Remarks by Aaron Brewster
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 48:14
“Yeah, I would like to move to table this item pending review by Parks, Waterways, and Urban Forestry.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 50:22
“Thank you, Council President. I would like to move to refer this to parks, waterways, and urban forestry as well, and then have it cycle back through plan commission and come back to council after a hearing or a public hearing. With a public hearing.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I have a couple questions. One of them is for City Attorney Nick, and that is with regards to the language in here, does that offer a sufficient flexibility were we to pass it as written to fill... I'm reading the creation membership organization sections. Would we be allowed to... basically like fill the entire thing right away with people that have the staggered, you know, like have three people who have a four-year term, two people with a three-year term, you know, so we can like start the cycle because it looks very specific about how it wants that done and…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“And then second question is for Clark. Sure. Would this be printed, like is the extra cost just because ink is expensive? Like is it going, will it be a separate ballot because we have to print a lot of stuff on it? Or where is the extra cost there?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. Very quick follow-up. Okay. But this wouldn't be printed in its entirety, right?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“all right thank you for council member brewster as a question just one more quick question for city clerk kerner um i know we have a big election coming up um in november is it looking like the elections budget will be sufficient for that so if we decide to send this to referendum it won't need any additional funds”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Is there any, Council Member Brewster, you want to present? Thank you, Council President. I guess my thoughts in this are, if it was up to me to write something like this, I don't think it's a terrible idea. There's some tweaks that I'd like to make, and if we send it to referendum, And it passes. We're stuck with it for two years, possibly. If we take it right now, we're absolutely stuck with it for two years without the ability to modify it. So I would rather... have it go to referendum so we have a chance to take it if it does fail. My guess is it probably won't, but if it does, we could…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I guess my question is, we knew we would eventually have a contract, right? So have we been sort of like squirreling money away waiting for this moment?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Go to council member Brewster next. Thank you. Council president. I was just wondering if you could speak a little on, uh, the wellfield properties as to, um, why the order of operations has to be this before the conservation easement. I mean, I would think that once this was surveyed, we could just do a conservation easement explicitly excluding those properties, and then once that's in place, then do the properties.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I have an amendment that I would like to make to both 9 and 10, but we'll start with 9. So yeah, we wanna add some language that talks about equitable development into the introduction section of the Riverbend plan. Say, development in the district shall be informed by principles of equitable development, for which the purposes of the plan shall be understood as a planning framework designed to revitalize neighborhoods without displacing or excluding long-term residents. It ensures that investments in housing, business, and infrastructure generate tangible…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Does that get get you closer to where you want to be I”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I would like to add the amendment that I put into number nine into number 10 as well. Once again, stripping the term wealthier from the place where it was stripped from in the original rather than solely catering to new arrivals. Otherwise, it will read exactly the same as the amendment to number nine.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Brewster. Thank you, Council President. I was just wondering if it turns out that we need more or fewer of them or to have them moved around. Is that something that's done administratively?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Brewster. Thank you, Council President. Yeah, this is just some clarification aspects of this that I overlooked when we voted at our last meeting. There was some lack of clarity in one of my amendments, and this is just cleaning that up to make sure that – staff know what the intent is and also make sure that the fire department has access to that lot overnight, despite the no parking for anyone else.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Brewster. Thank you, Council President. I just wanted to thank everybody from staff and council and the community that showed up at the inaugural Eau Claire Water Street Fair on Thursday. Turnout was incredible. Weather was incredible. Good time was had by all. Had great, great help from city staff and in the streets department and the police department um everything went went very well and we received a number of uh of emails from people encouraging us to continue to hold that event in the future so thanks for everyone that helped make it a success all right thank you council…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Brewster, do you? Thank you. So given those three buildings, is there anything that, you know, if we were to acquire them, would the idea be to just raise them or try to find somebody to utilize them or in the meantime utilize them ourself? You know, I mean, like, would we put storage in the YMCA building until we could figure out what to do with it or... Anything like that? I mean, would there be a benefit to us in the short term other than just holding onto the land? Because I do worry that if we don't get sort of the issue we have with homelessness and sort of the focal…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Brewster? Yeah. I'd be interested in taking a look at it, devils in the details as it is with everything, but it's not, it's an optimistic maybe, I guess, for me.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Oh, my light's been on for like 15 minutes. Sorry.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I just want to talk when you're done. Oh, okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I was wondering if, you know, if, you know, I saw 15% increases on that. I wonder how detrimental it would be to the budget to just, you know, keep it above where CPI is but have it do like 10% instead. So then we'd catch up maybe in 2033 instead of, 2030 or something it just you know like what we're going through as a city is is like absolutely normal like every organization that I know of is having funding issues and it just if we can if we can do it a little bit more gently while still getting to where we need to be I wonder if it's if it's worth that extra effort”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I guess for me, I would say the closer they are to 100 already, maybe try to keep the increases as low as possible.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“You know, but like for, you know, the ball fields or whatever, maybe that's a 15 and maybe Hobbs is like, you know, seven or something because they're already pretty close to...”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“You know, I guess I also had some questions about the farmer's market. And there are a lot of, like, probably, I mean, just the list of positive externalities from that is quite extensive. But at the same time, it's also, like... for-profit entity right like the well the organization I believe is well a non-profit but then the vendors exactly that's I think all of them are it is a commercial enterprise as opposed to you know some of the you know youth sports and stuff that are that are not I don't think that means that we need to go after them with a chainsaw or something.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“yeah i wonder if there's a way to um do something like for example at fairfax you know like let's say you know by nine days get the tenth one free kind of kind of thing like that if you know if you have a little receipt thing that you keep or something like that just like or uh you know if you go with a group of friends like buy four entrances get the fifth one free or something like that just people that you know, keep the usage high and also give people the opportunity to find ways to save some money. I'm not sure what that would look like with any of the other facilities, but maybe…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“For me, I understand the necessity of doing this. I just say, you know, try to keep the increases as minor as possible while still getting closer to that goal. And also I had a question. Have you noticed, like, an increase in... like pool usage since under 18s can ride the bus for free?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026