Remarks by Mark De Forge
156 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 7
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“What other questions can we answer from there? Do you do a State of the City?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you. But let me just pause for a second. I see a question from Councilor Ugarte. Councilor Ugarte. Oh.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Your microphone should be on. Just make sure you're close to it when you're speaking for our online audience. I'm not very technically skilled, but it has a green light on. I think you're in good shape. You're in good shape. Okay. So, Councillor Warrington, can you kick us off with your first question?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“What do you need from us to be successful?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Councillor Rustem, I believe you're next. Sure. Why would you want to do this and why North Plains?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Councillor Ugarte, I want to check in with you and see if you have a question.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So Ross, I believe we've completed all of our questions. So we're now, can we go to questions for us? What questions do you have for us?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Councillor Ruston or Councillor Webber, do you want to elaborate on Councillor Warrington's answer?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So, Councillor Webber, are you ready to go next? And then I noticed Councillor Ugarte, if you would like to answer. after Councilor Weber.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Councilor Ugarte, would you like to answer?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, sounds good. So we're in work session. We can discuss the candidates. We won't make the decision in work sessions. Does anyone have any comments?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“If you have a comment, please keep us up.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. I'm aligned with everything I've heard from you guys. Sounds like we have a pretty clear choice in personality approaches. And they're both very skilled people that I'm confident could do a good job. I think both would be excellent choices. And I think we just need to come to a conclusion about which personality is best fit for North Plains at this time. Let me do a quick time check here. So it's 7.17. So we're still in work session. We'll go into council where we can make decisions at 7.30. Is there additional conversation that you guys would like to have?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“You can come for your birthday. My quick feedback is you are more than welcome to participate. We'd love to have your opinion. But I think we can also be successful. So if you have an important commitment, please feel free to go ahead with it without any bad feelings from us. We have a quorum. We're in good shape. But again, we'd love to have you participate.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, so I'm going to adjourn. the work session at 7.21 on August 20th.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Call the council back into order on August 20th, 7.30 We are now in an open session where we can deliberate and make a decision on a new interim city manager. At this point, I would suggest and propose that based on our work session deliberations that we start to align on a candidate. Does anyone have any suggestions or want to kick us off?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'm looking to continue our deliberation. So we talked about the qualities of the candidates. And now we need to align on which particular candidate is the best fit for the city. So I'd like to hear people's thoughts. And then I am hoping that the conversation will align us to one candidate from that which point people think the motion. So I'm still looking for feedback from the council.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. Looking at Councillor Warrington or Councillor Weber.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So I would lean towards, yes, Paul. Thank you, sir. And I know Councillor Ugarte said she was going to drop off, but I just want to survey Colleen. Can we see if Councillor Ugarte is on?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I will align with the team that Paul is a good choice and I would support it and I appreciate everything that Ross has done to bring us to this point. So it sounds like there's consensus on the council that we will proceed with an offer to Paul. So let me pause for a couple things here. I'd be looking for a motion. And then subsequent to that, I would recommend that we appoint two counselors to work with our city attorney so that you can provide feedback on compensation and benefits so that we don't need to say in a public session, this is the amount we're going to approve…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So let's just close your job. Well, let's talk about the, thank you. Let's talk about the next steps. So I imagine that there would be a special session next week where the, after the counselors in our attorney, part of the negotiated contract, it comes back to the council for approval, and that will be public information at that point.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Gotcha. Okay. Okay. So at this point, I believe a motion would be in order. And let me let me pause for a second. So Ross, what I would suggest, and I think we should discuss the motion and then we'll talk about how to get it across the finish line here, but the council authorizes the city attorney to negotiate with Paul Oak for the position of interim city manager. Yes. Sounds great.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“My recommendation is open-ended, but I'm open to feedback. Okay. So.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Correct. That's right. There would be a subsequent initiation of a recruitment process. that would begin at a subsequent council meeting.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026