Remarks by Chris Robertson
791 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 32
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“And while legally you and the chairman are the authorized representative to speak, Every member up there represents the nonprofit. Speaking is one thing. That's the legal, you know.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, that's the legal side. But the representative side and the relationship side, that's what's hurting. That's where when you got a city council member stepping off because she felt like a member of that board is, you know, just being inappropriate. And I don't think you did anything. I don't know if you've... It was just shocking. I'm sorry. All the way around.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Yeah, well, I just ask that you do your housekeeping over there because we've got some dust in the closets there. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“That would be Veronica or Dan, City Manager. You don't have to wait. There's an empty seat. I'm on so many myself. You know, I'm...”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Love you, Paula. All right. So Councilmember Urban, he's volunteered himself, but I'll go ahead and make a motion for Councilmember Urban to be on St. Cloud Main Street board.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“You're right, we have a motion on the table. We have a motion from, I believe it was Council Member Fletcher, a second from Council Member Paul. This is on the funding for the St. Cloud Main Street. Will the clerk please call the roll?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, and so now I'll add that motion for Council Member Urban to be St. Cloud Main Street Board Member. Second. Second from Council Member Paul. Will the Clerk please call the roll?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“All right, next up, first reading and introduction. Next items on the agenda are ordinances for the council for first reading and introduction for the sole purpose of council authorizing the publication of the ordinance for final hearing. The council will not take final action on this item tonight, on the items tonight. Full presentations and public input on the ordinances will occur at the final hearing at which the council will consider final action. Will the clerk please read? Get my glasses on. Looks like we have one. Label number nine.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Is the chief giving the presentation? No, it's just first reading. Oh, it's first reading? Yeah. Dan, I've already expressed my concerns about this. When it says creation of the agency, what is the agency that we're changing from and putting to?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay, so the chief building official will never be using this code.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. We've spoken a couple of meetings ago. We spoke about this. We've been talking about it with other information. There's still many items. But I think the most basic is that appeal process. Have we figured that out yet? About 15 and 20 days.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“That's the easiest. Like if we adopted it back in 2009, did we adopt 20 days? Because it's right there in the language. It's an easy yes or no. I mean, that's a five-minute check.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“No, no, no. That's not in the appendix. In 2009, it wasn't in the appendix.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“That was not. That was part of the appendix. That was the 2021 they put as an appendix, as a B101. In the 2009-2015, it was not. It was included with the regular body of the code. It was an appendix.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Right, but that one thing, I mean, it's a month and a half now, or a month at least. Is it 15 days or 20 days? Because if we're moving forward with changing things, I don't feel comfortable where it potentially still conflicts and we don't have the answers. I want to understand what we have now before we change and move into something else. But I also believe if we do make changes, that we adopt the most recent version, the 2024. which I know in three years ago when you guys adopted 2021, Munich Code actually gave that legal recommendation you should be using the most up-to-date. They're…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“And here's why. As your stance on a city manager, if you want to go ahead and say, is that what you were going to say?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“As we know, there's some other issues that actually take precedent than accreditation of how bad this code is right now. I really think there's some serious issues, and we all know that. So we don't need to rush and go changing things. And here's the problem, Dan. If we're saying that the chief building official can only use it when called before, because then he's not really the one using it. He's just being a witness. Yes. Right?”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I'm glad you brought that up. So when the chief building official makes a determination during a code enforcement process on that code, is the person that's brought before code enforcement, when that chief building official makes that determination, are they allowed to file an appeal under the construction board of appeals? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“A final determination. The word final doesn't appear anywhere in that code.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“No, when it says determined. When it says determined, they're in violation of this code. That's not a final decision. Determined is that they're in violation.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“Okay. I respect the fact that under Section 162 that we've got the code enforcement process, the special magistrate. And nobody says they can't do that. But what we're saying here now is we're changing it over to community development, which the building department is underneath that. So only... When the chief building official is called as an expert witness before a code enforcement board, will the chief building official make any type of determination on a structure with the IPMC? Because that's changing things a lot. No. Well, it does because I can tell you I know one particular piece of…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So I think that doesn't, you're moving, what you're doing is you're changing the people using this code because, yeah, you can bring the chief building official up before a special magistrate or code enforcement board, which I think that's the direction that this council has stated they want to start heading towards, but What you're doing is you're taking away the construction board of appeals, essentially, because you're not having the chief building official use that code out there. You're using code enforcement to bring them here and then using the chief building official. He's just going…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“I think we need a workshop. That's fine. You and I, I think, need to continue hashing out what is and what's not and then bring it before because I think there's so much to this. There's so much that you and I understand and the city manager that to continue really just break it down and present it before the rest of the council, before we start changing things.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“So so we're saying it hasn't been consistent if we're making it consistent. So there has been some problems, maybe just technicalities. I'm not saying this is a major thing because I think three years ago it was the city after, you know, 20 years. I don't know. Not 20 years. When was 2009? After 17 years. No, 14 years because it happened three years ago, filled out the form and said this is the agency using the code. And now we're going back and changing that. And that's where I don't want to change anything right now because I already see from 1994 that ordinance when it says when a city…”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026
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“And we can choose, the city wants, we can choose 162, right? Which we did. That's the code enforcement, special magistrate process. but you can't have both and then say you can't have both routes. You can say, if we adopted in that language, when we adopted IPMC, we could say we put them before the code enforcement with any of these codes. We can do that, but we didn't do that. When I say we, I wasn't here 20 years ago.”
City Council · Sep 17, 2026