Remarks by Chris Robertson
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“hey nicholas thank you um yeah i really don't know what you're talking about but thank you i appreciate it no sir we only speak from the podium i do appreciate your time up here i don't know what march 28th references but um i don't know i didn't have time to put my calendar but thank you very much Well, that didn't wake everybody up. I need some more coffee. Maybe. I don't know. Shawnee likes you the most. I don't know anything about Ken either. All right. In all seriousness, Everybody up here cares about the citizens of this community. Nobody thinks anybody's a sheep. I, I think everybody…”
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“Well, we may not have the large stage. Well, it says the day of the event's 2007, so.”
“All right. Well, this is the request here for this right now.”
“Well, with something like that, we've got to dig right back into the budget again. We've got to open that hole back up. So I think that's going to be...”
“How do we do that for other nonprofits and allow them that same opportunity? Because I think that we've opened the budget up and now we, and we've closed it to, to move forward, to, to preparing it. So we're going to open it up again, the conversations. Because we just balanced it out for the first time in 31 years, so we got to move to get that money from somewhere else.”
“Okay. I'm good with these numbers. That's not, those aren't, you're bringing the events downtown. In fact, I think our agreement, our prior agreements, we've required that, I think, right? We've asked for four events. Yes. Which is the purpose of it, so.”
“Is this coming out of this budget or next year's budget?”
“I think we're good with that. I don't think I need a sponsor, do you know? All right, do we have to vote on this or would we just give a nod?”
“What's on the 17th? She's coming back, giving a report on?”
“Last year's stuff, okay. All right. Would anyone else in the audience like to address the council this evening? Yes, sir.”
“Thank you, Alex. Have you addressed that with the County? That's a County road. So County project, they can't, it's not our money. No, no. And I get that.”
“All right. So you can stay up here, Alex. We can still talk city manager.”
“When Stevens North, that development, there's going to be sidewalks on that side of the road. There should be.”
“So you're saying the ditch north of, what's the road you're on?”
“Just south of the ditch? The ditch that crosses underneath? Correct.”
“He's a ways from that. We were talking about Stevens North. Yeah. Massachusetts is a book.”
“Your subdivision is just north of Bramblewood. No. What's that?”
“There's the one that it connects over to Missouri. And then if they go to the old, the hoop property through that subdivision, you're just south of the high school.”
“And their sidewalks there. Is that the route?”
“All right. Pretty much to keep the kids from having to walk up to 17th and making the 17th walk. That's the cut through some of this other.”
“All right. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. All right, anyone else in the audience like to address the council? All right, with that, we will jump into our public hearings. Public hearing number one, will the clerk please read public hearing number one.”
“Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jeff. And we have a few members from the public that would like to speak. We have Jim Shrek.”
“All right, Jim, we sat and we met, uh, but you said you closed, you closed at 11 o'clock. Yes. But you wanted, so you had special events that you asked if we could make the exceptions for that. And I, I thought that was a good idea. Okay.”
“And I know we've got a few others that are going to come up here. But gosh, we've been on this for the past year, right? It's been a while. Ever since I took office, we're dealing with issues that are five-plus years old. Not just this. Hell, we're dealing with issues that's 10, 20, 30 years old at this point. We'll address this one. It was crazy to me that it seemed like the rules created a footloose town here, but everybody was just breaking the laws anyway, right? There was dancing, there was pool tables, everybody's just, and that's fine. I think those were ridiculous anyway, so those…”