Remarks by Ken Fairman
212 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
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“Can we pull the minutes or we just make a correction?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, over in, I know you guys are gonna love talking about this, but page two of six, when it talks about the custom bench that we approved, and the wording got changed to a design feature. Let's be fair, it's a custom bench, and I don't know why it got stricken as that got stricken and put it as a design feature.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Today you have grass, right? Today we're talking about grass in front of us. And there'll be a flyer if anybody wants to get this. There's a couple grasses there that look really nice in the landscape. We have right in front of the mayor's dwarf acahatchee grass, and either side of that is pink muley grass, which is the very brilliantly pink seed pods that come out. And then on the side of that is the cord grass, which does well in damp areas, pond, by waterways and ponds and things like that. Plus at the bottom of this, they'll talk about a number of other grasses, and there's one at the…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And whatever you're going to take home, we'll go to the Parks Department, and they'll find a good place to plant it.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'd like to make one comment on the act. All right. I'm very excited that we're going to have 20 young people from the village participate in this. I'm even more impressed by what happened behind the scenes. This past year, a lot of the Yak students wanted to clarify the rules about membership and getting into Yak. They wanted it not to be an automatic, just because you were in one year that you automatically got in the next year. They wanted interviews done. And that's a good thing, because in the past, we've had some issues with stuff not being turned in, and maybe people getting on YAC…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“A couple. Number one, on page 49 of 130, paragraph G, it talks about encroachment of a hedge onto the sidewalk. And maybe Esther can speak to this. Do we also want to say or the right-of-way line? 49 and 130. What paragraph? G at the bottom. Okay.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I do have a question about the bike parking. Let me get to that. I don't know this, the bike parking. Oh, I'm sorry, page 77 and 78. I'll get to the easy one on page 78. And this hearkens me back to when the county made provisions for mandatory bike racks on commercial property. Item E, signage. I just don't see any point in telling people they need to put up signs to show that the bike rack's a bike rack.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I know it's a little thing, but it's just one more sign up that somebody's got to pay for, that somebody's got to maintain. And I don't see a need for it. Also, I think for right now, the number of bike racks being requested is a little bit on the high side. I would prefer to have something like five to 50 spaces require two bike racks, 50 to 100 require four, 100 to 200 require six, 200 to 500.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Page 77. I'm thinking about Sunnyland and some of these shopping centers that we have that have several different owners and and they're gonna be putting up quite a few bike racks. And I don't know, I mean, I'd like to start a little smaller scale, see that they're getting used, and then advance it from there. Plus, there is another requirement that it has to be near the entrance to the building, and that can get a little tricky about who's gonna make that determination on where they should be located. and that would be in item two, or under C, item two, and item one as well. Bicycle parking…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think this was this pulled from the county.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Good. You can ask council member Meyer. Is it, he can't find a place to park his bike because he doesn't see the sign or the parking or the bike racks, the physical, there are no bike racks.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And this is kind of, he made my point, which is a little bit, there are problems. There are no bike racks or, very few in the village. So to tell, say, Sunnyland that they're going to put a string of, I don't know, 20-some, 30-some along their storefront sidewalks is a lot. A lot right now where they don't have any. Should we start off with these numbers or should we start a little bit smaller and give our commercial property places to properly place them, check out their usage, and if Council Member Meyer goes back and he can't find a spot because all the bike racks are being used, then we…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“One more on page 90 of 130. Just curious, Chad probably has an answer for this, but the artificial turf, not counting as green space, artificial turf, what's stricken is artificial turf shall not be counted or considered as required natural green space. Thank goodness, but was that stricken just because it was redundant?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“What about that, the combining 12 and 13, as was suggested on the instructional studio, such as dance?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But like a Pilates class, a yoga class would have the same sort of thing, right? People all showing up at one time for an hour-long class and then leave.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“but those were other cases other than these three.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“How could you not know? How do you not know?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“OK, so that would be his fault. What I would, what I do agree with The fact that he jumped right on this, I do like the idea of going with the table with the freeze, the $407,000. Because it appears he bought it, immediately contacted the village, started doing something. Then this legal matter came up about ownership. He didn't have title to the house. You don't want to give him a discount? I think at that point, going with the 407 would be very appropriate. But I would not waive the fees any further than that because, again, it's baked into what he paid for the house.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I understood. He came in and did a great job trying to button everything up. That's fine. that liability.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Right. And that's why we should waive the $180,000.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“You can make a gamble that you'll get them waived. But that's a gamble.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I don't see how anybody doesn't know that this fine exists on the property. And when you don't know, it's their mistake. You're going to defer to him?”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's true, but usually there are a little different circumstances. But we just had a case right before you came on, Jim, that it was a six-figure, and it was the same sort of thing. They had purchased a house. knowing that those fines were there and then wanted them relieved from those fines.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, this is where I would, with Council Member Greenberg's point, Once he did own it outright, he took care of it. And apparently, if I'm to believe what I read here, there was a point in time where he could do nothing to the property, even though it was up in the air with a title dispute. So we're relieving them of that time frame of those fines accumulated. So that's where I'm thinking, does he deserve? That's something he maybe had no control of. They came up, and he did get right on it once that time passed.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026