Remarks by Glenn Grandis
175 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 7
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“I do have one other item on the staffing levels. I understand the importance of all the staffing levels, but we still, and I've been harping on this in the last few meetings, is we're still understaffed. right you know we want need more positions but we got to fill what we have and we talked a little bit about this i spoke with you and the hr director about a challenge to get five laterals within the next six months to help get the staffing levels where we need to be We try to be in the midpoint of range in the county, which means there's many cities that are lower paying. There are people in…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, but as we talked about, that's going to take a year or so by the time everybody goes through that, goes through probation, goes through everything. And at the same time, there's always the chance that we're going to lose officers to retirement and other things. So I still think even with that, the need's going to be there. So I'm glad you accept the challenge.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“thank you sir it's just a quick follow-up so each report or each 1800 that doesn't represent necessarily 1800 crimes is there like multiple times they have to go for one crime or is that 1800 separate crimes those would be 1800 separate crimes but not all of those crimes have a victim”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, a majority of the five laterals are already funded. It's just they're not hired.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I thought you were here to fix the squeaky door. I do it all. Whatever.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think either one or two would work. This trip, part of it sounds like this wonderful, exciting, get to go see the world. Based on the last one I went on, I was really wondering, do I really want to do this again? It's a big effort. It's a huge effort. I know my wife was stating to me, she was like, you're going to do that again? Because it was running from train to train to meeting to meeting. It wasn't social, really, other than seeing some of the stuff and visiting the one town that I went to that was north of Tokyo, Sakura City. Where I got to meet the mayor I was the only council member…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Herself. That's one, no? No, the mayor is a female. The mayor is a female.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“My gut is telling me that it's important to have the mayor there. And unfortunately, our current mayor cannot do it. So really, I think then it's really important to have next year's mayor there. I think that's critically important. And as we sit here right now, we don't know if it's Councilmember Constantine or myself who will be mayor next year. All depends on the outcome of the election. I am able to go. I will be going from Chicago. I have a meeting in Chicago. That's why I wasn't sure. But the meeting, just like last time, I was traveling and the meeting ends on the date that everyone's…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“When is the date of the trip? It's Thanksgiving week.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“It's a small, you get a refundable ticket. You would just buy a refundable ticket. I don't think, Council Member Concer, you haven't purchased a ticket yet, have you?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, so then we can cancel the hotel, if that doesn't, and then this way we're guaranteed to have a mayor there.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt. I just want to make sure I understand that. So when you say residential zone, that's one house?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, please. I think we have to nuance this and make sure we understand it. So when you say 100 feet of arterial street frontage, if it's a shopping center, you cannot have two signs within 100 feet of each other.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“That's not what this says. No, that's not what that says.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“a little bit more specific that's the last slide okay okay that's why I'm asking yes it's okay so they could have so within a hundred feet I'm trying to think how big is a hundred feet so that that's pretty significant space third or third of a football field Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to visualize that. So you could have up to four signs within 100 feet of each other. Correct.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Sorry. Can you go? I just want clarity on all this. So number five, maximum height. Oh, that's how high you can hang it. Not the size of the sign. Okay. I'm with you now. Nevermind.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“That's the height of the sign, not the size of the sign. Correct. Okay. I just want to clarify that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Would an easy up, would that be considered a sign? Or would that fall under something different?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And if they have two people there, then it could be 32 square feet.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. I was just going to say, three people. So they have a bunch of people in the booth they could have as big as they want. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think even the conversation we had in the last study session talked about people running for office and not. So it's going to happen.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“One thing we didn't cover and I think was an issue, and maybe you did and I just didn't catch it, is we have different events that the city puts on that get sponsored. And the way I understood to this point, and I have nothing in this one way or the other, Incumbents were not allowed to do it, non-incumbents were allowed to do it. How do we even the playing field, or do we?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“That didn't answer my question. So I understand a non-incumbent, can an incumbent do it too?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So everybody's on a even playing field? Yes. Okay, that's good, okay. City Manager Lee.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Understood. Understood. I think the way it was done this year is, at least what I was told, is non-incumbents can and incumbents cannot. But we're saying that's not the case.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026