Remarks by Tyler Titus
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Well, if there are no other questions or comments, we have about 15 minutes before we head into the meeting. So we can go ahead and end caucus now, and we can get this room reset and prepared for the meeting.
So we will go ahead and bring this meeting to order.
We will start with a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. As we stand, the whole community knows about the tragedy that we endured. So if we can hold space for all of them as we stand here tonight.
There are no presentations this evening, so we will ask if there is anybody here for a repository sale. Is there anyone here on a repository sale? Is there anyone here on a repository sale? Seeing none, this will move us to public comment. When we go into public comment, we ask that you please sign in up here at this desk at the front, stating your right clearly so we are able to know for our records who you are, and state your name clearly and your municipality when you come up. You will have five minutes, and just as a reminder that this is the audience time, that we do not typically, as…
Holly, what municipality do you reside in?
Is there anybody else here for public comment?
Thank you. Just as a reminder, per rules of council, we're not to call out any individual councillors by name. Anybody else here for public comment?
Thank you. IS THERE ANYONE HERE OR ANYONE ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
Anyone else here for public comment? Anyone else for public comment? Anyone else for public comment? Seeing none, we will go ahead and move on. Yes. At this point, I am going to ask that we move into executive session to discuss legal matters. So if we can go ahead and call that. Thank you.
And at this time record that council has returned back from executive session and I'm returning back into our public meeting City Council resumes at 7 20 p.m. Ordinances for final passage All right, we will, yeah, go ahead and move into audience, sorry. And it's just as a reminder, we did, in case you all haven't noticed, it's freezing in here. And so in efforts to try to warm up, we opened up that door, which just means every sound is going to carry through. But this was our attempt to make it a tad bit warmer in here.
So at this point, I'd ask for a motion to move the balance.
A motion by Councillor Full and a second by Councillor Horton. Is there any separations? No separations, Lori.
Thank you. We'll go ahead and start with Councillor Poole.
so i'll start my report with a reminder that election the election season is happening right so voting is already occurring and your last day to vote by 8 pm is november 3rd so tuesday november 3rd so make sure if you are a registered voter uh you know the time to register stopped um was it monday but now we got to make sure if you are registered that you get out and cash your vote so you can already to be doing the early voting, go to the courthouse as well, but make sure that your ballot and that your vote is cast by November 3rd by 8 p.m. We've heard a lot about the tragedy, and we say…
Thank you. Anything else from colleagues? All right. Move for adjournment. Thank you. Do we have a second?
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TO NOT TAKE US TOO FAR OFF THE AGENDA THAT WE HAVE TO GO ON, I WOULD REALLY ENCOURAGE US AS A COUNCIL TO NOT ONLY LEAN INTO COMMENTING AROUND SOME OF THESE PROPOSED RULE CHANGES, BUT THEN PERHAPS CONSIDER PUTTING A RESOLUTION SO THAT It's really important for us to understand what I'm guessing then from what you just shared is those who are here on refugee status, those who are here on green card status, meaning those who pay taxes, who are working jobs, who are members of our community, will not be counted correctly. And so we need to make sure that we are advocating for all of those…
Thank you for that update. Any other questions then on those final passage items? All right, looking at the ordinances for first reading, do we have any questions under ordinances for the first reading? Thank you.
I do know that I had a message with the solicitor this morning with file ordinance number one and then file ordinance number four. There was just a first line typo that will get fixed before that comes before. It does not change the substance of either ordinance, but it was just left over from just the framework that we were building it from.
And I do know that there was interest by the two other taxing bodies that have a say on this to reconvene us as entities to just look at this process in a whole because this has been a concern that's been brought up by county counselors and also city school board directors too. So I think that when we go into the new year, this will be an opportunity for us to get the three taxing bodies together to just revisit this process in general. Any other questions on, well, now that we're into the new business, any questions around new business with also drawing attention that we do have a public…
There was Donato's there for a while. Yep, I know exactly what you're talking about. I would like to just... There are... There are several transfers that we see going, some change orders that we see going with this. And so if we could get a quick update, I know I didn't prep, but from Jason Sayers, if that's possible, just around some of the work that's being done, as a lot of this is coming in with the Miller Brothers project that's happening. Specifically, we're looking at, for me, contract number two. Has a big asterisk on there. We've seen a change orders now to the tune of around…
So I think for me, and I don't want to speak for all of council, but I would love to, especially as we head into this budget season, to look at just the changes that have been done here at City Hall, the changes that are happening up at Miller Brothers, and how it's going to shift just the flow and, I guess, budget impact as we look to just really who's going to stay here, what's the plan of just – the flow of operations here and the flow of operations of the Miller Brothers, too. It's been a little while since we've had a full update just on how both those projects are going to go. So as we…
Yeah, not now, not now, yeah. That was a really big ask, so yeah. All right. No.
Thank you, Jason. I appreciate it. I know I often put you on the spot, and I appreciate you just jumping in there.
One thing that I did want to call note to as we are looking at one of the memos that came through was around the blue coats. It was just added, and I wanted to make sure we all saw that. The police are using some of their budget to do a pilot program with the Bluecoats being over in Perry Square from 8 to, or is it noon to 7 p.m.? I think it's 12 to 7. To try to address just some of the issues that we've seen happening over in Perry Square, but then also to work with the business owners to try to improve safety over in Perry Square. I think this is a great, great initiative. I was really…