Remarks by Nadia L. Anderson
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
- Play at 46:50
“So I know you trust employees, but we still need to know for transparency how much it's going to cost. We are spending taxpayers' dollars. So we're saying that we're doing seated hall renovations. We're going to construct, frame, insulate interior walls, new furniture, new carpet, make passageway between the kitchenette and breakdown. rework the interest, main rooms, additional employee, create space for their, for sensitive operations, rework the public interest, handicap access, enclosed pets, like building division, building the office code, like really how much it's gonna cost. It's gonna…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 47:40
“You stated the staff had that number and you trust staff. So can you please identify which staff member that you spoke to that you just said that the staff had that number? What is the number? And which staff member that you spoke to said they had the number? Because you just stated that. That was your own words.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 47:59
“No, I just, so to make it clear that you did say on record that you have a number, what it costs, and you trust staff with that number. And when I asked you to identify that number, you then said you didn't have the number. So it's very clear that this list that you just typed up, that you don't have a, actually, you don't have a clue how much this costs because you can't tell us what it costs. I just think it's ridiculous that you present a piece of paper and cannot tell the taxpayer how much it's gonna cost. That's all I have to say about it.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 49:08
“This is not in the budget. $75,000, it's gonna cost more than $75,000. We do not have a list of what this costs. That is 100% inaccurate.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 50:18
“Do we have a list of the replacement of which office furniture that we're going to be replacing and which location, which buildings?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 50:28
“Is facilities available to tell us which is $210,000? I think that will help us make a decision.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 50:36
“Well, if we're going to be voting on it now, we need to actually know what that entails. We don't know what that $210,000, what office furniture is. That's very vague. That could be one piece of furniture. We don't know what that is. It's a large expense, 210.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 50:55
“I can't blindly vote on, because I don't know what we're spending the money on. One piece of furniture, two pieces of furniture, I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 51:18
“So any additional information, excuse me, you're out of order.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 51:35
“If we're going to spend $210,000 on taxpayers' dollars for furniture, I think we should know exactly what we're spending $210,000 on. And I'm not confident in voting on $10,000 blindly and not sure. I can't tell a taxpayer what I'm spending the money on, a piece of furniture that we don't know.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 52:01
“I move to remove the office furniture replacement out the budget until we know exactly what we're spending the $210,000 on.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 52:58
“I'll go ahead and I'll remove that for me because I've actually already have other organizations that have already agreed to assist with that. So for me, I remove my recommendation. I actually follow recommendation to take it out of the budget. I'm fine with that.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 31:09
“Is that better? So page one. Line 1200. Line 1200. 314-896, up under regular salaries and wages.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 31:31
“So do we have it breaking down what's the amounts for each position?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 31:38
“So there's two positions. That's a city attorney.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 31:42
“That's a city attorney. One second, please. But we have another line item for 475 for the city attorney as well?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 32:09
“But then we have professional services at 702 as well. Is that included for professional services for the outsourcing of a city attorney as well?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 32:38
“But I thought the 314 was for the city attorney risk management for 314.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 33:07
“But I just don't think that's a realistic estimate, because we cannot run a city off of one attorney. We just can't. So I'm just a little confused with budgeting for a city attorney, but then still keeping something for an outside attorney when we know we cannot run a city with one attorney. So I just don't think that's proper expectations to set.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 34:02
“So I guess the question is, realistically, will we have enough money in the budget for paralegals, for about two to three attorneys? What does that look like? Because right now it's just not a realistic...”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 34:46
“We need to budget for it now. If we're going to go in-house or we're going to source it out, I think we need to budget for it now because if not, we're going to have a deficit.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 34:57
“Can't make it now. We can't make it on the fly. Well, we need to remove this out the budget.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 35:06
“We have right now, we're budgeting for two things, and we can't make both things happen within this budget. So while we put a city attorney in here and a risk management position in here when we cannot fulfill that obligation, even if we decide to go. We do have risk management. We have to just keep the risk management, but not the city attorney. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe we need to plan for it next year budget.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 35:37
“But what we need to do is, once again, we're putting something in the budget that we're not going to use.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 35:45
“That's why we're having this workshop now to make sure we're not making the same mistakes again. So we should not be budgeting for a position that we're not using and we cannot use because we have not properly vetted what that looks like. So because we have not done it and we had other workshops focused on other things that wasn't important, like removing me from Metro plan, we should have been discussing it then, but that's here or there. So with that being said, we need to remove this city attorney position out the budget until we're able to properly figure out what that looks like. Because…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026