Remarks by Spencer Duncan
308 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 13
Thank you, Mayor. Any other comments or questions for Carrie? All right. Looks like you're free.
All right. With that, we will move on to the consent agenda. City Clerk.
All right. Thank you. We have a motion to approve from Councilmember Kell and a second from Councilmember Ortiz. Clerk, take the vote, please.
All right. With that, we move on to action items. Action item A, city clerk.
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Thank you. All right. Questions or comments for staff or Nicole? Council Member Kell.
I don't see any other questions or comments. Do we have a motion? Oh, Council Member Hiller.
Any other questions or comments? All right, do we have a motion? A motion to approve from Councilmember Miller, and a second from Councilmember Kell. If there's no other comments or questions, then I will ask the clerk to take the vote, please.
With that, it'll be good. With that, we move on to action item B, city clerk.
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Welcome, ma'am. When you hear the first beep, it's going to mean you have one minute still remaining. Okay.
I'm going to pause you for a minute. I'm going to let you finish because we're going to be here a while, but this is our budget agenda item, so I don't know if We got put in the wrong spot. I'm going to let you go ahead and finish tonight.
No, because we're in a budget conversation. It's going to take a while. I have you on here twice, so I don't know if you're going to only speak once tonight.
Since you're the last speaker, I'm going to let you speak. I'm just clarifying that that's what we're talking about. So that's it. Go ahead. You're back on. You're good. Your time was paused, so you didn't lose any time there.
Thank you, sir. All right, that was our last sign-up for this. It is close enough to 8 o'clock that maybe before we dig into the budget and our conversations, we will go ahead and take our 8 o'clock break. So 10-minute feedback here at 8.05, and then we will continue the conversation.
Okay. All right. We are back from our recess. With that, I guess I will now open it up to the governing body. Or actually, does the city manager have a...
So a couple things. We've looked at what I think we're right in line with that, actually, in looking at it. Because that's going to be their only job. And so we did look at some other cities. And if that's what we come down to and we need to have that conversation, we can. But this at least gives us an option to start that search sooner rather than later. But I think we're going to be okay, just based on looking at other cities and the market and some other things.
At least that's the hope, based on the information I've looked up. I think what I'm going to... Oh, sorry. Do you have other comments on this? Council Member Miller.
So I think I've been pretty clear that I wouldn't support this change, but for some reasons. First of all, I get frustrations at times with some of the current officers that may be 501 employees. But I'm going to circle back. It was clear last week I got a little offended when they kept calling them security guards. They are not security guards. I want to reiterate this. They are certified police officers. And there are 16 of them that work for 501. And I've also been told by 501 if they don't have to pay into this contract, they can actually hire more officers to add to that 16. And so,…
I want to make sure we're not missing a step or passing over something we shouldn't be. Is there a formal motion anyone wants to make regarding this specific issue where I make another motion?
No, we'll get to that. I promise that's going to be my motion is to adopt this, but I want to make sure we're not passing over this issue first. Okay. I promise we'll get there. Council Member Reller.
Okay. Do we have a second for Council Member Miller's motion? Council Member Ortiz.
Was. Okay. It's not at this time. Do we have a second for Council Member Miller's motion? I'll place the motion there.
It is because the contract, as of right now, expires at the end of June. At the end of May.