Remarks by Melody Ryan
222 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
- Play at 26:22
“I have a question because I've seen community concern about the light and the timing and how it might back up traffic. So could you address those concerns?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 27:10
“I'm just wondering if there's maybe some more community outreach that you can, you know, convince everyone that there's a plan and that you know about their concerns because they see pictures and they're like, this is going to be a nightmare.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 38:09
“And a parking structure will be needed for that level. How many, how tall is that? Is that three stories?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 40:31
“And what is the timeframe that you think something like these test cases could develop?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 41:41
“And what about the, Emily, you had mentioned about the space in front of the parking structure that was going to be a parking. What timeframe do you think that would be developed into something to the next phase of that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 43:41
“So in what you described, parcel five would be a higher priority than building out the smaller retail in front of the parking structure.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 49:38
“I had a question about that. Are there particular departments that have a higher percentage of vets versus other departments?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 58:03
“So have you communicated with the school district about opportunities? I know sometimes they have job fairs with the school district.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:06:15
“I did want to call out on the three priorities that we did set for this year. Capital projects was one of them as well. So that would under that umbrella of departments to look at as a higher priority.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:14:14
“Yeah, so previously at our meeting, charter review item a couple of months ago. I had suggested some financial reporting changes. We had talked about that it may be more appropriate at an ordinance level. And so this is just the next step in that conversation. I had just put together a proposed ordinance as a draft to consider because we had discussed that the charter can be more a higher level statement of principles and then an ordinance would be the minimum amount of information for the council and the public to receive. And then you have staff policies and the GFOA guidance to govern…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:17:07
“Yeah, I mean, yeah. So, you know, salary.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:17:15
“Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it's our, you know, it's the, you know, services are provided by our people. So, it just gives them that macro view of like, okay, here's our budget or here's our actual. And this amount is for COLA. This amount is for market adjustments. This amount is there was vacancy or this is amount that we're reducing you know or headcount overall rather than you know seeing it in the budget is great i mean the department but this is just give us a big big picture view of the major changes and the underlying information is there it's just giving us the summaries”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:18:08
“We had a previous discussion where I had asked if there was, it seemed like there was general approval in moving forward and doing it this way, so I'm just moving to the next step.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:18:24
“I input the information to make the chart.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:19:11
“Some of it is just a more frequent view. Some things are maybe posted on the website, but it's not presented and discussed. So part of my goal is to have it presented at a meeting, maybe 15 minute conversation about it to give us the high level updates.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:20:00
“So it's more for awareness, discussion, and then also part of transparency is for it to be easy to understand. There's a lot of robust reporting, but sometimes it may be harder to understand. It's not just only for counsel, it's for... What's an example of something that you think is opaque? Well, it just may be there's some of the bond programs, like there's some reports that are required by state law.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:20:31
“like unspent proceeds and debt. But it has it by issuance and maybe not bond program. So we can say, what's the status of our 2020 bonds? It's hard to see that in the current report. And this is infrequent. Like that example is twice a year. So it would be once when you know, normally be done annually and only be adding another one, but making it easier to understand. And then also bringing it forward so it's a discussion at a council meeting so the public can also have a chance to understand what's happening.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:21:26
“I mean, they have all the information. They have to legally track it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:21:59
“But also, as that is an example, you can go and look at each individual project, but there's no summary. So you can have the project itself. Yeah. So you, so you cannot see like big picture view. Here's just a quick thing. And I believe some of these tools may be already available in the software. It's just a matter of, it's just a matter of perspective and how easy it is for, you know, like my accountant brain works different than other people, you know, who are not into numbers. And so what I can understand and easily digest about, you know, big report may not be easy, for the public or for…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:22:47
“No, I'm just saying I see it differently.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:22:59
“The underlying information is available. but there are not summaries so that you can get big pic, you can see everything together.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:24:35
“The other critical part is having the presentation where we talk about it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:24:50
“you know, as something to work on. That's when we have, if you have the big picture view, and we had that, you know, a few months ago, when they said, here's all of our capital projects, and we get updates on, this is a change in scope, or this might be over budget, or this, like, those are the times where we just have a check-in, what's happening with our capital projects, I mean, this is multi, I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars of projects, and part of the reason that I think it's important to have more frequent conversations about it is because of the lack of progress we've had on…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:29:43
“It's not what we've set as the minimum amount of information that we want. And so this is to set that information using an ordinance, which everyone agreed was the proper way to do it, and to set this is the information that we want in our budget, this is the information we want as a five-year forecast, which is going to the voters. This is the information we want as a capital project dashboard. And so we need to have these minimum standards somewhere. And so if it may or may not be in the charter, this is where it would need to be because that sets the standard for future, future staff,…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:31:03
“So if we take it out of the charter, then there's no minimum standard that we've set for our citizens as this is what is going to be provided as information.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026