Remarks by Erik Altmann
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“That brings us to communications from the audience. I do have one slip for tonight. Christine Root.”
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“Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else who would like to address the council during public comment? Before anyone starts, I just want to remind people that we are now in the new phase where we're having three minutes per speaker during public comment. And I should have reminded people about that earlier. But I will take the opportunity to do this now. So please just leave it up there and we'll pick it up later. Thank you. Go ahead.”
“Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else who would like to address the council?”
“Seeing none, do we have any callers? There are no callers on the line. OK, we have no callers. All right. That brings us to item 4.2, communications from the council, Councilmember Singh.”
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“Just a follow-up on that last point. So the resolution we may adopt on the 22nd does not necessarily identify exactly the bond issue that we will ultimately vote on after the 45-day period, correct?”
“And the more specific amounts could be less than the total but not more. They could involve projects that, it could remove projects from the list but not add projects to the list, right?”
“And the 45 days starting September 2nd, how does that get us to a resolution in October? Or am I missing something there?”
“So we can act before the 45 days is up, but you can't act until the 45 days is up because the people have an opportunity to say no. Right, right, right.”
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“A couple of questions. One concerns the, I mean, my big concern is the general fund, right? Because that's the fund that's under stress. And with a 30 million, with a debt service for the total of 30 million, the debt service is about 2.1 million. 15% of that is about 315,000. Is that correct? Okay. So that would be, that would, 315,000 would be the burden on the general fund. I just wanted to check my math there. I had a similar question about, so the parks and rec fund proportion would be 23% and the idea is to recover that through space rental and program fees. You started to address this…”
“So I guess I think it would be helpful – You've worked through these analyses?”
“You've started to. I think it would be helpful to have some of that attached to the AIR for our next meeting because it makes sense to me that we want to go to a full cost recovery model, but I think we in the community need to have some sort of proof of concept that that's actually going to work. And so I think some sort of analysis along those lines would be helpful.”
“That's great and that's perfect. It doesn't have to be. Thanks for reminding me that it doesn't have to be by next week. Further questions?”
“So my last question is actually for Bond Council again. And if I could ask you to address it. So you said, I mean, appropriately enough, it's up to us to decide what our strategy is going to be, right? The two tranche versus one tranche. And you recommended a course of action based on certain characteristics of having one tranche be below 10 million, right? That would save us some money. But I don't think we have an analysis here that says exactly what the benefits would be projected, right? You're making that recommendation based on your analysis that has a suggestion that we would save…”
“I think we're interested in doing our due diligence and also making it clear for the community's benefit that we're doing our due diligence. And so even if it's not necessarily, you know, chapter and verse of ten pages worth of numbers, but some outline that describes the different parameters you thought about that leads you to this particular recommendation I think would be helpful. And if I heard you right a moment ago, you suggested that if we had too much money, we could spend it on other things. But my understanding is that we can't do that, right? We have to spend it on what we propose…”
“it's all part of the fact that you can't predict the future right and so you need various mechanisms to make sure that you can get as close as you can yeah okay any further question so that I thought this was really helpful so thanks to everybody for their questions and input thank you thank you that brings us to item 5.2 discussion of police and fire department updates Chief Newman.”
“Thank you, sir. I provided it to you, and we'll give this information”
“Couple of questions. So in terms of the mutual aid, well, first of all, I wonder if you could repeat your answer to Councilmember Whalen about cost recovery. If you could repeat the question, if you can remember it, and the question and the answer about cost recovery. There was a particular type of run?”
“And that's not included in the runs to campus that's in the data you give us tonight?”
“So my question, what I was aiming at, is looking at these numbers that you gave us, about 20% of the runs, of your total runs, seem to go to campus, roughly. It's a little bit lower in July, but the rest of the numbers are pretty constant, about 20%. Do we get enough 289 money back or by other channels to cover that?”
“Yes. Okay, great. Yes, and then the mutual aid The the the asymmetry with the city of Lansing is pretty stark Yes, 19 runs versus 102 Does that concern you?”
“Any further questions for the Chief? Okay. Thank you for your update. Absolutely.”
“Next we have Assistant Chief Kraft, who's here with Lieutenant Steeman and Captain O'Hario. Thank you all for being here tonight.”