Remarks by Rachel Freeman
284 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 12
- Play at 13:08
“Yeah, maybe they should come back another time. Maybe we can try for another. I don't know what happened.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 17:51
“I mean, I think it's going to be a bigger discussion. Or we can just wait.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 30:12
“My perspective is that there is a big appetite for parks and rec in Lehigh I mean we have this whole parks master plan that we just that just happened and and they they asked a lot of residents what they wanted what they needed and there's challenges with with maintaining with operating costs versus having new facilities and so I I love the arts and the cultural things as well, but I see right now what we have is we do have a big appetite for the Parks and Rec. We do have some wonderful cultural facilities and things here, but I would also kind of support the up to 30% just because the…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 38:38
“That's interesting that you bring that up, because I was kind of thinking about this. This is my first go around as a council member, how we had the CBDG applicants come before the council. And then eventually we had the park applicants come, right? But it was a little different process this year with having the PARCC committee come and present their ideas. And then we asked the PARCC grant applicants to also come. So it was a little bit redundant versus what the CBDG applicants did. I can see the benefit of just streamlining it and just having it in a work session with the PERC grant…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 53:10
“Please do. So yeah, I looked up city law, too, just because Michelle was talking about it. It looks here, 59-12-1402. And we go to three, and then to A and B. And it talks about cultural facilities, recreational facilities, and zoological facilities within the city or town or within the geographic area of entities. that are parties to an interlocal agreement. And then it talks about this more, and it keeps talking about the geographic area. So to me, I do think that we're kind of talking about the organization is located within Lehigh. I personally love Chalk It Up. But when I voted for this…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 58:37
“What if we eliminated the split? Just imagine, just pretend. Do cities have that, just an open fund, and they kind of allocate the funds where they need? Or do most cities have this kind of split?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Well, and I was looking this up, preparing for this meeting, and I saw that a lot of smaller cities, they don't have committees. And maybe it's for simplicity's sake, but it's one less step, I guess, in bureaucracy is how they worded it. That's their words, not mine. But yeah, it looks like Pleasant Grove uses staff review and council approval. And then there's other ones that are not necessarily in Utah Valley that do a similar thing as well, or council-only review. And I think that just statewide, when you've taken the small cities into account, that's kind of the most common statewide,…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Can you answer me how you would tell that they are the primary source?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 1:04:23
“I think there's a compromise there in that if we're making the policy that 50% of operating expenses It can't be more than 50%, right? So it can't be 51%. That's to me, I think we can find middle ground in that's not the sole source, but it's also not going to be the majority of their operating expenses. And that kind of helps to combat the dependency on this as a primary source, not necessarily We're going to cut them off if they're at, you know, whatever, 52%. But if this is encouraging them, if we're encouraging the 50%, up to 50%, to me that's a good message there to send that up to 50%…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 1:09:41
“I would like to know, maybe not here, is how the committee felt about what happened this year.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“We can privately chat about that. Because I know there was frustration, it seemed like to me at least, that there was frustration on the part of the Park Grant Committee that from body language and from the words that were used, that it wasn't decided how they recommended. Even though the guidelines they were given by the council last year was why they ended up with the applicants they ended up like do you know what i mean so we were just trying to fulfill the like i was trying to fulfill the previous council's um direction um so i'm not sure how that ended up and i would like to know and and…”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“I don't know as much about companies based in foreign countries, so I do not have an opinion on that. But I do think that it's important that our vendors are also respecting and secure with the data that we have. So that's important to me. Privacy is important.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Does the federal government have requirements like that?”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
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“Okay. Well, there you go. There's a good basis example.”
City Council · Aug 10, 2026
- Play at 11:46
“Yeah, and I agree with both Emily and Michelle. I was supportive of it. I thought that it was in the works, I guess, and I had actually even reached out to the county to see if they could help facilitate some of that. We're still hopeful. That was my understanding, and I was kind of waiting also for more information about impact fees.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 22:36
“Okay, we can ask questions, all right. Please, yeah. So how does it work with fire access if you're doing kind of like these narrowing things here on Center Street? Does fire need access down to Main Street? Anyways, just wondering about that and if it's a good location for Station 81.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 24:26
“So what did you say is dependent on the parking structure exactly?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 24:30
“What is dependent on the parking structure? I mean, so far you've built City Hall. Yeah. And there's a Legacy Center and there's the public, you know. So what is dependent on that?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 24:47
“But in the meantime, we have basically the space here that's the public plaza, the library slash arts building, and that other parking lot that's parking. Because I don't know how much it costs, but I just remember Thanksgiving Point saying for a multi-level parking was in the hundreds of millions of dollars.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And right now we have wines park that takes the place of kind of this public Plaza idea. Okay. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 37:40
“And I think when I was reviewing it, there's a senior center actually moves. I could be wrong. But I don't know if we talked about looking at redoing the Legacy Center, but I believe that's... something that this council at least is interested in. So I don't know where that would fit, but I think that it might be in here.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 38:30
“Yeah, because that could change things here also. For sure. For sure.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 44:33
“So I'm in favor of redoing it at some point because I think that all master plans should be looked at at some point. I think that I need more information. I think we can independently look at the Legacy Center and recreation as a whole, personally. I don't think that that is dependent on this plan. And we also can We'll see what happens with the court. I think we need some more information there, obviously, from all the questions that the council has given. So for me, that's where I'm at. I just think it's a good information-gathering period. I don't think that I want to jump in and do any…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:13:55
“Is that in addition to the 30? No, that includes the 30.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:15:02
“Can you explain a little bit more about leased parking? Is there a timeline on that contract? Is it indefinite?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026