Remarks by Mary Supple
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Okay, so it's been moved and seconded to approve the attached transitory ordinance amendments to the Richfield City Code Appendix D. related to building, planning, zoning, and fees. Are there any comments or questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we've approved the transitory ordinance. So next we move on to the third part of our recommended actions.
It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we have approved all of those changes. And I want to thank the staff for the time they took to update everything. Because I know we've had discussions. This was like the third or fourth time we've seen all of this. So it was good to go through it. Next, we'll move on to item 11A. And I'll turn that over to Council Member Burke.
It's been moved and seconded. Oh, go ahead.
Okay, so would you add that to your motion?
Okay, so right now before us we have the motion to approve the second reading and summary publication of an ordinance.
Okay, so then the motion before us is to approve the second reading of an ordinance amending section, those five sections, or six sections rather, of this Richfield City Charter related to elections and petition requirements.
Okay, so let's vote on the first one, and then we'll take your motion there.
So we're voting on amending sections 4.05, 5.04, 5.05, 5.10, 5.12, and 5.15. Is there any further discussion on that? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? Aye. All right, we've passed that. Now we have the motion on the floor from Councilmember Coleman-Woods for summary publication of the ordinance.
It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we've passed that as well. And I want to thank the Charter Commission because I know this was a lot of work and I appreciate it. Moving on to item 12A, I'll turn that over to Council Member Hayford O'Leary.
Any other questions? All right. Do you want to make a motion?
It's been moved and seconded. Is there discussion? Council Member Hafer-Leary.
Other comments or questions? I would echo what's already been said by my colleagues. Also, I want to thank the staff for splitting it out by store, because I think over the years, the stores that were performing and making more of a profit kind of were subsidizing this one, and it wasn't so apparent that we had an issue. And then when we started separating it out, it became very clear that we needed to do something about this. So I appreciate the fact that you pointed that out. As Council Member Hayford-O'Leary said, there's a lot of detail in the staff report, so anybody that's interested…
So you've made the motion. Is there a second?
Council Member Coleman would second it. Second it. All right. Any comments, questions? I did appreciate the historical context of how we've been paying for things over the years, so that would be something else I would point people to. The careful planning to spread out the debt so that we can get the most money for the bonds that we sell, we appreciate that. And so the ones that are coming up are now for the Veterans Park complex, so I look forward to seeing what happens there. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we have approved the…
Okay, it's been moved by Commissioner Coleman-Woods to approve the appointments and seconded by Councilmember Hayford-Leary. Is there any discussion? I'm glad to see that we're getting more youth coming forward, and I think we have a couple more vacancies, but it's really great to see that Rodrigo and Miranda have stepped up, so thank you. Any other discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we've approved the new commissioners. All right, so moving on, we'll go to the city manager's reports. City Manager Rodriguez.
It is tied 2-2, top of the fifth. Oh, wow, okay. There we go. Thank you. Are there any questions for City Manager Rodriguez? All right, moving on to council discussion. You can either do hats off to hometown hits or council liaison reports. Council Member Burke.
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Wow, thank you. And do we have kind of a sort of a total cumulative at this point?
Over 3,000. All right, awesome. Thank you.
All right. Also, we have had two wonderful reports from our commissions, and we'll be having more coming up shortly. If you want to be part of one of those commissions, the application period is still open through Friday, so if you want to turn in an application, we're still taking them. We've been taking them all month, and I'm hoping we get a few more. Last year, we had a rush right at the end of the month So did you want to add something, City Manager Rodriguez? Oh, okay. So we're getting reports. Okay. All right. Next, you had mentioned about the City Manager's search, and there's going…
It's been moved and seconded to adjourn the meeting. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we stand adjourned. Thank you.
We'll get started in a second, but I want to make sure we have enough chairs. We have a lot of extra election equipment in here, and we want to make sure everybody has a seat. So did we find enough seats for all the audience members? All right, so it looks like we're set to go. All right. Welcome, everyone. I'm calling to order this council meeting of The Richfield City Council, it is October 13th, 2026, and it is 7.02 PM. And if you're able, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Is there a motion for approval of the agenda?
It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. Is there any commentary or discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, and we've approved the agenda. Next, we'll move on to the approval of the minutes of the September 22nd, 2026 City Council Work Session meeting and the minutes of the September 22nd 2026 city council meeting.
It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye.
All opposed. And we have approved those minutes. Thank you. Next, we're going to do our proclamation recognizing indigenous people's day. And I would like to invite Oliver and Samantha Weaver to join me to accept the proclamation. Thank you. And then it should be so you can see, so you can stand so you can be on camera.