Remarks by Micah Richardson
49 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
“And because I said I was going to do this and almost forgot, you all should have gotten an email about signing up to do the fun stuff with fire. If you haven't responded yet, let them know if you want to participate in all the burn. Do you want to share all the stuff? Yes, because City Manager Fieser was almost a firefighter. I don't know if all of you know this or not. Okay. Yes, please. Yeah. You got to promote this. Yeah. Oh, you can do right here. You're good. Either way.”
“Thank you, Chief Commander Bridgman. And so just look for that email from him if you haven't responded and you're interested. Okay, perfect. Sorry. Now onward to Councilor Shumway.”
“Thank you, Council. Okay, on to agenda review. Does anyone see anything that they would like removed or moved to the regular agenda from the Consent Agenda besides?”
“Perfect. Maybe he can add the detail. I bet it's in the report. You might be able to see it then. Yes, Councilor Lockhart.”
“I'm interested in that too. Well, yeah, because typically that should be over the amount that would be on the consent agenda normally, right?”
“Okay. Excited. So pulling that one. City Clerk, did you get that?”
“Okay, great. um right then any questions otherwise on the agenda okay oh yes assistant city manager not assistant vice anything i i i actually wanted to giggle but i couldn't because we were presenting”
“All right. Anything else? Okay. Thanks, everyone. We are adjourned.”
“Thank you, I move that the agenda be set as submitted. Second.”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the consent agenda be approved and that each specific action on the consent agenda be approved as indicated.”
“Thank you, Mayor. I move that the Laramie City Council approve the new application for a special malt beverage permit, number special.”
“That was a mistaken interruption. No problem. It's good because sometimes I'm lost too, so it's good you tried to catch me. Special number 10 for Roxy's Catering LLC located at the UW War Memorial Stadium for a licensed term of August 20th, 2026 to May 7th, 2027 and authorize the mayor and city clerk to sign. Second.”
“Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Director. Just kind of going back to that metric piece, have you been able to track any metrics so far with the time that this person has been here, and can you report back on that?”
“Just want to say thank you for bringing that forward, for having that data available to us. One of our big goals was more communication, better communication, you know, about the roads and those sorts of things, but also through parks. And so I think this is a great opportunity to kind of share the amazing amenities that we have in the parks department and to get some of those additional sponsorships in the future too. So I appreciate this.”
“Thank you, Mayor. Just a question. If there is an opportunity when we see things like this that are like, you know, the previous question, is there opportunity to provide a follow-up question to describe, you know, if you said, you know, negative or positive, even if it's a multiple choice, like what would you... what would be the reason behind that, even if it's a broad or even them a space to answer that question to give us a little bit more insight. Again, I think kind of back to maybe what Councilor Freed had said earlier, we have these kind of top level questions and they're great, but…”
“Thank you and I'm sorry if you said this earlier and I didn't catch it. But when was the last time we did the last right? This one went from April to July. What was the previous one?”
“OK, so overgrown lawns. OK, thanks. And now.”
“Thank you, Mayor. I have both. Thanks so much for all of this information. Kind of as a follow-up to the previous question, are you able to also track, for example, let's say there is a popular site on Facebook that shared the post or shared the survey. Are you able to track whether, like how many came from that post? Do you know what I mean?”
“That's great, thank you. Thank you. Then my second just comment on this is that I love seeing the information and the data. What I struggle with a little bit is the broadness of it because I just want to know then the next level of questioning like why? Why do you? Are you not happy with this? Why? What is it that you think you need? And I you know if there's an opportunity to drill down a little bit further, I think that will help us. be better prepared to work toward making positive change and improving things. So I love seeing the information, but that's the one part that I struggle with…”
“clarification sorry to interrupt you we can keep your time going but just to note on that um when they pointed out that the exclamation point is to note that that data is not necessarily accurate and that's on the highest income so just want to clarify that for people for the public record okay”
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“Thank you and thank you director Bork for the information. I like this idea of getting citizen feedback in the master plan. That feels like a nice approach to it. I also at the same time like this the opportunity to support the grassroots effort. How might those folks who are wanting to get behind the grassroots effort to materialize something. What's the best route for them to kind of think about next steps with with you or I would assume with you to begin with and then you know move forward and share that with Council is that is that comes to fruition if they are all ready to go and have…”
“So I just have a follow-up question based on the comment. I was out at Greenbelt running the other day and came back to water my dog as well. Can you give us an update on the status of that if there are plans to have that water? Because I know that the water fountains for humans are also not working. So if you could just give us a quick update, that'd be great.”
“Vice mayor. Thank you, Mayor. The DDA met. They did not have a quorum. The downtown plan is kind of coming together and getting ready for the public part of it, but we wanted to wait to kind of approve that until we can all come back together, and so we postponed any further discussion on that until we could all be there. Pilot Hill had a big celebration day to kick off The... the oh my gosh words the trailhead trailhead thank you the new facilities facilities huge huge turnout of people it was fantastic um something that I think we can be proud to have supported along the way um and then uh…”