Remarks by Victoria Marshall
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“Do we have the ability to go through the temp agency again? And would there be, could you repeat how much more it would be for the city to create it? You said it wasn't that much more, but exactly how much?”
“Yes, it seemed like I'd have to go back to the screen, but the differential could be it was like $4,000, $6,000 possible a year. I might be wrong on that. But I just know that the CDBG, say that three times fast, coordinator, when she comes to speak to us, she's talking about programs for elderly people to weatherize their homes. So these are real sometimes emergency repairs that need to be made for really vulnerable people. And I just always enjoy her giving us the information about the people who do utilize the funds. And it seems like they do get used. And I appreciated what Bradley said…”
“I thank Patrick Rooney for really wise words. When he talked about fireworks, I thought it was a wonderful analogy. And it's really great. I voted, I think, I was probably the person that made the motion to make sure we kept public comment because it is important. But it's also important to remember that if you're How you give a message is probably going to determine how that message is received. But I also understand people want to just give their displeasure with government. And so that's fine. But I'm not quitting. I will be here and I will continue and I would just like to say that it…”
“Well, if it's Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday morning, yes. Otherwise, I couldn't do it.”
“Thank you so much for the information. Is this our municipal code or is this state law or is it both?”
“Okay. And would it be fair to say that council decides if the three criteria have been met?”
“So when I look at the criteria, I think that it's reasonable for the council to come to the decision that it meets all three. Uh, the first criteria, the unique physical properties are the trees. And that just makes sense to me under the second criteria, uh, minimum increase required. Well, they did the flag test and that was the minimum increase required to be seen, uh, the way that they needed to be seen. And, uh, for the third criteria, the proposal is not a substantial deviation from the standards outlined. Well, it's not a substantial deviation from the minimum increase required. And we…”
“WOULD YOU TAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND I AGREE WITH YOU THAT WE CAN EASILY APPROVE THIS REQUEST TONIGHT. to add to direct staff to put on an upcoming workshop looking into changing the code.”
“Yeah, that just made me think. Um, so the money that is rolled over, does it go into this specific slot? Like if it was allotted for weatherization, the next year it has to be. Or are they fungible? Can they be used and put into other areas that you're funding, like the welcome home or something like that?”
“I'd just like to go ahead and approve the resolution as presented.”
“Yeah, our meeting was recessed tonight and it was recessed due to meeting decorum. There was, I just want to vehemently disagree with what Rob said. There is a great deal of difference in the two behaviors and it has to do with that word decorum. It's in our potential motion. And I would like to point out that there were really adorable children who were going to come up and give these 50 cents. It's the Freezy Lemon, 50 cents off of one lemonade. And they were promoting their lemonade day that's going to happen this weekend. Adorable kids. They did it outside because our meeting decorum was…”
“Yeah, I think we all had from the people who spoke tonight a lot of the same things to talk about. So Mike, I was wondering as they were speaking about the, this terrible incident that happened on their property if, and I don't know if you can answer this, but I was thinking as they were talking, would a municipal court have helped that? Would there have been any recourse for those people to go there? I don't know. That was what I was wondering and that's what I was going to ask.”
“DIRECTOR RIVERA- Thank you. Thank you for speaking about that. And so and I'm really glad to hear. Thank you for when you said you were writing down the Suzanne's concern. because I know you guys do do do that. So thank you for that as well. And then the last thing that I was going to say before the other people in the public spoke was just thank you again to the fire and police for the second fire in a row that you just protected our town from. It's amazing work that you do and we are so lucky to have you. And so I just wanted to lend my appreciation and thanks for that fire down at Tom…”