Remarks by Jeremy Gragert
320 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 13
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“Aye. All right, and that passes 9 to 1 to place a referendum on the ballot. And then is there a motion to indefinitely postpone option of Council Member Miller?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Second. OK, we have a motion from Council Member Miller, seconded by Council Member Reed, to indefinitely postpone option A. Is there any? Discussion? Seeing none, city clerk, please call the roll.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Aye. All right, that indefinite postponement passes unanimously. So we are done with agenda item number 30. And now we're into the category on our agenda of ordinances for introduction. I will read all three of those, and then we can go from there. Item number 31 for introduction is ordinance amending S2.72.010 entitled city of Eau Claire pay plan adopted specifically those parts thereof pertaining to firefighters, local 487 employees. And I'll read the next one. Agenda item number 32, ordinance amending the city of Eau Claire employee benefits and leaves plan, specifically those parts…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So we have a motion to take up items 31 and 32. Do we have a second? Council Member Serrano?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“OK. So seconded by Council Member Serrano. So we will take up 31 and 32, but we'll do those separately. So we'll start with 31. Point of order. Sorry. You need to vote. Oh, we need to vote. And it requires a 2 thirds to pass. Sorry. So yeah, we have it requires a 2 thirds vote to suspend the rules, but in that motion can do so for both of those agenda items. So is there any discussion on whether to suspend the rules? Okay, so seeing none, city clerk, please call the roll on whether to suspend the rules for agenda items 31 and 32.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Aye. All right, and that passes unanimously. So we can now take up, we'll start with agenda item 31 and then later go to 32. Perhaps we could have a staff presentation on this, or maybe? So just to make sure we understand what we're considering.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“OK. Thank you. Any questions for Director Riepel? Council Member Brewster.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, any other questions from the council? OK, so we're going to move this item on a motion by Councilmember Johnson and seconded by Councilmember Amboga. This item is moved. Is there any discussion of agenda item 31? OK, seeing none, city clerk, please call the roll.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Aye. All right. And that passes unanimously. The next item is number 32 that was read earlier. Is there anything further to present from Director Rieppel?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Any questions from the council? All right, thank you. So on a motion, by Council Member Otto and seconded by Council Member Reid. This item is moved. Is there any discussion? All right. Seeing none, City Clerk, please call the roll on agenda item number 32.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Aye. All right. And item number 32 passes unanimously. Any other interest in suspending rules to take up the final item, number 33? Okay. All right. So we will move on to... So that concludes our agenda. So we can go on to announcements and updates from the city manager and the city council. So does anyone have any announcements? Oh, Council Member Amboga.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I decline, thank you. City Manager Solberg.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, city manager. Yeah, I just wanted to acknowledge that it is a primary election day today across the state of Wisconsin. And polls close at 8 o'clock, so there's still time to vote today. And I want to thank our city clerk and all the staff that work on the election, especially kind of doing double time with helping with a council meeting while the polls are open as well. And I just want to thank all of our poll workers and just the voters for getting out today and exciting competitive primaries, partly thanks to a previous council president as well. So we will go on to Council…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Well, if there are no other announcements, and if there's no objection from council, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you all for coming.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“This meeting of the Eau Claire City Council will come to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right. Thank you, City Clerk, and welcome everybody to the Monday, August 10th meeting of the Eau Claire City Council. We are going to have a number of public hearings tonight, and then we'll have a public comment period after that. And just so folks know how it works, we will... have a presentation on each of the agenda items from staff or from council members. And then council members will have a chance to ask questions and then we'll open up for public comment. There are sign up sheets in the back of the room along with the agendas so you can get a lay of the land for the meeting. The…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right, thank you, Director White. Council Member Mboga.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Council Member Amboga. Council Member Werthmann.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Okay, thank you, Council Member Mboga. Any other questions from the council? Council Member Werthmann.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Council Member Mbogo.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right. Looks like those are the only questions we have. Thank you, Director White. We can now open this item up for public hearing. Did anyone happen to sign up to speak during this agenda item? All right. Thank you. So it looks like we didn't have anyone sign up for this item, but would anyone in attendance like to speak to agenda item number one on the land development ordinance? OK. Oh, actually, we do have someone. If you could just please state your name and address.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, anyone else like to speak to this agenda item? All right, thank you. We'll move on to item number two, and that is under the category of public discussions. Public discussion on an ordinance amending chapter 8.32 entitled Management of Waste and Recyclables of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Eau Claire to create a comprehensive organics management and composting program. And we have two council members that have been working on this. And happy to give you time to present. And if there's any staff that would like to share anything, that would be welcome to Council…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Werthmann. Council Member Miller?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Miller. And thanks to Council Member Werthmann as well for bringing this forward. We'll go to the questions from Council. And first we have Council Member Mboga.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Werthmann, do you want to answer that?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026