Remarks by Tabatha White
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Councillor White? So this material will be used when the state, no.
We don't have to wait for Oak Street to be reconstructed. We can start to do this. Okay, so there's no long-term storage of this material or anything like that?
Okay, I was on the right one. Move to approve the Oak Street Stormwater Contract Amendment with Woodard and Curran, incorporated in an amount not to exceed $190,000 for engineering design services for the Oak Street, Chapel Street, and Grant Street water main replacement project funded through the 2023- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program.
I'll move to approve the minutes from those said meetings.
I just have an update on the tree planting event that will happen Second year of our IRA grant volunteer planting event that'll happen at Harbor Park and the Union River Estates the last two weeks of October. So that's October 19th through October 30th. And it'll just be days of rolling volunteers. So new faces every day out in the parks planting shrubs and trees. in those places, so we'll have more on Facebook and an actual event that people can sign up for soon.
It's a great time of year to plant trees in the fall. Trees are cheaper at the nursery, and they can get established a little bit in the fall and wake up in the ground in the spring. So, yeah, great time.
Yeah, as many of us know, it has been getting more expensive to buy groceries at the grocery store, and also with a lot more dangerous with a lot of recalls and stuff on our fruits and vegetables so I think it's really amazing that here in Ellsworth we have so many incredible volunteers and nonprofits that are working to help make our community a more sustainable and more sustainable and more resilient by starting a Everybody Harvest community garden. Our partners Green Ellsworth actually have a organic garden that the residents of Ellsworth can go and visit behind the trade winds on the…
Exchange rates it's always different I just want to thank staff for the work put into this and especially you Sarah for your expertise here Given that we don't have an engineer to do this work And to help us in that aspect and I do believe I think the public comment or the public part is going to be incredibly important for the widening of the road aspect. We're going to be cutting into people's front yards, cutting down their trees. That can be incredibly difficult for people to kind of deal with and accept. So I think the more public engagement we can get with this, the better. So thank you.
I'd like to make a motion. I'd like to move to table the award of Maryland construction contract pending the solicitation and review of amended proposals from the three lowest proposers responding to the original RFP and schedule a special city council meeting for October 5th, 2026 for consideration of the revised proposals and potential contract award. Second.
Motion number one here? Yeah. Okay. So I make a motion pursuant to section 2.05B of the city charter, move to revise, no. Is this the one I'm supposed to be doing or here? If the motion is bifurcated. Okay. So, got you. I move to adopt Council Order No. 092604A, authorizing a $6 million loan from the Maine Municipal Bond Bank Drinking Water SRF Program, DHHS-DWSRF No. 2024-17, and issuance of the city's bond... No, this is not the right motion.
So I'm going to redo this again. So I move to adopt Council Order Number 09-2604B, authorizing a second, authorizing a $6 million loan from the Maine Municipal Bond Bank Drinking Water SRF Program, DHHS-DWSRF, number 2025-06 and issuance of the city bonds and bans therefore to finance a portion of the costs of the new water treatment project plans.
Yeah, thinking and doing some research on this, I think Ellsworth, the biggest issue that Ellsworth would have here is that we lose, I would assume that in a strong mayor situation, a resident of Ellsworth would have to be the one running. So we don't have many people here in Ellsworth that would be... qualified and even age-wise to do it, we lose half the population there. And I think we lose just the ability to get someone that is actually qualified to do such a difficult job, really. And I just... I get how a strong mayor works in the cities. I've voted in those cities for strong mayors,…
I have a question. Maybe you can answer it. Maybe somebody else can. Where is the line drawn when you, let's say, I'm going to use Momo's Cheesecake for example. Like I start selling some cheesecakes in a little refrigerator at my place. When do I cross a line where I actually have to get a commercial seat, commercial kitchen? Is there like the amount of product that you're...