Remarks by Joshua Miller
55 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you, Council President. I guess my question for the city attorney, if we wanted to honor the request for deferral as was supported by staff, what's the best way to award such an amendment? I don't know the exact length or side or what can I refer to to properly note this.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. That being said, then, for brevity, I would move to amend the item with the verbiage indicated on page 73 of our packet.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Yeah, I'm proud that the state of Eau Claire has had this public comment period available since 2018. This is not required, I understand, by our ordinances to have, you know, there are the public discussions, which are, but, you know, this was an idea crafted, I believe, Council Member Werthmann was probably on the council at the time, that allows people to come in front of the city council and to say whatever they're thinking. You know, of course, you know, emails, in-person contact, phone calls are available, but we got all 11 of us here. This is a great…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“you council president thank you director winters um if you go back i think two or three pages to the winning that one there um is there a particular reason why the middle bid um had the 5.6 percent rate where the other are in the four three and the four six range what about this particular uh promissory note caused a higher interest rate”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So we'll be making money off of it so then we have to pay a little more upfront to borrow the money to do it?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“On point of order, Council President. I'm just curious, because these public comments and session probably going for a while. People are here for, it's a proclamation that's. OK. I was wondering if it's permissible, Deputy City Attorney, to move the consent agenda. That way we can do a proclamation in order to facilitate that portion of the meeting tonight.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Director White, for the presentation. So the item before us right now is just the comprehensive plan and the adjustment and then also the rezoning. Also provided was this master plan, which is a very nice-looking layout. It's got a little bit of everything, mixed-use development, single-family homes, communities, facilities. So... is what's moving first will only be the phase one, which is the portion there on the west, which is a little less diverse than the rest of it. I'm just kind of curious when they put the master plan in this portion of the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Well, I was going to move that we now take up the consent agenda, that being items 7 through 18 and the proclamation ahead of item number 4 in the agenda.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, council president. According to Hufford. So. Right now it's just declaring excess land, so this is very early in consideration for anything in the future. But maybe being on staff in the city, knowing what plan might be forthcoming. If this were to be declared excess land, what would the city anticipate housing behavior be like? Would it be single family homes to match what is there? Would it be like duplexes? Or is that a bridge not yet crossed and there's not even comments on that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Looking at the maps here and what we're talking about, and then reading the emails and some of the comments here, some people are saying large tracts of land, but the area proposed here, it's already buffeted. It's like you have a strip of Legos, and there's a piece where there's Legos, Legos, and this would be filling another Lego. Some of the emails we got were concerned about large tracts of land. Speaking of the entire wells, which is definitely not the case, it's just... A street already exists there. There's housing on both sides. We have the opportunity…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Yeah, so definitely echoing Council Member Schoen's comments that I also don't like postponing, but this is nothing with the timetable on it. I would suggest related to this that if city staff... go forward with this, that we perhaps, if and when this is brought forward again, that we look at giving some sort of designations to protect the rest of the well fields. Like I said earlier, I'm not against developing this one because these are contiguous lots that touch existing homes, but everything else, I think it would be better served if we had some sort of…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. The century plan, the LDO, we did spend a year and a half on that one, but since it was passed, we've had numerous times where, you know, correction was made to it because every law ordinance is imperfect and there can always be gaps and holes and places that weren't thought of, weren't covered. And we are the final legislative body to make decisions. So I'm not saying one way or another. I'm just saying that the LDO is not perfect and things can get through that maybe you didn't intend. And if you don't think something should happen, then vote no. And if you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Yeah, I have a question for Deputy City Attorney Stromberger. So last year at some point we passed a speed ordinance for bicycles, and the speed limit defines, I pulled the ordinance here to be able to find it, I'll just read it and then to make sure that this is compatible with what's already existing. So on speed limits, it says the speed of any bicycle, electric bicycle, scooter, electric scooter, skateboard, electric skateboard, or any other personal transportation device. It seemed like that umbrella would cover items defined in this ordinance, so then they…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Question for the movers. So I guess this is written this way for legal reasons, but my understanding of this is that Section 1 is that parking during specified hours, there will be no parking should be waived on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. But then Section 2 says the change should not be effective upon publication and through September 16, 2026. So basically... We have one Saturday in which this is active and then it dies thereafter. Legally it had been written that way. You couldn't just say no parking September 12th. You had to say no parking forever except…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Actually, I think I should wait until we move to. OK.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I think my question is probably best directed for the city manager as the parking administrator is not here. If somebody tries to pay for parking during this time frame, do we have an ability in the system to turn it off and say there's no parking in the app or at the kiosks?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, so we can basically turn it off from 1 to 7 that day and no one will have to pay. No one will inadvertently pay for something because it will be turned off. Correct. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I'll be supporting this particular ordinance here, but I do share Council Member Schoen's concerns about this being applied in many other circumstances. Mainly I have to be supporting this one because we implemented paid parking about five weeks ago, and Fall Fest will probably attract many people who have perhaps not even parked downtown yet. So this will... I'm given an opportunity to be downtown, yet see the kiosks, see the signs, become aware, but given the fact that this is going to be our first large event downtown since paid parking, I am sympathetic to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council Member Miller has a question. Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Assistant State Attorney Herbertson. Just administratively, if this were to be denied, is there any wait time for the applicant that we could reapply, or how would that work?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Yes, with the City Council, we give these licenses, and they are a privilege for businesses that meet the requirements. I understand. I don't want to see any business not do it the best it can, but they had 11 weeks since the last time that we met in order to come into compliance with the requirements for them. So at this point, and then going back to Council President's DISTINCTION BETWEEN POSTPONING DEFINITELY AND DENIAL. I RECALL THAT POSTPONING DEFINITELY IS GENERALLY THINGS WHERE PEOPLE LIKE DON'T WANT TO DO ANYMORE WITHDRAW BUT I THINK A DENIAL IN THIS CASE…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Motion to postpone this pending waterways and parks review.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. If the mover or seconder could elaborate as to, so the parkway is right across, it's just kind of a little triangular piece of land that is bounded by homes on one side, a light industrial on the other side, and across the road from Rotten Gun Park, I understand you know having more time to hear things out but also every time we did postpone something or refer to committee that's more staff work goes into it that's more they've already worked in this so I'm always just cognizant of staff time where staff is very stretched very thinly so just given the size of…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Just to reiterate, it was said before, but since we canceled the meeting on Monday, September 8th, this will be on a public comment on Tuesday, the 8th at 4 p.m., followed immediately by the City Council meeting. So just be sure that if you want to come to the public comment, it's going to be on Tuesday, September 8th at 4 p.m.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Council Member Miller. Thank you, Council President. Although I'm the second on this item, I just wanted to thank, actually it was Council Member Werthmann that did the, Council Member Werthmann, city staff, and city legal that did a lot of work on this over the past couple months. So I just want to thank them for their efforts, and I'm happy to have help refine some of the points as we bring this forward here to hopefully approval today. Thank you. Council Member Serrano. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026