Remarks by Spencer Duncan
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Thank you. With that, I don't have anyone else signed up for public comment. We will move on to announcements. City Clerk.
I told you yes and see if you showed up.
All right. Well, I'll echo everyone else's comments about Nick and Josh. I will say, you know, these jobs, turnover's higher, sadly, in government than it is out in the private sector in these positions. And we get why. We work pretty hard and long hours. And we ask a lot of you. I'm not going to apologize for that. But I do appreciate that you hang in there with us. You know, in terms of both of these folks, sadly for us, they've just got better opportunities. And I will never regret it, even though I like to say sometimes they're dead to me now. I will acknowledge that you've got to make…
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All right. We will now move into executive session. We have come out of executive session. No action is being taken. This meeting is adjourned at 9.49 p.m.
Good evening and welcome to the September 8th, 2026 meeting of the Topeka, Kansas governing body. This evening, Council Member Christina Valdivia-Alcala has the invocation. If you would please turn your attention to her and rise if you are able.
All right. With that, the clerk would call the roll.
All right. We'll move on to appointments. City Clerk?
Motion to approve by Councilmember Kell. Second from Councilmember Valdivia. Any comments or questions? If none, we'll take a vote, please. We cannot vote.
All right, I do not believe Candace is here this evening, but I'll double check. So no, but we thank her for her service. With that, we'll move on to presentations. City Clerk.
Thank you. Thank you. I will say we did used to get what I would consider big fire. We used to get those in the system on fires that elevated to whatever this, a level like that. Because I will say I would also, maybe because it was a holiday is why we didn't get one yesterday. But I know there was a time where we did get ones if they were big enough fires that the fire department. So if that's changed, that's fine.
Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member McGee.
Thank you. Any other questions or comments for Dan? All right. Thank you, Dan.
We have a second presentation this evening. City Clerk.
Great. Thank you. All right. Questions from the council? Council Member Kell.
So Justin, I'm going to interject on that and then you can add to whatever. But I'm going to connect it to something in both your report that you go into a little more in-depth than the actual report and then what was on your slide tonight, which is we are a city with no infill development incentives or programs. And so I think to the council member's point, he's got people in his district who they're acquiring the land and they're building the homes, but if you don't have any sort of infill incentives or development plan, then the cost of those homes are more to build without some sort of…
Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Hiller.
All right. With that, we will move on to the consent agenda.
All right. Motion to approve from Councilmember Miller, second from Councilmember Bradbury. Kirk, take the vote, please.
All right. With that, we move on to action items. 5A, city clerk.
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All right. Questions or comments from the governing body? Council Member Valdivia.
So what specifically is the motion? I got to be honest, it was a little. What specifically is your motion to amend this? I'm not amending it. OK. What do you mean? What's your motion?
OK. Yeah. I got you. Make sure everyone else gets a chance to talk if they'd like.
Any other comments or questions? I do have a question, Sylvia. I want to clear something up. If I ask your staff right now for a list the past five years of every water line that we've placed, you are absolutely capable of providing that to me, correct?