Remarks by Scott Meggers
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Good evening. I would like to call to order the Hutchinson City Council meeting October 2026. Mary, if you call roll. Truin. Here.
Tonight we have Pastor Sean Jones that's going to give the prayer for us. So if you'd like to come forward.
I would like to introduce our interim city attorney, Jay Hinkle. I don't know if you want to say any words or not. I'm just going to welcome you to the meeting tonight.
The next item is the election of a vice mayor. Council, if you have any nominations you would like to proceed with, we can do those now.
Yes. The next item would be the approval of the proposed agenda. At this time, if you guys want to make any requests, amendments to the proposed agenda, additional removal, reordering, now would be the time to do that.
This is the part of the agenda where any person wishing to address the city council shall be first recognized by the mayor. Come to the microphone, state their name, address, and subject of the comments, including whom they represent, if applicable. Public comments are limited to three minutes and must address matters within the business and jurisdiction of the city council. Comments may address agenda or non-agenda items, but all comments regarding agenda items must be made during the designated public comment portion of the meeting. Public comment will not be taken when an agenda item is…
Now, if anyone has public comments, you can come forward to the microphone.
So our attorney basically, I guess, put this together. What's different about the Chapter 2 that we have on our – and maybe we just need to have a discussion on it now. I know it's not on the agenda.
Correct. Do you want to amend the agenda so we can talk about it now?
Gary, when do we have this on the agenda to discuss this?
So in the okay. So in the chapter two, what's, I guess, different about what we currently have than what's what we have here. I mean, what would be the biggest description?
So this was all, I guess, set up by our previous attorney. Right. So I'm not sure how we should go about handling this tonight in regards to public comment tonight. If we're going to have it on the next agenda item, if it's not going to be how we want it done now, then it definitely needs to be talked about currently right now.
So then we'll stay with these rules for tonight. Now, the question I have is do we want to allow public comment on the city council appointment or application process? or we want to just stay with the current, how we have it. That's just, that's just a question council asked, I guess, to answer, because if that's truly the case and we're not going to comment on anything that comes forward tonight that means we would not open it up for comments on the city council application.
Okay. So then I guess for tonight, we won't engage on any public comment. Again, I still would like to open it up for questions during the time we talk about the city council position. But I do understand, and I think maybe before the public comment on the next agenda, maybe we should have this conversation before. Is that acceptable to have it before the – Before the public comment or should we just stay with how we have it until we have the discussion?
Okay. Well, then Gary and I will talk about that. We'll figure that out for the next meeting. So moving forward tonight, any public comment we will not – engage in conversation or answer questions on the public comment. Like I said, during the council agenda item we will have public comment on that. So anything else moving forward?
If there's nothing else on that point, then we will move forward with anyone else that wants to come forward on public comment.
Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. If not, move on to the next item.
Council had a chance to read through the consent agenda. Any questions, comments on those items?
I think that for this item, Gary and Jessica have some information for us before we get started.
So the last time we did this was back in 22, 23, correct? I think I remember right. I believe that's correct. So it's very, basically, the application is basically about the same. I didn't see much difference in the questions and information you're asking on this.
Counsel, do you have any questions or comments?
Are there any other questions on the application council would like to see different wording on anything or do you want to stay consistently with what has been done in the past?
The one thing I would like to see is The important issues facing Hutchinson, the role you believe City Council can play in fixing these issues. I also would like, because I think on the last one there were two applicants. There was one for the at-large and one for a northeast district, I guess. And so I would like to see maybe what they could bring to information from the southwest district to kind of maybe to answer a question. Sure. Tie that in somehow, too. Sure.
I would actually like to see both. I mean, like as a whole and then in the district as well. Okay. I mean, and I would like consensus as well.
Any other thing, anything else on the application itself? Starting there, did you, council would like to see different, or does that all look pretty good?