Remarks by Maggie Ullman
23 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Whereas domestic violence is a serious crime that violates an individual's security and humanity due to the systemic use of emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, and economic control. And whereas an average of 24 people per minute experience rape, physical violence, and or stalking by an intimate partner in their country. More than 12 million people over the course of a single year. And whereas the problems of domestic violence are not confined to any specific groups of people, but can happen to anyone regardless of racial or ethnic identity, sexual orientation, education level,…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And I would expand that to think about the budget, not just parks. Where do contractors play an appropriate role? What staff capacity is there? My hunch is that staff are maxed out. So I want to understand that better and see that. I don't want to make budget decisions on a hunch. Just having more visibility into that would be really great. And I know you look forward to that, too. I know that you have a lot of vision for our budget process to evolve. So I'm excited for us to really roll up our sleeves on all this.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Can I ask a question there? Does that then imply flooding or are there other risks that we want to be managing for with stormwater?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“What else could it be just to give examples outside of the technical?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So sinkholes and flooding, I'm trying to understand what the public would understand the risk.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I had a question back to the presentation. Thank you. So the phased approach seems very practical, and it also seems like if I'm understanding it, we don't... This is the opportunity to really inventory everything and start... standardizing our ability to do long-range planning, financial planning, so that we can have better maintenance and reduce our risk. So I think that's just so welcome and very exciting. Given it's a phased approach and we're starting in Nasty Branch and it's a very technical assessment with a high price tag, is it reasonable to expect this would be a long-range process…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah, right, like this might be we do watersheds every 10 years and we're doing one every year type of cycling thing for such a big inventory.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah. Yeah. That seems very reasonable. I have lots of curiosities as we get into this first phase of like what impacts that will have on capital prioritization. Right. Um, but that's, that's like the roll up our sleeves as we get along. So I'm very excited. I think that, um, we all, uh, have a very intimate understanding of the risks of stormwater and the likelihood of higher volume of stormwater. And I think being an environmentalist, my whole life stormwater is like one of the more unsexy environmental issues out there. And so I just find it really. Exciting for us to be taking a…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“It's a whole new strong water division. That's great. Thanks for your leadership.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And there's not really a clear regulatory path for that in North Carolina. Duke has fought that for years and years and years.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“A sandwich board and a vinyl coming soon sign. It's a good example of things that we need to iron out in the UDO that make it really complicated to get the things we want for an affordable community.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I'm also curious about that I hear, like, whispers of key partners of ours losing resources. So if the COC has recently had some type of... landscape update or just some bullets on like part of the part of the really important thing of the CoC is we're doing this in partnership in community and it's not just one agency but I know there's ripples impacting and so me under us all understanding who's getting impacted the most what resources are waning that type of”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. I know there's some community leaders who work on this in the audience. Thank you for being here. Thanks for enduring this and continuing to do the good work.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Could we get a follow-up on what this, I remember seeing that there's a solution coming. Could we understand what it is and the timeline that's taking us between now and then? Thank you. I was just asking our staff for, no, I was just asking our staff for that information so that we can get updated on that. Thank you. Sorry.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I'll add to this, too, that Buncombe County had the Bear Wise coordinator from, I guess, the state come and present to them, and I'm meeting with her sometime soon, so if anyone wants to sit and do that with me, you're welcome to join me. That'd be awesome.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“This will be really cool at Public Safety.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Can you remind me who the donation was from?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“I have a question about the educational partner. How were they selected to get federally funded technical assistance? And were others able to compete for that?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“But would they basically get site plan development for a future campus for them through this federal funding?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“And so that decision was made by staff, like was there a competitive process?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I just, I guess we've talked about this partner before and I've expressed concerns about us supporting private charter schools or that are NGOs since education is not typically in our lane. And so I just, I'm a little confused or surprised to see, I mean, us partnering on housing is clearly part of all of our comp plan goals and council goals, but yeah, this just kind of catches me off guard.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Me again. So when would the community and council conversation be for approving changes to the UDO?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I guess where I'm getting at is we have a housing crisis. We also just experienced Hurricane Helene. I understand it takes a lot of time to do this well and a lot of community engagement to assess what potential changes we would make. But the goal to me is to change the laws, right? Is to change the plan, not to do the planning process. The goal is so that we can reshape our development rules so that we start getting the develop we need for a climate safe community and a community that has better housing solutions. So what I'm trying to understand is there's a long planning process. I…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026