Remarks by Bo Hess
32 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 1:18:58
“I do want to say that this also includes, let's say your rent was $1,000 a month and you go two months and you do go to court, you will get three times your rent back for those two months. So you'll get $6,000 back. So that's built into this ordinance. And I just want to... make sure we point that out and incentivize our landlords out there to just do the right thing up front. And yeah, I would love to continue the mole conversation.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:54:07
“I do, I hear the folks about the bears. In fact, I was reaching out to staff about trying to maybe move that bear to our city nature center. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to work out at our nature center because we already have two mama alphas that are there. But I think working with the staff and the North Carolina Wildlife Commission to save that bear and all of our bears and also get those bear resistant trash cans out there. I would also maybe bring to public safety. I do agree that maybe we need to look at more accountability for the humans that are feeding bears, and maybe look at…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just want to take a step back on that last item about the homelessness. So who is getting that money, the grant money? Is that a city thing? And then we're going to decide how that's spent or is that coming to the city and then we're going to give it to local partners or kind of tell me a little bit about that.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“okay um i love that that's awesome i like the first part especially if you i just respectfully asked if you guys can keep council abreast i mean i feel like there's a lot of money coming in a lot of things happening and we've talked about this as a council at our last pfi meeting there was a lot of good suggestions from my colleagues And I would like to see some of these things done. One of these things is having a coordinated entry back into the workforce with some of our day labor programs. Maybe they come to the city and work for Public Works and we have a program for that. Maybe we can…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 1:08:29
“Well, I guess, so let's say instead of 12 months, it was 10 months. Would that have lowered the price?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 1:10:50
“Okay. Yeah. Thank you guys for that clarification. So, I mean, essentially you're saying I hear you and we're actually kind of making this as fast as we can based on your feedback.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
- Play at 1:16:35
“And maybe I misunderstood. So we're not saying that we're not going to make any amendments up until then, correct? Because there are things that I think we could do. Or is that what you were saying?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026