Remarks by Dr. Sarah Stoeckel
61 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes. Uh, I also moved to remove the 50 unit restriction. Um, that's currently on both pieces of property.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes. Did you have any comments related to all of P&Z's recommendations, whether or not you liked some of them, didn't like some of them, some of them were a little hard to understand? Did you guys read through those and kind of evaluate them?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You may have just answered my question. Is there a time frame? Would your site approval not get approved until you purchased the land as it's written right now?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Um, before you said that, that was kind of my question and I did not do a one on one, but I think I think I was under the impression and it sounds like some of us were during that meeting. When what we were submitting to the state, we were all on the same page with we're going to submit that plan and we all had agreed that we would like to see you guys purchase additional land within the city. And so I think that's where we had all agreed and left off and providing enough direction. And now what's coming back is not that. And I don't know if you could just explain more as to why you didn't do…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, and I would I don't can't speak for our rest of Council. That was not my intent with it. I think it was to make sure that those were preserved and then because we are already allowing some mitigation and you have to understand the city and what we've been dealing with for past several years concerning wetlands and people mitigating it and flooding like it's it's a huge issue in our city and so we're very cautious when we see it and so if we were to go in favor of allowing mitigation we we did want I think to have those things in place and I'm sorry you felt otherwise or wanted that…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. So my question would be the deadline. Is it possible? So we have 13 requests in here, and if we add 405, that would be 14. Can we wait until after November?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OK, so that would be my recommendation is to see if we can wait until after November.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I don't feel comfortable enough to narrow them down. I can tell you what I feel like would be a top priority, but it's really important to see who's going to be governor. And then I would value Senator Mayfield's feedback on these to see. And then we we hone in and focus on those.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, if you can keep us aware of what that deadline is, then we will.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And then my last question is, is it possible to get a sample or an example of a request that's been done in the past so we know what to kind of look at as guidelines?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, well, that makes me feel better because it's making me feel like you were nervous about us not having a good... No, no, no. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So what we did last time is good. So what you did with staff was great. So as long as we can continue to do that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“basically similar to the workshop we did back in may okay member stokel i'm not sure if it needs to be a workshop or maybe part of one of our uh agenda meetings because i'm just wondering how long i don't anticipate it going on for hours so i don't know if a workshop is needed or an agenda item and we keep it on and as things happen so i don't anticipate anything much happening until November. And then I think at that point, I know at least for me personally, I'm going to start to try to figure out a strategy. And then I think what it really comes down to, I think we all agree that these are…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, and this may be question for staff more so than so say we did approve this. Are there any provisions in here that say OK didn't go as we planned? People were getting their homes taken it there. We've got complaints for us to stop the program.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Do we, uh, get any type of reports of how many of our residents are using it?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. And so maybe that's something we could do is have, you know, city manager receive those. And then we ask for, um, an update depending on. quarterly as well, or every year.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“What happens if someone takes it out and then wants to pay it off early? Are there any penalties for doing that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OK, and that was my question, something that Mindy brought up about the protections that your company provides for that. And so I will say I did have similar concerns. I think I expressed them at the last meeting. But I think some of the things that you guys have said today have made me feel a lot better. I think that getting the reports, I think, will be really beneficial for us as counsel to see what our citizens doing within this program. just to give us better data, so.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, I think I'm OK with this. I don't know where this came from exactly, and I say that because we've had two way communications. On our strategic plan for 10 years and I want to say back when I know we initially when I say we remember Nelson and I initially started a lot of that was around social media at the time where it was being used as a way to push information out and we really wanted to start talking to more about engaging our citizens and so. Then we looked at social media a little bit and, you know, responding to comments. Then we're I think we're doing that a little bit right now.…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OK, so to that point, how do you guys feel about us going ahead and moving forward? It says projected cost and I would assume we don't know what that cost is yet because I'm an RFP would need to go out and then we would get back and make that decision. So what if we did one at least with the notifications? Because I would agree with you on the boil notice. I definitely am on board with that. And then I'm with Member Moscoso on before I think with the inbound, I would like to see kind of our systems in place and what we're doing to track before I feel comfortable committing a certain amount to…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And just to clarify on that, if we do receive ones that do both while they're doing it and one of our citizens came up and spoke about other potential options, I would be open to that as well. I think we don't know what we don't know. And so I'd like to see what companies maybe are doing that have ideas that we haven't even thought of.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, I would agree. If someone had a proposal for something that they're seeing that we needed to cut back on specifically, I would be open to that. But I have not seen an issue.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, I will say, because this was a new process for me being on council for a while, we had not gone through this process. I would say that there's been a lot of benefits to hiring an outside person. I think with that, you've come in with a new perspective of kind of your experience and how we could improve things. I really appreciated you coming up with new ideas that we might not have thought of before. And you've been very open. I also appreciate and she knows this. There's several times that we disagree, but she always tells me, you know, that's your that's your role as a council person.…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026