Remarks by Meghan Smith
59 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“We're gonna get a nice picture right here in just a little bit”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“um megan yes uh first of all when we were talking about this i told you i was going to miss it this year because i was going to be in vegas well i decided not to go early to las vegas so that i can be at the international festival that's how important it is you said weather permitting yes and if you if you look at the weather it does look a little rainy is there a rain plan is this a rain or shine event so this is this is a”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Make a motion we approve the consent agenda.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thanks, Chris, for all of this information. I think it's really important for any organization to be transparent about our challenges and our strengths. You know, there's very little that we have to do with the day-to-day operations of the 435. 425 folks on the team, but there was 1 question and I wasn't able to pull it up really quickly. So I don't have the exact verbiage, but where it asked about if folks felt like they're elected officials or city council understood their role or value valued what they did. Again, I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was a much lower response than…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Chris, thanks for introducing Code Spartanburg. I'm excited about that process. Can you just elaborate a little bit more and kind of forecast what the rest of the engagement process is going to look like beyond those first two meetings? Sure.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And Planning Commission votes on that document first? Yes. And then it advances to us?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. Ruth, I haven't thought about the stroller in a long time. For those of you who don't know what that is, you can ask Baker Maltz to be back there. You're going to bring it back? All right. Not much for me tonight. I want to thank Art and his team. And one thing that I was really struck by was how young the young men were that y'all arrested. Erica and I were talking about that, and that's a tragedy in its own self, its own right. I've also been thinking about another young man that lost his life this weekend that we worked with at Spartanburg Academic Movement. Our college…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. So we're on the front end of innovation here for this.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“At the end of this pilot, will you be able to tell us what our cost per ride has been? I know for the public, it's... Yes, ma'am. Are the first four rides still free?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So the first four rides are free, and then it's $2 after that. So to the public, it's incredibly...”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“...cheap. Yes, ma'am. And obviously, the more riders and users, the less our costs...”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“But is that something that you'll be prepared to share with us in six months? Yes, ma'am.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And since you brought up the fixed route, are we planning to use the data from the micro transit at all to think about altering any routes for the fixed transit?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we certify the site to be eligible for the abandoned building tax credits.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Chris I echo Erica's excitement this has been a long time coming and she said accurately we talked about affordable housing all the time so bear with me and my train of thought and my questions compound question here as I was reviewing the development agreement Maybe this has been in all of the other ones, but it struck me, and I didn't remember seeing it in some of the other ones, but the Section E, the performance data, where it says that the city shall keep and protect the data related to limited, including but not limited to rent rolls and financial performance data related to such units,…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, so that piece right there, then kind of led me down a path that wouldn't be as relevant to this project because it is 100% below AMI. But when we think about other projects that we've done, Boxcar, Fitzgerald, Mary H. Wright, the Town Homes Off Country Club, where we've set the standard that if you're going to receive a philo from us, you're going to have to include at least 10% of your units as affordable so then seeing this we are going to protect your data it's going to be confidential i was then thinking well you know what if our post and courier friends wanted to do an article…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So just to make sure I understand what you're saying, you don't have a concern because you have received information back from the projects that verify this? Correct. Okay. Well, then back to my original question, if we are going to report back out, and maybe I'm not understanding the totality of... keeping this information confidential or what information would be kept confidential. But it gives me a little bit of a pause to say that we can't share any thing out based on the rent roll. Obviously not financial information related to the tenant in 30A, but if someone wanted to know, are they…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“But your point is they're having to report to the federal government and state government, people that have a lot more teeth than we might.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd be very interested because we've never seen any of that information coming back. And so I would really like to.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So this is the same. Absolutely. I mean, no, I'm saying just can we publicly verify that Boxcar is renting to 10% of their You know, 10% of their units are actually going to the people that they said it would.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. That's my only question.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“sure Chris there's a rich history I know to this project it was way before my time and maybe before some other people's times here you when you were reading off the memo and you've alluded to this before that the City Council at that time the goal was the original intent intent was for a mixed-income neighborhood correct and so those original 17 homes that were built over 18 years i'm sure it wasn't one a year but we can just let's just say those were all affordable homes or income restricted or that's correct yes okay and were there already homes that existed in this neighborhood well or…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So when it says fulfilling the original intent of a mixed income neighborhood for 18 years, it was not mixed income. It was... Lower income houses.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026