Remarks by Cyd LeMone
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I make the motion that we approve the consent agenda items.
It just seems like really specific to have one. Yes. I'm just wondering what the history is.
So this is happening in cities across the state?
Okay, and this is detached dwellings only?
But this sounds like it makes it better, though, for parking.
If you're trying to stay in your home with an ADU, yeah, I do. I mean, I like that. It loosens the grip from the state.
Yeah, but you're gonna have to have a pretty big lot. You mean residentially?
Can I make changes to this motion, Tina?
But then is that gonna change it for attached too? Well, then let's make an ordinance.
But wait, this is not affecting attached apartments.
So is this the, I know we discussed last time it was close to a million, like the final cost.
But by approving this, are we approving the entire project right now?
So how do we get – I guess that's my concern is – I don't know if that's just my concern. I don't know if I'm on board with a $900,000 project right now. I don't know. And by approving this, I feel like I'm committing to that. I haven't seen a rendering. I don't know about these buildings. I just don't feel like I know enough about the project to commit to this. It's going to end up being close to, probably at the end of the day, a million-dollar project, and I don't know if I agree with that amount and what's being proposed. So that's my concern without approving this, without seeing the…
We just say, I don't think that's what we're saying is that we have to kill it. We're just trying to get more information. So that's why I don't like that wording is because all of a sudden we look like the bad guys and we're going to kill the whole project. That's not the case. If I'm not mistaken, is this the first time we've seen a rendering?
I'm frustrated by that. And I know we've talked about the pavilion for a couple years. I was on board with the $250,000, $300,000 pavilion. Now we are close to a million. I'm going to tell you right now by the end of the day when this is done, probably close to a million dollars with building costs right now and inflation.
Or more. So I was on board with the pavilion. This is last week or two weeks ago was the first time I heard about outbuilding. I had no clue I have no clue about any of this and tonight I'm basically being asked to prove a million dollars because the 406 is leading to the next phase which is going to be close to a million dollars I'm not comfortable with that this is the first time I've seen a rendering and so I'm frustrated because I don't want to be a bad guy against the library saying well do it all at once we just need to get it done no we don't need to get it done and no I don't even…
Okay, I just, this is the first time I've heard about all of this. Yeah. I thought we were doing a pavilion literally off the east side of the library, similar to the one in the park. It was like a square pavilion coming out for programming. That's what I thought.
It's not. It's close to a million dollars. And I have major concerns with where kids are going to be going next to 100 East. This is a storage shed. This is a huge pavilion area. This is nuts to me. I didn't think this is what we were doing. I'm sorry, I don't even know if there's a different solution. We haven't looked at options for storage units. What's wrong with the pavilion at the park? Is there a way they can walk across 150 yards to the park and use that pavilion? I don't even know if we've discussed options. I thought that's what we were proving the entire time was just a pavilion…
The whole scope of the project, the whole like the elevation, the storage shed.
He said there was addition. I mean, the coming up the closeness to 100 East of safety concerns. We have two. We have multiple pavilions in the park. I'm just wondering, like, how this went from like a pavilion off the back to almost a million dollar project. I'm so confused. Like, this is not what we even wanted the RFP for. I didn't think it was just for a simple pavilion. And now we're like storage. landscaping, I mean, I don't know. I'm so frustrated.
And I think what we're saying is, is there options? I mean, I'd be willing to spend some of this money and hire a crossing guard separate than anyone in the library to help kids walk across the street. I'd like to go walk this and see, based on the rendering that we just saw, I'd like to walk it in person. Neil, if you could be there and show me so I can get an idea about how close they are to 100 East. the where the building's gonna be, so I wanna get a better idea about that and just is there options if they need storage? Is there a storage facility we could, is there ways that, can we get…
I'm so glad we're doing this, I think that's great.
I make the motion that we approve Resolution 2026-042, amending the personal policies and procedures regarding maternity leave.
I did have one thing in regards to an open session.
Okay I share the same concerns with that resident regarding the stop sign and I know we did a study but I think sometimes the studies can be wrong. This is a third party study whereas he and the 36 families that he petitioned to live and drive in that area every day are seeing the dangers that removing the stop sign the crosswalk crosswalk could cause myself being one of them because that's in my neighborhood. I share his concerns with, and Steve said earlier, with sliding down the hill on Nathaniel and on a wintry day, the speed coming off Nathaniel, heading west, and that is a crosswalk…