Remarks by Kaylynn Paxson
113 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Thank you. What were the three oppositions, and was it to the amended or the original requests?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So it is... One of the renderings looks like a, you know, it looks kind of nice, that storage facility. I guess my thing is, is it's right in between so much residential.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Are they going to be putting any kind of fencing or barriers to kind of, you know, if that's your home up against what's going to be that roadway and now going to be a new storage facility? You know what I mean? That's quite a big change to their current.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Have they indicated doing one of those?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. And is the... I'm looking for the picture. I'm sorry. I'm trying to find it again in the packet. Um, there is a rendering. Okay. There it's, um, it's kind of a sharper looking building. Is that more realistically what they're, I know it's just a rendering, but do we think that's kind of what they're going for? I don't know what page it would be on yours. It's our site plan.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, and I think you said it earlier, but the lighting is going to be minimized or controlled so that it's not disruptive to the R6?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, and when we remedied some of those concerns that were voiced in those letters, did we ever make contact with them again and tell them they were remedied?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Is the roadway that's going to the north of the property, is that just for their internal use? That's just for that property to use?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And the building is going to be on the south?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I almost wonder if it wouldn't be better to flip it so that there's less traffic.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Well, thank you for all this information, Yvette.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation. Chapter, just to be clear, Chapter 2254, that's specifically A&E type contracts. That's what you were referencing in this presentation. Let me go to that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sure. I appreciate that. I think one of the common themes that you demonstrated throughout your presentation was you cited the Texas code, and then you said most cities follow some sort of a close variation to what we do, which is what the code is. Great, we're following the law. That's perfect. To me, that's one of the big driving factors behind wanting to call this committee for a brief period of time is, to look at what could we do across our procurement. And I'm not saying that we're not following good practice. I'm not saying any of the other cities are not following state practice. I'm…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Jeff. Thank you everyone for the presentation. I think still at the end of the day and it's no fault of our department because it's state policy. The big thing behind this is, you know, we hear it a lot. We hired the same X amount of contractors and there's so many complex reasons as to why that would happen. So part of this is evaluating that. It's that so much of our costs are increased because we're a city entity. and they charge us more, and that's not you, that's not me, that's none of us, but it's not exclusive to the city of Corpus Christi. It's a systemic issue, and anytime…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. So the outline was to have each Elected a point similar to the committee's we've done far-field Conservation plan all of those a point one and have someone from legal someone from engineer kind of help be the liaison and the objective is really to to come up with An evaluation of our policies and that's that's the whole bulk of things some of the conversation up here would certainly be included things like Who's scoring? What's the training we do or don't provide for those scoring? Where we may not drive the selection, what do we drive in the negotiation? Those types of things. I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for presenting this. I think it was conversation that we've heard a lot from the diocese. We'd like to know kind of what the audit department's been working on. I know we get privileged to that, serving on that committee. Did you have in your slides at all the audit plan that we see in the committee?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, could you go to that, the next line? I'm sorry, we just didn't have it in our packets either. And so the engineering and the human resource is complete, but we're still in signature for the fire station. Yes, ma'am.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Um, I said we're sitting on the committee this past two years. I know this committee has been under tremendous public fire. I think that didn't help the situation, especially with, I think that was a driving force behind one of our law department losses. Um, I recall that we have, on a couple of occasions, had to escalate items to this dais to get support for the work you guys have done. I know it's been a difficult almost two years, and that has included asking for support on these things, which we were happy to bring it here and provide, and the scrutiny and things like that. My heart and…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So if you had to put us in four bullet points, so it goes, applications come in through the organization or through the chair.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“and then they filter them to HR. HR passes them to the audit committee chair. They filter, cherry pick, pass that to the committee. The committee reviews and then that selection is sent to council?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So when you receive the applicants from the talent acquisition group, do you forward all of them or do they pass through a filter again at HR?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So that goes from the consultant that we hired for talent. Then it goes to HR. You're getting updates throughout the process. So do you filter what he passes to you, he or she, or you send everything you've gotten to the chair?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All of them to the chair. And then the chair takes them to committee. Yes. When do they get put before this group that we heard earlier that's comprised of the audit department, city manager? At what point in this? It's the audit committee. It's the audit committee.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“essentially answers to the council audit, the auditor under them as the department. Is that uncommon to cities? Because what you said was we don't have an SOP as far as how we do this onboarding. If we're not the only city doing this, how do we have no SOP?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But we're still probably six to eight, if not more, weeks from hiring because before the next audit committee, and then it has to get whittled down, and then it has to go to council, and then an offer added. So we're still a couple of months out from filling this role.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026