Remarks by Lance L. Davis
410 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 17
Councilor Straza would like to sponsor James Good. Any objections? Seeing none, please introduce yourself for the record and go ahead.
Councilor Klingin would like to sign on. Any discussion? Councilor McLaughlin, go ahead.
Very good, thank you. Any further discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved. And that will take us to 4.12.
Councilman Kempin would like to sponsor Alessandro Seiter. Any objection? I'm seeing none. We have her virtually. One moment. Can we get the volume a little higher in the room? Try again. We're getting there. There we go. That sounds good. Thank you.
Thank you. Councillor Whaley would like to sign on. Councillor Klinger would like to sign on. Councillor Link would like to sign on. Councillor McLaughlin.
Thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, that item is approved.
It is now second on the list. Great, just want to double check, thank you.
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I do see Budget Director Mastromoni in the back of the room in case there are some questions about the numbers. Councilor Wheeler?
Councillor Whelan moves to approve. Any discussion on the motion? Councillor Scott.
All right, seeing none, do we need a roll call on that one? We do not, all right, seeing no objection, then that item is approved.
Oh, let's take a roll call anyway, it's just for fun. Yeah. And also because apparently we need to. Roll call on the motion.
All right. Very good. Thank you. Now it's official. All right. Next item, Madam Clerk.
The administration has asked that we consider this one this evening for approval. I think if given the election calendar, it was pretty clear to me why that might be and that was confirmed that there's some need to get this member into office ASAP. We have Commissioner Salerno here if there's any questions. Commissioner Salerno, did you want to say anything on the item before we go to any questions?
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Interesting question. We'll leave that up to the law department. Any questions?
Council Bob moves to approve. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved. Congratulations, and thank you for being willing to help.
We get that take that up together with 7.3 please.
all right so just a quick bit of background for folks who are regular viewers and there was a special meeting called by the mayor over the summer in order to put previous versions of these two documents before the council during that meeting there was discussion about there still needed needed to be some some improvements made and I raised many of those myself but Ultimately, the Council voted to approve those two items so that the process could move forward. Speaking for myself, the issues that I had were not substantive so much as drafting and clarification and just making it easier to…
Very good, thank you very much. Any questions, discussions now? As I said, my thought is to send these to committees so we have a chance to digest them in due course and also hear from other members of the public if there's additional input, but any questions at the moment? All right, seeing none, then let's refer both of these items to legislative matters. Thank you. And then I'm going to ask if you want to take a break, but since it was raised here, let's go back to the regular order of business and start with item 4.1 because it relates to what was just mentioned. Was it on these past two…
All right, let's go to 4.1 and then we'll go to 4.10.
okay thank you manager Helen mentioned some of the provisions in the body one camera documents that were revised to better anticipate a potential Oversight Commission that was a subject that was brought up in the in the deliberation of the body one camera process and I I noted and we heard from the administration their commitment to move forward with that here we are I've had I've had a couple of discussions with members of the administration on a the timing for process no substantive I haven't any substantive discussions as yet but This is the first step. This is essentially calling for a…
All right, so this item will be referred to legislative matters.