Remarks by Jessika Loyer
53 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 51:51
“Yeah. Hi, thank you for the presentation. Sorry I'm remote today. I have a few questions and I think a couple comments to just Because this process is a little different than some of the other projects that we have seen come through as Council. When we were talking about this originally, we didn't really have any real idea as to the costs, and so that's part of the reason we had that resolution come through is that we wanted to be able to say, like, can we find $7 million to do the utility improvements? Can we find $18 million to do it all or no? Can we only find 12? And then. After we know…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 53:57
“And do we have $18 million between the two of them to cover this over the next four years?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 54:56
“So I think for me, knowing like if we if we don't go through with this, what is obviously repercussions? We are water lines break. We have issues. You know, we're pushing off. I mean, we're already overdue to replace all these, so we're pushing it off even longer. And then if we do do them, what is getting sacrificed, I guess, down the line? I think that would be good to know. I'm not asking you to answer that this very second. I don't know if you have that information.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 56:17
“So if it's a million and a half for three years, that gets us to 4.5 million. Why is it almost three more million to do it with this? What does this include that yours doesn't?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 56:51
“Okay. And so did you estimate that it's going to be about the same, $7.3 million?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 57:07
“So if we decide to move this forward and we say, okay, we want to go forward, we think this is important, would it affect your other projects that you're planning to do over the next four years? You know what I mean?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 57:37
“I think that that's important for us to know too. Is there anything detrimental that would get pushed off because we're pushing this forward? I'm not saying that there would be, but I think that's a good question. And then in terms of the OK, so then we look at that for the 7.3 and then in that 7.3. Sorry, I'm kind of now I'm all over the place on my questions. That includes it looks like $280,000 for curb ramps. In that option A and sidewalk remove replace as street restoration after the utility deck. So basic ADA ramp work right is in a.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 58:41
“Okay, but it's not the full accessibility package. So if we just went with the base, does it meet current ADA for every block we open or it only replaces what we tear up?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. And then, okay, that makes sense. In terms of that, like, $18.2 million cost estimate for B, Jose, I guess I'm wondering, like, you know, when you talk about the streets, you know, 2015, I think that it would be important for us to see like, ideally, what do we have to work with? And then, you know, getting a budget that staff can go and say, okay, this 18.2, that's like pie in the sky and would be everything, but we don't need every bench in every block. We don't need, like, obviously I'm not wanting to change things that are like, you know, drainage improvements, ADA improvements,…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I think that's important. Like city counselors didn't tell the construction company how to build the rec center. We had professionals do it. We had community input and then they built the rec center. You know, city counselors shouldn't be telling us like it's not our job to pick and choose what should be where. It's our job to set financial priority. This is important. The utilities are super important. It's also important that we're in ADA compliance as one counselor, I think. And then, you know, we have our, you know, drainage issues solved that we've been having. We have, you know,…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I remembered my last question. It was just more on the next step so. If we don't take any direction today and no one puts anything on the new agenda, staff isn't going to seek funding. We're not going to do anything further. What decision do you need from us before our budget retreat in order to start talking about potential steps forward in moving this along?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“How long do the 2026 estimates stay valid? once they stamp them? Is it just like today, this week, or is it?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Is there any benefit if we decide to go forward, is there a potential that the PD City Hall and this project like overlaps? You know, I know we talked about it could potentially be more expensive starting on the north end of Maine and going backwards, but is there any cost savings there? Any overlap that would be PD City Hall, Buckley Park, expansion things that we're doing or not expansion, but you know what I mean? The master plan there. Is there anything now totally different or yeah, likely not.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yep, thanks. Thanks Marnie for the presentation. I appreciate all the options and research that went into it. I think there's so many different options here. It's a little overwhelming and so looking forward to recommendations from you guys for the policy options next at the next Council meeting. I have a couple questions. So trash recycling is an enterprise fund, and I know there's some different rules and stuff that go along with that when we get the EPR payments, which we haven't gotten any yet, right? We don't know what that's going to be for us. Is that correct?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Do they have it's not just it has to go into our trash and recycling enterprise fund. Is that correct?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And we don't need to, it's not like we have to refund customers with that money, correct? We can use it to offset costs and maybe not raise recycling costs in the future. There's lots of different things, correct?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“But you said that you feel like the intent is to reimburse residents for recycling costs, yes?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So essentially what you're saying when we get the EPR, the residents will see that $10 charge but then reimbursed through EPR and then we're going to potentially add an additional $10 for composting if we make that a requirement.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“but they would see another fee for composting.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And if we decided not to do that, their bill would be $10 cheaper.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 1:55:35
“Yes. That's what I meant. Not me. Not me. All of us.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I just wanted to make sure, like, do we have to refund the customers? Can it be used for anything trash and recycling related? Not trash, but recycling. You know, I was trying to figure out the rules of that EPR.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, and I've been approached by numerous people in the community that are kind of using this in tandem. Like you're getting this EPR, you know, reduction for this so we can add this without a cost. And I want to be clear that it's not like that's not the same. I mean, yes. potentially like net zero or whatever in the end, potentially we could, but they're two separate things.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I think my biggest that I have a couple big like reasons why I'm super supportive of this and you know we have our sustainability goals that we're not close to meeting yet. I do think we either need to revise them and take an authentic look at them and say this is what we can budget for and this is what we can actually can commit to or we need to start doing things like this that are actually going to like start piecing away at them. And so I think if Council decides to not go forward with. you know composting and that sort of thing that needs to also be said like that's the same breath like…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yes, and then my next question content seems in my research now is very quick and it wasn't like super in depth, but contamination and education failures are usually like where a lot of cities struggle. Rushing fines when they're not ready to, you know, deal with those things and before real outreach to is there like a plan for that? Is there money considered for that when we're looking at all this stuff?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026