Remarks by Melanie Vigil
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“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the Council approves the Wyoming Rural Health Transformation Program grant contract between the Wyoming Department of Health and the Laramie Fire Department slash City of Laramie and authorize the City Manager and other listed City Representatives to sign.”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the Laramie City Council approve Amendment 1 to Agreement for Professional Services between the City of Laramie, Wyoming and BHA Design Incorporated, Fort Collins, Colorado in an amount not to exceed $49,075 and authorize the Mayor and Clerk to sign.”
“Mayor, thank you for the correction. This is the first time that I've done that. Thank you. Okay, I move that the Laramie City Council approve Resolution 2026-66, creating a housing enabling programs fund and transferring the appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 budget of the City of Laramie, Wyoming and authorize the Mayor and City Clerk to sign.”
“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I just want to say, just working in my day job, so I work closely with the Wyoming Union. It's a ton of foot traffic every single day. And so when that elevator goes out, you're cooked. You can't not have an elevator, right? And so it's a bummer that costs have risen, et cetera, but we have to. We have to do this. It simply isn't an option. And yeah, that's all I have to say to that. Thank you, Councillor.”
“Councilor Vigil. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Just looking at page, well, it says page 16 here in the presentation about mobility and connectivity. I see here, extend link transit service hours and explore a downtown transit hub near the depot. So just wondering kind of like where maybe like we are with mobility town gown relationships and like how we're expanding or could expand transit services with the with the transit services that UW already has. And then two, maybe yeah, like has there been any more conversation around transit or public transportation into West Laramie? The west side is…”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the Laramie City Council approve original ordinance 2125 upon introduction and first reading an ordinance amending the City of Laramie's official zoning map rezoning the 42 parcels in the Labani Park vicinity from R2, residential medium density, to R3, residential high density, based on the findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
“Thank You city clerk that motion passes and item 11 D councillor V Hill Thank You mayor take us home I move that the Laramie City Council approved resolution 2026 dash 52 authorizing a two-year temporary full-time position in the parks recreation and public services department and authorized the mayor and city clerk to sign second I have a motion from V. Hill, second from Newman.”
“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, just to echo the Vice Mayor, I like this. I don't know if it's just my algorithm, but I see the Parks and Rec social media probably more than any other presence that the city has online. And I've noticed that the information is not only timely, but also whoever is running that account responds to constituents. in a timely manner and that means like hundreds if not thousands of people are getting the same information at the same time while they're scrolling. So I've just found it really helpful. Thanks.”
“Yeah, just maybe a comment and a question, if that's okay, Mayor.”
“Great. Thank you. Yes, thank you so much for this presentation. This is awesome. I think one of the things that I have been ruminating on, so before I got into City Council, before I ran a campaign, I would see Zen City ads on my social media. And one of the things that deterred me was kind of some of the stock photo images. And it was like, we want to see what you think about your community. And I was like, I don't like, I think one of the images might've been like a stock image of half acre on campus at one point. And so I, or something, I don't, yeah. And so I'm just wondering if maybe we…”
“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, Zach, just real quick. So in terms of just streets and maintenance, I've seen a few studies just across multiple cities and it's a whole area in public administration as a field that a lot of people are usually not happy with road maintenance. So do you find this to be true in other communities as well?”
“Yes, thank you, Mayor. I kind of wonder about our, especially with the overgrown lawns or vegetation, we had a really unique winter, right? And so we didn't freeze very often. And I know just as a community gardener myself, like I got bugs early, it's been a whole thing. And so we've had a really unique summer as well. And so I wonder if maybe like, in terms of vegetation, overgrown lawns, et cetera, I think maybe just stuff kicked off earlier. I don't know. So I kind of wonder Zach, if maybe you have any thoughts into that in particular with other cities, because I know Colorado has had…”
“Thank you, Mayor, and I apologize. I'm being super chatty tonight. And so, Zach, I'm going to be a pain in your butt again and just kind of ask, right? Like, so where does Laramie compare to other cities of similar size that Zen City serves, right? Like in terms of all of this, because I feel like one of our our council goals is to be transparent and to be like doing social media and to be putting you know things out to the public and so i know that's not a unique laramie problem but i just i guess i would wonder you know like where where where are other cities are at yeah so that is a great…”
“Okay, great. Thank you, Mayor. Is it okay if I say a comment and a question?”
“great well brandon i i just want to say like i i am so proud of this program this is amazing you know i serve and and so does mayor cumby serves on our town gown association and i think that this is the perfect example of that right like working between institutions within organizations government to make something work and to do something really good for the community and so i'm really really really proud of you for that and leading that and i can tell just like in your presentation how passionate you are and that is like that's what the city needs and so i think you said earlier in the…”
“um but i just wanted to give a big shout out to um our larry main street for our farmers market i have gone the past two weeks and it's been amazing we have a lot of really great produce from a lot of different areas and it's been really fun i've gotten to try some of the new green beans they're like white and purple spotted and that's super fun and then i'd also like to thank the lds church I know that there's a huge semi-truck coming to Laramie here this week, and a lot of people will benefit in our Laramie community from that. So I would like to thank the church very much. Thanks.”