Remarks by Dale Byrne
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Thanks, Sydney. We're doing the best we can. All right. We'll wrap up public comment. Thank you, everybody, for participating tonight. I'm just going to go ahead and do the announcements. It doesn't take long, and that way we can start off with our public hearing right after our closed session, which we're going to go to shortly. City Administrator, Assistant, Acting, I don't even know. Acting City Administrator. You're the Acting City Administrator. No announcements, sir. Thank you. All right. City Attorney, do you have any announcements? No announcements. Like I said, this is going to be…
Thank you and congratulations on your talk at the Carmel Foundation. Thank you. I heard it went very well. I couldn't make it. Margaret and I had a late anniversary dinner after she broke her arm. So I'm really sorry I missed it. I'd just like to say one thing. I'd like to thank everybody who's been involved with the pit project, Alrica Plaza. It's been a long, long time to get to the point where there's no longer a pit. I don't know if anybody noticed lately, but the contractor that's doing the concrete has just done a phenomenal job. And it's not filled with concrete yet unless they poured…
All right. So I guess we're going to have to clear the chambers.
Okay. Tell you what, you guys can stay here. We're going to leave and go down into the downstairs conference room and we'll be back at 5.32, that gives us a half an hour. We'll do everything we can to get back here at 5.32. All right, thank you. We stand in recess for a closed session. All right, everybody. back from closed session. City Attorney, do you have anything to report out from the closed session?
Okay, thank you. We'll return to our regular meeting. And we have one public hearing for tonight. It's consideration of adoption of fee schedule amendment to the fiscal year 2026-2027 fee schedule, including updating fees citywide, community planning and building, public safety and public works, and discussion and direction regarding a fee waiver policy continued from July 7th, 2026. And Jamie is going to take it.
Sorry, we had a cell phone go off here. I think it was Donna. But we're back and Jamie can continue.
Okay, thank you. Anyone have a question on the presentation that she just gave?
Jeff? The second and third offense fee, the dash means the other cities don't do it at all? Correct. Do any cities do it?
So since I'd like to put you on the spot, how did this come up and do you think it's a good idea?
Do you have the ability to do this right now? Yeah, we do. We do.
So this is not an administrative issue or time-consuming? We can do it. All right. I'd like to know what the other council people think about that particular thing, but we'll go out to the public first. All right, that's it for questions for me. Jeff, do you want anything before we go to public? All right. Public comment, please. Hopefully we have somebody that wants to make a comment about that. She's a brave soul.
Thank you, Shirley. Well said. He checked off one of my items I was gonna bring up, so timely. Anybody else? All right, going online.
Got it got it Cindy you have that one Brandon that's an interesting idea all right I think nobody else last chance here all right let's bring it back for discussion should be interesting I'll start with you Hans we've got several issues plus any other issues that you want to bring up that
Let's start with the parking fee because I think that's the easy one to talk about. Complicated, but... Can you hear?
Okay. Alessandra, let's go with you next.
So your thoughts are to raise it to 48 and just leave it there. Don't have the escalated charges.
You're not against it completely, you just prefer it.
Okay, all right, good. All right, so I'm going to go back. I'll just tell you what I think. I tend, of all those speakers, I agree with Bob the most. And I agreed somewhat with what Jeff is saying. I know a lot of people that work at restaurants and they're not going to be happy with me if we do that. But at the same time, on the same angle, we're trying to get people to leave downtown. So I see that part of it too. So that's my thought. And I think the times three just sort of complicated. I think in general, Bob's comment, like let's walk before we run. Let's just, get even and start doing…
Okay. All right. So you'd go for basically the program that's there, 48? You'd like it a little higher, but you'd go for 48, 60, and 80?
Okay. You'd go for that? All right. So do you want us to vote on that or because there are three separate things it's not gonna be sort of like Jeff said last night on the consent agenda we had to break it out.
Oh, staff proposal. All three of us raised our hands for those three. Thank you. All right. So that puts that one to bed. Thank you. So let's go back to the waiver of fees then, and we'll start with Jeff this time.
Okay. Other than the historic homes? Are you basically a no or basically a yes?
All right, it sounds pretty clear that it's a no, but it has some possibilities. So somehow we need to spend enough time to develop that distinct list in the limit and maybe bring it back at some point.
but it's caramel by the sea and it's historic. I mean, somebody made a really good comment about that last night. I don't know if it was here in the public. I mean, that's what we are and we should be investing in it and that's one way to do it.
we want to give free staff time for these historic projects which is wonderful if that's what the council wants to do we can tell you how much that is and come back and propose some programs if you want to agendize it for a future meeting I mean there's also the cost of the historic consultants sure maybe the city puts a fund together to help subsidize that instead of the mills act but the mills act had significant fees as well so it's All right, so it sounds like you've got two assignments almost now.