Remarks by Jim Fried
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
“Mayor, I'll move to move that up, pull my knee off the consent agenda, put it on the regular agenda.”
“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Manager. I fully support the beautification and creating corridors because I think that's a really helpful thing for our community. Can you just remind me, is that where we're spending money and working on, that's the least or those are areas that the city helps manage with the private landowner?”
“Councillor Freed. Thank you, Mayor, and just thanks to the City Manager for, I know this is a lot of work and takes a lot of time to get to this point in working with private landowners and coming up with a plan to get this done. So I think this is going to help create more revitalization in our community, and thanks for all your work.”
“Thank you. Councilor Freed. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Director Bork. I'm going to tack on elevator information as one of your skill sets with everything else that you do. My only question, so this is giving you basically a frame of reference to then go out and solicit bids and giving you the funding requirements that you need to then figure out what it would cost and hopefully find someone to fix it. Is that correct?”
“Thank you, Mayor. Just thanks to Director Bork and City Manager for explaining that. And I think there is some sticker shock when someone sees $300,000 for an elevator and repair. And so the explanation and the transparency you guys provide, I think is super helpful for us and for the public. So thank you.”
“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to Director Bork and his team. And I just want to point out to the public, too, that this is also special purpose excise funds that are being spent on this project. I forgot to ask Director Bork when he was up here about where the funding comes from, but that's in the packet. So that's where the funding is coming for this project. Thanks.”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that Laramie City Council approve resolution 2026-68, a resolution supporting the adoption of the Laramie Downtown Development Plan, allowing staff to correct minor spelling mistakes or errors and authorize the mayor and city clerk to sign.”
“Councilor Freed. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Director Tini, for the presentation. My question, so I think this is fantastic. It's a big document. It covers things that we've been working on for my almost two years here. You talk about all the reconnect plans and public transportation, different things that we've been talking about. It kind of summarizes all those. Is it fair to say that this document now provides us, if we were to vote and approve this, this is now the framework in which we could try to tackle some of these projects. This isn't for sure requiring us to use TIF funding or…”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the City Council approve original ordinance number 2123, amending Laramie Municipal Code Title 15 related to outdoor storage as recommended by the Planning Commission on first reading in accordance with findings of fact and conclusions of law. Second.”
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“Councillor Freed. Thank you, Mayor. I have two. They're going to be quick, I think. Thank you for this. My first question, so basically we're differentiating between thickness as our biggest parameter for what's considered that kind of utility metal siding or high quality, you know, we can put it on things. Is that, like thickness is one of the biggest characteristics that we're using, is that right?”
“Follow-up? Thank you, Mary. My second question, for someone who submits the application, I saw on here like $625, this might be for the city manager's office, if we decide that it warrants you know, a change in code, does that ease that financial burden of the applicant who applied for the variance or the code change or any of that? And I know it takes a lot of time and staff time to go and review these things and dig up the research to make sure that we can put a good code in. But do we have anything in our policy that allows for that? Like if something's accepted, do they get a break or,…”
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