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[0:00] I have seen inside of this time, inside of this,
[0:10] we are in a mess.
[0:17] I'm seeing things around
[0:19] unprofessionalism. I've seen things that have caused me to shake as a result.
[0:30] People take
[0:31] in liberties and forgetting that they stand for the community.
[0:42] I'm appalled.
[0:45] I started
[0:46] out being angry, then sat here
[0:56] to share with all of you my concerns. But
[1:05] I'm also going
[1:05] to tell you that this didn't begin with the last council.
[1:13] As best as I can guess, by the research that I have already done, we are going back to
[1:20] 2021 and
[1:26] not even gather the words to present to you how horrific this situation is.
[1:38] and everybody that I have in common since I've taken this position, has asked for truth and transparency.
[1:51] So, in our federal government, we have a state of union. This is the state of the town.
[1:59] This is your mayor who I was appointed telling you that after all of the forensics
[2:11] accounting, record keeping, and I have a list that goes on, this is not what you
[2:21] guys set out to have.
[2:28] We need a strong understanding as how we got here but we
[2:35] are all responsible. Every single member of this community is responsible for this
[2:43] horrific situation. So you ask why? It's because none of us stood up and said
[2:54] no more. We let it go on. We looked the other way. We did a whole bunch of other things except for
[3:04] stand and put our foot in the door and say no more. We
[3:17] promise the truthful, transparent, and have a
[3:24] significant amount of candor and be direct. But what I do not promise is to sweep things under the
[3:35] road anymore.
[3:40] That is the opening remarks that I have just giving you the hundred hours
[3:49] of work that I already have into this.
[3:55] So with that said we need to figure out how
[4:01] to look through the windshield,
[4:05] how we're going to come together as a community. I have witnessed
[4:10] in this room how we can be divided, but what I want to witness is how we're going to come together.
[4:22] This council with everybody here will take care of the garbage, and it is garbage.
[4:30] I feel like I'm at a landfill and I'm picking through garbage as
[4:39] a community.
[4:40] But I'm begging, asking, like, really begging is that we come together, arm in arm, and
[4:50] remember the history that Junior Gabriel tells us about what this town looked like,
[4:58] how it behaved, how Scott Stewart talked about the way things were, what pride was here.
[5:07] When I talk to Confisterial, Mary Bradbury and Dick Bradbury, and I talk to all of these
[5:15] people that tell me all the history of this town and how the cowboys were prideful and
[5:21] how the people all came together, that's what won the West.
[5:29] That's why we stay here, and
[5:33] what I'm asking is that everybody put your personal stuff, figure
[5:39] figure out how,
[5:42] what you can do within yourselves to bring us together and it's definitely not through words.
[5:54] It's two actions.
[5:58] 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.
[6:07] Inside
[6:11] of this door, I need people to start helping their neighbors and doing the things
[6:18] that we forgot and how to do and why they matter so much.
[6:26] It's really down to every individual in this room and every individual in our city limits.
[6:35] And I am begging you, find it in your heart, forgive, do whatever you need to do.
[6:44] It's a personal journey, but
[6:50] this town was great, and can be great, but it can't be great.
[6:59] If we don't come together as neighbors, as friends,
[7:07] strangers, looking to create friends,
[7:11] we need to network, develop, and push forward.
[7:17] So when you hear somebody talking bad about our town, just gently remind them that we're
[7:24] prideful and that we want to be here.
[7:30] And so let's not focus on the 3% that's bad, but the 97% that's good.
[7:38] But
[7:41] there are people in this town that I want to acknowledge, Marty Collins, Kevin Sims,
[7:50] and Andrea O'Wishard.
[7:54] They were not a part of where we are and the problems we had and have.
[8:03] They were people that were dumped on, a situation that nobody could survive.
[8:10] And
[8:13] so, instead of criticizing them publicly, privately, how well we just give them a thank you,
[8:23] you didn't know all that you took on, nor did I, by the way.
[8:31] When I'm 100 hours into this,
[8:36] and I just started,
[8:40] and so my wish, my prayer and my hope
[8:44] Is that everybody finds it in their heart to look forward, provide some support because
[8:55] we're going to need it.
[8:57] We are in the biggest fight of our lives.
[9:01] We have a lawsuit that's just around the corner that is bigger than this town has any history
[9:10] of.
[9:10] And
[9:14] without winning it, it's going to be really tough to survive.
[9:21] So losing is not an option.
[9:27] With that said, I felt it was my duty to bring truth and transparency to every community
[9:37] member so that you know that attacking us up here, because there's going to be a ton
[9:44] of difficult decisions.
[9:45] We have to turn that wheel as hard as we can 180 degrees and go in the opposite direction
[9:52] that we've been going.
[9:55] That's going to take stamina, will and support.
[10:00] So, what I'm asking for each one of you is to recognize that we share the responsibility
[10:07] in this.
[10:10] All of us.
[10:13] We let it happen under our nose, be included.
[10:16] me
[10:19] 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