Remarks by Aaron Brewster
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you, Chair. Could you talk just a little bit about how interest rates on this sort of municipal promissory notes interact with the economy at large? Sure. In a way, like if the economy is looking a little shaky, then maybe this is a more desirable product for investors or vice versa.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. guess the my first question is is a little bit more of a comment but i know uh at least at the plan commission public hearing there were a lot of people with a with a misunderstanding of the like legal definition of what blight is and um you know i think it's important that you know it's it that we make it clear that it's not like we think your building is trash or something just because it's here. There's a lot of different ways that buildings or areas fall under that. And I was wondering if maybe you or Director White could speak to what actually meets the legal definition…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I guess personally I have a pretty good understanding of it. This is more for the public who might be confused by that. Because we've had a number of things come up lately with the redevelopment districts with the discussion of blight and I think just a lot of general confusion”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I also have two questions. One of them is relatively brief. Just wondering why Putnam was chosen as the cutoff and not Dewey, because there's a number of. what I would consider blighted properties in that region as well. I mean, there's good stuff there too, don't get me wrong, but like the hip slot and...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OK. Does that ratio that you speak of, is that like a ratio of number of properties or a ratio of total land area? It is my area. Okay. All right. Totally makes sense. And then my second question was... Are blight tids, like the one we're looking at creating here, also eligible for the two-year extension for affordable housing?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I just want to say this is one of the better tools at our disposal in a time of pretty significant budget constraints to work on economic development in collaboration with private partners within the city limits. So I'm excited that we were able to put together another one that will help us get some projects and improvement done. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Council member Brewster. Just a reminder that after this is the comp plan update launch. I believe that's either 6 or 6.30.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so both of those times were relevant to what I was remembering, and that's on the third floor of the library. So hopefully you can make it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. So one of the things that's interesting about the broader site there is there's a lot of parking that doesn't get used super steadily, like when there's events there and things like that. And I'm wondering if there's a way to utilize some of that for what might be here instead of, I mean, I guess maybe this is more a question for planning. at the city, but is that something that we could cross-pollinate the parking with that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. So by removing motor, that doesn't like accidentally, or like turning motor to electric, that doesn't like accidentally let motor scooters be there.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Follow up? So, like, would it not be suitable to just have motorized recreational vehicles of any kind? Like, just because, I mean, an electric scooter still has a motor. It's just an electric one. So wouldn't that be covered already?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We had a meeting and filled some spots I'm just gonna go through and read them off want to apologize in advance if I mispronounce anyone's name and For bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee, we appointed Ben Smazzle and Derek White. For equity, diversity, and inclusion, or EDI commission, we have a reappointment of Efren Martinez and two new appointments of Haley Brown and Kelly Murray. For housing advisory board, we have one reappointment of Cicada Rogers. For the RDA, Redevelopment Authority, one new appointment of Brian Christensen. And for Waterways, Parks, and Urban Forestry, one new…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I've been working on this one for a while. I'm not actually opposed to the idea of putting housing on the spaces in the long run. I think we have a sensitive area that has a lot of neighbors that are very... The term I've used is ferocious. And I think moving forward in a way that has... like great care in our orders of operations, I guess makes the most sense to me. For example, if we were to come up with some sort of easement policy or whatever, or develop our own municipal natural area like the state has for Putnam Park, for example, that we could use on this space and…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank You chair, I would like to move to postpone this item until the second meeting in March I”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that gives us enough time to continue to work with the neighborhood and staff and see if we can get to a point where maybe people are kind of like, mostly okay with the moving forward of the excess land declaration.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, I can combine them. And I hope my second would be supportive of that, if it'll save a little time. But I was planning on doing them independently, hoping for the same thing. But yeah, we can do it together.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I would like to move to postpone this item until the second meeting in March 2027.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The same thing I would say for the next one as well, as somebody who's kind of a urban design and architecture nerd, it's nice to see plans like this coming forward that really look like they will result in a very livable space and a nice space to call part of Eau Claire. I will be wholeheartedly supporting this.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. If they do request any exemptions from any component of the LDO, that will go to plan commission, though, will it not?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would like to move to take up this item tonight. OK.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I can give you a little bit of background. I wasn't able to remember exactly when it happened, but there was a question that I asked about whether or not the city manager or the parking manager would have the ability to allow for you know parking holidays for special events or anything like that and i was told that that would be possible um several other people i talked to remember that particular line of questioning and as it turns out that didn't make it into the ordinance um and so this allows um uh the fall fest fall festival that's that's coming up as well as any other events that are…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't, but I could defer to City Manager Solberg who might have a thought.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Most of the events that would be taking advantage of that are done by then and Barstow Street will be back open by that time but I'm totally fine with altering that to 11 p.m. if the rest of the council desires so.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't know. I think it's definitely not so much an awareness of paid parking, but rather the inability of the city manager and or parking administrator to declare parking holidays, as was something that was originally discussed.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Probably very well aware that Fall Festival is coming up this Saturday from 10 to 5, although there will be, I believe, music in the beer garden going a little bit later than that. But Barstow will be back open around 5. There's also the Party for the Parks that's going on at Lower Mount Simon. I believe that goes from noon until 7, as I recall. And that, as Jeremy... President Gregert mentioned is an effort by the Northside Hill Neighborhood Association to raise money to have a pavilion and bathrooms in Upper Mount Simon. As far as if anybody is interested in volunteering for either of those…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026