Remarks by Jonathan Coffman
119 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“I mean, I'm more concerned there's going to be too many people in the lobby. Oh, I mean, this is... How many people... Good problem to have.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, Rudy, you mentioned this too, and I'm sure other council members as well, right? The businesses that are inquiring about the rest of our space over there are 100% the things that our residents have been asking for, right? Yeah. On all the sticky notes and stuff for downtown East, those are the companies that are actually reaching out.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Move to approve the ordinance authorizing a lease with two rooms LLC for the City Hall Cafe. Second.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Wasn't that last meeting what I was going to say?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can we request that it maybe gets put in the weekly?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“This is the deal we previously have put together for the business case of cost recovery. So I don't think, I assume, my assumption was it's the exact same thing that we've been talking about, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, I don't know that we do that with any of their, I mean, each one of their projects has a financial analysis to it. Absolutely.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, I guess we haven't officially voted on it, but we did just spend...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's not very neighborly for you to say.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was going to ask the exact same ones, but nobody's been talking about them. Yeah, I know.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I think Rudy, just to talk a little bit about that, I think one of my overarching goals with this was to create a framework so that we don't end up like what a lot of other cities are doing where they've got an ALPR policy, they've got a generative AI policy They've got a drone policy, right, and all of these things. And so I think that the hope of having a framework versus a very specific piece-by-piece definition of these things is that's really the intent, right, is to get something that can be durable and last. We may not know what the technology is that's going to need to be…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that just skimming over it, what's actually kind of funny is that probably about a month ago when our city attorney and city manager and I started working on the draft that I sent over, I think mine was 19 or 20 pages long. Over the course of the last 30 days or so, as we've been talking about enforceability and how to actually operationalize a policy like this, I was able to sort of simplify it and trim it down, mostly by things that you are adding to yours. So I don't disagree, but there's a balance there that I think we're going to have to strike of having everything truly…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So the other thing that needs to be done is the ordinance for a resident advisory committee as well, which is not included, I think, in either one of these, but we've talked about it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And I bring that up partially because this topic isn't going away, and we know we have to do the work on that piece of it as well. And so, you know, while I think it's important that we get something in place rather quickly because we're already tripping over ourselves in some of this stuff, you know, I'm open to waiting, but to Melody's point, I think we'd need to figure it out pretty quick, especially because our city attorney and city manager are going to have to get comfortable with a whole new version again real quick, which is going to take time for them beyond just our council input.…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I mean, we'll have to use some AI to look at the different versions, right? He says he's got a red line.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“High risk only comes to counts. Moderate, though, what we decided on was basically at the city attorney's discretion that what the vendor has proposed is materially the same or covers the same risks. Yeah, fine.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I think that I could mitigate... a pretty substantial amount of time because I know how these guys are thinking about it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But that's not going to reduce their time. It's probably still aggressive for them to like really dig into it and understand it. I don't know what a reasonable amount of time is in their opinion, but I do think some of it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. I'm sorry. Just for the city secretary.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So Rudy, uh, following up on that same thread, is there anything that you would say is like, material to the policy that council would adopt or that changes the direction of something that is in the current agreement and I asked partially to what the mayor was saying is if we're if there's a Decent number of changes or updates that we need to make to various templates documents policies We probably could come back and either do a separate resolution or just a council directive to implement X Y & Z changes to the contracts outside of passing the governance framework today, potentially.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We were still working on it two weeks ago. That's my point. But it was in the packet.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So I do want to say I appreciate the creativity here. I still have reservations about removing the work for Limestone Commercial with Flukeville Farm based on the implication of a particular developer that stands to benefit if we don't do that construction. And like councilmember Mateo mentioned the traffic in that area is terrible. It's an area that is ripe for additional development and so obviously this is a discussion that we'll have to have Separate from tonight, but I still have reservations about that particular part of the plan And my reservation are the last two I'm okay with the…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, and I think, you know, based on how far we think any one of these can do, if we really need to prioritize two of them to make meaningful progress versus splitting the money across all of these.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I believe we had an ask right to come back with what that looks like.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I don't like when a developer makes a specific request that we don't do an infrastructure project to benefit them. That is a line that I will...”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026