Remarks by Cathey Rusing
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Okay. Are you comfortable with a contract that can be extended kind of automatically to nine years?
And I assume if there's someone else out there that wants to bid, then they can put it out to bid if we wanted to.
Yeah. And, you know, I did go online and I couldn't find anyone locally that offered this service like B&W.
Do I hear any comments? Do I hear a motion?
Are there any representatives from the Betsy here that would like to speak? Any public comments? No, Mayor. Okay, thank you.
Pass the 7-0. And I'd like to thank the owners of the Betsy for investing in our beautiful community. Thank you.
Okay, thank you. Would the ROTI like to come up and make some comments?
I'd like to hear from the public, and then we can have a discussion afterwards. Okay. Carter Labarge.
Truly, I think your time's up. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
That's all, Mayor. Thank you, Daniel. I'd like to make a few comments. We got a 20 pages of public comments compilation and an analysis. We just got it recently. It was in a format that we couldn't read, but we did finally get a easy to read format. And I just wanted to bring up a couple of highlights here. There were a lot of comments about animal waste and runoff. and drainage. The Auto Club is concerned about a ramp impeding access of their facility for the antique fire truck. I found that something that we need to look at. Someone else commented on handicap access from the parking area if…
Thank you. Is a representative from GH2 here to comment? Apparently not. Do we know why? I mean, this is kind of an important hearing, why the representative isn't here, the consultant isn't here to address concerns.
I have, I have a concern, uh, speaker number four, Bonnie McMinn brought up some, uh, concerns about our, uh, contract with GH2 and that they had, uh, WE'RE OBLIGATED TO DO SEVERAL THINGS IN THIS CONTRACT WHICH APPARENTLY THEY DIDN'T ADDRESS. I WAS GOING TO ASK LEGAL DO WE
Okay, I would really like to get a vote on this next month. Is there any way that we can clear up some of these questions and get this voted on and move ahead with the lease?
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Yeah, there's a motion to close the public hearing on the table.
Well, I think this is very exciting to have this donation, and I just wanted to remind the public that the city is a nonprofit. So if you're planning on doing some tax planning, maybe some estate or legacy planning, and you have some tangible assets, please talk to your tax advisor and have a little meeting with us, and maybe we can... encourage further donations and possibly a tax deduction. Thank you. Any comments from the public? Do we have any comments?
Yes. Yes. Thank you, Lois. I said I forgot to push the blue button. No worries. This is getting a little long.
Thank you, Sarah. Yeah, the reason why this needs to be discussed is last Thursday I was getting ready for a radio show, and I thought I was doing some research, and I went to yavapivotes.gov and printed out the sample ballot, and I was very surprised at the brevity of it. And if I was just your average person off the street getting my mail in ballot, I would look at these seven amendments and they really don't. There's really a very brief description. There's a lot of boilerplate legalese. that really doesn't help you out unless you go to your, there's supposed to be a voter brochure that's…
Yeah, October 7th. So I think that in order to be successful in our charter amendments, We need to realize that there's different state statutes for different entities because if you look at the ballot language for POSD's override, they have basically a novel compared to ours and also the county tax increase for the jail.
Okay, thank you. Good night. What I'd like to say is, is there anything that we can do to help the voter understand these charter amendments?
Thank you. Also, is there a way to make sure that if somebody just Googles, you know, on their search engine, City of Prescott propositions, to make sure that your sites come up?
Excellent. And then also this Thursday at eight o'clock, Bonnie McMinn and I will be on the radio with Senator Ken Bennett discussing the proposition. So it will be an interesting conversation and very informative.
Okay. Thank you. And then in closing, I'd like to thank our charter committee for all their hard work and also for legal doing all the extra work with these charter amendments and also for city council for getting them on the ballot for our wonderful voters to decide on. Thank you.
Okay, we'll take Councilman Grady's comments and then the public.
If there's no more comments, this meeting is adjourned.