Remarks by Jazzmin Cobble
159 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 7
- Play at 5:00:43
“Mayor Pro Tem, can you restate the motion, please?”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:01:02
“I believe this is the city's recommendation for the city to pay for. The installation, right? So I imagine that. Without you doing that, you wouldn't be able to move forward. So then the motion is empty in a sense. So, are we, or is the city not an agreement to pay for the purchase and installation of the equipment? And I'm asking the city council, obviously, I know you all are recommending that, but. because if the if the if the city council is okay with the city as it always has and budgets for this purchase and equipment then it pending the payment source would leave the staff still not…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Is there a question about the funding source today from the city? If we're not considering that the URA would pay for it, then is there a question of the city's funding source? It didn't sound like it was. It sounded like you were taking it from the facility's budget and the repairs and other equipment line. So is there a question about the city's funding source?”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:02:49
“You would need to restate the motion without the amendment.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:10:55
“I have some questions. Do we the council or the public have what's being presented on the screen? It's not in the packet. So I apologize. Let me restate that. presented is not in the packet. So the public obviously does not have it. Do we, the council, mayor, do we have what is being presented on the screen?”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:12:20
“Thank you. I have a question for legal. Understanding that there are two changes to what was put in the packet. Obviously, the resolution in the packet refers to an exhibit, which is exhibit A, which is the posted amendment. which of course the posted amendment is now being amended to reflect two changes. So doing a mid-year budget amendment with the resolution that reflects an exhibit of which the exhibit does not have all the current information, although I understand it's just simply two, it does not reflect all of the amendments. I would imagine that if we are going to refer to an exhibit…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:15:41
“Okay, yeah, I think what you're I think what you're saying is slightly the same thing I was saying, but nonetheless, I think a budget amendment should be public. I think the budget amendment should be all inclusive. Understanding that there's a zero impact to the final number is fantastic, but the details should be public. And I think that the council should have it in writing what those changes are and not just make a vote in the public by just a verbal explanation and not being able to, one, reconcile those changes, obviously just to put more eyes on it, but two, to ensure that you can say…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:20:49
“Mayor Persim, I do have just one comment.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“explanation said that there was no, there was zero financial impact. And I just I do want to make sure that there's clarity on there may have been no impact to the budget being balanced. But there is a financial impact when you move $2 million from one line to another. and obviously move an expense, which is listed in the current packet as an expense coming out of one fund, which was the URA, and now coming out of a different fund, which is the general fund. So although the changes may have still reflected a balanced budget, there is an impact to the budget when you're moving any amount, but…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 5:22:06
“Those are the items I'm also clearing up is that they do have a financial impact where you're moving $2 million from budget line 230 to another, which the financial impact because you're moving multiple millions of dollars and moving the equipment from one fund to another. So yes, I am referring to the exact same two items you are as well, but clarifying that no impact is different than a balanced budget.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“One, two, three, four items that have been added today at this moment. Is there any backup for anybody to review to be able to have a discussion or are we doing that blindly?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 17:50
“Okay. Who has these emails that you said were sent out? Can I have date and time, please, so I can go pull that?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 18:21
“The slip I have I'm talking about the other 3 items. the resolution, the two the attorney added and the one that District 5 added?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay. And so would you ask them, when you added them to the agenda, were you asking those for a discussion or a decision? They're for a decision. There are two items for a decision of which no one has seen yet? Yes. OK, and will you please send those now so that we can consider in their items B, C and D? Yes.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 19:18
“OK, I mean, still, you know, I'd like to be included in the reading of that. So if you'll send those. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay. Just curious. Mayor Pro Tem. I have a question.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 35:21
“Those that are listed in this, I guess, in this resolution and in this ordinance seems to be all the positions above and below the deputy city manager. I mean, all the way down to the deputy finance director, whose pay grade is, I don't know, two to four pay grades below the deputy. So I'm just curious on why Why are we removing the deputy city manager who is technically by pay grade the second highest pay grade in the city?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 36:04
“Your charter does not have the deputy finance director even listed in it as a position.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 36:14
“Any other you're saying yeah if you'd let me finish. The Charter also does not give the mayor pro tem the bank signing authority either. So if we're going by the charter positions that have any financial or banking responsibilities within it, it would only be the mayor and the city manager. In all technicalities, the finance director's position listed in the charter also does not indicate any banking responsibilities or signatory responsibility.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“No, no. The mayor pro tem said that we're modifying the code of ordinances to reflect the roles in the charter. Right. And so because I asked, why do we not have the deputy city manager who is the second pay grade highest pay grade in the city her response was we're going by the positions listed in the charter so i said well the deputy finance director is not in the charter right and then by technicality the finance director position also does not it is listed in the charter yes but it does not indicate a signatory responsibility so i was just trying to follow the rationale that if we're…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 38:25
“Right, because the ordinance that you're looking at was not written to mimic the charter. You said you're making changes to mimic the charter. The ordinance that was written here was to make operations more succinct. So your rationale was charter, not operational efficiency.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 39:03
“Correct. So I'm just trying to get clarity on why the deputy city manager is being removed. Are you saying because you want to go back to the original code of ordinances?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 39:19
“Correct. Okay. So we're going back to the original code of ordinances, which did not include the deputy finance director.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 39:57
“action tonight and um as it has done before will give those individuals that you all name that power so if yeah i didn't want it to be i didn't say yeah i the charter was not my rationale so maybe that would have been directed at mayor pro tem i didn't say that i i asked for the rationale why the deputy city manager was being removed and the answer was because we're mimicking the charter So I fully understand that an ordinance can be written to put any names in there that the council believes is proper in order for operation. That's not the rationale that was spoken. Um, so I understand,…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
- Play at 41:54
“OK, I should wait until you discuss that for my next question.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026