Remarks by Jeremy Gragert
320 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 13
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“Great. Yeah, city manager. Council Member Orth, yeah.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you for that. Yeah, I believe our city manager will announce this as couple of these other things too so I'll hold off but it again I want to mention National Night Out you know as a something we talked about during our during the proclamation but that just as a reminder that's this coming Tuesday a week from tonight from 4 30 to 8 at at Carson Park so that's certainly a great event that attracts thousands of people to Carson Park yet again so and it is an event organized by the city so wanted to plug that again I also just wanted to just, it was about yesterday that there was a tornado…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And just one other kind of reminder for folks that was in an email from City Manager Solberg and should be in your calendars as an invite is the City Council Academy which will be Tuesday, August 18th from 5 to 8 at the Chippewa Valley Museum at Carson Park. So I'm just going to keep doubling down on Carson Park as a longstanding resources in our community. So any other announcements before we move to our work sessions? OK. Unless there is an objection from council, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. We can take a five minute break before we start the work sessions.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right, let's get this work session going here. So our first work session is on RDA subdivisions, and we have our community development director, Aaron White,”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So Let's see I'm just gonna try to keep track of the order that lights go on so come come some member Otto.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Do you, do you think you could speak to the boundaries, particularly that were chosen? Like I'm particularly interested in like that, the Eastern and like, Do you always use streets as the boundary? Because I see that there's like houses and then the executive center building are not in it, on the east end of Dewey. What are some of the things that were considered in terms of defining a boundary or what is traditional in terms of defining a boundary? Is it usually a street?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Any other questions or thoughts, I guess, as we discuss this? Council Member Serrano?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So the particular building that is being referred to is just south of Shift on Graham Avenue? Yeah.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, it's kind of behind Sojourner House, too. Calling it a building is kind of generous.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“councilmember johnson yeah i just wanted to second what josh said i'm in support of this i'd like to see it move forward get additional information yeah and personally i'm supportive of looking at it more and yeah just because there's this area hasn't really changed all that much over the last 15 or 20 years, while the rest of the downtown has changed quite dramatically. So it seems like it could use some extra attention from the city. I know the Third Ward Neighborhood Association boundary is roughly in that southern area of this district, so I think it'd be good to engage with that…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“OK. Well, it appears to be support for moving forward. So yeah, thank you for the presentation and the focus on this. And yeah, anything you want to add about About timeline or anything?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So the next work session is on recouping. costs for services, and we have our finance director, Kitsie Winters, to help us through this work sessions. Okay. Thank you, Director Winters.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Council Member Werthmann, we just need the microphone access there.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Maybe let's start with, we had a couple council members that put their lights on early, so maybe we start with those just because they may be more general. Okay. Council Member Brewster, you were the first. Yeah, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So actually, I wanted to talk a little bit about the, I guess particularly the realm of the pavilions and parks because one of the ones I'm concerned about is the farmer's market and like their agreement coming up and like you know that structure was It wasn't super expensive to build maybe back at the time that it was built, and it probably would cost like maybe 10 times more today, even though it's only like 20 years old. But I'm thinking of those user groups and just kind of using the farmer's market as an example, where it's like it's something that, is kind of special about Eau Claire. I…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So one of the things that I'm trying to consider is just that ability to pay piece of it, where I feel like groups maybe have more ability to pay than individuals. So the individual family that may rent a park pavilion needs to have to make sure that the pavilion, like the smaller pavilions, for example, are maybe more accessible and then kids of course from ability to pay standpoint is important to me in terms of having that be more affordable too so those are that's one of the just ways that I look at it and”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I think it makes sense for frequent users to try to make that, to keep that the same. I think that's good. Any other thoughts? We kind of lost half the council here. Yeah.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“fewer instances of our colleagues at the fire department having to go do what they do so yeah so council member reed did you yeah um thanks jeremy i um i just want to ask why and maybe you said this already but why is the stadiums and ball fields only at 22 percent is that a reflection of keeping it accessible or is it something else?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, you know, I think there's generally support for, I mean, I do kind of agree with Aaron that, you know, trying to. There may be certain instances where we may want to elongate that from five years to like seven or something. I'm not sure if that makes sense.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“great thank you so much for playing that all out yeah thank you okay yeah we're officially done yeah well until next tuesday”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026