Remarks by Rudy Metayer
250 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“And that's the same way they voted last time. So are y'all okay?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Because I'm going to make changes to the budget document. That's why I'm talking to this side, because these folks, we already know.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, the reason why you said not day one is because... My expectation is later in the year it may need to be relocated to the animal shelter or reunion park.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Let's keep our powder dry and see what comes back.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We got four at least. We got there a while ago. I don't have to agree.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, I'll answer that because that's why I'm glad people come to these hearings. That was an idea that was floated. The reality of the situation is that they're at capacity, and they have their own issues, concerns. They went to a countywide animal shelter, thinking that they were able to pool the resources together to be able to go ahead and have a bigger, better animal shelter for everyone involved, and they're running into the same issues and concerns that you're seeing down in Austin as well. And frankly, for our purposes, and you know, what is it, like three to five percent of our cities…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“2015? 11 years. 11 years in the making. Before my time. Yeah. So at some point, we've just got to do something. Sure.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Outside of remediation. Outside of remediation.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“If I may ask, is Judge Bennett your dad? Yeah. Okay. Let's vote, and I'll talk to you in a second. All right.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So what do we estimate that number to be?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“You're saying when we annex roads into our city, they're not at the same level as our city standards? That's weird.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“This is crap. This has been crap. It has continued to be crap. And we've had this discussion for at least two and a half years now. I remember specifically coming back from Houston Tillotson. Mimi Stiles was doing an AI conference regarding what's going on with generative AI in general. And we came back and talking about cross-racial identification and that being one of the biggest issues that are happening and that's affecting particularly people of color, what they're looking at from there as well. You and I went back, we had lunch, we had a conversation about this, an expression of concern…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And to your point, Jonathan, this is what's... She's in my words. What's really frustrating about this, and some of y'all weren't here at 5, I said 5 a.m., 5 p.m. We were having a discussion about why y'all don't hear us discuss things online. One of the things that we have to worry about is a walking corn. So y'all may not hear us Because we're worried about getting thrown in jail, as Doug reminded us. Fair. I thought I was talking about the fee that goes with that. But we read and see everything that y'all do. And we appreciate that from there. Not in a surveillance way. I love it. We pay…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And the only way you're going to go ahead, because again, you're the product. You are the product here. And the only way you're going to figure out what the hell's going on is by you being involved in joining a committee, a commission that has true oversight so you as civilians can see what the heck they're looking at here from that. That's the part that, I mean, she said it to you and we're going to say it to you back right there. A community has the right to decide how it's going to be policed. That is something we say over and over again, and it's flat…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And we can't be surprised. It's a crap company that does crap things.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And Chief, if I may be so bold, You know me well enough to know I will be. We need you telling this story to other people in law enforcement. It's one thing when lay people talk about this. This is something that you've experienced, that you've seen firsthand. Because you know what they're going to say? Mistakes happen. I'm so sorry. Wow, we're going to go and fix this. It's a bug.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So we do, we need you to please talk to other people in law enforcement and let them know your experience here. Because this is not, it is not atypical. We have found plenty of ways. This is not atypical. And I get that it's... No one's going to say that it's not a helpful tool. We're not going to say that. But what we'll say is that when you have a horrible company that is advertised and worked for that's preying on people that you can't trust, what the hell, what downward ramifications does it have in law enforcement as a whole regarding community trust?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“James, did you feel like you got direction from counsel?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So for the lawyers in a room who learned four corners of a contract is the contract, that's not the case here. It's just utter crap.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“You are not going to be a first grade teacher.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Sounds like another committee member. Sounds like it. Sounds like it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Mayor, can we enter an executive session to seek legal counsel on this issue?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'd rather have it consensus. Or unanimous, excuse me. Unanimous, not consensus. Wait, you're all ready? Unanimous. All right.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Is that really what we want to do here? I don't think that's enough.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean... You okay with that, Mike? That's an action. We're not being an action. I get where David's coming from, but we need to take a vote.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026