Remarks by Larry Mboga
104 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Thank you. I'm just wondering, in any system, in anything you do, there's people who abuse the system. The people will cheat on this one. People park 20, 15 minutes, move around, wait, and come back 15 minutes. How can you guys detect them?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Absolutely. Thank you. at this point Thank you. Oh, I was wondering. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So that's the secret word. So,”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah. Thank you, Council President. I think I remember last year, me and the former City Council President . We had a conversation with Derek White. Is that the staff? And as we walked, I think what she told us, I didn't like it. For me, I think they wanted to build I think the territory they want to build, like, where it would be up, like, on, like, the second or first floor, then the, is that, which street is that, uh, uh, ground? Then the ground would go around into underneath. I think I, I did like that.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. I'm just wondering, do you know the price of all these properties or reparations?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So it doesn't necessarily mean that's... Is that like one account, two accounts, or what?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I have a wild thinking, very crazy thinking. Our police officers, Do we pay for the police officer at the, is that a county building or a city building?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That's what I'm talking about. If the city council ask we buy this land, can we build a police station there to save that money we are paying the county?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, there's all sorts of possibilities in that area.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Good evening. President Greger, council. We're here tonight to have a brief overview on kind of what I would call the community services fees and get a little feedback. So I'm going to have Dave is going to start for us, and I'm going to do an overview of each area. And we have Patrick here for any questions.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank You Dave so tonight we're gonna go over the process some strategic goals the fiscal strategy that I'm looking at the plan overview and then the next steps So our fee schedule process aligns with the budget and The departments have the meeting with the meetings with finance director and the city manager They align their strategic goals within their department departmental needs, so we evaluate what they need, what they want, what the CPI has done to their budget, to their departments, if it's still fiscally viable to maintain those operations within their departments, and then also…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah. Why is the focus more narrowly on parking?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Sure. That's a great question. You're going to have user agreements coming to you. More specifically with that innovation funding grant and soccer. It's also one of the areas that Wouldn't be statutorily obligated, so we need to show you kind of we're giving you a two-year follow-up on the parameters that you've given us before where we're at now and So kind of setting the table on the next steps of the soccer agreement and also talking a little bit about the budget in an area that's not statutorily obligated but would be more than likely reduced just because of the current budget situation.…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right. So with SACA, there's a desire on both sides to return to how everything was on June 30th, let's say. So, we'd want to bring that back to you, but part of that is we're going to work with this group to negotiate fee increases as well. I'm returning close to $50,000. Right now I have no subsidy in soccer due to that contract that's signed, plus I have innovation grant fund money. So, we need to work with those user groups on their percent of recovery. That group also, similar to the advertising sales discussion, has the potential to offset those fee increases. We're looking for…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And unfortunately, I would have to send them an invoice for the costs, and I would definitely have to refund the innovation grant.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And just to put the fee increases in perspective, one of the individual groups, if you did the math, not saying they'd pass that all to the user, it'd be about $5 per participant on an annual basis. The other user group, if you just look at the tournament, I don't have individual data for that, it'd be about $25 increase per tournament group. But again, I don't know if both of those organizations will pass the fee increases off or if they'll use some of their donated funds as well. Pavilions and parks, that was another council priority since I've started here, keeping those costs low. We have…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Sure, we do have scenarios for 10%, 12.5, and 15. We did work together on those. Ideally, we want to just have these programs for free. I think it's the desire of the department not to increase fees ever. And I respect that, because they're awesome programs. We're looking at, I guess we didn't do 10%, I mean 12.5 I guess is the lowest that I recommended to you. And are you saying generally all over these six areas or just the certain ones that had the larger numbers?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That's kind of where, I mean, Hobbs was at, I believe it was, we already have a 7% in for January and I think you proposed 10 for September, is that correct? We've looked at a lot of numbers this weekend. So what was the fall? So 3% in September and then the dollar per event.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I think that one specifically would hit your 10% target, but we would want to implement the $1 per hour event parking so it wouldn't have to be higher. So we did try to mitigate that, find that solution if that would be acceptable.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That one I think you've been a little bit more, I don't know, between Patrick reducing expenses and finding efficiencies and just been more strategic on those contracts every year, you've been closing that gap.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That has been, I mean, Hobbs has an event that I know Visit Eau Claire has spoke about. The COOB tournament and then also, well, items like this weekend. And I believe you have that, there's another event at the soccer park as well with the Mung Festival.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And most of those would be special events, which would recover our costs outside of just your special events team. We don't charge that much for the administrative time ahead of time. We talked about that today, that maybe we should recover some of the admin time on just like a... Eau Claire Festival event. I mean, it was my suggestion from a fiscal standpoint, but is that event fee maybe, should that be higher than $70? Maybe should that be like 500, you know, or 1,000? Because it's taking a year of planning, whereas, you know, the downtown Fall Fest, that's still a $70 fee. Things like…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'm just wondering, Casey and Patrick, have you guys, I think especially Patrick, have you guys reached out to, like, Ukraine, United States, or perhaps there's a lot of hockey clubs there. Each of them, we are planning to raise some fees and to see which reacted in a positive way.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, I think at this point right now, we've definitely reached out, you know, and Dave has as well, to the soccer organization, especially the one that is contracted, I believe it's United, that's contracted to be operating the field at this point. So... Our next step is to say, hey, right now we have a 0% subsidy. This is our proposed fee schedule, and we're going to go from there with the guardrails from this evening. I had offered a 5% or, excuse me, a five-year, and that's, you know, and city manager Dave has as well. So we're looking at a five-year recovery. on those rates um so then…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I think the staff wants it back as well. I think these conversations will be hard just because of the”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Of all of the operational changes, I can't speak for the groups themselves. I mean, these fee schedule changes are jumps. But again, they're covering 100% of their usage, their field usage, and they're getting to that 100% over five years. So that was kind of the guardrails we were looking for.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026