Remarks by Patrick Kelly
18 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you to staff. Good presentation tonight and good discussion up here. I think it seems like we're in a positive direction, I think, moving forward. Just one quick question on the four options. I appreciate the pivot. It sounds like we're talking more about focusing than eliminating, but I've heard a little bit mixed on lack of focus or eliminate on option four. Do you say hello to the electric utility? It seems like, I don't think I've heard anybody say we want to leave that on the table, and I just want clarity, I guess, from staff. Are we, is that remaining in, are…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yep, they do that back in the booth also.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Councilman Kelly. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation so far. Just a couple questions on the water items. You know, there's not really much we can do about any of these. We don't see them, but things we essentially have to say yes to. I'm just curious if you look at slide 10 and 11, just so we kind of keep track over the years, I'm just curious if the estimated totals were at 198 for Springbrook Is that the estimated total from when we started the Spring Book projects about five years ago, or is that as of today with inflation, or are they the same? And do we expect that to be…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And is it fair to say, based on this chart we're looking at, are we about halfway done with the actual work, but we've only spent about 20% of the dollars? Is that accurate on both of those?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“MAYBE ONE QUICK FOLLOW-UP FOR DIRECTOR BLENTIS. IF YOU COULD JUST TELL US FROM A SUBSTANTIVE PERSPECTIVE, ARE THE PROJECTS GOING WELL? IS IT ABOUT HOW YOU THOUGHT AND HOPED THE SPRINGBOOK PROJECTS WOULD GO? AND ARE YOU HAPPY WITH WHERE YOU'RE AT RIGHT NOW?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. When would we reach a decision point for the city council to decide whether or not to proceed with, I don't know if it's phase two or phase three or some other phase number, but essentially the potential backyard situation?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And what we're doing, tier one right now, we'll do that regardless of what a future council decides, whether they decide to do that additional work or not.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I JUST WANT TO BE SURE. AND THEN FOR STAFF, I GUESS, So what I heard from Councilman Holzhauer just now is that this was a potential, well, a variety of alternatives was not in front of the Commission at their most recent meeting, or it sounds like at any point. So where, I'm trying to level set in my head, where did, and I don't even see it on the slide, but in your presentation you mentioned the consultant potentially bringing back alternatives. Who is it that asked for that to happen?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. I think that answers it, other than I heard that there's been some discussion with the chair. So I guess what I'm, maybe my last question for now is, has the commission, our advisory commission as a body, have they taken any sort of a vote to either recommend that we do the full project or that we should seek alternatives? Or I guess, where are they as a commission?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. And will that happen before, like, I guess I'm trying to figure out how this is going to play out for us then. Is this going to be part of the decision-making matrix at workshop three and we'll have input from the commission between now and then? Or what is your plan on what we're going to do with this?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“OK. And then if I could, Mayor, on a different topic. Go ahead. So some questions and thoughts on the Nichols Library deck. And there was some discussion early on in public forum. And I, like the mayor, I kind of held my thoughts. I wanted to see what staff had to say in this chart, which was helpful to see how everything's kind of fitting together. You know, it's interesting. That's a much larger project now than the streetscapes. Only a few years ago, the streetscapes were kind of the monster project. And the question was whether we would do them or not and when. And I'm glad that we have…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So my last thought, Mayor, if I could, is just I would really ask that we get that data and I would suggest it should be a council meeting agenda item where the public would be aware and it's not just something as part of the budget process that we're just gonna say 40 million is approved by a show of hands at a workshop. I think we should have that data, have a full meeting, have the neighborhood aware, have the business owners aware, have everybody come to a meeting and really discuss it before any final decision is made. Thank you. Councilwoman Jane.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“COUNCILMAN KELLY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. A COUPLE OF FOLLOW-UPS ON THE FUNDING ALLOCATION THAT HASN'T GARDENED A WHOLE LOT OF DISCUSSION, BUT ONE THING I WILL AGREE WITH YOU ON, ONE I MIGHT DISAGREE, AND THEN A QUESTION FOR STAFF. FOR THE FUNDING SPLIT ON THE MUNICIPAL DECK, I WILL SAY I WASN'T SURE WHAT STAFF WAS GOING TO PROPOSE THERE. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WHEN I SAW 50-50, I THOUGHT THAT MADE SENSE, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE, GRANTED, IT'S USED BY CITY AND SETTLEMENT EMPLOYEES DURING THE DAY, BUT THEN IT'S, OF COURSE, ALSO USED ON THE TOP DECK DURING THE DAY FOR RESIDENTS. for shoppers and diners at…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And we'll receive that use estimate from staff before making final decisions on this? Yes. All right. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I asked for this item to be pulled. I don't have any questions at this point, but just thought it was worthy of a little additional discussion. When I first read the item in the agenda and went back and looked at the minutes from planning and zoning, I was not so sure what I thought about this, to be honest. Probably my biggest hesitation. is the hardship factor. And I'm having a hard time seeing what that is. I'm still having a hard time seeing what that is. And I was kind of leaning, to be honest, against it, honestly, until I went over this afternoon. I walked the neighborhood and just…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026