Remarks by Trish Giordano
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“Do I hear a motion to go into executive session for non-elected personnel with finance and HR? 15 minutes.”
“Second, all in favor? Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries.”
“Hello, are we back? Yes. We're back from executive session, no action taken. I'll turn it over to you.”
“It's a great idea. It's a great. It's a win win, I think.”
“You want? Let's just do a motion on it since we are paying out money. So do you want?”
“Second, all in favor? Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries.”
“Or could we just approve the change with the caveat that if to go ahead and implement the extra 1% and then if that insurance claim comes in less, we'll just, I mean, we're not changing anything about how much the budget's going to be, just where the money is going to come from. Right. So, you know, it's because it might not be until after we're done, you know, for the day. So. I'm also good with that. I would do that, and then you can just update us next week on which way it was, and then the employees would know, hey, we're going to get the 5, and then all the things that we implemented…”
“And I appreciate all the department heads getting together and putting their heads together to figure out to do what's best for their employees, and I appreciate that. Okay.”
“But we work as pending what I think we just need to either say yes, we're going to agree to do the extra 1% sessions in place on with the caveat that if the insurance is going to cover that that will go with that it's still OK. Yeah, I'll second that. All in favor. Same sign motion carries did you understand that OK.”
“Thanks, guys. Did you guys bring back up to intimidate us?”
“Oh, I forgot to talk about training day, which is the reason why we're having our meeting today. I think that the employees did a tremendous job putting that together just like they have every year. And I just think it's a good function to have. you know, gets employees that normally never see each other in the same room and, you know, just talk about, I really enjoyed the department heads giving their, what they do and sharing that. I think employees need to understand how other departments work and how we work together as a team for one mission. So I appreciate all the hard work that the…”
“Yeah, I was good with them. I'll make a motion that we accept the minutes.”
“All in favor? Oh, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, guys. If Courtney's ready, she doesn't have to, but if Courtney's ready, I know that her, it's not going to take very long.”
“We just asked the clerk if she wants to come in. If not, no big deal. Jeremy got here, so I didn't want to put you on. No, you can come on. We've got plenty of time. I was trying to be efficient of everybody's time, but I didn't want to put you on the spot.”
“I don't have a problem with that. Is there any kind of a conflict because they are in your office?”
“Oh, same sign. Motion carries. All right. Thanks.”
“I do think it's a great idea. Just so everybody has a clear vision of what you guys are doing during these. I think that the more communication we can have with our public eases their mind.”
“And as long as we tell people that, I think people are very accepting and know this is why we're doing it this way.”
“Well, I think it's an excellent idea. Thank you. Especially before the first snowflake.”
“Yeah, I think so. It was a great day. I really enjoyed everybody's department heads. I think that was good for employees to see what all you guys did.”
“Okay. It just wasn't showing, but I think I had to refresh my... 30 minutes till our next person. Are either one of you guys here for public comment?”
“I believe that structure is a good structure if it's ran right. What? I believe that structure is a good structure if it's ran right.”
“That's actually the norm of a lot of places. I mean, of course, a lot of them don't have military bears, but.”
“What do you mean? Are they compensated? The only tax money the Chamber of Commerce membership board is the county is a member of the chamber, which is normal for any other city counties to be involved. That's the only tax paying money that they get that goes towards their budget. Okay, so they aren't being compensated to a supervisor or anything like that? No, it'd be just like, it's the same thing when we give money to Fundamental Health. I mean, we're not paying them to do that. We're giving to their, you know, as far as, it's just the one group that is running the organizations. Okay. And…”
“And I think we need to change the name of it, you know, like, because, like, the Chamber, I mean, it is the Chamber of Commerce, just like in Manhattan, it's the, you know, the Manhattan Chamber. But the membership board is what people do not want taxpayers going to, and I totally get that. But the chamber itself is an organization that covers military affairs, the EDC, and the membership.”