Remarks by Saura Jost
7 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thanks, Council President. I think if I understand, we're voting on a version two and then voting on the resolution. I don't know if we're doing that all in one. But I will not be.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“But I won't be voting in support of the resolution today. And it's not because of Professor Al-Khadi or any virtues of any person that my colleagues wish to honor currently. I think that's very important. But I just don't think that the work of co-naming and assigning this work to our departments or to our policy committee at this time is mission critical to the work of our city. And I know that this was previously discontinued by our council and there were a lot of reasons for that. I understand that there's been confusion around co-naming, there's confusion around kind of just sometimes…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I'll just add. I appreciate that, Council Member Bui. And I don't dispute that you brought this resolution. I heard about it last week. What I'm saying is that there was a version two that was being circulated yesterday that was different from the version two that was brought forth at 3 PM today. And that is what has been. That is what has been confusing. So I just want to clarify that. I do recognize that your office put effort into this prior to that. That's what I was expressing my general frustration around process about.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thanks, Council President. I'll have more to say when we get to adopt these, but I just want to also echo what Council President Aker said, and this has been a process that's been going on for a long time. Chief Resilience Officer Russ Stark was a big part of this, and I often heard our staff say that some of the feedback we were getting is, you know, no other city has a franchise fee agreement as complicated or just as – thorough as this one and i think that that just tells me that you know like council president naker said we have so many values and so many things that we care about this…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Naker, and thanks for bringing this forward. I agree. I don't think that this technology meets the standards of the values that we have for our city or how we operate public safety. I think it's our understanding our St. Paul employees have used this technology responsibly, but the public trust in these tools has eroded, and I'm very concerned about it. I support this because I think we should end this contract until we have other stronger safeguards, our accountability measures are in place, or we can consider alternative forms of technology. As you mentioned,…”
City Council · Aug 26, 2026
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City Council · Aug 26, 2026