{"utterances":[{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":275.32,"end_sec":278.32,"similarity":0.65,"text":"Point of order. Is there any discussion or presentation on this?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=275s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":1743.14,"end_sec":1748.77,"similarity":0.709,"text":"You are our health professional here, and- ... I have not even heard of bordetella before-","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=1743s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":1752.27,"end_sec":1817.02,"similarity":0.865,"text":"... I think the data we need before we vote on this is to look at the correlation between vaccination rates and how much infection rates happen, and then when you have infection rates, what percentage of those are serious, and if you have more vaccinations, if those become less serious. And so if the case is that it's never serious and it's not worth the cost burden on people to have to go through this extra thing, and there's really no benefit, then I could see, okay, we just take it off the table and there's no real benefit. But if there is some benefit to having more vaccinations, even if it's small, then we have to weigh do we want to make everybody or a lot of people do this as a requirement to get their dogs kenneled, and then it prevents a few, I don't know, it might even be less than 1% cases of becoming serious. Or if it's a couple hundred dogs, it might be one dog every couple of years, right? So- Sure ... I think maybe that would help us figure out the actual policy implications of doing or not doing. So maybe we could have that before the committee vote?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=1752s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3782.34,"end_sec":3805.28,"similarity":0.822,"text":"Thank you. Chief, I remember during the budget cycle, we talked about this being an important part of the program that you wanted to build out. Mm-hmm. That said, we were spending money on IT and computers and a membership. Right. I'm okay taking outside state federal money to come back to Melrose to do things, but do we need those computers or could it be spent elsewhere if","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3782s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3805.99,"end_sec":3812.59,"similarity":0.761,"text":"we already have computers that could manage our emergency response or emergency management group?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3805s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3880.92,"end_sec":3890.55,"similarity":0.808,"text":"So it sounds like you want computers to be generic and universal and accessible for anyone to use, regardless of their password or what permissions or login.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3880s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3918.78,"end_sec":3930.16,"similarity":0.778,"text":"In hearing you describe the problem, I'm wondering if there's an IT solution that our IT team can help you find that-- I'm fine if we buy computers with this, but it still helps you solve that kind of access problem.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3918s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3935.66,"end_sec":3959.33,"similarity":0.827,"text":"Okay. Then through the chair, I hear what Councilor Kowal is saying. I'm kind of on the other side of this where, yes, I don't agree with how the federal government is putting strings, but I feel like Melrosians and Massachusetts people pay a lot of federal taxes, and to have it be cut at $3.7 billion and for us to not be getting or to have emergency services funding from the federal","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3935s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3959.99,"end_sec":3967.06,"similarity":0.741,"text":"government get cut by about $400 million as punishment for I don't know what,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3959s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":3967.9,"end_sec":3989.29,"similarity":0.889,"text":"I don't think we need to protest extra by resisting funding that I feel like we should have been getting all along, and these extra strings attached are-- I don't agree with them, but I don't feel like we should deny the chief or kind of Melrose residents any outside funding because of it. But I totally hear the principle that you're","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=3967s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":4832.86,"end_sec":4845.23,"similarity":0.834,"text":"To clarify, do we own the transformer, or are we paid as part of the project for National Grid to do the work- Right ... on the transformer, but they own it, and then this is to give them access to maintain and- Correct ... fix?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=4832s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-08-10","video_id":1275,"video_title":"Finance - Legal and Legislative - Boards and Comm. - Appropriations and Oversight August 10th 2026","meeting_id":6007,"start_sec":4859.48,"end_sec":4885.23,"similarity":0.882,"text":"Okay. And I'm asking because I'm thinking about a recent meeting about our newer fire stations are going to use more electricity- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm ... which is why we need to upgrade- Mm-hmm ... our switchgear and our transformers. Right. And we have to pay our part to prep it, but the actual equipment is owned by National Gear and National Grid and paid for by them?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1217166818#t=4859s","page_url":"/video/1275"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2448.4,"end_sec":2459.28,"similarity":0.705,"text":"On, I think it was slide four, you mentioned economic analysis. Mm-hmm. Did that include how much we should sell this land for if we wanted, or what the price would be for a developer?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2448s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2486.55,"end_sec":2488.8,"similarity":0.645,"text":"Okay. I thought I saw economic on there as well, but-","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2486s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2537.03,"end_sec":2547.03,"similarity":0.651,"text":"And to follow Councilor Camilleri's question, for the Ripley site, the number one public feedback was for a park. Do we have a park design?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2537s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2628.55,"end_sec":2634.8,"similarity":0.652,"text":"And you mentioned a report, and this is phase one. When will that report be forthcoming?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2628s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2649.8,"end_sec":2653.3,"similarity":0.646,"text":"Okay. Are the conclusions the same as what we're getting the highlights here in","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2649s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2691.95,"end_sec":2697.53,"similarity":0.663,"text":"And that includes this presentation and the forthcoming report, and that concludes your portion of this? Yes.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2691s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2704.32,"end_sec":2716.02,"similarity":0.744,"text":"Through the chair. I'm always frugal, and I'm representing the taxpayer dollar here, and I'm not sure this is $60,000 worth of true actionable signal or insight.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2704s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2721.18,"end_sec":2729.15,"similarity":0.736,"text":"but I'm seeing 14 slides of which five are kind of introduction and conclusion and timeline,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2721s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2729.9,"end_sec":2752.82,"similarity":0.775,"text":"and then nine slides that are pretty light in content. I'm expecting kind of two levels deeper of detail. When I read this, I googled what do you do with municipal properties and how can you develop them, and I found a bunch of free reports on MMA and done by MassHousing and others. And they went into specific cities and how","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2729s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":2753.42,"end_sec":2784.36,"similarity":0.788,"text":"they didn't just say, \"Okay, we want a community space.\" They gave four or five options for community spaces, and then how they got there, and then the development process to do it, a multi-use community space. I feel like a lot of this Lebanon Street Ripley site, we knew most of it from the Public Safety Buildings Committee because we paid for geotechnical surveys and- Yeah ... we looked at that extensively. But I'm curious what my colleagues think or if you're maybe willing to do some of that deeper level work for us, but","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=2753s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4821.98,"end_sec":4826.8,"similarity":0.619,"text":"This will go to Finance. Point of order. Is that a oversight issue or a finance issue?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4821s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4879.64,"end_sec":4890.12,"similarity":0.836,"text":"Question to my colleagues. Does anyone know when we can renegotiate this and increase the amount that goes to Melrose, MMTV, and the schools and MMTV?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4879s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4891.12,"end_sec":4893.67,"similarity":0.726,"text":"Has anyone seen that lease agreement or that--","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4891s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4895.1,"end_sec":4900.56,"similarity":0.8,"text":"And I'm wondering, what is the benchmark for PEG Access funds and what other towns are getting?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4895s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4932.39,"end_sec":4940.74,"similarity":0.731,"text":"Sure. Yeah. Through the Chair, I'm less concerned about the split between who gets what and more about, is that total percentage that we're getting","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4932s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4941.49,"end_sec":4946.95,"similarity":0.688,"text":"the right amount and competitive- Hmm ... for cable TV? And when do we have the opportunity to","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4941s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":4947.71,"end_sec":4950.97,"similarity":0.688,"text":"reopen that with whoever we're negotiating with here?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=4947s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":5044.72,"end_sec":5074.3,"similarity":0.835,"text":"Thank you. I think this is a good example of where the city and one of our departments, and Jim Troop was really proactive in managing this, and expert, and got market rates, and a few of us that went to meet with him, he was pretty thorough about it, and we have good relations with the service provider and are able to negotiate a long-term, which does reflect market rate, and he did look at all the options. So, I think it is possible to do that, and I'm not sure what happened with our parking lease, but it's a good example of what we should be doing.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=5044s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":6518.71,"end_sec":6532.87,"similarity":0.78,"text":"I think four things can be true about this. I will support the three-year lease. The four things are, we need to continue to be frugal with our taxpayer dollars as we spend our way to another override, and possibly without the confidence of a lot of taxpayers.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=6518s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":6533.88,"end_sec":6558.3,"similarity":0.8,"text":"Second, we can improve parking, as Councillor Vandiver and Councillor Williams suggests, and we can pilot ideas, and this doesn't require paying for a $70,000 study. There's plenty of studies in towns that have already been done, and there's a lot of great solutions out there that we can pilot. And many towns are dealing with this and at different stages in dealing with it, and we can learn from them.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=6533s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":6559.79,"end_sec":6573.2,"similarity":0.818,"text":"The third is these negotiations ran off the rails pretty early, and they didn't have to, and they became a crisis, and we got to good results But I suspect all parties learn from this, and the chances of it happening are hopefully less.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=6559s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-20","video_id":2,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight - City Council July 20th 2026","meeting_id":5999,"start_sec":6574.49,"end_sec":6609.63,"similarity":0.804,"text":"The last truth here is that I realize we represent business owners. Some of us represent St. Mary's in our roles as councilors as well, and we also represent people with limited mobility and the elderly, sometimes not the most vocal, or it's not the easiest to advocate for themselves. But I appreciated the conversations and the people that came up to me. I know that those weren't always easy things to admit. I generally appreciate the civil way that this went about, and I think this helps us deal with a lot more issues of those four categories.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1211551486#t=6574s","page_url":"/video/2"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-09","video_id":3,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight July 9th 2026","meeting_id":5992,"start_sec":1079.91,"end_sec":1106.18,"similarity":0.633,"text":"All right. Up next I have Councilor Chen. Thank you. So we talked about market rate, and I just was doing the math quickly. 42,000 divided by 53 is about $800 per space. Then if we add in the 16,000, that's 58,000 divided by 53, and then we're at, I think, about $1,100. So Do we know or does any of my colleagues know what the market space is? I don't, around Melrose or... I know it can vary quite a bit.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1208609380#t=1079s","page_url":"/video/3"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-09","video_id":3,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight July 9th 2026","meeting_id":5992,"start_sec":1117.64,"end_sec":1126.18,"similarity":0.647,"text":"Yeah. I agree that this whole negotiation feels uncomfortable, that the city got backed into a wall and then weren't","url":"https://vimeo.com/1208609380#t=1117s","page_url":"/video/3"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-09","video_id":3,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight July 9th 2026","meeting_id":5992,"start_sec":1127.17,"end_sec":1168.78,"similarity":0.718,"text":"commercially reasonable in both getting back to you, offering options, and then we felt we have an obligation to support our shop owners and not surprise them by ripping parking away from them. But I feel like we get backed in, and which is why we went back reasonably and none of us are comfortable with paying more because we feel like we're dealing with an unreasonable party. So I totally understand what Councilor Williams is saying, that this doesn't really solve the problem. And maybe what Councilor Williams is advocating is that we send a stronger message and say, \"Hey, this is not really the way to partner or deal with the city, and we don't want to have to deal with this in the city.\" So maybe another option is we","url":"https://vimeo.com/1208609380#t=1127s","page_url":"/video/3"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-09","video_id":3,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight July 9th 2026","meeting_id":5992,"start_sec":1169.88,"end_sec":1208.04,"similarity":0.715,"text":"a compromise could be if we can't rent a shorter number of spaces or if we don't want to push this onto our businesses, then we could rent this for, have the term be shorter, maybe six months or even three months, and say, \"All right. We'll give our businesses some time to work through this and sort it out, and then we'll revisit it.\" But it sends a signal that we're not really happy with the way that this has gone through. So I'm not going to motion for that, but I'm interested in how the council can find a balance between solving the long-term problem and sending a message to how we want to work with this","url":"https://vimeo.com/1208609380#t=1169s","page_url":"/video/3"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-07-09","video_id":3,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight July 9th 2026","meeting_id":5992,"start_sec":1208.81,"end_sec":1217.32,"similarity":0.667,"text":"landlord in the future. Because it doesn't feel good to get pushed against the wall and have to accept something in the middle.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1208609380#t=1208s","page_url":"/video/3"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1671.38,"end_sec":1685.51,"similarity":0.699,"text":"Yep. Thank you. And thank you to Mr. True for walking a few counselors and I through this a few weeks ago. And thanks to Mr. Nocella for being what sounds like a really good partner with the city for a long time.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1671s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1693.03,"end_sec":1702.19,"similarity":0.725,"text":"did we have a discussion about the overall profit that Waste Management makes by operating the site long term? I want to know that that","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1693s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1703.1,"end_sec":1715.19,"similarity":0.742,"text":"$75,000 going up at 3.3% is on the right order of magnitude given how much it allows you to be more profitable overall. Any comments on if we've had open book","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1703s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1716.18,"end_sec":1746.23,"similarity":0.789,"text":"conversations about your overall business? And I understand the risk that you're taking, and you need to be compensated for that as well. And I know that the 20-year term does also help you pay back your capital, but I haven't seen that overall open book to make sure that the city is getting the most in terms of host payments and of compensation as part of this operating lease. And I fully understand that it's a partnership on both sides with risks.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1716s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1914.19,"end_sec":1932.82,"similarity":0.715,"text":"If there's, in the future, let's say five years from now, Waste Management wanted to change your operations to run a lot more solid waste through there, and it made that site more profitable, is there a way for us to revisit the host payments?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1914s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-29","video_id":6,"video_title":"Protection and License - Appropriations and Oversight - City Council June 29th 2026","meeting_id":5979,"start_sec":1969.23,"end_sec":1990.73,"similarity":0.757,"text":"Thanks. And do you see any risk to doing the capital improvements? I think it was about $3 million when Mr. Troupe and I last talked, and it'll take about three years. But are there risks to you to getting that permit, or do you feel like you've done this many times, and it's just a matter of doing the work and doing the paperwork with the state?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1205631431#t=1969s","page_url":"/video/6"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1281.78,"end_sec":1286.15,"similarity":0.805,"text":"Could we do this towards the end, so we have a lot of people waiting from the public?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1281s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1290.15,"end_sec":1294.33,"similarity":0.752,"text":"But even though people are here probably to watch some of the other proceedings- ... on other issues? Yes.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1290s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1881.14,"end_sec":1892.41,"similarity":0.843,"text":"I support this audit. I voted for the ballot resolution. And there's a few things. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I did try to find as many objective sources and look at the documents. So, I looked at the","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1881s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1893.14,"end_sec":1953.81,"similarity":0.835,"text":"state legislature's clerk's office and tried to read the audit. The most recent one that was completed was fiscal year 2024. No, it's 2023. 2024 is not done yet. There are four numbers in the 2024 audit for a legislature that controls about 60 to 70 million and makes decisions on about $65 billion of funding. And those four line item, the four line items are starting balance, funds received, funds dispersed, and ending balance, which they say that they audit themselves, and they're transparent about it, but they don't post it on time, and that's just not what I expect for a state audit. There's a few other concerning things that I found. They're not transparent about what the legislature spends money on, what vendors, who the legislature is paying, on what date, and how much, and for what. So, there's some spend information there, but not what you would find in our systems, and you can't even FOIA that stuff if you tried.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1893s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1954.58,"end_sec":1972.0,"similarity":0.785,"text":"The third issue is that the pay for legislators, there is a formula, but it is highly set by the leadership it seems. It's not very clear on how a legislator gets paid based on what positions they have, and that sets up a","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1954s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1972.98,"end_sec":1989.77,"similarity":0.744,"text":"kind of a power dynamic that you can't challenge or represent your district equally without feeling like you might be punished by it. And I don't think that, over a long time, leads to open and transparent government. And quite honestly, it tends to lead to corruption.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1972s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":1990.86,"end_sec":2015.25,"similarity":0.786,"text":"And the fourth thing is there are some rumors and some examples of harassment cases being settled by the legislature. And I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I would like to know how much, over what time, by who. We don't need to know the victims, but how it was paid out. And if that's not transparent, and I get that all organizations have legal fees, but if that's not transparent, that could lead to","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=1990s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2015.93,"end_sec":2033.84,"similarity":0.771,"text":"just some encouraging bad behavior as well. So, for these, I support the resolution. And I don't see this as a partisan issue. I don't want us to get dragged into a political food fight, and I hope I'm not on whatever Fox News tomorrow. But I'm just a simple person who, when I see these things, it doesn't sit right with me. Jimmy, can","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2015s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2815.01,"end_sec":2845.77,"similarity":0.857,"text":"We need more affordable housing, and I fully support what the trust is, and I'm glad that it's funded. I'm glad that it has $513,000, and also a continuing mechanism to keep it funded through inclusionary zoning. And yes, if we gave it $150,000 or $1.5 million, definitely good would come from it. We have so many other funding priorities and free cash requests in the coming years, which are going to get squeezed because we have less free cash, that don't have these mechanisms and don't have funding in place.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2815s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2846.81,"end_sec":2872.26,"similarity":0.854,"text":"I would really like to say yes to all the requests that have come up. I've said no to a bunch of things or tried to cut them back because I'm concerned that until we see the numbers of how our recent negotiations play out, and we saw what happened with fire overtime, we're going to be squeezed next year, and the things that don't have funding, we need to save our free cash for that. The things that there already are mechanisms for, let them do the good that they can.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2846s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2874.0,"end_sec":2880.37,"similarity":0.76,"text":"The things that I want to see us do for more housing, to lower or to arrest the","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2874s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2881.31,"end_sec":2905.12,"similarity":0.852,"text":"rate of just housing price increase everywhere, is to build more housing, change zoning to include more multifamily units. Some cities like Salem have rental caps on if you build an accessory dwelling unit. We could actually build hundreds, if not 700, 800, maybe 1,000 units in the next few years. I know it's not a popular position, but that would really help affordability for all Melrose people.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2881s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":2905.75,"end_sec":2915.5,"similarity":0.849,"text":"A lot of demographics that are struggling with this. So I really want to say yes to this, but because there's already a mechanism and it's already funded,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=2905s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":4360.31,"end_sec":4366.41,"similarity":0.804,"text":"When we discussed this, I initially had some sticker shock about $710,000, but then","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=4360s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":4367.14,"end_sec":4396.77,"similarity":0.891,"text":"I got there because it seemed like there were economies of scale benefits, and it was easier to permit the whole thing. I'm wondering if my colleagues who are concerned about process and outcome of the design would be willing to fund something lower, say about $400,000. And that signals that the council isn't fully in support of this, but wants to make sure that this process goes fairly, gets us what we think the public wants,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=4367s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":4399.51,"end_sec":4427.21,"similarity":0.889,"text":"I think it also increases the chance that something will get funded and designed, and maybe we could start with the parts of the design that are the least controversial but do add benefit to a lot of people, such as a walking path and maybe one of the fields. And I know that fields are controversial, but I wonder if that would be a way to incrementally do this rather than spend a large amount of money. I'm not going to put a motion forward, but I'm interested in what my colleagues have to say, because I don't want to see this completely go away, because I think there has been some good momentum here.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=4399s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":5740.33,"end_sec":5751.82,"similarity":0.842,"text":"A question to my colleagues. There are a number of large items, like fire salary negotiations or the school budget, that may be different from what was in the original submitted line items.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=5740s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":5752.91,"end_sec":5805.96,"similarity":0.903,"text":"I suggest we bring in those department heads or the CFO at some point soon to understand what those final items are, where they landed compared to our budget, and then how all the other line items that we ostensibly approved in our budget hearings change based on those. And I've put a request into our CFO and the schools, to Ken Kelly, asking him what are the actual total salary increases for the next three years that were negotiated, because it's hard to figure out just based on reading the social media posts and reading the contract itself, because so much depends on lanes and steps and how many people are in them. But plugging those into a model will show us how we're doing in terms of inflation gap between revenue and spend. I think those are key things that we owe the public as we pass a budget and follow on with our oversight responsibilities.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=5752s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":6039.17,"end_sec":6059.05,"similarity":0.891,"text":"Thank you. I came in supporting this, but am now concerned that the historic district will have too much power and be too restrictive and use that as a NIMBY argument to prevent housing from coming in, and I'm wondering what power the council has to stop that. I liked the design, for example, that","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=6039s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":6060.08,"end_sec":6077.64,"similarity":0.888,"text":"had a new building with a number of units and then moved the Benjamin Lynn House to the corner and incorporated new and old, and I'm just not sure if the historic district would allow something like that, and they would use a number of historic preservation arguments to prevent it, and I'm","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=6060s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-15","video_id":10,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2026","meeting_id":5968,"start_sec":6078.47,"end_sec":6090.88,"similarity":0.87,"text":"wondering how we would stop that. I guess I don't want the historic district to get too powerful in the cases of adding real housing, even if it is zoned for multi-family. I'm not comfortable with the limits of this.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1201640850#t=6078s","page_url":"/video/10"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":429.56,"end_sec":438.81,"similarity":0.766,"text":"Thanks for being here. Thank you. Are there any overages? Are the overages from the other line items that you're taking the $130,000 for- Yeah, that's- ... are the lesser services that are...","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=429s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":607.32,"end_sec":611.95,"similarity":0.68,"text":"To clarify, this isn't just for June utilities, this is for the entire year, but you need to true it- Correct ... up in June.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=607s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":768.42,"end_sec":779.04,"similarity":0.716,"text":"Chief, your ammunition budget actuals are far under budgeted. You're at 2,141 for a budgeted 12,500. What does that do?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=768s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":811.29,"end_sec":817.04,"similarity":0.776,"text":"So your team is keeping up with their qualifications, but you had probably ammunition left over from last year's budget from-","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=811s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":866.29,"end_sec":871.79,"similarity":0.735,"text":"Sure. And Chief, I wanted to give you a chance to respond to any public comments from today if you wanted to.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=866s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":2756.34,"end_sec":2777.63,"similarity":0.864,"text":"A few weeks ago, I just did a benchmark of eight surrounding towns, including Melrose, and we are in the bottom third per capita for crime, and also the bottom third in spend and number of officers. So which came first, the crime or the department? But either way, it is the right way. It's not a free license to crank up spending, but at least it's not the other way around.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=2756s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5319.39,"end_sec":5323.64,"similarity":0.602,"text":"Chief, remind me, how long have you been the chief? Has it been almost two years?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5319s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5325.64,"end_sec":5342.64,"similarity":0.819,"text":"Okay. The chief and I first met on the Public Safety Buildings committee, and he took a fresh look at Engine 2 design and modified it, scaled it back with the help of architects, and that saved us about $5 million in that design, which is why we are ahead in that project right now.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5325s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5361.26,"end_sec":5383.14,"similarity":0.875,"text":"I think there's also a trend that's not really captured in these budget sheets, is that you've also brought a fresh leadership perspective, and there's been a leadership transition, and there's a lot more trust up and down in the chain of command, which we know in this line of work is the key to being effective and having people show up, and all the benefits that come with it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5361s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5432.76,"end_sec":5442.96,"similarity":0.807,"text":"And with all that goodwill that you're building, we can bring that into collective bargaining negotiations where everybody comes in good faith, and","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5432s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5444.33,"end_sec":5458.2,"similarity":0.879,"text":"I think there's real opportunity for this trend to continue, as Councilor Williams is suggesting, right? We can take a fresh look at requirements, take a fresh look at manning, and headcount and-","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5444s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":5523.16,"end_sec":5525.78,"similarity":0.636,"text":"Okay. With that, I motion to move to the bottom line.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=5523s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":7303.82,"end_sec":7326.22,"similarity":0.829,"text":"We as an oversight committee don't have to decide this tonight, but I think this may be an item that we revisit on a quarterly basis, pending how the collective bargaining changes, and how maybe different policies or a review of different operational staffing might come out, and its number that seems to swing by quite a bit. And so I'd just like to have some","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=7303s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-11","video_id":11,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 11th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5962,"start_sec":7327.58,"end_sec":7334.38,"similarity":0.805,"text":"If there are things that we can do to steer it as we go, I'd like to know that sooner than later, and I think quarterly is the right amount of check-in for it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1200626911#t=7327s","page_url":"/video/11"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":1884.73,"end_sec":1894.61,"similarity":0.782,"text":"Seeing none, what is that? Councilor Chen. Thanks for sending all the information to us earlier today. So how close are we to our 5% debt service limit?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=1884s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":1899.36,"end_sec":1901.11,"similarity":0.611,"text":"Right. Not public safety buildings, right?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=1899s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":1904.71,"end_sec":1906.59,"similarity":0.64,"text":"It seems like one and a half percent we have left.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=1904s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":2112.68,"end_sec":2117.87,"similarity":0.686,"text":"So this was, we got a loan while we were waiting for all the paperwork.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=2112s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":2126.14,"end_sec":2129.89,"similarity":0.673,"text":"It's a bridge to before you start your bond in action?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=2126s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":2462.17,"end_sec":2466.55,"similarity":0.663,"text":"Councilor Chen. Thank you. Approximately how much revenue do we collect in parking per year?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=2462s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":4482.97,"end_sec":4498.97,"similarity":0.728,"text":"It's definitely not going to be you. I'm done. Thank you. All right. Next, I have Councilor Chen, unless you want to tell us where the spare key is in the back map. Thank you, Chair. What does this engineer need to do? Is it write the requirements to be able to bid it out?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=4482s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":5213.16,"end_sec":5218.69,"similarity":0.734,"text":"Thank you, Chair. So, we chatted earlier today, and thank you so much for,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=5213s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":5220.24,"end_sec":5243.74,"similarity":0.835,"text":"as others have mentioned, making this a public good and not just a business. There are plenty of sports businesses and clubs that parents pay- ... a lot of money to. About robotics club, my son went. If he did not go, he would've been playing video games while I was at work. But instead, he went to robotics, came home excited with something to show us, went to his friend's house after, played outside, and then came home with a bunch of stories. So,","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=5220s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":5246.37,"end_sec":5270.26,"similarity":0.885,"text":"I think I want to reiterate that we're making a decision to not raise rates because we want to keep it accessible for the most number of people, and we think that it's fair and a public good with all these follow-on positive effects. And while we can try to raise rates 15% and make this revolving fund neutral, it's a deliberate decision not to. Absolutely.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=5246s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":7680.75,"end_sec":7699.41,"similarity":0.798,"text":"Okay. Thank you. All right, up next, I have Councilor Chen. Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Mr. Keezer. We had a conversation today, and I did not know much about this, but I agree, this is an amazing operational report. My overall takeaway is this is a really difficult","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=7680s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":7700.52,"end_sec":7731.15,"similarity":0.88,"text":"setup to run because you've got two cities, and then within them you have a number of stakeholders. So he was telling us about how he schedules between two different school districts, a number of leagues, a number of private leagues, and how to balance all those fights. And left to their own devices, it does not go well. So there's a referee who has to have a huge amount of patience and practicality, and also a good sense of humor to keep this all going. And they essentially run their own public works department separate from ours, with their own equipment and capital equipment. So-","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=7700s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":8455.2,"end_sec":8490.84,"similarity":0.841,"text":"Yeah, I would love to see Franklin Field, right? The Common. Yeah. Obviously, the Knoll. Mm. Yeah. Thank you. Councillor Chen. Thank you. I'm sure we're thinking about some kind of public service training for- Mm ... anyone, and I hope no one's here has had to use an AED before, but it really is designed for while people are doing CPR on a person to keep their brain oxygenated. Mm. Any person who can read, it's designed for you to be able to use it under stress. It's got diagrams. It'll talk you through it, so open it up, unzip it, and just push the button. It'll start telling you what to do.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=8455s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":8698.7,"end_sec":8708.2,"similarity":0.822,"text":"Always. Councilor Chen. Thank you. Was DPW, even though we don't have an engineer, they manage a number of boilers and HVAC systems. Were they helpful in advising you on this?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=8698s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":8747.23,"end_sec":8752.1,"similarity":0.77,"text":"I guess I'm wondering, not directly you, but why DPW doesn't take a more active role in maintaining.","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=8747s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":8780.33,"end_sec":8785.2,"similarity":0.713,"text":"Is that the arrangement that you like, or you'd prefer that you have more support on this?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=8780s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":9020.28,"end_sec":9029.82,"similarity":0.793,"text":"Councilor Chen. Question. Do you know if our Mount Hood enterprise funds are just in a bank account, and then our reserve funds are invested, as you say, to try to","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=9020s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-08","video_id":14,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 8th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5955,"start_sec":9031.73,"end_sec":9034.35,"similarity":0.607,"text":"have higher return in case we need it?","url":"https://vimeo.com/1199609365#t=9031s","page_url":"/video/14"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-04","video_id":15,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 4th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5952,"start_sec":5416.74,"end_sec":5427.62,"similarity":0.839,"text":"I really appreciate the optimism and creativity in this and going big. There's something to be said. That's how any good thing gets done, right? People have imagination and they say, \"We're going to do this.\"","url":"https://vimeo.com/1198822329#t=5416s","page_url":"/video/15"},{"person":"chen-jason","date":"2026-06-04","video_id":15,"video_title":"Appropriations and Oversight June 4th 2026 Budget Hearing","meeting_id":5952,"start_sec":5428.58,"end_sec":5453.11,"similarity":0.899,"text":"Councilor Kowal summarized a lot of my financial concerns, which you addressed in piecemealing. The worrier in me and the frugal person says, \"I don't want to be sitting here two years from now with a 90% design of the whole thing with a pathway to only fund a third of it.\" Unless we take the long game and say, \"This might take 15 years, but we're going to stick with it and we have a vision,\" then if that's the way we go, then I just have to be patient. Right?The practical part","url":"https://vimeo.com/1198822329#t=5428s","page_url":"/video/15"}],"next_cursor":"u|2026-06-04|15|5428.58"}