Remarks by Theresa Morris
27 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“councilwoman morris thank you very much one of the wonderful things about being on council is that every uh... month you get to choose who is going to sing and who is going to do the prayer and this is my mom and so i just want to say thank you so much to pastor carl jackson uh... he leads a church where we have a community meeting every month and we have been really wonderful partners together and uh... just want you all to say an extra prayer for him and his church as they continue moving forward. Having a church, it's a hard time right now. And so just say an extra little prayer. And…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. I know it's really hard, probably, to stand up there and be, you know, listen to all of the different things that have happened in your life, but to us, you are amazing. I first ran into you at Art-O-Matic, and I saw you at Techleto, and just all over our community, and... I see your work everywhere too, but being creative also takes a lot of courage. Being a part of the Latino history and all of the vibrant colors that artists in the Latino community use, it brings you home. It gives you a sense of belonging. Visual art can transform our communities. It can give us an identity for…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you, President Williams. Clerk, please begin with the second read items.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Clerk, please continue with the new items from city council.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Resolution adopted. Clerk, please continue with the new items from the administration.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Councilwoman Morris, first call. I move to dispense with the reading of Toledo City Journal for the city council meeting of September 22nd, 2026. Seeing no objections, I'll order. I move to excuse Council President Williams for non-attendance at the Community and Administrative Services Committee of September 23rd, 2026. Council Member Gattis for non-attendance at the Community and Administrative Services Committee of September 23rd, 2026 and the Agenda Review Meeting of September 29th, 2026. Councilwoman Jones for non-attendance at the City Council Meeting of September 22nd, 2026. uh…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“I understand how it feels to be Julie right now. Just a couple of things. We do have our candidates night for the general election at the Point Place Business Association. They sponsor that. And so that will be on October 21st at 7 o'clock at Friendship Park. I will be the person who will be the emcee. So Come on out. And then we also have now begins the season of Trunk or Treat everywhere. And so there will be two in the point, probably more that I'm missing, but October 24th at Friendship Park. again sponsored by the point place business association and then october thirtieth uh... a new…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, ladies, for taking time out of your schedules to come down, because sometimes it's hard to be honored, and so I'm happy that you came. Thank you to Council Member Gaddis and McPherson for allowing me to try sponsor this. I ran into some of the members at Mama's Kitchen, and they were having breakfast. They were having a meeting, and I went to have breakfast. And I was, you know, as you do, you kind of sit around, and you look, and you think, wow. I wonder what they're doing. What's Toledo Troopers? So what do you do? You start Googling, right? Oh, oh my goodness. How do…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Councilwoman Morris, first call. Thank you, Clerk, and I would agree with you with Bob. He was a gem of a guy. I met him through the Arts Commission way back when, and his touch was always on the different organizations throughout the city, so we definitely mourn his loss. I would like to say thank you for my colleagues for supporting the grants for the Summit Street Embankment Stabilization. When I first got on council five years ago, this was the first thing that came to my desk and we spent many a times trying to get grant funding to uh... get this project done so i'm i'm excited that it's…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. I can't talk enough about this. I've been talking about this for five years. And we've made, you, Simon, has made many applications to various funding streams with no luck. And we've knocked on many doors, whether it was FEMA, Army Corps, ODNR I'm sure, I mean you can give me the rundown of all of the different places and we were not successful. And so to be able to bring this federal money back to this area is quite an accomplishment. And as we transition from the Rust Belt to the Water Belt, we have to take care of our infrastructure and we're talking about the light poles, and…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, and I'm glad that we have Sarah Stacey here because when I came home last night, everybody put out their recycling bins and their garbage, and I've noticed that there was some utility work in our neighborhood. There was a transformer that blew in the last storm, and so they were cutting down some of the trees, and they left the trees at the curb. And so the curb has had a number of brush, good piles of brush. I came home last night, where was the brush? In the recycling bin. So I don't know, do we have any kind of curbside pickup for brush? And honestly, if it's the utility…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So in this situation, I'm going to guess that they don't know about the bundling. Is there any kind of educational materials that we have or Republic has, especially given with the new contract? Because even someone related to me said, I'll just call for a bulk pickup. And so I think that we have a lot more to communicate about this contract. And until we do that, I think unfortunately we're going to see people putting all kinds of things into the recycling, the blue recycling bins. So I don't know if maybe Joe from the administration.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And what I think that we really need to do is do that actual, like, and maybe they do that. Maybe they sticker things. I don't know. But in this situation, these individuals are probably not going to go to the website to be able to seek it out to get them the information. So when it's a noncompliant whatever it is, I'm hoping that someone is either tagging that or knocking on the door or having, I mean, I'm happy to help with that as a district person, but this just happened to be on my block. So, you know, I can't necessarily go on all the blocks. So I'm just trying to figure out how we as a…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Just a real quick question. So there's a public tree in the right of way and maybe forestry doesn't think it should be removed. I do. I apply for the permit. Do I enlist a private company to remove it? Is it forestry that removes it? How does that work?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“OK. I just wanted that clarification. I wasn't quite sure. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Just so I understand, so this is saying that they have inspected and they have found repairs that need to happen? Or is this proactively saying if we find that they need to repair, this is what we're planning on doing? Help me out.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. Just wanted clarification. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. The other Teresa is not here today, and I am actually asking this on her behalf, and also perhaps Councilman Hobbs might weigh in. We have been notified that some of the hydrants have been put in the middle of a sidewalk, thus impeding accessibility for individuals, and so I don't know what street it was in Councilwoman Gaddis' district, but I know that Councilman Hobbs had one, I believe, in his district. And so I'm curious, what's going on with the hydrants?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay Do you and I don't know if you know this off the top of your head if not I will do a referral Do we know how many hydrants we have in the city?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And how many will we, we're doing 70 with this?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And how do we decide what needs to be replaced?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And what is the average shelf life of hydrant?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“You know? Yeah. They're important. It's 50 years. Oh, 50? 50 years. Okay. All right.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“You know, I talk about this a lot, but, you know, having had a house across the street from me that caught on fire, you know, having accessibility to water is a big issue, obviously. But even we're going to be having a meeting about some of the industrial accessibility to hydrants. Specifically, I'm concerned about OmniSource. and being able to get back into some of the private property. So, you know, I can't understate or overstate, I should say, the importance of hydrants. I mean, they're just, they're so important. So thank you. Thank you, Chair.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Councilman Sorrento.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026