Remarks by Kip Koso
87 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“I'll have a lot of questions, so let me do them in chunks here for a little bit. So I had talked to Sarah previously about this. We were getting kind of a binary choice. It's the whole Monty or it's just the bare minimum on utilities. And I'm glad at least we're to a discussion where we're talking that utilities is going to happen and it needs to. So there's going to be some questions for Public Works as well, John. So the question I've got At this point then is if we go for the full Monty, the 18 million, this is four phases. It sounds like and that's a couple of blocks per phase. If I'm…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. A question on the sidewalks. If we do utilities only, and I think I'm leaning on you here, John, if we do utilities only, in pulling up the utilities and replacing the utilities, do we impact the sidewalks that are existing?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Fair to say every block will have the sidewalks torn up to the building.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I vaguely remember that there were pigtails and I might not be using the right word here, but that there was a state or federal requirement that we go all the way to the building to replace some items that were lead. related items and that we were going to have to do that if we substantially tore up the sidewalks.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“We had talked an awful lot about heading from the 500 blocks up. The business owners and Buckley and the potential condo development up on 14th, the 1400 block. These lend me to sit there and say it'd be a little bit easier to start out on those northern blocks, do some of the amenities, and let the southern blocks see how those go for a year or two as we work our way towards them. Anything that would prevent us from doing that. I knew I was going to get public works.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I always like the answer, with enough time and money, we can do whatever you want. Anything to add there, John?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, great, thanks. That'll be enough for my first round, thanks.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Mayor, could I follow up on that just with one question? Quickly, because Shirley needs to go and then Jessica. Yeah, that's fine. So removing or approving something or removing something is much less than changing something. Fair to say?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Did I see that those were 1.5 million placeholders in those subsequent years? And that money would be dedicated to utility lines downtown?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Marty, thanks so much for all the work here, and thank you to Rachel and, sorry, Andrea? Audrey. Audrey, sorry. I really appreciate you guys' work on this as well. So I'm having a hard time lining up. potential costs here with the potential savings that we've got as well. And so I'll just run down my list, and I think you've heard this from me before. Sure. Okay. So at this point, I've got about 70K to 100K in savings that are going to happen just from reduced tipping fees if we start diverting organics and yard waste at the same time.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah. And with the caveat, this is all estimates. I understand. We're ballpark.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“You're fine. You're fine. I totally understand it. I get corrected by other folks as well. So, yeah, I talked to Table to Farm and got some very broad fuel savings for the driving. Bondan Landfill is a 40-mile trip. Table to Farm is a five-mile trip. So we're saving about $25,000 in fuel costs. You weren't there when I was doing the calculations, but there's a ballpark number, and we can verify that later. We've got $80,000 coming from the disposable bag fees right now that supports the leaf collection, pumpkin collection, Christmas tree collections, correct, and some education funding? Yes.…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“It could be, we could pull together some estimate if we devote the time and resources to it.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay. One other component then is we've, I think we've asked for 2 million from the producer responsibility program. We've said that that might be what they could reimburse back to us. That would be a high end.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. So those are there. And then we've got infrastructure costs, obviously new bins and dealing with that, drivers and trucks. But at this point too, we've also got a private business that is able to do some of this and could potentially ramp up to cover this. We could contract out with that business.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And I agree with you. You can't have all the set numbers at this point in the game. There is a piece where what's crazy numbers and we're never going to go in that direction. And what's a viable shot? I think all of council in the past has kind of talked about if the producer responsibility program can cover our costs for implementing of composting and we don't add anything to our residents, that might be a very good way to approach this whole thing. Yeah.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Last question, and maybe for the 20th. Every other week collection, how does that affect us in regards to cost savings? Because these bins may be large enough that they don't have to be picked up every week, or they could be picked up seasonally if we're talking about decreasing bear traction and some other issues.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“We had a couple opportunities for improvement that we were very excited about.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“grant program or through the LTAC specifically.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Appreciate it. I love the idea that we ran through this analysis and the results of it are great. Thanks for everybody's work on pulling this together as well. I take your meaning and this isn't about the budgets and this isn't about how people are allocated the grants, but there's two points I guess I'd like to make. It is at times I, as an individual counselor, appreciate the reminders of what are these budgets for each of these individual grants and how they're getting allocated and those things. We've got a lot coming across our plate. I really appreciate the work that you guys…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I just had a couple of general questions. How do these kind of access control plans encourage or not encourage annexations, growth? I mean, do they tend to pull growth and development in the direction that these plans are implemented on? Am I way off base?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“So it would give developers a little bit more understanding of what they're walking into. So there's more consistency with developments.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay. And it seems like a very slow deliberative process that everybody takes a while to get through. When do you refresh the plan then? Or does it get refreshed? Is this a one step and then it's just development comes in eventually?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And so is there a large event if we decide to build something at Florida Mesa and that turns into a much higher traffic area, we're just still doing a traffic study maybe for that piece, right? It's not triggering anything on the plan.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I just had a couple of items I wanted to bring up with council. First off, I talked to a member of the CDC and they had not seen any of the city's works. work that had been done and I think the CDC is a really good entity to have reviewed this and seen what some of the code recommendations that came out of this study might have been. So I was hoping we could just have staff. Provide a digital and hard copy of the city's works stuff to the CDC. Didn't know if there was discussion or anything on that. OK. And then. I had a couple of topics I just wanted to talk about in general. The…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026