Remarks by Paul Binns
299 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 12
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Any other questions, comments? I think we've got a road to run on. Oh, go ahead. If you've stayed here this late, you can speak.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, that gave you a little bit of a road to run on. That's a great question.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Fair enough. Awesome. Thank you for staying late with us. Okay. Item, we'll go back to 3.3. Ryan, did you have that one? I know Craig was going to take it. Did you want to take that real quick? Sure.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council Member Lockhart, anything you'd like to add? I agree with most of what was said. Mike, you got all that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You guys good with that? Yes. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, back to item 3.3, the discussion of the proposed updates of the Lehigh Municipal Code, Title VII, Chapter 3, regarding the parking code violations. Ryan.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“15 days is almost 16. Yeah, that's a month. Yeah, that's a whole month.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah Okay any other questions No questions, I'm happy to take a motion to adjourn Okay, I've got councilman for Harrison council members know All in favor say aye Okay”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We welcome you here. We welcome those who have joined us in the council chambers. Council Member Freeman, can I call on you for some opening comments?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“OK, that's item one. Item two, working discussion items. We don't have a lot of items tonight, so we'll work through this one. Item 2.1, transportation funding resolution discussion. This was tabled in January 27th of 26. Along with this item, I know it was transportation and housing, if I remember correctly, Tisha. With that, Councilmember Harrison, I'm going to turn some time over to you on this. If you want to lead on that, that would be great.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Any questions on that? I know Councilmember Harrison on that, that it will come to me eventually, and we'll go to our neighboring mayors for some follow-up on that. I don't know where we'll get on that, but I will leave that if the council opts that that's something we want to do.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“With that said, I would also mention that I feel like we've made some good strides in six months with this. So I think in a resolution that we include, I think we'd be very specific to numbers and to progress, but to make sure that those are part of that resolution as we go forward. I would hate to stick something in an eye when there's progress that's working in our favor. So I think that resolution's got to be good enough to make sure that there's clarity”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So I will probably bring this back September in the pre-council in September. We'll have some drafts by then. That gives us a few weeks to put the drafts together. At that point in time, we can put them together and then we can go to work with the neighbors and see where we're at. And then by October, we should be in that slot.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“They'll probably just push it back, but if they're involved and it does become a joint city yeah I was thinking the same thing so I will begin that outreach as we speak so All right any other questions on this item Jason we're good there. We'll get that together great work on that Okay, we'll move to item three agenda questions for this evening any agenda questions that are Anything that's on the agenda this evening No? OK, good. Jason, administrative report?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Great, thank you. And item number five, Mayor and Council reports. Any reports?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So if you said September September 9th Okay, there are no closed session items tonight so I'd be happy to Take a motion to close our pre council meeting so moved Councilmember Newell second councilmember Harrison all in favor Okay, we will be adjourned until 7 o'clock Welcome those we all welcome all who are with us this evening and We're grateful that you're here to participate in our meeting today. We'll start With the Pledge of Allegiance that'll be led by councilmember Lockhart. I Thank you. All right, item two, presentation reports. Todd, it looks like item 2.1, presentation of the Water…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Todd. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. OK, item three, citizen input. Just a couple of things for citizen input. If there's something that's not on the agenda tonight that you'd like to give input on, we welcome you to come to the microphone. When you come to the microphone, we would appreciate it if you'd state your name. A clock will appear with some time on it. If you'll go ahead and give us your thought within that time allotment, that would be great. If the clock does go to zero, we would ask you to finish your comments. So with that, it is 7.08, and we'll open citizen…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Any other questions on the consent agenda? OK, happy to entertain a motion on that.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So I have a first from Council Member Harrison. Do I have a second?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Second from Council Member Newell. Any questions on that motion? So we'll start with you, Council Member Newell. Yes. Council Member Harrison. Yes. Council Member Stallings. Yes. Council Member Freeman. Yes. Council Member Lockhart. Yes. Great. Thank you. All right, item number five, the regular agenda, we'll go to 5.1, consideration of ordinance 35-2026, approving a comprehensive development code amendment to chapter 23, signs, updating requirements, and simplifying the text. So before we start this, I will happily entertain a motion to untable this and bring it back to the dais.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, so I have a first from Councilmember Newell, a second from Councilmember Freeman. All in favor? Aye. Okay. So with that, we'll start the discussion on this one. Kim, it looks like you're our representative tonight.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I feel like most of our public hearings are on the commission side. So I'm fine with that. But I tend to follow what Mayor Johnson did, where we give each item an opportunity for the public to speak. And I don't mind doing that. So I do think if you if you set up as two public hearings, I do think that's Probably a hair much, but knowing we're gonna open it Here and there's a 20-minute period anyway, so I you know public's always welcome to come and share so I Kind of both it's a little much, but I we've had bears in the past that I”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“If there's no further questions, I'm happy to entertain a motion.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So before we go to any questions, are there any folks in the audience today who is here to speak to this item? OK. Any questions for Tony?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026