Remarks by Melody Ryan
222 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 9
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“Which is why we have to tighten our belts.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, they live in other places because they have terrible legislatures.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we did have a public RFP process like we've done with other... No.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“so i have a follow-up question um you know and i'm i'm happy to hear that there's excitement um but if there is excitement about coming in and joining downtown east uh it just seems like a you know free rent and all of the equipment uh you know can we find someone who will pay market rent i i mean that's just what comes to mind what what is what is market rent”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So one other question. Was there a reason that we didn't have PCDC involved in paying for these, you know, the free rent or the cost of the equipment so that it didn't come out of general fund?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So just a clarification because to I saw in the lease agreement that there's an extension option, and they have the option to extend the lease for up to two additional terms of five years each. So that's an additional 10 years after that. Unilateral? Well, it says that they have to give notice six months prior of its notice of intent to exercise each extension option. so and so to me that says if they say we want to extend then the city is agreeing i mean i think right like i don't think our goal should ever be to turn over a business in a yeah and they're she asked about the other…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But we wouldn't be necessarily revisiting it if they exercised their option to extend.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I just wanted to clarify. We're not going to revisit this unless they... Well, let's also be clear.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think there is the general termination clauses in there. But this does appear that if... the company wants to extend, they're the ones that extend, and then it's extended.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But if we had had an open bidding process, there could be other businesses that want to expand it to an additional location that could have been interested and applied.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I was curious about the comments that were brought up during on this from the public about a previous deal and cost participation and So I didn't know if there was any history that anyone could add on that. But the other question that I had was just in general about construction materials testing and whether is this an item that is gonna be on all of our roads or is this specific roads or, and then if it's all roads or specific roads, is there a way to, have a larger scope to cover multiple roads. I'm not sure. When I looked back and did my research on the last time we had construction…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, well, I remember about that, but I'm just unclear as to whether this is going to be on every road or if it's only specific roads.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“well i had that question about the bidding process because the summary was silent on whether this was bid and this is a different when i looked it up it seemed to be a different firm than the last time we approved someone for construction materials testing so just wondering about the bidding process”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, but then in that example of there's six, all six have been determined to be qualified and therefore made the list?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, my original question was, if we're going to be doing this on all of the roads, is there an opportunity for including more than one, or is it because of this, now that I know about this qualifications list, can we just get a better deal if we have more than one contract, more than one road at a time that they handle?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so that's why it's coming separately and not under the, okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And my written question had been, have we found issues in the past that this service is trying to solve? And so what I'm hearing now is our problem with... all right because that was before my time and so i'll try to oh you drove oh you drove on it though oh yeah i don't i don't drive down that road you don't care about our roads unbelievable i don't even know if i want to talk to you anymore”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I do love Kenny Ford. It's one of my favorite roads.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The exact lanes that are being added because the map was in black and white and it was unclear to maps. Yeah, I'm visual. It was unclear to me about the new, what was going to be the new traffic pattern. So that's what I asked for.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Hendrickson uses it every day, people from Hendrickson. So I wanted to. All right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Google Earth will tell you what it is, not what it's going to be.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'd like an explanation of what is changing in this intersection with the lanes and the direction.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I had questions that I sent in advance about this because there was no documentation in the packet.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There's no documentation saying, so I don't know any of that because the agenda item, there was no agenda item besides the summary. It just says 4.6 million. It doesn't say 2.1 and other years.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026