Remarks by Marci Houseman
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. And we'll all stand, please, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for joining us in the pledge. It's always nice to hear multiple voices. So we would like to begin with introductions. We'll start on this side of the room and with our council staff and make our way around.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Brooke Christensen, District 1. Marcie Hausman, District 4. Allison Stroud, District 2. Brooke D'Souza, at large.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. We will keep an eye out for him. So we're going to jump right into our agenda this evening, starting with a special recognition. I'll turn it over to you for that, Wendy, and then we'll resume. We're excited about this.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Alright, it's always nice to start with special recognition and Thank you again Barbara for all of your work and service in our city Alright, we will move on to the first item of infer under our informational items This is the City Council's receiving a presentation on the general management operations study just that I believe you are leading us in this Thank you”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Any other questions? I will jump to mine. I echo what's been shared. I think the value of these management studies is, well, first, acknowledging the extraordinary effort that happened. So thank you to our consultants, but also thank you to all of those involved in the entire process. These strengths and opportunities would not come to life without participation and engagement. So I really appreciate that. And then just echoing what we've said previously, there's so much value in the management studies. I'm grateful that as the city council we continue to invest in these. I think the…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Another question, thinking about the workload data, and I saw, of course, that you emphasized that in several different ways, ensuring that we were thinking differently and perhaps more strategically about data. What would you say is a realistic timeline where we could achieve a full year of clean systems, standard operating procedures that translate into really clean workload data.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Excellent. Thank you. And then I know it was mentioned in our meeting that there are still some additional hours, perhaps, to be filled. I know we'll be talking about that in the future. But a wondering I have, and this might be for department heads as well, but a wondering I'm having, I felt that there was a lot of actionable next steps when we did the fire station or the fire department, I should say, management study, we were sort of gifted with this hierarchy of needs, so to speak. And of all of the recommendations that were provided, they were sort of bucketed into act on this now, act…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I think that is everything. So thank you both so much for joining. Tremendous amount of work went into this. And we look forward to continuing to think through next steps with you as we sort of feel out the remaining hours of the consultation and the project. And again, thank you for your time tonight. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate everything.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Justin, as well. Okay, so with that, we'll say goodbye to both of you. Thank you, Jen. Thank you, Amy. And we're going to move on to our next item, which, again, informational item. Do you want it before we...”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, I would. I'm hearing it in stereo. That was perfect. Thank you for stopping me, because this is the right time to stop and take public comment. So we'll pause in our agenda and begin our general citizen comments. So this portion of our meeting is reserved for the public to come and share things with us. It's not a back and forth. It's just our opportunity to listen to residents and hear your thoughts on city matters. So we have Henry Butters, if you'll come up and join us. And as a reminder to everyone, public comment is limited to three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. I don't see any more. You said you had one to read in.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm not seeing any. I have just one, clarifying. The one point away. Based on what I kind of looked at, that might be something we could adjust with an audit committee. If the city council were to establish an audit committee, which I believe is done in other cities, would that, I know it's one point.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“It was just a question. I would love your recommendation at some point because I felt like that was something that the council could do to help with the score if we wanted to get that point and it was important enough to us to be in the very low. I also would appreciate a cost-benefit analysis and you come back and let us know. I would be supportive of an audit committee but not at the expense of taxing You and staff in a way that doesn't make sense, but I'm always a fan of Outside eyes other people taking a look. That's why I that's why I appreciate our management studies so much So having a…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, good. Well, that was, I mean, I don't want to be picky over a point, but, like, if we can help, but it sounds like we have a solution potentially for next year. Yeah, I think we do.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think that's everything. All right. Thank you. OK, moving on, we will move to our Hagen Road ReZone conversation. Again, this is an informational item. No vote will be taken tonight. Jake, you've got this, I believe.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Other questions? Okay, I will. Okay, so just... clarifying in the in the minutes there the 1988 Christianson annexation it's it's showing that it was adopted as by the council as our our 120 right correct okay And then what we are considering is not necessarily how many sheep. It's kind of in line with what you were asking, the maximum number of animals by type on a half acre lot. And you're saying that's, tell me.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And then you hit several of the things that I listed here except what I did not hear is whether or not boarding, so if the A designation was given, whether or not boarding or renting space for other people's animals would be permitted.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026