Remarks by Dale Reynolds
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“Come on, come on, come on. I'm going to stand behind Amy.”
“And also Pastor Keith and... Probably Gene. I know there were several people that wrote letters in support of Luis and the community members that matter. And that's just a small example of our community and what we do together. We help each other out in Nampa. So thank you for supporting Luis and what he does at Breaking Chains.”
“Mayor Brunner? Yes. I would like to pull 16A off of the consent to be discussed, please.”
“I'd just like to pull it off to discuss it separately from the consent agenda.”
“We'd move to item number two. Okay. All right.”
“Mr. Mayor? Yes. So, Daniel, you probably have heard me talk about this before with fiber companies working in our town. Um, I, I still have heartburn from a particular fiber company and the damage I feel like they've done that's not been repaired in our town. I still drive around and see areas they've tore up our streets and, and I'm, I'm concerned about this because I don't feel like this agreement is written with enough teeth and it's protect us and our citizens. We've had multiple citizens come in and complain about what's happened to them as well. And, um, Recently within the last three…”
“Mayor, just a follow-up. Yes. So, Daniel, I disagree with following up with the fiber providers, and that's why I still have heartburn about this. My personal house, I had several thousand dollars worth of damage done. They basically... told me to jump off. They showed up a crew with a bag of dirt and filled one hole in my yard and that's the last I saw of them and it was several thousand dollars worth of damage. They bored underneath my driveway. My driveway sank in the rain because all the rain ran in there and it cracked the slab all the way across and I'm responsible to fix that. This is…”
“Well, I feel like the city is the one allowing them to do this, and so there's some liability there at some point. And it's taxpayer-owned roads and things that this is happening to. My particular problem was I could have hired an attorney, basically what they told me. And it would have cost me probably more than just fix it myself. But we're looking at the tune of $10,000. And it adds up quick. And I don't want to have that burden put on our taxpayers. So I would like to make a motion that we table this item until we have some more clarification from our attorney, if they could please…”
“one will be communicated to so they can make a decision before they even apply whether it makes sense or if they feel like they can get a passage from a council so okay any other uh mr mayor yes um can i get uh legal to give us a synopsis of what we are basing our decisions off of for land use and also where schools come into consideration what we're told uh in the law so what”
“Thank you, Merritt. Can you give us an example of the types of businesses that you're envisioning in this flex space? Let's see.”
“Councilman Reynolds. Thank you. I mean this question in the most sincere way, so please don't think that I'm mocking you. I would like to know your opinion on analytics when they come back. If they come back favorable for the city of Napa of growth paying for growth, would your opinion be different?”
“Thank you for your answer. Appreciate it.”
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
“So I would encourage you to call Chief Huff tomorrow. I'm sure he'll be happy to take your call. And ask him if City Council has let him down. We haven't done that.”
“No, no, no. We are here to— I'm going to stop just a minute. He finishes. He's badgering her. We have tried to call— He finishes and then you're on. We have tried to hire officers over and over and over, as I'm sure our lieutenant can attest to, and we're trying to hire officers. They're hard to hire, and we keep losing them for higher salaries. IT'S A BUMMER. I'M ALL FOR THE LEVY LIKE YOU ARE. WE NEED PUBLIC SAFETY. I CAN AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT ITEM.”
“It's okay. And, Linda, I just might add that... I'd be happy to go to coffee with you anytime because I think it would be a robust discussion and it would be fun. Yeah, I don't know about the fun part, but okay.”
“I have a question for you. I've asked you this before in other hearings. Cheryl Higley always gives us interesting things to ponder. She does her research. Can you respond to her statement? I'm trying to find your side, her side, the middle somewhere. Can you respond to that?”
“There was a portion of her presentation that talked about how we were doing something wrong. And that's the part that I'm always concerned about. I'll see if I can find it. And I have to... I don't want to ask you. I'll have to look it up, Rodney. Let's take a minute. The other thing, let's see, Rodney. Did you say this was a 20-year build-up? Is that what I heard?”
“Rodney? I think the comment was density doesn't meet the criteria. I'm trying to figure out what that meant.”
“So I The plan is compatible or incompatible?”
“Mr. Mayor, just my comments I wrote down here. I know that Councilwoman Scogg was talking about, we talk about dense subdivisions to protect farm ground, but I'll say that I've said it many times, I'll say it again. dense subdivisions to protect farm ground. And if you don't believe that, drive out Orchard in Canyon County, and there's tons of nice new homes, but they're sprawled out on acreed lots, and they're individual well and septic, and they're just eating farm ground left and right. So density does protect farm grounds. Farm ground, I believe that. I feel like we need commercial hubs…”
“I have a question on this. Okay. So this sounds to me like, from what I read, that... They will get to hook up, but they don't have to be annexed. So they will be paying no taxes. Is that correct?”
“Follow-up? Mayor, so Daniel, so they're going to pay regular sewer to use our our sewer and our plant and our water, but they're not going to pay any other city of Nampa taxes.”
“So the way I read this, this is another $250,000 ask on top of the $500,000 I already gave. Is that correct?”
“I just had a comment before... I guess somebody made a motion already on this.”