Remarks by Jim Morrison
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So if we're doing 250,000 for each 50-foot square pad?
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
But if it costs... $250,000, we can buy a whole lot of diesel at $6 a gallon to accommodate what we have and not have aesthetic issues. I mean, we don't need the Taj Mahal for a salt dump.
I understand, but as the city manager mentions, the aesthetics. Most people want a functionability and accountability for the equipment. I guess I'm just saying, you know, Dealing with the university that's not going to be a reasonable price probably for land and then spend 250,000 to upgrade it I Just think we ought to be using the fire station Site there off Amherst. We have enough land there even for the Fire tower and the other steps are wanting to put out there. Don't we?
But once we own it, we've not had a history of selling anything.
Yeah. I have some best use of land as well our taxpayers can afford and meets your needs for function, it seems to me.
So you're not banking on global warming, solving our problem, and having a beachfront property for sale?
Well, I have a laundry list, and when we get done with the meeting, I will give a copy of it. You can then digest it. Propose an effective date?
Okay. Since we really haven't seen anything other than this concept Is it anticipated that the city will have authority to file a criminal complaint municipal court for violation?
Well, it seems to me We're playing patty cake on something that will never get resolved if they're in some enforcement ability. And the only way we have enforcement ability is having some violation that we file a complaint, have them go to the court, and then they can be held accountable.
But if you have a stop order issue, then there's always going to be the issue if it's not clearly done, notice. Substantiability of proof of what it is and you're gonna have to get an injunction if they don't adhere to it. And that's even, so I think it's more direct to have a crime or offense that we can go to the court and say, here's the three things we've done and they're scallywags.
I'm trying to get us to a point where it isn't a point because it will be clear apparently on the application that the statement was the owner's liable. So I assume the owner's going to have to sign the application, not the contractor, not the general, not a corporation. I mean, so, you know, if they're the landowner, I believe we can go after them. Pardon me. Do I have others?
It's Resolved I'll have no more observation. I'll give you my information. Thank you. You can do with it as you please. Thank you.
I think there is a lane closure You can call it the lane shift, but we lost lane on the south side and or we're encroaching towards not safe The concrete barrier is at least 18 inches to two feet into the normal travel lane, or at least it was the last time I went down points. I tried not to go down, but I think that is not a fair statement. And that was my argument even when we met with them there to get us, it's a massive project, I understand that. And had we had this in place when they started, they might have done things differently. So there may be a need for some softness, but There is…
But you got it cramped down to where parking... No doubt.
And so to say there's no lane closure is not an accurate statement, in my opinion.
On your face sheet. you know, itemizing your comments and all that you sent out with the document. You say request for qualifications and you list consultants submit their proposals. So is this a design concept? I assume we're looking, when we talk about, we're looking for the engineer who's gonna do the plumbing, the contractor. We're looking for people who are gonna do the work, not looking for consultants to tell you what you need to do.
And then within their design, it's just like a design bid where they have also a builder's going to build it for what their design is?
and currently I've never asked, and I suppose somewhere I could find out if I was smart enough to go through our city channel, and I'm not today, is do we know who those three are in each one of the categories? Yes, yeah. And are they public anywhere?
But the contractor that calls me up or the design guy says, hell, I never get considered. I don't know who's on the list to say, have you gone to the city to get on the list? That's my best result. And I think it's an informational thing. Who are the people we are asking to be kind of exclusive dealers with? And it seems to me there is a risk of saying, these are three things we need to do in one location. If we divide that in three projects, we can get it done with three of these and not- And we do.
or they should be maybe for coordination one project where we have a design, we have construction, we can do a construction bid, competitive bid to do things, but we can design it to make it three, four, or five so we can get through with this process and not a more complete, in my opinion, complete overview of what's going on.
Do we have restrictions? Let's say they have to be located, since this is a city and our city taxpayers pay for it, they have to be business in the city?
I understand that. I'm just saying, I'm trying to confirm that we don't do that. So somebody from Huamigo, Topeka can apply to get on this list?
I understand legally we're not supposed to. I'm willing to affirm that's not being done.
In my opinion, minor one-line answers, generally. Would you care to pose them to staff?