Remarks by Tamika E. Stewart
48 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
“sorry why he's looking for what you're looking for 300 Broadway does it have its own line or is it connected to is it under something else.”
“I love, Giselle said that we want to give higher salaries. I wish we could in all of them. I've seen the postings and the postings are just like, it's tough to get people. but the city has work to do before we can do that because the money has to be there. We have to find other revenue, tax revenue to generate that. We need an economic plan. If we don't have that and we're not generating more money, then we can't raise the rates and the salaries because there's no money for it, right? So we have to I wholeheartedly agree. We are behind the eight ball. But if we don't do something to bring in…”
“long as we confirmed that it was yeah it was approved as long as we approved it I'm happy to remove it okay Councilmember Stewart thank you um I have something that I wanted to add because I did not have it on my list before uh and it is uh the blight tax I know we have for properties that are have not uh that are sitting dilapidated vacant and not being renovated it's in the charter and i think we need to close the loopholes on some of them uh so i would like to add that too and that was blight the first word okay the blight tax uh because we have a lot of people that are just sitting on…”
“No, that's what my comment was going to be, to remove it. And I heard the assessor's comments the other day and just did a little more digging. We got bigger fish to fry with that.”
“So I agree that it shouldn't be on this list and we need to take it off, but I definitely believe what you're saying is that that is for a broader conversation and we have to bring in the tax, I'm sorry, the assessor to figure out what we are going to do to try to provide some relief for our homeowners We are taxed very high, and it is, you know, we talk about gentrification. Gentrification also looks very differently when you start taxing people out of their homes, and it's not a good look, so we can leave that for another time.”
“But can I ask a question Jason. This is about inclusionary zoning. I know it's been here and it's pretty much on this list for the last several years. I isn't inclusionary zoning dependent upon actual project and if we don't have the actual project I just want us to know before we start to rank it so that everybody has an understanding of the importance of it inclusionary zoning is a concept that can be”
“Yes, I had 2 more things I don't want to overload this but I want to put it on here and one of the committee's was just mentioned if we can create an actual committee that becomes a line item a budget I line. This is this becomes legislation if I'm correct if we want to do a an actual advisory committee. Is that legislation.”
“Perfect. So I have to. I see, Ramona, you have the small business economic development. Can we include in that a probably what could resemble a chamber of like a depository for small business information? gathering. I know we talked about it under urban planning, but now there is nothing. Is that under probably CDBG that they can do something like that and it doesn't have to be?”
“Yeah, but it's not, it's not done. So we don't know how many businesses we have in the city, where the businesses are, who they are, like that inventory list. um and the other thing is uh the a senior advisory committee this is one of the things that i looked at for ward three but it needs to be expanded for the city all right so any objections to adding senior advisory committee okay councilmember martinez”
“Michelle, while we wait, so we do this priority, I mean we do this list and at some point do we figure out what is short term and long term?”
“Thank you Jason. Going over the list that was here from 2025. I just wanted to touch base on some of them that I would definitely like to see move forward one of them is the exclusionary zoning and inclusionary zoning and also the designation for Crystal Lake not sure what needs to be done I just heard you talk about the wetland designations and how all of those things are rolled back so what would be the next steps for us if.”
“uh you know it's not a one foot in front of the other process okay okay that's really helpful to know um because i think we should think about starting whatever the next step is or taking that next step or whatever that first phase would look like and figuring it out from there is it possible to get a copy of the survey”
“Is it? OK. Thank you. The next, I'm sorry, go ahead, Ramona. No, go ahead. The other one was the short-term rentals, I'm sorry, for the rental registry. The rental registry, I know this is a part of mine. I see that it's connected to rent, so I have a list of stuff. um one of the things that i was concerned about um even going through the issues with the born and kenny was the rental registry and the code enforcement gaps that we underwent i think that is really important for us to address the gaps and code enforcement that's tied to our rental registry. Reason being that that is one of the…”
“It seems like everything leads back to codes, right? All things and all roads a lot of time leads back to codes. I recently got a report and on the report there was one big missing piece and I was speaking to Jason about that missing component and it was this area or this this category where we did not have a place to show the follow-up so there was no closeout of the actual item that was listed under code maybe it was a complaint about no heat no hot water and it showed that there was something that was it was addressed but it didn't show up in the report that it was addressed and it didn't…”
“I'm sorry, can you state your name again?”
“Thank you. Thank you all for staying. I always encourage everyone to stay to hear the resolutions because if you want to know anything about what's going on in the city, where the money is going, you listen to the resolutions. The comments are great. The public comments are great. Our response is great. But if you are tracking and want to pay attention to where the money is going, you listen to the resolutions. with that said I wanted to just make some remarks on what was talked about before us today the bid I do know that everyone is waiting for that RFP and I do believe we were waiting for…”
“this a question was asked about black line safety monitoring service before we enter this agreement this was discussed at our work session on Thursday at length in regards to what it would be used for the technology that is being used and it is really essentially a push-button technology and push-button technology is like when it you know how the commercial where I fall I fell I've fallen and I can't get up that commercial. It's push button alarm. So it's only activated if it's pushed and there is a sensor on it that if you have a fall or something, it can sense that because it's body worn.…”
“Yes, thank you. So this is also just kind of underscoring the need for the Surveillance Technology and Reporting Act that we'll work on for legislative priority so that everyone knows that there will be a process and protocol that Every piece of legislation or resolution in regards to technology will go through and the public will be aware and they will have an opportunity to get information and give feedback on any technology that the council adopts moving forward.”
“like this bait and switch that happened. 30% AMI for some apartments was in the IDA proposal, but when it got to us, that is no longer there. So that is one of the provisions that need to be put back at the 30%. That's right.”
“I'm so I can just answer some of what I know just 2 separate things one the acquisition has not happened as of yet there in the final stages not sure when that will happen they have to Actually acquire the property outright which there are a couple of hurdles that they're trying to overcome So hopefully within this next probably by the end of this month. They'll know if like one of their last hurdles are They are able to overcome this last hurdle so that they can access this last round of funding from the state the other issue is separate because There are several cases for the city that have…”
“So there was recently a water shut off, I think maybe three weeks, three or four weeks ago, because in anticipation for the winter months to fix this boiler or bring some parts in for the boiler because it had been ordered previously. So hopefully it will hold. But, you know, it's always going to stand that if we need to get a temporary boiler and we'll bring that boiler in and”
“Yeah, I just have one for old business and that is the rules of order. Resolution green light.”
“Thank you. Just in keeping with what I have considered to be normalized, tonight there was over $45 million moved in the city, a lot of which was spent on infrastructure, engineering in the city to ensure that our city is running smoothly. And the things sometimes that you don't see is actually feeding those things underneath the surface. So I just want to make sure everyone understands what it means to pay attention to those resolutions. The other thing is Senior Link Day, we have a second annual Senior Link Day that is happening on September 30th, and that is going to be at the activity…”