Remarks by Scott A. Wehrli
128 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“Thank you. Any council members have an item for the public forum portion? Councilman Holzer.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I know Chris might have had a. IF YOU ASK ONE QUESTION, IT'S OKAY.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right, I'm gonna reserve my comments regarding the parking garage and the funding source for the municipal parking garage for the actual presentation a little later on in the slides. But with regard to the battery technology, I mean, we're in a full requirements contract with IMEA. Batteries are for peak shaving and frequency regulation. If the city goes out and acquires a battery and it does anything that would trigger a peak shaving interpretation by the IMEA, their membership is likely gonna say, okay, thanks for subsidizing us because you can't peak shave without our being a party to…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“You can put it on the screen. How about that?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Councilwoman, were you referring to neighborhoods in the southern portion of April, like Maplebrook and some of those older neighborhoods when you said the south?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A SIX-MINUTE BREAK. WE'LL BE BACK AT 737. Okay, it's 737. We're going to go ahead and reconvene here. Can we confirm that Councilman Syed is still with us on the phone? Councilman Syed, can you hear us? Councilman Syed? We'll just confirm that the line's still open here.”
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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“PRESIDENT CALIBRIS, YOU WANT TO COME BACK?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“That's all for the questions on this one.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So right now we're at the two donations, the $700 and the $800, the grant from the state and the $700 donation from Edward, right? Yeah, that's correct. And that's basically the extent of all private donations at this point for this project?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“DIRECTOR HINES, WHEN IT COMES TO THE 6.8 NUMBER YOU'VE GOT IN HERE, WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR PADDING THERE? I MEAN, WE HAVEN'T HAD A RIVERWALK PROJECT IN THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL THAT'S HIT BUDGET. THEY'VE ALWAYS GONE OVER The last one we had was over seven digits in change orders. So is it 6.8 or is it 9.8?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And is there funding established in this number for the continued care and feeding of the new addition to the Riverwalk? What would that look like on an annual basis?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I'm talking about the special parking survey that is currently in progress. National community survey was absolutely Naperville residents only and only a portion of them.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“AND MY UNDERSTANDING IN DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS I'VE SEEN IS THAT WE ARE WELL BELOW THE PARKING RATIOS FOR Number one, a downtown with the number of stores and square footage dedicated to retail and restaurants as compared to other cities and our true competition. Is that still accurate?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“OKAY. AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PLAN, HOW MANY SPACES ARE WE TAKING OFFLINE DURING THAT PROJECT?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“That will be gone through the duration of the project or when the project is over?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So theoretically, we're taking 200 spaces offline at the same time? Yes. Without any sort of replacement for those spaces, correct? Correct. So you can kind of see where I'm going with this as far as the concerns. One way or the other, we're going to have parking challenges with that project. We're going to have parking challenges if we decide to build a parking garage. there's something more and beyond that. And that is by the end of this year, we're estimated to have about $16 million in a downtown parking fund that was dedicated for more parking. And if we're not going to build that more…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. WELL, FOLKS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS TONIGHT. Our workshop is now concluded, and we will wish everybody a good night.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Good evening and welcome to the September 1st Naperville City Council meeting. Roll call.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Up next is City Council Public Forum. As a reminder, per the code, council members have three minutes to speak during public forum. You can speak up to two times. Councilman McBroom.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026