Remarks by Roland Rainey
31 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
“Thank you, Madam President. Sure, in the second bullet there, the stay below table property tax cap, is that the 5.5% cap that you're referring to there, or is it a different number?”
“Thank you, Madam President. In regards to the classification adjustments, I know you just mentioned 15 to 20 different positions for that. Is that outlined anywhere?”
“Excuse me, Chief. To piggyback on Council Member Lineweber's question, when you said $102,000 first class, are we talking about someone who's graduated the academy and they're coming first line on...”
“So I would make the assumption in the scaling, we're talking somewhere between, I'm doing public math here, about 92 to 102K over that scaling timeframe. Is that accurate assessment?”
“Thank you, Madam President. Chief, quick question. El Paso County, and I don't know if I'm going on the wrong track here. When it comes to the crime lab, are they leveraging and using our crime lab? And if so, do they contribute any funds to the crime lab?”
“And I guess for budgeting purposes, we do capture that from a regional perspective, not specifically from this city budget?”
“Thank you, Madam President. And ironically, I had that with an asterisk next to it because that was gonna be one of my questions. So thank you for covering that for me. But I just wanna thank you and the rest of the team definitely for your leadership and really leaning forward on that. That was not, it's not an easy task, but I'm glad to see everyone to include council leadership. all leaning in to try to get this one right. But the question I did have is specific to the real-time crime center, and then of course looking at some of your requests. I'm a big fan of the RTCC, and to your…”
“So no expansion in manpower, but definitely in technology, correct?”
“Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Chief, for everything, and close the entire team and staff. I know we've been going at it for quite some time, and while you won't be here to see the end result, it's definitely because of your hard work, leadership, and effort that help us to where we're hopefully going to get The one thing I do want to emphasize before I ask my question is, you hit something there and it's in your very first bullet, keeping up with city growth and we are growing, we're growing very fast. And I keep saying this, And not to make light of it as a joke, but it's just a…”
“and the last thing i want to mention uh... especially since uh... my colleague councilmember donaldson mention this uh... in regards to apparatus and and you know fine funding i'm gonna bosh this up so many to help on here what's the name of the the engine truck that actually has all the tools on the backside of it to get inside vehicles. It has all the hydraulic pumps on it. It's like on the back right side. It's a ladder truck also.”
“And that heavy unit, from my understanding, we only have one, correct? Right. Of a city of a half a million people, we have one. And I believe there's other municipalities, they have definitely more than one, maybe two or three. And that one heavy truck has to cover the entire city. How often is that truck on the road?”
“But once again, for a city our size, we should have two or more, not one, trying to cover the entire city.”
“Thank you, Madam President. I just want to say one more thing because I never get a chance to say it on a public platform like this. The job that you do, your leadership, and the rest of that team, when it comes to the International Firefighters Memorial, thank you.”
“I think we need to, as a city, we need to lean in a lot more into that, but just thank you for your leadership. If I don't get a chance to say it again right now, just thank you for your leadership and making that a world-class event.”
“Thank you, Madam President. This is more of a quick question. It's not on, I saw it on your unfunded list, the geographic information system analyst. Yeah. Looking for like a senior and then a technician. How many do you currently have?”
“Okay, key thing that you just mentioned, they were unfilled.”
“Prior to, okay. Yeah. Thanks for that clarity.”
“Yes, can we go back one slide? The VMAT at 22-5, from my understanding, the FAA is pushing a $12.5 billion initiative across all airports across the nation. Is that something that they're gonna be paying for? So these particular vehicles and what they're gonna be responsible for with the onboard transponders to help out the air traffic control tower? Is this 25K something that we have to pay for? And if so, why, if they're gonna be pushing this initiative?”
“It's not necessarily a follow-up item, just more of a request. On the very beginning of the slides, the property tax slide and the question I had brought up specifically about the cap, if you can just add in there, especially for public purposes, what that percentage is. I know it's 3% locally. That way people don't get confused with what's happening at the state level with the 5.5 versus what we do here locally at 3%.”
“Thank you, Madam President, and once again, thank you for this proclamation, and thank you all for what you do in the cybersecurity realm. I think quite often in today's society, it's kind of very passive in the world that we're living in, but in the digital footprint from the economy, financial banking, to the defense industry, to governance. It is all tied in the cybersecurity. That is the world that we live in. And I think sometimes we treat it as a very passive activity. Sadly enough, I mean, good, but sadly enough, in the world that I live in from a job perspective, I get to see the…”
“Thank you, Madam President. I want to go back to the Chief of Staff. I would make, I'm making an assumption here that this was discussed, this exact type of motion was discussed amongst the administration. Can you give us some insight into what the feedback was based on that conversation?”
“Well, I do believe that the amendment that was brought forward for this particular ordinance today does strike the right balance. And maybe I'm speaking in a very biased manner, because I was that leader several times over in the government that had to do that and make those announcements and then bring people back and people who did have time off and have to work directly with them to make the right decision. So I understand the uniqueness of this. The heart of this question that I really wanna ask is, now you have to go back into the budget and you're gonna have to find the money that you…”
“line members motion and we're on our way to voting the assumption the same way we did last time that's correct yep possibly the one question i do have on that madam president is because the initial motion uh was made by council member gold who just voted on the new motion do we need to withdraw that motion and re-vote again councilman gold no you're just i'm gonna defer to sarah”
“Thank you, Madam President. Not necessarily questions, but just wanted to highlight the good work that you all have been doing, and it's starting to show clearly amongst a lot of the great things that are coming to Colorado Springs. You mentioned lacrosse, and I think sometimes it gets lost because of all the other things that we have going on in the state, that lacrosse is pretty big here in the state of Colorado. DU, Denver University has a phenomenal program, Colorado College right here locally to include CU. Matter of fact, they have a women's team that they do pretty doggone well. So I…”
“Thank you, Madam President. Just one quick question. You may have provided an answer. I just want maybe some clarity to it. The solutions team, I'm quite sure they've met on a variation of different times. And in one of the slides, there was a very specific bullet that mentioned recommendations for future use. Those future uses, have that been shared to the community by that solutions team?”