Remarks by Joseph S. Geller
75 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Well, this may sound a little funny, and I want to be clear, I say it with due regard to my esteemed colleagues that I sit next to but having done like you did a whole bunch of graduation speeches I feel like in the last few weeks I feel like I could use some of those words today because in a real sense graduating from very serious responsibilities that this board has to what you're now going to be facing which is completely different I'll just echo the part about being excited for what you're about to undertake. I mean, for somebody who's never even served on that board, to have no one want…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Just a great item, and I want to cosponsor it at the appropriate time. It's very much needed, and thank you for bringing it forward.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“It's very nice. I got two nits to pick with it, but, you know, I think that's expected.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Yes. It was mostly that, those of us who were color challenged. You know, and I can't name a couple of these. I think I see a chartreuse here, but I'm not really sure. In the interest, again, and I want to, to the extent I can, I try to be consistent here. I may be wrong, but I'm at least consistently wrong when I'm wrong because I try to be consistent. I do favor a fairly broad screen, and I think I've made that clear. So in the lilac, if that's correct, it says that each board member should advance two semifinalists. I know there are nine of us, but let me assure you from a lot of searches,…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I think we have to be guided by some practicality, much as I hate to bring that topic up to the board. But If we have 25 semifinalists, which we won't. I mean, if everybody advanced three and the max was 27, I assure you, you're not gonna have more than about 15 because not everyone will have three. And more importantly, a lot of them will be the same names. So maybe we'll have 15, maybe we'll have 18. We're not gonna have 25. It might be cumbersome if there's 20 to try to schedule Public interviews with the semifinalists, although, you know, again, some of them may be unavailable, some of…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“On that one point, maybe there's, again, I always try to see if there's middle ground. I don't think we need four of them, and I don't think we need a north, central, and south. Maybe what we could do, though, in deference to Board Member Santo's point, what if we simply had, at some point in the course of these few months, we had one particular, could be after a board meeting, could be when public comment is otherwise scheduled, just open it up, say we're gonna have a public hearing, we'll have one, for the people that come to the board or want to come to the board. And we still all have our…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“And, Mr. Chair, I don't think it, in deference to Board Member Santos' point, if one of those we just make clear is open to the public, then we're having a chance for the public to comment without having to schedule all these other, you know, one in every corner of the county.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Well... Additional recruitment, I don't want to substitute what we've already done or wait on them to get that done. It's not, if they don't get it done, we can't move forward. If they want to add something and supplement, that's fine.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay. There's Board Member Geller. I'd rather keep a little flexibility on our part. Let's see how many semifinalists we have. I'd prefer to have them interviewed publicly, but if there's 20 of them, it's not very practical.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Board Member Geller. And I agree with that. And let me just say, Board Member Santos, I appreciate what you said. But when you say not published, it's all public record anyway. So I just assume not getting – get us into some situation where somebody is going to say, oh, you didn't take the highest ranked. person, how could you take the person who was ranked number four because we're stuck and everybody's going to end up looking at it. I'm just a little nervous about assigning numbers even informally. I'd just as soon not do that. I like whoever said pass fail. If it's somebody that I want to…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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“have any role or is it strictly the chair that determines whether it's good cause? Can we recommend to the chair that it would be nice if she found it to be good cause?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · May 6, 2026
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Facilities and Construction Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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“Chair, very briefly, and I want to hear from others. But let me just say, I sat in the legislature on that day. I was up there. I was involved with that bill. I supported that bill and parts of legislation I had introduced to increase the number of school resource officers that were public safety officers had been introduced by me at the request of this district before that tragedy and were incorporated in that bill. I want to be clear. I am not suggesting that we have the ability under existing legislation to modify safety measures that we are required to take when there's a violation. That…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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“Mr. Chair, can I raise a point of order very quickly with you? Point of order, yes. Yes, sir. I have to be in a meeting at 5. Can my item still proceed forward if I have to leave before we get to it on the agenda?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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“We did this last year. Hope we'll do it again this year.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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“Chair. Is there any ability or opportunity for us to try to connect those open mechanics positions with any of our vocational or technical programs? Or can we open that up maybe to students that are trying to study in that field? And if we don't have a specific field of study for that position, can we create one? Because I know we've got a lot of eager young people out there that are trying to learn some kind of a useful trade to support themselves, to support the families that they're going to have. And if we have the need, is there some way we could look to use in-house or promote or create…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Apr 15, 2026
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“Follow up, Mr. Chair? Thank you. Assuming that we haven't yet had graduates that can fill those positions, I mean, if have, that would be good to know, too. But assuming we've not, do we have a timeline for graduating? And by the way, I was talking about student students, but the adult ed piece is also really, that's a great idea. But do we have a timeline for when we can look to have people graduating? Because I assume it's time sensitive for us to get these mechanic positions filled. Do we know when we'll have candidates who've completed the program?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Apr 15, 2026