Remarks by Dale Byrne
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Okay, I'm okay with it too, but... You heard. Yeah, thank you.
It was a good point, Hans. Thanks for bringing it up. I think I think you got the point. Number four, unusual services. Is there something we need to do on that?
Everybody's good with it. All right. I have, I really apologize for doing this because I should have done it earlier, but I've been hit with certain situations, sort of like the historic houses. There are just some costs that I would like to have staff take a closer look at. One of them is the landscape plan check. There are a few instances where I've had residents question this, where they just thought, wow, I have to pay $875 to put a few native plants in front of my house. And they did. And I've done it, and I'm not asking for money back. But I'm basically taking my beautiful garden and…
Or people just do it and they don't come in and get a permit, which I would never do, of course. Second one, Brandon, is pressure washing. I was just involved with some pressure washing. Commercial district getting ready for car week. And in the process of doing that, I was reminded that you have to, let's just say it's Pepe and he wants to clean up all the stuff in front of his bakery, which builds up pretty fast. If you want to do that, you have to get a temporary encroachment permit and it's $453. So it's $500 to pay the pressure washing company. It's almost $500 to get the permit and the…
Related to that, I would also suggest that you have pre-approved companies, if it's legal to do that, that you know follow the rules, that you know how they do the signings. They suck the water up so that you don't have to have public works people go out there and babysit them like we did at the very beginning a couple years ago. It's something that we need to look at. Yeah, thank you. Okay. The same thing is related to signage fee. It turns out when somebody wants to put a sign up, it's $1,000, I think. And if you had three companies that were pre-approved and you know who they are, they…
I mean, there might be some issues that it's going to be sooner than that, but it'll hit us.
Yeah. Okay. That's all my things. Thank you. It was a productive discussion. Anything else before we close this one off? Since we're doing this for you.
But all the issues you brought up tonight are taken care of and now we can approve it?
So do you want to withdraw your suggestion or do you want to leave it? Okay, we're going to go for it. Yeah, we've got direction. Okay, so do you want to read off what the resolution is? Because you're going to have to execute it. It might be better.
Correct. Same thing with the waiver of fees. That's right.
It's probably a good thing. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Good discussion, public and council. Thank you very much. And we're going to go to dinner now. Sorry for those of you who are waiting around, but Hans didn't have a big lunch today. And it is 7 o'clock. And dinner is downstairs.
It's not fast for me, okay. It's not gonna be, sorry. All right, we're gonna come back. What's the fastest we can do it, everybody? 7.20. 7.20, we'll be back at 7.20, thank you.
Thank you, everyone, for waiting for our dinner. Appreciate that. We're back in session at 722. And we're going to move on to orders of business. First one is discussion and direction on financial stewardship work group ad hoc, which was continued from July 7, 2026. Jamie?
Bob, no questions? Hans? Okay. Public comment? Come on up.
For us to hear directly as you move through whatever decisions you want to make so that was my answer if you could clarify sorry to ask you a question could you be more specific about what you're asking us to give you feedback on
Okay, something above what you just saw in the presentation.
Okay, so the people that were on it. Yes.
Thank you. Anybody else? We had one other one. Kelly.
Okay, that's fine. I'll give you some time.
How long are his? You took about five minutes there.
Thank you. Two pretty powerful statements. And Nancy, I think a lot of your questions were answered. All right. Anybody else? Nobody there. Maria, I guess you're online now.
Thank you Thank You Maria Anybody else? Okay, we're going to close public comment and come back for council deliberation and discussion. Jeff, you want to start?
OK. Thank you, Jeff. Alessandro, you want to go next?
What about in terms of continuing it as an ad hoc?
All right. Thank you. Bob, you want to go?