Remarks by Ken Fairman
212 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 9
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“Mr. Mayor, I have one question for Mitch so I understand before I make a motion. So what Council Member Greenberg was talking about, there's some provision we put about”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“to levy the fine at $407,991.23 based on the following conditions that it's paid within 30 days and that there is a release of claims acceptable to the village attorney.”
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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“I know, but it's still more cameras, more infrastructure at these intersections. There's other lit intersections we're not taking care of. I think it's an overreach. That's just my personal opinion. We approve five. We saw that there's, we looked into others to see if we should spread that out instead of keeping on 67th Avenue. We found two good intersections that above all the others qualify. Let's just move the two and keep it at five and get it started and see how it affects the traffic. Again, last year, 39 tickets were issued for running red lights in the village of Pinecrest. So how big…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Right. And we could. It's deadly. And at the same time, we were talking about lowering the speed limits when we decided on the five red light cameras. And I'm not a fan of red light cameras. But it is a safety issue. And we're showing that there's a lot of people running these red lights. So you're right. I mean, we could. we could put cameras everywhere in the village and make it maybe safer, but look at us one, not a huge reduction in red light running, but a good bit of revenue coming into the village. But I don't know if it's made it a lot safer.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'd like to know. Again, we're talking about... Let me see. You guys know how I feel about getting too fancy with some of these things. These race crosswalks should be fairly straightforward. Some concrete, some asphalt, some markings. And we're making them into something fancy that's costing us a lot of money. I'd kind of like to know where Metro was and what their... and what they're taking off of their bid to do the simplified version that we talked about.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“pavers, concrete, colored concrete, regular concrete, asphalt, traffic markings. I mean, I understand.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“In fact, Jim, you sent us a great video that showed elevated crosswalks. I think it was in Canada. I think it was in Canada that you sent us.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, you might have seen it. I don't think you took the video. I think you just shared it. The original.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's why we want to do it. I noticed in that video that you sent, they were very basic. They were still quite functional and they worked.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“See, it got cheaper. We were heading in the right direction, correct. We were heading in the right direction.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We need to do it. We would have approved it if we didn't have that other low bid that bailed. And we would have paid more. We would have still paid more.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'm good with taking a five-minute recess.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“The point, too, is also at the inflationary cost of things this year.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I've always looked at the process, and the process was we set this tentative millage rate, and then we have public input, and then we decide what we want to do in the end, which is what we finally did last year. Now, granted, a little different situation. We had a budget that was enormous. A lot of things that people wanted to do, council people wanted to do, and we couldn't get them all done, and we settled to a number. I think going into the discussion, I'd have to stand by that same idea that we'd go slightly higher to give us some room to discuss and debate and find out what the…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I mean, the fact is, what do you want to go with? Well, my point's always been, why go through this exercise if we're not able to consider something higher? That's a tentative rate. Discuss it. Maybe this middle school project takes great gets a great demand from the public, and we decide that we need to change the budget around it, we have that option.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I've always, since I came on council, always thought that, why aren't we doing that? Because what's the public, you know, give them their voice to say, absolutely, don't spend another dime. Or I want the middle school project done because I got a bunch of families that live on money and they want to go out there and play.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And the one Jim suggested. It's right here.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I move that we set the tentative millage rate at 2.6041. I'll second.”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So to Council Member Greenberg, my first two years doing this, maybe one or two people had any interest in listening to Yosi's presentation about the budget. This is true. Or to have even good council discussion about the intricacies of the budget. When you came in last year, it was something that maybe we should have been doing more of now. It was extreme because it was extremely I relished that public input. It was, you know, yeah, people got angry, but the people that cared, that wanted to know came and found out, listen, we had to discuss it a lot more amongst ourselves and really come to…”
Village Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I'd like to pull four and five. Okay.”
Village Council · Jun 11, 2026
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“I just think it's a lot of money to spend on a bench that could be, it's a bit dubious of how much that bench is going to be used and how well it's going to hold up. There's also, you know, we have a sort of a look that Pinecrest is sort of built on, which is sort of that, light coral rock look with nice natural landscape. And I think this, as I recall this art installation, I'm expecting it to be beautiful because I remember the drawings on it were very pretty. A lot of nice landscaping. I just don't see the need for spending $25,000 on a 20-foot bench. We could get a few blocks of nice…”
Village Council · Jun 11, 2026
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“Was this bench on the original plans for the artwork?”
Village Council · Jun 11, 2026
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“It's a rest area. Right. So I know it's concrete. It's liable to fail if it gets run into. I know insurance will cover it, but insurance costs money. It's a beautiful spot that we're using for this artwork. I think it is a spot that people may stop at occasionally. I still don't see spending $25,000 on a bench when the artwork is what we wanted. We wanted the artwork, and we wanted beautiful landscapes. To then spend that much money on a seating area, when there's some very natural stone seating areas that we could put in, I don't see why we would go there. It seems to me a bit of, if it was…”
Village Council · Jun 11, 2026
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“I have my opinion, and I think it was totally a beautiful stonework that we get something very nicely made at a fraction of the cost. for an area that's going to be a place people stop at as they go running or walking or biking by. And that sort of, and I don't even think it really fits the Pinecrest motif that a concrete, poured concrete bench. But I would ask that we not approve it, but I'm only one.”
Village Council · Jun 11, 2026