Remarks by Jim Pollard
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 1:24:24
“You passed through, so it's a $27,500 increase, but really that's kind of...”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:44:33
“It was a big annoyance to the residents. I got called up here, I think, about twice a year to serve on the court, and I hated it. Everybody I know hated coming down here for that. And it irritates everybody. It also gives the image in the community how bad we are, how bad our police force is.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:45:28
“If we did need a jury pull, it would be our... We don't have that many people in this community to go to those meetings. And what was it, every Tuesday or so, every Wednesday, you would have a court?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:18:45
“Well, that brings up, at the top, the leader there. You've got the leader is highly certified, highly sought after, I think. I think he's nearing retirement. Do we have a succession plan?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:05:37
“Forget that idea. Bad idea. Back to your rooms.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:22:41
“Has the police department looked at it? I was just going to ask. What do they think about it?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:34:22
“It's cool to have but I'd rather put my money into Compensation for our police officers same Yep, that makes sense.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:48:42
“I'm sitting here thinking of a street that you've got some house. On your side of the street. Go ahead.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:50:12
“Give it to the police. You could be an engineer.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:17:05
“I've been in the field with those guys, and I see them cussing about it. I mean, they hate it. They absolutely hate this system. Well, don't ask Mark.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:27:44
“Are you going to get rid of that and start hiring some people to answer the phone?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:34:12
“I don't like to have a personal up there answering at all times the people and answering the damn phone. There's people talking to people because we're a small enough city. We ought to be person to person.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 16:13
“My own. My only question, did you utilize zero-based budgeting, or did you use prior year's budget and just build on top of that and assume everything's going to happen that happened prior year without looking at cutting as much as you can?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 17:41
“If I have a department, I would think to me, we've laid out all the expenses I had this year. I can say, do I have to have all of this, do I have to spend all of that again next year, or can I trim this, can I trim that, and go line by line and trim as much as I can, especially if we've been coming under it traditionally?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“decreased what increased stuff like that so each department had had to come forth and say this is what I busted for travel and entertainment last year I'm cutting as much as I can to save the city in these areas so my new budget for travel and entertainment next year will be this amount did every department do that”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 20:00
“I think that's what that's not zero based budgeting. Yeah, I think it needs to be more specific if I'm going to send this this this person to entry-level training program Next year I'm not going to have that person do the same thing because he's already trained So I can cut that for to that particular training program out next year it would be better to go by department and by person and make each of those lines a Determination for each line trying to save as much as you can cutting as much an example is the the money that we spend for the city for events of Going through I know Charlie is…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 21:10
“Civic Club. And it would be nice if every department had that attitude and looked at it and said, what can I do to save? Because we don't want to take taxes up if we can help it. And if we have to, take it up as little as we can possibly take.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 31:54
“Just the salaries general ledger, I mean account We had to be a whole lot last year because we had the police parity but that wouldn't afford to not for admin So”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 43:44
“I do too. And I just want to make sure that we're going line by line. I'm not trying to pick anybody apart. And the things that we can control that we could say, look, I can cut here and I can cut here. I'm going to cut to the bone if I can until it hurts the city. And then that's how much I would budget. On areas like gas and things that are totally uncontrollable, yeah, you've got to take a swag. but the ones that we can control to cut it as much as we can. And there are several items, I think, that every one of those lines have to be looked at by each department head and reviewed by SAM.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:15:33
“We should be able to pay for it very simply because of the ideas that each of us bring back to help our city. These conferences can be tremendous.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:23:32
“What about the groundwater reduction plan?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:24:24
“You passed through, so it's a $27,500 increase, but really that's kind of...”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:44:33
“It was a big annoyance to the residents. I got called up here, I think, about twice a year to serve on the court, and I hated it. Everybody I know hated coming down here for that. And it irritates everybody. It also gives the image in the community how bad we are, how bad our police force is.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:45:28
“If we did need a jury pull, it would be our... We don't have that many people in this community to go to those meetings. And what was it, every Tuesday or so, every Wednesday, you would have a court?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:18:45
“Well, that brings up, at the top, the leader there. You've got the leader is highly certified, highly sought after, I think. I think he's nearing retirement. Do we have a succession plan?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026