Remarks by Tim Murry
337 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 14
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“Okay. This is a public forum. Anyone in the public wish to address this item may come to the microphone and state your name and address and have three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, when you just set up a date, you don't inquire with anybody else what's on their calendar and everything and then just schedule something and expect somebody to just drop everything. It doesn't work that way.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, you know, just like I didn't make the hobnob because I was out of town and everything doing the hobnob.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm not sitting here to try to stop this or do anything with it. See, like I say, I know I can't be there. If this is what you all want to do and my city attorney then told me that everything is okay. And he's vetted it and everything, and we're not getting ourselves in any legal trouble. That's the only thing I'm ever concerned when I look at things like this. What legal ramification or drawback can the city be facing when we do things like this? Okay. And that's all. And, of course, like I said, he's the attorney. If he's assured me that, hey, we okay, and if something do come up, he can…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But I know what was brought to my attention, and I needed to satisfy my soul and everything that we was okay and legal here.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have a motion and a second to advertise the approval of item number 14 for advertisement on the website. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, let it be known by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Chair vote aye as well. Motion carries five-all. Item number 15, consideration of adopting a physical year 2027 parks and recreation policy.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. This is a public forum. Anyone in the chamber wish to address this item may come to the microphone and state your name and address and have three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Anyone else? This is a public hearing. Anyone in the chamber wish to address this item may come to the microphone and state your name and address and have three minutes. Seeing no one else, I have one online. Caller online, please unmute yourself.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I do have some questions, but first, I think we already have, if I'm not mistaken, we have a park and recreation policy already, if I'm not mistaken, that required to have 10 acres of park for every 1,000 residents. Is that not in our comprehensive plan already?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We already have established in our comprehensive plan to have 10 acres of parks per 1,000 residents. Okay. And currently we have, what, 443 acres, give or take, of parks? I'm going to trust you on that. I don't know the exact number. I'm just trying to verify this before, because I do have some questions, but I want to make sure I get all this before.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I agree. And, of course, this policy, we will replace the current policy, which you're creating five geographic quarters, right? Ten acres, like you say, ten acres of active, ten acres of passive natural park. And then here's the other thing in there. You say five minutes. Mm-hmm. access within five minutes, but then in the policy you state walking, automobile, bicycle, and everything. So what standard are we using to measure that five minutes?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Well, I'm just looking at what you're proposing here, and like I say, if I'm not mistaken, our comprehensive plan already provides for a citywide acreage and level type park, and we want to go from that to a geographic distribution of parks and all. So another question is, will this policy apply equally to every park, all the parks and recreation park projects?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“If we put this in here, will we be able to apply the standards or whatever? Every park and recreation project that we have in the city or looking at in the city, will we be able to apply these standards and take a look at it from this policy?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I guess what I'm getting at is making sure that every project we have, for example, meet us in the middle. Can it be evaluated under this policy using the same objectives and criteria that's set aside in this policy?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, you just said something that really caught my attention there. It precludes impact funds being spent in this quarter if it wasn't paid in this quarter.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I guess that's one of the problems I have with that because basically you take this quarter, this quarter, which is the northwest quadrant, how many impact fees are being paid here today in this quadrant? Because it's totally developed. Impact fees here are pretty much utilized. So any of these parks you're right now talking about developing in the downtown and everything, where's their impact fees coming from if they're not coming from other quarters? Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I think impact fees should be put out there, and if a park is there, we fund the park. Okay. Of course, I know in here you're saying – Do you want the policy to require 60% of the recreation impact fee balance to be allocated within six months? Yeah. Okay. I'm just trying to figure out why is that? First of all, we want to allocate it within six months, but yet and still we don't have any parks or anything else that we've actually set out and agreed upon that this is what we're going to do. Completely agree. Wouldn't that be putting staff under a little bit of strain there?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I just like to say you talk about allocating 60% of what was that 11.7 million or something like that, 11.7 million. So the 60% of that is $7 million. So we've talked about committing approximately $7 million before we necessarily know any Projects that provide the greatest return to our residents which project have Outside funding any of these things with it. We just go ill it will it nearly say, okay, we're going out arbitrarily those seventy seven million dollars to the park Projects without any analysis or anything which is best best to do I”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm not going to say New Citizens in Cleveland don't have parks when we have 20-something parks in this city, all over this city.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, they have access all over the city. You know, I guess that brings me back to the question I asked before. You say five minutes, access in five minutes. Yes. And I'm a little still confused on that when you say five minutes. I can walk to this park. It may take me 20 minutes to walk five minutes to this park. Okay. But you also have in the automobile. It may only take me a minute.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026