Remarks by Bryan Bain
86 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“I got one of my two questions. So the other question is, do we currently have a policy or procedure in place for items like this? Okay, I'll save the rest for comments. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“May I just make my comment, please? Sure. Thank you. My only concern about this was if there's a policy for advertising if it's not a city event. Because what I don't want to do is create a, we advertise these, but don't advertise these over here. And hearing that it's a city event, I don't think that there's an issue. However, I will say I think it probably behooves asking our city attorney for future so that if there is a majority of the council up here that could enact a way through not approving or approving, even though that's not the case this year, let's go ahead and put a policy or…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. If you guys don't have a statement, I'm happy to just move this forward. So at the risk, here's my concern. I want to vote yes on this because I love the idea and the concept. This talks about an adopted downtown plan. We haven't adopted a downtown plan yet. I'm very concerned about implementing a policy that references a document that hasn't been approved. I love the conversation that this has started. I'm not sure this is the vehicle, we used the term we talked about earlier, for this policy. Or what is included all here is what should be included in the policy. Because there's also…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Not, I don't know if, I'm sorry, were you asking me?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. I don't think our job is to necessarily write policy at a staff level. I think our job is to provide direction to the city manager to work with his staff to create the policy and bring it back to us. Okay. And so I think this is also a shining example of why we need a parks, rec, trails, and waterways board because this should be workshopped by citizens who are passionate about parks and trails and waterways. And this could be vetted in all kinds of different ways at that level where citizen input is there and it's not – You know, at least there's some sort of coordinated or or message…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't know how I feel totally about the 60% fund balance piece yet.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, but in terms of the aspirations of having access quickly in a non-vehicular dependent way, Thousand percent. Thousand percent. To ensure that we have active and natural parks in all areas of our city? Thousand percent. Safe, purposeful, interesting? Thousand percent. Neighborhood parks through grant sponsorship? Absolutely. Those theoretical, conceptual parks. I'm fully on board. I think some of the other pieces where it can get like, Oh, am I okay with 60%? I'm not sure. Cause I am concerned longterm about putting that kind of thing in a policy where what if a future council is…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“To answer your question, I thought there was consensus to do that. I thought so too. And so I would support just having the resolution and having the CRA vote on it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. To reiterate about the 25th commemorative 9-11 event at the Arts and Recreation Center on Friday at 10 o'clock, if you have never attended before, I strongly encourage you to attend. I'll be the first to say I feel like attendance has gone down since I've been going. And so I would love to see all of those chairs filled to honor and remember that day and those who were directly affected by what happened. On Sunday, September 13th, on a slightly more jovial note, there's the farmer's market. But what makes Sunday, September 13th farmer's market even more special is that you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I actually did submit that to Debbie. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so maybe it just got – which is totally okay, but I just wanted to make sure – I'm fine either way.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026