Remarks by Michelle M. Dionne
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“Yeah, I would appreciate it, though, if you would take one more look. Sure, I'll take a look at that. And I'm not, believe me, saying you're wrong at all, because I have not honestly looked at it in a long time. But I've always been under the impression that it was all owned by the same person.”
“No, it makes sense to me, but yeah, I would appreciate that. I will take a look at it. And you know what? It is what it is. It's a fair question. I'll look at it. And then my second thing is, I think... And I know it's not, there's one woman in particular, when I say this, it's not popular with her and I understand it. But where six families are going to be taken off of the trash roll, and nobody's gonna have an option, they're gonna have to privatize. I would like to again say that I would support owner occupied to be excluded. Because you don't have the absentee landlord issue. You have…”
“Residents who support the city. Exactly. Et cetera, et cetera.”
“So I guess my question would be, 10 years ago, And to a certain point, I agree with you. I do, to a certain point. But I think I'm also looking at it as 10 years ago, what percent of the multifamilies were owned by people who lived in the city versus today? There's been a big move today. We know that people from outside have come in and scooped up the property. The properties have gone, the values have gone through the roof because of it. With 79 coming, the train being here. I don't think we're in the same situation. I don't know what the percentage is. I don't know what the percentage of…”
“Point of information, if I can help out on this one.”
“Because I have had, so when this whole debacle, that's what I call it, started 10 years ago, I switched to private. And I was like, I am not getting off of private until the city straightens everything out. So I did do that. And you can choose whatever company you want. At the time, I chose, it was Cleanway. It's not Cleanway any longer. They've been bought out, so I can say that. And yes, they pick up the same day as the city. And they've actually been very good, but I can tell you that whatever the city would charge if they chose to say per unit everybody pays X number of dollars would be…”
“Yeah, well, my question was going to be, so how far, again, and he's correct, there's $153.95 here. Is that just to satisfy FY26? Correct. So it's going to have no effect on FY27?”
“That whole fiscal year? Correct. So yeah, and I guess that was my concern. When do you think you're going to be prepared for us to have a full picture, something substantial to consider? And I will say right off the bat, I'm not sure I'm okay with an escalator. I think an escalator just makes it possible for it to just keep going up and up and up without necessarily coming back to the council. The do not exceed is a solid number. Steps is a different issue, but an escalator, I don't know that I'm on board with that unless somebody can explain it differently than what I'm thinking. I mean,…”
“But I guess that's my question. What is a little bit of time? Is a little bit of time a month, two months, three months, six months? What's a little bit of time?”
“So we're saying three to six months, so we'll be halfway through FY27 before we have any resolution to this.”
“I mean, I feel like Time has been wasted already. There has been time. I feel like we've been having this discussion for months already. I feel like we've had this discussion in the past, so that kind of bothers me a little bit when we're talking another three to six months yet. But for now, I'll yield. Thank you.”
“So I'm thinking what if we agreed to this, vote yes for this, with the amendment or caveat that the administration get back to us sooner than later with a plan so that we know something is in place and that we will be moving forward. and I'd put that in some form of a motion if somebody wants to figure it out. With that I yield.”
“Six months just have a discussion on moving forward with the salary study?”
“I'd be okay with that. I guess I'm looking for some type of commitment, something more solid than what we've had so far. Yes, I would be amicable to that. With that, I yield.”