Remarks by Solange Whitehead
48 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“The creativity, I mean, from 2020 when we shut down and we got so creative, it's just amazing. I am thrilled with all these programs and the 3D printer and the children's lunches. There's just pretty much everything you said. I just want to say how thrilled I am. And libraries are one of the reasons we just, one of the things that stood out to us when we moved here for just six months. But these are pretty nice libraries and they're only getting better. So thank you so much.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Just a quick one for you guys. The difference that the Neighborhood Commission makes with their grants to the neighborhoods, because our value as a city is the collective value of all of our neighborhoods, has been stunning over my years. So thank you for that, too.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I was just going to say thank you, Joe. And Tim, of course. Councilman Graham.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilwoman Whitehead. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Chief. As you know, and I think all of us, we're big supporters of adopting a policy that does require cancer screening for our entire fire department. But also you had mentioned expect a budget request in the future. This is something we need to address prior to the next budget cycle. So I will be looking for amending the current funding so that immediately January we already have the testing start, and also what you mentioned is about how cancer sometimes has a lag time, and so I'd like to see firefighters who have retired through…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, just thank you. And also for anybody who hasn't seen the summer wildflowers out there, oh my gosh, get out there. But I just want to call out two preserve pioneers in the audience. We have Christine Kovach and we have Carla. Thank you for getting the ball rolling.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I'll second that. That seems reasonable.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilwoman Whitehead. Thank you, great presentation. I'm really excited about this. I think ultimately the value of a city or a community isn't what we build, it's how we maintain what we have. And certainly we've seen a lot of support for maintaining what we have from our constituents. So this is really important to me. I really like the idea of some of the maintenance having sources for the maintenance of our projects, and I have my own personal picks of what I think needs to be maintained next, or fixed back up. And I also, you mentioned that our public art is very visible, it is, but…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, I just first of all want to thank the mayor and my colleagues for having this meeting because in Scottsdale, different issues bring us together as a community and this was one of them. I think that like most of you, I had a visceral reaction to the abuses that we read about suddenly, and really the loss of trust, as one of our speakers said, to a vendor that didn't uphold the commitment they made to us or to our society. So it's been really fascinating to have this discussion. I can tell you that behind the scenes, our police department has recognized the problem and has been working on…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So I believe that my motion does cover that, but perhaps I'll turn to our city attorney to answer the, I can read, I'll read it again for everybody, but then I would like you to answer that question, but certainly.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, why don't we have a copy? Yeah.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and read that again real quick. Sorry, Mayor. The federal access include in the proposed ordinance policy or both a provision that prohibits federal government access to the city's ALPR technology and data, except to the extent required by law, such as pursuant to a validly issued subpoena and warrant. Can you address that concern and whether we need to amend this?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So I will accept that friendly amendment. The public needs to understand that this is the beginning of the discussion, not the end.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“has more safeguards than what we've already got i think is really important so would you agree to those amendments yeah so my motion was to get the ball rolling i really liked what my colleagues had to say uh vice mayor mccowan and definitely i agree with pretty much everything the mayor said again we're not the experts but we are giving some direction on what we'd like to see and we're moving pretty quickly this is not this is a fast-moving train we want We want it fixed. We want to protect our privacy. We want to protect our public.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“You know, I didn't look at what he handed. I assume it was my motion. You know, I just want to mention that while we cannot share... Oh, sorry. Okay. Well, I would just like to say... Well, I just want to say the motion was based...”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Can I just finish? The motion's just based on what the police had presented to us. So it's based on the public document we all received, but we can't share within... So go ahead, Councilman Graham, thank you for allowing me to explain.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Good? Is that okay? Second? yeah i'll just say that um my motion includes an ordinance and many other items so a lot of these items won't fall into the ordinance but and i also just want to add uh council or vice mayor mcallon's uh recommendation that we understand how we address violations that are outside our jurisdiction even if we have that agreement with that jurisdiction thanks councilman graham”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, so it was actually Vice Mayor McGowan's concern that was raised. We will have agreements with jurisdictions that they have the same safeguards that we have prior to those jurisdictions having our LPR data. But the Vice Mayor asked, what if we find that one of the officers or someone in that jurisdiction has violated it, what is the consequence? How do we address that? So I know that that's a good thing for...”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So the motion that I read into the record was December 1. I'm flexible based on what staff can accommodate and what my majority council wants to do.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilwoman Whitehead. Okay, something Councilman Graham said that I want to bring to your attention. I think this is done with, for instance, the body cams that the vendor, the data's encrypted, so the vendor does not even have access to the data. And I know when I met with the different police groups that that was going to be a requirement. So that way we remove the aspect of trust. We simply require that the data be encrypted so the federal government would have to come or another party would have to come to us, the owner of the data. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You know, I do want to congratulate Stardust, but for the residents who don't know it, in 2022, we did update our building codes to do a lot of good things, but one was to require that when development happens in our city, 50% of the waste does get reused. So anyway, good job. Thank you for what you've done long before we passed our building codes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. So I have additional questions. And I just want to thank the applicant for explaining why not just Friday and Saturday night. That's actually, I hadn't thought about that. I've never run a bar or restaurant. So that's a good reason is to draw people in during the week. It's stipulated that the music ends at 10 p.m. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And it stipulated that the doors must remain shut?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“That's correct. And this is, I guess, a staff question. You've been operating for how many years? How long have you been operating?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026