Remarks by Cathey Rusing
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I'm sorry for grandstanding, as you say, but you have to remember that no elected officials were included in the preliminary talks, so we have a lot of questions, and now is the time to do it. In fact, I was just going to ask a question about... No, I beg to differ.
Well, thank you for your input, Mayor. I have a question that's been on my mind and that's about shading. We have had numerous pipe breaks throughout the community due to improper shading. As you know, our soils are subject to expansion and contraction. They dry out. They get wet, they expand, they contract, and then we have micro tremors from small earthquakes, and we have a lot of granite. And in the past, there wasn't very much care taken with the shading, and I was going to ask Jason what kind of bed is going to be, because you have to be meticulous, I was going to ask what kind of bed…
Is it a pea gravel, uh, sand or is it a screened fill that you reuse?
Thank you, Sarah. I'll talk to you after the meeting, Jason, and get my question answered.
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Okay, barring any more further discussion, do I hear a motion?
I agree with Councilman Ruby. That is something that we do need to do is have put in our water policy a rainwater harvesting policy. I think that's a very good idea. In the meantime, it can be totally voluntary, and I'm sure that the hospital and their designers and their architects will probably look into rainwater harvesting. I know they did mention directing the stormwater into retention, detention basins, which kind of turn into rain gardens and using it to water the landscape. Dignity Health is known for their healing environment. And this medical campus looks like it is going to be a…
Stephen's becoming the water expert now, landscaping, xeriscape expert.
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NOW YOU KNOW WHY THEY BRING THEIR LAWYER TO THESE THINGS.
OKAY. DO I HEAR A MOTION? WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE DO. I'M SORRY. I FORGOT.
Thank you, Ken. That's all, Mayor. Okay, any more discussion? Do I hear a motion?
Okay, thank you. This meeting is adjourned.
Take your seats, the meeting is about to start, thank you. Good afternoon, today is August 25th, 2026, and this is the City Council voting meeting. Roll call, please.
We will now have a moment of silence. We have a large number of city employees here to honor the memory of Scott McClinton. He was a dedicated employee of the city for 29 years, and he was currently the capital projects manager. And also please remember his wife who was in the hospital as a result of this accident. I'd like to ask the city employees to please come in a little closer to the room and come in out of the hallway. Thank you. And after the moment of silence, we'll have an invocation by Pastor Lance Duffield of the Restoration Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by…
Thank you. And I'd just like to say one unit of blood can be spun down to many different factors, and the blood donations are used to save lives of preemies, mothers who have just given birth, accident victims. It has so many uses, so if any of you are able to donate, please give Vivalant a call, and they'd be happy to get you in. Thank you.
Excuse me. This is a call to the public. No comments from the council. Thank you.
I'D LIKE TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO LOOK INTO THIS AND MAKE SURE THAT THE MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC GETS THE REPORT AS REQUESTED AND I THINK THE COUNCIL WOULD BE INTERESTED IN GETTING THAT REPORT AND HAVING A STUDY SESSION.
Thank you. And I believe Lois Freworth pulled this item and we'll begin the discussion.
yeah i'd also like to comment the person that submitted the letter was welcome to come here and read the letter but we just received it which was wonderful all the council received this letter and i believe it was mr gamboge that asked that it be submitted to the minutes and i'm all for public input but i think that that kind of showed some sort of a favoritism towards this one person and either we start submitting everyone's letters or we develop a policy governing submitting these letters. Does anyone else have a comment? Oh, do you want to finish?
Boy, that was pretty good. I'd just like to clarify some of these, the purpose of some of these easements. We had some very wonderful members of the public that donated their property for an easement so that we could run water lines to improve fire flow in the Taylor Hicks neighborhood area. And we also had other members of the public that donated and sold some of their property to us so that we could realign our sewer system and make it more efficient. And then also the last ordinance is to establish some fees for our new municipal court that we are remodeling over there off of Goodwin. And…
I'm going to approve the consent coordinates A through D. Second, please vote.
Thank you. And I'd also like to mention that if you can't pay the fee all at once, we have a payment plan that you can join.