Remarks by Josh Street
159 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
- Play at 43:44
“So, so Sean, I think, I think one of the things that you're alluding to is like in those emergency situation, pipe breaks, those kinds of things, you know, one of the things that had been very successful, both fire and PD is mutual aid agreements. I mean, we're not the only ones that have sewer lines. We're not the only ones that have water lines. And I think what you're. hearing now and the discussion is broadening is how do we work better together with our neighbors like there used to be a time if you need a cup of sugar you just walk next door to ask it for your neighbor and essentially…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 45:02
“That's just the way it was. That's just a natural thing. Well, I think to Commissioner Lucas' point, what's the difference between private market and government? Government's a monopoly. There is no competition. So we're not in competition with our neighbor. We're not in competition. if i wanted to ask another plumbing company to borrow their truck to go do a job they probably would say no if i was a plumber but in our case yes if there's if they're going through a similar emergency they don't have something of course they're going to say no they've got to take care of the citizens they…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 55:44
“And they're not. And one of the things that might be helpful to what Robbie's asking for is, You know, regardless of where someone works in the organization, HR supports whoever they are. So their HR costs are over that employee. Same thing with supervision. Essentially, the city manager's salary is divided over every employee in the entire organization. So maybe we could just come up with a calculation that is the average cost of an employee at the city and utilize that as a benchmark for what we're talking about now. And at least you would be able to see, hey, look, you as an organization,…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 56:40
“What I would say is taking all payroll into account, all benefits, all departments everywhere, and extrapolating that out by dividing by 500 and whatever amount of employees, and you come out with an hourly rate associated with employees across the board.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 56:59
“And to what Robbie is asking is... I'm trying to figure out what it costs us for that truck to sit there. If a deployee... There can be times that it's going to be more of that if it's a department head that's driving a vehicle.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 58:48
“That's one thing. Well, I think how I would ask the question I think might allude to how many vehicles do we have as a city? It taught across every department, including PD. PD's got 150. So let's say every one of them.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 59:19
“It does? Okay. So that's facility maintenance, that's trash, that's everything. Right. Okay. All right. So you've got 500-something employees and you've got 300-something vehicles. There's obviously, you know, that seems excessive. It seems excessive.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:12:46
“not just the wow lines we're doing that with the verizon lines as well any land line that's sitting there if you have a phone a cell phone why do you need both and we're just checking with the directors that's their discretion yeah my question my question on these was just you know can we not do we're just the receptionist and each i mean we've got like five or six maybe ten receptionists in city hall that they can have a landline and everybody else just goes to their cell phone because i think”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:16:47
“I think each one of them are taking a little longer than we are.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:17:18
“in order to do that so i mean i i think everyone's seeing i mean i plan on us giving you guys some pretty definitive feedback at least i plan on and i was going to send y'all something like y'all did i wanted to wait till after this and i was planning on doing that and i told alan that i'd like to”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:17:48
“I think given the situation that we're in currently, I do think that we need to be direct on what the expectation is on the overall budget number so that they know exactly what they're shooting for as far as in their proposals. Because, Sean, this is based upon what percentage cut?”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:18:38
“So this is included in your $2 million model? Yes. This one is.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:20:37
“Yeah, so my thought is... one one today even in our conversation with with sean's department which you guys do a fantastic job sean so i mean this is like your stellar department you guys have found savings every single year this is no this is no different um the the point in making the cut further than what you have to is because we do not have reserves we have no we have no safety net that's one”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:21:19
“And so far we've not presented a, no one's presented the actual bringing over environmental services and designated for reserves. It's still sitting environmental services. So until someone shows that.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:21:46
“and why are they sitting in a different pot yeah and that that that's my point is like present a budget that accomplishes that and then we can have that conversation so but the point is not in making the cuts the point is that and and what we get to in this conversation and it doesn't matter what department what what it matters is like there is a tendency to go to cut things that necessarily we're not wanting to cut but there's a protection on things that necessarily like I don't really care how many landlines there are in the city. I want to know that somebody's phone gets answered. If…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:25:31
“So this is what we're kind of setting up to ahead here. I'm just gonna say I'd like to meet with you. So so um what you just said um why I'm a proponent of making as deep a cuts as we can because it gives us the flexibility to backfill. So if I'm presented with a budget that has us cutting 16 officers, well, guess what? Like the $300,000, Sean, I love you to death, I love what you guys do, but I'm gonna fund public safety first. And the same thing goes with anybody. and i i think that's the piece where it's like we only have so many tools in our tool chest of we can we can be presented a…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:27:16
“It's based on policy. It's 16.7%. My expectation is not that's fulfilled in year one. My expectation is that we have a plan. And I've said this, I think multiple of us have, a five-year plan, a three-year plan. So what you guys are probably solving for is a balanced budget. That's what you guys are solving for. Why? Because you're required to by statute to do that. In my realm, as I'm looking at public works, I'm saying, well, we've got to have money to do capital projects once we're done with all this stuff. We've got to have money that we can go replace park equipment when it's broken.…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:29:37
“But it goes into some of our conversation at First Bridge Workshop. Sure, let's say we all agreed to raise taxes. Well, guess what? Every one of our citizens is going to vote to reduce their taxes on a ballot amendment that is going to require that and probably replace all of us. As well. With people who want to burn the place down. With people that are going to be like, let's cut everything by 15% this year.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:30:16
“But in fairness to everyone in this room, What we have not been clear on as a commission is what budget number we're asking you to do. That's one of the things is why I said, hey, next week when we meet, we need to give you guys clear direction on this is your goal. No more moving based upon projections or whatever those things like we need to give you an actual defined goal. Otherwise, you guys are just presenting us stuff and I don't think that's fair. Now, more money's there, things end up better, economy grows, whatever happens, we can always backfill. But we can't really, well, we could,…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:31:52
“I think you guys are getting that. You don't need to start with thousands. I think it's a great question, Samantha. But I feel like that's exactly what I'm saying when I'm saying, hey, don't really care about Microsoft Office. Hey, don't really care about lines. Don't really care. I feel like that's what works. Now, if there's something else that needs to be communicated, I'm I mean, I think I've found myself pretty willing to say pretty much anything at this point.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:34:59
“Yeah, I mean, you do go from a priority perspective, and what I saw in the first $4.5 million cut was a lot of public safety, and You know, am I willing to extend the lifespan of a vehicle? Sure. Like, I mean, I think that's a way that PD could tighten up. Am I willing to let go of officers that could put our people at risk in public safety? No, I'm not. So I'd like... that's kind of how i view it is is look like there's a lot of other things i would do before that i'd be looking at the entire team and saying hey guys we can't do any coal arrays this year because we got to make sure that we…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:39:36
“So I guess we're going to do development services, and then we'll kind of call it.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:40:14
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Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:56:57
“I'm sorry. Would that reduce our permit fees? If we did. Yeah. So like savings in your department specifically, isn't it regulated by statute? So if you end up having savings, you got to reduce your fees. That's right. It doesn't really change anything budgetarily. It just means, are we, are we spending more than what we're, we're doing in permit fees? Okay. So if we find ways of savings, just making it cheaper to develop, we're making it cheaper for exactly.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:59:47
“Explain the public record request. Why is this team getting an exorbitant amount of public record requests?”
Public · Jul 9, 2026