Remarks by Matthew Romano
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“Just to conclude this evening, you mean conclude this for this part of the topic, but we'll address it at the end of this meeting.”
“I would only point out, too, that the change in procedures seems to be following immediately after I was critical over the majority of city council.”
“Yeah, thanks for the summary to all of you. It's a good introduction. I really just have a question, I guess a couple specifics on the traffic study. For the traffic study, who's determining, I think you said there was going to be 30 intersections that were considered?”
“Okay, so our engineering team did that, not the consultant, as far as like, maybe you work together, but at least we're having some say in what the study is, which intersections. And I just didn't know, obviously we recently approved the Fairmont project right across the street. Is that already being considered in the traffic study that's gonna be done? Have we confirmed that? I know that I forget how many houses or how many 18. Yeah.”
“Yeah, I thought I would echo what the rest of you said. Look, unfortunately, it's not out of character. My prior experiences before, during, and now have been that there's contentiousness with certain members of council, including Amanda. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. I do think it was an intimidation tactic I think it was a bit of kicking and screaming and I think it was a bit of vindictiveness She doesn't like to be questioned and you know, you see the the timing of these emails and you can understand my frustration and I know we're not gonna talk about it just yet, but you can see my…”
“I'll just add, Sarah, your summary was great, not just about the other planning commissions around, but the statistics of what we've approved versus what we haven't approved. That's logic, that's evidence, that's empirical data that really can't be countered. Thank you.”
“I would suggest a motion for you to be that liaison and speak on that issue. I would absolutely make that motion.”
“not at all outside of our jurisdiction this is we're talking about a um decision that we made that was upheld by the summit county court of common pleas and is now being overturned by uh city council and an inexperienced city council at that and a city council liaison who through a series of emails over the last month has proven her lack of understanding of what our agenda is um also by the way a conflicted out in my opinion uh city council member who really shouldn't be making a decision on something like this uh given the prior uh involvement with the censuring and undoing the centering um…”
“Yeah, I'd like to make the motion to have you, I don't want to use the word liaison.”
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“You can advise that and if you want to instruct him not to answer, you can instruct him not to answer, but I'm going to ask the questions and they're not going to be with regard to the filling of the public records requests are going to be with regard to why this email was sent internally to Tom Sheridan, Michael Bird and Amanda Weinstein. So with that, Nick, I'm talking about the October 13th, 2026, 843 AM email, which was Tuesday, the morning after last week's meeting was continued to today. Was there any person that asked you to send this, or was there a discussion that you had with any…”
“I didn't hear you instruct him not to answer. Have you instructed him not to answer?”
“Yeah, I did get some information from that, though. I did get on Saturday morning, your office sent me this email. That's the only email I'm asking him about. So, Nick, yeah, go ahead.”
“The document that was provided to me on Saturday has one. It's not accurate, but that might be what he's referencing. Specifically, it's missing a meeting that we had in August that I attended.”
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“Hold on, are they allowed to answer that question? You're getting it from the public records request.”
“One more discussion, if I may. Yes, sir. Since my professionalism has been called into question. With regard to my questioning, it's with one goal in mind. What prompted this? Because it came directly after I was critical of city council's decision to settle. and it came directly after and was posted to the agenda for last week, Amanda Weinstein's email to you on September 23rd, which, which they had available to them when.”
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“The selective and unfair enforcement after the emails from a man to come. Correct.”
“I don't believe that based on the fact that it's going to be truncated and they're not even agreeing to ask city council to pull their own information.”
“I expect there to be an incomplete response because they've already foreshadowed that they're not going to ask the city council for.”