Remarks by Michael Lee
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. We have it here and it is in our agenda and it can be, more information can be found in our agenda here. The next item is a proclamation for National Recovery Month.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right, thank you, thank you. Comments from our commissioners? Okay, Commissioner Burton.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. all right let's see make sure i'm not skipping anything don't get called out here okay i think that's the end of our ceremonial items and we will move on to consent to the consent agenda now there's two items that we're going to need to pull because we have public comment on the two items one is the adoption of the cultural roadmap plan pending modifications and considerations by upper management. Yeah, that's the item there. And then, now that's 260448. I think we have eight speakers on that. And then we have the, what's that, 260479, which is the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“It's been moved and properly seconded that we approve the consent agenda absent of 260448 and 260479. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“All opposed, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously. The consent agenda, that is the consent agenda passes unanimously.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“The next item technically is the other business but we're going to handle the consent agenda items that were pulled off like we just mentioned so we have 260448 which is the cultural roadmap item and we have eight oh no six sorry we have six speakers we'll do three minutes Call three up at a time. We have Aya Shabu. We have Katie Wyatt. And Trish... Lemon? Lem, okay, all right. I wasn't sure there, okay. You can just line up over there. We'll put three minutes on the clock for you, and welcome.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. The next three speakers on this topic is Margaret McNabb, Tim Walter, and Yvonne Coleman.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. That was the last public speaker on this topic here, the 260448. We'll go ahead and vote on this one. Did you have any comments from the commissioners?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“The presentation, yeah, no, this is the plan. This is the plan. The presentation and stuff will be in our agenda. You'd be able to find it in our agenda.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Very good. Okay. I'll accept the motion to approve the cultural roadmap. Go ahead. You can make the full motion.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Second. It's been moved and properly seconded that we approve the cultural roadmap for Durham. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“All opposed please use the same sign. It passes unanimously. Thank you all. Thank you. Okay, the next item that was pulled off of the agenda was 260479, and that is the Violence Reduction Working Group Resolution. And we have one public comment. Thank you, thank you. One public comment, and I apologize, I can't, the name. Kalila. Yeah. We have very good, Kalila Donahue. Please come forward. And we'll do three minutes as well.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, that was the only public comment on 260479. Are there any other discussion? Is there a discussion on this? Okay, I'll accept the motion to approve the Violence Reduction Working Group Resolution. So moved.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“All right. Any comments from commissioners? If I share alone.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“and just just for awareness with the selection bias it's about going to diversity of events right so you know instead of going to all the 5ks races you go to the farmers market you go to you know center fest right where people aren't exercising right so you get the diversity there so i think That sounds like it played out in the methodology as it is there, so maybe kind of filtered out that selection bias.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. thank you all for this I am one for statistics I appreciate a good presentation with lots of numbers and data and all that but I am curious so the the survey questions were essentially direct questions is question answer and that's good and we saw a presentation we saw information about that But what can we as leaders infer from what's not being said? Okay, and here's why I'm asking. There was a slide where it was a food insecurity, I think, graph. And at the bottom, the blue got bigger with the lower income, right? So when I look at, especially with this hat on, I look for where…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. But thank you all for this presentation. Yeah, thank you. Very good. We have monitors right here. I was kind of glued to that. I love statistics. I love seeing that. So thank you all very much.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Absolutely. Thank you very much. Is Commissioner Jacobs still with us? No? Okay. All right. Thank you all very much. That is the last item that we have on our agenda tonight. So I'll accept a motion for adjournment. So moved.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“It's been moved and probably seconded. We adjourn. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, please use the same sign. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Our next speakers are Leslie St. Dre, Abigail Johnson, Tiffany Swope. Yeah, those are our next three.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we have three speakers left. We have Erica Weiberg, we have Larry Thomas, and then Yvonne Coleman.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“okay so that brings us to the end of our uh citizen comments thank you all so very much for that uh one second thank you for that um i deeply appreciate hearing public comments i mean as you know regardless of what the topic is or what the direction is i take notes and i um it's very important so thank you all so very much commissioner burton”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yep. Okay. Any other comments from the commissioners? All right, thank you. Next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. Manager Hager.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Next item on our agenda is the Workforce Development and Partner. Wait, let me make sure because I'm coming in. Oh, no. Wait.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026