Remarks by Nancy Stoner
143 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
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“I would just like to... Remind everyone that on August 15th, Saturday, we had our first ever sports fair at the Village Community Center. And it was fantastic. It was very well attended. It was super, super fun. And I would like to recognize David Carreño in particular, who put the entire... He coordinated everything, food, all the coaches. It was amazing, and I would like to thank David for all of his hard work. It was a wonderful event, and it will be one that we will repeat annually, I'm sure. Thanks, David.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I just have a question. There's a workshop. I just want to know. I'm not giving an opinion. We have a big schedule coming up with a budget. We have a lot of workshops and different things going on. I have some idea of The layout of that, because we can't come every single night. I can't.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm not coming every night. I love the council, but I'm not going every night.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So are we proposing to do it that night earlier?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I have some deferrals. I would like to defer 11b1, 11b5. Wait, wait, 11b1. Yeah, just my discussion item.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, but they're my discussion items, so I'm just saying I want to take them off the... Oh, okay, I'm sorry.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I would like to defer, and I also move that we direct the manager to put out for bids again, which is what we were supposed to do originally before today, to try and get some smaller local firms here.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Kind of what Ed is saying, I'm wondering why, of all the people, companies that apply, that our panel deems qualified, Why would we not accept them? Is there a reason to only have three?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So it's who you award it to from your pool?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Didn't we have the same problem with GIT? We wanted to do it, they weren't on the list, and we had to resolve that issue.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Which is why, I don't know if we have to resolve.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But no one's talking about the other issue, which we really can't debate tonight. But the stipend that you get for going to private school, going to St. Agnes, going to some of the other schools.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“It's causing a lot of brain drain. For sure.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I thought we were deferring these.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, two things one. I just want to bring to everyone's attention that a long time ago I asked counsel to include in all of our contracts that if any of the tariffs were found to be unlawful and they were going to be reimbursed, that we would have in our contract that they get reimbursed to us. Thank you very much for doing it. I saw that in there. That's fantastic. My other question here is, or issue is, with the extensions of the contract, shouldn't that, even if, Shouldn't that come before council? Shouldn't we at least know whether or not we're at the time where we're going to extend it…”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I don't think it comes to our attention.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Before it's exercised, just in case any of us know of problems or have issues or something, I don't think that's unreasonable.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I just think it would be, we would like to know so that if anyone has an issue, they could bring it up. When you're in the middle of a three-year contract, you don't know that it's about to end and that it's necessary to do anything about it.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“To notify council when prior to an extension of the two-year. Exercising any extensions of contracts.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Did you, Steve, did you bring up with Chad my question, my legal question? We'll look into it. Okay.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So couldn't we have an amendment to the contract to take that out with an agreement that if we put it back in, this is going to be the price that they've already quoted us?”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So it you either live very different I Do want to say all of our prior conversations about this have been about the circles and and drainage and resiliency. We never talked about aesthetics that I recall.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Right. So we're ending up with something that is completely impervious. So if we can get something that looks better, set bricks, that's no less pervasive. No more impervious than the tar. I'm not sure what difference it makes other than the price and the maintenance. So part of it has to do with what we want the village to look like.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But we need that quickly because you said they're going to do that right away. I mean, they're going to start working on that right away.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, it's also not fair for a person to have to live the construction of the neighborhood. Having the gravel in their front yard, having the parking in their front yard, it's just not fair.”
Village Council · Aug 25, 2026