Remarks by Ralph Hanauer
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
“Hey, what's up? Hey, Roger? Okay, Mayor.”
“Mayor, I make a motion we concur with the staff recommendation. Second.”
“Mayor, I make a motion we concur with the Planning and Zoning, Sangamon County Planning and Zoning recommendation.”
“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I'll be brief. I spoke to Joe last night. I told him my thoughts on the whole thing. I do think that we need to look at circumstances like this, but we need to look at it for everybody and see if we can move the meters from wherever they are to closer to the homes or something. I don't know what that would cost down the road, but it's something that we ought to at least try to identify. And I've asked Scott Rogers to look into that. But as, you know, for just doing it for one person, I'm kind of against that. What I want to try to do is look at it from the standpoint…”
“I didn't have that on my radar birthday. Well, you got the guy here. He didn't. It was his birthday yesterday. Who?”
“You know that looks there's no way he's 65.”
“Mayor, I make a motion to approve the Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation of reclassification to B1 with the condition of the petitioner completed purchase of the subject real estate from the current fee title holder. If petitioner does not complete its purchase of the subject real estate within one year, of the date approval of the ordinance granting the relief sought upon petitioner's written notification to the zoning administrator, the transaction will not be completed and the zoning classification shall revert to its present classification.”
“Yeah, thanks, Mayor. We didn't have a lot of power outages because we're underground, but we did have a lot of tree damage. I was just thinking that if we could get zone managers to kind of go through areas and maybe that would help us out. I mean, I'll be out too, but to write them down, I mean...”
“I think that would be a good exercise because...”
“Thanks to the crews. They did a great job.”
“Yeah. Number one, I don't think you can build on that lot because the south end, I know there's the main sewer that goes through there. And the last administration put flood tanks underneath. You can't build on that part. Originally, in my opinion, we should have never had this. We should have never bought it back when, I guess, Mayor Houston was in. It was a bad buy. I'm going to ask for an ordinance that we can't buy property in the future without the seller doing an environmental study on them to make sure that we don't get burned on them. I can't tell you how many times up here... Since…”
“But anyway, so my point is what we're giving up is we're giving up having to, I don't know what we spend, and I meant to ask the public works what we spend a year to maintain that block, but we won't be doing that. The state will be doing that. And they've come with a plan. I have to assume that their plan is what they want to do with it. At worst, it's going to stay the situation it's in, which you can still do 11 amp and all that. But at best, they've showed us a plan, and I have to believe, and I thank the governor and Andy Menard and Senator Turner and Representative Coffey for, again,…”
“Michael Flowers. Michael Flowers. Robert Williams.”