Remarks by Spencer Duncan
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All right, so two things. First of all, I make a motion to go past 10 o'clock. We've got people signed up for public comments. Second from I have no idea who that was. Councilmember Miller? All right. All those in favor say aye. All opposed? The second thing as we wrap up this conversation is I have talked with chief and city manager And we will put together, call it what you want, a fire commission, a citizen review of this plan. But my plan is to get that moving soon. So I don't 100% know what the structure is, but we'll have that conversation a little bit more over the next couple weeks.…
I mean, you can make, we can make that announcement. I mean, partly tonight, but I mean, it's going to be your appointment. So, So, over in your district, you would like to appoint to that thing.
Yeah, I'll talk to the staff about how we want to message that out to people. I'll talk to Dan.
No, this is the plan we're working from. Okay. Goal will be for those individuals to start using this plan, and if they have anything, maybe there's questions similar to what Councilmember Kell asked tonight about, hey, I want to take a second look at why we're building a station here versus here, and they can walk to the staff. Or if we're really going to get rid of a station here and you have an alternative plan for it, maybe there's a better alternative plan, or maybe we shouldn't get rid of that and we can build. So it gives them a chance to ask those questions, but it will be based off…
I think it's very clear that we need to build new fire stations. And so I think it's very easy, especially if this group starts meeting a couple meetings into this year. It can meet first quarter of next year. I mean, there's many times they need to over that five, six months. Two things can be done once. I mean, our issue at this point is not that we need to make some changes within a fire department, build new stations. It's how we want that to look. And so I think we can message that pretty easily. People say, we're doing this. What that final plan is, is you've got a base to work from.…
Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. With that, we will move on to public comment. First up, we have Sharon Gillette.
Thank you very much. I think Colleen left. Is that correct? Okay. And then Amy? Okay. All right. With that, we'll move on to announcements. City Clerk.
All right. I just want to thank all. It was hot this weekend. It's hot now. Supposedly, we're going to get a little break. But there was a lot of stuff that happened over Labor Day weekend outside from a Washburn football game that kind of got played. They just had made the extra point. We would have won that thing. But that's football. But there were a lot of events the next couple of days outside, including some musical events in the evening. But to everyone's credit in Topeka, they drank a lot of water and they went to those events still. So people still got out and participated in that.…