Remarks by Janet Cowell
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“Questions? open the hearing and we have Matt Kirkpatrick here.”
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“All in favor of that motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. That is unanimous. And that concludes our items. We are moving on to committee reports. We have none pending. And so we have the report of the mayor.”
“All in favor of that motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay.”
“All right, then we'll move on to report of Mayor and City Council, and we'll start with you, Mayor Parton-Harrison.”
“Okay, next we have appointments. Good afternoon.”
“All in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? Okay, so that's unanimous.”
“All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed. All right. Next we have the report and recommendation of the city attorney.”
“All right, okay. There was a garbled motion and second, but there was plenty of voices, so we can. Yeah, I know, move this. He's right on time, you're right on time, Lou. All in favor of the motion, aye.”
“All opposed, nay. And that was a very enthusiastic motion. All right, thank you. So I have a motion in order to enter into closed session pursuant to general statute 143 318 11 a 6 to consider the qualifications competence performance character fitness conditions of appointment or conditions of initial employment of an individual public officer or employees so moved all in favor aye all opposed and that is unanimous and we are Going into closed session Council met in closed session to consider qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, or conditions of appointment of an…”
“Welcome. We will start the meeting, as always, with the Pledge of Allegiance. Councillor Silver, can you lead us?”
“Right, and we had a consent agenda. There were no items. Oh, sorry, we have recognition of special awards. Is there any? Okay, right. Consent agenda, no items pulled. Do we have a motion to approve?”
“All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed? All right. This pass and we will move to public comment. We have 22 folks signed up so two minutes each and I will just remind everybody that our goal here is to have a space where everybody feels comfortable to speak and we can all hear and respect each other so please refrain from clapping or certainly jeering or anything like that but just being respectful to everybody. First folks, John Crew.”
“Thank you. Isaiah Allen. Isaiah here. Elizabeth Palizzo. Is Elizabeth here? Vicky Reich. Is Vicky here? Bonnie Landaverde.”
“Thank you. Jen Lawson. Is Jen here? Okay. Eva Fairlinden.”
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“Thanks. Next we have Zainab Balak. Not here?”
“Hua Huang. Is Hua here? Okay. Giselle Torres.”
“Thank you. I will just say for those speaking on the teen issues, we are going to have a forum on October 12th, 5 o'clock, at the Adult Activity Center in Five Points area. So that conversation, if you are interested, will be held then. Athena Wallen is our last speaker.”
“Okay, that concludes our speakers and public comment. We will move on to the report and recommendation of the Planning Commission. Good afternoon.”
“Okay, other questions? If not, do you want to- I don't know, Council Branch, you want to make a motion?”
“Okay, thank you for making that complicated motion. Is there a second? All right, second from Councilor Patten. All in favor of that motion, aye.”
“Okay, then we have special items. Justin Rometta.”
“Thank you. Other guests, councilor Jones?”
“All right, does somebody want to make a motion?”