Remarks by Joel Anderson
97 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
- Play at 4:28:58
“Yep. Thank you. Ma'am chair We feel that a lot of questions from our constituents in my district and during the most recent board meeting in June I mentioned that I was planning to bring forward an item and requesting public presentations to the board from county consultants involved in the research and development of current and county future ballot measure language. My item asks that the county consultants known as FM3 Research in Ironwood Public Affairs to provide a presentation during the September 1st, 2026 board meeting regarding the recent work that they've done, they've performed for…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:46:41
“Madam Chair, if I may, a recommendation for it was said that no disclosures that would otherwise be prohibited by law. Now, I can't control what everyone else says, but I don't believe if there's a violation, the board's in trouble, the individual's in trouble. For example, if I were to say something that was illegal, like vote trading, and made an offer on this dais, I'd be held. The board wouldn't be held. So I think it's just important that we stay in our lanes and have... them present in their lane and not talk about how this portion is better for the county and that's why you should vote…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:49:58
“Are you not confident in your own ability not to violate the law? I am not confident in the ability... Because I'm confident that I'm not going to violate the law with my questions or my constituents' questions.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:52:02
“So, both those solutions don't solve the transparency issue that I'm facing. So, as far as the FPPC goes, every day we get tons of public records requests and We slow roll those. We've been sued over it. You can't stop people who want to file something.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:52:29
“No, but the point, though, is we don't change our behavior for fear of lawsuits against us on things that have no merit. And... having done some of the research, does the FPPC have oversight over us? We're over three million. They only do two million. I'd have to... Because that's the reason why we're creating our own ethics committee because we don't fall under the FPPC and when I look to see if we could fall under the FPPC we're prohibited by law because they don't do more than two million people. We're past that considerably. So I get that people still continue to file that stuff, but they…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:55:09
“It's on all of it. We're just getting a whole random, it's all random stuff, and I don't want to be in the position of having to”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:55:21
“I'd rather do it sooner rather than later. After the fact, I'm still going to get pounded between now and the election.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:55:43
“Well, I love your broadening. I think that's great.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:56:32
“The questions, so when you read the polling, it doesn't answer the questions of the methodology or the thought or any of those things, any of those questions. It just tells you what the outcome is, but it doesn't tell you how it was created. And in ours, you see the whole interaction, so you know exactly how all of it's created. I'm willing to accept your idea of the report back and us submitting questions. prior in getting that going right now.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:57:08
“Well, what were the two choices you gave us? One after the election and one sooner?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:58:02
“Can we add a Q&A portion to it, so in the report they're answering the questions of the constituents?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:59:28
“If, so if we did have them report here though, and we did submit the questions to you, wouldn't we have the same filter?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 4:59:46
“No, no. The questions that were not in the gray, you simply ask. We'd still have the discussion, but our questions would. The concern is during the discussion, that's when we're going to get in trouble.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:02:41
“What I was going to say, if you've recognized me, is I agree with Jim. However, you can always try to be as pragmatic as possible, and I'm always open to yes, and I don't want to drag this out and make it any worse. I'm good with that. I'm willing to accept those amendments, and if you want to move forward with the vote, I'm good with it. My first choice, though, would have been Jim's. I think that The more transparent we are, the better off we all are.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:09:04
“So I was thinking, perhaps when we got the questions in by the 28th, had we had the public hearing, it would have been easier for me just to notify people to show up. So we're going to have to go back and notify the people to send us, resend their questions to us or any additional questions. I'm thinking we can get that done by the 28th. And I want to be fair to those organizations. Do you think two weeks would be appropriate so if they came back by the 11th or the following Monday? To answer them? Because I think that these are not going to be so complicated. They're going to either know…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:10:23
“My plan is that when we have 10 questions that are similar, we'll narrow it down to one question that answers all of theirs. Like if they say, hey, did you think of this on a Tuesday? And the next question is, did you think of it on a Wednesday? We'll just simply ask, which day of the week did you think, to the best of your memory? So I'm not, my idea is we may have 100 questions. There may only be nine questions that are uniquely different. So I'm going to, that's why I need a little extra time to make sure we crunch it down. It's not fair to ask these vendors, you know, answer 100 questions…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:11:40
“It says no sooner, but can we have an end date so we actually know when we get it this year?”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:12:10
“How about September 30th? That gives a two-week window.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:13:16
“Because that's what it reads. Well, we're going to submit questions, so we're going to get the questions answered.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:13:54
“Well, there's some confusion as to whether we've gotten everything and we've seen everything. So I'm being inundated with questions about whether we're being transparent or not, whether the board's being transparent. I just want to put it to bed.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:14:44
“Good news is we can always come back and rediscuss it and change it.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026
- Play at 5:17:17
“If we have no later than September 30th? If we have no later than, do we meet September 15th? If they want to give it to us the next day.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 19, 2026