Remarks by Laura Bergus
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“The move to alter second Bergus Council discussion.”
“If we chose to enforce against a related entity, or I'm sorry, if we determine that those owning the new entity are related to the prior owner, is there like a standard way in which you would make that determination or certain types of relationships that are definitely close enough or not?”
“And to put a finer point on it, that right of first refusal persists. It's not like, does it expire when the loan is repaid?”
“There was a question that was raised at one of the prior conversations we had about this project that when we get the loan repayments, will those still be restricted to the Riverfront Crossings District for their future use?”
“I'm also just really grateful to see the personal guarantees that are in with this. I understand that we'll be subordinate to a larger loan, but that helps provide some additional security.”
“And just to be clear, we have the authority to do that because this is a contract with a specific entity for which we're bargaining other things. So we can add that requirement back in, right?”
“i'll jump in i just want to reflect on the last item that was on our agenda because it was really helpful to have city staff you know say we've talked about this issue multiple times we've had the opportunity to have uh input i know in you know one-on-one meetings as well as in public meetings and when there were some concerns raised jeff you did a great job of saying there are other options there are other alternatives um I think as we've heard this evening and as we know from our own experiences in being stewards of funding of public safety in this community, there are many things that…”
“I'll move to defer until after our strategic planning work session. I second.”
“The last thing I would say about the deferment is at the last meeting, I requested that we have the opportunity to review the data that we have been collecting but have not seen for several years relating to racial disparities in our traffic stops. I do think that is incredibly important just to know where we stand. We can make the same decision. Just like if April 19th hadn't happened, I really object to tying this decision to that incident. I think that is not... I think that's not accurate as far as why we would want to do this. And I think, you know, as far as like the timing of this and…”
“I would as well. She's on my short list.”
“Thank you. Adele, how can we follow up once your time here is done so soon? How can we follow up on these projects that you've been working on?”
“Nora, this is really exciting. Thank you for all your work on it. I know you mentioned that this is designed for a number of different users, types of users. Do you, through building this tool and collecting, putting all the data together, especially with the visualizations, do you have sort of any hopes for what a typical user would be or the kinds of conclusions or takeaways that you imagine people will be using from this?”
“With how quickly this application had to come together and how diverse the different partners are, how realistic is this massive scope of services for $3 million a year for four years? Is that realistic?”
“I think just to think about our role in this conversation, I'll be maybe a little more pointed than some of my colleagues. I really appreciate, there's Kirk, he's over there. I really appreciate all the thought of bringing together so many different threads and those changes that the memo indicates staff is going to go ahead and do this. Excellent. Um, I agree with promoting TIF. I agree with updating the historic preservation fund rules. I would stop short of creating a new fund at this time. I appreciate how it's hedged in the memo, uh, for the commercial program idea. Um, I appreciate that…”
“We're not talking about increasing the overall pool.”
“Yeah, that's why I wanted to be really clear, because I was hearing you say that.”