Remarks by Jonathan Coffman
119 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
- Play at 55:48
“Do we have those? Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I was wondering how robust is our career mapping, so to speak, for progression across departments?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 59:53
“One quick one, I guess. With our turnover and new people, especially in departments that were hit pretty hard this last year, what are you all doing to support the ongoing culture of the staff across departments?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So really just a couple of comments. I think the proposed approach that James and Mir and Rudy were mentioning I think is a good one. I think that I know when we first had this conversation we were talking about going really deep and very wide, like a forensic level accounting audit, which to mirror what Councilmember Mateo was saying. I don't know that we need that deep. I think we would be seeing, especially, thank you to Melody, I think we'd see if there were any big red flags there. I think it would be nice if we could find a way to do more than one this next year. Always going to want…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'll give you an example, if you don't mind. So one thing that I've noticed, and I think I saw something in here about it as well, was for the CIP projects, we have a great CIP dashboard that's out on the web that people can see. A lot of projects don't get updated very often. And so if you are interested in something specific, I don't know what the current cadence is, but I think that... Yeah, it was part of it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And I think I would add to that further to your earlier point, Rudy, as well, of if we don't have software or tools that makes that easy, I think people need to be asking us for that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And money's tight, obviously. Just to produce reports that everybody wants.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. Good work. I think the last time we talked about this, Council Member Ryan, I think part of the discussion at that time was how much of the existing work do we codify going forward, right? And charter versus an ordinance. And so I'm curious if anyone's thoughts on that has changed because I recognize you do have some new deliverables in here which is perfectly healthy conversation to have but it looks like a lot of it is stuff to your point when you're proposing this right was things that are already happening but you're wanting them on paper is that still generally accurate well yeah…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“If we're amending the budget, we probably should know how the rest of it's doing and why we're doing that, right? Yeah, so then that would be the perfect time to do it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So let me make sure I understand what you're saying. I'm pretty sure I translated your technical brain. So I think what you're saying is splitting out and codifying the as-is version and have a separate conversation or mechanism to Rudy's point. for potentially the new additions? Is that what you're thinking?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I don't know. Should we try to put, and I'm not going to make up a timeline personally, but I think that it would be worthwhile for us to maybe set some parameters on how much staff time we expect for them to go through and read this. And can we come up with a quick answer of... you know, yes, X, Y, and Z are going to take forever and we can't do it versus the rest of it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“go about that operationally can we pursue some sort of interim solution whether subcontractually somehow only because like the mayor said we do have a UDC update it would probably make sense to have something like this included in that but knowing that that's also multiple months away from now we may want to Try to find a way to do it sooner. Two months away.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:04:34
“So I did just, I googled decibel levels. And so, again, who knows. But according to what I just found, A vacuum cleaner is like 75 or 80 decibels.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“60-something, the example was a conversation argument.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:06:07
“I mean, I think that it's worth continuing to pursue, allowing this to happen. Agreed. I'm not sure what the answer is on how to move quickly on something like this, though.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:06:39
“So you have the drones at the facility already is what I'm hearing.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:09:19
“If we give general direction, you all would still do your... You'd continue forward with your coordination. We signal to you that our intent is to make this happen.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:09:43
“They adopted a code and then we- I'm sure you all have a preferred language anyway for this type of thing, right?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I just want to thank you for putting this together. I think as someone on the subcommittee and with Council Member Mateo and Council Member Rogers, I think we were all incredibly impressed by the plan and the detail that you all put into crafting this. I also appreciate the the nudge towards you all telling us collectively when we need to go make a trip down to the Capitol. And so I I think this is great. Super excited to see how this goes. We just keep improving on each iteration. That's an example of that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“More meetings get posted well ahead of time.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think we're pretty well-covered, and I don't think us listing cities necessarily changes the way staff would be handling any of this as it comes up. I mean, I'm kind of with the mayor.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, Cesar and I brought this up after we were notified a few weeks ago that we had a nonprofit a food pantry that was shut down. I know that in the last couple of weekly updates, staff has provided more information about the various issues and the negotiations between the new developer of the place that they're trying to move to, their current location, et cetera. I think that despite all of that, I think that and not litigating the facts because I think we know that their current location is not zoned correctly. And I know that staff put in significant amount of effort to try to find and…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So those are businesses where we, they came, they spoke up, we heard what it was. Staff certainly did their due diligence in that case as well. And so those are also for-profit companies. And we established a policy saying that, hey, the city manager has some discretion in the fees that they were owed while they were making progress towards compliance.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So, yeah, that was fines. So this is a different situation. I think that given their lease in the current location at question ends at the end of October anyway, I think that we should allow them to continue operating. in other words, recall the stop work order, because I don't think, again, I don't think we should be in the business of shutting down people providing food to our residents. And then I think that we should establish a similar policy to what we did earlier this year and say, hey, for nonprofits that are providing essential basic services to our residents, there should be, the…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I was specifically thinking that there's basically a carve out for public health and life safety, to your point. Other things, so zoning, permitting, those types of things are in my mind something that we could be temporarily flexible with. I didn't propose a particular time frame. What I was thinking was that a particular organization, if they submit a plan with dates that make sense and that the city can agree to, then that's probably a reasonable hurdle. Open to other ideas as well, of course, but that's kind of where my brain was.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 3:10:36
“I said permitting, generally. Permitting.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026