Remarks by Jennifer Notariano
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“I move to approve the Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation.”
“Thank you. This is actually on another matter altogether.”
“Thank you, Mayor. So my old business has to do with a building that has been causing concern for me since before I was elected in Ward 6 on South MacArthur Boulevard. Address is 1622. It is... partially demolished, partially open to the elements, and has been in a state of disrepair for, I don't know how long, But last year, around this time, I asked about it here. And I wanted to know what the plan was to move forward. And I heard from Public Works that the owners of the building were making plans to do something with it and they were going to submit those plans to public works to planning…”
“yeah and and i know they do have a case um that should be in the works pending maybe has been to administrative court i'm not sure um but we we asked them to submit plans and they haven't done it for a year and short answer is that the building uh is is secure to the extent that the city asked them to do that meaning the first floor is secure”
“Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. This is a building that appears to me and to Ward 6 residents to be condemnable and eligible for demolition. What are the next steps in terms of that? Like what is required of the city to do demolition?”
“yeah i i just know if it was someone's house and the second floor uh was was demolished open so not a window it was like a window or something that has been enlarged to like the size of I don't even know, several windows, almost half the side of the building was open to the elements. And that was someone's home? We would not allow that to stand in somebody's neighborhood. So we really have to ask them to take it down, or we have to take it down, or some sort of consequences have to follow because this is This is just not acceptable anymore.”
“Okay. Well, if there is another requirement that needs to be put into code in order to make it to where we don't have a commercial building, that has almost an entire wall open uh to the elements um sitting as blight in the middle of a residential economic district then please let me know and i'll be happy to bring that forward thank you thank you alderwoman conley thank you mayor i believe um mr aaron batiste from”
“No, Triana Thank you. Um Scott if you could Come up the utility Scott. Yes. Oh, yeah.”
“I'm sorry to make sure no, it's fine Yeah um so I think perhaps we need to have some few reminders about the outage map and reporting outages and things of that nature. So the only way to report your outage is via a phone call. Yes?”
“Three years? Oh, no. I told someone it's a year. Oh, maybe they'll be the first one.”
“Yeah, definitely. And so, since it's going to be three years, is there a way that we could... create an opportunity for people to report their outages via the web?”
“Yeah, because I think the disconnect between leaving a message and then not seeing the outage map updated and then seeing in Ward 6”
“That's good, yeah. And the blog updates were super helpful. I think including the notices that say we're aware of the outage in this area and that area helps to sort of make people feel more at ease.”
“Sure. And do you have off the top of your head, how many hours was the longest outage that we had?”
“Yeah, definitely, definitely. And I think, you know, as the hours pass, people are accepting. But once it starts to get, you know. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, you guys did what you could, and we appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you.”