1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,920 I have seen inside of this time, inside of this, 2 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:14,940 we are in a mess. 3 00:00:17,980 --> 00:00:19,920 I'm seeing things around 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:28,460 unprofessionalism. I've seen things that have caused me to shake as a result. 5 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,600 People take 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:39,660 in liberties and forgetting that they stand for the community. 7 00:00:42,650 --> 00:00:43,190 I'm appalled. 8 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:46,360 I started 9 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,080 out being angry, then sat here 10 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:03,120 to share with all of you my concerns. But 11 00:01:05,170 --> 00:01:05,850 I'm also going 12 00:01:05,850 --> 00:01:10,670 to tell you that this didn't begin with the last council. 13 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:20,700 As best as I can guess, by the research that I have already done, we are going back to 14 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:22,540 2021 and 15 00:01:26,310 --> 00:01:36,110 not even gather the words to present to you how horrific this situation is. 16 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:49,320 and everybody that I have in common since I've taken this position, has asked for truth and transparency. 17 00:01:51,020 --> 00:01:59,360 So, in our federal government, we have a state of union. This is the state of the town. 18 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:11,280 This is your mayor who I was appointed telling you that after all of the forensics 19 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:21,180 accounting, record keeping, and I have a list that goes on, this is not what you 20 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:24,040 guys set out to have. 21 00:02:28,310 --> 00:02:35,350 We need a strong understanding as how we got here but we 22 00:02:35,350 --> 00:02:43,700 are all responsible. Every single member of this community is responsible for this 23 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:54,840 horrific situation. So you ask why? It's because none of us stood up and said 24 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:04,940 no more. We let it go on. We looked the other way. We did a whole bunch of other things except for 25 00:03:04,940 --> 00:03:09,560 stand and put our foot in the door and say no more. We 26 00:03:17,370 --> 00:03:24,580 promise the truthful, transparent, and have a 27 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:35,030 significant amount of candor and be direct. But what I do not promise is to sweep things under the 28 00:03:35,030 --> 00:03:36,170 road anymore. 29 00:03:40,670 --> 00:03:49,450 That is the opening remarks that I have just giving you the hundred hours 30 00:03:49,450 --> 00:03:51,810 of work that I already have into this. 31 00:03:55,940 --> 00:04:01,480 So with that said we need to figure out how 32 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,380 to look through the windshield, 33 00:04:05,750 --> 00:04:10,290 how we're going to come together as a community. I have witnessed 34 00:04:10,290 --> 00:04:19,710 in this room how we can be divided, but what I want to witness is how we're going to come together. 35 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:29,680 This council with everybody here will take care of the garbage, and it is garbage. 36 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,780 I feel like I'm at a landfill and I'm picking through garbage as 37 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:40,600 a community. 38 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:50,740 But I'm begging, asking, like, really begging is that we come together, arm in arm, and 39 00:04:50,740 --> 00:04:58,240 remember the history that Junior Gabriel tells us about what this town looked like, 40 00:04:58,620 --> 00:05:06,460 how it behaved, how Scott Stewart talked about the way things were, what pride was here. 41 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:15,320 When I talk to Confisterial, Mary Bradbury and Dick Bradbury, and I talk to all of these 42 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:21,280 people that tell me all the history of this town and how the cowboys were prideful and 43 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,400 how the people all came together, that's what won the West. 44 00:05:29,110 --> 00:05:31,010 That's why we stay here, and 45 00:05:33,410 --> 00:05:39,620 what I'm asking is that everybody put your personal stuff, figure 46 00:05:39,620 --> 00:05:40,840 figure out how, 47 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:53,560 what you can do within yourselves to bring us together and it's definitely not through words. 48 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,400 It's two actions. 49 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:07,300 That is what I'm asking. This is a mess and we have promised to fix it or at least give it our best try. 50 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:08,340 Inside 51 00:06:11,380 --> 00:06:18,260 of this door, I need people to start helping their neighbors and doing the things 52 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:23,080 that we forgot and how to do and why they matter so much. 53 00:06:26,530 --> 00:06:33,410 It's really down to every individual in this room and every individual in our city limits. 54 00:06:35,710 --> 00:06:44,470 And I am begging you, find it in your heart, forgive, do whatever you need to do. 55 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:47,350 It's a personal journey, but 56 00:06:50,260 --> 00:06:59,100 this town was great, and can be great, but it can't be great. 57 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:04,820 If we don't come together as neighbors, as friends, 58 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,560 strangers, looking to create friends, 59 00:07:11,260 --> 00:07:16,060 we need to network, develop, and push forward. 60 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:24,520 So when you hear somebody talking bad about our town, just gently remind them that we're 61 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,190 prideful and that we want to be here. 62 00:07:30,610 --> 00:07:38,310 And so let's not focus on the 3% that's bad, but the 97% that's good. 63 00:07:38,310 --> 00:07:38,430 But 64 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:49,300 there are people in this town that I want to acknowledge, Marty Collins, Kevin Sims, 65 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:51,740 and Andrea O'Wishard. 66 00:07:54,550 --> 00:08:02,890 They were not a part of where we are and the problems we had and have. 67 00:08:03,930 --> 00:08:10,210 They were people that were dumped on, a situation that nobody could survive. 68 00:08:10,210 --> 00:08:10,970 And 69 00:08:13,050 --> 00:08:23,110 so, instead of criticizing them publicly, privately, how well we just give them a thank you, 70 00:08:23,710 --> 00:08:29,410 you didn't know all that you took on, nor did I, by the way. 71 00:08:31,430 --> 00:08:33,610 When I'm 100 hours into this, 72 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:37,380 and I just started, 73 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:44,330 and so my wish, my prayer and my hope 74 00:08:44,330 --> 00:08:55,360 Is that everybody finds it in their heart to look forward, provide some support because 75 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:56,460 we're going to need it. 76 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,600 We are in the biggest fight of our lives. 77 00:09:01,780 --> 00:09:10,280 We have a lawsuit that's just around the corner that is bigger than this town has any history 78 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:10,760 of. 79 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:11,440 And 80 00:09:14,350 --> 00:09:20,410 without winning it, it's going to be really tough to survive. 81 00:09:21,730 --> 00:09:23,250 So losing is not an option. 82 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:37,940 With that said, I felt it was my duty to bring truth and transparency to every community 83 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:44,100 member so that you know that attacking us up here, because there's going to be a ton 84 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:45,240 of difficult decisions. 85 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:52,800 We have to turn that wheel as hard as we can 180 degrees and go in the opposite direction 86 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:53,740 that we've been going. 87 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,760 That's going to take stamina, will and support. 88 00:10:00,580 --> 00:10:07,060 So, what I'm asking for each one of you is to recognize that we share the responsibility 89 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:07,760 in this. 90 00:10:10,310 --> 00:10:10,930 All of us. 91 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,700 We let it happen under our nose, be included. 92 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:17,160 me 93 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:31,370 the first to raise my hand and take the ownership and I will do everything I can with this group of talent to be able to make this right