[JULIE DINGLEY] My name is Julie Dingley,
and I am the new City Budget Director.
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To be good at this line of work,
it really doesn't require sophisticated math skills.
It's really at the end of the day about
listening and relationships and partnerships. And
are you really understanding what the need is?
Are you the right person to be defining what the need is?
Are you hearing from the right people
to be able to do that?
[MAYOR BRUCE HARRELL] To me, that's how we're going to get
these issues solved,
demonstrating the ability to listen;
to impress upon people you understand their point.
To be so kind, let me explain to you my point.
That's that's Julie.
[JULIE DINGLEY] OK, well, that's great.
Now that we've defined
the problem
and defined how we want to get there,
then we figure out how we can pay for it.
The big secret is the math itself is not hard.
It's the problem solving.
I have the most incredible family.
I met the love of my life
ten years ago and we created this beautiful family.
And I have two beautiful kids and they're both boys
and they exhaust me and test me to no end.
But they're also the biggest joy and the biggest light.
And they're the reason why I do what I do.
I've wanted to get into this line of work
for a really long time,
and budgets at the end of the day
are a real demonstration of our values,
and what we were responsible for,
and protecting each other.
And how do we how are we going to do that?
And so
pulling all of that together gives me so much energy.
But it is terrifying.
It's daunting.
It is.
It is absolutely, it's humbling.
It's a humbling task in front of me.
[CITY CLERK MONICA SIMMONS] If you would
please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
[JULIE DINGLEY] It's such a big job, you know, we have
we have so many big problems to solve in the city,
and yet we have a lot of people
that are really excited to try to solve them.
And we have such a big opportunity right now
to shape what that looks like.
-And that I will faithfully conduct myself.
-As the city budget director.
-Congratulations.
[JULIE DINGLEY] I'm really honored
at this opportunity
to be able to do this job, and I'm really humbled
at the trust that folks have put in me.
And I'm just excited.
I'm excited to get to work.