Remarks by Betsy Ruhe
3 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
“Councilman Murray. Thank you very much. First of all, Councilman Reed, thank you for your leadership in working with MSD. And I hope this is just one more step in an ongoing conversation. As noted, we got a lot out of having MSD come. And one of the things that really put to us was the difficulty that they have with trying to follow the consent decree. and that it will be many years before they're able to even start climbing out of this. I would like to see an ongoing conversations where we are able to work with MSD and see if they can come up with a plan that they can demonstrate to us that…”
“All right, I'll relinquish the chair back.”
“Council Member Marie. Thank you very much. First of all, I'm very grateful to see this finally coming before Metro Council and seeing that we have good support for it. I often think about a story where I went to visit a business on East Broadway and I'm like, why do you have that dead tree out there on the sidewalk? And he said, the city planted it and told us to water it. We didn't want it, so we let it die. There you go. That's why we need to have a maintenance plan in place. There's no tree within 100 yards of this particular location. It was hot, it was barren, and the one chance that we…”