Remarks by Clara Serrano
24 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Council President Greggert, and thank you so much for the presentation, and thank you to Director Winters as well. Can you just, all of this I think is interesting for the public to understand as well. I saw your chart says interest rates are higher, and I heard you, can, do you remember like How much, what's the difference between last year and this year on these kinds of, this kind of borrowing for the city?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So we're talking over a point and a point and a half. Interest rates higher this year compared to this time last year.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert, and thanks so much to the both of you for the presentation. I have two questions. So first question, I know we've reached out to all the property owners. This is the first time I've been on council involving creation of a TID. um how um and i'm curious what the property owner's reaction is to this people generally favorable to this i'm assuming if i'm understanding all this correctly this opens up more municipal funding for bigger development better development of this whole area clean up if needed all of this so My assumption would be they're great, but…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. And my second question, if that's OK. I think you guys know I'm really, really interested in the representative for the city on the St. Croix Chippewa Rail Commission. Are there ideas? Can you comment at all? I mean, I know this is very early because we're just creating this TID. But what could this mean in terms of a future rail station in this area?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gragert. I have a question for Project Manager Hufford on a different, the Park Ridge property. So we do have in our packet, and I think we had it last time, but I just didn't know if there was any follow-up an email from Cheryl Leonard talking about that particular property and saying that there was a person whose family donated that land to the city and that this proposed part is part of what their family had donated and he mentioned that it was, well, he said possibly swamp and I know you addressed that, but that perhaps wouldn't be acceptable, but he said he…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I was just wondering if there was any update to that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. I'm also quite enthusiastic about this particular plan and really excited about the row house configuration that now our new century code is really kind of making available for us. And I think also couldn't be a very interesting model for us as we continue to think about infill, you know, just kind of thinking about how that particular configuration of housing can be useful for us as we get creative with squeezing housing into, you know, maybe other kinds of shaped possibilities. So I can't wait to see what the sunset's looking like.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sorry. Thank you, Council President. I forgot to say two more things. I know we're not voting on the plan itself. We're just voting on the zoning today. So I just wanted to acknowledge that. But the other thing that I am excited about is that these row houses are for sale and not rental. And, again, I think that's an important offering that we don't have – that much of here in the city of Eau Claire. So I'm, again, very excited about it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Greger. Yeah, kind of piggybacking off of what Council Member Miller just said and what others have said, and I do see that this is just a zoning matter changing from like industrial, makes sense. If our concern really has to do with what is allowed to be built, because suddenly we're now thinking about, oh my gosh, what are all the possible Gulf-related things that we didn't think about, maybe, Regarding the LDO, it seems that there's an opportunity to propose changes also to the LDO. I think as best I understand it, that was intended to be something that could…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. I also want to just point out to the public that we have a whole number of items on the consent agenda this evening, seven different items regarding special events. There are a lot of really interesting and quite fun events coming up that we're authorizing, a variety of sidewalk use, roadway use, things, different things. city-wide authorizations for a number of things that are happening. So please have a look at the packet. This is for items happening in September, October. And also I want to call special attention to item number 17, which means we're…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. I want to thank our parks department for all the work in this planning, Patrick, you in particular also. I was out there, Carson Park is part of my district, and I was out there, I don't know, a month or two ago looking at the new dugouts and the impact to folks maybe in wheelchairs or with accessibility issues. And boy, this is a really needed project. in order to really be able to kind of make the stadium-going experience pleasant and equitable for our entire community. And I think that's a really important value for us. And so I'm, again, the dugout,…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I will second that motion. That parcel of land is in my district, and I think there's always good benefit that can come from having a little bit more review. There's no urgency in time, so I feel like it makes good sense to have the waterways and forestry have a look at this one, too.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Greger. For me, I mean, I'm always just aware, even if it's a small little piece, you know, developing any kind of parcels near Parkland already where wildlife lives, there are wildlife considerations to think about. And we're always balancing, you know, development and housing with green spaces. And I think, I know we don't want to apply, you know, send everything necessarily yet to to the waterways and forestry commission, but at this point I think this is close enough to an area where wildlife exists that that's my interest in kind of having them weigh in.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Greger. I just, I totally support this. I think this is a great parcel to declare excess land so something useful can be done with it. This is also in my district.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. Yes, Director Ripo, question. The extra vacation or the vacation day upon hire, what happens to folks that we've hired like in the last two years with that extra vacation day? How does that backdating of the early vacation day get implemented?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gragert. I'm really glad we are getting this contract finalized and that parties have negotiated. And I just want to express my thanks for our firefighter force here in Eau Claire, second to none, and just really appreciate all their service. Just very glad to get this contract completed. Thanks to everybody that worked on it, our legal, HR, and the firefighters local also. Thanks to everybody.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. I also want to thank the mover and the seconder for this item. I want to just emphasize a few things for the public's benefit, because I think originally this was proposed as a more far-reaching proposal. And I just want to be clear, sometimes when that happens here on council, We get news stories and such about the original idea. It gets modified, but the public doesn't really get the news on the modifications. So I just want to be clear that this does not mandate that our trash haulers be obligated to offer composting services. I'm not saying that's a…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gragert. I have a question for City Clerk Kerner. The language that would be on the ballot, would we as council have an opportunity to review that language? Like how it's worded? A lot of times we get referendum items on ballots and the wording is not, you know, I don't know. I'm just curious to know what the approval process is for the wording of what actually people vote on.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Council President Gregert. I actually am feeling like I'm welcoming any additional groups of people that can brainstorm and can bring ideas forth of what can be done at the local level. about this problem. I mean, I appreciate that we have our Board of Health, we have other entities kind of trying to do what they can to report on the state of health in our community. But boy, if we can find another group of people with new energy also to advise us as a council my understanding is that one of the ideas is to make recommendations to city council what can we do locally boy i'm…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I just have to echo what Council President Braggart is saying. Many, many thanks to our elections department and our city clerk and our colleagues at the county also and the counting of ballots and all of the really incredible election integrity that we have here in Eau Claire and across the state. So people worked really, really hard to do this really, really well. So I'm just so grateful for them.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President Gregert. Yeah, I really appreciate that, too, and I appreciate Council Member Otto's point. The fact that, well, this one and the next items are both pretty large redevelopment districts, I think it's particularly important that we include this item inclusive approach to how we do redevelopment. And I think it becomes kind of a statement of values for us as a community and the kind of city we're really trying to continue to become. So I'm actually excited that these RDA districts are large and that they will all kind of have this kind of inclusive approach to them.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President, or Jeremy. So this sounds, just in listening to your answers to the other questions, still very open-ended. Again, you're just kind of mapping out a boundary and saying this could be a sort of sub-district. But then you also said something about $3 million. And I'm just kind of trying to connect the specificity of that dollar amount. What are we really talking about for that dollar amount? And it seems like we're still not really, we don't have a concrete proposal. before us of the city's involvement, so I'm not sure. Are we just kind of brainstorming here?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thanks, Jeremy. I'm echoing what Josh is saying. We have a lot of just bare concrete in this space, whether it's empty buildings or big surface parking lots. And even Wilson Park being sort of this little precious green space there. I think all of this could really benefit dramatically from some reimagining and some creativity. So I like this particular delineation of an area to look at and I guess take to the next step, which is where the creative ideas come forward.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So does it mean that the pool usage is up?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026