Remarks by John Nustad
70 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“And I do think this is a community led effort. I mean, the city's been leading this and trying to do this. It's a community led effort. It's clear that the communication is there, that it's not there as far as understanding and getting the word out on when trash recycle days is going to be. And so I just think it's premature to cancel it early. We do have National Night Out coming up, which is a great way to get out there, to get to the neighbors, to talk to them, to promote recycling, to do the things we're talking about. Every single person that's here that wants to do this should become a…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“We've had AI since Laura's been here. The amount of recall you have on all the grants you write and all the things you do, That just amazes me. So, yeah, we appreciate you so much on all the knowledge you have. History nerd. Thank you, Laura.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Because that will be for this year? This year. This fiscal year.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Move to approve the budget if everybody's finished.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah. So is that time for the ratification? I move to ratify the property tax revenue increase reflected in the fiscal year 2026-2027 budget.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So I mentioned this last time in the meeting, so I don't want to harp in too much on it. So the you know, I'm opposed to doing the one time pay because I value all the employees for what they're doing. The money here, like we're talking about, is not To me, I don't see it as a retention. We have the ability to pay because we have year-end savings. If we didn't have that, we wouldn't be having this discussion. And so it's really that we have the capacity to do it, and the capacity to spend is not rationale to spend. And so for me, we got to look at what end does this satisfy. So a one-time…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I'm sorry to kind of jump in a little bit. Sure. Do you mind explaining to people the gap, so the net to the city is such a large amount. So the benefit of a distribution center, I just want you to kind of highlight that.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I appreciate that. And we should all, as a community, understand the point of destination. I mean, we're providing the infrastructure, the safety, all the components to be able to deliver the product. Schools. And therefore, we should be the ones that receive the sales tax on that. That's correct. So just be mindful of that. And I appreciate all the fight that you're doing on that. Everybody else that does the fight to keep that point of destination here.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So on the community note, thank you so much, Wayne. I apologize.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Wayne, first off, congratulations for you and your team, the board, and the staff on a record year. So amazing job. The only question I hear is the ending fund balance. What's the target or what's the comfortable amount that you want to have in there, if any? I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. Because where it's at, you're comfortable with that as far as?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“You've got to spend money to make money. Appreciate it. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Hey, Will, this is John. Yes, sir. I was wondering, just go to the return page on here, if you would, with the comparison between the median, the Longview Fund, and the benchmark.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. I don't know if we can pull that up or not. I just wanted to let people know, when did y'all start taking over the portfolio?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yes. So I just want to point that out. The performance is doing really well between that seven and 10. The 15, of course, was prior. So I just want to look at that and show the comparison between where y'all are actually been the managers of it. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“um so a lot of i mean a lot of it's going on so i appreciate you being here todd um so real quick i just don't want to put you on the spot too much but why but you're here why you're you're in it you're you're you're in recycling why is it important to you like what is the question well i mean we employ about 20 people that live here in longview and kilgore gregg county that's important we got trucks that come in from louisiana arkansas”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Do you find that businesses and citizens expect recycling to extent to be available?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. We only pick up the city. That's right on the side of it.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“But is there is downstream effects. Are we the largest customer?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, I'm talking about the largest. The city was 68%. I'm sorry for that. But if we pulled out, there could be some downstream effects where the MRF, you know, could not exist.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah. If you're going to be fine, that's fine. But we don't know what... We could have a recession tomorrow. We never know what's going to happen. Yeah, we don't know what tomorrow is. I mean, losing any client, any customer, any business, losing a client that makes up 6% to 8% of their customer base is going to be impacted. That's the reality of it.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, it ends up being almost a quarter million dollars.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“pretty good sum of money you know and sydney just respond i agree with you on all that so the the kind of the way that i'm like looking at it differently is if if we get more recycling as the way it stands right now more people participate it costs us more money right and so therefore the way that it's looked at as far as like the the community is that it's a quality of life item So quality of life item, the more people utilize it, the more expensive it is. So if we had any quality of life item in the city of Longview that had a 12% household participation in it, we would consider that a…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So is 12% of the households going to Ingram Park? You know, it's 12% of any of these quality of life items that do cost the city money. 12% of the households using the trail. All that.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026