Remarks by Shaun C. Palmer
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Is the third party report done by an engineer from Minnesota?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So our meeting agenda was published on Wednesday. You're sending emails out today, and we get a report from this other third-party report comes in on Friday. Am I missing that timeline?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Can I ask the gentleman from Barr Engineering?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“You're an engineer licensed in Minnesota, correct?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And I'm going to take you to downtown Rochester where you're blasting similar material? Same rock. Same rock. And how many blasts do you think you've done? Two or three, probably?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. And who's doing the blasting? Is this a professional person that's doing the blasting?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. If we approve this today, the next step would be for an operational agreement. Is that not correct?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“A question for our engineer over there. Can this quarry last 30 to 40 years in operation?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So they're going to blast the rock. They can come in with loaders. They're going to break it up. Is this for crushed rock? Yep. And there's a need for that in Rochester?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I make a motion adopting a resolution recommending approval of a conditional use permit number CD 2026-008 CUP by MGK LLC for limestone aggregate quarry with the six conditions and with the seventh one added that less than seven blasts per year. Second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I mean, we have a state of Minnesota engineer who's very well-knowledged about what's happening here. I'm comfortable with that. I'm uncomfortable with something that shows up on a Friday afternoon after our meeting agenda has been published. And I've been around enough blasting that I'm comfortable with what they're trying to do, and I understand the airport's original two problems, and number one was the waterfall, and everybody else agrees that waterfall is not, birds are not going to be a problem on this site. So that's the reason for my motion.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I would second a motion to continue this till the second meeting in October.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Well, I also have been out talking to a lot of different neighbors and affordability is a huge issue to most everybody I've talked to and People are struggling. I did ask our last study session that we keep it to the 5.2% Which I think is a reasonable request I think that just less than $400,000 that we could take out of the budget to hit that. What it does show is that we do have growth in our community, and growth is good, and people have been struggling with the growth downtown, and the benefit of that is that our property tax levy will not be going up that much. It's a $400,000…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Well, I was quite clear at our last meeting that if we took $400,000 out of our contingency fund and let that be $600,000, that would meet that dollar amount. And it doesn't affect the budget. And the budget's been well put together, and a lot of input is put into it, and a lot of blood and sweat and tears. It's not a budget full of fluff. But I think that the contingency is something that we sometimes use as a piggy bank that we don't need to. And I think that we do have a, 47% funds sitting there that's gonna go down to 42, maybe 43%. It's a little bit kind of like any path home. We needed…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yeah, I'll make an amendment to reduce the tax levy by $400,000.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“seconded by council member wall council member palmer i think it's important to hit our 5.2 percent with the growth that we have anticipated i think it's nice to be able to tell people um because we have growth your tax levy um a dollar amount will not be going up i believe that the contingency would be an area that the staff could look at to get it but it's not if they think that's more important than something else let them make that decision”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I got a couple questions here. You've got 1.3% customer growth and then you've got 3% reduction in use. How do you figure that out? And then on your customers, what percentage basically is commercial and which is it residential?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Well, I appreciate what the mayor has done. And I think if you're going to change anything, I would talk to the mayor. I mean, she's the one that sat there for eight years and has done it. And maybe she has some suggestions that she can give to us and to the administration. Because I don't know. her positions on what she's doing, but her travel and her training has been very good for Rochester and very upfront with Rochester, so her budget's different than ours, but there's a reason for that. She is the mayor, or it is the mayor's position. I'll just speak to the 3%. I am not in favor of a…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And your 4th of July is only for the fireworks. What would it take for us to do an experience Rochester event that they had prior to that?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yeah, just to be clear, it's not 2% for the park referendum. It's $2 million that they get each year. So just to be clear on that. I'm only on slide 11 with the total growth of your estimated market value is 5.2%. I think that that's reasonable for us to stick to. I know that we have some TIF funding that's coming off under the full budget. So I'd like to see us be at that 5.21. I think that makes sense for people. If you're out in the neighborhood talking to people, affordability is a huge issue. And I think that we can justify a 5.21.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I'll bring it up next time. I've sent an email already.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Well, there's a council person who likes to say that hope is not a plan, so I would like to see that included.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026