Remarks by Ariel Meyer
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
- Play at 45:29
“So will we estimate it? how much more revenue we'll get from raising from 300 to 750? What impact does this have? Because what makes me uncomfortable about this is the residents have already contributed $6 million to the renovation of the park that's just about to be unveiled. And we're going to ask that the same residents that have contributed to the improvements to now pay more for renting the space going from 300 to 750. Unless this has a material impact on our finances, I don't really see the need to go up in the rental fee. And I would also support what Council Member Del Prado has…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 47:58
“OK. I see. It's 300 for the. First three hours, and then there's $200 for the terrace. So that may be the $500.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 57:08
“It doesn't mean that it may not necessarily go in my way, but these kinds of things I think we should be able to make a decision on, unless we think it's part of a much larger problem that needs to be addressed. If it's just an isolated thing, We could just basically vote on it. I don't think it's going to solve the budget gap that we have in other public locations, which is, I think, to the comment that Council Member Del Prado said, I don't think this will have a material impact to budgets. But at the same time, it's a simple item. We can always amend it if we want to have carve-outs for…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:10:21
“I don't mind deferring it for a month if it gives us a chance to take a look at renderings or just have a more realistic perception on what they will be, what they will look like, and whether they will sustain traffic in time. Now, what I will say, though, is I don't think they'll behave the same way that a traffic circle behaves, because there's a lot more traffic on a traffic circle, typically, than there will be on something like this. But I do think it's a fair ask to at least take a look at one of the renderings and see what it would look like. Today, you can do renderings really easily.…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:12:21
“Does it affect, though, the allocation of the bond funds?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:12:57
“You still need to open up the public hearing. All right.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:13:57
“Aye. She's still checking because we might have some implications over allocations of our money. We have some deadlines for that. That's, do you still need more time?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:39:18
“I don't think anyone could argue that's a necessarily bad outcome, because then you're making the community safer. But I did want to highlight and really just call out how respectful you were bringing this up to us. You took the time to write a memo. You read calmly, and you were respectful the whole time. And that makes it just a lot easier for us to listen and to be able to help in finding the solutions, some of which you're proposing. So thank you for doing that.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:51:05
“All right, thank you, Vice Mayor Fairman, for doing that. Thank you, Vice Mayor.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:55:17
“Just to add. I appreciate the work from the attorneys, the chief, obviously the manager. I think this initial proposal, this proposal to me represents an ideal balance of... between public safety and also the protection of the independence of children who have seen their independence be taken away bit by bit, year by year. And the fact that there are now some of them adopting the use of some of these bikes and generating the right level of concerns amongst adults, et cetera, does not necessarily mean that all of them use them in ways that are irresponsible. So I'm glad that we've reached out…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:55:59
“Sorry, can I ask a question? And I'm sorry to interrupt. Yeah. Is the data being normalized by the distribution, the demographic distribution of the population? Because it could be the case that your respondents over index on a certain group that tends to be more engaged than another group. So have you looked into that?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:56:30
“Right, but are the results normalized by the demographic distribution of the population? So let me explain what I mean. Maybe I'm not being clear. Say we have 40% of people living in the village that are older than 55 years old. However, 60% of the respondents are older than 55 years old. Therefore, you overindex on the responses of people that are over 55 years old. However, they represent 40% of the population in Pinecrest. So normally, what you would do is you would bring down or adjust for that over-indexing. And maybe a younger subset of the population tends to be less engaged. They…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:58:44
“So the responses that we've received are representative of the distribution of our population, both in age as well as in families with kids, families without kids.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:59:00
“But that's not my question, I'm sorry. My question is, the percentage breakdown of the respondents, does it match to the percentages of demographic distribution in our village? Or are certain groups more over-indexing over other groups, and therefore their responses carry greater weight in the outcome?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:59:40
“Yeah, roughly the same. It doesn't have to match perfectly, but actually, OK.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:00:15
“Well, I think it's important to the study, not to me.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:00:21
“I think it's important to the merits of the study, not that I care about it. I think it makes it a more higher quality study.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:03:26
“No, just for context, I mean, I don't know if we have this data. So we have almost half of the respondents have been in Pinecrest for more than 20 years. Do we know of the overall population, what percentage of the population has been in Pinecrest for more than 20 years?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:03:46
“Because if they say that it is 50%, then that's, I think, great. It's representative of the distribution. But if it's 30% of the residents have been in Pinecrest for more than 20 years and 70% have not, then the responses of that 70% are not weighted appropriately in the outcome of the study, in my opinion.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:19:58
“Or you could ask me and I'd type it into the AI.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:20:01
“Yes, yes, yes. Ken, what was the number?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:22:29
“I just don't, I don't see fully that we've, I know the policy that the manager referenced earlier regarding interlocal agreements for joint school and park sites, which was fairly explicit previously, and it was deleted from at least section one. And is that being covered? in the sort of like the education element, or is there an education specific element within the plan that's covering for this, or are we abandoning this as a policy altogether based on this draft? Yeah, and I'm sorry, I know the manager had asked this, but I don't see it being reflected elsewhere in the document as…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:28:10
“That's exactly the question I have. Yeah, if it's in here, and then we decide we don't want to do this because we lack the funding or whatever, then are we bound to having to do it because it's comprehensive?”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:29:37
“I am curious, however, why this one item seems to be singled out as the only one that states that we will evaluate its success and the support of the community to consider its future viability, whereas I don't see that language applied to a lot of other things that we have in this comprehensive master development plan. So I'm curious as to why we have this one specifically being called out that way.”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 3:30:43
“It just sounds contradictory to me because we have, also as part of the strategic plan, language that states that we would be implementing a master plan, bicycle and pedestrian master plan in phases over X number of years, so that sounds more determined than this word. It's not necessarily definitive, but certainly does not sound as conditional as this language seems to imply here under three. Do we need it in here long? Is your suggestion just to remove it? Because I'm fine. Yeah, we can remove it. I would mention it as another element that we're considering as part of our transportation…”
Village Council · Apr 14, 2026