Remarks by Ron Elliott
68 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“and vice chair elliott i'm sorry uh yes vice chair elliott you recognize thank you mr chair for planning item uh 2026-0099 i would like to defer this item this afternoon for one week until october 20th nothing wrong has happened i just have not had a chance or haven't heard back from the Neighborhood Association. They had a meeting with this advocate, and I think they're all aligned on everything. I just need to get updates on how that conversation went so we can put the proper conditions on it. I don't want to go forward without making sure I hear what they agreed to. So once I get that, we…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Chair, I'm really sorry about this one. I have one more. It's planning item L today. I will also be looking to defer that one week. This is my fault. I have not gotten with Karen this week. This one's on me to talk about those conditions for this one.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“TO OCTOBER 20th. NEW SPEAKER Okay. NEW SPEAKER I meant to mention earlier.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to make a motion to defer this item one week to October 20th.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to make a motion to defer this item one week to October 20th.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. A couple of things. we have a community meeting on october 29th at six o'clock at gannon arts center to discuss the redesign of parts of brainerd road coming out from the mccauley tunnels to tunnel boulevard that's in the old town brainerd area this is if you've ever been through that area you probably shoot through that tunnel and probably don't think much about it but that's a neighborhood there That's the Old Town Brainerd neighborhood and that stretch of road has been problematic and hazardous for years. The speed of folks coming out of the tunnel and then it really…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a particular question regarding our appointment to the Regional Planning Agency. I've had some concerns from some of my district quite a more than I expected, from my district involving the appointment of Ethan Collier to the Planning Commission. And Ethan and I have spoken, and I appreciate you taking the time to hear me out. And if it's all right with you, Mr. Chairman, I would like to answer some of the, asking some of these questions for state of transparency.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you for... I'm sorry. I promise. It's not that I'm tired of being here. It's just been a long day already. Ethan, I appreciate you coming. You know, you do a lot of work in and around my district, particularly with your Milltown development. And I have two neighborhoods in particular that has expressed some concerns. And I'm going to throw these out to you. And if you can just take them however you want. And I'm going to go first. My Missionary Ridge community, they had the opportunity to work with you some years ago prior to me taking office. And this is something that I heard quite a…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“The final one, there's been concern from community members that there are too many developers on the Planning Commission.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Ethan, let me say this. I appreciate you for coming up, and Ethan and I had this conversation prior to this meeting and both agreed that it's probably best for the public to hear this narrative. This is one of those situations where sunshine is the best disinfectant. And so I appreciate you for coming up. And this is not a space where I intended for you to come up and get any, like, ring your neck about some, you're, you're trying to do a job as a volunteer base. And I don't think anybody should be chastised for stepping up and serving. I think we all understand it is hard finding people to…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“The planning commission makes recommendation. And so ultimately, I own all rezonings that happen in my district. And I just want to speak for myself. So, Ethan, I do appreciate you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I think this is, I think they're planning on speaking on this one now or later.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Are they speaking on this one now or later?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, I thought we were, you know, speaking on this earlier. This is just a quick one, and this is a similar thing, kind of just shining light on it. Jay, with this brush contract, this would allow us to get caught up on brush pickup, correct?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, perfect. I just wanted to make sure that was clear because I know it's been a large concern for a lot of people, but you guys are doing whatever you can to make sure you get caught up. Yes, sir, absolutely. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jay. Anything else?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all so much for taking the time to update us on this. I have a couple questions. The first being, what is the buffer time between a signal changing and emergency vehicle coming through? How much runway are we talking about?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“And have we had to change, this may be a question for Chief Knowles, have we had to train any of our pedestrians engine drivers on how to navigate this software, or has it really been a difference?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. And... This next question, I saw that snippet of, I think it was our road, maybe in Central, which begs the question, what type of data are you guys tracking with this information and these cameras or whatever you call them?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“And are we storing any of this data? that we keep over time? And if so, who all has access to it?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Good deal. And excuse my ignorance on this, and I could be wrong, but does any of this involve any signal recalibration in the signal time of recalibration?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, I do appreciate you guys taking the time to unveil it. I know this is something that folks have been working on for years and, um, I haven't been able to articulate it myself, so it's great to see it. I've just been told, oh, they had some real cool stuff going on at UTC with the city. I didn't know really what it was. And you have to excuse me. So somebody said, hey, they've been doing signal time recalibration. I thought that's what it was. And so it's great to see what it was even more, a little bit better. So thank you guys so much. And I do appreciate it.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question for Item 9C under Human Resources. How are you doing? Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Question. I see we're extending this for...”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I have a question about our security contract under Parks and Outdoors. I don't know how many I'm going to take this one. Yes, sir. Okay. Hey, Russell. This may require some institutional knowledge, but, you know, I don't, A, let me say this, I appreciate the fact that you guys split this contract. I think we were trying to find a one size fits all that was not serving our needed space as well. The concern I have is of SEI. If I'm not mistaken, we used them in the past”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026