Remarks by Josh Street
159 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 7
- Play at 1:21:10
“Right. Is that operating money? Is that some type of education program? What is that?”
Public · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:21:55
“Well, what was used is they were used, city expenses were still incurring the expense, and then the receipts were submitted, then drawn down. It was a pretty creative way of stealing.”
Public · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:22:24
“Yeah, I think that was that my point wasn't what you were saying, Janice. My point was that was the, that was what was being utilized to siphon off stuff.”
Public · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:24:50
“do think we probably need to have some some type of clarity on on philosophically whether the program should stay within the actual city budgetary process or whether it should move to a nonprofit and whatever we need to do to get that conversation back to us that would be that would be that now the city may still control that nonprofit as it seems like that's what we've discussed today but at least it creates a more positive movement forward to getting to answer the question of how do we construct a building and then program and be able to afford sustainability of it and Robbie I would…”
Public · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:26:24
“That'd be great. There is no driving force to a specific solution. And hopefully you guys see this. I think right now we just have so many options of opportunity. Pick the best one that ultimately serves the longest. And I don't know that just keeping it as is is what's going to serve the program long term.”
Public · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 22:48
“What is admin? I see that wasn't in the right. Yeah.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 30:00
“I was just going to ask the question, does it make sense to bring their administrative arm over to here to reduce overhead costs?”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 30:23
“I'm just saying the proximity that's here.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 31:45
“Us advertising for these critical positions, because of the impact on the service level that it's creating, I think to Robbie's point, what would be helpful is maybe on this 1st of all I. Operations wise trash, they've always done an amazing job. I love our trash people. I often compliment them as the most well run operation in all of the city. No offense to every other department, but they're, they do a fantastic job. Maybe why don't we start with the conversation of just seeing a line item detail of what's in that admin calls from this past year. So, let's just take a look at it. Okay, all…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 32:35
“I was going to try to keep it simple by just looking at trash and their overhead number is actually really low comparatively to every other department we've looked at thus far. So I think if they're probably the leanest of the bunch, but it would be good to kind of just see. Because I don't even know that I understand everything that gets tagged to admin. So that would just clarify.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 33:08
“Yeah, it is. I mean, frankly, these guys can't take any days off. They can't miss anything. They can never be sick.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 36:35
“Well, I can get it to you. It was considerably...”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 39:03
“is there any are these guys ever a part of an evaluation process on equipment and vehicles that we choose i mean these guys have got to work on them i assume that they know which ones are bad yes ones are good yeah they will they will provide input to our purchasing department on what vehicles are easier to maintain So, I think last time we talked about doing an evaluation of all city vehicles, I would love to see the comments of our equipment maintenance personnel as part of that report. Okay. So that we can include the guys that actually maintain it on what vehicles are worth keeping. What…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 51:04
“So, we talked last year when we talked about the, and I know this, this project has gone way longer than what any of us thought that it should. But Jan was kind enough to supply us with what that 26.97% represented in revenue. Of water loss, and that was a 1.4Million dollar number that she laid on us. So I think this kind of communicates that most of our water loss was coming from meters. Not working. Is what it appears to me is that kind of what you guys are are seeing.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 52:19
“So you're saying we're not billing... this this amount more so our water loss went from twenty six percent down to eight and we're not we're not paying the county for for wholesale water that we're not building retail rates correct that is correct yeah are we seeing our our water billing of what usage is in the city is that getting billed more I would have to refer to this because that would tell me that it's the water meter.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 53:54
“So meters, and I'm bringing this from the standpoint of meters are our number 1 priority inside of this. And yes, and to let me go back 5 years ago, when we started this rate study, we did a rate study when meters weren't working. And so everything that we relied on for the last 5 years, and our rate study didn't have a, there was a significant number of meters that were not working. And so it is vital, like, to me, I cannot support doing another rate study unless this metering issue is done.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 54:53
“So I funded three rounds of this. The board has funded three rounds of meter replacements. What else are you going to ask for it?”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 56:27
“So I would like to see a comprehensive. So. It's not been very well communicated. Maybe everyone else understood this and I was just ignorant to it, but I thought we were going to be done with the metering April of last year. And so it sounds like there's something more catastrophic than even what we've discussed that is continuing to snowball, which does make sense because we continue to get residents that reach out to us about estimated billing billing that's off. Billing that's only from a day, all of these other things. So we, we need to understand exactly what it takes to complete this…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:00:54
“So, before we, before we take any further action, I would personally like to see you guys discuss with the county on what meter usage they're using and what they're doing for the residential meters. They have obviously, you guys are aware we've been in discussions and had conversations about potentially taking over their retail service area. So it would make sense to try to see is there is there a system that makes sense for both happy to do that. So, um. Until that point, what we need, I guess staff to understand is be kind to our residents and understand that when they get a bill and…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:01:48
“I mean, what I mean by that, oftentimes it's, it's well, maybe you have a leak, maybe you have this, maybe you have that. I mean, it sounds like we've got enough known issues within our system that it's probably save everybody time and money to resolve it move forward. We need to replace me to replace a meter.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:04:13
“I'm wondering on these residents. So it's about 300 and something dollars from what I understand. To replace a meter, how long does it take us to recoup? That sounds like it's a long time. To recoup to recoup the cost of actually making this repair. It sounds like it may take us. 2 years of residential water usage to recoup 300 something understood.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:04:42
“the question is how much it's being under and how much it's being underestimated i mean if it's minus one times two from this if it's just if it's a thousand gallons you know a month or whatever it is it may not be it may be inconsequential is what i'm trying to say i'm not talking about commercial users that use 10 20 30 100 000 gallons i'm talking about just an average you know two bedroom one bath house $300 is a big expense. I mean, I don't know. I think that you guys should really look at the numbers with this because $2 and whatever million, that's a lot of money to hit on the utility…”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:15:10
“Is there a reason why we're not using the loan to do these projects and then awaiting reimbursement?”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:22:48
“How many cars that go by a business doesn't affect how much grease they have? Okay. Depends on the car.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 1:25:22
“So, I want to make sure that I'm understanding this budgets based upon our, our water and sewer bills. Is that correct? Okay. So there's 23% is going into just maintaining billing and admin.”
Public · Jul 16, 2026