarified why the numbers are going down and that is the money that comes in from this is those that subscribe to spectrum. And. People are changing from spectrum to streaming and therefore we're not getting the revenue anymore. Um. When I was there, when I…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 53:42
“Yes. And when we just did the legislative breakfast, that probably cost a couple grand. What I would suggest going forward, if we want to videotape that, that we hold it in the council chambers going forward and that we always try to do all events in the council chambers unless we can't. Just to save money. My opinion is that PCTA eventually will be going away. The revenues continue to drastically decrease and it will continue to the point where we're not able to do any kind of remote type filming other than what we provide at City Council meetings. And we would have to provide that whether…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 56:03
“Yeah, no, I assume you know the answer to that, so I defer to you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 57:54
“Thank you. So we did a survey. We posted it. Again, I haven't been on the board for two years, but before I left, we tried to figure out how many people actually watch. We know people watch the meetings. A lot of people watch it online now versus even on Channel 3. And we offered gift cards. I think we bought 10 $100 gift cards. I forget what the exact amounts were. And we couldn't give them away because nobody, I think maybe one or two people, took the survey, which told me that we just don't have the viewership that we think we do. And we're spending, you know, in the past it was over…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Right, but we spent $160,000 out of PEG funds to set up the council chambers for...”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So we may not spend it all in one year, but we sure as heck spend it on equipment because if the chamber in the back of the room goes out or the equipment where Danny is on the side room goes out, that's very expensive. So, correct, I think that we have said, I just want to make sure it's clear to counsel that we don't have 70,000 to spend just on programming.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Can I make one last comment? Yes. so one thing that megan and i did and i think we need to get back to this is i used to do the weekly mayor's messages and it was basically megan holding a cell phone and videotaping it and that worked just great didn't cost anything other than megan's time which is precious i get that but i think we need to go back to you know less production still information but doing it in a more costly way to do it. And then just last comment from Councilman Buoy, I was in agreement with you. I was saying that on PCTA, they're not viewing it, not other. I think they are…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“My door is ajar, and there is nobody in the room with me.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I just, I'm a little confused. We just went over it at strategic planning. We had the presentation. Why are we going to do another presentation on OCPA? This is getting to be old.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“We need a clear idea. You voted after strategic planning. We didn't vote.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. At the strategic planning, you voted four to one. We voted to continue to move on. We can't keep every meeting doing this. It's not fair to staff. It's not fair to OCPA. We've already gone through this already.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Are we asking to bring this back for another strategic planning session?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 1:27:34
“I need to make a clarification. Council Member Constantine does not pay attention during strategic planning sessions because it was brought up. It does not cost us millions of dollars. And to put that information out there is just blatantly false. And in my opinion, is politicking for the election.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And you voted yes to keep going forward. So to bring it back again, we cannot do this every meeting. Attorney Holland, we... I thought in order for somebody to bring something back, there has to be at least a majority to do that. That was our policy so that she wouldn't keep doing this. It has to be a three to two vote to bring it back.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“We have gone way off topic with all of this. I think what happened with the chamber that was immaterial, I think that I actually don't even want to discuss it. It has nothing to do with this topic, and I think we need to just stop talking about endorsements. We're getting so into campaigning that”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“don't like any of this to be honest i think this is just taking just a really bad turn i think the whole thing it's you know it's a quarterly committee that meets every three months for a culture or you know to try to be inclusive of the vietnamese community that's really where it started to try to get everybody to be on the same page and boy this did not It's not happening. There's nothing in here that talks about business, so I appreciate the chambers that came and spoke, but really, it's not regarding that. It's unfortunate that we're doing all this. And I feel like I'm in the middle right…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah. I almost think that we should not make this a city commission. Let's just make it a group that gets together. It's not appointed by the city. I don't think this needs... be run by the city at this point it's basically like a non-profit group getting together um i i have a little bit of problem having a non-resident you know we can allow a non-resident for the planning commission and we can now a non-resident for hcd that's business related and what i had said at the beginning is whatever the policy that's in place that's what i would follow so know if if we other than hh have we ever…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“councilmember Grandis so we have a second non that my president mm-hmm okay uh I am gonna point Regina Huebner and I'll be honest I didn't have a second but I'll do based on her commitment to fill in from her mom when she's not available I'll go with Rudy Huebner as the alternate but I have to confirm with her first”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Mayor Kenean, I don't know who that is. Can you tell us who he is?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“No, it's almost 11 o'clock at night. I got up at 7 local time, which is 4 o'clock in the morning. Actually, 6.30, so 3.30. I'm going to skip that for tonight, and I'm going to go to bed.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. So I'm going to bring my son Alex again. I'm in. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, great report, Chief. Appreciate all the effort that went into this. I know it took a long time to get to where we are today. One thing I really didn't see and hear in the report, and it's probably in there somewhere, and I'm hoping you could touch on it. One of the most important things to me, besides just staffing levels, is the safety of the officers and the equipment and how safe they are. Does it say in the report what level we are in terms of equipment? Do we have the best to make sure that they get to go home every night?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“They will pay dividends in risk management and potential litigation down the road I appreciate the answers, but I still don't think it answers the question. I'm trying to get at Staffing I totally get that cameras that's protection and lawsuits it's evidence etc when I say equipment I mean do we have the best bulletproof vests do we have the best utility belts that are the lightest weight or I mean I don't know what is required but I haven't heard anything yet to make sure that everything that they have is the best and latest equipment in terms of their self-safety.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026