Remarks by Shaun C. Palmer
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 47:42
“Question for you, on the second page, you've got all things for the Recreation Center. I see prices in there, but I don't see anywhere in there that we do a scholarship or we would help out with that. Have any thought going into like doing a free day or a coupon day or skate for free or bring one in? Something to motivate people because, you know, I'm $6 per person and three bucks for ice skating is $9. I mean, so if you have any thoughts on that?”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“I looked at your numbers before on the middle class. If you're looking at those numbers, they still have trouble paying. I just would think that having a two-for-one or some kind of coupon to get them in the door to expose them to it, because not everybody's been to the rec center, or some corporate sponsors that said, I don't know if you go out and look for that, to say, hey, sponsor this day and underwrite it.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Part of your information is 40% is word of mouth. So, I mean, if you get people in and talking to that, this is what I did, that would be, okay. Yes.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“When I saw it, I'm like, oh, good, there's 27,000 more. So I see two pieces of this.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“We all make a good salary, and we should be able to do that. The other side of that is I could run in on January 4th and decide that I want to spend $8,000 on something at Bemidji and decide that's for me, and then everybody else goes, well, but I don't get to go anywhere. I think that that's... a problem that we could have. I think you're assuming everybody is of the utmost, but we've had people who have tried to stretch the system and it's not worked out well for us.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Is it worth the time to sit and talk about this if we have three people gone and we don't know? I mean, right now it's a two-to-two tie.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Well, it's always been my opinion that the Office of the Mayor is separate from City Council, and I'm going to go back to other mayors who had jobs, full-time jobs, and then you'd want to have somebody there to answer the phone and be there to greet somebody, say yes, I'm in the Office of the Mayor, Because they call the mayor for everything. They don't call their council member. They call the mayor, I'm mad because my tree fell down, and they're going to call the mayor. And that's what they do. And that's what that person is there to do is represent that office the best that they can. And I…”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Just as well, we got a- Council Member Palmer. Just a quick question. So how many of those are built to be rental, which is kind of new to Rochester, and how many are not?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Council Member Palmer. Well, thank you. You're asking what our preference is, and I would make no changes. I do have kind of another clarifying question. ADUs, right now, we require an R1 that one of the units be owner-occupied. Is that correct? Yep. In our 2X, they don't have to be. Both could be rentals. Correct. But yet, we don't see a lot of ADUs.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“It's my understanding our fees are set to cover about 70% of the housing cost, is that not? Correct. It's not a profit center for the city? Correct. And one of the reasons we inspect rentals is to provide a standard in the community, is that?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 54:32
“I guess it would be my guess about 20% of the cities in Minnesota have rental certificates.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay. Part of the problem I'm having with a large, and I'm going to make this assumption that a large company has many resources for fixing up apartments and having your inspections done by large corporations, probably passed more than the ones of the ones and twos, the mom and pops that own them.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 55:40
“And I can buy a wonderful management company, a medium management company, and a low management company price-wise, can't I?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay. You get what you pay for. So, Kutzke Park neighborhood, I know we had this discussion. I think you sent me the facts on it. They're about 70% rental in that area.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So basically, you could almost say that's a commercial area.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Councilmember Palmer Where is the colonies project with their ad use We got they're here today.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And one of the advantages that Rochester did change is that we no longer require them to run the sewer and utilities to the center of the street. They can, if it's safe to use the existing.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is that your birthday? Oh, it only happens once every four years.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'm looking at your group up there and the city of Rochester has Membership and three of the groups up there, so it's hard to say that we don't have a coordinated effort between rocog DMC in the city of Rochester I'm missing the point on the The numbers that I have is that they have 40,000 workers who come in Olmsted County every day And I don't know how do we deal with 40,000 people coming into our town on the other side of that we have 19,000 people who leave and And so somehow, you know, we get to move back and forth with these people and, and that, that makes it more difficult, um, for me…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“somebody mentioned seven parking ramps we are currently building in rochester for parking ramps and so you know we're more than halfway to seven so um there seems to be a mix there and i think the rapid bus is more for you know clinic employees than it is going to be for the public so i'm not particularly sure how that's going to save everybody since there's no real public parking at both ends councilmember wall”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, I find it interesting up there that carpooling now is better than public transit in 2024. That's a line that we've done a poor job, I believe, in our transit. But your 22 information survey that you're talking about, we had 1,300 people riding a bike. We had 3,000 people walking to work on that survey. Am I reading that right up there? More people are carpooling and they're riding the bus?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026