Remarks by John Reedy
38 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 56:28
“You talked about verbiage before, and now you're talking about projections. Right. The CFD can't generate enough money to pay the $2.9 million? That's correct. That's correct.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 56:40
“Okay, so as someone who was pretty involved in the development of that CFD, I can assure you that there is a lot of money in that CFD that is available in PAYGO and otherwise to cover the $2.9 million, because there's millions in there to help for a school, plus extra to help them if they run into a problem, plus extra on top of that. I mean, it's nearly a billion dollars, but those are obligated for... They have other obligations to this. They have the obligations in the CFD the exact same as the SPARTA fees. Because what you really need is the city of Lincoln to commit that we're going to…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 59:34
“So let me so when I when I read through it there's there's two mechanisms, as I read it, maybe you can clarify if I have this wrong. The first mechanism is this proposed language which i'm still not failing to see the difference that you're drawing between. How much they obligate us to do it or not, but the second one is is that the board of Sparta has the ability to adopt an alternative one correct. So is there a reason that we can't provide an agreement with us and Lewis to solidify that these will be paid and provide to the SPARTA board for approval as an alternative mechanism?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:00:21
“Okay, so the MOA very clearly says, BFD language reviewed by staff, or alternative funding approved by board. It does not say that all the member agencies have to effectively do an amendment to the MOA in order to do it. It says the SPARTA board can approve an alternative, which could be an agreement that says the City of Lincoln and Lewis Development commit to do the thing they were already planning to do the whole time. So is there any reason why we can't do that and it be brought to the SPARTA board for approval?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:01:00
“But his question was, no, if we provided you one, you can provide to the Sparta board and meet your MOU criteria as written today.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:01:33
“The approval of an alternative mechanism to approve a deferment is the board. And they're represented by their representatives. What you're doing here in this document that I'm seeing is effectively an amendment to the MOA, which is crazy.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:02:05
“That's not what the individual jurisdictions all approved that the Sparta board can approve an alternative deferment. That was already done. It's those four people's decision about whether they will accept that deferment or And staff can provide advice about whether to do that or not. But the decision was already made by the four jurisdictions that those four presentives have the power to approve an alternative. It's already in the MOA.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:02:35
“There's two separate things. There's what the MOA says, which is the SPARTA board can approve a deferment. That's a process that was already adopted by the four jurisdictions that gives those four people the power to approve it. And then there's what the actual agreement would be before them to approve, which can have lots of opinions and needs to have specifics that you're talking about. Those are separate things, and you're conflating them.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:03:43
“Yeah, I mean, I think- You want to do that? My problem is that this process is crazy. It involves our staff going around the whole community to get everyone else to agree on essentially what amounts to an MOA amendment.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:05:23
“Right. I understand that you're trying to do the right thing.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:14:23
“So it'd be my motion that we either say no or table this proposal and direct staff to come up with a deferment agreement that looks more like the one that they did with the county between us and Lewis in consultation with Sparta's staff that tries to meet their obligation without this crazy whole thing and then take it to the SPARTA board as an alternative mechanism. Before we take the crazy out of the direction.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:31:07
“Yeah, just a minute new initiatives sports complex. Okay, john anything else. So I had what ma and not wasn't so much with the with the facility, but an important update and there's a Regulation called 1383 about organics and it's a critical factor for why mama the landfill invested $150 million in an update. is to become a 1383 qualified facility that provides for all of us that are part of that to be qualified, which allows us to continue to have the one big Ben, which is a huge cost infrastructure savings for us not having to run extra routes and everyone having three bins versus two and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:32:22
“We just use MARF. MARF, okay. Materials Recovery Facility.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026