Remarks by Shannon Dubberly
91 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Yeah, Mr. Mayor. This is one that I was telling you about when you were walking in. I didn't get to finish. I had a good meeting with the chief, like most of us did, on this. Had a lot of feedback from citizens. And what I would like to do is table this item to actually be at the next meeting. And we can re-notice it so we can discuss it as a whole, the merits and the contract, since the contract part wasn't listed here. But more importantly, I think it'd be great to offer the citizens, not just the persons to be heard, but the public notice where they can speak to it. And then also so the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I know. And it's just so, again, it's just so we can speak. Because this is noticed for the guidelines and what was in there. And a lot of the citizens and obviously what's been in the news in the last month are concerned about this. And we can't speak to all of the issues related to the contract. There can't be any action taken to it if that were the will of the council. And so...”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And you can take action on the contract?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right. And then my public notice is the other part of it, too. And when I was talking to the chief, he was saying that he would like us to even comment on social media to say if citizens had questions to come in for the next meeting so they can come to the actual public hearing, not just the public comments at the beginning, but the actual public hearing for the items so they can ask any tough questions. Everything's out there and transparent. Because the presentation is, you've seen it, too. They said it's really good, and I think it can mitigate a lot”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“What was the Economic Development Committee's recommendation yesterday?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“What if the majority of council wants to table it?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And Stephanie, are you all still looking for volunteers out there?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So if anyone listening wants to volunteer every single Saturday, just come on out to Sports Park, the Miracle League field. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, correct, Mr. Mayor. I move that we approve items F1 through F6, F8, and F10 as presented. Thank you. Councilman Will? I second. All right. Let's take a vote.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and I apologize. I know you sent these out Thursday, and I just haven't had a chance to go through some of these, and we've been in a lot of these meetings. I guess since we are creating a new board, and I know a lot of our colleagues are seeing this for the first time, just to kind of maybe dumb it down for an Aggie like me. So we're creating a board, and the expectation it's going to meet once or twice a year Citizens will come in with any concerns they have about youth sports. And that board's going to decide whether it should make a recommendation to council that…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah. The reason I ask is because I look at this as part of a larger thing is as we are, you know, as S3, as we've had a lot of meetings on this and we get, you know, we're getting a lot of feedback from citizens. And if there are changes to recommend to our vendors that like KYA or KSA or whoever is doing a sport, the mechanism we provide that feedback, or if we think we need a higher standard of something, how we do that, whether that be in the contracts we just updated. And the reason I'm asking is I think this board, if it is created, could have a very important part in that process. And…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“can i yeah okay i didn't okay i just say uh for everyone listening regardless of how this goes or there's a lot of work going into this to a larger solution because as the mayor was saying or excuse me jordan when she was reading this spent over 40 million dollars largest investment in keller's history we have a really good sports park out there and we want to do everything we can to support the programming to make it the best it can be and the best way to do that obviously is by getting feedback if there are problems, defining them, making sure they're actually problems, but then fixing…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I was going to comment on his motion real quick.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm okay with tabling it for two weeks. I don't think it kills anything. It's two weeks away? Three weeks. Well, over three weeks. Because I think we can keep moving. If we have the assumption that it's going to pass, we can keep moving on it. I'm okay. Because this is the first time our colleagues are seeing this, and Councilman Rand Cleave and the mayor and I have had a lot of time to chew on this hours upon hours. And so I'm okay with tabling it. And so I'm voting in favor of that from a council member's request. But just say we can keep working on it and defining this because this is a…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Because there was a work session item. That's true. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The amount of hours, again, I don't know how many meetings between KDC and then with Parks and Rec and staff on this. This is a culmination of a lot of work. Hopefully, we can have some really good tournaments here in the city. I'll bring in revenues for the hotels, as Brad was giving an example, hotels and restaurants. as is the goal. So excited about this. Thank you. Well, with that, I move to approve item F9. Sorry.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Real quick, I'll explain my reason I'm moving to table this until the next meeting. First of all, thank you all for the presentation. I think almost every council member Met with you guys for over an hour. We have this presentation. Originally, this item was on consent. We were gonna meet in working session. The way this item is noticed, it's in specific reference to specific guidelines that we could go through, and there's some things in here that I know some colleagues have some issues with they'd wanna reword. However, my bigger concern is that this is a significant…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayor Pro Tem. Yeah, Councilman Rankleaf pretty much said it perfectly. Just really an opportunity for the citizens to have a public hearing. And, yes, we don't have to have a public hearing on an item, but we can definitely do one. There's no rule against us not having it. And I'm all for the public being able. And, you know, as the police chief said, he's excited, or maybe excited is the wrong word, He's willing to get feedback from citizens and answer and alleviate their concerns, if they may have any. Because this is a really good presentation, and I think I was the sole vote four years…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Again, you know, this is a weighty issue. I wasn't planning on getting into the meat of the bigger issue. I just want to table it. It was important enough for the governor to take some action. I think there's a lot of citizens. I don't know why you're a little reticent to have them come in in three weeks and ask questions. I'm not reticent.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Then let's vote if you're calling the question.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Just call the question, sir, and let's vote.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, motion to table. He called the question, which means stop discussion and move to vote. And I was willing to see that instead of voting on it. Oh, I understood this. This thing hadn't been updated here.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. And everything the mayor said is correct. Just want to add, I always like to do some highlights just real quick for maybe the two or three people that are still listening this late. In addition to the 8% increase in public safety we're doing this year and 4% for the civilians, we're providing $7,500 sign-on bonuses for police. 25% of our budget is for public safety, providing 60 new tasers, 70 new body cams, millions of dollars worth of renovations at the police department. Employee compensation as a whole for the entire city increased by 4.3%. In our five-year CIP…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And Mr. Mayor, I just want to say thank you for doing that because I know not just for us keeping us informed and Kelly, you as well, but all of our members and volunteers and the boards and commissions, I know they appreciate that. So thank you, Mr. Mayor, for being willing to do all that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Do you want me to talk while you set it up? Sure. Randy and I discussed this, so I'll just say a couple things. First of all, we want to thank Greg, Karen, and I as the rest of the council. We want to thank six organizations that helped us whittle this down. To three finalists, what we're doing today is this that I handed to you are the three finalists for all five awards. Tonight we're going to vote on the finalists, and obviously we want that to remain secret. The three finalists aren't, but the finalists we choose tonight, Randy's going to give us a code, and we're going to use our phone,…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026