Remarks by Jason Rumfelt
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“I would like to ask that we pull B5 as well as B6. Okay. For discussion.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I've had some time. Excellent. Please take it away. In your spare time.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“First off, I want to, again, thank Lindsay. She's doing gentlemen's work through all this, and a lot of this is new territory, as we've talked about. I know we've had some conversations offline Some of the changes, and I think we're getting really, really close. I know we all want the same thing. We want this to be right for the first time it gets rolled out. You know, I'm sick safety of our citizens and traveling public is paramount. One of those changes I noticed in your latest graphic, because in the previous one, there was nothing to dictate what governed in a 25-mile-an-hour zone.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“like between, on the main, between Woodrow and 74 is 25. So I think that's helpful. So now you'll notice it's the 25 and under zones are governed in that first section of the row there. To be honest with you, with what I've witnessed and what I've seen and heard myself and through others, the main issues that I continue to see involve two of these models. or classes rather one is the motor driven bicycles motorbikes the other is the micro mobility devices with the motorbikes um you know for those of us that are up and down south point road we tend to see those quite a bit um on the sidewalk…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right, unsafe behavior. I don't know about you guys, but I don't really have an issue with the class one through three bikes, nor the mopeds and motorcycles, but I don't know that I want to see 12 different variations of devices going up and down Main Street. Like the micros is what I had the biggest issue with because I like my chances a lot better if I get an impact with a car or a truck, if I'm on a bike or a moped or a motorcycle, a heck of a lot better than I do if I'm on a little scooter. Would you agree? So again, I don't mean to keep throwing things out, but thinking about different…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Your observation was specifically for the micromobility devices. Most of those riders are under 16?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Typically, those are the age bracket of riders on these micromobility devices.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right, same. And I don't, like if you're on a neighborhood street, not a lot of traffic, that's a heck of a lot different than Main Street. And we don't have bike lanes downtown, right? If you had a bike lane, it'd be a different story, because I wouldn't have an issue with that. It's where the reserve were, but we don't. And so to see a one-wheel, or a scooter, or a skateboard going up and down Main Street, I just, I can't be on board.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I will be, again, just my stance on it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What I'm hearing is it sounds like it's more of an age issue.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let's ask the people that are seeing this most every day. Do you have any thoughts on specifically for micros? Well, let's talk about in general first. In the downtown dismount zone, do you have an opinion on whether it's safe for micromobility devices to be operating in the street in the downtown dismount zone?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm thinking you make a good point about presumably they're getting drivers.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Two, three remaining issues to work through.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I just have one last clarification, maybe, and that's regarding operating after dark. So both of those devices I raised earlier, the micros and the motorbike, are not allowed, at least under the proposed ordinance, to be operated after dark. Correct. Right. So whether or not they have a light is criteria. Right now, there's nothing really governing when they can operate those.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I know you are very much looking forward to the completion of this process, but we want to make sure we get it right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was wondering how we kick this off. Yes, absolutely. Jason, we'll turn the floor over to you. Thank you guys for being here tonight to answer some hopefully final questions before we start down this road with this exciting project. So I know this is something that's been a topic of many council meetings since, I guess, November of 2022, when your firm was selected to handle the renovations of our city hall. Fast forward, I think it was 2025, September of last year, whenever you presented design options and the rough order of magnitude. So obviously we had a three-year hiatus there, and…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So regarding that sketch plan submittal and the conditional zoning process, I noticed you have, again, I wouldn't hold you to it, but a suggested duration of approximately 12 weeks. Again, regarding the conditional zoning piece of that, if we know ahead of time that that's going to be something we're going to need, I don't know why we couldn't do that rather quickly. The sketch plan, I know there's obviously time involved in putting those together and submitting, but”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So that would, if there was a TTM or TIA required, that would be included in that sketch plan conditional zoning phase? Yes. Yeah, we would definitely try to do that, yeah. um and then the next item on the project schedule assumptions was the probable construction cost update and we had a suggested duration there of four weeks um and that is the there's two aren't there two check-ins on the construction cost updates there's three in this schedule there's actually three okay so and that would be the first one so that's after we it's been a year”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then the second one, Raleigh, would come, the second cost update. Again, we have a four-week duration attached to that. At some point, you're in the design development, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What did you normally recommend on a project of this size and scale in terms of the bidding window?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And the item before that, the construction documents, we've got 12 weeks suggested there for the duration. Again, looking at this through the novice lens, I'm assuming most of these parties, I mean, they've been on board through the development process and through the, you know, the sketch plan. And so this is not new, right? Typically, I imagine, to most of the parties involved in the formulation of those construction documents. So might that be another area that, again, not to cut corners, but that could possibly be accomplished a little quicker.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean, I recognize you guys, I'm sure, built in some cushion here. Yeah. But you can kind of see, you know, I can't speak for my colleagues, but I know we just, we started this a number of months and years ago and just want to get moving. But again, we want to do it right. the first time around. So with regard to the amounts in the proposal for, let's just take basic services, I'm assuming that there's some metric there that's attributable to approximate man hours for each of those phases, right? So are these fixed costs, or are these reimbursable based on actual hours spent in each of…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So what was that? I know we've got 44 weeks approximately allocated for construction start to finish. And that starts from the date, remind me. When they pull the permit. When they pull the permit.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, and all these phases of design and sketch plan submit and all that, I mean, general enough, that's about 58 weeks. before construction starts. Now, some of those overlap. Yeah. Yeah. Right? Yeah. But I guess my point is with regard to the design proposal amount, if in reality we're able to shave that by a month, does that change the amount allocated for the design?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“In the last item that we just went over with the detail of the contract, this last section here, owner-provided information and investigations. So that's things like hazards, materials assessments, surveys. We'll get the TPM and TIA at the appropriate time. Flow testing for the hydrants, that kind of thing. Are those things that we can do independently of the design firm? If we know we're going to need those things, can we?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026