Remarks by Jacob Kupin
12 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Madam President. Committee reports, please.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I seek to open the public hearing, please.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. Open the public hearing, please.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. Move approval, please.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I need to remove item 64 and item 89, please.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to move to approve on first and then defer second reading to the first meeting in December with a brief comment.”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, go ahead, sir. Thank you, appreciate a lot of folks in the administration and different departments working on this piece of legislation. There are a number of areas downtown that have popped up these little food truck vendor things that have become safety issues. the food safety issues, there's french fries being stored on the ground, et cetera, et cetera. Not great situations. And they're kind of working through a loophole in the code right now. And so we wanted to kind of clean that up and create some clear regulations around it. But the legislation does need some more time for some…”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. And I wanna say deep thanks to the sponsor of this bill. She's come to community meetings and I know she and I share a deep care for pedestrian safety in our city. And I think we are both as many others frustrated with the lack of action on this front. As the downtown council person, I think it's important to note, because we hear a lot about businesses, that I also represent 24,000 residents downtown, 24,000 people downtown who have thoughts and opinions on this, many of whom were not here over the two decades' worth of studies and information. Cited and I think a…”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. And then first I wanted to address something about, I can see how it would look disingenuous and sneaky and shady and maybe like I was trying to slip something through or bait and switch. That's not my intention. I was very confident and excited about the approach that I was taking yesterday. As we know, our wonderful council office team is doing the Lord's work with less people than they probably need and with a lot of stuff from all of us. And so I did not receive these amendments till late Sunday with a Monday deadline. So there was not time to then get…”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I'm conflicted on this because I feel like we're starting to lose the plot here a little bit. I think that most of Councilman Sepulveda's bill, I think, is kind of, you know, the nine-month study and is kind of on the rails. And then what got us off track was an amendment in my district. So I'm torn because, you know, again, I'd prefer to have, you know, the district the amendment in my district, but also if this is going to go into six different directions, then we might have to defer it. So I think that that's, again, I prefer that we can just get this amendment…”
Metropolitan Council · Oct 6, 2026