Remarks by Sam Melden
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you so much, President Williams. Thank you so much, Desiree, for being here. Any chance, you know, I go to Pluto School for the Arts every morning at 737 to drop off too many people, quite frankly. Got a little carpool situation on my hands. But it's just a wonderful place and so much talent in that building. I don't know how it even is all contained in one structure. So thank you so much for being here. Always a joy. And then to Pastor Sweeney, thank you. Thank you, sir. It's good to catch up and hear from you. Thank you for your community, your leadership in this community. And it did…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“First reading. Let's continue on with new items from the administration.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to dispense with the reading of the Toledo City Journal for the City Council meeting of September 8th, 2026.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to excuse Council Member Meldon for non-attendance at the Zoning and Planning Committee of September 16, 2026, and the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Committee of September 17, 2026. Councilwoman Morris for non-attendance at the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Committee of September 17, 2026. Council President Williams for non-attendance at the agenda review meeting of September 15th, 2026, and the Transportation Committee of September 16th, 2026. Council Member Gattis for non-attendance at the agenda review meeting of September 15th, 2026. Councilman Hobbs for…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“um i'm not good at the circular breathing thing that would have been helpful there yeah um hey uh happy fall feels like it out there uh just a couple things for me one is uh speaking of the committee hearings thanks to everyone who was a part of the one on uh last week our ai and our responsible ai strategy i think it's a really important conversation and i look forward to more um THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THAT MOVING FORWARD. ON A REALLY FUN NOTE, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH A THIRD GRADE CLASS AT BLESSED SACRAMENT TODAY, AND WE KIND OF LOOKED OVER. WE GOT THE OFFICIAL APPROVAL OF…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, I call to order the agenda review meeting of September 15th, 2026. Clerk, please call the roll.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. All right, hey everyone. We will get started with item number one from the Department of Transportation.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“You know, when people think these meetings can be boring, come on. Thank you, Officer Bilo. Councilman Driscoll, what's your recommendation?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“of course and before i go to council martinez i certainly agree with a great marketing communications department we also are asking them to do more and more and more in a modern world with the changing media landscape and so we have to be mindful of how many things we're messaging in one particular format or another that's the challenge i mean the truth is people want to know what's going to happen when their road is going to be redone and what impacts it's going to have and where they can turn left and where they can turn right And so we have a lot that we're trying to communicate to them…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I have one question too. Is there, when we do these types of audits, is there like a follow-up kind of best practice recommendations on some of these communication tactics that we can look at? I mean, I don't know that the firm to do the audit of breaking down what's in the bin is necessarily the right expert to help us with, you know, new maybe ideas in 2026 of how to communicate.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We've got some good lights here. I want to make one quick comment, and maybe it would be an interesting conversation. And quickly, Councilwoman Pearson, does MarCom report up through your committee? Forgive me for not knowing that. Yes. Okay. I just wonder if it might be a good... not on the tactics and day-to-day activity of MarCom's, but the various channels we have and what those volumes are. Because the truth is, I would be curious, for instance, how many residents actually get a physical bill? How many have gone digital? What is then the relationship? Some of these communication streams,…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We're going around the horn again. Councilman Sarantu.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, I got a dark board up here. I think this is going to be, yeah, Councilman Driscoll, please, recommendation. So the Chair and Vice are out. You're up, buddy. The request was SEP?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think it's number three. That sounds good. Number three.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you for that. I do have one quick question. So, um, when this happens, I mean, everyone, everyone's experiencing this. I don't think anyone's shocked by this. Where does that come from? How do we, how do we cover that? I mean, you know, one point is at 1.4 that we weren't expecting to spend on fuel.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you will go again to Councilman Driscoll.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We will have some questions. This appears to be super cool. I don't know if anyone else is ready to nerd out on this. A couple questions just from this little graph here. Does it measure easement, public-private property? Is that something we can kind of discern?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think about the issues sometimes that we run into about like where is the tree if it needs to be, and if we could just have that in this database seemingly. That's super interesting. And then also from like a trimming standpoint, I think just might as well get it to you or Mackenzie Woodley Road is virtually Woodley to Central is virtually impossible to turn on now because the trees have grown over the side and people can walk under them which is nice you're under a little but you look left or right and it's tough stuff and I just wonder like is there any this seems I'm looking at it's like…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm gonna have to have a nerd out session another time. This is really cool councilman Martinez Thank You mr.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yep, I'm going to not ask any other questions, I promise. Councilman Driscoll, you have your light on, and I'm going to go to you for recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Before I go to Councilman Sorrento, Councilman Driscoll, would a clarification be helpful if we talked about what costly, outdated system this replaces?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Your question makes me curious. What's the difference between maybe an aerial assessment of a canopy, You know, the difference in some of the hot spots, we've seen some of those heat maps versus kind of what this looks like, a ground level assessment of individual tree quality and inventory. Is that a helpful distinction?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Maybe just sending that out to council would be helpful.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I'm calling on you. I'm calling on you right now.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So for clarity, should the recommendation be SEP and move it, or keep it first reading and vote on it next Tuesday?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026