Remarks by Carter Wilkey
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While we're talking about that, Mayor, I will say I spoke with Chief Adams today. At all those lights, they are all designated left-hand turns, I mean U-turns, until we as a council, we're the only ones that can designate a no U-turn. He can't do it. So if we do want to say no U-turns anywhere, it has to come before this body. Well, that will hurt the businesses. No, I agree. That's what I'm saying. So there was just a lot of talk last week of no U-turns.
Was this a polar plunge in October? Where was this polar plunge?
I will say this, though. If we didn't have Councilman Phillips to worry about the pure aesthetics of things, we would be a much uglier city. So somebody has to worry about the aesthetics. We leave that up to him because that's your major concern. My phone's on all the time.
James, just for educational purposes, is there a term for a city where people seem to tend to gravitate to because they know there's good services? I don't wanna call it something that is not. Is there a term for that that you know of in your industry?
I just had one last question on this subject. In any of your funding or grants, any of that kind of stuff, is that ever a question that's asked? Like what percentage of people are local versus you think transient? Does that even come up when it comes on the funding side of things?
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
No, my end remark on this, Mayor, is it goes along a lot along with what Councilman Phillips had to say. You know, being on this committee, in our lives, we each have our own passions and things that we choose to do, and there are people in this town that this is the passion they've chose to take on, and I'm so grateful for that, because it's not something that I see and deal with in my everyday life, right? There are people in this town who this is what they care about the most, and this is their every day. They wake up, they eat, sleep, and drink helping homeless people, and it's so awesome…
Yeah. Okay. Mayor, with that, I move that we put that on consent. Second. Second.
Yeah, I've personally learned one thing. If I'm at the landfill and I see that truck roll up, I get out of there.
She's always good at making nice PowerPoints.
It's a rollover. So are we going to use it? Yeah. Yeah, for cameras. Yeah. That's what we're buying with it is the camera. In-car.
Oh, so this is the revenue. The other ones were the expenditure side. This is where that revenue, where all that's coming from.
So these have to be done before the big project?
We don't have a choice. Yeah, the chlorination is a mandate, right? And the revenue from the 3000 North project, that actually started out in the 25, it was new in the 25-26 budget. Wasn't it a rollover this year also? We didn't add...
Yeah, do we know about this project? I'm sorry, Jonathan. Go ahead, Paul.
So we're taking $74,100 from that other. How much was total was budgeted for that detention basin property that we never purchased?
That'd be curious to see how much is sitting there.
I was hoping you were going to tell us you'd found some old project.
I was hoping this was some, you know, million-dollar project we budgeted years ago and never did. No.
So, and you may have specified this, and maybe I just missed it, but so is your proposal, Terry, that only if we get above the 35%, like we did this year, that we would move the money over to the capital? Or if we got above 25%, that then we would move anything over 25% over? 25, right?
Well, the maximum is set by the state, which is 35%.
So that was my question. So the policy doesn't state, obviously above 35 it has to move. But anywhere between 25 and 35 will make the decision together on, hey, we're at 32, let's move this or whatever.
Stop bar meaning the white line that says stop right in front of it?
Mayor, unless there's anybody else. Go for it. I would move that we put this on consent, making sure that we also include the striped crosswalk.