Remarks by Michael French
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 6
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“Well, thank you for this presentation here.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I know. I guess you can go on to the next question. I do believe this was just to show everyone that we could do something like this. And it seems like this table is not really wanting to do it. It's just an idea to get some more money for non-discretionary items.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So those are the things that I wanted to add. I think that's it for this question, thanks.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I just had a question on that. Yeah. The three to four months Is that money for the empty three or four months? Is that in the 2027 budget? Or is that excluded from that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“For Public Works, what exactly is that? Is that MBU? Is that...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have one question on that, sir. Yes, sir. So what if it wasn't 10 to 20%, maybe just 5%? Sure. Would that be something that you can work on?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And that number at 5%, would that be close to $100,000? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So that 10% to 20%, is that 22,244? Right, so 20% of what's left”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I got a question there, Jared. Yes, sir. So useful life, is that five years? Yes, sir. And most of all our equipment, $375,000 is over five years old?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm seeing that. So we don't have laptops that work past five years?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I see a recurring 200,000, and that's every year is what I'm looking at. Yes. That's a lot of computers every year. And I'm just wondering... Are we, do we have that many computers that's worth over $200,000 a year to replace? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, I'm just curious to... Seems like a lot to me, but all right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“This was something to where can the city actually do it itself, rather than hiring outside people to do any contracted items, especially technology. So that was the basis of that question. Are we always hiring outside help? Do we not have people in here to do the job? That's primarily what it was.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Oh yeah, so the main reason I did this is because our IT department spends a lot of money. And I wanted a breakdown of exactly what the heck are we spending on when it comes to software and our subscriptions. And this does a lot of, this looks like a lot of detail, and it's stuff you need. So I was just really curious to see why we spend so much in IT. Yes, sir. But when you break down stuff like this, it makes a lot of sense. And I would like to see a little more go into bandwidth when it comes to sending emails, when it comes to videos dropping when you're on something like this. We do have…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, sir. But this looks pretty good. Yeah. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Now this looks good. If the year was 2020 for the 2015, I'd look at that, but... something over that old. My car's getting old, and that's used all the time. I understand this list. Thank you. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. Yeah, that was my thought as well. That $100, too, for the silver, it's actually pretty... Pretty steep, and it's just a few handful of people. And I think maybe the city can cover that. You know what I mean? That's just what I'm thinking.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Jared, was this... The scenario, was there a different one for 3.5% on COLA?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Yeah, I thought we were hitting 3.5. So is this actually the last slide of your presentation?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so the main reason why, and I really appreciate everyone working all day on this. And don't think I don't appreciate that. I really, really do. And I knew that this budget thing, it's almost over. And I didn't want to ask all these questions on Thursday. But you've probably answered every one of them. And I took about, I took away about 40 different questions. The purpose of this was to scrounge money to find more non-discretionary money for items on that 200 list. And the one thing I could add up to, and I'll just email you the different questions that maybe I could ask in an email to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, no, so I'm looking at 3.5%. Okay. And I thought that's what it was, but it's at three now. If you were to take away the 2.5%, Bring it down to 2.0 and 2.5, or 2.0 the lowest. The one thing I was looking at, wouldn't that leave more money than everyone just getting that 3.5? And so you have at least 30 to 40 people in the tier three and the tier two. So I was looking at how much money would we have extra to put onto something else? That calculated close to 65,000 in my brain. But if that doesn't work, then it doesn't work. That was just a question. Where can I find money? And one of these…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anyone, go ahead Larry. Sorry, Councilman Spadley.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anyone else? Go ahead, Councilwoman Shah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, is there anyone else like to come up to the microphone?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026