Remarks by Laura Bergus
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“Yeah, Betsy Potter brought this up the last time she and I met, and I think the conversation we had was even something much simpler. You know, the main idea is that there needs to be something that's very, know will take the wear and tear of being in the downtown which i think they know well as far as potential infrastructure but i do think that particularly these days you know having a place where people can communicate i think you said outlet or you know like a pressure valve i agree with that framing and also just um Yeah, I recall a couple of years ago when this became an issue and the…”
“i think one of the trade-offs that i learned from the the conflict from two years ago was the that people will put up flyers right they will tape them they will packing tape them to any surface and that was the concern that i think raised the issue for the downtown ambassadors as well as you know that's happening on city lamp posts and that kind of thing so i think as far as potential trade-offs it's much better to have a designated place where people can know that they can express themselves and you know use a staple gun or a piece of tape that's not going to rip the paint off of our…”
“I mean I appreciate what Sean you said about that issue which is well then it's not really even vacant right if it's a if that's a rule and I don't want us to I would prefer that we have that kind of informally as I think we do now which may be a little bit different than what that rule reads are informal yeah you get a full term after your partial term but I wouldn't want to bind us to that being a definite yes”
“And that's where I was saying I think what we tend to do might not fit that part of the rule. It just depends how you count that reappointment.”
“This has been a very helpful conversation. I think when at our weekly meeting with Jeff on Friday, I think he maybe summarized it as like it isn't a great process but there's maybe not a better one. That's what this discussion is making me feel that like we kind of understand what we tend to do. We want to leave some leeway. Different commissions have different considerations for how we would approach appointment and reappointment and qualifications. It may just be that you know surfacing these factors is enough to kind of keep us doing what we're doing.”
“and i don't recall if you were on the council at this time josh but i i know at least once we have held open right we've said we have applicants and we see their interest and there's something about the pool that we want to maybe just make it bigger you know which isn't necessarily the situation you were talking about but i do think we retain that discretion to say let's make sure we've marketed this effectively you know get”
“Thanks for sharing that, Mayor, because I think it goes both ways, right? When I heard Eric read it, my brain sort of filled in without preference for incumbency, right? Which is different because you're saying that you, the incumbency to you is saying that's, you know, we're going to get new people in instead. And yeah, you're right. We shouldn't, it's not a factor in the way the rule is written for that. reappointment, but clearly it is because we talk about it.”
“No, I think just kind of an overview so that people know what we were talking about, because it has been more than a year, it's been a year and a half since we talked about this. But I think what we asked Jeff was to help us understand in a cost neutral way, you have individuals who are on the utility discount program, that currently receive a set percentage of the base rate that is discounted. And so if we were to instead look at a percentage of the entire bill, and that was applied in a expense neutral way, what would we be looking at as far as the overall percentage of the discount? So the…”
“Sean I answered your question on we're solving for the percentage of the number of people.”
“And may I don't want to be out of order and of other people have board and commission that when we stop talking about I P's I did have one of their item.”
“I just wanted to flag for everyone, I also sent it by email to all of you, but I had put in a memo just trying to share information with the public about the current status of what has happened with the shooting that occurred on September 15th, where Allen Lemberg died. And Jeff also had a response or a supplement to that memo as well. So both of those were in the late handouts that came out yesterday. But as I understand it, just to, you know, again, trying to increase transparency around this. The Division of Criminal Investigation for the State Department of Public Safety has finished…”
“Do we have other work session topics? I know like today we were kind of getting to ones that we hadn't in a while.”
“I think the items we have left in the plan are not entirely what we're talking about. I think that it's a bigger conversation that just in terms of the memo that you mentioned, Jeff, that has like these are, in my mind it was like, and it's $15 million. Correct. That one, if that could be updated, I would find that very helpful. And including the allocation from Lost, of course, in that. So we kind of can scope what we're talking about and how... Sure. Where we see that in different places in the budget.”
“And maybe if you could include a reminder for us to dig in on the dashboard, which I think we said we would do in preparation for that conversation, that would be helpful.”
“THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is a super exciting project my neck of the woods, I'm very very excited to be able to cross that at 1st Avenue, it's going to be huge for kids going to Southeast middle school as well. I'm just curious it on the Western end of this project does the trail go all the way in to the Broadway street intersection or does it connect up with the Hollywood OK alright so go there's an addition.”
“I was just going to say I appreciate the comments about like why are we assessing a fee when it's not a lot of money and I think one thing we've learned since we implemented the fair free transit is we were. expecting to be able to maybe subsidize the the bus service with more parking revenue than we've been able to and so for me that's kind of the trade-off is like yes it is an additional fee for these users and we know that it's helping us keep other really important services going”
“I guess I just now need additional clarification of you said Eric to get on the toe list it's not just that initial citation do you know criteria or staff know criteria for like how to get on the toe list how or what the grace period is to pay fines.”
“Susan Rodriguez and Wayne who Wayne for the 2 vacancies to feel 2 year terms and”
“I think Rachel McPherson should serve a full term.”
“I move to approve. Our point Leslie finer.”
“Ron, I'll just share a couple of compliments for your streets team. I used to try to email these, but you know, I'm a cyclist around town and the striping in our community is so good. Like I almost never have a, is there a point where I notice, oh, that, you know, the lines on the streets are actually faded and you can't see them. And that is just not the case in so many communities. really grateful that we are so on top of keeping our streets striped and said this to Jeff a couple times but so often there's a pothole or something in the street one day and the next day it's just fixed and I…”
“Thank you. Yeah. Great kickoff. Yeah, love this series.”
“Yeah, I appreciate your point Oliver of like shielding staff from a highly politically charged thing. I also think there because you're an appointee rather than elected official there is some built-in kind of less influence of all hopefully. So if you're willing or you're willing to have a delegate, I think that'd be great.”
“We reject policy board meeting I think since the last council meeting yes we did. They're continuing with the CAD update which is a years long process but sounds like that's going well.”
“Yeah with all the stakeholders. It's been good.”