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<br /> to legal and everything else, that we put all that, and they say, okay, forget it. What would they
<br /> do?
<br /> Council President Scott replied, Again, that's budgeted. That money then would not be spent. It
<br /> would either be another opportunity found with it,within our budget,or it goes back to the General
<br /> Fund.
<br /> He continued, In that number, Dr. Davis, I know you and I talked about this almost every year on
<br /> what that number looks like, and where we would be. You never know what's going to happen
<br /> with legal matters. I did confer with our attorney on kind of what that educated estimate would be
<br /> on that dollar amount. And then it's plus or minus. You never know on that.
<br /> Councilmember Dr. Davis then asked, Is there anything,not that this Council has to be political in
<br /> a sense in terms of what I'm about to say,but I do think that there should be,in the State legislative
<br /> branch, you see things that come from the State legislature from, I'm in district seven (7) and
<br /> everything, and there's monies that is put aside for each candidate, or each politician, each person,
<br /> that they can inform their district about what's going on. And that does not have to come out of
<br /> their political funds.
<br /> He continued, Currently, if I have to inform everybody in the sixth(6th)district about what's going
<br /> on, I have to raise the money, and then I have to pay for the stamps myself, and send that out to
<br /> everybody in the sixth (6th) district. And I really believe in, and if anything, I regret having not
<br /> tried to,it sounds self-serving to be doing. So,since I'm off,it's not self-serving.But I really believe
<br /> that everybody up here, every Council Member, should be able to, at least once a year if not twice
<br /> a year,be able to have a mailing to everybody in their district that is literally telling them, not vote
<br /> for me, but telling them what's going on in their district and what they have done to advocate for
<br /> them in their district. This is what we've done, beginning of the year. These are the kind of things
<br /> that we have looked at, all the funerals attended,because we have to do the funerals,the weddings,
<br /> the baby blessings, and everything else that we do, besides even sitting up here. And to give a
<br /> summary,because I see it coming from my Senate, I see it coming from our House Representative,
<br /> and I've always said, when I get those things in my mail, wow. It would've been really nice to be
<br /> able to inform everybody in the sixth (6th) district, of the work we do. If we don't put it on our
<br /> Facebook website, or create our own to tell everybody, toot our own horn. With all due respect,
<br /> you saw when the Mayor's gone,media walks out. Save for that one(1)camera. So basically,how
<br /> do we tell, and then everything that we do up here, it's been till one o'clock at night. Everyone left
<br /> when the Mayor was done, and this Council has worked like crazy for years, and each one (1) of
<br /> us, in our own districts, are doing certain things and trying to get that message out, and we hear,
<br /> the Council's not doing anything. Y'all don't do nothing. And all that making up kinds of things,
<br /> when if you really add up everything that we have done over the years, it's amazing.
<br /> He went on, And that's why I think that at least once to twice a year, there should be something in
<br /> this budget that covers at least with one(1)mailing per district. Now, of course the At-Large, they
<br /> get the whole City, but they're representing the whole City. But every district, and you know that
<br /> I talked about that early when you first (1st) came on, and I really think that would be, not only
<br /> helpful for people, because we did do one (1) last piece last year. You did, the Mayor did. How
<br /> many people know the City Council program? Remember we passed that out? Something that was
<br /> sent out, was some kind of survey. This will clear that kind of situation up, because every party
<br /> who's on a mailing list, gets to know their City Council person. And they get to know where to go,
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