Remarks by Ryan Schuchard
18 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 2:19:38
“I'm happy to support the budget. I'm also with Matt and I think Rob in finding it excruciating that we have a wildfire discussion about strategic aspects that will have potentially financial implications, and we're not in the sequence to meet that with this budget. I think that the two-year budget idea is a really important one, and we're on the right track in having a budgeting process that has policy first, budget next. The thing we're missing the most, if anything, is the time, the time to make sure that we have alignment between policy and budget, and that's the opportunity for a two-year…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
- Play at 3:31:01
“Thank you. I think I have a couple, just on some of the details. So when we summed up the building, the various building needs a few months ago that led us to the $400 million bond amount, my understanding, and Nicole asked this and I think you mostly got at it, but the reason that we summed up to the $400 million bond is that we didn't know about this. We did not have this opportunity in front of us because it wasn't available yet. So this became available, this lower cost of the building became available after we had done that work because it came on the market after we had done that…”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
- Play at 3:32:26
“Okay, great. That's what I understood. And then I think some others sort of asked this, and forgive me if this was getting too much into the legal aspects, but if we were to go ahead with direction with this building, should the public understand then that, you know, you... You could implicitly subtract the amount of – from the higher cost of the previous building to the cost of this building. You can just essentially subtract that from the 400 million and understand that that's implicitly the highest cost of the bond or is that not right?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
- Play at 3:33:31
“Great. OK. And then my final question is, what are your odds on doing this again? with the other buildings? I mean, I realize we got lucky to some extent, but I'm wondering how lucky was that? And is there a story here that if we're patient over years, maybe we and facility owners understand that we're in the market, that we could expect to be able to do this kind of a thing with other buildings? Or no, does this really seem like more of a singular sort of thing?”
City Council · Oct 15, 2026
- Play at 54:09
“Thanks for that, Tara. Ryan? Ryan? Just wanted to say a word of gratitude to the communications team. Their work is tireless and mostly thankless of making sure our community knows what they need to know and are engaged. And you're one of my favorite departments. Thanks. Thanks. Matt.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 2:04:51
“Okay. Also on the subject of the wildfire protection proposal that is not yet completed, but which we are discussing. So my understanding is that the current budget proposal, and thanks to you, Charlotte, for the hotline, which went through some of this. The current proposal that we are considering passing tonight has what seems to me is an enhanced level of wildfire strategies. It seems to be that it's reflective of that we're going through this work plan priority, this whole initiative. It seems to be anticipating an increase in attention and a higher level of strategy. And my impression is…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 2:57:22
“Yeah, now I'm kind of thinking of a colloquy on this. I'm just like, I don't even know what this is. Now I'm learning about it. So I'm just thinking, so this council is proposing new budget priorities. We are also now proposing places to take funding from. I don't know how to evaluate that one. I feel like one of the lessons from this year is we should be pretty thoughtful about how we're treating capital, capital expenses. So I guess I do, my colloquial question is, does staff have an alternative place to take this from? Or like, would you, I'm sorry, I haven't done, I don't know that I've…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 2:58:49
“Go ahead. Dan, do you mind repeating where you're going to get that $600,000 from, again, that Rob is referring to?”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 2:59:39
“No, that was my original question. It was really to ask the similar question for Matt's where his money was coming from. But now I'm just thinking, can you just clarify an area or staff when will if we did not do this relocation now and then we have the October 22nd discussion and we say, OK, we do need a few million dollars. This that would happen in December is when we would be able to do that again. So this would be a matter of waiting a couple of months to do it and not on the fly at the dais sort of thing. Okay.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 3:13:22
“Thanks yeah I have a similar thought Aaron as you and you know we need we need a a transformative five, 10 plus year project, but we need to also balance the urgency to get started with the care to do this right. I'm uncomfortable with doing this on the fly to try to name certain amounts of money where it might come from. And I think the right way to do this is we direct policy, staff works on policy, they bring work forward, that's exactly what they're doing. The budget that's coming to us now has enhanced strategies for wildfire. We have a proposal coming up. Looks like this might take a…”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 3:28:44
“Similar. I'm really excited about this budget. And, you know, with so many headwinds, it reflects some really important strategic improvements. I really see a lot or I'm sort of foreseeing a lot in the wildfire work and the change in prioritization that already the customer experience hub and that area of work I'm really excited about. And so, yeah, I'm really proud to support this budget and looking forward to 27.”
City Council · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 46:10
“All right. Another BVSD question. We've heard multiple perspectives that have offered the idea that the actions the BVSD takes can have an impact on the city and our land use plans and further prospects for families and demographics. I'm wondering, at the staff level, have we taken the recommendation or proposed decision? I'm not sure what it's called. the plan direction and given any kind of an assessment to that effect and considered whether there's a, I don't know, um, a thought to responding, something like that.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
- Play at 1:16:13
“I got Ryan and then Nicole. Comment. I have, unfortunately, a couple of no's. So item D, that's the FAA grants one. I understand this would be the final decision that we would make. to obligate the city to operate the airport in perpetuity, which would be a covenant of the grant. I continue to believe that that type of decision calls for an analysis of liabilities and how they compound out into the future that we don't yet have. So I had proposed an alternate way to give us more time. That was not the will of council. So I will be voting no on that. And then also no on F, which is weighing in…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
- Play at 1:20:54
“Yes, except no on D and no on F. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
- Play at 4:07:42
“Mayor, I just had a general comment in support of this before we got into the amendment. So I like the amendment, but... Should I wait? Maybe I should wait for the general comment or just do that now?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
- Play at 4:08:23
“Thanks, Mayor. I just had a couple of things to add to Nicole and Matt's good comments in support. So, you know, just for clarity, this is an opportunity to fund all of the facilities citywide in a way that is going to be the lowest cost over time by getting at it, this worsening deferred maintenance now. It's going to get us passed. competing for resources between the police station, firehouses, and rec centers. And it's not gonna require that we spend the 400 million, but it's gonna create the chance now to make this happen. And I also wanted to just acknowledge, there's a lot of people…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
- Play at 4:36:08
“Thank you to staff and the community partners who have contributed to this really substantial work in building such big foundations. I'm a no and I have an alternative. On the no part, there are a couple of standards that I just don't think we've met that we need to. We do have clarity around the idea of DDA as a financing tool, but we don't have clarity about the underlying policy ideas that it is based on and that it would implement. For example, how much does revitalizing downtown on the Hill call for really concentrating on commercial vacancies directly versus addressing the wider…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
- Play at 5:07:23
“Thanks. I, yeah, I had, I just had it up for a bit. I just wanted to weigh in on the general question of thinking about looking ahead. My perspective is that the, There has not been a case made that we need a DDA. There's a problem. There's something of a problem statement that we need to revitalize downtown and our local economy. And to me, the first order of business is to get our arms around what is our... What is our policy plan? What will make a difference? What is the thing we need to do? And then if that indicates that we need a program of public investment, then that could point to a…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026