Remarks by Rudy Metayer
250 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 10
- Play at 4:28:37
“Most people have no idea where Hearst is. Hearst, Euless, Bedford. Yeah. It's on the way to Arlington. It's on the way to Arlington. How dare you? Kennedale. I'm just curious why Hearst. That's the only question I have. Because they have the best price?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 4:28:51
“Hurst? It's a great city. Hey, Hurst, Texas could do well for itself.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 4:30:28
“Okay. Do we get access to Northeast Mall too while we're at it? I can call them. Is it still open?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 4:30:37
“You guys are a bunch of haters. All right. There's a question before you, council members.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 4:30:44
“I got a Dallas Cowboys store. Good job. I have a Dallas Cowboys store at Hearst. Yeah, Northeast Mall.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 4:30:52
“Because you got North Richland Hills right here, and then you got Hearst, and then you got that Northeast Mall. Motion passes unanimously.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 5:29:31
“Motion to approve 6K as presented, pending review by our city attorney. Second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 5:29:51
“Refresh. Didn't work for the refresh. Locked it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 5:29:56
“There we go. You're right. No, you're right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:01:07
“Yeah. Now we, I mean, it's a reality situation. It's, I mean, it's not going to change. All right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:03:07
“Sure, yeah. In the reality of the situation, it's the same thing we had the conversation about seven, eight years ago. What's that place that David always makes fun of that it has its own pig, but it hasn't grown outside of the apartment complex? Oh, Pecan District? Yeah, Pecan District. What we do at Pecan District. I do not make fun of Pecan District.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:03:36
“Shots fired again One of the specific things we talked about then and we asked for was that They're gonna build a parking garage How are they gonna go ahead and convert that to apartments because the remediation is the reality situation was that? at some point in the future, we're saying, okay, you can have less and less cars for being bought. Same thing I'd like to know about when you're talking about data centers, what are we requiring for them to do after that 20 year mark? Because essentially what the math says is it's much easier for them to just go ahead and ditch it and pay whatever…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:05:46
“And specifically because of the fact that we know now that they are not built, our grid is not built to go ahead and maintain support. So the reality is, what are you doing with your power grid? with your energy, where's it coming from, how's it going to be sustainable, how's it going to be a reality situation to help, you said mitigate, or ultimately outright go ahead and doesn't affect anything else that's going on in the community. Because, I mean, it's not sustainable, their model right now. And so what does that look like?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:07:06
“Yeah, I don't think, that's a good question, because I mean, I think the reality situation is that they know, you know, you've seen gas power, you've seen nuclear, all these other aspects, but they know that it's not sustainable to go ahead and electric. Their concern is this, is that flat out, is that what happens when they need a backup, and can they go ahead and plug into our grid? And the reality situation is, again, it's not sustainable what they're doing right now. So, i agree with you though like okay listen however you're gonna part with the reality is how are you going to make sure…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:12:56
“that died on us early on and we got in trouble with our HOA with the starter tree and we're like, wait a minute, We're not the ones who put the starter tree in. Why are we getting responsible for that as well? And the person who built the home, which I will not name, refused to... To warranty the tree? Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:17:07
“Boy, you have had some serious ass restoration. So I'm just asking this because we also talked about how, I thought of it as turf, but you know, we're talking about zero scaping, promoting some of those aspects. How does that play into that? Because what if I buy a home and I'm like, screw this, I want to go ahead and just get rid of everything. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:23:58
“Yeah, nimbyism is a real thing. We all know that, right? But if you're able to put things in a context where they understand, as you put it, the downstream ramifications of it, That's when it becomes more curious because even when we talked about parking we were talking about Possible bonds and we talked about downtown the biggest thing that folks I started hearing after we said now they're like well I can't find parking downtown like well, you know, you didn't have this discussion when you had it over there as well I I get that And I think that, I mean, Erica, I saw how you couched the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:28:31
“But you said on the 17th we'll have a meeting before then? No, our next meeting will be the 22nd.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:31:47
“So we're Steve Jobs and we're gonna tell people what they what they really want.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:33:15
“I mean, that's how we got some of the folks down here years ago.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:33:20
“I think we're going to make another trip.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:45:27
“Oh, the backup phone. I like that. That was Cesar's phone? I should have just given him my phone.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:47:54
“Mine's broken. Is it broken for everyone?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:01:37
“I think part of... Oh, no. No, go ahead.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:03:00
“And I guess the way I look to the rationale is that the reason why, you know, you said what the specific policy is, I think that, I mean, this is where I give staff a lot of credit because we said, listen, we need, they need some relief. Our citizens need relief right now regarding the economic conditions, everything that's happening around us. What can we do to do that? They went and they took the ball running and because there's SMEs in their own area and they said, listen, we can convert this specific amount $8 million and directly pay it toward that, which we allow for relief in this…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026