Remarks by Larry E. Hug
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Next is a proclamation for a nonviolent city presented by councilman Abara”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Public Service Committee met here yesterday at City Hall in the Council Chambers at 4.30 in the afternoon. Yesterday would have been September 14, 2026. On the committee is Councilwoman Raritan, Councilman Mulder, and myself. Everything that's on the committee agenda was reviewed last night at the pre-council meeting, so I'll go through it quickly. There was only one contract, and that was for $196,000 for a Hutchinson Engineering to do the Route 30 bridge structural inspections for the Third Coast Parkway, North Point, and that $196,000 will be paid by North Point, not by the city. We had…”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayor, correct me if I'm wrong. Kevin, this is basically a 1% increase year over year.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, it's 1% year-over-year and we added cyber Coverage as well, correct?”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“So that's that's a good you know in the market I think the other two insurance agents up can tell you a 1% increase isn't much so It's not a bad.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Should we be voting on this if they don't bring samples up here? No. Probably not.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayor? Yeah. I want to go back. I made a mistake here. It's 465. I want to reverse my vote to no. Oh, okay. I made two mistakes now.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think I need more sleep. I'm like, I thought we were talking about a box.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. You know what? We're good. Good work.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I was just testing you. Okay. Lauren.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, just real quick, I want to clarify. Now, we have an ordinance that's somewhat restrictive and it's protecting the watershed, right? But it also meets any IEPA or anything else as well, correct? Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“Any comments or questions? Mayor, I wanted to clarify something. There was some confusion after last night's meeting. Some media reported city paying out $12.5 million, which was misleading. We're paying a million, and we're approving this million to move it to the fund, and the rest is being paid by our insurance company. I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you.”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026
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“I just wanted to put on the record, so to speak, at our finance committee meeting, I asked our finance director, Kevin, to start researching consultants that specialize in cost-cutting measures, municipal budgets. We talked about that, and Kevin said he would look into that. I don't think we do enough to cut costs. It's always automatically we're going to expand the budget, and there are even some, my understanding is, some consultants out there that don't get paid if they don't find the cuts. So they work on, if you will, a commission or a performance basis. So you're going to look into…”
City Council Meeting · Sep 15, 2026