Remarks by Rudy Metayer
250 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
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“My microphone's not working, but I wanted to make sure I said that. Councilmember Ruiz and Ken Delfonso, you guys did an excellent job bringing this years ago and talking about that. So this is a big shift. And if I recall correctly, we actually got an award from the governor's office, too. We did, didn't we? Yeah, we got an award. Excellent work.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So you can't get on me because the microphone's not on. So we talked about what our priorities would be at you know, at the retreat, and we specifically said this is what we're going to deal with moving forward. We said we also all agreed that because those were the priorities, anything else right there as well that we had asked previously, we got to vote. on what we wanted, and this is what we fell on. My concern is, is that does this fall out about from there? You mentioned that one of the things we talked about was capital projects, so maybe part of this falls into that, but anything that…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Sounds like a lot of aggressive agreeing is happening.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And when you're saying people, culture, what you mean is really FTEs.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“She's made her pitch. James, what do you think?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So is it fair to say what you're looking at is, to Doug's point, putting the information we already have in a different format, presenting information more frequently, and then things that you've identified that you believe are posted but we should be discussing but aren't currently. Is that right? Correct, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Do you think the reason why the bond program is opaque, do you think it has to do, do you think we've given staff the tools to flush it out? Because I know part of the concern has always been for the last several years is that okay, we have all this information. How do we make it digestible? We've got to give them the applicable software and tools to utilize that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so that's where, and I'm guessing, because I mean that's the thing, You know, I think I've just heard over and over from staff. I don't think that staff trying to be opaque or obtuse regarding how to get... That's not what I... Oh, no, no, I'm not saying you are saying that. I'm saying I don't think, so I think I is Rudy. But I wonder, do they have the software? Because you said you have the information that's true, but do you have the software to easily extrapolate or... exports the information in a more digestible fashion for folks to understand. That's my question with that. I mean,…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Oh, I know. We got that. Yeah. That's the easy part. James did put it on”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So I think that one of the most important things about this is that it goes to our agreement that we're having this conversation. We also talked about what staff time is being used for. So if staff time, if we want this to happen and want staff to have more frequent updates on things regarding things that we think is important, then we got to make sure that we allow for staff to have time to utilize and do the jobs, their day-to-day jobs, as opposed to adding something on top of that for them as well.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Did you hear what James said? He said he's committed to this. He's got the matrix and he's gonna be looking at this.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So let me ask you this. Do you have an example of a couple of different cities you can send us emails on that have this ordinance already in place?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, because when I think, because remember, ordinances are, okay, so, you know, cities promulgate ordinances, right? So that's law. We also have policies. We also have rules. So which one's the best, and maybe this is where Mike chimes in, where's the best conduit, mechanism in place to effectuate what she's trying to stand here as a policy? And I don't know, because do we set this up as a, do you want this as a law? Do you want this as a policy? Do you want this as a rule?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, we're moved by the Charter. Yeah, removed from the Charter.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Because that's what you're really asking for. Because then you're like, wait a minute, it's on paper. Yeah. And how does that work?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So we do that for PCDC quarterly. Is that by law? Or is that by policy?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And just like I said, you should use the word probable. I just want to be, I mean.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Is that one-page detailed enough for you?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, because just like she said, she says if we're pulling it out from there, then we need to put them somewhere so those are going to be codified. The new things that she'd like to be added specifically to that, have the conversation and see what's the vehicle, the appropriate vehicle to have that codified because that's what she's saying. Just like if it's not on paper somewhere,”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“No, no, no, I don't think he's making that assumption. I think he, because he asked about what staff time is. I don't think he's making that assumption. So I agree. So let's, you gave us this. Let's digest this. Have a conversation in... Two weeks? Are we in two weeks? Three. Three weeks and three weeks.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, we are, but he wants to put, I mean, he wants to put...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Then we'll have a conversation through weeks. Okay. Sounds good. All right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'm sorry that you're sitting next to someone wearing the wrong color blazer, but we'll keep going.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Is there anyone who is watching where the drone's going? Can they see anything? What do they see?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And if I recall correctly, you did have a public event over at our One of our hotels.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026