Remarks by Michelle Long Spears
123 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
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“Okay, so the deferral of the substitute to the October 13th meeting? Correct. Okay, great. Thank you. All right, my second stands.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. Thank you very much. I just want to point out that to Madam Clerk, what I'm reading on the screen right now is the previous item, 1215. And so before I can vote on the item, thank you very much for correcting that. I appreciate that. All right, yield back.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. So I'm just going to restate so that I am crystal clear when I respond back to some e-mails. is that we still have to, of course, honor our legislative process and continued conversation and ops committee, but you're shooting, hopefully, to have this thing approved by the end of year so we can start out session with it in their hands. Okay, fantastic.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. I thought I had seconded this item. Did it somehow disappear? I think it did, ma'am. Okay.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“She might have. No, that's fine. I just thought I remembered seeing something different. All right. Well, I go ahead and yield back. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Please open the machine for the vote.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yep. Just for clarification, so I believe Marcus just came up. Because it says here, recommended for approval upon receipt of additional information to the Board of Commissioners was the only additional information that was required related to the reduction in amount? Yes.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“It said changes, additional information. Okay, yep, I just want to make sure that was it. Thank you so much, yield back.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“As this item was heard in the fab committee, it is, was recommended for approval. So my motion is to approve item 20 26 1 1 9 5.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. We had a DeKalb County employee today request to speak during public comment as her capacity as a resident, not as a staff member or an employee of the Board of Commissioners. I don't agree with the denial of her right to speak as a citizen of this community. So if our interim, for just a little longer, county attorney would please come forward and please opine on this. If you are not comfortable providing a full analysis and an opinion today, it is something I would request a memo on as well. But again, I fully believe that every single member of this community, whether you're an…”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you very much. And can you do that before the next business meeting?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Actually, I could just expand on that briefly. So just to give a little context around it, Captain Gary Menard is a personal, he passed away, but still is a personal friend of many of us in this room. And so many folks from Decatur came today to honor his memory. His birthday was last week. And we miss him dearly. He did so much for the unhoused, so much for the residents of the city of Decatur. We did have myself, who wanted a point of privilege. You did decline that, and that was fine. Prior to my requesting that, we did have an employee of DeKalb County who also wanted to honor his memory.…”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“It is very germane. This is not germane.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. My clock was robbed of some time, so if I require extra time, please roll it back. All right, so again, I just want to thank all of the point of order.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“OK. All right. So you haven't made any other suggestions or changes related to the presiding officer's role. As the PO last year, I remember I did have that privilege to do it. So thank you for that clarification. All right. The next comment I have is related to the purpose of the committee. Thank you, sir. Related to the committee structure. This was actually a suggestion made in email last year. And there, I believe, was some commentary through email about this new rule. So I don't recall when it was, but I believe it's taken a full year to kind of advance it forward. And my feeling on this…”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Cool beans. All right. And then she likes that idea. And so would you have to have, just based on what your suggestion is, the committee chair and another member of the committee? So that would, in effect, be two people making that recommendation? Or could it be the committee chair and then the person that's sponsoring it so I don't sit on the ops committee? Okay. So is that acceptable for a non-ops committee member, a non-committee member to partner with the chair so that would constitute two sponsors of that?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026