Remarks by Rudy Metayer
250 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
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“Wait, wait, wait. Okay, okay. You said you feel that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You don't think they did any of the pricing to get some estimate on it?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What do you mean that was not the response? Well, in my written request.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think I like the solution that we found, which I think we found both, you know, how to move both forward. I think one of the things that we've talked about here, and none of y'all get to see this, we get to see this rarely, is just how often this space is used. This is the space that they use for everything going on from there as well. So finally, the ability to convert this space and utilize this space as proper matter in a building. I mean, and that's another thing, too, as well. This building has been held together by shoestrings and bubble gum, I think is the vernacular utilized on…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't know what it costs as compared to you're using it as a police station.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Wait, wait, wait. No, I said I don't. I'm guessing since they gave that number, they didn't just go... They didn't go like that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was about to say, but that's not, okay, yeah, I was about to say, you know, you can't make that argument because that's the way tax rates work.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think you're putting that lightly. And I think that's the reality. And we had this conversation many moons ago when it was at 8%. We had the conversation about, okay, do we need 8%? What's happened with the reality? And specifically, what we do is figure out, okay, what do we need? What do we want? And we go lower than 8% and trying to go from there, but our growth was going substantial with that. Now you're, I mean, again, telling y'all this, something that y'all are well aware of is that, you know, you have 3.5 and you see what's happening with the city. Like, let's be clear. If any…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But these are real decisions that are really impacting cities, not just across Central Texas, but across the state.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I pulled that from the budget. I was going to say, let's be clear what the mayor said about that. So pull in 30, 25 law enforcement. And let's be clear, no matter what city you live in, Law enforcement services are going to be the biggest part of your budget, no matter what. And you've got to understand that that is not Pflugerville, that is not Austin, Dallas, that's how it is in America. And that's what drives a lot of the cops. So if you want to continue, because we talk about, as Councilman Rogers talks about, having one of the safest cities in America and working for those things. How…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Why are we spending almost double that? On the Monarch. No, why are we spending almost double on it?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We've danced this way before. He asked you a specific question, and he asked you that question for a reason. Yes or no?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do you hear that? You have a second. If it gets you on board.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Motion to approve ordinance number 80899 to adopt the city's budget for fiscal year 2027 on first and final reading.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I know I can't. Motion, Mayor, you're in charge of motion. Motion to ratify a vote to adopt a budget that would require raising more revenue from property taxes than the previous fiscal year. I love that. Second.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm tempted to make the comment that David made about... I'll leave it. If you making a comment about how huddles tax rate is about half or or how he talked about hey these cities aren't they're not growing Actually, this is a public hearing I'm gonna invite anyone from the public wishing to speak on this item Come forward you'll have three minutes”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so there's a certain advertisement going around that's saying that cities want to go ahead and raise your taxes, and that's ridiculous and absurd. Is that advertisement out there because this specific language that we're being forced to say, even though 75% of people, it's actually going down, is that why that advertisement's even out there? Again, I don't think any citizens, any city council I've ever met in my life saying, yes, we want to go ahead and just raise your taxes. I think in fact what they say is... Have you ever been to Austin?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So that's an increase in the tax... And what I'm saying is that you're talking about, and we've talked about a lot of things tonight, and to your point... You're worried about how things are going to be paid for. I'm telling you right now, the biggest concern is going to be how the legislature is going to go ahead and affect the way that you're going to be able to operate moving forward.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“or have people understand how cities are run. Because remember, 80% of the revenue for the state of Texas comes from cities. Cities are the engine. We talk about the Texas miracle. It's because of cities, not because of the legislature. Let's be clear. It's cities that are there. Cities that partner with businesses. People who actually invest in their communities. These are the things that attract people from there. They don't come here and say, man, that's a great legislature. They come here because they have great cities, great schools, great parks, great roads.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, that was a dilapidated old gas station. That was horrible.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, Emily, can I ask some questions since everyone else is having their moments? If I recall correctly, even before we thought of what businesses were going to fill into these positions, The previous city manager and staff reached out to several local businesses and other folks that they thought they may have been interested in operating in that space. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And we also made reference and let people know in the community that, hey, if you have interest in this space, please sign up. Because I know personally, I sent three or four businesses because you guys talked about it and they're like, oh, yeah, I'm interested. Let me go ahead and talk about this as well. So when I hear this wasn't like some open process or people didn't have opportunities, That's just not true. Now, I think you're talking about a procurement process standard by the state of Texas. That's true. But this was definitely a process where people got opportunities to ask, hey,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Because again, let's be clear, this is not going to be the only thing that we got there. We still have opportunities in other places for this, for that as well. This is just one of many right there as well. At some point, we'll be able to announce the restaurant that we're looking at and other things like that as well. I want to make sure for citizens, you're hearing a lot of back and forth over here with it as well. The process was known. It was made known to us. I know that citizens and business owners were cognizant of it because they reached out to me, and I know they reached out to staff…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I was about to say, we have an economic development director who specifically denoted in his plan talking about these businesses and what the biggest issue is because I sleep next to somebody every night, who's lived here for 40, what?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Long enough, long enough, long enough. Who talks about what the storefront looks for our businesses, for these restaurants. And for us to be able to, how do we work to help fix that? Because we do have a variety of, I mean, I've said it before and I'll say it again. There are major Fortune 50 companies They're along our 130 corridor who miss being near Pflugerville because they were able to go to so many different restaurants and different restaurant options here. And people just don't see it because they don't see the store. They don't like the storefront. They don't see what the restaurant,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026