Remarks by Matthew Romano
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“No, I understand that. I'm clarifying for the record.”
“I also would caution that there is material evidence that does not have to be in writing. Conversations can be held that are not in writing. There's no paper trail for. Paper trails can be damning. It can be the smoking gun, but it doesn't have to be that.”
“I don't have any tonight. I'm done asking my questions tonight. I'm making the point to clarify the record that it's still not going to be complete, in my opinion, based on the the letter I got on Saturday morning, I'm still not gonna have a complete response. I'll have more of a response, but just like they can be selective in how they're enforcing, and when I say they, I mean city council, they can be selective in what documents they produce. Yeah, this battle's nowhere near to being over.”
“YOU KNOW WHAT? I TAKE ISSUE WITH YOUR GIVING A PARTIAL EXPLANATION WITHOUT GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS. I really do. I respect you more than that.”
“Yeah, I mean, I'm sure she could go back and find out. I'm pretty sure you're on vacation, but that's okay.”
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“FIRST OFF, I WAS AT THE 8th, AT LEAST ON THE RECORDS HERE.”
“SURE. I DIDN'T GO BACK TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS. I JUST WENT TO THE CHART THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME ON SATURDAY THAT WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT. BUT THE MEETING THAT I MISSED ON MAY 11th WAS BECAUSE THE My son graduated from college and was also commissioned to be an Army officer on that weekend. So the 9th and the 10th, I had family in from the West Coast that I was hosting to celebrate him. The one on... June 22nd I was not able to make for work purposes. I will note that that was not a meeting that was... On the second Monday. That's correct. It was rescheduled because other people…”
“And guess what? If they weren't excused, I would accept the responsibility for that. I don't think anyone is going to really question it. I don't think staff is really questioning it. I will say this. They were aware because I gave an email to Nick on August 24th. So long before the email came to me last week, I went ahead and gave them the explanations on why I missed those three meetings in a row, or what it's worth.”
“just want to reiterate i don't think that it was a nick issue or a greg issue if it was i have zero problem with it um i think they were put up to it that's that's my view right now thank you for your opinion mr romano any other questions is there a motion to take any action on the 2026 absences of the members I'm gonna recuse myself from this vote, given that I think this has all been triggered by the notice that was given to me last week and the lack of notice that was given to me for tonight's meeting.”
“Your notice to me was triggered after Nick's email was sent.”
“I was just gonna say, I can appreciate that, but the time your email came to me Nick had already circulated this email with information that he compiled. And you and I talked about that on Friday. And I didn't know about this email, but I, right?”
“I don't see any now, but obviously my...”