Remarks by Jane Hughson
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“Okay. I will open the public hearing. We have no one signed up. But if there's anyone here who wishes to speak far against or about this item, now would be the time if you'll come on in and step up to the podium. And going once, twice, three times. Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing. And I will... Motion to approve.”
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“And the estimated diameter of that tree is?”
“I don't think I could get my arms around it. So this is a significant issue that has grown with time.”
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“Large tree. As big as, wide as the sidewalk pretty much now. So, my concern is the $300,000, that's a lot of money to spend on a relatively small square footage. And... You have what you want to add, or shall I go ahead and say it?”
“Yeah, I would hope that perhaps the university might help us kick in, because this is right kind of in the middle of their campus. Now, what the tree is in front of is, I believe it's private property, the McCarty Student Center. But still, I'm hoping that since they have quite an interest or should have an interest in this, that they could provide something. And I'm hoping this is one of those that we're thinking this is worst case scenario and ends up costing less.”
“So I think my question, my request is, is that I'm not gonna suggest that we make a change in this, because when we make a change in the plan, then it's gotta come back, that's a whole new person and all that. I'm okay with leaving this 300,000 allocated, But before anything is done, I would like for this to come back to the tourist board. I think that was your plan anyway. So I just want to make that formal. And we see what we can do. Keep the tree. Keep it so that folks can go safely around the tree. And maybe not lose too many parking spaces. Yes.”
“Thank you. So I believe that was their plan already. We're just formalizing that. Anything else from the council on this item? Okay, so you didn't have an amendment, you just had?”
“I just want to make sure that we get to look at it again before that money is spent.”
“I will say that we've made improvements this year and that we've got our Main Street Board, which is comprised of downtown folks and interest in downtown. The TURS Board is two council members, two commissioners, county commissioners, and a downtown business owner. And so we have the TERS. I've said the Main Street Board's got a lot of ideas. We hold the purse strings. So we have met with the two groups have met twice. Twice?”
“Twice this year. And we will continue to do that as the Main Street Board identifies and has their plan for the next year. But I'll tell you, one of the things I'm really excited about on here is the gum removal. I think we'll all be excited. My mayor gum removal.”
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“Thank you. Then we will go back to items nine and 14.”
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“Basically, it's the same geographic area. And we did include new area or additional area on the east side of the interstate a year or two ago with the previous scooter folks. And so I understand that that's still going to be available because of improvements and sidewalks and being able to get from one side of the interstate to the other in that particular area.”
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“I do want to thank Lime for making that accommodation for those who need some help.”
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“They participate, but they don't all qualify. There's a difference.”
“But for individual families, it's what, 75%? Yeah. No, I know they get it, but the qualification that we're talking about here may be different, but I'll let him answer the question.”