Remarks by Linda Sell
71 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“i also want to mention that national night out was wonderful with public safety and i see the neighborhood association more and more neighborhood associations forming more and more neighborhood associations wanting to apply for the grants i think when michelle her mentioned that we would increase the grants And at the time you said it would be, I forgot what you said, but you would see it's a game changer or something like that. It has been a game changer. It's getting people excited to form neighborhood associations, to apply for grants, to come up with events that they wanna do. So it's…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Hi. Thank you for the report. It's a lot of work and thought went into it, so thank you. So I was wondering, when you look at a natural grass park dedication fund, investments in improved drainage, could that be paid by the park dedication fund?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And then how about renewable energy powered mowers. Like I guess there might be solar powered mowers and those kind of things.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, so not part dedication. Okay, and then currently in the master plan, there are some parks that are penciled in as consideration for artificial turf, and that's when the decision tree would be used, but some other parks, there was never a conversation of artificial turf. So would the decision tree be used for those, or would you go by the master plan?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. And what is the reason for that when previously we had like a master plan and what would be, what is the reason for deviating from that?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. So when one of the questions I asked was that we're going to do a pilot and you know, we're investing probably in organic methods for that pilot. And then so if along the way we also invested in more artificial turf, then that kind of would, you know, are investment organic. Anyway, the answer to my question that Stout gave me was that the next few parks aren't going to be artificial turf. And the next one that might be artificial turf is like in 2030. It's not going to be for Sarah Park and it's not going to be for another park, but it's going to be for Ortega Park. So But if we…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And then implementing the flow chart, you would come to the same answer because those fields would not be considered high-use athletic fields.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“How am I doing on time, my six minutes? Another minute, okay. So I think add to the decision tree might be considerations like a change in the use of the field in terms of once you do artificial turf, you can't have dogs on it, you can't have food on it. Those kind of things should be considered. And you would need to sanitize it periodically because they the waste on it doesn't decompose it needs to be sanitized and that would need to use like not recycled water you know potable water and then other things that might need to be on it is that on the decision tree for choosing artificial turf…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And when we're looking at natural grass, I'd like us to look at drainage, because if we improve the drainage, we can improve the time of use. I like what Council Member Lay said about closing the fields at 100 degrees C or some standard thing that the high schools use. And I would like us to do the pilot and for the pilot to look for a management, organic turf management, that is for athletic fields. And I would like to have the sports leagues be one of the stakeholders involved in the outreach for the pilot. to understand their needs because they're high users. I also liked one of…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'm interested in the Council vacancies. So on this one, I believe there's an opportunity for the Council to either decide to appoint or hold an election. And if they appoint, then they wait till the even number year. So I was just wondering, like, Would it be good or not good to say that this is a like I referred back to the Charter Review Commission report and what they say is that this is a hybrid model for filling the vacancy that gives the Council the power to decide whether to make the interim appointment or hold a special election to fill the vacancy. But I'm okay with not including it…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I think we discussed it, that there is a hybrid, there's an opportunity to appoint and then you wait for the next election or to not appoint and if you can't agree on appointing someone then there will be a special election i was just wondering if the fact that it's a hybrid would that make the community aware that the council is in charge of deciding that or is it just confusing so i'm okay if there's no support for it but that was in the charter review the hybrid model for filling vacancies with the charter review commission thought was a plus so i think this captures what the ballot…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So the other thing in the Charter Review report is that it specified that there's a restricted number of appointees allowed. So if there's, I think, more than two appointees already on the council, then it forces there to be a special election. So you can't have, like, four appointees or something like that. Is that important for the voters to know? Because I think it was saying historically maybe this was put into place because there were a lot of appointees. So that shows that there's only... a maximum of two appointees. I believe that there's a maximum of two appointees. And then you need…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“the the focus of this argument and the focus of the ballot measure was was trying to maximize voter participation as much as possible okay um one last thing so okay when the city council or the city council uh can appoint or hold a special election when the city council fills the vacancy with appointment and everything like that. So where in this whole process do you tell the voters that there is an option for the city council to choose there to be a special election? Is that important or not important?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Not to force to have a primary election.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“it is best practice is just like easy to read and clear, healthier democracy, it starts getting a little more complicated. So I'm fine either way, but right now my preference is best practice.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“yeah I thought we did a really good job up here I reread second yeah I second it Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I just wanted to comment that I think some of the measures speak for themselves and don't require too much explanation. I want to say that the mayor and the vice mayor did a really nice job on all three of the arguments and the fact that we didn't have much input on the first two shows you how like a lot of thought you put into it and we didn't need to do anything. And this vacancy one is the more um one that might need more explanation and i thought um on the dias that it was a good collaboration for the red lines and i read it over and it sounds very good to me so i want to thank the mayor…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, I move that we approve the settlement authority argument with the red lines. City Council Chambers, That the mayor suggested, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“um i like the changes that um council member chang's was consistently suggesting in all of these that was good and um i like the bullet points and so thank you mayor klein and vice mayor um mullinger thank you and i'll support these changes thank you all again and especially council member chang for for um their wordsmithing with that city clerk can you please conduct the vote”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I want to thank staff for their thoroughness and enabling us to be compliant with the laws and so that there would be no holdup. So thank you for your great work.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I also went to special summer NLC meetings and I met with the environmental and energy natural resources group and we were able to it was pretty exciting never been on it but they had us go visit like a botanical garden that was built on a dump it was like beautiful and we saw all these parks there's i think on the order of a hundred park in louisville lots of parks and they have a waterfront park along um their whole waterways that was really interesting um i'm also on the air district for the nine counties and for since 2023 they're implementing some rules for two appliances for the water…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026