Remarks by Michael Lee
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
- Play at 1:52:39
“That's right. Okay. Workforce Development Partnerships to Promote Career Pathways. And while they're loading up, I stepped out for a moment. to go to the library for the Declaration of Independence exhibit, everyone, you all have to go there. It was probably one of the cooler things I've seen. I didn't think it was gonna be that exciting, but when I walked in, just feeling it, being in the presence of the one that they have of the original printing, it's like a print, There were 200 made and there's only 40 left. And this is one of the 40 that was actually printed with the signatures and…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:09:24
“All right, thank you. And I'll just end up by saying I really like the story you were telling about the... the person who works for you, but the mother has gone through the program. I mean, what if we can... There are so many parents who are unemployed, but their kids are in school. What if we can say, come with me, right? Come see what I do or introduce them somehow to Durham Tech, the parents, focusing on the parents there, even kids in high school. that are doing this, come see what I'm learning, right? That may, even parents who may be in careers that they're looking for a change, right?…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:11:12
“So bring your parent to school. Yeah. You hear bring your child to work, right? Bring your parent, right? I love the idea of trying to get those, because anyone, right? Because we have it all right here. in Durham. We have the training. We have the businesses. We have the open positions. We have the roles that are being hired for right here. And the infrastructure is right. Everyone here. I think that would go over really well. Can I add just one thing? Yes, absolutely.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:12:20
“Bring your parent. That's right. That's, I think that, and I mean, I'm really serious about it. I was taking screenshots and sending this to my son, who's a Durham Tech person about, I was like, look at these salaries. Like, you can, you need to come off of my payroll and get your own there i did i mean i actually did send them on whatsapp to my my son so um i just think we can make a make a difference in adult unemployment as well people think school is for kids but it's really for for us as well oh there's one last thing i forgot to say that i think is really important i told you earlier…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:14:21
“That'd be great. Wouldn't that be great? That's great data. Okay, well, thank you all very much. We went over a little bit here, but that's okay, because this was super great. This is great information. I appreciate it. Now, there's a couple of... Our next item is the Violence Reduction Working Group recommendations. But I just wanted to make note, there's a couple things we're actually gonna remove from our agenda and move it to other. And this is coming from Manager Hager, so it's not me saying. Right, I just wanted you all to know. So it's the... Did you want to talk about it?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:15:43
“And so after the violence reduction recommendations, that means we'll, closed session will be the next item. Now, I just want to poll real quickly. You guys want to go straight through? You guys want a quick bio break? Anybody need to take a break? Break. Anybody want to take a break?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“12.30? Yeah. Okay, and then you guys will be ready, okay? 12.30. It is 1230. Let's start to wrap it on up here. Bring it on back. It's 1230. All right. So technically, Commissioner Valentine is in the room, so we'll go ahead and get started because we do have a quorum in the room. All right. So let's get started. Welcome. Let's make sure we're online. She usually doesn't stop it. Okay, we'll just double check here. Make sure we're online. Online. Okay, we're good. Welcome. Welcome. Looking forward to this. All right.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:06:53
“quite the work that you all have done. It's exciting. I think it's very complete and very exciting here. Before I get to the commissioners, their comments, I just had a question about, so someone talked about it in public comment, but I had flagged this earlier as well, about the age. It was 30, right? So my question is, why are the ages of the victim and the suspect combined for an average. Because I would imagine if we separated it out, the suspect probably would be a lower average age, and then the victim would probably be a little higher. I think I've seen some studies where activities go…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:36:58
“All right, so essentially, given direction, right? We'll do this by consensus. Are we good with this? Do we want to discuss it further when we do the resolution on Monday? So you want to sit with it for a little bit? So right now we're okay with it, but we want to discuss it on the agenda for Monday when we do the resolution as well. Is that okay?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:38:53
“Yeah, I think we all have that. We do support the recommendations. We're gonna let the commissioner sit with a little bit, ask questions maybe for next week if there's further questions, but we're gonna let the staff know the questions in advance so that we can get that and then approve that resolution and then be on to whatever the steps are afterwards. Is that satisfactory? Do we all understand what we're doing? Okay, all right, good. Thank you all very much, appreciate it. And just so we know, so we do have two pieces left. We have the cultural roadmap and then the homelessness resolution.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:01:39
“all right um i just have very very very brief comments here i appreciate the i appreciate this i appreciate the road map and so forth just for the community so we as commissioners we sit here and we make a lot of decisions about a lot of different things lots of different things how we allocate money and so forth but there is a um I used to watch a show called A Different World back a while ago. And there was a young lady named Kimberly who she was studying to be a doctor. And she dated this guy who was an artist, right? And they always conflicted. She didn't really appreciate what he did and…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“uh of course thank you all so much for this here i um i did have just two quick questions i don't really have commentary everybody said what i needed to say and so forth um one you mentioned about the possibility that you all do you know bus tickets to go to uh family members and so forth is there a verification of that you know i just want to make sure that we're not Just putting people on buses and sending them.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I just want to clarify, I'm not saying that. I wasn't saying it on the people needing the bus ticket that they were trying to get away. I'm just making sure that we're not trying to send people, you know what I mean? Not that someone's trying to do something nefarious. I was just curious about that. And then I think you may have answered this before, What is the, when we, the rapid rehousing or when we find, when we have a place for people to stay, the temporary, what is the temporary nature of that? How long is that? Now I heard a 13 month plan But I think that was late. I think that was…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 7:07:15
“Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate that clarification. Just curious about that. Any other thoughts? Okay. Well, thank you all very much for this. Was there any action that you all needed? Any instruction to staff?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 7:07:46
“Okay. Yeah, I think everyone was in agreeance of that. Anyway, deeply appreciate your presentation today. This was actually really good information. We actually have really good information throughout the day today. Very good. But this was a good one to end on. So thank you all so very much. I appreciate it. right so we do have we did have a on the agenda we had a closed session but the closed session will not be happening today okay we will not be having that today um the work session we don't need them we don't vote for adjournment so i will just call us adjourned thank you thank you sir”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 8, 2026