Remarks by Joe M. Summerlin, Jr.

157 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 7

  1. Play at 3:32:27
    “It's live data. They're collecting their data collection points. I'm kind of freaked out at how many data points are in a vehicle or on you that they're reading from and they're collecting it.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  2. Play at 3:34:30
    “I think it's a value needed when it's there. Oh”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  3. Play at 3:37:09
    “Based on how the usage of the... Mm-hmm.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  4. Play at 3:37:15
    “When you get there, are you talking to page number one?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  5. Play at 3:45:08
    “So if not, you should do it. Do they do any other thing as far as other? measurements that we are doing or monitoring, can they expand or do we have anything else?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  6. Play at 3:45:29
    “Well, not as far as features of its ability. As it stands right now, does this company make anything else that we currently have that we're... Oh, I've never used them on...”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  7. Play at 3:56:41
    “They're just saying that is it replacing cables are the cables but”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  8. Play at 3:57:12
    “So you already know their specs for the cabling that they use, or they use what?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  9. Play at 4:00:54
    “Well, sure, there are other products. Can I ask a question? When we chose Ricotta, because we're currently using, what aspects of their service right now?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  10. Play at 4:01:09
    “So we're currently using it. What was the process to choose Verkada? Good question.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  11. Play at 4:01:31
    “My point that I'm getting at is that we did go through a process of choosing this, this, and that. And this is an add-on to that. And that this is an add-on.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  12. Play at 4:02:49
    “I'm not comfortable. We were already committed to it.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  13. Play at 4:32:41
    “Yeah, even if they get to the point where they can leave a message with the person they want to get to instead of going back to the menu and listening to the whole menu.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  14. Play at 4:33:00
    “Well, I work with call centers and call paths for 30 years.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  15. Play at 4:33:51
    “I'm getting used to AI. It's a lot better than the menu, bouncing back and forth.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  16. Play at 4:36:45
    “I keep swiping. Yeah, so, yeah, 35... Are we going to be able to zoom in on them ourselves? No, sir. Unfortunately, these are only...”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  17. Play at 9:08
    “So you're saying that HB9, I just want some more clarification on that. Is that like the business had to be valued above that before they were taxed or they're able to take that off?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  18. Play at 10:44
    “I think it's gonna get trickier going forward. Oh, it will Yeah, yeah, that was one of my biggest concerns when I got on council was to be The one thing that we just don't pay attention to is what happens at the state level and how that affects us. And here's the very first tickling of this coming in.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  19. Play at 11:39
    “They are going to. And there's got to be some type of an amendment for cities her size”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  20. Play at 29:55
    “What was the percentage? I'd like that recent column, just the total of that.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  21. Play at 30:20
    “Does that fall into, does some of that fall into the step?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  22. Play at 30:51
    “So realistically, for all the different departments, we can look at, we can plan a 3% increase pretty much per year.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  23. Play at 31:16
    “Is the, probably a part of what I'm, I guess I'm looking at. I know there are some costs that are associated with it. The insurance, those types of things are, a lot of that's out of our hand. The only thing we can do is shop around for a better place unless we have restrictions on that. What I'm really looking to get at is what were the percentages of the revenue for salaries? Where did that fall? What was that last year?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  24. Play at 32:36
    “Is there a way to extrapolate what 24 then was over for 25? Or you can do the 25 to 26. No, we haven't agreed on that one yet.”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

  25. Play at 33:06
    “But just do you have available 25 to 26 of what they wage difference or increase was from 25 to 26?”

    City Council · Aug 5, 2026

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