Remarks by Joe M. Summerlin, Jr.
157 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“Wait a minute. If I understand what you're saying, I don't know. If we make an agreement, if we... set policy that the reserves are 90 or 120. The difference of that is not, how is that going to be applied to a one-time loan if that's”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, and I agree with you that extra money sitting over here is not a long term. Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“But if we can, if we change it and say that it's 120 or 90 days and whatever that difference is, that frees that up to be used how we set policy on it. Correct? Correct. OK. So if we wanted to use that, best practice or not, I come from a family of accountants.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Sorry. My phone was going off. So if we use that money to get us through, if we find something that can continue to feed this and take care of it ongoing for the future, but that buys us the time to get there without raising the taxes during this time. Is that what? Yes. Yes, exactly.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“There are so many what ifs in the world.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“What if, you know, press would actually tell the truth. Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah. And thanks. No. And because I'm... It's... I think what it is, and it's not saying to... We want to... we're making decisions that are, it's a gamble.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“No, we're making a decision not to raise taxes and use this money to cover that until whatever you know can be put in place to support it on going past that yeah it's it's it's like saying we know somebody's moving in but they're not going to be here for a couple years you know but can we cover it between now and then without raising taxes i look at it as it's it's the cost of doing business when you're investing you're investing in your future right now and you have to take a little risk And that doesn't impact the reserves.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“That's the whole thing we're talking about.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“What was the percentage that wanted a pickup, additional pickups?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Word, almost. Yes. No, I think we'll get that. Oh.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“As I remember being in that meeting, wasn't it more intuitive even, it would give you traffic flow, traffic congestion, points also. So any studies that we want to see as far as supporting data information on Grogan's Mill and Vision Park, all of these different areas, time of day. It was a very impressive data type of accessing software that they can do.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, because it even showed traffic flow. You pick it. It provides whatever you dial into it, whatever the information you're looking for. For the price, I was surprised at how much usable data within a reasonable time that you can get.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Well, this is not the traffic ones that the chief is putting in right now that they purchase. Those are...”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Well, no, no, no. They're more than signs. They have a Doppler radar that reads and counts that vehicle going to the stop sign and away from the stop sign. It also tells you the size of the vehicle, if it's... you know FedEx or Someone else so it gives you some more intuitive the product the software that Joseph's referring to that we watched It's actually it's not a real-time Right now we can pull up the data right now and see the cars going right now. It's not it doesn't average you so That's one thing about it, but their data the pulling it up has advantages to it. I guess my only question…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“It displays the fee, the speed, the traffic flow. Yeah, we got it.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“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
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“I think it's a value needed when it's there. Oh”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Based on how the usage of the... Mm-hmm.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“When you get there, are you talking to page number one?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“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
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“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
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“They're just saying that is it replacing cables are the cables but”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So you already know their specs for the cabling that they use, or they use what?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“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