Remarks by Bob Kehr
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Mr. Mayor, I just wanted to mention that as you were reading the names through there, that you actually named several of the ones, the people I would like to have on there. I feel like they represent their neighborhoods quite well and they're in that vicinity. And I'm in favor with these names.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we accept the consent agenda as presented.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Go ahead. Mr. Mayor, I think this just makes a lot of sense. I think the development that's happening there will require some upgrades. We need to be able to take care of that, and at the same time, we have opportunities to actually do more development in this area. This could be a very high impact on our community in terms of redevelopment, in terms of infrastructure, and as well as economic development. So I'm very much in favor of this, and I move to approve.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Christina, I have a question for you. What are the implications to the neighbor, the neighbors in that neighborhood if this designation goes through?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yes. Good afternoon. In your model, are you assuming that the property tax cap is still gonna have an impact on us for the next five years? Or we're gonna get pretty close to that?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“The projection really is that the tax cap is really no longer having an impact. The taxable value and actual value are going to be pretty close.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I just have a thought. I mean, we're talking about increasing funding for those who have already been awarded the funds for inflationary reasons. But if we open it up, there's more money available, essentially, 75,000 more. Next year when the applications come through, I just want organizations to be aware that it's possible they will not reach the same amount of funding in the following years. even though there is an inflationary part of it, it may get awarded somewhere else. So please budget accordingly.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Hi, Diane. Thanks very much for all the work that the group does. The amount of effort that goes into this and the thought and everything is much appreciated. We had a speaker earlier today who spoke about a change in the funding. The NTPA. So it looks like the funding is the same this year. Is there going to be a change for next year? Yes.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay, I'll hold my question for that. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Can you walk through the guidelines of how we spend our hot taxes and the implications of how we're awarding and how we're doing things like that?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Policy visions and a large part of it is actually how many hotel nights there are as opposed to eating in a restaurant Yes, sir Okay Oh Councilmember Thomas”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I have a question. First of all, where does the grant money come from?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay. And what was the idea around how the funding works? It's like the operational cost at the time of the event, or how does that... determination made?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Of the cost of the event. Okay. And this event is a 10-day event, something like that?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Eight-day event? Okay. And the determination this time for that other value, remind me how we got to 25?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Can you give some clarity on how something like the tent, this seems to be the theme here, the tent was included in the original years, but not this time. How does this look different this time?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“The different things that happen over the course of eight days, has that changed over the last eight days and the last few years?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Who's the committee again one more time?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Okay. I want to agree with Deputy Mayor that I'm not a fan of going against the committee. I think they put a lot of time and effort and historical knowledge into that. But I also, I feel like this flags of honor is such a big impact on our city, our citizens, and our neighbors that I'd like to see more than the 25K.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I'd also like to say to the folks at the Flag of Honor, I really appreciate what you do. And I think that the additional things like having the service dogs, et cetera, these are all very good. But I think planning for the future, I think you should not expect the 71,098, whatever those numbers are. Where we are right now is probably more in line of what to expect for the future. So please keep that in mind as you go forward.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Good evening. I kind of want to just reiterate a couple things. If you can go back to your slide that had the timeline in there from June 8th. Really, I just want to reiterate something here. Really, the June, actually June 6th date, that was the start of this, really. There were conversations that were happening before this, but it wasn't until then that we were actually able to start moving forward. The July open houses, town halls, that was the first chance for citizens to say, hey, these are the areas where I have concerns. So that we now can take all those along with the concerns we…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move we approve the consent agenda as presented.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Hi, Christine. Question. The expanded SUP only applies as long as the HOA owns it. So if whatever reason we transfer that property through a sale, if they were to turn around and resell it, the expanded SUP no longer applies?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, residents. I think I've met all of you and probably spoken to all of you that are here already about this. And each of you have voiced your concerns. And what we heard today is that we're at least a year out before we have all the studies done, all the information. all the answers that related to the size of the project, where it's going exactly within the space, all of those sorts of things. And so I feel that if we were to make a decision now not to move forward with this, we would simply put ourselves in a bad position. And so I think that we have many opportunities to say no in…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026