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[Budget Workshop on August 28, 2025.]
EVERYONE.I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
THE TIME IS NOW 10 0 6 ALREADY, THANK GOODNESS.
UH, WE'RE STILL PROBABLY WAITING ON THE MAYOR AND I DON'T KNOW THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER NAVARRO'S GONNA MAKE IT TODAY.
BUT, UH, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO THOUGH IS, UH, PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE.
DO WE DO THAT? DO WE NEED TO DO THAT? NO, WE CAN DISPENSE WITH THE FORMALITIES.
THEN WE'LL GO STRAIGHT TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
MR. SANDAL, THE FLOOR IS YOURS, MY FRIEND.
UM, WE WILL, NOW THAT WE HAVE A MEETING OPEN, I GUESS WE CAN, WE CAN START, AS Y'ALL RECALL, SOME, UH, WE HAD A STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING, UH, SESSION LAST YEAR IN MAY.
UM, WE'VE GOT A SMALL, WE HAVE, WELL, WE MADE A LOT OF DISCOVERIES, I THINK, AMONGST THE GROUP ABOUT SAN BENITO AND ABOUT WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT SAN BENITO IS, WHAT SAN BENITO WAS, AND WHAT SAN BENITO COULD BE.
AND, UM, IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT, I WANTED, I FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS SHOULD BE A YEARLY THING.
UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TOO INTENSE OR TOO LONG, BUT I THINK IT'S, IT IS, IT WOULD BE, WE WOULD BE REMISS IF WE DIDN'T FOLLOW UP ON WHAT WE DISCUSSED LAST YEAR AND SOME OF THE GOALS.
AND THEY, AND THEY WEREN'T REALLY, WELL, THEY WEREN'T GOALS, BUT THEY WERE MORE OF, UH, I GUESS WAY POINTS FOR WHERE WE WANTED TO BE AND, AND, UH, HOW WE WERE GONNA INCORPORATE THE BUDGET AND HOW WE WERE GONNA INCORPORATE CITY SERVICES AND EDC AND CHAMBER TO KIND OF CULTIVATE SOME OF THOSE.
WE BEGIN TO LAY A VISION OF WHERE WE WANT TO GO.
DEFINITELY A VISION FOR SURE, BUT ALSO HOW THAT, HOW THAT'S INCORPORATED INTO WHAT YOU ALL SEE AS ELECTED OFFICIALS, ALSO AS RESIDENTS, AND ALSO AS REPRESENTATIVES OF, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO, UM, I, I'VE GOT LAST YEAR'S DATA, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO, I, I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS THAT AT THIS POINT.
I WANT TO, I WANTED TO KIND OF APPROACH THIS WITH A BLANK SLATE, AND IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, WHITEBOARDING LIKE WE DID LAST TIME.
SO I'D LIKE TO GO INTO, INTO THE BACK SO WE COULD GET A LITTLE, A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A WORKSHOP TYPE ATMOSPHERE.
AND, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO, WAS THAT AN EXECUTIVE SESSION OR HOW WAS THAT WORKING? HOW DID WE DO IT LAST YEAR? NO, WE JUST WALKED OVER TO THAT.
SO, I MEAN, IT'S STILL AN OPEN MEETING.
BUT IT'S JUST A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO GET THAT UNDERSTOOD THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT FRAMEWORK DONE HERE.
THEN WE WILL GO INTO THE, UM, UH, BOARD MEETING ROOM OVER THERE WHERE WE CAN, UH, WHITEBOARD SOME OF THESE THINGS.
THERE'S, UH, 1:00 PM AND WE'RE BACK FROM, UH, SESSION.
UH, MAYOR ERS, I THINK, UH, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR ATTENDING.
I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN, UH, A LITTLE BIT OVERRUN ON MEETINGS LATELY, AND SOME OF Y'ALL HAVE OTHER THINGS TO ATTEND TO OTHER MEETINGS AND WORK AND SUCH.
SO AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF THE STAFF, MYSELF, THE EDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS, UH, AND THE EDC STAFF, I WANT TO THANK Y'ALL FOR BEING HERE.
I KNOW THAT WE HAD A, LOOKS LIKE A PRODUCTIVE SESSION AND GOING FORWARD, THE BUDGET AND WHAT WE, UH, WHAT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER FOR Y'ALL, THE BUDGET, BOTH AT THE CITY AND THE EDC, ARE GONNA REFLECT THE STRATEGIC PLANNING.
AND AGAIN, UH, GOING FORWARD, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO INCORPORATE AND EMBED A LOT OF THESE KEY COMPONENTS TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ADDRESSED IN, IN OUR BUDGET AND REFLECTED IN THAT.
ANYTHING ELSE? COMMERS OR ANYBODY ELSE? WELL, I WOULD JUST WANT TO THANK YOU BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE TIME, COME OVER HERE.
UM, I THINK IT WAS A GOOD MEETING AND, UH, UM, LET'S MOVE FORWARD AND, UH, SHOW THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE HERE FOR THEM.
WE ARE MOVING FORWARD, UNITY AND UNITED AND, UM, LET'S GET SOMEBODY TO UP AND GO.