Remarks by Brett Taylor
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“Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the Visayas City Council work session. We welcome you guys here this afternoon. We'd like to go ahead and get started by starting with public comments. Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visayas City Council. The council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive. Creative criticism presented with appropriate courtesy is welcome. The city does not tolerate disruptive behavior in our meetings. The council meetings are considered a limited public forum, which means the council can regulate the time,…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Anybody else from the audience wishing to speak at this time? I see no one. City Clerk, do you have anyone online or on the phone wishing to speak?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Perfect. So we're going to go ahead and close public comments. And we will start off our work session with item number one, which is a Visayas Unified School District Measure Z presentation. And we actually have an intern, Jenna, who's going to be presenting the speakers for this presentation. So Jenna, if you'd like to go ahead and start and present them.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you guys very much for that report. Council Member Soto, any questions or comments?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And I had a few questions. So, and I know the answers to these, but I think it would be good for the community to know. So when, by saying if a school district builds new schools, where do you guys get the funds to build the new schools?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And so once you've built these, so developer fees pays to build new schools, you guys get matching funds to help build those schools. Once you've built the school, where does the money come to maintain it?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“for major repairs. So there's not funds in your guys' general funds or in any school district across the state to completely redo these schools if they're needed to be redone?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So all the other high schools across the state, when they're looking to revamp or redo their facilities, they have to go out to bond just like you guys are doing right now, right? That is typical. Okay. So, I mean, one of the things that I think, I mean, I knew Moses. The one thing I didn't know that kind of caught me off guard was the... the slide you shared were how much we're being assessed for $100,000. That kind of shocked me, which it kind of makes me happy because it seems like we've always done more with less. And for what we're being able to produce here in our community, that's a…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right, we're gonna go on to item number two, which is a short range transit plan. Reimagine Study Presentation.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I have a quick question. How difficult do you think it would be to try to educate people who live in one of these 10 zones that you can only use it if you're within this zone? I mean, that seems like, to me, a tall task.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So the app would hypothetically just say, you know, you're only allowed to be picked up in this zone? Okay. So then it would be fairly, okay, that makes sense. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So will there be like a QR code on the buses and the bus drivers encouraging the folks to fill those out when they get on the bus?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I think that your bus drivers are going to be your best folks at getting that out to the people as they're stepping on the bus to say, hey, scan that if you want to give input on this. OK, thank you guys for your presentation. Councilman Pruchikian, do you have any comments or questions?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right, thank you guys for your report. It was definitely an interesting to see the draft network and the next tier one priority option. I think that would probably solve a lot of the problems. So I'll be interested to see what the public states when they do those surveys. So let's go ahead and open this up to the public. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on this item, please come forward and state your name and city residence, please.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Michelle, go ahead and ask all your questions. Oh, ask all my questions, okay. And then we'll have them answered when you're done.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“We'll get all the questions after public comments done.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I got it written down, so. Okay, good. Anyone else from the public question to speak? If you'd like to speak, sir, come on up.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Anybody else wishing to speak? Okay, seeing nobody. City Clerk, do we have anyone online?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Is there anyone else online? Okay, thank you. We'll go ahead and close public comment and I'll turn it back over for a motion. Okay, so there's three or four questions that we need to answer. Okay, actually no, so I think it's just the one. So if you guys can answer the question. So it was how much money was made on fixed routes without the income from Dial-A-Ride? Do we know that number?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Great, so does our staff not know that? We can get that information. Yeah, if we can get that for our next meeting, that would be good.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. First and second. All those in favor, please vote. Item passes 4-0 with Council Member Nelson absent. Thank you guys very much. We appreciate your report. All right, next we're going to item number three, which is U.S. Department of Transportation Essential Air Service Program. Do we know how long your presentation is?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“If we can keep it as quick as possible, we'd appreciate that.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Great, thank you. Council Member Soto, any comments or questions?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Petigian.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“If we want to give it to the mayor. I join you as not being interested in myself. Councilmember Nelson did text me and say he would like to be on it.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026