Remarks by Ken Fairman
212 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 9
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“If the city had not done the ordinance, we wouldn't be here today.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I'm sorry, this is still that same tab. Where are we, six? Seven. Top seven. Top seven?”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“And at the bottom, it'll say five and 16. So this is the issue with writing citations or violations for algae and mildew on roofs. Even though I'm a parking lot person, I've been looking at a lot of roofs lately because of this topic. There are so many brown tile roofs. black metal roofs, different color roofs. I don't know why Pinecrest needs to weigh in on whether somebody's roof is the right color or mildewed or not mildewed, unless, of course, it's having a deuterious effect about the house. Maybe mildew and stuff is running down the walls and the whole property is a mess. But there are a…”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I just don't know if it's working. And nothing about our code compliance people. They handle whatever the issue is brilliantly. We're very fortunate for that. I think we all received a list and some pictures. Since 2021, there's roughly 330 violations that involve mildewed roofs. 70 of those involve other parts of their structures and their property. Those I understand, but when it's just the roof, I think it gets a little bit arbitrary that it has to be a neighbor complaining or a code officer sees it. If you look around, there are hundreds and hundreds of mildewed roofs. many on spectacular…”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I mean, if your side of your house is all mildewed because the mildew's running off the roof, if you clean off the side of your house, Fine, if you're not savvy enough to understand it's coming from the roof and you don't clean that too, well, keep cleaning the side of your house. So I'm not considering it like a secondary violation.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“We should be doing it just like we're doing here my limited time on council and Different issues that people bring up and complain about the idea that nobody ever complains about getting a notice to clean the roof and I find that hard to believe. I'm not calling anybody a liar. But to say we get no pushback, that nobody ever gets upset about it? I mean, I got pushback from 71st Avenue a couple of people after their whole drainage debacle started getting violations for mildewed roofs, which kind of just added this because brown roof, brown roof, black roof, mildewed roof, mildewed roof. You've…”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“If we don't have three on that, I do have one other issue. I just, you know, if we had three or more people. The last issue, and I'm going to make it one last plea on this one. For all those people that work at home or in Pinecrest day in and day out, page 15 of 16, for all those people that work at home and have to put up with the lawn crews day in and day out, those people that want to Enjoy a quiet, peaceful weekend. I would ask again for your consideration to prohibit commercial lawn maintenance on Saturdays. If you wanted to add the length of time Monday through Friday, I could see where…”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I'm just asking to be reconsidered time.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I'm here for any questions you got, though.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Anybody got questions? They look like three different properties right now on the maps. So are they rearranging them a little bit, or? I guess. That's right.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, one comment? Yes, sir. So I'm glad this came up, but is there any way to get maybe a basic outline a little bit earlier, just so we know exactly what the subject matter. Because sometimes, if we're working and it's tough to get to come by and meet you or meet somebody else's staff, it would be nice If there's any further advance warning we could get about, these are the items coming up. So if we have questions.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Well, any days earlier just gives us more time to.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“You know, the basic, these are the topics that are coming up.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I think our public works director is right in line with this. There's just some, it takes some time. There's a lot of stuff that's been done before. Right. I like what they did with the curves. It should have been stretched out a little bit more.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Because actually the picture makes it look pretty cool, but it is a pretty tight slalom course there.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Has a serpentine sidewalk running through it. So now I would like us to entertain the idea of going back and fixing some of these really egregious sharp corners. Some of it's because they built a new house. They ripped up the old sidewalk. We told them to move it. So they moved it. And when they got to the property line, they jagged it real quick to go back to the existing. And it could have been worked out If, I don't know, that's our staff looking at the plans, making them do it nicer. But I'd like to go back and fix some of these. When I rode my bike up to the Kendall ribbon cutting,”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I mean we have sidewalk funds That's what they're even because we have a new public works guy even for him to see okay Here's how we could change this to make a little smooth still really pretty looking but much more navigable. I think that'd be great Yeah, okay”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“Yeah, we could do that too. Try to solve problems. It's probably going to be a combination of all of the above, right? Fair enough. And the fact that you're looking through the plans My intention is to get with you and look through the plan as well and give you my two cents, because I am a representative of the public. And the public wants a lot of things, but they also want us to watch the dollars and cents too. And the things that you might really like in a park, because I love our parks, but our parks are fairly clean, simple, easy to maintain, nice properties.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“All designed by who? Right. Right, me. Right, there's nothing. There's not a lot of archways, fancy stuff, all kinds of things. Not a coy pond when you have another pond.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“So I'm agreeing with you on that. I think it's, for me, I feel responsible to look to see, okay, we know it's going to cost a lot more. Is there something we can live without that will help bring that down? Can we find a place in the middle B? And I know that's a possibility where we're going and it's all moving parts and I appreciate it.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“stay tuned mr mayor while we're on village council i have a couple of announcements if i could make that i don't see any plants here tonight no plants here tonight but wait for june this coming monday 1 30 in the afternoon at st louis catholic church the school is having the freedom 250 mobile museum come in the town And it's after it leaves here, it's going to FIU. What is it? It's the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum, U.S. History Museum that's coming to St. Louis Catholic.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“That'll be Monday the 11th. They're inviting any council members to come. There'll be a little ceremony then. Also, this Friday at 430 at the Inspiration Center at the Gardens is the end of year party. So we would love to have council members show up for that and talk with the students. share our wisdom and everything with them, and they can talk to us. It'd be great to have you all show up.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“I was hoping to do that at the gardens. It should take about 10 minutes.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026
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“If we get asked, we kind of know exactly how it's being presented.”
Village Council · May 5, 2026