Remarks by Melody Ryan
222 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
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“We get the agenda and the packet days before the meeting.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, it's five days. We get it at the end of Wednesday.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“your ability to process the information, to evaluate it. And so free vote access matters. And so my concern is there could be questions on the agenda that are document or existing information questions that are not, you know, go and look at this and evaluate this, but, you know, where is this information or how, you know, like a question about it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, and I appreciate the implementation and the last iteration of this, of having public information document requests go through a different route, and I think that's great. However, that is a 10 business day turnaround.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Up to, exactly. But if you have an agenda question, and we have jobs and a family, so your time is limited on when you can read up to 1,000 page agenda packet.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“This one was short. It was less than 300 pages, but there's been times with 1,000 pages, 1,200 pages. That is a lot. I mean, you're not reading necessarily every single page, but the amount of information to read and digest can vary from agenda to agenda. Some questions you might have on an agenda might just be factual informational questions that could apply to a public information, but now it's like, okay, now we have to put those into two different emails and send one to the city secretary and we may or may not get it before the agenda versus having it. So like, because you need to have,…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But sometimes you need information in order to actually have a convincing argument.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes? If you have questions and you're unsure about information and you don't have that information, how can you convince someone?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, we only used to be getting it Wednesday when the law changed.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“It was the law change, but we got an agenda.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“INFORMATION OR FACTUAL QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE IS THE BID SUMMARY? WHY WAS THIS, YOU KNOW, ORGANIZATION CHOSEN? YOU KNOW, LIKE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION IS NOT IN THE SUMMARY. SOMETIMES IT IS, SOMETIMES IT ISN'T. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS. SO DOES THAT TAKE UP MY HOUR?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'm just giving that as an example. That was one of my questions this time. We're doing the things.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“answer questions of their city council and to provide information is Round Rock. They have a whole briefing work session every Tuesday morning for an hour and a half where all the council members come and they have their questions and they have a briefing packet with all of the staff there and then they get their questions out to the staff and then the staff has from that tuesday morning until their meeting on thursday so there are other ways to handle these things and that's an hour and a half meeting and then everyone is hearing all the questions at the same time so um there are other ways…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“YEAH, BUT THAT GOES, THAT HAS TO BE SUBMITTED, SO YOU SAID, LIKE, WHICH ONES ARE DOCUMENT, WHICH ONES ARE QUESTIONS, AND THIS ONE HAS TO BE SUBMITTED THIS WAY, THIS ONE HAS TO BE SUBMITTED THAT WAY. I MEAN, THAT'S FINE, IT'S JUST A LOT OF”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So the other, one of, so two other items. One is there was a policy in there that says if Monday is a city holiday, that basically you won't get your questions answered that day. I mean, for that agenda. So my, because there wouldn't be time to answer it and you'd get your answers by Thursday. So my concern is why don't we just adjust the due date to Friday at 8 a.m. so there's still one business day plus the day of the meeting to Friday. to answer agenda questions.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'd rather have Monday off and not have those.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'd actually like to enjoy my holiday. And then my other question.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I know, sometimes. My other question is about where it said unanswered questions. I just think they should just roll over to the next week and not just be dropped off the list.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“each week yeah I think we all we all need to do that because if it's yeah maybe it rolls over but I don't know what your priority is I think that's right I mean there is a difference between an agenda week and a non-agenda week and so like I with the information request going through public information the amount of questions I have on a non-agenda week are very minimal and is related to something maybe that came up in the community So my questions are generally about the agenda because getting the information is important to be informed for a vote. And I mean, I had very few questions this…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I saw some follow-up questions on the response.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I don't know what you guys are talking about.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I couldn't really tell from them. Yes, yes. They're not on ground level.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“My concern was when I did the proration of $187,000 a year to $121,000 square feet, and then applied that to the 500,000 square feet. The equivalent is about $500,000. But this contract is for a million. So that's a huge price increase.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“In the email I was given, I mean, obviously it didn't include the Monarch, but it did include the Recreation Center.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But the square foot of $500,000 includes the Monarch. So on a square foot basis, the equivalent would be $500,000 based on our current... Did we get multiple bids?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026