Remarks by Darl Bruner
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“Yes, yes, yes, Councilman Griffin. We have about four minutes.”
“Chris, if I may. Yeah. I have a question on communication. Who and when? I think you've heard me say that many times that I would appreciate this analysis to be done very on the front end, before the developer starts spending money, et cetera, that he or she or whoever the applicant is is totally aware of what's going on. Is that the plan?”
“So it'll be totally on the front end and before the developer, before P&Z Commission gets it, and then possibly the council. Correct. Okay, all the way through that. Okay. All right, any other questions, council? Yes. Yes.”
“Doug, I think you wanted to respond, and we need to get back to the tool and Mark and so on.”
“Thanks, Doug. I'm going to move it along here. We're going to have a lunch hour here in a few hours. We need to get on with the two, my understanding is, and I think that's maybe going to help answer some questions. I think the main thing, council, this is my own opinion. Here we have Chris and Doug that have been willing to step forward and save the city a lot of money where we would have been paying Clearwater or whoever else probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I just want to thank them for that. And the other thing is each and every council meeting with the criteria that they…”
“I understand it. That's why I said the criteria that has been set aside. Okay, so Mark, are you first or who's going to show the tool? Okay, Chris back.”
“No, I was just going to ask if this sample is going to be on our P&Z website or where can actually the public and developers find this?”
“Let's make it as transparent as possible to as many as possible once you have it.”
“I'm going to try not to interrupt you again, but I just want to say we're moving along. It's over an hour. There's two other subject matters. Council, I know there's, I'm sure there's a lot of questions. I know there's a lot, probably a lot of questions out here. But if those can be sent to us, now I realize, Council, you cannot communicate as a group, and so it may have to be sent to Clay or myself and have a blind copy then sent as far as if you have questions or suggestions. And same with the public. Very quickly, what's the best way for the public if they have questions and suggestions?…”
“Okay. All right, Doug, yes. I'll try not to interrupt you.”
“As short as I can make it. Anyway, I'm just going to say Doug will shoot me later. He didn't like empathy or sympathy, but he is actually on vacation. So he's doing that. That's why he's not here. And as you can imagine, just getting through with the budget, the hours that Chris and the team has had.”
“Thank you. You want to hear him repeat it? Yeah, I need to repeat that one more time, please.”
“Okay. here yes i just want to say thank you doug and team all of you this is really helpful i appreciate this tool it's going to be nice to use it's incredible incredible yes i think everyone agrees up here okay are we ready to uh move on uh marker where are we chris rodney i hear hands being raised i see hands being raised i should say I think I see people fighting for the podium here. Who's gonna? Okay.”
“Ronnie, quick question on that. And we had a neighboring municipality that did do a moratorium. What was their imminent peril? Do we know?”
“That's right, that's fine. I'm just curious how a municipality came up with an imminent peril and put that into place.”
“That was an imminent peril, and who approved that then from an accountability standpoint?”
“Okay, I think we're ready for our legal. Preston?”
“Is that answer what you needed? Yeah. Okay.”
“Yeah, just to inside. So what I'm hearing, just to summarize, you're saying that from your legal standpoint, it's a high risk.”
“I wouldn't answer if you don't have it. I understand the question, but I can't answer that. Yes.”
“I didn't know who went first, so go ahead.”
“Just kind of an off-the-wall question. Valley View, I don't know if they're continuing to do it, but you know, of course, the growth in Valley View School District, and I know our main topic is not schools, but my understanding is when a development comes in, they're going out and asking the developer for a certain dollar amount for every rooftop. So there's no problem with that that you see? There again, as long as it's voluntary?”
“I understand it's just a verbal request. You coming in here, would you like to help us here because our schools are overcrowded and would you be willing to go ahead and provide us a cost per rooftop?”
“And that's a state decision. And just for the public aware, we will be, in fact, the public that are out here will be, I think we're having most of our local legislatures joining us here next week on Tuesday. So we're gonna have a lot of questions, we'll be talking a lot of issues, but if there's anything out there that you think we should be talking to them about from a Nampa city municipality standpoint, let us know. Mayor? Yes.”
“That is possible. Council, any other questions?”