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Council member and speaker discuss time management for testimony

9:59:43

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Council Member Keith Powers and Matthew W. Daus engage in a back-and-forth about time management for Daus's testimony. Daus expresses frustration with the process and requests more time to speak.

  • Daus argues it's unfair for the public to go last in such a long meeting
  • Powers insists on adhering to time limits while allowing Daus to sum up
  • Daus requests a minute to conclude his testimony
Keith Powers
9:59:43
You can continue, but we we you you did use a lot of time on your resumes.
9:59:46
Please.
9:59:47
Mister Doss.
9:59:48
Mister Doss, I'm I'm hearing you.
9:59:50
You can you can you can make your statement, but we also are in a clock, so I need you to go ahead.
Matthew W. Daus
9:59:55
You you know, I I have to can I just say something?
9:59:58
I mean, I really think it's kind of unfair to to let the public go last on a meeting like this.
UNKNOWN
10:00:04
We're all
Keith Powers
10:00:04
Mister Dawas, you can litigate this if you wanna litigate this away or or we can you can make your statements.
10:00:10
You can choose.
Matthew W. Daus
10:00:11
Could I have as someone who served the city for 20 years a minute to sum this up?
Keith Powers
10:00:16
You can sum go ahead and sum up.
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