Remarks by George Turner
146 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“And if we wanted to call a special call meeting simply to approve this contract, it is that important. There's a lot of money hanging out based on these audits being done and done on time. What we brought up to date, not on time, but to be called up. So a special call meeting, I think, is warranted to get this moving, even if it just saves us a week. So that's just my two cents.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“That I cannot speak to right now without playing the tape back.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I mean the fruit of what. I put him. Yes, Councilman turn a move to defer approval of this matter to a special call meeting.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I concur. This item has gone through public hearing, and we deferred it twice, I do believe. It wasn't very clear as to why it was being deferred, whether the applicant needed more time to give us something that I don't believe we asked for. I think they just wanted to volunteer additional information for which I never got. And I see no reason to defer it anymore. I see no reason to accept a withdrawal. This item is before us for a decision, and I think we need to make a decision.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I would defer to legal once an applicant applies for a slip and we hear it. Does it still belong to the applicant or does it belong to us? We've gone through the public hearing on this stuff. And just logically speaking, without knowing all the legalese of it, it would appear to me that it's out of the applicant's hand once we hear it. And I'm not comfortable with them being able to withdraw their application after it's been heard and processed through the public hearing. Um, my logic tells me that it's up to us whether to accept the withdrawal or to act on this item.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And if we do not approve the withdrawal, then the applicant is forced to come back before us.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“If we do not accept, there's a request for withdrawal.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“So you just told us that we could not deny the request for a denial. That we had to act on a request for the denial either accepted it now, I mean i'm trying not to do now except the withdrawal or not accepted with tool, if we do not accept the withdrawal, then what.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And my question is still there. If we do not give the permission for the withdrawal, then what?”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I move for denial of this application for a special land use permit. 1695 Spring Hill Cove.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Just a quick, can you give us those dates for the election again? November 3rd of the 3rd of the election and runoff is summer 1st December 1st.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Move for approval of the ordinance appointing the camp kind of to conduct the city of stonecrest special election second read.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Allow me to open with mentioning the East Metro CID. And the East Metro CID was in place when we became a city. And they were active within our city limits in terms of planting flowers and doing other activities in the right of way, including installing flock cameras and so forth and so on. And come to find out they had no agreement with us to do such. So we had to put together an agreement with the East Metro CID to function within the boundaries of the city. Now we've established the I mean, Latonia, well, the Stonecrest Latonia Industrial Parks CID. And they have the same opportunities,…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Thank you very much. This CID is anxious to get to work. And this is one thing that we want to get done before they actually start that. I wanted to have this ready by the next council meeting for consideration. So between now and the 27th, we have time to consider this or we can discuss it tonight as to these proposed modification based on what we sent to you earlier as to within that cooperation agreement, shall they meet with tips on a, whether it's a monthly basis or just say a regular basis, or should they report to city council at a work session and the other one is they will report to…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“consent or something from the county since they control that piece or how does that work uh the cid cannot supersede any of the governmental services they cannot supersede the county services they will work with and cooperate with and that's one thing that we need here is a cooperation agreement they have access to improving those areas but with that access they must have permission they can't go in and just take down a traffic light and put up a different one a different color they have to uh have permission from the city uh when necessary from the county that will keep them in line with not…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I don't believe so. Because like I said, they cannot supersede any of those jurisdictions. It's a matter of cooperating with and making improvements to the district. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And I'm no expert in this area, but I do know that some of the CIDs do have bonding capabilities. And when you do bonding, it could last 30, 40 years for certain bonds. So you have to know that they're going to be around more than four or five years if you got a 30 or 40 year bonding agreement. I would suspect it's common language. Between now and the time we consider approving this, we can find out if that's common. But I would suspect many of them might be longer than that. I remember setting up a trust for a trust from the family. We're looking at 150 years. So I'll be there to manage…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And if I can add, annually, we should get a state as a city address. And within that state as a city address, we should talk about those things that make the city great, or those things that make the city function. How is economic development doing? How is community planning and zoning doing? How is the CID doing? Are they adding value? bringing us down so you know those are things that we will have to evaluate on a regular basis as to what's adding value to the city and if they're not adding value to the city and we need to reconsider and it's not just the cid it's all elements of what makes…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“That was for discussion only so no discussion only will move it to the Council meeting for decision unless there's some serious reservations and.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“I'm hoping those are some things we can talk about as we go along because January is a loaded month. It's going to be hard to get a lot of things set up for January because we bring on new council members, new committees, and a bunch of other initiatives in January. Personally, I'd like to see it pushed to February at least. That'll give us time to get the train moving, so to speak. and to schedule them to meet with tips or with the city council that's something we have got to discuss whether or not we want that to be one or both probably best report into council would be my personal…”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“And we'll try to get it to you at least five days and how much time do you need to work up to detail a week days.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“OK. Well, the agenda is put together on Friday of this week for the council meeting.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“So we've got to act in a hurry to get our questions answered and circulate it and get it back to you and ready for the agenda on Friday, no later than Monday. OK. Got it. I got my orders.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“Move to suspend our work session and adjourn to special call meeting for litigation, personnel, cybersecurity, and litigation.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026
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“You know I want to leave, don't you? Mayor Pro Tem.”
City Council · Jul 13, 2026