Remarks by Lynn Su
245 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
- Play at 37:49
“I think we missed our comp plan deadline this”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 37:54
“We have to wait until next year, I think.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 37:58
“Right, so maybe we should start thinking about setting some dates for us to have a workshop, just us discussion. I think we all have kind of like an idea of what we want to do. I mean, we're not going to talk about today, I hope. Today's budget, but what I'm saying is we should start planning out dates where we can all come to... We all have different ideas for different things, right? I mean, I hear it through the grapevine about different things, but we never talk to each other about it, and I'd love to have that conversation.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 45:04
“I know we were headed to HR already, sorry, I was looking at finance. In the current, I know, I don't, how, what is the ideal staff number?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 45:22
“Okay. I don't know. I mean, I only know of like five individuals in the finance department. Yes, yes, yes. They're all hidden.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 45:33
“Yeah. I just wanted to know, like, so you're going to hit your target of ideally 18?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 46:07
“Yeah. Okay. Can you do the positions for me roughly?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 47:23
“Okay, and currently how many are staffed?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 47:33
“All right. Oh, so, okay, so Grant has now moved in there to the finance department. Well, I think you mentioned that last time. Yes. Okay, thank you very much. Let's go for the questions.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 52:40
“Yes, Commissioner. I'm not understanding how that cut is possible.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 52:46
“All of them. I mean, like, you have HR. Well, HR is the only one that is increasing, right?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 52:53
“Oh, no, it's actually decreased. Yeah, everything is decreased. So can you explain, like, where the cuts came from?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 53:17
“OK. And then, so what about the workers' compensation self-insurance fund?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 53:44
“Okay, all right. Well, I mean, yeah, we'll definitely walk through that. And this one is, again, operating expenses went down by $1.5 million.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 53:55
“22. Okay. I mean, I have no problems with reducing expenses. I just want to know, like, what is what, you know, there's always a catch, right? Like something's got to give.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 54:52
“So what's the operating expense that went down by 1.5 million?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 55:00
“No, I don't want to do that. I just want to know, like, was it, like, were we eliminating, combining contracts?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 55:42
“But that's clear, though, because it's...”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 55:46
“So like an example is... We're talking about operating expenses. We're not talking about compensation. So compensation is the, you know, I get the employee portion.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:06:36
“I have a question. Yes. Through the vice mayor. Yes. So transfers in, can you say a little more about that for me?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:06:50
“Okay, and I think previously NMB Water was also like paying for IT stuff, right?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:07:37
“Do we know how much NMB Water is contributing to the funds?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:28:05
“I'm so sorry. I know I'm a little slow. Through the vice mayor. I'm going to go back to the building budget for a second. 37. So here it says you still maintain 21 full-time and then you have six part-time not available for 26, right? You look at compensation and we are going down by 884. Is that accurate? So you're maintaining the same number of employees, but the pay is going down by almost a million dollars?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:30:21
“but if we were doing if we were doing actual then i probably you'd be able to get that yes okay i don't know if commissioner sue was done no i have another question okay also um where is the enterprise fund in this portion like about permits it's you want to see how much we got from permits right because all of this is the enterprise is the enterprise fund where is that”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:30:48
“Okay, my bad. So when we had 8 million last, I thought we had 8 million last year or nine. Nine, yes. Eight-ish nine.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026