[7:39] This one's yours.
>> Oh, yeah. I guess it was. I'm sorry.
[7:43] It's an extra room. Yeah.
[7:48] I'd like to call this meeting to order.
Today, September 1st, good lord, sorry,
[7:53] September at 7 p.m. And this is a
legislative meeting of the mayor and
[7:59] council. This is an in-person meeting
being held at city hall, you know, for
[8:04] you guys that haven't visited our newest
um building. All right, perfect. I'm
[8:09] going to start with call to order. Um,
let me keep track of who what I go to.
[8:14] We're one, Jenny.
Present.
[8:17] » Danielle,
>> present.
[8:19] » Valerie, I'm here.
>> Joseph,
[8:22] » present. [laughter]
>> Okay. And I'm here. We have a full
[8:25] quorum. All five of us are present for
this meeting. And welcome back. We have
[8:31] been in recess for two months. So, this
is our first uh meeting back from
[8:34] Reese's. All right. So, can I ask
everybody to please stand in order for
[8:37] us to do the pledge of allegiance?
[clears throat]
[8:42] » Ready? I pledge algiance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the
[8:49] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[8:56] justice for all.
>> Right. Please take a seat.
[9:00] [snorts]
Right. And just as a reminder, there is
[9:04] the table in the back in case you guys
want to join for public comment. Please
[9:08] make sure you add your name. um our
clerk will pick it up right before
[9:12] public comment and bring it up to us. So
if you guys would like to speak is back
[9:16] there along with um the guest Wi-Fi
information
[9:21] and
and the agenda as well. So there's
[9:24] [snorts] like paper printed agendas.
It's also like online if you um are a
[9:28] tree hugger and don't want to um kill no
trees with it. It's on this side of the
[9:32] room. Was it like stage left, stage
right? Um my my theater people will come
[9:38] after me if I do it wrong. All right.
So, perfect. Thank you guys so much. We
[9:42] um we have an agenda in front of us.
Item number two. So, we did the call of
[9:48] order, pledge of allegiance. Item number
two be review of the agenda.
[9:52] Mayor and council members, I will um
share the event announcements. Item
[9:58] number five, proclamation recognition of
Latino Heritage Month. Um I will be
[10:03] presenting a proclamation for Latino
Heritage Month. We already have a
[10:06] resolution. So yearly we do a
proclamation as well. Item number five,
[10:11] public comment and new business. A vote
on approval. We should be like
[10:16] discussion and vote on approval for
variance request for 3100 uh Taylor
[10:22] Street right here in Marine, Maryland.
I apologize for that. Uh so council will
[10:28] vote to approve um to approve a variance
request for 3100 Taylor Street in
[10:34] Marineer. um
as recommended by design review board or
[10:40] as we have learned to know uh them DRB.
All right. Items number seven uh first
[10:47] reading of ordinance 05-2026.
American council will have the first
[10:50] reading of ordinance 05
05. It says we need to put 05 dash
[10:55] instead of comma 2026 amending the code
of the city of Marina chapter 9 parking
[11:01] meters to eliminate parking meter and
provide for establishment of pay parking
[11:05] zones as amino changing for parking
instead zones and this item has been
[11:10] brought out to council several times
already in our efforts to like clean up
[11:15] our code and you'll be seeing a couple
of them through the through the next few
[11:19] months. Okay. All right. Perfect. Um,
council, you have an agenda in front of
[11:25] you. Any remarks?
So, can I have a motion to approve the
[11:32] agenda with the edit to add a ordinance
05-2026
[11:37] instead of 05, 2026? We're good with the
edit just for our record keeping. All
[11:44] right. So, um, all those in favor of the
agenda as with the small edit, I
[11:52] » I
>> I
[11:54] » I
>> I
[11:56] » All right, so we have a working agenda
here. Um, and this is a beautiful
[12:02] reminder to make sure you mute your
phones, please. Uh, okay. So, we have a
[12:06] working agenda. So, moving on to item
number three, mayor and council members
[12:10] event announcements. So, since I started
with war two for roll call, I'm going to
[12:15] go to war war one, going to go to war
two, Joseph, on my end. Um, any event
[12:20] announcements?
>> Sure. The uh the green team has their
[12:24] next meeting on September 22nd at 7:00.
This will be online. Uh they've been
[12:30] alternating in person and online
meetings. The August one was in person.
[12:35] Um the tree commission will have their
next meeting on September the 17th at 7.
[12:41] I don't recall if this one was in the
online or the uh in person version. So,
[12:47] please stay tuned to the city's website
for that. And if there's anyone who
[12:52] would like a pawpaw after this meeting,
please come see me. I have too many.
[12:56] Thank you. [laughter]
>> All right, Valerie. Um, thank you. Um,
[13:02] so the recreation committee is hosting
the third Porchfest on September 26th
[13:06] from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. That's a
Saturday. Um and it will be a full
[13:11] weekend of music as I think
Heightsville's Porchfest is on September
[13:14] 27th um following day. So um come out
for that. Um the um there's still room
[13:20] for uh performers. So if you want to
perform um get in touch with the
[13:24] recreation committee um uh through the
website um and sign up. Um second, the
[13:30] Gateway CDC is beginning to plan for
Gateway Arts District. This is the 25th
[13:34] year of the Gateway Arts District and so
they are beginning to plan for a lot of
[13:38] events and initiatives to support
artists and the arts community that we
[13:41] have here. So stay tuned for that. Um
information coming out soon. Um the
[13:46] third um the arts commission is starting
to plan for an art that is social. They
[13:50] had done these back in 2024 and then I
think it hadn't continued in 2025. So
[13:54] we're trying to bring that back. Um
we're looking into October as a
[13:58] potential date. So hopefully by the next
work work session I will have more
[14:00] information on that. Um the city of
Mount Reineerie are both uh local
[14:05] schools participate in walk bike and
roll to school which is on October 7th.
[14:09] Um so uh you know make sure you're
paying attention to what they're doing
[14:13] because it's important that they can
walk safely to school. Um and then I
[14:16] think district 47 they're having their
annual cookout at Bladensburg waterfront
[14:20] at uh September 19th. I think that's
right.
[14:24] » Um but I could be wrong on the location
so but we should
[14:26] » I'm pretty sure is there. Thank you so
much Danielle followed by Jenny.
[14:31] » Yes. Thank you. Um the search team will
be tableabling on September 3rd, which
[14:35] is this um Thursday, um at Reineer Manor
during their resident appreciation
[14:40] resource event. And the C team will also
be at the Mount Reneer Nature Center on
[14:46] September 18th from 6:00 to 8:00
providing training and the importance of
[14:50] preventing falls um with uh and
partnering with the Gateway Aging
[14:55] Together monthly potluck. That's all
this month.
[14:59] » Okay, Jenny. Um, the bike co-op is
having its monthly meeting tomorrow
[15:03] night um at the bike co-op on uh Bunker
Hill. Um, and the meeting is at 7:00.
[15:10] That's it. Oh, and I'm also just want to
note that I'm very pleased that Chief
[15:16] Perez is having a community conversation
on September 15th, and I hope um lots of
[15:21] people in the community can attend.
>> Okay. Thank you so much. Um upcoming
[15:27] events, uh chief of police, uh community
conversation Tuesday, September 15 from
[15:32] 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the police
department room. This is something that
[15:35] we've been doing um for past chief as
well. So I'm glad that it's being um
[15:40] engaged. Um they also done like coffee
with the cop as well. So you get to talk
[15:44] to our chief and bring up your ideas if
you have any questions. Moreno porchet
[15:48] as it was announced September 26 3 to 3
to 6. Um Latino month celebration
[15:54] partnership the Joe's Movement Emporium
will be held October 3rd from uh from 3
[15:59] to 6 at Joe's Movement Emporium. So it's
going to be an indoor event. The
[16:04] Halloween parade and trunk or tree will
be held October 30 uh from 5:30 at
[16:09] Thomas Stone Elementary. and the latest
news. Uh, thank you to all who have been
[16:15] reaching out to me regarding the buzz um
from PGCPS um being in lack of better
[16:22] words a complete disaster when it comes
to kids not being picked up or being um
[16:26] brought right. So, in saying that, our
school board members um had a whole
[16:31] entire hearing and they uh managed to
get some information out and they're
[16:36] working on various steps. But if you are
a PGCPS parent in PJ Georgees County uh
[16:41] school public school system tomorrow,
Wednesday, September 2nd from 6:00 to
[16:46] 7:00 p.m. uh telephone uh town hall will
be taking place. Um you'll be getting a
[16:52] call directly to your phones in order
for you to log in. But for more
[16:56] information visit their website and um I
know that we don't have jurisdiction
[17:02] over the schools but thank you for
informing us of the issues that are
[17:04] happening because at the end of day
there are students and we collaborate
[17:08] also where schoolboard members but
tomorrow um please make sure if you're a
[17:12] parent from um from one of the students
uh when you get the call pick up and be
[17:16] on it. The superintendent will be
present and they'll be able to answer
[17:21] questions and follow up. But um the
safety of our kids is very important.
[17:25] the fact that they're not attending
school for lack of transportation is
[17:27] also definitely an issue. All right, so
those will be um my announcements. And
[17:33] actually, you know what? Lastly, but not
least, um I want to give a big shout out
[17:36] to the Prince George's RC teams. We have
had a lot of um uptakes when it comes to
[17:42] um immigration enforcement in the area.
We have wonderful volunteers through not
[17:47] just the city, but collective cities.
They mobilized very quickly and they
[17:51] make sure they had um various uh people
not just in the location where it was
[17:56] happening but also around the school.
This was the closest school was Thomas
[17:59] Stone. So it was a good coordination
between everybody else and making sure
[18:02] that people were uh safe. So a big shout
out to them. I know they put their um
[18:08] literally their life in their line
because they care about people. So thank
[18:11] you for that. And saying that um if
you're interesting on training, please
[18:16] take it. is important so that way you
know how to protect yourself and also be
[18:19] aware of what's going on. Okay, so
that'll be the announcements for me. All
[18:26] right, so item number four, proclamation
recognition celebration Latino Heritage
[18:33] Month.
All right, so it is um in your pack is
[18:39] it it's in the screen
in my secure website. Okay. All right.
[18:45] So, I'll read I'll do a read through.
There is a resolution as well, but this
[18:49] is more or less on has been updated um
because the original one was done quite
[18:54] a few years ago. All right. [snorts]
A proclamation of the city of Moreno,
[18:58] Maryland recognizing Latino Heritage
Month and celebrating the culture,
[19:01] history, heritage, and contributions of
the Latino community. Whereas the Latino
[19:06] Heritage Months observed annually from
September 15 to October 15 provides an
[19:11] opportunity to recognize, honor, and
celebrate the rich history, diverse
[19:15] cultures, traditions, achievements, and
contributions of Latino community
[19:19] through the United States. And whereas
the Latino Heritage Month celebrates the
[19:23] many cultures and identities that make
up the Latino community, our native
[19:28] indigenous from people's from people
whose roots extend through the United
[19:32] States, Mexico, Central America, South
America, Caribbean, Spain, Africa, Asia,
[19:36] and communities across the world. And
whereas the theme on mas together we are
[19:42] more remind us that our community are
stronger when they stand together
[19:46] support one another and recognize that
our diversity is one of our greatest
[19:50] strengths and you can move it all the
way up Melissa because you can move me
[19:54] I'm good but not that good. There you
go. Whereas Latino families, immigrants,
[19:59] and generations of Latino Americans have
helped shape the history, character,
[20:02] economy, culture, and future of the
United States through their hard work,
[20:06] entrepreneurship, military service,
public service, education, advocacy,
[20:10] artistry, and commitment to community.
There hasn't been a field the Latino
[20:14] community has not contribute that they
have that they have no increase uh they
[20:18] have not increased the impact on that
field. And whereas Latino are one of the
[20:22] largest and fastest growing communities
in the United States, representing a
[20:25] vital, vibrant part of the nation's
social, culture, economic, [snorts]
[20:28] civil life. And whereas the Latino
community will always be welcome,
[20:32] embraced, and respected, and your voice
being heard by the city of Mariner. And
[20:36] through this time where attacks at a
federal level to our community are being
[20:40] held for TPS holders continue to
increase, please know we stand with you
[20:44] and we and you are a ver a vital part of
our community. and
[20:50] where the Latino uh students continue to
grow their presence in schools, college,
[20:53] universities across the nation, pursuing
educational opportunities and helping to
[20:57] build the next generation of leaders,
educators, professionals, entrepreneurs
[21:01] and public service and
Latino owned business are important
[21:07] growing part of the American economy,
creating jobs, estraining neighbors and
[21:11] contributing to the economy vitality of
communities throughout the nation. And
[21:16] whereas Latinos has served with
distinctions in all branch of the United
[21:18] States Armed Forces and have bravely
defend our nation through its history,
[21:22] including the courageous service of the
61st Infantry Regiment of Puerto Rico
[21:26] known as Borik, whose legacy of
couragement and sacrifice remain
[21:30] important part of our national nation's
history and where Latino public servants
[21:35] have contributed at every level of
government, including the speaker of the
[21:38] house, senator, delegates, board
members, mayors, council members,
[21:41] elected officials, judges, educators,
administrator, first responders,
[21:45] military leader leaders, artists,
community advocates demonstrating a
[21:48] long-standing commitment to the public
service and civic participation.
[21:53] And whereas Latino community has
enriched the city of Marina through its
[21:56] diversity, energy, creativity,
entrepreneurship, CV engagement, Latinos
[22:01] has served as elected officials, boards,
and commissions members, committee
[22:04] members, volunteers, advocates, business
owners, nonprofits leaders, educators,
[22:09] staff members, and community organizers.
And we're almost done, I promise. And
[22:15] whereas the city of Marine recognizes
Latino Heritage Month is not only a
[22:18] celebration of the past, but also an
opportunity to honor the present,
[22:20] embrace the future, to recognize the
young people who are learning their
[22:24] history and families who preserve their
traditions and community leaders who are
[22:27] creating new opportunities for
generations to come. And whereas the
[22:32] values of familia commun
persistencia, family, community culture,
[22:37] respect, hope, and perseverance are
reflected in the many ways Latino
[22:41] residents contribute to the strength of
the fabric of Morenir. And whereas
[22:45] Latino culture has enriched our
collective community through music, art,
[22:49] dance, literature, food, language, uh,
traditions, faith, entrepreurship,
[22:54] countless and other expressions of
identity and heritage. And whereas we
[22:59] recognize there is no single Latino
experience of culture, but rather a
[23:02] beautiful tapestry of history,
countries, language, traditions, and
[23:06] identities that together make the Latino
community diverse, dynamic, and strong.
[23:11] And whereas the Latino Heritage
Month, we affirm our commitment to a
[23:17] community where every resident is
treated with dignity and respect, where
[23:20] diversity is celebrated, where
discrimination, racism have no place,
[23:23] and where everybody has the pertinent to
participate fully in the civic and
[23:26] community life of Mount Reineer. And
whereas the generation who came before
[23:31] us honored, we honor those who have
paved the way and recognize the
[23:35] generations who will carry these
traditions and dreams forward.
[23:40] Okay. Whereas
our culture is a strength and the
[23:45] stories, traditions, sacrifices and
accomplishment of Latino community are
[23:48] essential part of the American history
and the story of Mariner. Whereas camos.
[23:57] So together we celebrate our roots and
build our future recognizing that our
[24:00] shared community is stronger when every
resident has the opportunity to thrive
[24:03] and contribute. So now therefore let it
be resolved that the city of Maria Maran
[24:08] Kar recognize and celebrates Latino
heritage month and honors the history
[24:11] culture heritage achievement and
immeasurable contribution of Latino
[24:14] Latinos and the bar Latino community of
our city and our state and our nation
[24:19] for the be resolved that the city of
Mariner plowi celebrates the Latino
[24:22] community's continued contributions to
the vitality and future of the city and
[24:27] now therefore be resolved I see in our
beneia do hyper claim September 5th
[24:32] through August through October 15 Latino
Latino Heritage Month in the city of
[24:36] Mariner today and on every year
encouraging our residents to celebrate
[24:39] Latino Heritage Month through
educational cultural community
[24:43] activities that recognize the
accomplishment of the Latino community,
[24:46] preserve and share their rich history
and traditions and promote greater
[24:49] understanding, unity, inclusion and
respect among each other. So says
[24:57] so cheer up for our culture, our
community and together we are more. All
[25:01] right. So there's my beautiful
penmanship.
[25:05] It needs work. All right. So that is
said we do have a resolution. Um it's
[25:10] online. Go check it out. But this is
also going to be online added to the
[25:14] other uh proclamations that we have with
the latest one. All right. Thank you
[25:18] guys so much for um bearing to that. And
one day I promise I'll make these three
[25:24] paragraphs, but so far I have failed in
every single one of them. All right.
[25:29] Thank you guys so much. So, moving on to
the next item. Item number five, public
[25:35] comment. Um,
[laughter] okay. So, let me read this
[25:39] blurb. And thank you, Melissa. All
right. Rules for speakers. Mayor and
[25:43] city council inviting vocal comments at
a public meeting. The mayor presiding
[25:48] officers will recognize you. Please
introduce yourself at the podium
[25:52] spelling your name for record spelling
your name for recording purposes and
[25:57] give the name of your student block
number IG 4300 block of 34 street public
[26:02] comments has a time limit of 3 minutes
per speaker unless otherwise decided by
[26:07] the mayor while speaking please maintain
a courteous tone and and avoid you keep
[26:12] moving.
Okay, here. How about this?
[26:17] Yeah, just because if you get moving
like it distracts me. All right. Uh, as
[26:23] a courtesy to the residents of business,
the council request that speakers not
[26:26] use a specific address or names of
individuals when describing a situation
[26:29] or making a complaint knowing that block
is preferred over all is the specific
[26:34] address and I skip a line. While
speaking, it says any if you list if you
[26:40] wish to lodge a complaint about
performance of context of any city
[26:42] report, please bring your concerns to
attention of city manager who look into
[26:45] the matter and respond to you. That's
the part that I missed. All right. So, I
[26:49] have a list of people. They're putting
it back there as well. So, we're going
[26:52] to go with the first round of people.
Okay. [snorts]
[26:57] All right. So, uh when you guys go out
to the mic, make sure that the light is
[27:02] green. If not, uh they cannot hear. This
mics do not project. It's for recording
[27:07] purposes for the audio uh for video
later. Okay. All right. So, I have um
[27:13] Christa
with an S last name. Shoulder.
[27:19] Sorry, Christa. 45 uh 3500 block of
Bunker Hill.
[27:24] » Thank you.
[27:30] » So, if you press the button, the little
circle. There you go. And reminder, the
[27:35] timekeeping minute is right there in the
in the wall.
[27:37] » Okay. Okay. Great. Thanks. Um, thank
you, Mayor and Council, and Mr. City
[27:43] Manager and Melissa. Um, it's great to
be here. I've been here in a long time.
[27:48] Um, and I wanted to [gasps] talk about
what's been happening on Bunker Hill.
[27:53] Um, 3500 and 3600 block of Bunker Hill.
Um, there's been this great project for
[27:59] safer streets happening there. Thrilled
about that. But the project was supposed
[28:04] to have green infrastructure in and um
it's not going to for various reasons.
[28:11] Um one of the things was a tree which
I'm thrilled that the responsiveness of
[28:16] the council has been to save that elm
tree. Unfortunately um [clears throat]
[28:21] in saving the elm tree, we have
abandoned the plan to do green
[28:26] infrastructure there. Um, and we also
ended up not being able to do it in the
[28:31] other bumpout on this project. And you
know, this project was originally
[28:36] planned with green infrastructure um,
many, many years ago. I helped work on a
[28:41] plan for making green infrastructure a
priority, making the river a priority in
[28:46] our community. And I think in many
projects that gets put by the wayside.
[28:52] And that unfortunately has happened in
this project. And it's as a Bunker Hill
[28:56] resident, um, as an advocate of the
river, um, I'm I'm very disappointed
[29:01] about it. And I just wanted to come and
bring this to the attention of the
[29:05] council knowing that there, you know,
I'm I'm very thankful that Mr. Kamali
[29:10] came to my house and talk to me about
it. It's wonderful to make that
[29:13] connection. Danielle, thank you so much
for also, you know, rising to the
[29:18] occasion, talking with me, getting
conversations started. I really
[29:21] appreciate that responsiveness. I just
wanted to figure out how can how can we
[29:25] going forward there are citizens out
there that can help with this myself, my
[29:29] partner included. We'd love to do that
so that we can make green infrastructure
[29:33] in the river a priority. Um
you know green infrastructure helps with
[29:40] resilience, climate resilience,
flooding, um helps bees and butterflies.
[29:45] It helps the river. And my primary thing
personally is the river because for 10
[29:51] years I documented the Anacostia River.
I wrote this book and took the
[29:55] photographs for this book um that
details the history of the river and our
[29:59] own responsibility as a city and as
residents to help heal some of the
[30:04] damage that we've done over history. So
I just want to present this to the city
[30:08] and just please ask that that we can we
can try to figure out how to make green
[30:13] infrastructure a bigger part of what we
do. Thank you. Okay, you have it.
[30:23] » So, uh, Mr. Kamali, that might be a
question for you to answer because I
[30:27] have not seen the the plans. What is
being I know two design has and they're
[30:32] supposed to be done by the end of the
month. What What does the project look
[30:35] like? Because I'm not sure I'm in
[clears throat] the same page with this
[30:37] information.
Well,
[30:43] the project on on 35th and and uh and 36
on Bunker Hill Road. Originally when the
[30:52] concept was designed
uh tool design put some rain gardens
[30:58] between the 35th and 36 on next to the
church.
[31:04] But uh when they get to the design
unfortunately due to the utilities as I
[31:11] came to your house and explain it to you
guys utilities and uh also when we go
[31:18] over 5,000 square ft soil disturbance we
have to go to the county and get the
[31:24] permit which is a long hall and uh so uh
we decided to take the rain garden only
[31:34] out and I just want to emphasize the
purpose of SS4A project. It's to make
[31:40] our streets safer to have more traffic
calming devices. So I just took the
[31:48] [clears throat] rain garden out but the
bump out and the curb extension is
[31:53] there. Right now the street is narrower
so the traffic is going to be very calm.
[31:59] People are not going to be speeding over
there. So that was the result of
[32:06] utilities and 5,000
limit that the county has on the
[32:11] project. So that's one. Two, when we get
to to the 36 street, there is a big tree
[32:21] over there. So originally tool design
and the city's arborist recommended to
[32:28] remove the tree. I had to go over there
with the tool design again and I
[32:33] suggested that we're going to keep the
tree and we're going to just do the the
[32:38] curve extension and the bump out, but
we're not going to put the rain garden
[32:44] because if I want to put the rain
garden, I have to take the tree down.
[32:48] So, that's that's another issue. Right
now tool design is working on the
[32:54] project and they supposed to give it to
me by September the 4th which I will
[32:58] bring it to everybody's attention and
then on the other side today I'm sure
[33:04] you noticed that some people were were
doing some infiltration test on the
[33:11] other side there is a rain gardens in
the plant but if the infiltration rates
[33:16] is not going to be sufficient we're
going to take it out there's is no uh
[33:22] choice for us to put the rain garden in
because if the soil type is C or D,
[33:29] there is no infiltration. It's going to
defeat the purpose. So, what we're going
[33:33] to do, we're going to bump it out. Right
now, we did the test, you know, today
[33:39] and they're going to give me the result
back next week. So, that's the whole
[33:44] story about, you know, 35th and, you
know, 36. I'm sorry. It just you know
[33:49] this project is SS4A and the time is of
the essence because I have to move
[33:55] forward with the project which we did
the the the vision zero steady and the
[34:02] whole goal and the purpose which is on
the city's website to make our streets
[34:07] safer not to not to take care of the
storm water management. I was trying to
[34:13] do that and I'm trying to resolve the
flooding but sometimes you get to the
[34:19] situation everything looks good on the
paper but when you go to implement it
[34:24] there are so many hidden issues that it
will impede me and designer to do what
[34:32] we would like to do over there that's
all I got to say
[34:36] » thank you so much I have Karthy Boston
followed by Mark Stevens
[34:41] Okay, right after. Go ahead.
[34:46] » Um, good afternoon, council. Um, I'm
just I was just here to reiterate
[34:51] exactly what the previous person said. I
came here to support the Bunker Hill
[34:56] movement. Um, what affects Bunker Hill
obviously affects me on Rainer Avenue.
[35:02] So, I'm just here to follow a word of
support to re reemphasize the importance
[35:08] of the water and river industries. Um,
that's critical to us and I think we
[35:14] need to do more as a as a county and as
a city to represent their needs. I also
[35:20] want to ask while I'm here and I'm going
to yield my time to anyone that wants to
[35:24] talk, what is the timeline for the
street projects in terms of the code the
[35:29] the camera enforcement? Do we have a
timeline for it to be implemented?
[35:34] » Mr. Kamal, that may be a question for
you.
[35:36] » Sorry, I didn't get the question.
>> Speed camera, when is it going to be
[35:38] implemented?
>> What is the timeline for the speed
[35:41] camera project to be completed? Okay,
right now the speed camera we're doing
[35:46] the foundation for the polls and uh the
first eight is going to be finished in
[35:53] next two weeks and the other uh seven
more that we have it's going to take
[35:59] another two or 3 weeks. So, and then uh
right now there are some back orders on
[36:05] the batteries because we're using the
solar panels to support the camera. So,
[36:11] I am looking probably end of
September hopefully, but I will keep you
[36:18] guys posted.
>> Okay. And the the Bunker Hill project,
[36:21] there's not a timeline in in place for
that.
[36:23] » Are you talking about the Telen? Yes.
>> Uh and 34 and Bunker Hill and 35th.
[36:32] Correct. There are some cameras over
there. Same thing.
[36:35] » Same thing. Okay. Once once the
foundation is ready to go and if the
[36:40] contractor has all the parts cuz they've
been waiting and there and there are
[36:45] some back orders. So once we get
everything, it's not going to take that
[36:50] much time to install it.
>> Okay.
[36:52] » Yes,
>> sounds good. Thank you.
[36:55] » Thank you so much. Uh Mark Stevens
followed by
[36:59] to George. Oh, Tony George. Sorry. Go
ahead.
[37:05] » Hi. Good evening. Um, I think it's
working. Uh, I'm Mark Stevens. Um, I'm
[37:10] in the 3700 block of 31st Street. Just
moved not too long ago. So, happy to be
[37:15] here. Grateful for you all's work. Um, I
had a question about two things. One is
[37:22] they're kind of interrelated. We've
noticed on our block there is a constant
[37:27] flow of fast traffic from I guess this
Eastern Avenue over to Rhode Island
[37:33] Avenue and back and forth. I imagine I'm
not the first person to mention this who
[37:37] has also noticed it, but it does seem to
be pretty fast, pretty frequent. And
[37:42] what exacerbates it is the fact that
there's not much light on the corner of
[37:46] Otis and 30 34th.
Um, it's pretty dark at night, so I've
[37:52] had nights where I'm coming home and I'm
walking from the bus stop and I have to
[37:57] literally just like take out my
earphones and like check two, three
[38:00] times to make sure nothing's coming
because things are coming real fast. So
[38:04] my question is, are there any I know
that there's a process for speed bumps.
[38:08] I'm aware of that process. I'll look
into that process with my neighbors. Are
[38:12] there any efforts that you all can do
with respect to lighting in the
[38:16] meantime? Um there's like I think one
street light, but it's pretty dim.
[38:20] Having more lighting would be kind of a
helpful partial solution to the problem.
[38:26] So just curious about if there's any
efforts on that front or if there's any
[38:29] been any history about how that's been
dealt with previously.
[38:32] » Thanks. that that's for you.
>> Well,
[38:37] I know where what are you exactly
talking about. So, we're going to look
[38:42] into some lighting, but you know that
most of the street lights we have to go
[38:46] through the PEP codes and getting the
permit and uh make sure that right now
[38:52] the city we are planning to go to the
LED lights instead of those old, you
[38:57] know, fixture that we have. And uh
definitely I'm going to keep an eye on
[39:03] that location. I appreciate for your
heads up.
[39:06] » Thank you. Thank is I'm not in the city
at night but I know where [laughter]
[39:10] » he has passed.
>> Yes, I know.
[39:12] » And uh there is also a project that is
coming for that location.
[39:18] » There is a stop sign camera coming.
>> Okay.
[39:21] » So, we're going to do as much as to make
sure that people are not going to be
[39:26] flying, you know, through the stop sign.
And also the system that we are
[39:31] installing is going to do two things. is
going to be speed monitoring system and
[39:37] stop sign camera. So if somebody flying,
they're going to, you know, get the
[39:42] ticket. If they go through the stops and
they're going to be fine double.
[39:47] » So but but the project that we have for
SS4A,
[39:52] it's in the design list
>> and it's going to take another year or
[39:56] so.
>> Yeah. But
[39:57] » and that that project is the speed
camera or the speed
[40:00] » No, no, no, no. the speed the stops and
camera it's already
[40:05] » okay
>> we're working on it
[40:07] » but I'm talking about another project
that we have in SS4A to [snorts] improve
[40:12] that stretch from circle all the way to
the eastern avenue so that's another
[40:18] project that is listed in SS4A projects
and that's going to probably happen in
[40:24] next 18 months or 2 years because we
have to go through the design process
[40:29] and then get the contractor on board and
find a good timing to implement it. But
[40:37] definitely we keep you posted.
>> Thank you.
[40:39] » And we appreciate
>> Was that your two questions in one? Cuz
[40:41] you already like time out. But was that
two questions in one or no?
[40:45] » Okay, perfect. Um, good thing is like
with the lighting of the tree when
[40:48] you're walking back, usually all the
polls have a number on it. Try to gather
[40:52] what the number is and report it to
Pepco as well. So that way they know
[40:56] like if it's flickering or not
functioning. So that way like if you
[40:59] guys are reporting they know like it
needs to be addressed
[41:01] » because if it's not reported then they
think like it's working
[41:04] » fine. Yeah. And like when you do that
also let us know so that way we keep an
[41:08] eye on it as well.
>> Perfect. All right.
[41:10] » Perfect. Thank you. Uh Tony George
[41:20] 3400 block Avenue. I wanted to find out
what the status is of the um the issue
[41:28] that was discussed in the emergency
session in terms of the being authority
[41:35] for the rental license for the Mount
Rineer artist loss. Um the deficiencies
[41:41] that the attorney mentioned [music] in
terms of why the license wasn't issued
[41:45] the year before. What's the status of
those being addressed? [music]
[41:49] And has the city received a copy of the
um valid used and occupancy permit for
[41:57] the artist laws? This is question one.
And then question two is about a
[42:01] proposed bike lane on Wood Island
Avenue.
[42:06] » Mr. Kamali, you want to answer the UNL?
>> Yeah. Um,
[42:12] » hold on. I'm getting Am I the only one
that's hearing that sound? It sounds
[42:16] like little mosquitoes like running
through mic check.
[42:25] Guys, that one.
[42:29] » All right.
>> Did you get my question?
[42:31] » He's going to answer. They were doing
the mics because you were hearing a
[42:33] feedback on it and we couldn't. Yeah, I
got your question. I thought it was like
[42:36] really hard to Yeah, they're nice. Go
ahead.
[42:38] » No, before you go, Tony, uh, what was
your second question regarding the RD?
[42:43] I'm understanding there's going to be a
this proposal or consideration or study
[42:47] for feasibility study for a bike lane
along Rhode Island Avenue.
[42:52] » Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
So, regarding the RDA, in fact, our city
[42:59] attorney send them an agreement to the
trustee and RDA people. So, right now,
[43:08] yesterday we got the response with a lot
of red lines. Our attorney is on
[43:14] vacation until, you know, Thursday. When
she comes back, I'm going to talk to her
[43:19] and then we can give you guys an update.
>> I know based on the RFP that they're
[43:26] waiting for responses to or making a
decision on those, they had indicated
[43:31] that the rep some of those deficiencies,
the repairs were going to be a part of
[43:36] that RFP and they wanted the timeline
adjusted to accommodate that that
[43:41] schedule. That's what we are going to
do. That's what we're we're putting
[43:45] everything in the agreement that they
got 90 days to fix everything and then
[43:50] come back. We're going to issue a
provisional license for them in order to
[43:55] get that grant cuz that grant right now
uh they should be receiving the
[44:01] agreement for it. So once they get the
agreement and once we sign, you know,
[44:07] the agreement, then they're going to
move forward and we're going to issue a
[44:11] provisional or temporary rental license
for them and everything is been stated
[44:19] that they have no authority to go after
the residents resident that have a
[44:24] lawsuit with the court against the
landlord. So right now it's the city
[44:30] attorney sent it to them more than a
month ago and we've been keep bugging
[44:35] them and yesterday we got a copy of
their comments. So I'm waiting for the
[44:41] city attorney to come back on Thursday
>> and just take it from there.
[44:46] » So the temporary or provisional rental
license that you'll issue is that still
[44:52] contingent upon there being a valid UNO?
>> Yes. with the county.
[44:57] » Yes.
>> So, still what is the status of that?
[44:59] And have you gotten a copy of that?
>> No, not yet. Because the last UNO they
[45:04] had, it was from 2005, I believe it was.
>> So, they're trying to get the
[45:11] » to get that one and then come back to
the city, then we can issue the a
[45:17] permanent rental license.
>> So, that 2005 UNO, was that temporary or
[45:23] permanent?
Uh, no, no, it was it was in a UNO that
[45:28] was issued by the county and since then
we haven't seen anything.
[45:33] » So, um, I think we were told by our call
team that there was a a license that was
[45:39] shown. That's reason why we moved
forward to temporarily give it to them.
[45:42] » Um, but yeah, I think that's what we
were told. That's the reason why at
[45:45] least that's what I was told in the last
meeting, the emergency meeting.
[45:49] » Oh, you're right. The county the county
came back. I'm sorry.
[45:53] » Go ahead. Go ahead, Mr. Kamali. Can you
guys hold down for him to the answer,
[45:56] please? Go ahead.
>> The county send us the UNO at that time,
[46:02] » but the violations were not corrected.
So, and we have no control over the
[46:08] county. That's why we raised our voice
and we wanted to make sure that the
[46:14] violations, it's more than 24 violations
that needs to be corrected. And if you I
[46:20] don't know if you are aware or not last
week RDA was there to do the inspection
[46:25] again and [clears throat] uh and our
inspectors were there.
[46:29] » Mhm.
>> So right now to be honest with you, we
[46:33] just have to wait and see how the
agreement is going to move forward.
[46:37] » Okay. Thank you. And the bike lane.
>> Okay.
[46:40] » Bike lane.
Uh I have to look into it. I don't have
[46:45] anything right now. And you know that
the Rhode Island Allen Avenue it's a SHA
[46:50] » right
>> and it's not the city's
[46:53] » well when I heard it I was like well I
just what you said is you know it's a
[46:58] state highway. So, um
>> um just to clarify, it's it's a proposed
[47:03] expansion of the trolley trail. And um
the only action that's been taken so far
[47:08] that I'm aware of is that we have um a
planning um we're working we um we we
[47:16] were able to engage um the the planning
I'm blanking on the name of them. Um
[47:21] with MNCPC, they have a planning team
and we were able to engage with them and
[47:26] they have hired a consultant. I I
believe for the for the planning and so
[47:31] there's nothing beyond planning
occurring right now. Um but ultimately
[47:37] the the idea is to extend the trolley
trail that right now ends in Brenwood um
[47:43] all the way down um Rhode Island Avenue
I think potentially all the way to
[47:47] Eastern. But uh Council Member Wood
>> I'm going to ask Valerie to answer the
[47:52] question in order to get the the
information you know cuz it's Yeah, just
[47:57] go ahead. I won't say nothing else.
>> So state the road is state highway. Um
[48:02] four years ago or so there was a
proposal to potentially expand it and
[48:06] what that would look like. So state
highway has taken four years. We've been
[48:10] in the dark. We don't know what's been
happening. They've been planning and
[48:13] studying. They created a feasibility
study. It's a feasibility study. We
[48:17] haven't responded as a council yet. We
haven't talked about it as a council
[48:20] yet. We haven't gotten to those points
yet. There's a lot of work to do to get
[48:24] to even to a point where we can talk
about it in a public setting. So that's
[48:27] where we're at. just given the way it's
situated now, you know, potentially not
[48:34] to get you to answer these questions,
but just concerns of where, you know,
[48:39] how could you theoretically expand Rhode
Island Avenue number one and given the
[48:45] parking situation with the businesses
competing with residents that don't have
[48:49] enough parking [clears throat] spaces
already to actually have to give up some
[48:54] of that that um real estate to designate
it as a bike lane could be problematic.
[49:01] » Yeah.
>> Again, we have a feasibility study on
[49:04] our hands. We don't have any plans at
this time to remove any parking or to do
[49:08] anything on this portion of the the
road. So, we we have to go back and we
[49:12] have to have conversations. As a
council, we probably have to have
[49:15] conversations. I've had conversations
with two council members um so far. I
[49:19] have to talk to the other two. Um and I
would like to have more in-depth
[49:23] conversations with people before we
bring this back to the public. Thank
[49:26] you.
>> Thank you.
[49:27] » Yeah. And just a point of clarity, the
trolley trail um ends in Heisville. So
[49:32] it includes like the the preview the
study includes no brain bramble rainer.
[49:38] So it's not just a mineer thing. It's uh
in order to connect with DC as you see
[49:42] is working within their network. Uh the
other thing to point out like currently
[49:46] as we stand uh the one lane of the
traffic is designed to a bike could take
[49:52] over that lane if they choose to. That's
the way it's been for for forever. Those
[49:58] signs have been there. I think we don't
notice it until we noticed it. I think
[50:02] people have been biking here for years
realize that like that is the right uh
[50:05] right away. But again, it's just a study
that was like asked for four years ago
[50:11] and they just put like information
together and every city is going to
[50:15] decide what they're going to do. But
it's a way to connect us along route
[50:18] one. Um, in the other end I College Park
is also trying to expand towards Loro
[50:24] and at this point it ends in Heisville.
So that transition of people that move
[50:28] forward between one another, it kind of
cuts off three cities off. DC is
[50:32] expanding on this way. So we're going to
be um with a big chunk in the middle. So
[50:36] that was more or less um what they want
to do. What are the options to move
[50:40] forward? But yeah, thank you for the
questions. All right, I have uh Mayor
[50:45] Miles followed by uh Valerie Sinsky.
Okay, mayor.
[50:52] I know you're not taking your time
drinking water, [laughter]
[50:57] hanging out,
>> coming coming out of retirement, coming
[51:02] to hang out with us. Actually, I was
forced to be here. Okay. Issues on the
[51:08] table forced me to be here. Then I
decided I wasn't going to speak on them
[51:11] because they weren't on the agenda, but
I would like to follow up with um what
[51:16] [snorts] Miss George said.
>> [clears throat]
[51:19] » one, I need to know, do you all have a
UNO? And I don't mean you all. I mean
[51:23] whoever's trying to take that building.
I don't even see how the council could
[51:27] consider
approving a temporary, long-term,
[51:33] short-term rental agreement when the law
is very clear if it's a multifamily
[51:39] unit, it must not might, not may have a
a an official UNO from the county. And
[51:49] if I had [clears throat] anything to say
about it, if the county couldn't produce
[51:53] a UNO for that building or whoever needs
to produce it, I would waste my time
[51:58] thinking about a rental license,
temporary or otherwise. No, they can't
[52:02] move forward without it, but they can't
collect rent either without a UNO. The
[52:06] law says so. And [clears throat] so why
would we be anticipating, contemplating
[52:11] giving them a temporary rental license?
They can't collect rent from those
[52:16] tenants.
totally illegal.
[52:21] So if we're not demanding a UNO in order
to issue the rental license, are we
[52:26] going to be complicit and breaking the
law?
[52:31] That disturbs me a lot. And it's not
new. It's not a new law. It's been out
[52:38] there and we need to hold the county
accountable for making that happen.
[52:45] No, we don't want to see our tenants,
especially our residents, forced to move
[52:49] and they can't
cuz there's a bankruptcy out there.
[52:54] There's also the need to discuss where
we go with this future wise.
[52:59] And from my from my vantage point and
reading the law and being there with
[53:04] this building going up and still
standing, there's so many repairs out
[53:08] there that to approve or take a $1.5
million
[53:13] thing from the state. What are you going
to do with it? The problem is much
[53:18] bigger than that. And yes, I'm aware of
the inspection. I'm aware of the walkth
[53:22] through. I've talked to some of the
people who were on it. I've talked to
[53:26] some of the buyers who are interested in
the building. It is fixable, but are we
[53:30] going to demand that it get fixed or we
going to be complicit in giving them a
[53:33] rental license so they can harass the
folks that are there? [clears throat]
[53:37] That's a problem for me and I would like
for my council and my mayor to actually
[53:42] dig deeper.
My two cents, not jump to the other one,
[53:48] [snorts and laughter]
and that's about the bike lane. Mhm.
[53:53] » We have had parking issues [snorts] in
Mount Reineia, Main Street, Rhode Island
[53:59] Avenue, and 34th from the day I moved to
the city. And yes, it's a state highway.
[54:06] But to consider that means we ought to
have some dialogue with the with the
[54:10] community,
not just a decision from up here cuz we
[54:14] felt like the dickens [laughter]
to get businesses to even consider
[54:18] coming to Mount Radio. And the biggest
reason they didn't want to come to Mount
[54:22] Reineer was there's no place for the
employees to park and there's definitely
[54:27] no place for the customers to park.
[laughter]
[54:30] And we also have meters that we take it
and go forward with. We need to really
[54:37] think about parking. And I think we need
to be fighting the state tooth and nail
[54:42] on if we giving up our parking and our
parking meter money and our lane. What
[54:48] the city going to get for it? Oh, we got
a bike trail. Well, you've had a bike
[54:52] trail since Otis Haywood was on the
council many years ago. And that bike
[54:56] trail comes out of DC, goes down Barnum
Aronda and connects with the
[55:03] Heightsville area. It's been there. It's
not a new idea. The new idea is to bring
[55:08] it down here to Main Street and take up
more parking in our city that
[55:14] we're going to be more on it. I think we
need to look at and there's a study out
[55:18] there that shows what it would look like
with it and I can't remember the name of
[55:22] it, but I don't know. None of you were
here. I think we should look in our
[55:27] library and see where it is and pull it
back up. Thank you.
[55:31] » Thank you. Uh and just a point of
clarity, it was a study that was done
[55:35] four years ago. They didn't give us,
they didn't ask for additional input.
[55:39] They just finalized it and say here's
the study that is done for you guys on
[55:43] it. Nobody's moving one ounce of inch on
it. It was just a document that was
[55:47] given to us and that's it. Is this what
it is? And again, is is going to take uh
[55:53] they're just not going to do marine.
It's a multiple city uh impact. And
[55:57] they're not saying x amount of parking
lots are going to be taking state. they
[56:00] propose like this is what it looks like
and it's up to us to have like the
[56:04] community conversations. So it's across
the municipality, it's across
[56:06] everything. That's the reason why the
fact that it was given to us to like
[56:10] think about it, you know, figure out
what is it that we've been want to do
[56:13] for the next steps, nothing has been
decided. So for the community to be
[56:16] like, oh, there's a study. It's like we
haven't even been able to absorb it and
[56:20] and read it through. Some of us have
walked the pathway to see what it would
[56:23] look like, right, on our own time. And
thank you, Valerie, for offering, you
[56:28] know, to walk us through, right? Um, but
that's it. That's all it was. The
[56:31] document that was given to us and we're
trying to at least like absorb to is
[56:35] what it is. So, I wouldn't even say it's
in the beginning stages. It's like a
[56:39] negative whatever. So, that's the reason
why it's a little bit interesting that
[56:41] we're getting questions on it where
we're not even there to figure out what
[56:45] the council wants to do. Last city, even
if it was a study,
[56:49] » Mhm. due diligence says we need to do
our due diligence to look at the study
[56:54] to see what impact it will have and
actually offer some feedback. They
[56:58] didn't give it to you just to put on
your book on your bookshelf. They
[57:02] actually wanted you to read it hopefully
and hopefully having read it, you would
[57:06] look at what is the benefit to Mount
Reineer. How will it impact our
[57:10] economics? How will it impact our
traffic? How will it impact our
[57:14] residents? I would not just say they
just got it in the hand. Okay, that's
[57:18] great.
>> But what are we going to do with it? I
[57:21] want to be clear, that's not what I'm
saying. I'm saying we just received it.
[57:23] We're like studying it. I don't think
one person here has not looked at it,
[57:26] read it, and review it. We just
literally just got it. I think it's not
[57:30] even a month old in our hands, and
they're waiting for we're going to be
[57:33] giving them feedback, but I think the
first step is for us to like review it,
[57:37] analyze, and figure out what what it
means. But they don't have the money to
[57:40] like build tomorrow. That's not the way
it is.
[57:44] » That's not how government work anyway.
But I would just want to make sure it's
[57:47] clear that at this point, we have
received it. We're reviewing it
[57:50] individually. We're going to review it
together, but it gave enough times for
[57:53] us because the hefty document for us to
figure out what it what it is, but 250
[57:58] pages. So, at this point, I just want to
make sure to bring two things. One,
[58:02] we're going to bring it to like
chambers, but today was in the day. We
[58:05] wanted to do it in a work session. We
just literally got it.
[58:07] » Okay.
>> We want to make sure to analyze it. So,
[58:09] to be clear, whoever released this
document out, we haven't done nothing
[58:13] but received it. We're looking into it,
figure out what it means for M Reineer
[58:19] and what is it that we can support and
not support that. That's all it is. But
[58:24] again, it will be done in a public
meeting and we just got back from you
[58:28] know from recess today and we're not
trying to violate open meeting law by
[58:32] like you know going after meetings
behind people's door. But just be aware
[58:36] so it's not being ignored. I think
people got it the first meeting and
[58:39] we're we're analyzing the information to
get us through. That's it. I I we're not
[58:44] trying to rush into anything. We're just
trying to get the information across.
[58:47] And again, it's multi- cities. So,
they're not going to hop from Heisville
[58:51] and just make it to Morener. That's not
the way it is. Like, it has to be in
[58:55] agreement. And every city is going to
decide what's best for them. And the
[58:57] trauma might end up being all the way to
the corner of like Branwood and Morenir,
[59:02] right? This is doing their own thing on
the other end. It might be just Morener
[59:05] in or out, right? But that's something
that they're working on and figure out
[59:09] what's also best for their communities.
and we're gonna appeal for whatever is
[59:12] best for us. But again, we're reviewing
it. We have walked it through. I know
[59:15] more than one of us have walked it
through.
[59:18] » I know see what there's about four of us
that have walked it through to like
[59:22] actually see it. Cuz when somebody has
you this much paper and a bunch of
[59:26] photos is definitely different than for
you to go through it walk block by block
[59:32] looking at the information, look at what
they're proposing and things like that.
[59:34] But against a proposal how they see it
not necessarily means that we're going
[59:38] to see it the same way. I want to make
sure that it's clear that we all I know
[59:42] this group we might not get along in
many things but we all love to read and
[59:47] look at the data and analyze it and
figure it throughout. So this is not
[59:50] going to be something that's going to be
passed by without being brought out to
[59:54] chambers and a community meeting and
multiple things to to work through it.
[59:58] So but right now we're like in reviewing
it like information on
[1:00:03] » I've heard that several times. U quick
question. Is it a public document?
[1:00:08] » No.
>> It's still within closed section and
[1:00:12] discussion. I don't mean for the city,
but from the from the state.
[1:00:15] » It hasn't been shared to like
>> Yeah, it hasn't been shared with that.
[1:00:18] That's surprisingly brought up.
>> Yeah,
[1:00:21] » it's not a
>> It's a draft.
[1:00:23] » It's just a draft.
>> I believe it's a preliminary and they're
[1:00:26] waiting for our feedback.
>> That's what I would be thinking.
[1:00:29] » The second question is what department
issued it? It's not final yet, but we
[1:00:33] can we can Valerie can talk about this.
>> Yeah, but I have to make you guys be
[1:00:38] aware that um we've been discussing
this. It could be a whole line item at
[1:00:41] this point. It's been hours talking and
I just had the question.
[1:00:45] » Yeah, but that's why Go ahead. You want
to
[1:00:48] » Yeah. It's not a public document. Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's not That's why like for it to
[1:00:51] be brought up, it was like definitely
throw us off.
[1:00:53] » Yeah. Go ahead.
>> Okay. [clears throat]
[1:00:56] Okay. Before I get into my Valerie, my
name is Valerie Slinsky, 4100 block of
[1:01:02] 31st Street. Before we get into um what
I was actually coming to speak about, I
[1:01:08] just want to add and say, you know, I
would hope that we would get to see and
[1:01:13] and read and digest it ourselves. I hope
there would be public comment before the
[1:01:18] council comes back to the state or
anyone else with a with a decision. I
[1:01:22] mean, people who aren't interested in
reading 250 pages or walking walking
[1:01:27] along, that's that's fine. They don't
have to. But for those of us that are
[1:01:31] concerned about ADA access, concerned
about the businesses, concerned about
[1:01:36] implementation,
um I would I would ask that just like
[1:01:39] every other legislation and and public
works thing that there be public comment
[1:01:43] on structural things, not just colors
and and pretty things. Okay. So, I'm I'm
[1:01:50] writing about the the or not writing,
I'm here about the the curbs. Um the the
[1:01:56] sidewalks were redone on my block.
Fantastic. Great. Love them. That we
[1:02:01] have a speed bump now. It took like 5
years, but fabulous. Love it. Traffic
[1:02:06] slows down a lot. Um but what about the
broken curbs? And I know we talked about
[1:02:11] this like back in April. It's not
related to safe streets for all because
[1:02:15] this is something that the city had
committed to do like in 2014 or 2016 and
[1:02:20] then never did. Um [clears throat]
there's erosion that happens. There are
[1:02:24] leaves and tree roots that come down and
you know it's slippery and you think the
[1:02:29] curb is there and it's not and people
have fallen. They've slipped and fallen
[1:02:34] into the street. Um I've slipped and
fallen into the street. Besides bruises
[1:02:39] and scrapes, I now have a damaged knee.
Um, but when I fell and and a car
[1:02:44] narrowly missed me because they were
driving on their street, [gasps] not
[1:02:48] realizing that a woman was going to fall
prone in front of them. Um, other people
[1:02:54] that came to help me said they had seen
other people slip, delivery people had
[1:02:58] slipped and fallen, that kind of thing.
So, I would ask that that be revisited,
[1:03:03] the the curbs, and if there is anything
known as to when that will happen. Thank
[1:03:08] you very much. Just a point of clarity,
uh, Valerie. Um, you're talking about
[1:03:12] the ADA rams or
>> the speed. I'm
[1:03:17] » I'm Well, the thank you is for the
sidewalks and the speed bumps. The the
[1:03:21] concern is just the the curbs, you know,
the they they get they get banged up.
[1:03:25] Cars run into them, plows run into them,
tree roots run over. I mean, you know,
[1:03:30] they they take a lot. They take a
beating.
[1:03:33] » Yeah. Mr. Kamali, go ahead.
>> Sorry.
[1:03:36] » The 4100 block of 31st. But I'm sure my
blog isn't the only one.
[1:03:40] » 31st and what? [clears throat] 31st
between Shepherd and Taylor.
[1:03:45] » So that you'll take a note and he's
pretty good at like once an information
[1:03:48] is given, he'll see you'll see him
tomorrow.
[1:03:51] » Steve Hill.
>> Okay. [laughter] Here.
[1:03:53] » I will look into it. I appreciate that.
Thank you.
[1:03:56] » So don't be surprised if he stops by
tomorrow randomly cuz he he will go
[1:04:00] check it out personally. All right. I
keep I keep thinking that I'm moving
[1:04:04] that screen, Melissa.
and and I keep following. All right,
[1:04:09] thank you guys so much. This um puts an
ending to public comment for tonight. Uh
[1:04:16] moving on to new business item number
six, vote on approval of variance
[1:04:20] request for 3100 Taylor Street, Mount
Reineer, Maryland. The mayor and council
[1:04:24] vote to approve the variance request for
3100 Taylor Street Mount Reineer as
[1:04:28] recommended by the design review board.
Um if you have been following um our
[1:04:34] wonderful meetings, this uh property was
brought up um a few months ago and uh
[1:04:41] since then there has been a variation
that needs to be um needed and the way
[1:04:47] it works our our wonderful team from
design review board J uh Joseph Deier
[1:04:52] I'm correct um basically we have design
architects and everybody else who has
[1:04:57] great minds in the cities they're
appointed they come together and they
[1:05:00] give different recommendations to the
homeowner in order to get us where it
[1:05:04] keeps the character of the city, the
architectures on and so on. Right? So
[1:05:08] they go ahead and meet as many times as
needed to get it where it needs to be
[1:05:12] and then eventually they come to uh they
write a letter to be constant say hey
[1:05:16] these are recommendations from the team
and we present what their
[1:05:20] recommendations are. So this is what
we're adding right now to the um this is
[1:05:24] part of the agenda. So, Joseph, is there
anything else you need to add regarding?
[1:05:27] And if you guys could put the letter up
in the screen, definitely will help. And
[1:05:31] if you could review what the
recommendations are, Joseph, that
[1:05:33] definitely will help me as well.
>> Sure. I I would note that uh this uh
[1:05:38] letter has not been to us before our
work session and that the when we this
[1:05:42] was present the project was presented to
us, I believe in the January legislative
[1:05:47] session, um that uh the variance as
Mayor Bonita said was not necessary.
[1:05:52] that had come to light and the design
review board reviewed it in May. Um they
[1:05:58] had problems with the original design
that was presented to them and rejected
[1:06:02] it. Um the uh de the project developer
then hired a new architect who was um
[1:06:10] the first one was not willing to work
with our design pattern re uh our
[1:06:15] pattern book. uh that the new architect
was. So they were they held firm to make
[1:06:21] sure this uh variance fit with the
character of our city and uh they met on
[1:06:27] August 13th. Um unfortunately there was
a mixup and I was unable to make that
[1:06:31] meeting. Um but the design review board
did review it and had put forth this
[1:06:36] letter for approval. Um now since it is
uh it was not brought to us in a prior
[1:06:43] work session but there is some
timeliness. I do propose I would like to
[1:06:48] make a motion to suspend the rules um
requiring an item to be discussed or
[1:06:55] voted on shall have been discussed in a
previous work session. So I will ask
[1:07:01] that we first review the letter and then
make the motion for a vote because it's
[1:07:05] a property that has already been brought
up. It's like no stranger to us
[1:07:08] » motion for now and make
>> and then you we could make it in for the
[1:07:11] voting part. Go ahead.
>> Um but uh yeah, I think I think the the
[1:07:14] new design looks good. I you know I I I
walk past this property all the time. I
[1:07:21] wouldn't mind walking past it in its
finished state. uh on
[1:07:25] » fortunately not on the way not with my
old dog but uh we'll still be at it down
[1:07:29] that way. Um yeah anyway that's all I
have to add.
[1:07:34] » We need to like um read the letter for
the for the record. What are the
[1:07:37] variance that they're asking or or DB?
So you could see it in the big screen or
[1:07:41] see it up there. This is the only time I
like the big screen in front of me.
[1:07:44] August 30th, mayor, city council, city
manager, CCDRB members Darrett, uh,
[1:07:50] Raina Morales, Jose Mendez, Ben Norcin,
Re 3001, Diller, DRB review, Maring City
[1:07:56] Council at 7:05 p.m. August 13th, 2026.
The Mount Reineer Design Review Board
[1:08:00] convened in an open session at one
municipal place to consider the zoning
[1:08:04] variance V926 for 3001
Taylor Street Mount Reineer. You need to
[1:08:09] put the mic closer to you, Joseph,
because you're mumbling and you're
[1:08:12] you're you're mumbling.
>> Vice Chair Nathan Cedaroth, member Heber
[1:08:17] Munes, Chair Tony Cook is by phone, code
enforcement officer Jesse Dit, owners
[1:08:23] Raina Morales and Jose Mendez, and their
architect Ben Nort. The applicants are
[1:08:27] seeking V validation for various
existing site driven violations.
[1:08:31] Approval of the variance will allow the
owners to properly permit the previous
[1:08:34] unpermanent second floor addition and
obtain the building permit to complete
[1:08:38] construction.
Oh. Uh, the specific violations reside
[1:08:42] in the fact that zoning ordinance
274202E2
[1:08:46] prescribes that each lot shall have a
minimum net lot area of 6,500 square ft,
[1:08:51] minimum width of 65 ft measured along
the front building line, a minimum front
[1:08:55] yard depth of 25 ft, a minimum side
width of 8 ft, a minimum rear yard depth
[1:08:59] of 20 ft, and a maximum lot coverage to
35%. variances of 2375 ft net lot area,
[1:09:05] 10 ft lot width, 7.1 ft front yard
depth, 6 ft sideyard with 11 ft sighty
[1:09:12] yard with 1.4 ft rear yard depth and 1.6
lot coverage, 6% lot coverage are
[1:09:19] requested. This meeting was the
follow-up to a May 14th, 2026 meeting
[1:09:23] where the DRB rejected the proposed
exterior elevations to the residents on
[1:09:27] the ground. They did not meet the design
standards our community is trying to
[1:09:31] maintain based on this. The owners were
asked for revisions to the design. It
[1:09:34] was recommended that the architect refer
to the pattern book for inspiration. A
[1:09:37] subsequent set of revised drawings were
sent by email were also rejected at
[1:09:40] which point an inerson meeting with the
owner's architect was requested. When
[1:09:44] the architect resisted this, they hired
a new architect, Ben Norcin. Mr. Norcin
[1:09:47] very creatively was able to propose
modifications. The existing currently
[1:09:50] built structure that creates the visual
impression of a historically appropriate
[1:09:53] form with appropriate detailing. These
included addition of appropriate
[1:09:57] overhangs, white white casings around
the windows to simulate rake out at the
[1:10:02] roof, treatment of the left side,
addition of a different siding detail
[1:10:05] and reconstruction of the front porch
used using new rockface black porch
[1:10:10] pierce. The RB made a request final
request to Mr. Norin for a few
[1:10:15] additional minor changes and
clarifications drawing. Mr. Kokus motion
[1:10:18] that the once the revised drawing were
received and reviewed, the DRB would
[1:10:22] send this letter to the council
recommending approval of the variance.
[1:10:24] This was seconded by Mr. Set off. The
final vote was unanimous. The requested
[1:10:28] revisions to the drawings were received
on A23 2026. The requested changes have
[1:10:33] been incorporated into the accompanying
drawing sent note at DRB review and
[1:10:37] consist of sheets A700, A71, A72, A73,
A74, A75, 06, A76, A7, A78. Also attach
[1:10:47] a reference of the meeting notes from
the August 13th meeting. The RB is in
[1:10:50] the opinion that Mr. Norin's current
design is responsive to our original our
[1:10:53] previous concerns and design and brings
the design into sufficient alignment
[1:10:57] with the context of the neighborhood.
The RB is given asurances by the owner
[1:11:00] that changes indicated in the drawings
will be what gets built but in request
[1:11:06] that the council's recommended
recommendation letter specifically
[1:11:09] reference these drawings and make it
clear that it approval is conditional on
[1:11:12] these changes becoming part of the final
drawing permit permit drawing set.
[1:11:15] Respectfully, Tona Kokus, chair of Mount
Reineer Design Room.
[1:11:19] » Okay. So, we have the letter in front of
us. Um, usually after we vote, um, the
[1:11:26] city puts a nice little letter together
that says on this day the council met.
[1:11:31] This is the vote and they are approving
this recommendations.
[1:11:36] So, what we need to do right now is a
suspension of the rules. Go ahead and
[1:11:39] make the motion, Joseph.
I'm move to suspend council rule
[1:11:47] uh 5C3
that items be discussed or voted on
[1:11:53] shall have been discussed in a previous
work session.
[1:11:57] » Second. It's proudly moved and second.
Any discussion from this um from the
[1:12:01] council? I need to verbally hear you
guys.
[1:12:06] » No.
>> No, I'm good.
[1:12:07] » No.
>> Okay. So no. All right. So [laughter]
[1:12:12] you have the letter in front of you.
Since there's no discussion, I'll go
[1:12:15] ahead and call a vote. I will call a
voice vote. So that was easier for um
[1:12:18] that was recorded as a voice vote. I'm
starting war two. Going to war one.
[1:12:22] Jenny.
>> Um. Yay.
[1:12:27] » Danielle.
>> Yes.
[1:12:29] » Valerie.
>> Yes.
[1:12:30] » Joseph.
>> So this for parties is to suspend the
[1:12:34] rules to be able to vote on make a
motion to vote on it. Please.
[1:12:37] » Go ahead, Joseph. I don't want to bog
guard the whole thing if anyone else.
[1:12:41] » Nobody please. No. Okay. So, so can I
have a motion on the floor to approve
[1:12:44] the letter submitted by design review
board uh with recommendations on
[1:12:50] variance for 3100 um 3101 Taylor Street.
>> Can I have a second?
[1:12:56] » Second.
>> Second.
[1:12:57] » All right. It's probably moved and
second. Any discussion?
[1:13:02] None. All right. I'm going to ask for a
voice vote as well. All right. Joseph,
[1:13:07] » yes.
>> Valerie,
[1:13:09] » yes.
>> Danielle,
[1:13:10] » yes.
>> Jenny,
[1:13:11] » yes.
>> All right. So, the approval passes 500
[1:13:16] for our notes. And can I have a motion
to come back from suspending the rules?
[1:13:21] » You don't have to do that.
>> I usually do it for the record so that
[1:13:24] way nothing falls on it. I rather do
more paperwork than less. So motion on I
[1:13:29] usually do motion on deferred to like
come back from suspending of of rules to
[1:13:34] the to the regular agenda session.
>> I I move to unsuspend the rule that I
[1:13:40] suspend move to suspend earlier.
>> All right, perfect. Can I have a second?
[1:13:46] [clears throat]
>> Second.
[1:13:47] » It's probably moved and second. Any
discussion?
[1:13:51] Hearing none. Um we are back to regular
agenda rules. The reason why I do this
[1:13:57] guys is because that means anything
could fall in it and it's suspended just
[1:14:00] for that specific item and then we go
back to it. So, it's more like a
[1:14:04] standard issue. All right, perfect.
Thank you guys so much. So, uh the team
[1:14:08] will put the letter together and send it
out. Uh Joseph, please uh let the design
[1:14:12] review board know that um thank them for
their service and let them know it's
[1:14:15] moving forward as well. Okay. All right.
Moving on to Oh, [laughter]
[1:14:20] our favorite codes. Uh our first reading
of ordinance 05-2026.
[1:14:27] The mayor and council will have the
first reading ordinance 05-2026
[1:14:30] amending the code of the city of Marraer
chapter 9. Parking meters to eliminate
[1:14:34] parking meters and provide for the
establishment of parking paid parking
[1:14:38] zones and a means of charging for
parking and zed zones. Joseph, the floor
[1:14:45] is yours.
>> This wasn't technically mine. This was
[1:14:48] the city's
>> but you have been you have been assigned
[1:14:51] to make sure we follow through it.
[laughter]
[1:14:53] So yeah, give a a quick summary. You got
it.
[1:14:55] » Oh um
>> I can
[1:14:57] » Yeah, why don't we let Mr. do it?
>> Quick summary. Go ahead.
[1:15:01] » A very quick summary. So, uh
this ordinance is intended for chapter 9
[1:15:09] to to replace the provision of relating
uh to the parking meters because we have
[1:15:16] a new parking enforcement right now and
we're using the internetbased parking
[1:15:21] fee system
and also I want to bring everyone's
[1:15:26] attention that uh the text deleted from
subsection E on page six. Jared, if you
[1:15:34] go to page six,
>> that's Melissa.
[1:15:39] » Oh, I'm sorry, Melissa. [laughter]
>> Right, Melissa, you have control of the
[1:15:42] screen.
>> Yeah, go ahead.
[1:15:45] » And that one is uh the same language has
been moved [snorts] now to page seven as
[1:15:54] a new section, section B.
>> Okay. same information
[1:16:01] also
as we know that we discussed during our
[1:16:05] budget that all the fines have been
removed and now the fines that are
[1:16:11] related to this chapter chapter nine you
can see it on page seven under
[1:16:18] subsection A
>> they have removed they've been removed
[1:16:23] from the budget into the document
because when you say remove people are
[1:16:26] going to think you don't pay nothing.
>> Yeah. So, let's clarify that.
[1:16:28] » Yes, that's the whole purpose of this
ordinance because the city does not have
[1:16:32] any parking mirror system anymore and
we're using the mobile app and uh we're
[1:16:41] trying to just update our code and uh if
Joseph wants to read it, I'll let Joseph
[1:16:47] read it. Okay. [snorts]
>> All right. So, the the procedure for
[1:16:50] this one is like re-entry. We already
talked about in a in a couple we have
[1:16:54] brought up in a couple work session but
because they're heavy documents we
[1:16:57] haven't gotten all the way across but
this document has been introduced at
[1:17:00] least three times.
>> Three times. Yeah.
[1:17:03] » At least three times. This being the
four but officially as the first time.
[1:17:06] So after it's introduced today you have
the you have a reading and adopted and
[1:17:11] is posted for effectiveness. That's more
or less what it looked like, but
[1:17:15] basically allows for go from the regular
parking meter to parking meter zones in
[1:17:19] order to bring us up to date to what it
to what it is.
[1:17:22] » That's more or less what what it is. Um
council, any questions regarding any of
[1:17:26] the changes, additions made or cleaning
up that was made?
[1:17:31] » I need to hear a confirmation of because
I don't like to hear you guys say no.
[1:17:36] We're good. I'm just
>> Joseph.
[1:17:40] I um I just wanted to say that again I'm
thankful to the city staff for putting
[1:17:45] this together and I've been I've been
I've been having a lot easier time
[1:17:49] myself paying for the parking with the
new system. So it's good that we're
[1:17:52] having this ordinance put in.
>> Okay, Jenny Danielle.
[1:17:58] » Um I agree with the change. Um there is
however a typo. Sorry, I'm just looking
[1:18:04] at it. It's in section 9108B1.
[1:18:08] Um, just the fine for it's a dangling
preposition. Um, [clears throat] so
[1:18:15] maybe we could just remove that for.
I'll just point it to Melissa. Um,
[1:18:20] » what page is on?
>> It's on the page that Melissa's on right
[1:18:23] now.
>> I see.
[1:18:27] » There's an extra four right here and an
extra four right there.
[1:18:30] » Yes, we can just go thing.
>> All right, that's it. Thanks.
[1:18:39] So if you have any grammatical things to
send, send them over to Melissa. This is
[1:18:43] why she asked for you guys to look at a
document, send them prior to that. Okay?
[1:18:47] So send them over if you see them. Uh
like I said, this is like the first
[1:18:51] introduction of the document. They were
going to go line by line reading, but
[1:18:54] this reason why we bring this document
more than once as you can tell like
[1:18:58] there was something missing. This thing
has been around for a couple of months
[1:19:00] now. Uh go ahead, Mr. Kamali. Yeah, I
just want to make sure that there is
[1:19:05] another, you know, correction should be
added on page four for the street number
[1:19:11] two. It should be Bunker Hill Road. So,
we're going to add the word road next
[1:19:17] year.
>> So, if you guys could do me a favor for
[1:19:19] the next meeting, highlight whatever
else you guys have changed so that way
[1:19:22] the community knows where we're looking
instead of trying to fine-tune whether
[1:19:26] it's a four and page six or page
whatever. That would definitely help.
[1:19:30] Okay. All right. So, this is just an
introduction. It's there. Beautiful
[1:19:33] document. It is um the the original code
you guys could find in our in our
[1:19:38] wonderful MUN code information is there,
but the agenda package has all this
[1:19:42] information. Anything that's crossed out
is being either moved to a different
[1:19:45] section or be like um updated for like
the new information.
[1:19:49] » All right. Yes.
>> Um just wanting clarification. It says
[1:19:53] in the agenda it's the first reading.
So, do we need to read it into the
[1:20:00] record or we
>> vice mayor?
[1:20:03] » Oh, I haven't had to read anything.
>> So, that was a question for everybody.
[1:20:08] Um,
we can make the changes cuz wait, are
[1:20:12] you going to do this is a one or two
reading thing?
[1:20:17] » Introduce read and adopted.
>> So, it's going to have this is
[1:20:21] introduced, right? It's introduced
today. What is the first reading on it?
[1:20:28] » Because we it was re it was introduced
>> last um like in June and May and
[1:20:34] » it was introduced.
>> Melissa, what what is the
[1:20:37] » introduction?
No.
[1:20:39] » So um
>> thank you. So since it's introduction
[1:20:45] and first reading, uh you guys are going
to have to do a read through of it.
[1:20:49] Well, so let me start. We'll take turns
if we need to.
[1:20:53] » All right. Don't read the whole thing.
>> It's okay.
[1:20:55] » You don't have to read through it.
>> Reading isn't literal.
[1:21:03] » You can just provide a summary.
>> I would I would I don't have the summary
[1:21:06] for it. So, somebody has a summary, go
ahead and do it. But I would say like
[1:21:09] reading it allows for people to be able
to know what the changes are. And I'll
[1:21:12] tell you this, we've had this document
four times. And had we read it, we
[1:21:16] probably will cut up that we have two
fours in it instead of one as you read
[1:21:19] it through. Um it's usually I'll just
I'll just start working through it and
[1:21:22] then we don't have to read it the second
time. Just highlight the changes on it
[1:21:25] because although we have introduced it,
we have not read it. We just show the
[1:21:28] document and say here it is. All right.
So all right. So this is um ordinance
[1:21:35] 05-2026 is amending the code of the city
of Mr. Chapter 9 parking meters to
[1:21:40] eliminate parking meters and provide for
the establishment of pay parking zones
[1:21:44] and means of charging for parking and
set zones. All right. So whereas
[1:21:50] pursuant to code 5-202 the local
government arc of annotated code of
[1:21:55] Maryland the council of the city of
Morenia Maryland and known as the city
[1:21:59] council has the authority to pass such
ordinance as is deemed necessary to
[1:22:02] assure the good governance of the
municipality protect and preserve the
[1:22:07] municipalities right property privilege
preserve peace and good order secure
[1:22:12] persons and property from danger and
destruction and protect the health
[1:22:16] comfort and convenience of the residents
of the municipality and whereas pursuant
[1:22:22] to code 25-101 and code 25-102
of the transportation article of the
[1:22:29] code of Maryland the mayor and council
have the authority to regulate parking
[1:22:32] of the vehicles on the street within the
city's jurisdiction in whereas pursuant
[1:22:36] to the authority this authority the city
council has adopted chapter 9 parking
[1:22:41] meters and has installed parking meters
along certain parts of certain city
[1:22:46] roads and whereas the mayor and council
wish to modernize the city's pay parking
[1:22:50] program to replace it parking meter with
a more modern and effective and less
[1:22:54] costly internetbased system. [snorts]
Section one now therefore beertain and
[1:23:00] enact that the council of the city of
Marineer the chapter 9 parking meter. So
[1:23:04] section 9-101 parking meter zones of the
city code should be and hereby is
[1:23:09] amended to read as follow.
So I'm not going to read the crossup
[1:23:15] parts. I'm just going to read the the
edit versions. Okay. Section 9-101 pay
[1:23:20] parking zones. The American Council may
design a city street or parking lot
[1:23:24] under its controlled as a pay parking
zone and may require vehicles operators
[1:23:28] to pay to park in such zones with such
means as the mayor and council deem
[1:23:33] appropriate
including via internet programs or
[1:23:37] applications during the hours specified
on signs to be installed in or along
[1:23:41] such stones. The owner of the vehicle
should be responsible for the parking
[1:23:45] fee for any vehicle parked in a parking
zone.
[1:23:50] Section two be a further ordained and
enact by the council of city of Marener
[1:23:54] that chapter 9 me parking meter section
9-103
[1:23:58] is selection of parking meters of the
city code should be and hereby is
[1:24:02] amended to read as follows. Section
9-103 collection of parking fees. Pay
[1:24:09] parking zones. pay parking zones uh
section 8. The mayor and city council
[1:24:13] should
all the way to the bottom of this. There
[1:24:18] you go. a rag signs containing a quick
response QR code or with or other
[1:24:22] internet links via which drivers can pay
electronically to park. In such cases,
[1:24:27] the raise for parking should be clearly
displayed on the web page to which the
[1:24:31] QR code and link or other direct links.
Let's see. Oh, sorry. Link directs the
[1:24:37] payer and program should send a letter
via text message or email to the payer
[1:24:43] at least 5 minutes before the expiration
of the period for which the payer has
[1:24:48] paid expires and again promptly upon the
expiration of such period.
[1:24:53] B. When any driver parks a vehicle in a
designated paid parking zone during that
[1:24:59] time period specified in section 9-105
of this chapter, the driver shall access
[1:25:04] the electronic payment system by that
means indirectly of the sign designated
[1:25:08] the zone and shall make payments
electronically as directed by the
[1:25:11] parking system so accessed. Section
three better further ordained and
[1:25:16] enacted the council by the council of
the city of Maria that chapter 9 parking
[1:25:19] meter section 9-104 operate operating of
parking meters of the city code should
[1:25:25] be and hereby is repealed and the
section is reserved for future future
[1:25:29] legislation.
>> [snorts]
[1:25:31] » Section four be further ordained and
acted by the city council of Marineer
[1:25:35] that chapter 9 parking meter section
9-105 parking meters time limits and
[1:25:39] rates of the city code should be and and
hereby is amended to read as follows.
[1:25:45] Section 9-105 parking time meters and
rates. A parking standing a vehicle in a
[1:25:51] designated space in a paid parking zone
should be lawful as indicated on those
[1:25:58] meters or signs. Keep going. Um, portion
B's move. Okay, there you go. Now, the
[1:26:04] new Bes that raise for parking in a
parking zone are set forward in the city
[1:26:08] of Marineer fee schedule.
Then you see now the new parc drivers
[1:26:13] with park for no longer than two hours
in any paid parking zones in the city.
[1:26:17] » Mayor,
>> what?
[1:26:18] » We need to add time.
>> Okay.
[1:26:21] » Um, I mo make a motion that we add five
minutes.
[1:26:25] [snorts]
There's a motion the floor to add four
[1:26:27] minutes to the clock and a second.
[1:26:34] I second. You guys are taking your sweet
time. Any discussion?
[1:26:39] All right. Hearing none, we're adding
five more minutes to the time. And
[1:26:42] Melissa, I cannot see you if you're
flagging me with time. Sorry about that.
[1:26:47] All right. Okay. Part D pay parkings
shall be in effect between 8:00 a.m. to
[1:26:53] 10 p.m. and second Sundays and city
holidays in the following locations.
[1:26:58] That 2200
and 2300 block of Varnon Street,
[1:27:04] the 33 and 3,400 blocks of Bunker Hill
Road. That's what's going to be added,
[1:27:09] right? The 3,800 and 4,000 block of 34th
Street. The 3200 block of Otis Street.
[1:27:16] the 3,400 and 3700 block of Rididen
Avenue. Pay parking s should be in
[1:27:21] effect between 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
midnight and set on Sundays and city
[1:27:26] hallways in the following locations. The
3,700 block of 34th Street, the third
[1:27:31] 3,200 3200 block of Rh Island Avenue,
the 3700 block of 33rd Street, the 33rd
[1:27:39] block of Perry.
Okay.
[1:27:44] » [snorts]
>> Section five be a further ordained and
[1:27:46] enact by the council of city marine the
chapter 9 parking meeting section 9-106
[1:27:50] violations of the city code should be
and hereby is amended to read as follows
[1:27:56] section 9-106 violations it should be
unlawful and a violation of provision of
[1:28:00] this chapter for any person a to cause
allow permit or suffer any vehicle
[1:28:06] register in the name of or operated by
such person to be parked beyond the peri
[1:28:11] of legal parking established or any pay
parking zone as designated in section
[1:28:17] 9-105 of this chapter.
B to permit any vehicle to remain or be
[1:28:23] placed in any parking space any parking.
There you go. And pay parking zones
[1:28:29] during the effective hours of such zone
without paying the amounts required by
[1:28:33] the city fee schedule. C. to park any
vehicle across any line or making of a
[1:28:39] parking meter space or in such position
that the parking should not be entirely
[1:28:42] within the area designated by such lines
of marking. All right, moving on to
[1:28:47] section C. Be further obtained and act
by the council and of the city of
[1:28:51] Marineer. The chapter 9 parking meter
section 909-107
[1:28:55] enforcement of the city code should be
and hereby is amended to read as follow
[1:29:01] uh 9-07 enforcement 8. It should be the
duty of the police officers, parking
[1:29:05] enforcement officers and code
enforcement officer of the city of
[1:29:08] Marina to enforce this chapter and upon
discovering any vehicle park otherwise
[1:29:12] in violation of the chapters to you.
Deliver a citation to the driver or if
[1:29:16] the vehicle is an attendant attach a
citation in the suspic suspicious place
[1:29:22] and keep a copy of the citation bearing
the officer certification under penalty
[1:29:27] of perjury and the facts stated in that
citation are true. B. In the absence of
[1:29:33] the driver of the vehicle, the register
owner of the vehicle is presumed to be
[1:29:36] the person receiving this citation.
C. [snorts] Citations issued under this
[1:29:41] chapter should the number should state
the number of the parking space or zone
[1:29:46] in which the vehicle is parked in the
circumstances that indicate that the
[1:29:50] vehicle has been parked or otherwise in
violation of the provision of this
[1:29:54] chapter. the state license of number of
the vehicle, the make and model of the
[1:29:58] vehicle, the date and time of the
violation and any other facts necessary
[1:30:04] to understanding of the circumstances of
the violation.
[1:30:09] D. The citation the citation should
notify the person receiving the citation
[1:30:13] to pay the fine for the violation to the
city of Marina within 30 calendar days
[1:30:19] from the issues of citation or to give
written notice to the city of Marina
[1:30:23] within 25 calendar days from the date of
the issue of the city of of the citation
[1:30:29] of intention to stand trial for the
violation in
[1:30:33] district court. The citation also should
notify the owner or driver of the
[1:30:37] vehicle that failure to pay the
prescribed fine by the payment date or
[1:30:41] to request a child may result in the
vehicle being immobilized or impounded
[1:30:45] or the vehicle registration renew or
transfer being withheld. So all of E is
[1:30:51] out and there it goes. If a person
elects to stand trial for the violation
[1:30:56] and desires the president of the trial
of the officers who issued the citation,
[1:31:00] the person should so notify the city of
Marinia at that time that notice of
[1:31:04] intention to stand trial is given. If
properification is not given, the
[1:31:08] officers need not to appear at the trial
and the copy of the citation bearing the
[1:31:13] certification of the officers is prima
facet evidence of the facts stated
[1:31:19] in the citation. I request to stand
trial for the valuation made after 25
[1:31:24] calendar days of insurance of the city
requires the posting of collateral with
[1:31:29] the city equal to the fine plus all of
its penalties. Um the new the registered
[1:31:34] owner of the vehicle is responsible for
a citation issue for the violation of
[1:31:38] this chapter whether or not the owner
was the driver or in possession of the
[1:31:41] vehicle at the time of the violation and
whether or not the owner actually
[1:31:45] received that citation.
Okay.
[1:31:51] I need uh five more minutes because
we're almost done with this.
[1:31:54] » I move to add five minutes.
>> Can I have a second?
[1:31:57] » Second.
>> Thank you. Any discussion?
[1:32:01] » Hearing none. We're going to add five
more minutes. All right. Section seven
[1:32:08] be a further obtained and enact by the
council of the city of Marraer that
[1:32:11] chapter 9 parking meter section 9-108
violations and penalties of the city
[1:32:15] code should be shall be and hereby is
amended to read as follows. Section
[1:32:20] 9-108 violations and penalties all the
way to the bottom. Uh violation of any
[1:32:26] of the provisions of the chapter is a
parking offense subject to a fine of
[1:32:30] $30.
B all fine should be paid within 30 days
[1:32:34] from the day of the issuance of the
citation unless an election election
[1:32:39] [snorts]
to stand trial is received by the city
[1:32:42] within 25 days. I think this one should
be like 25 calendar days cuz that's the
[1:32:48] way it was referenced in the in the
other sections. So if you go out a
[1:32:51] calendar day on this part as well, any
fine at timely pay should be increased
[1:32:56] as follow. If the fine is not paid
within 30 calendar days and a timely
[1:33:00] notice of of election to stand trial is
not received by the city, the fine force
[1:33:04] should be double. If the fine is not
paid within 60 calendar days and a
[1:33:08] timely notice of election to stand trial
is not received by the city, the fine
[1:33:12] should be double from the amount imposed
pursuant to sub paragraph one of this
[1:33:16] subsection. Three, if the fine is not
paid within 90 calendar days and a
[1:33:22] timely notice of it of election to send
trial is not received by the city, the
[1:33:26] fine force shall be double from the
amount imposed pursuant to the sub
[1:33:30] paragraph 2 of this subsection.
[clears throat] Item number four, if the
[1:33:34] fine is not paid within
120 calendar days and at timely notice
[1:33:40] of the election to send trial is not
received by the city, the fine should d
[1:33:44] shall be double from the amount in post
pursuant to sub paragraph 3 of this
[1:33:48] subsection.
and C. The mayor and city council may
[1:33:53] contract with an agent, a collection
agency, a law firm, or uses other legal
[1:33:57] means to collect unpaid fines and may
charge the cost of such collection to
[1:34:01] the violator.
And section 8 be further ordained and
[1:34:06] enacted by the council of the city of
Marineer that chapter 9 parking meter
[1:34:11] section 9-09 use of funds of the city
code should be and hereby is repealed.
[1:34:16] Section nine, this ordinance is adopted
by the council of the city of Morenia on
[1:34:21] blank day of blank month, blank month of
blank day, and should be in effect on
[1:34:26] the blank day of blank month 2026.
Provided that a fair summary has been
[1:34:33] read at a meeting at which is it is
unders it is introduced and at the
[1:34:38] meeting at which it has been acted upon.
That a copy should be posted at city
[1:34:43] hall immediately after introduction
until is acted upon and for at least two
[1:34:49] weeks after becomes effective. and that
a fair summary is published at least
[1:34:55] once in a newspaper having general
circulation in the city exclusive of the
[1:35:00] city newsletter mail or otherwise
delivered to every city household. So
[1:35:07] per the code itself it has to be read
you know that is a fair. So there's
[1:35:11] another one where it says just council
where it just says um council can you
[1:35:16] make it city council because if not it's
you know so to clear up because it goes
[1:35:19] back and forward. All right. So, um
Melissa, you got my addition to it where
[1:35:25] it said calendar, right? Thank you guys
so much. And if there's anything else
[1:35:28] you guys see grammatical things needs to
do, please submit it. It definitely will
[1:35:32] be important. And as you tell in the
code, it tells you the process that must
[1:35:35] take in order for us. So, this is like
step one as we go through it. Okay.
[1:35:41] Thank you guys so much for um for being
here to [clears throat] part one of the
[1:35:45] meeting. All right. Can I have a motion
to adjourn the legislative uh meeting as
[1:35:50] we move into a work session?
[1:35:55] » There's a motion and a second.
Any discussion?
[1:36:00] Objections, abstensions? Hearing none.
We will adjourn the legislative meeting
[1:36:06] of mayor and council.
All right. We're not done.
[1:36:11] » Can you guys hold down please? All
right.
[1:36:16] Okay. So, I'm going to give a two two
minute recess if anybody wants to go
[1:36:22] five minute recess for people to want to
go grab water, go get a drink, go to the
[1:36:25] restroom, do whatever you need to do
before we start the work session of the
[1:36:29] mayor and council for tonight. Okay. All
right. I I want to see no one leaving
[1:36:34] us. I'm taking attendance. [laughter]
[1:36:43] » I'll see you in five minutes.
[1:45:12] We're going to start meeting number two.
Okay. Uh council member car is on her
[1:45:16] way back, but by the time we finish the
agenda, she should be back here. All
[1:45:19] right. All right. So, this is the agenda
of special work session the mayor and
[1:45:24] council for the city of Minia, Maryland.
This is an in-person work session for
[1:45:29] Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, following
the legislative meeting. Um, we will
[1:45:35] first start with roll call. See, I told
you she'd be back if I started reading
[1:45:39] it. All right. Uh, Joseph
>> still here.
[1:45:43] » Valerie, I'm here. Danielle,
>> still here.
[1:45:47] » That says the person that just said that
Jenny present. All right, that is a 50
[1:45:53] corum. Thank you so much.
All right, moving on to item number two,
[1:45:59] review of the agenda. The mayor and
council review the agenda for the
[1:46:04] meeting, adding or deleting topics of
interest of or discussion. So that'll
[1:46:08] meet us to item [laughter]
Melissa. I'm like, yeah, I need to
[1:46:13] remember that you moved that. Okay. Item
number three, presentation, discussion,
[1:46:17] and building application, 3108 Taylor
Street, Mr. Maryland. We will receive a
[1:46:22] presentation from the owner of 3108
Taylor Street who is here, Mr. um
[1:46:28] [clears throat] Brent Sherman.
Got it right. That wasn't too bad. All
[1:46:33] right. So, moving on to uh present item
number four, presentation, discussion of
[1:46:37] resolution 10-2026. The American Council
have discussion resolution 10-2026,
[1:46:42] appointment of Miss June Kshaw to the
ethics commission. Item number five,
[1:46:47] presentation discussion on resolution
number 11-2026.
[1:46:52] The Americas will have discussion
resolution 11-2026
[1:46:55] appointing
appointing is Elis is the only one
[1:47:00] that's being appointed right is
reappointed.
[1:47:03] » Elise is being appointed to the green
team and change.
[1:47:07] » Okay. So yeah, next time let's work on
okay
[1:47:11] of Elise Foster to the green team and
Mr. Oh, Sanchin,
[1:47:17] do you see what's this? Sanchi, Judy,
Mary Lee, they're all being reappointed.
[1:47:22] » Everyone's being reappointed except for
such
[1:47:25] » for. Okay. So,
>> the resolution's clear.
[1:47:28] » Okay. Can you Okay. Can we try matching
the resolution to what I have to read so
[1:47:33] that way like it's congruent. All right.
the appointment and reappointment of
[1:47:37] Miss Elise Foster, green team, uh,
Sanchi, um, Khadari, uh, Judy Alba, Mary
[1:47:45] Lee Hath out, Gabe Poppin, Lester, uh,
Sherman and Barry Stree Commission, and
[1:47:52] to the green team, and the tree
commission. So that's that's where I was
[1:47:57] like, it's repetitive. I'm not sure
who's who.
[1:47:59] » Not a workshop, but
>> yeah. So, let's do it separately like
[1:48:03] tree commission appointment, reappoint,
or whatever. We'll figure it out. Okay.
[1:48:07] Uh item number six, presentation,
discussion of proposal to have public
[1:48:10] forum. Commower will present a proposal
to have a public forum to discuss
[1:48:16] municipal priorities.
Item number seven, update discussion and
[1:48:21] a community survey results. Uh Cer will
provide an update on the results of
[1:48:27] community survey she conducted on the
summer. Presentational minutes um for
[1:48:33] June 9, 2026 work session special
legislative meeting July 7, 2026 as well
[1:48:39] and emergency meeting and item number
nine adjourn.
[1:48:45] Is there any edits that need to be made
to this agenda?
[1:48:50] [snorts]
If
[1:48:51] » um I'd like to remove my item uh the
presentation discussion on proposal to
[1:48:56] hold a public forum.
>> So item number six has been discussed.
[1:49:00] So everything's going to be bumped up.
Okay.
[1:49:04] All right. So, anything else that needs
to be added, removed. If not, can I get
[1:49:08] a verbal confirmation that we're moving
forward with this agenda?
[1:49:12] Go ahead, Joseph.
>> I'm fine with it.
[1:49:17] » Go ahead, brother.
>> I'm okay.
[1:49:19] » Danielle,
>> I'm good.
[1:49:21] » Jenny, I'm good. All right. So, we have
a working agenda.
[1:49:27] Okay. Item number three, presentation
discussion of building application for
[1:49:31] 3108 Taylor Street. And we have Mr. Bren
Sherman here. So if you could actually
[1:49:39] one minute, we need a mic where he's
supposed to be at.
[1:49:43] » Can somebody borrow his mic? Okay. So
can you go ahead and turn it on so it's
[1:49:47] green light?
>> Sure.
[1:49:50] » Just
>> Okay.
[1:49:52] » Okay. So,
thank you so much for being here and
[1:49:56] waiting for the secondary meeting. It's
definitely appreciated. And um Okay,
[1:50:01] perfect. So, tell us a little bit about
the property, what changes are being uh
[1:50:05] made and obviously we saw the preje
county permit attached. So, that has
[1:50:09] been clear.
>> So, let us know about the property. Go
[1:50:12] ahead.
>> Okay. Thank you, uh council members,
[1:50:15] mayor, and city manager. Um, we are
embarking on a major house renovation,
[1:50:19] the largest renovation uh we've done to
our property since I bought it in 2000.
[1:50:24] [laughter] Um, essentially our goal is
to enlarge the kitchen. Um, add a small
[1:50:33] addition, second floor addition above
the first floor addition that exists to
[1:50:38] add a second bathroom to the house and a
master bedroom closet. Um the out all
[1:50:44] the exterior is not visible from the
street. Um it's only visible from the
[1:50:50] backside.
>> Um the goals guiding our um renovation
[1:50:55] were to make it uh match the historical
character of the house. So we are doing
[1:51:00] things like um using architectural
windows. Um, I've actually do my own
[1:51:08] trim work that is based on what the
original trim. I even made knives that
[1:51:13] cut that trim work. Um, so we will be re
places that unfortunately suffered a 70s
[1:51:19] remodel. We'll be replacing with more
classical trim for the time period. Um,
[1:51:25] we're um, additionally that addition on
the end has the gabled roof which is
[1:51:30] typical of the vernacular Victorian
style of our house. It's not a bungalow.
[1:51:35] Surprise there are some non-bungalows in
Mount Reneer. Um it's a vernacular
[1:51:39] Victorian so it has a gabled roof.
>> Um additionally another guiding light
[1:51:44] for us is to improve our environmental
footprint. Um so we are eliminating all
[1:51:50] gas appliances in the house. We're
switching from a boiler heating system
[1:51:56] to a high efficiency heat pump. Um,
inverter systems that are very
[1:52:03] efficient, 20s here or higher. Um,
uh, additionally, um, trying to think
[1:52:10] what else I was going to say. Am I
missing anything?
[1:52:13] » You have a roof plan that we talked
about it.
[1:52:15] » The roof plan and you have east
elevation. I thought I said east
[1:52:18] elevator. I was going to be like, "Wow,
what kind of song are you building?" But
[1:52:20] it's east elevation. Go ahead. Um, and
you know, we're we view this as a way of
[1:52:25] bringing our house sort of into the next
century, doing the environmental work,
[1:52:31] switching the heat pump, improving. I'm
actually building the cabinets myself in
[1:52:35] my workshop in the back. Um, and you
know, making it a more modern kitchen
[1:52:40] while retaining the historical character
of the building. And I'd be happy to
[1:52:44] take any questions and look forward to
your vote of approval.
[1:52:48] » Thank you so much for uh coming tonight.
So, I'm going to make it across, right?
[1:52:53] Sorry, where you guys right uh Danielle
and then Jenny.
[1:52:57] » Yes, thank you. I was just looking up
where here. No, I was looking I'm
[1:53:01] looking where it is on the map. Exactly.
So, you are in my ward. You're right
[1:53:04] down the street. I thought so. I know
the house you're talking about. I'm very
[1:53:08] excited to see the uh Well, when you say
we're not going to see anything from the
[1:53:12] street, correct?
>> Right. There will hopefully be another
[1:53:16] once we recover financially from this
renovation. [laughter]
[1:53:20] Uh, we do want to add on to the front
porch that originally existed on the
[1:53:26] house but was taken out by a tree limb
in the 1960s. Um,
[1:53:31] » so eventually we hope to add that which
would be a more visual impact.
[1:53:35] » Well, I'm very excited for you guys. I'm
actually really jealous you're getting a
[1:53:39] bigger kitchen because I still got a
galley. So, um, congratulations and I
[1:53:43] enjoy the results.
>> Thank you,
[1:53:46] » Jenny.
Um, I have actually wondered if you guys
[1:53:51] had originally had a porch. So, that's
>> What's that?
[1:53:54] » I've wondered if you guys originally had
a porch or I had heard from the previous
[1:53:59] owners who heard from their previous
owner about what happened to that porch.
[1:54:04] » Yeah. Um, and just congratulations on
moving away from gas. I think
[1:54:09] » Yeah,
>> it's obviously the way to go. I did the
[1:54:12] same thing, so good luck.
>> Thanks. All
[1:54:15] right, Valerie. Joseph,
>> thank you. Good luck with your
[1:54:18] renovations. I don't have any questions.
Thank you.
[1:54:20] » Okay. Thank you,
>> Joseph. I'm excited to see your project
[1:54:25] and your attention to historic detail
and environmental stewardship. Really
[1:54:29] excited that you're getting rid of
you're kicking the gas. Um, I did want
[1:54:34] to remind you of a few local rules.
You're probably going to follow them
[1:54:37] anyway, but just in case, um, so you can
be a good neighbor throughout your
[1:54:40] process. First, we do have the noise
ordinance, section 10-121.
[1:54:45] So, please limit construction activities
to 8 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to avoid
[1:54:49] violating it. Second, we do have the
tree ordinance, second section 12B-7.
[1:54:55] The ordinance protects private trees
56.55 in or more in circumference
[1:54:59] measured at 4.5 ft or above the ground.
If you plan on doing anything with a
[1:55:04] tree that size, even if it's in bad
condition, make sure you talk to code
[1:55:07] enforcement. And also everyone out there
that's listening to this, please also
[1:55:11] follow the tree ordinance. Um,
>> it's expensive if you don't.
[1:55:15] » Yes. And finally, take care when
digging, moving, and grading soil to
[1:55:18] prevent any storm water running into
your neighbor's yard. And when in doubt,
[1:55:22] call code. But, um, it looks like a
great project, and I'm going to I guess
[1:55:27] I'll get to see it when I'm walking
through the the path. [laughter]
[1:55:29] » Well, you'll probably have to come
inside to see it, but yes, we'll invite
[1:55:33] you in sometime [laughter]
once it's underway.
[1:55:37] Yeah, like you have a whole new kitchen
to celebrate. I know. So, definitely
[1:55:40] thank you for the um very cautious
effort to make sure you preserve the
[1:55:45] history of Marina.
>> As you heard earlier, we do have a
[1:55:47] design review board who makes sure we
take care of that. So, the fact that
[1:55:51] it's not visually from the street uh
means that um various additional laws
[1:55:56] have not been enacted which makes your
life a little bit easier. Uh because if
[1:55:59] not now you have to go to the variance
and different things, right? right in
[1:56:02] case for future generations that's
something you need that this time review
[1:56:05] board will be the ones to reach out.
Other than that um I look forward to um
[1:56:10] the renovations and you know I'm happy
that you guys are expanding. So that
[1:56:14] means you also get to stay in Marineer
right as your family you know grows and
[1:56:18] expands and you guys get the stuff that
you need cuz I think that lot the the
[1:56:22] hard time about Mariner is the fact that
we have beautiful homes. My kitchen was
[1:56:26] renovated before I bought it, but the
expansion of it creates very difficult
[1:56:31] for people to be able to, but it looked
like a little shoe box uh originally on
[1:56:35] it. But um in saying that, um you know,
Joseph said very clearly that we're in
[1:56:40] doubt, reach out to the co team uh
because if you don't reach out to them,
[1:56:44] they'll reach out to you and it's
usually with a stop order or a violation
[1:56:47] of like the trees as well. And our
residents, as lovely as they are, they
[1:56:51] protect the trees and they'll make sure
to let us know. And lastly, we will be
[1:56:56] getting a call if you start working
ahead of time. So you want you want to
[1:57:00] make sure we don't get that call because
people will call us at that time.
[1:57:02] [laughter] But other than that, you
know, I don't think we're going to have
[1:57:05] any problems. You know, who to reach
out, how to go about and you have put a
[1:57:07] lot of like very careful details into
it. So we look forward to having another
[1:57:12] beautiful home in Marina. So thank you
for making sure you keep it like in the
[1:57:16] character of who we are.
>> Okay. All right. Thank you.
[1:57:18] » All right. That is it. That's all you
have to do. and um visit the call team
[1:57:22] tomorrow in order for them to release um
whatever license we need from the city.
[1:57:26] So, usually this is the stop and then
>> okay, but since you already have all the
[1:57:30] permits for the county, it's usually
more of like for the community to know
[1:57:33] that it is legitimate work that you have
gotten your permits and you're moving
[1:57:37] forward with this. So, tomorrow reach
out to them so that way they could tell
[1:57:40] you when they'll be available.
>> All right. Excellent. Thank you.
[1:57:43] » All right. Perfect. Thank you so much.
All right. Moving on to
[1:57:51] all right presentation discussion
resolution 10-2026.
[1:57:55] Uh the mayor and council will have a
discussion on resolution number 10-2026
[1:58:00] appointment of Miss June Kshaw to the
ethics commission. Hi Miss Kshaw, you're
[1:58:04] here. How are you? You want to uh come
to the mic for a few minutes and tell us
[1:58:09] a little bit about yourself? And by the
way, thank you for providing the
[1:58:12] information. Very outstanding resume and
everything that went along with it. very
[1:58:17] detailed. [snorts]
>> Thank you.
[1:58:18] » So, I'm excited to be here. Um, so first
off, I want to say thank you to the to
[1:58:24] you and the council and members of Mount
Reineer community. Uh, my name is June
[1:58:31] Krenshaw. I live in the 3,300 block of
Otis. Uh, my wife and I moved there
[1:58:38] about a week a year and a half ago. Um,
throughout my career in my community
[1:58:44] service, I've worked with a number of
nonprofits and governing boards and
[1:58:50] public officials, uh, community members.
And those experiences have taught me
[1:58:56] that public trust is built through
transparency,
[1:59:01] consistency, accountability, and the
fair application of established
[1:59:07] standards, which clearly by um the hours
that we've spent here already uh this
[1:59:13] council um and leadership is very aware
of. So I'm very excited to have been
[1:59:19] here and seen a little bit of the
process. If I am appointed, I will bring
[1:59:25] independence, sound judgment, strong
communication to fairness uh to the
[1:59:31] commission's work. I understand that
serving on the ethics commission
[1:59:35] requires more than simply knowing the
rules. It requires the ability to
[1:59:41] examine the facts objectively uh protect
confidentiality when appropriate,
[1:59:47] disclose and avoid conflicts of
interest. Uh make decisions without
[1:59:52] regard to personal relationships, uh
political consideration or public
[1:59:58] pressure. And I recognize that ethics
should not be viewed solely as a
[2:00:03] mechanism for responding to violations.
Uh but a strong ethics program can help
[2:00:10] city officials, employees,
commissioners, and re residents better
[2:00:14] understand expectations.
Um identify potential concerns early and
[2:00:20] strengthen confidence in the government.
Uh basically I am interested in this
[2:00:27] role uh to become more involved uh with
the local community, the city
[2:00:33] government, uh the way in which uh the
the city works and just to do my part in
[2:00:41] in making sure uh that old and new
residents like myself uh feel included,
[2:00:48] understand the process, and is connected
to making the the best place to look.
[2:00:54] » All right. Thank you so much. Uh,
council, I'm going to go ahead and go
[2:00:58] one by one in case you have a question.
All right. So, start this way. I'm going
[2:01:04] to go Danielle. No, you were first.
Valerie,
[2:01:08] Danielle, Jenny, Joseph, go ahead. Um,
thank you and thank you for volunteering
[2:01:12] to serve on the ethics commission.
That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you,
[2:01:16] » Danielle. [snorts]
>> Thank you very much for putting your
[2:01:19] name forward. I saw you when you were
coming in tonight and uh I was very
[2:01:22] impressed with your CV. We got it in our
email last week and like I told you, I
[2:01:27] cheated. I looked on Facebook to find
you and researched you and I was very
[2:01:31] impressed with everything I saw. Your
work and your advocacy for the LGBTQ
[2:01:35] plus community alone just really touched
my heart. So, thank you so much for
[2:01:39] stepping up. You know, volunteering is
is is really putting yourself out there
[2:01:44] and to to be interested in the ethics
commission, that's a heavy pull. So,
[2:01:48] thank you very very much. Thank you,
>> Jenny Joseph.
[2:01:53] » Thank you for stepping up and um glad
that even though you haven't been here
[2:01:57] that long that you were already getting
so involved. So, thank you.
[2:02:01] » Thank you for that.
>> Joseph,
[2:02:04] um thank you for putting your name
forward, Miss Krenshaw. I um I like has
[2:02:08] been said, I've been I was very
impressed with your resume that you
[2:02:11] provided us and and the speech you just
gave is shows really how important uh
[2:02:16] the work of the ethics committee is and
um and uh what you'll bring to it. Um so
[2:02:23] I'm very glad to see that and also I
think this will be the first time in a
[2:02:26] long time if you're appointed that we'll
have a full ethics commit commission
[2:02:31] too. So, that's really exciting um to be
able to have a full body to evaluate our
[2:02:38] finance reports and whatnot. So, um yep,
I look forward to us bringing the the
[2:02:44] resolution forward at our next uh
legislative session.
[2:02:47] » Thank you. So, um I think already said
what I needed to say, but thank you. I
[2:02:52] appreciate it. I I think that we need to
be able to have enough expertise on the
[2:02:55] different levels in our committees and
if you heard from uh even our committee
[2:03:00] that we were discussing earlier, we
heavily rely on their expertise to be
[2:03:03] able to like guide our work. Most of the
time from us, you might see like just a
[2:03:08] piece of paper that says here our
financials [laughter] and for the
[2:03:11] candidates as well. So anybody that runs
for the city of Marineer has to submit a
[2:03:15] financial document and that's what the
ethics commission reviews and for
[2:03:18] elected officials we have to submit one
every year. uh and a couple like
[2:03:22] departments um will also have to see it.
So you might know us by paper,
[2:03:26] eventually by faces, you know, but it's
all the fun stuff. Uh and not only that,
[2:03:31] uh equally as exciting, you'll be
joining a group of pretty great people.
[2:03:35] So um so I look forward to uh on our
next, you know, official meeting
[2:03:39] legislative to appoint you to it. I
definitely appreciate you staying as
[2:03:42] late as you have. All right. So I have
no questions, just more like thank you
[2:03:46] for being here.
>> Thank you so much.
[2:03:47] » Perfect. All right. So, um, you guys
have in front of you the resolution
[2:03:51] 10-2026.
Squish it down all the way. And it's a
[2:03:55] resolution city Mariner appointing Miss
June Crasha to the ethics commission.
[2:03:59] You have all the various workshop. Guys,
if you guys are talking, it gets a
[2:04:02] little distracting. Um, so let it the
resolution is here. It's going to be up
[2:04:08] for a vote on our next meeting, but
basically it's the appointment if you
[2:04:11] but Melissa, if you keep moving it.
There you go. Praise. Okay. before the
[2:04:14] appointment of June Cshaw is hereby
appointed to serve as a member of this
[2:04:18] commission. We'll read through it the
appointment period to make sure we keep
[2:04:20] it in mind. It's a period of three years
commencing on September well wouldn't be
[2:04:25] September 1st. So that needs to be
edited and expiring on what the year is
[2:04:30] but um okay respective successors are
duty appointment and qualify in
[2:04:34] accordance with the city chart
applicable law. So it is three years but
[2:04:38] if um we're working on appointing
somebody else in my year 10 will be
[2:04:41] visited. definitely let you know if it
needs to be extended. So once we vote on
[2:04:45] this, it'll be that'll be the official
date that'll be joining the team. I know
[2:04:48] it has a date on it, but this is just a
draft. Okay. All right. Any questions
[2:04:52] regarding this resolution? Are we good
to move forward?
[2:04:56] » Okay. We're good to move forward. All
right. Moving on to the next item on the
[2:05:00] agenda. You said in the package is where
it needs to be, right? Okay. Can you go
[2:05:05] to the package itself so I so I could
break it down? [laughter] Go. Yeah. So,
[2:05:09] next time is presentation sketch and
resolution 11-2026.
[2:05:14] So, if you can move it to There you go.
Thank you, Melissa. And squish squish
[2:05:17] squish all the way all the way to where
the people at. There you go. Thank you.
[2:05:20] Oop, right there. Okay. So, this one is
um therefore be a resolve. The funding
[2:05:27] raers are appointed to the green team
for a two for a term of two years
[2:05:31] beginning October 6, 2026 in accordance
to the code of the city of Marineer code
[2:05:36] four. Is it 4.01 01 or 4-41.
Do you guys know
[2:05:41] » it has 4.401?
>> Okay. And this will be for um Elise
[2:05:46] Foster. [snorts] And the other be for
the resolve uh residents are the
[2:05:52] residents appointed to a tree commission
for terms of two years as well for the
[2:05:56] code of city of Morenia code 12B-3
and that is Sanin
[2:06:03] Kandari. [snorts]
uh let it be further resolved.
[2:06:09] So you guys are missing a let it
further. There's a let under the second
[2:06:12] one. So you see as it goes be it further
resolve. So it be like let it let it be
[2:06:16] further resolved. So there's additional
wording because you're adding one more
[2:06:20] one more line to it. Uh that the
following residents are reappointment
[2:06:24] reappointed to the tree commission for
two-year terms beginning October 6 in
[2:06:29] accordance to the code of city
marine-2B-3.
[2:06:33] All right. [snorts] So that'll be Judy
Alba, Mary Lee Hathwart, uh Gay Poppin,
[2:06:38] Lester Schuman, and Barry Saul. Okay,
any questions? Uh Joseph, this are your
[2:06:45] committees. Anything you need to add to
this? Um we're excited to have uh uh
[2:06:51] Miss Foster uh join the green team and
uh Mr. Kandari, who's already a member
[2:06:57] of our LMUTC
join the second committee that is the
[2:07:01] tree commission. So, and then obviously
we needed to reappoint the other folks
[2:07:06] cuz it' been over two years or just
under two years, so they were due for
[2:07:10] reappointments.
>> Okay. Any questions for Joseph regarding
[2:07:14] this? And I direct them for you because
they're your committee. Okay. Good. I
[2:07:19] need to hear verbal confirmation that
we're good cuz that moving forward for a
[2:07:23] vote.
>> One other thing I'll note, the tree
[2:07:25] commission still is looking for one more
member. So, if um we have a little time,
[2:07:30] we'd love to we'd love to get uh you
know, someone else get the full vote uh
[2:07:34] for the October meeting
>> and no experience needed. You will learn
[2:07:38] cuz you have a lot of extras in the in
the tree commission. All right. I need a
[2:07:43] verbal approval that we're ready to move
forward with this one for the
[2:07:47] legislative session.
>> I'm good.
[2:07:49] » Thank you, Valerie. Jenny, Joseph,
>> yes,
[2:07:52] » Joseph,
>> I'm fine.
[2:07:53] » All right. And I'm good. So, uh, make
sure let's make sure that this is added
[2:07:56] to the legislative agenda so that we
could vote for them. Okay. Thank you,
[2:08:01] Melissa.
[2:08:04] I feel like you're magically moving it.
There you go. All right. Thank you so
[2:08:09] much. And thank you to everybody that um
decided to put their name out there for
[2:08:13] reappoint or appointment. Um, thank you
so much. Item number six, updating
[2:08:18] discussion community survey results. Uh,
Daniel, this is yours. We'll provide an
[2:08:22] update on the results for community
survey. uh you conducted over the
[2:08:25] summer. Yes.
>> Okay. The floor is yours.
[2:08:26] » Thank you, mayor. First, I want to thank
the 68 Oh, thank you. Thank you,
[2:08:31] » Mike. Yeah. Thank you. First, I want to
thank the 68 people who took the time to
[2:08:35] respond to my survey. I wanted to hear
directly from residents about what's
[2:08:40] important to them and where they would
like to see more attention over the
[2:08:43] coming year. I also wanted to share that
feedback with the rest of the council
[2:08:47] because I think it's important for all
of us to hear what the residents are
[2:08:51] telling us. While I represent Ward 1,
the votes I cast and decisions I make
[2:08:55] affect the entire city. So I think it's
important to hear from residents
[2:08:59] throughout Mount Reineer. Of the 68
respondents, 38 were from Ward 1, 24
[2:09:05] were from W 2, three were non-residents,
and seven or just over 10% weren't sure
[2:09:11] which ward they lived in. I think the
last number is important. One respondent
[2:09:16] believed that council member Jakuda and
I were their council representatives and
[2:09:20] didn't know which ward they lived in. If
10% or just a little over 10% of
[2:09:25] respondents aren't sure which word they
live in, that points to an opportunity
[2:09:28] for all of us to do more outreach and
make sure residents know who represent
[2:09:32] them and how to reach us. Some of these
results reinforce work I'm already
[2:09:37] doing. Some show me where residents want
more attention. And some, including the
[2:09:42] criticism, give me things to think
about. So, I want to quickly walk
[2:09:46] through what I heard. When I asked about
priorities I've worked on over the last
[2:09:51] three years, considerably more responses
identified things people supported than
[2:09:55] things they didn't. The snow angels and
mosquito pulooa were specifically
[2:09:59] identified along with constituent
services and responsiveness, fighting
[2:10:03] for fire and EMS services and our police
department, parking issues, and
[2:10:07] community building. Also, a few
mentioned events I've worked on while I
[2:10:11] was chair with the recreation committee,
including the parade of lights, the
[2:10:15] pride parade, and the community yard
sale. The clearest areas of opposition
[2:10:20] were street signs, speed bumps, and I
had respondents say they simply didn't
[2:10:25] know what my priorities were beyond my
work with recreation committee. I think
[2:10:30] it's important because it tells me there
is still work to be done with
[2:10:33] communicating, not only with what I'm
doing, but why I'm doing it. The biggest
[2:10:38] takeaway from the next question is how
clearly economic development stood out.
[2:10:43] Residents could select up to three
topics and 41 selected economic
[2:10:47] development. The next highest was public
safety including traffic and pedestrian
[2:10:53] safety with 27. That's a significant gap
and to me a clear message that economic
[2:10:59] development needs our attention. Other
areas of concern included communication
[2:11:03] and transparency, parks and recreation,
environmental issues, flooding and storm
[2:11:08] water, and housing. When we move from
these broad topics to the specific
[2:11:12] priorities I'm considering for 2627, we
see these concerns reflected again. Snow
[2:11:19] angels and the safer circle initiative
tied for a strongest support of 40 each,
[2:11:24] followed by increased penalties on
vacant properties at 39. Economic
[2:11:29] development continued to rank highly.
Bringing dedicated economic development
[2:11:34] expertise to the city received 37 and
finding solutions to downtown parking
[2:11:39] issues received 35. Expanding Mosquito
Palooa to include beds received 37 and
[2:11:46] continued compost bin distribution
received 34.
[2:11:50] There was also support for making city
government more accessible through
[2:11:54] hybrid council meetings with Spanish
subtitles. expand multilingual services,
[2:11:59] digital and opt-in options for the
message or newsletter and bilingual
[2:12:03] council agendas. I think these specific
priorities help define these broader
[2:12:08] topics. Economic development clearly
carries through, but I think public
[2:12:13] safety does as well. Snow angels and
safer circle, which I consider public
[2:12:18] safety initiatives tied for the highest
support overall. So these responses gave
[2:12:23] me a better picture of what residents
want those broader priorities to look
[2:12:26] like in practice. Finally, the 17 I had
17 respondents use the other option to
[2:12:32] identify 22 additional priorities or
concerns.
[2:12:37] There were suggestions about housing and
increased density, lowering taxes,
[2:12:42] homelessness, litter, public bathrooms,
shade trees, street conditions,
[2:12:46] residential parking downtown, safer
biking infrastructure, and home repair
[2:12:51] assistance. There were also some very
specific ideas including find a way to
[2:12:56] move development forward at eastern and
Rhode Island, developing the vacant
[2:13:01] commercial space below artist lofts and
exploring shared services with
[2:13:05] neighboring municipalities while also
looking at grants to help convert city
[2:13:09] vehicles to hybrids. One resident, which
this tickled me, in response to my
[2:13:14] Mosquita Palooa proposal specifically
requested that we don't waste money
[2:13:18] educating the bats. I'm sorry, but that
gave me a real giggle. As you would
[2:13:23] expect from 68 different people, not
everyone agreed. Some suggestions even
[2:13:29] contradicted one another. There isn't
one Mount Reneer opinion, and I think
[2:13:34] that's important for us all to remember.
There are two things, though, that I
[2:13:38] don't want to get lost among all of
these individual responses. One is
[2:13:43] communication and accessibility.
Residents want to hear from us and be
[2:13:47] able to reach us outside of council
meetings. They want to know what we're
[2:13:51] working on, what we're discussing, and
how our decisions affect them. We saw
[2:13:56] that in the written comments in support
for expanding the message and other
[2:14:00] forms of council communication and in
support for bringing back hybrid access
[2:14:04] to council meetings. The other is
something few residents specifically a
[2:14:08] few residents specifically raised. They
want to see greater respect and
[2:14:13] professionalism among mayor and council.
I think that's feedback we need to
[2:14:18] acknowledge and take seriously
regardless of where any of us stand on
[2:14:22] individual issues or our disagreements.
Some of these results reinforce work I'm
[2:14:26] already doing. Some tell me where
residents want more attention and give
[2:14:31] me some things to think about as I set
priorities for the coming year. I hope
[2:14:35] they also influence our priorities as a
group collectively over the coming year.
[2:14:39] I appreciate everyone who participated,
including those who disagreed with me.
[2:14:45] 68 people took time to tell me what they
think about our city and I think that is
[2:14:50] inval is valuable information for all of
us. Thank you.
[2:14:55] » Okay. Thank you so much. Um I'll go
across um if you guys have any questions
[2:15:00] for council member Carter. I'm going to
start with you, Joseph.
[2:15:05] » I'm glad you uh Council Member Carter,
I'm glad you shared this with us
[2:15:09] tonight. There's some some interesting
data points in here and I've definitely
[2:15:13] been um thinking that economic
development is one of the the main
[2:15:18] things we should focus on and obviously
safe streets for all is very important
[2:15:22] to me and I'm I'm supportive of making
sure it continues to happen and all the
[2:15:29] developments that Mr. Kamali has been
talking about um earlier [clears throat]
[2:15:32] in this evening during the public
comment on the first meeting. Um, you
[2:15:36] know, I I would love to see a a higher I
mean 68 is great and I'm really
[2:15:41] appreciative of all those 68 res well I
guess 61 residents and seven
[2:15:46] non-residents or whatever it was um that
uh uh filled out the survey, but it
[2:15:51] would love I would love to see even more
feedback from the community because we
[2:15:55] obviously have much more in the way of
numbers in our community than that. So,
[2:16:01] do please get in touch if you're on
board to which is pretty much the the
[2:16:04] west side of town. Um, do be in touch
with me and uh I c I don't want to speak
[2:16:10] for council member Wood all but we'll
share I'll share whatever you send to me
[2:16:14] with her and I imagine she will with me.
Um, and um yes um but yes, please thank
[2:16:20] you again for sharing this with us and I
I definitely would look forward to
[2:16:24] digging in more depth in the the war two
results.
[2:16:29] » Valerie
Um yeah, thank you and thank you for
[2:16:32] taking the time to do this. Um I don't
have any questions on this particular
[2:16:35] item, but I do um [snorts] as just for
information for the community, we do
[2:16:40] have a strategic plan process coming up
where um residents should be able to
[2:16:45] work it's through park and planning. Um
so they have professional staff that can
[2:16:49] really help us identify kind of our
priorities but like as a strategic plan
[2:16:54] for the next 5 years or so. Um and so I
think this work is great. you could you
[2:16:59] should send it to them so they can see
what you have. But I think we have to
[2:17:02] make sure that we're doing this so we're
touching the entire city um and getting
[2:17:07] um opinions from a lot of varying
voices. So I think this is a good start
[2:17:10] and I think um tying this into the
strategic planning process in the future
[2:17:14] will be very important and I hope that
we can do that as well as host an all
[2:17:18] city committee meeting so that we can
you know really build civic pride on
[2:17:22] what we're doing as a community and what
this municipality will look like in the
[2:17:27] next 5 years. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Jenny.
[2:17:31] » Thank you, Council Member Carter, for
taking the time to do this and reporting
[2:17:35] to us. Um, it is a little distressing
that only 68 people responded, but
[2:17:41] probably also because it's summer, a lot
of people are out. Um, and of course, in
[2:17:45] our elections, I think we have less than
10% of eligible voters vote. So, 68
[2:17:51] seems like a pretty good number. Um, in
reference to that, um, as you know, um,
[2:17:57] I am going to be, um, focusing on
economic development. Um, but I I do
[2:18:04] think that as a council, we need to do
more to increase transparency and, um,
[2:18:11] and provide other avenues for uh, public
comment. So, um I look forward to us
[2:18:17] having more public hearings or other
public fora um at at times because not
[2:18:24] everyone can attend a 7:00 Tuesday night
meeting. Um so I I I hope the council
[2:18:31] can can do more to create uh more
avenues for engagement.
[2:18:38] » Okay.
I thank you for bringing this
[2:18:41] information forward. And to to those
that uh said that they wish the
[2:18:45] newsletter was electronically, the
newsletter is already electronically and
[2:18:48] bilingual. So, make sure you send that
message to them so that way they know.
[2:18:53] And we'll figure out what other ways we
need to make sure that they're aware
[2:18:56] that um they could get the newsletter e
notifications to their phone to their
[2:19:00] email as well. So, it sounds like we
have uh some work to do and making sure
[2:19:04] we remind people of the things that we
already have and working through it. And
[2:19:08] » [clears throat]
>> um I guess we'll figure out if we have
[2:19:10] like more information for the bats for
them to learn, you know, although they
[2:19:14] want they don't want them to learn.
We'll work through it. All right. Thank
[2:19:17] you so much for this. All right. So,
which bring us on to
[2:19:24] present. I know like I almost did a
German, but no, Melissa looked at me
[2:19:28] like you're missing my minutes. Um item
number A, presentation of minutes. The
[2:19:32] city clerk will present the following
minutes. June 9, 2026 board session
[2:19:36] special legislative meeting and July 7
emergency work emergency uh meeting uh
[2:19:43] for 2026 as well. So they're in your
package. Anything you need to any
[2:19:48] feedback? Melissa is available. These
minutes are going to be moving to our
[2:19:51] legislated meeting for vote. And once
again, I'll give you my spill. Melissa,
[2:19:56] thank you um for making sure that the
minutes are on point. It wasn't always
[2:20:00] the case. [laughter] And it took them um
over a year to get us like every single
[2:20:04] minute um that they could at least for
the over five years on time. And now
[2:20:10] it's like uh normacy for it to have a
meeting, present minutes on the next
[2:20:14] meeting and be able to vote. So that way
there's a continuum. So that helps um
[2:20:18] with transparency but also with
communication and recordkeeping. So
[2:20:22] thank you for that. But also uh to city
uh minutes, agendas, videos of meetings,
[2:20:27] they all could be found in the website.
So, it's easy for you to track any
[2:20:30] information on it. And this means there
and it's very um easily organized. I
[2:20:34] know Jared works on the digital part. I
know Pink works on certain stuff, but
[2:20:38] it's like a whole team working on making
sure that meetings, agendas, videos,
[2:20:43] sound, photos, and everything have have
a place within the city so you could
[2:20:46] gather them. All right. So, moving on to
item number
[2:20:52] eight, adjournment. We can have a motion
on the floor, please. I move to adjourn.
[2:20:57] » Second. Mr. Republic moved and second
any um any objection [snorts]
[2:21:04] abstension hearing? None.
This work s the special work session
[2:21:09] meaning Americans comes to an end at
9:14 p.m. Thank you joining us and
[2:21:15] welcome back. We will see you guys in
two weeks.
[2:21:19] » Have fun. All right. Now to disconnect
this. Oh, that's so cute.
[2:21:26] I might need like a city marine