Remarks by Maria Rodriguez
78 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
- Play at 3:07:16
“My question would be if private providers come in and our work gets slashed in half, which, I mean, that would be an exaggeration or something like that, but our work gets slashed in half, would we still all agree that only one person per role?”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:07:53
“Of the extras, but you're saying here it wouldn't be of the minimum staffing? Correct. OK, that makes sense.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:10:53
“Thanks. I think built into most of this is obviously the ability for all of us to, like, whether the vendor comes forward to speak to the contract manager, eventually, like, we could... Somebody, whether it's on our end or the contractor or the vendor, could come in and say, actually, look, we have this one overachiever, and they can do all these things. Can we switch that? Like, I suppose at some point that could come up. I just wanted to state that flexibility.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:11:39
“No, that's fine. Allowing whatever is on there is fine as a consensus.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:12:59
“So let's just, is there consensus for that to be negotiated with contract manager instead of a timeline?”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:15:29
“So you would add during city business hours.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:15:35
“Well, but city business hours is not Fridays.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:15:47
“So is that the difference between A and B, that scheduled city working hours, technically our city does not open on Friday?”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:16:03
“So then it would be more of the consensus of Monday to Friday? 7 to 6 PM. Adding the time frame.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:16:29
“I still think the time off, but there would be consensus otherwise. So you guys can go ahead.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:17:26
“And to clarify, we wouldn't be deciding this now. This is simply to put, well, I mean, if we decide to go with only option B, then we would modify the RFP and go with that. The reason I kept both A and B is to gather that information from the possible bidders and make a decision later was my preference. That was one of the options. At least on this paper, I don't see that as a consensus, but I wanted to...”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:19:36
“But what if the person who the vendor chooses also happens to retire? So then you come across the same issue.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:24:55
“But that's where the difference between F1 and F2 comes in.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:25:00
“So F1, I think we're looking to see agreements.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:25:07
“F1 is simply the internal, external for the RFP, or we provide the both options. But it looks like we're going with simply option B in the RFP, and consequently as the vendor only having the possibility for in-house.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:25:54
“So my question is, if we bring it in-house, do we need that operations person?”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:26:21
“So that was my misunderstanding on my part because I thought that it would be duplicative, but for clarity, you don't believe it would be duplicative even if we bring someone in-house to have the operations person?”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:27:05
“Oh, OK. That's the one that I was saying was duplicative, because if we bring it in-house, we wouldn't need someone. Correct. They would be the same person.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:28:45
“Again, then you're blending. That's what the second one is talking about, the historical.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:29:31
“That's what the mayor is saying, that he doesn't believe. I don't think so.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:31:10
“We're agreed. That's just B on that one.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:32:51
“So then that's just H1A. That's just how many numbers. So can we all say how many numbers we'd like? And I do agree it should be an odd number.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:33:32
“I think the question, the reason that they put in the...”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:33:40
“The reason that the options were given as alternatives was because Commissioner Good mentioned adding additional people from outside of the city.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 3:34:13
“So then you would take up H1B first. So yeah, then let's decide how many people we want to bring from the outside and then decide on the number.”
City Commission · Sep 3, 2026