The Standard Committee convened on December 22, 2025, to address routine administrative resolutions, public welfare initiatives, and infrastructure agreements. The meeting featured significant public commentary regarding equity and religious policy, a unanimous approval process for numerous funding resolutions, and a series of public remarks honoring Chief Financial Officer Patrick Cornell upon his retirement. A solemn moment of silence was held to honor the late father of Deputy Director of Public Safety, David Jones.
And welcome to the standard committee meeting on Wednesday, December twenty second, two thousand twenty-five. Mr. Charlotte. Mr. Cockle. Miss Gross. Mr. Laval. Here. Mr. Mosley. Here. This is Cal Smith. Yes. Here. Five members present. Thank you very much. Our next order of business is public comment. I would like to mind everyone the rules of Council State. They comments are limited some matters of Cassidy official action or deliberation, which may be for City Council profanity would not be permitted. After you were called, please restate your name, provide your neighborhood for the record. You'll be given three minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Dr. Ronald Lynn Miller. United States, 2028. Global Information Intelligence Network.net. Housing is a concern of City Council. Houseless, homeless, does not equal less intelligent. Does not equal less well informed. One plus one is two for Elon Musk. One plus one is two for all the rest of us. One plus one equals two is not more true because EM says so. It is not less true because a person who is homeless or jobless says so. Information, verified facts, um, is valid regardless of the race, ethnicity, gender, or wealth of the informer. Shared information is in my view at the core of equity or equality. Now do you, counselor and mayor, um office claimants, all Democratic Party, really believe in DEI equity? You favor, and I think wrongly, I think it's anti-diversity, anti-inclusion, and anti-constitution, the religions of Christianity and Judaism in your office, oath-taking ceremonies by inviting ministers, priests of the Christian religion, and rabbis of the religion of Judaism to participate. You will do so as you have done for all the time that I've ever come to these meetings in January 2026. The probability I think is way over 0.9. In doing so, you call attention to Yeshua the Jew, Yeshua the homeless, Yeshua the jobless, Yeshua from Nazareth, whose Jewish followers believe that he fulfilled the messianic expectation of classic Judaism, the Christ. Yeshua who said that the have nots, the praise would inherit the earth. What would your Jesus that you will call in here directly and indirectly? Jesus the Jew do about inequity in our neighborhoods or between our neighborhoods. I think he would declare it iniquitous. Dare you, all of us, to tax the haves in our city to help the have nots in our neighborhoods. Thank you. Our next registered speaker is Ikahana Hamakina. He is not online. So that exhausts our list of registered speakers. If there's anyone in chambers wishing to speak, please come forward at this time.