Remarks by Jessica Schoen
24 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 12:57
“Thank you, Council President Gragert. Director Ness, I'm wondering if staff have any position or recommendation related to the deferral request?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 14:50
“I have a point of information, maybe. Yeah. On page 73 of our agenda, there's suggested amendment language. I just wanted to make council members aware of that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 29:48
“Thank you, Council President Greger. City Attorney Nick, so for context, last year I went to the National League of Cities conference and I attended a session on public comment periods and heard a lot about case law that City Attorney Nick is likely referencing indirectly. I concur I think that there's changes needed here. My question is in the last paragraph there's additional language added that you referred to just recently about this further defining what a limited public forum is and specifically stating that it's an opportunity to present to City Council subject to speakers following…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 37:47
“Thank you, Council President. As I alluded to in questions, I just wanted to share with Council that last fall when I attended the NLC conference, I sat in on a session, and I have to say it was quite shocking what falls under the umbrella of protected speech and so I think that it's necessary that we adopt these changes to be compliant with First Amendment laws but I also recognize and some of my questions were around how do we differentiate between what is protected speech and what's something we can point of order and and remind speakers to adhere to decorum. And I hope that we have an…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 21:41
“Thank you, Council President Gragert, and thank you, Director White, for this presentation. I have a question. This is one of the first large developments coming forward since some of our more substantial changes in our zoning code rewrite. I'm wondering overall if staff have any feedback about the process going back and forth with the developer on this plan, and in particular, I'm interested to know about the tree preservation ordinance. Just looking for any insights you might have.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:12:14
“Thank you, President Greger. And I'll try and, I have a lot of questions actually, but I know we have the public discussion to get to and we'll have an opportunity later to ask more questions, but... On the Lawrence Drive and Riverview Drive properties, excuse me, Lawrence Street and Riverview Drive properties, could you share like total number of possible units and then also I've heard a lot of questions about whether utilities are currently already subbed in for potential future development or not and just give us an understanding generally of what potential future development would look…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:25:17
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:26:07
“I'm just wondering what, so on the web soil survey, for example, I pulled up building site development and I looked up suitability for dwellings with basements. And I'm seeing a very different result than what this is showing. So I was just curious what suitability feature you were assessing the site for that we're looking at on your map.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:26:53
“Okay, thank you. That helps answer my question. I appreciate the map.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:49:12
“Thank you, Council President Gragert. I did want to ask staff about the proposed parcels along Lawrence and East Riverview about just public access to the wells and if development of those parcels would restrict, or to what extent would they restrict public access to the wells property?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:50:54
“Thank you, Council President Greger. I do have a question about both this agenda item and the next. I'm wondering, staff, Coordinator Hufford, if you could speak to public access impacts with these proposals.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:51:31
“Can I have a follow up question? Yep. Would that look like an easement on a proposed division of parcels? Or could you explain what that might look like more formally?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:04:29
“Thank you, Council President Greger. I feel really conflicted about this agenda item. I would be in favor of tabling the item for additional conversation to take place. I feel, on one hand, pretty strongly about increasing public access to our green spaces and have concerns around privatization of some of the exterior portions of this really large hidden gem that I wish wasn't quite so hidden to the whole community and also I at the same time recognize that we spent a lot of time in our century code zoning update talking about infill development understanding how infill promotes denser…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:17:26
“I would, thank you, Council President. I would say often I find myself questioning the value of postponements, especially when there's timelines that we should be sensitive to. Access land declarations, in my personal opinion, are not one of those things. It's one of the areas where there's no, and in staff I would welcome a correction if I'm misstating something here, but it's property that the city owns and we can really set guidelines the timeline on our own terms, which is very rare for us, and so I think there's a lot of value that could be gained between now and March, and I appreciate…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:38:05
“Thank you, President Gragert. I have similar concerns to Council Member Werthmann, but perhaps on the other end of the spectrum with traditional golf courses and application of nutrients and fertilizers to those areas. I happen to know that this part of the county is sensitive to groundwater contamination for nitrates. Actually, I was thinking like the driving ranges are a better alternative to traditional golf courses from that lens. But I'm wondering if I know that in our packet it says the current land use right now is vacant, but an aerial photos wondering one if it's farmed and then two…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:46:24
“Thank you, Council President. I will say, although I have the concerns I shared and asked a couple of questions related to future use of this property if this rezone was approved, I also recognize the only decision that is being asked of this council tonight is a rezone and whether that's appropriate and consistent with our expectation of development in this part of the community, and I have to say it is. I don't think this area is best suited as light industrial, so the decision before us is whether this is better suited as commercial. I am supportive of that, but I do have concerns about,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:05:12
“Thank you, Council President Greger. I'm wondering if we have information about the potential budgetary impact of supporting this ordinance amendment.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:10:33
“Thank you, Council President. I feel conflicted about this. I think I'm supportive, but I will say I have some concern about how this is communicated out to the organizers of this event, about if this is something we intend to do every single Fall Fest and we will repeat for other events, or if this is a one-time event. Decision by this council considering how recently paid parking went into effect And I will also just share I have a different recollection actually of that question about whether the city manager their designee would have the authority to make like parking holidays and I seem…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 28:25
“Thank you. Yes, I would accept that as well.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 33:46
“Thank you, Council President Gregert. I also am really enthusiastic about supporting this RDA district. I think about, so one of the more recent and notable RDA districts in our community at Cannery Park and how transformative that was for the community. And I'm really, really excited to see what this district will become. I think there's so much potential there for the entire community. As Council Member Werthmann pointed out, I think there's a lot of economic development growth potential there. But additionally, I think about, I mean, as the name of the district, it's the Riverbend…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 43:27
“Thank you, Council President. I am also excited to support this agenda item this afternoon. I think it's really exciting in particular because it's a strategy that not many communities in the state are using with their RDAs to develop a large district like this. I know of at least one other community in the state, I don't remember, somewhere in the Fox Valley, Appleton maybe that has a district like this and I just really want to applaud and take a moment to appreciate staff and RDA members For being willing to pursue kind of a creative and less traditional RDA district approach and echo a…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 49:38
“Thank you, Council President. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate all of the really good work that our health department does. It's something I know I've met with our health director, Giese, in the past. talked about that with her and I'm always so appreciative and encourage other council members always to take a look at what the health department is up to because I think they're underappreciated for really progressive and innovative upstream strategies they're using to help the community in a wide variety of issues and so I'm very excited to support this resolution and wanted to…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:32:47
“So I have just a few thoughts. And I missed the very opening, so apologies there. But I've also, just for clarity, met with somebody from the Y in the last maybe nine months, it was a while ago now, and talked about some of their organization's visions and what they're interested in. I am open to it. I think it would be great to revitalize that portion of downtown. But I do think one key thing in my mind is especially if we are investing in that in some way, I want to see some community access to that space. I think about like Sonnen Tag, for example, and the city contributed funds and we…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:34:41
“planning process and community outreach for those areas that we have say in the cannery district so that would be part of that process should the rda be part of this or this becomes a project we're involved with can i make one more comment yeah please okay my only other thought then with that clarification is from like uh environmental contamination remediation standpoint i would have a lot of concern about the cost of the city acquiring that property um I'm just wondering if staff have information or if the Y has provided any information about asbestos or other abatement-related issues that…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026