Remarks by Jane Hughson
728 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 19 of 30
“Yes. This addresses flooding? OK. OK. So let's go ahead. Let's vote on this one. And let's see where we need to go.”
“We'll have that for second reading, and then we'll figure it out then. That will be the final time.”
“This is stormwater, but it's at the 86 cents for the middle of the road, the middle fee schedule. Yes, ma'am.”
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“Okay. Council, we've still got a public hearing to go. Then we've got to go back to the items that we pulled. Fortunately, non-consent's pretty short. So we're going to take a five-minute break. It is 935. Try to be back by 940, 942, 43. I think we're on item 19. Yes. All right.”
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“Okay, thank you. Conversation on this one. Anybody? And this is a flat fee?”
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“Well, if they haven't submitted an application yet, then hopefully they haven't gotten too far, um, other than acquiring land, which is huge. Um, but it's not going to come as a big surprise there at the end. They'll, they'll know what what's coming. So, um, Council, I'm asking if anybody is interested in delaying the effective date by a couple or three months just to let some of these in the pipeline get through. And then we choose either to go in partially or when we're going to do the full amount. The problem I'm having with that is the fact that we just Had this long conversation about…”
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“I'm sorry, you're saying you're planning to vote no on this?”
“And so you're okay putting this burden on the backs of the rate payers of these future projects?”
“That's not just my opinion. That's the fact. Right.”
“So that I only have to make one motion, which to amend, which may or may not pass. So, yeah, I know that's not really the way you're supposed to do it, but I think it'll ultimately faster. Right now, the motion would implement it on 10 one.”
“There's a lot of unexpected increases nationally and a lot of different ways that are hitting a lot of people pretty hard, so I get that.”
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“We have discussions all the time about what people might want to do. So I'm not buying into that one.”
“And that's why I'm saying I'm a bit bothered that I would, but I think we're burning a lot of time on something petty that we just need to go ahead and decide what we're going to do with this. So procedure, well, I haven't made the motion yet. I'm waiting for conversation from the rest of you. Somebody else want to say something or we just want to vote.”
“If you're making a motion, we have to have a date.”