Remarks by Chris Leh
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“We are up against our time. What... What I think you can count on from us is that we are focused in making dollars go as far as we can. One thing that's really important that I think the just suggested is focusing efforts on maintaining what we have. helping us with what the hard decisions might be and how we can potentially make the events that we have even perhaps better. But we will continue to keep these discussions going. We've got a discussion about events coming up. And I hope you'll be a part of that. The date for that one is, do we know? 15th? Yeah. So it's coming up quick. And we'll…”
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“The next is we've got some training, and I understand Jeff is going to be doing the introduction.”
“I think if there are questions, we haven't set a formal limit on the amount of time. Okay.”
“Not going to discourage you from that. No, but I think I want to make sure people can ask any questions that they want while you're here.”
“Do we have any questions from anybody online? Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you. Pleasure to see you all. You might flash that slide that you did at the beginning with your contact information.”
“Anyone else, either on council or on any of the board's commissions? staff. Looks like we're good.”
“Let me just launch out of here. All right. The next item, I think it's our last item, is discussion direction, upcoming agenda items, and identification of new ones from today through the end of December. City Manager, I think, is going to present on this.”
“Why don't we take the first one first. Is there any interest on council in reconsidering the IGA particularly with respect to its expiration date? I think that's the answer. There is no interest in that from us. The next one would be the letter or responding to the letter. It sounds like The issue is whether we want to work up from the staff or not on that. Thoughts? Yes.”
“Okay, good. Was there anything, did you have anything more from staff standpoint? Council members, anything you want to add, comment on, subtract, multiply? Yes, so Member Cooperman.”
“Other comments? Do we have a motion? Actually, no, no, no, no. We need any public comment. I forgot to ask. All right.”
“Aye. Any opposed? Good. Thank you. Great meeting.”
“Good evening. It is August 25th. It's a special meeting of the Louisville City Council. Can we get a roll call, please?”
“If you'd join me as able for the Pledge of Allegiance. Welcome all. We have tonight several things on the agenda, but the first one is joint meeting with Library Board of Trustees. So welcome to the meeting. All of you. I think before we go any further, probably good to introduce ourselves to you and you to us, even though we've met before. So perhaps we can start with you, Jamie.”
“Right, I think the first thing on tap tonight is presentation. I'm not sure, how are you handling this? Is one person doing the presenting or multiple?”
“Sure. Why don't we just briefly, if people have clarifying questions for you about the presentation, and then we can address some of the questions that we've got. Any questions about the presentation? Yes, Mayor Pro Tem.”
“Other questions? I have a couple about the library snapshot in particular. I guess one of the things I was curious about is there's, you know, you've broken it down into full-time employees, part-time, and then volunteers, as well as volunteer hours, but just the numbers of those three, full-time, part-time, and volunteers, how do those compare with other libraries, say, in Colorado, if you know, and same thing nationally?”
“Why don't we move to some of your questions? I want to start by kind of maybe Well, hitting the first one, what are council's top priorities? I think you've laid out some good priorities. I want to, and this is, don't take this negatively. This is a question or this is kind of a comment that I have about what the boards generally do and, frankly, what we do. What we do is we hit policy broadly, and when we're doing our best work, I think leave the operational stuff to the staff who do a terrific job, and you know that Brandy does. So a couple of the priorities that I looked at here,…”
“We should probably take public comment before we go into the council.”
“All right. Then back. Questions about priorities? I know that that's a question we get from every single board and commission. Yeah. Council Member Cooperman.”
“We have just a few minutes, but are there other council members who want to weigh in on these? I think council member or member of town did a wonderful job of explaining, I think, encapsulating what certainly I said or want to say.”
“Thank you very much for getting together. One thing I do encourage you, and I think you've heard it a couple of times, is watching budget and giving us input is the way we get good input from the boards and commissions. And I hope you'll continue to work with the director on that and on... on the work plan, which is coming up too. If you're interested in making some suggestions, we're getting close to finishing the budget, but there will be a draft budget that comes from our city manager the first. We're going to have to shut down because we've got other things coming. But please, if you have…”
“Thank you. Do you need a minute to set up? Are we headed back upstairs here? Are we? Okay. I'm going to use a quickie. Why don't we plan to come back in a couple of minutes when things are set. and we're ready for our item B which is discussion and direction on the draft cross guidebook that's parks rec open space guidebook and why don't we start with this presentation”
“Good. We will start with council questions, so I would like to kick off on this one. No questions at all. Wow. Okay. We can go to public comment. I actually, I've got a couple of questions myself, but...”
“Yeah, I forget. Yeah, I think I know the map that you're talking about.”