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Let me all right, let me try one more time.
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OK. I think I have you coming in loud and clear. Thank you, Sir.
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Alrighty guys, it is March 24th, 60. What do we got Tony? Is it 601?
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All right, I am Mayor Zach Stratton and we are going to start with the Vineyard City Council meeting.
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I am going to turn the time over to Councilman Mccumber here to give us our opening prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, and we will
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jump into it.
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Our dear heavenly Father.
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We thank me so much for this beautiful day.
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We're able to come together as a community.
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And engage in our civic process.
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We ask.
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Very plainly.
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For your hand.
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In guiding us and helping us make wise decisions and to serve this community.
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I want to express my gratitude.
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For the position that you've.
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And trusted us in.
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To allow us to.
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Come before our community in an effort.
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To serve them.
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And I would very much appreciate.
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Your guidance and support.
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As we continue to.
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Strive.
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In that endeavor.
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Can I say this in the name of Jesus Christ? In it Amen.
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Would you please recite with me?
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I pledge allegiance to the flag.
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Of the United States of America.
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And to the Republic for which it stands.
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One nation under God.
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OK. Thank you so much. And Parker, you get a.
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Way to go buddy.
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Where that American flag?
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Loud and proud.
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OK, we're going to jump into the Mayors report 4.1.
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A little bit of an explanation kind of what's been happening for the business community. This is me.
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And the residents of Vineyard as well.
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In December of last year, there was a fee added called a Toughie Transportation Utility Fee.
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And the intent of that was to.
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Help in some Rd. projects and stuff like that. Ongoing expense that the city had.
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The net effect of that, though, is that the tough fee.
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Really. In a? In a?
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Non capitalistic way maybe that's a good way to say it really hammered our business community. Some of some of our local
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businesses on the North End of town the industrials were charging.
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5000 Seven, $1000 a month.
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Which was more than their.
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Their monthly rent.
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So we've been, I've been working hard with Evan, with.
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Trying to see what we could do to limit that fee and change it up.
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What we've settled on is I feel pretty comfortable in.
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In eliminating that fee.
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And the thought is we're going to go through the budget process maybe a year or two and look at look at what we.
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If we can find that revenue in other places.
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But.
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The intent was I was going to sign an executive order, but since it's a utility fee and a transportation fee, we're gonna have to
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bring that to council next week to lower that or even eliminate it. So we're gonna get Jesse to work on the language for that, and
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we're gonna have another.
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City Council meeting.
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Next week to get that taken care of.
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But.
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This is uh uh.
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It's been a.
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You know this this fee again.
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We just want businesses out there in the community to recognize, hey vineyards, a place we want you come.
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We want to grow with us and we want to make sure that there's good alignment.
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Between uh.
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Our tax code and the fee structure and.
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In a way that will invite the the business committee to invest their dollars here and come and grow with us. So.
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That's that's my report right there on that.
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I've got 5.1. We have a presentation.
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We have a.
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Zach Beatty, Our.
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Recreation Manager is good.
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Is and I assume that the.
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You are PA folks are here here. Awesome.
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I'll have you guys come up and kind of explain this is what it is and.
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How awesome Zach is and how lucky we are to have him.
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We love our rec program here in Vineyard and does a great job so.
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Thank you.
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Let's go there, yeah.
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Thank you, Mayor and Council. My name is Kevin Schmidt. I'm the executive director for the Okra Recreation Parks District.
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Up in the Salt Lake.
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County area.
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And I'm the president of Europe A.
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I'm Michael Christensen. I'm the Assistant Executive Director for URPA.
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Thank you for giving us.
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Some time today.
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URPA, which stands for Utah Recreation and Parks Association, represents about 2000.
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Park and Rec.
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Professionals in the state of Utah.
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And those are the people that are consistently working behind the scenes.
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To make.
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Your community better.
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I I want you to picture Vineyard.
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Without.
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Parks and Recreation.
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Without any parts, without playgrounds, with children playing on them.
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Without sports programs.
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And uh.
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I I think we can all agree that that is not the kind of community that.
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We would want to live in.
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Your your park and rec team and and.
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Others throughout the state.
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Work tirelessly to.
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Make sure that these.
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Programs and events happen.
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They do a lot more than just manage facilities and organized sports programs.
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Their work helps to shape.
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The kind of community that people want to actually live in.
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So thank you to.
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You mayor and council for supporting.
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The Park and Rec.
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Department in your city.
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I'm going to turn the time over to Mikel to present.
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Awesome. We are so excited to be here tonight and thanks so much for having us. We actually get to recognize two of your
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outstanding Parks and Recreation professionals. The first one is actually Ben King.
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Ben has been part of our URPA Leadership Academy for the last 12 months. So thank you for your support and him doing that.
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Basically what that entailed was him going to other agencies across the state for the last 12 months and learning all he could
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from that. So he has graduated from that program. And so we just want to recognize that he has done that. So have him come up in
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just a second. And then the second profession I already mentioned, Zach.
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Every year we solicit nominations for awards for different categories throughout the state. One of those categories is Outstanding
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Professional. We recognize that in a variety of capacities, recreation, Aquatics, different things like that. This year we had
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over 100 applicants for those various awards and Zach was selected for our Young Professional of the Year. So if you know Zach,
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you know he has a huge passion for working in Parks and Recreation.
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Does really well at giving back to his community and since he started here in Vineyard a short time ago.
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It's our understanding that your guys's programs and races and different community events have grown exponentially, and so we're
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just super thrilled for him and the work he's doing.
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He's very involved with URPA. He is.
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In our central region, he is actually the elect to be the president of that region. So we just want to thank you guys for
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supporting him and supporting Parks and Recreation throughout Utah, being a great example of what communities can build.
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And yeah, just thanks Vineyard, and thanks to Zach and Ben.
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Awesome, I'll have them come up and grab this.
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Awesome.
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Let's give a round of applause. Let it go, guys.
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Do you want to should we jump in a picture with them? Let's get a picture with these guys. This is actually this is way cool more
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so.
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Yes.
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Brian come up. Yeah, Brian's got to be in the engineer. Brian's really cool too.
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Yeah.
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Next year.
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Hello. There we go. OK, ready.
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OK, ready 12.
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Thanks. Perfect.
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All righty.
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Let's jump now to I had public comments here, but.
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Let me.
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Raise your hand up here to talk about you have a public comment.
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OK, let's do this.
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I assume without parking I'm going to take a wild guess.
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OK. Let's go through a couple other things. We'll kind of get closer to that so we can have the.
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The public comment and all that more.
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In a little more.
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Coherent manner.
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OK, so I'm going to turn the time we're gonna we need to move into a public hearing now.
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To go over the Forest development agreement and the IHC development agreement.
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Can I get a motion for that?
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So moved I second.
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All in favor.
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Aye. Motion passes.
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We're going to turn the time over to cash.
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The lead out in this session, go ahead. Thank you for your time.
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Once this opens up here I have the Forge and Intermountain Healthcare. I have a single presentation here because these.
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Development agreements are.
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Pretty tied together.
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And so we do have Ryan with representing Intermountain Health and then Jason representing 6th Rich Partners, formerly Dakota
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Pacific.
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On this these development agreements so.
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Quick background here on the Forge, this is in 2024. There was a development agreement signed by the City Council.
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With six rich partners.
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To allow them to build but they.
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There were some requirements about like a regionally significant entertainment anchor.
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Anyways, it's a 45 acre development.
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That includes in around.
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Healthcare property.
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They currently have 1100 residential units permitted. This development agreement does not change that number, does not increase
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it.
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And it does require this this DA required that this regionally significant entertainment use.
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Was part of the first phase.
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And so we've been working. Here's a map to kind of show you outlined in red is, is the proposed 6 rich partners the 4th project
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And then in blue would be Intermountain Health if, if these development agreements go through currently.
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And around only.
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Owns the southern parcel.
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So.
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Let me go to.
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Here's the request that that they're looking for here, and this is specifically for the Forge.
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They've been having a difficult time landing a regionally significant entertainment anchor.
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And So what they're.
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Trying to propose here is to.
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Bring in their first phase 40,000 square feet of.
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Commercial.
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Which would then allow them to.
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Move on to build the residential.
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And it would also relocate the first phase and the the regionally significant anchor if I go back to this map here.
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It would move the commercial block to the the northwest corner of Vineyard Connector and Mill Rd.
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So that's where they build this commercial space, and then they'd move the entertainment anchor.
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Further South on Mill Rd.
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Whereas currently it requires the entertainment to be on the corner in commercial.
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Little bit further shell.
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Last week we did have a Planning Commission. They they did recommend approval of this development agreement.
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The other thing to note is the Planning Commission would be come the.
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Approval body for the entertainment anchor the the IT has a very specific language in our code on what?
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This anchor must be and it's up to the Planning Commission. Previously, they did approve a climbing gym.
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To be the thinker. There there were.
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Installed in those negotiations. So that's not coming about anymore.
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But it would continue to let the Planning Commission be that approval body.
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And then the last thing is roadway and utilities as they were built, I believe in 2018.
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Our city engineering department just wants to make sure that this roadway and the utilities going to the site are not going to be.
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Heavily impacted and they'll.
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You know, be able to be used in these city roads like 650 N that borders the yard and the forge.
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Is built back to its its current state before construction.
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And then we we did update the development agreement with our.
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New language for impact fees to make sure that impact fees are calculated at the time of building permit.
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If we want, we could take a break there and.
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If there's any questions about the forge specifically, we can go over those or I can fly through and let's do that. Council. Any
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questions on the Forge development agreement?
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Did they have any concerns about the entertainment acre being in the phase one? I know.
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Previously they were having some trouble.
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Like getting the development off the ground because of that. Yeah. So this would move the entertainment anchor to not be the phase
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one anymore. This would be the the new phase one is 40,000 square feet of retail commercial space on that corner and the anytime
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they could bring that that entertainment anchor.
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You know, one comes from the day we want to build that. They could go for it, but.
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Essentially they they're saying they need to get this commercial and residential going before they can get.
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Movement on this.
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Entertainment if no.
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If no.
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And then it comes forward before that.
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You know, before they build all those things, what what phases that came in.
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The entertainment anchor the entertainment it would just be.
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After phase one, anything after phase one, I see. So there's no guarantee we'll ever get it then?
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So the the development agreement still outlines a block and acreage that is required for the.
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I can go back to this map here.
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Is there anything they cannot get pool pool permits for or anything be?
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Unless that.
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No, so they could pull everything out first.
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That's the last thing I felt her hands and gosh, we're sorry. Couldn't do it.
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Yeah, essentially they, I mean they, they would not, they have to reserve that.
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Many acres of land for the entertainment use so they could.
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Nothing gets built there.
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But potentially. But in return we are getting 40,000 square feet of.
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The the retail commercial space.
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So that's essentially the trade off. They're saying here's right now, we can't land this this.
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Anchor so if we want to get moving with development.
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We need to bring in something else 1st and that's where we've been talking and landed on 40,000 square feet of.
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Of commercial space.
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Also, when we swap the land from the.
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Entertainment maker from the north to the South? Sure.
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Do we have the same amount of land in both?
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Both no SO.
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The the original.
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Development agreement language.
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Just outlined I think it said four point something 4.7 acres which is that entire block and and no entertainment anchor would
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actually take up that entire space.
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And so it was just.
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The the new language says 3 point something acres.
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Just to essentially outline the southern block.
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But something like the we had the the Momentum climbing gym, they were approved.
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They were nowhere near the you know, 3.
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Or 4 acre project, but we did determine that they were regionally significant enough.
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And it wasn't necessarily the size, it's more of the impact and are people coming from outside of Vineyard to Vineyard to spend
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their money here?
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That's essentially what we're looking at with this anchor.
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I'm very much interested in having this this land developed and then getting the.
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I didn't. I really. I really AM.
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But I'm also concerned that.
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We've had many promises.
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For this piece of land.
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Over the last couple of decades.
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And nothing is there yet.
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And we've always, there's always a reason and we come across this.
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This problem or that problem?
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And so I'm.
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I'm just not comfortable.
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Hold, you know, leaving that to the very end because that's something they can put off to the end. That's worked well.
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It's not financially peaceful at the.
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They can do like they've done for the last 10 years and not build anything.
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It might be worth having Jason speak to their their efforts in in trying to attract regionally significant anchor. They they
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definitely have have been trying over the last few years.
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And I don't know.
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If you want to hear from him.
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Yeah. Jason, do you want to kind of review that? Please come on up.
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If you set your name in the mic, that'd be awesome.
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Jason Head with six Bridge partners and.
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Thank you for having me here today. Thanks for coming.
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This might be obvious, but.
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Land we can't build on doesn't do us any good for developers and we want to build.
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All of this land.
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We intend to find.
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Regionally significant anchor.
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For this site and and for the community.
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It's just a much, much bigger hurdle than it is for us to.
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Find tenants for 40,000 square feet of Upscale.
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Retail that will have.
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Boutique restaurants and soft goods and things that really.
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Energized.
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This corner, especially this.
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This corner is going to be a big demand for those types of users.
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So we absolutely continue to work on.
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Originally significant anchor.
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Some of the challenges we face are.
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You know many.
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Frankly, rely on.
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Alcohol sales and that's been a tough hurdle to educate.
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Some groups on.
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We did have a climbing gym. Who?
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Frankly, took it to their board and then backed out at the last minute and that was just.
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Mostly, I think a timing we intend to.
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Reignite those.
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Conversations with that user.
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But we're still very bullish.
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That user, it's just.
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It it's holding up development of.
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All of that acreage.
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So how many pages are there in the new agreement?
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Here's the phase one or the phase two lasting phase three. How many phases?
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Well, I think there's just.
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Yeah. We, we initially just have phase one. This is saying.
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Before you can build anything else, you need to build phase one.
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Outside of that.
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Once you, you know.
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Built that phase you can build.
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Whatever else.
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So the trigger is we we have to have at least 20,000 square feet of that retail under construction before we can pull a permit on
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any residential units.
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I think my issue is is that.
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Originally we did a trade off of density. Like lots of density in exchange. I mean, it was a whole package, right?
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So not guaranteeing the entertainment you start getting the density.
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So what would you be willing to trade? Because we're giving up a really big.
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This is going to have a great regional attraction there.
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Are you willing to give up some density for that? Because you're getting all of the good but?
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What are we getting in exchange?
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You're getting tax revenue sooner.
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Right. And I get that, but like the the anger from all the citizens was the amount of density that you were given with us.
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I I will speak up on that just briefly.
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The the original or the development agreement was signed in in 2024. There there was no trade off then of the density. No, I know
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I'm saying originally.
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Right, that's what I'm saying is the regional entertainment anchor that became a novel a requirement as of 2024 with no increased
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identity.
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I'm going back years, right. So about accountability going, but that's what is that was a new idea was to bring this regional
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incident significant but there were other trade-offs in that whole package as I look back through the contracts.
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That's what I'm saying is like, this is a big carry on top.
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And it's like.
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I get that we want businesses and it is. You're right, you don't want it to stop and we need to lower taxes. But.
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I see the citizens coming and saying, OK, we're not going to get that, but the.
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Density stays the same.
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Point of clarification.
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From what I understand about this proposal, this this change of the development agreement, it's not is it getting rid of the
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entertainment district completely? No, it you know, it keeps it, it's just a it's a phasing, OK, Yeah, it's just a phasing issue
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where the guarantee that it takes away the yes, the guarantee. So it's like can we put in some sort of guarantee that if it
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doesn't come.
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The last phase you can't build the residential until X, so at least it's.
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On the sour end side of things that people don't like, it goes OK.
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Before you build this residential I would at least like that type of trade off.
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Something that pushes it to.
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To maintain the fighting because of it all.
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Fills out. You just have one remnant law, and I know what that means. It means coming back to the Council and changing it to
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something else.
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You know, you have to understand, we really do.
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We want to understand, we want it to be built redo.
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We have been burned a lot in the past.
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And we might not be burned again.
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Sure, I mean the the density overall.
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Hasn't changed, it's just the sequencing.
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I mean, in fact, we're also making other.
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Concessions here. I mean, there's the language in the original.
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DA can be interpreted that.
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Impact fees are based on when they.
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Development agreement was originally executed not based on.
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Then in place.
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Impacts when we were.
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When we pull permits.
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And that has been cleaned up in this agreement as well. So now.
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Exposed to a higher level of impact. Positive, yeah.
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Yeah. Any other questions?
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On this one.
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OK, should we jump into?
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Yeah. Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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OK. So Intermountain Health, they're looking to consolidate the existing.
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Lot that they have with the corner of Geneva and Vineyard Connector. So going back to here.
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And we can see that they are.
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Wanting those two lots if you want, and in doing so.
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It will remove the the eastern connection of Cauldron Rd. So that's one thing in the development agreement they don't want to have
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to have their their project be.
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Bisected by that road.
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It does require an iconic architectural feature at the corner of.
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Of Vineyard Connector in Geneva we as staff, we felt that this is a very important gateway for the community and.
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And the design standards of the forge were very strict and would have required a very iconic building to be built there, but with
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Intermountain Health wanting to do a clinic or a hospital.
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That kind of changes that. And so we have language here that says that they have to.
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Develop that corner in an iconic way that will come through approval at site.
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Find application time.
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It changes to allow medical use throughout the site.
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As of right now, I don't believe it's a permitted use.
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It includes modifications to the FMU. So that's the Forge mixed-use design guidelines. The forge is its own special.
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Zoning district that has very strict design guidelines on.
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Have a building fronts the road on where the parking is located.
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But after discussions with Intermountain Health.
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We've determined that this is a hospital and this is one of those things where function should be over form and we want to make
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sure that they can operate.
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Smoothly as a hospital and people are able to get the care that they need.
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When they need it.
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And so it has those modifications and then as well as the roadway utilities and.
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Impact fee changes to the development agreement.
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So that is.
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It from the.
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The mountain Health.
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Awesome, any questions from council on IHC?
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DA amendments.
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Are we collecting all impact fees live? They're not something that was tied in years ago.
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So that's the updated language. We've worked with Jesse Riddle on on updating the language that says at the time of building
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permit.
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Is when we will calculate impact fees.
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So if I see losing.
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That means that there will be like there'll be a non profit that we won't ever get.
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Sales tax rate, Income tax.
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Property tax them, is that right?
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I might yield to Jason or to Ryan to answer that.
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Now we won't get in.
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Hey, Sir.
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Ryan Wallace, representing Intermittent.
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Intermountain Healthcare. I'm not a tax attorney so I'm not entirely sure, but I do believe that's.
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That would be correct. It's at least as it relates to real property taxes, Um.
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If they have a.
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Businesses and clinics that operate out of the medical office buildings those.
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Activities may be taxed.
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Once again, I'm not entirely sure how that.
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That works.
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But yeah, it wouldn't be taxed at the same level.
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As if it were retail or other commercial.
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I thank you.
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Thank you. I mean no disrespect to your project.
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With this question but.
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Because other products come and say they're going to be built like.
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Are you building like you're ready to go build now?
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Or is it are you? Is this a phase thing like in two or three years?
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Yeah, and it.
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It'll be phased. Umm.
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They have the current property which would limit it just to clinic space.
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They're expanding it so that we have the flexibility to do medical office clinics based and potentially later a hospital.
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So this.
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Because we currently own that southern property.
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Don't own the northern property and that's really since we haven't acquired the property and we're still.
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Determining feasibility. There's still work that would need to be done to design and then build.
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But I do know that that's part of their long term plan for the property, hence them wanting to get additional property so that
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they could do not just the the potential medical office building or clinic, but.
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Potentially more.
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OK. This isn't a question. Thanks. I don't have a question.
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If it ends up not happening, what does it do? Revert back?
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If they don't end up building, if yeah they the cell doesn't end up going through after the study or whatnot, does it? Does the
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zoning stay the same?
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I mean it would be their their ownership and the development would be signed and reported, right? But what if what if they don't
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buy? Is this pendant on sell?
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I am not sure on that.
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Yeah, we can. We can make it that way if the.
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That's what the city wants is.
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But I can tell you this was kind of the last bit and then our money is hard and then we'll be purchasing within weeks after it,
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so.
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Yeah, I I just It's not you again. I have a room full of Washtenaw and people have broken promises.
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I feel like you always have to ask like.
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You know, from developers or whatnot. So.
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I think it needs to be dependent on that. Like that it would revert back like pending on the cell.
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Right.
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We could work on language to add that as a condition of approval.
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I mean, I'm not saying it wouldn't, but just.
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So that the code goes.
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Yeah, I am.
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The way I do like your comment about.
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Nonprofit.
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Because our RDA is.
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It's not being sold like it was, right?
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From 25 years ago, it's not producing the tax revenue.
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And it's not successful as what it was, right? We've already given a bunch of it to the university. It will be nonprofit.
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And you know, and so forth and so on, and you get the.
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At some point it does have to.
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In the role it was designed to, which is to help us.
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Have a sales tax base that we can.
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That he can thrive on.
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We appreciate very much if you'd like to go there and we'd like to have you there.
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We just need to make sure that we can structure it so that it works for us as well.
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Awesome. Any other questions, Comments from council?
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OK, seeing none, I will entertain a motion.
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It was a public hearing. I moved to public hearing.
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Do we need to close the pull up hearing first? Do we open it already?
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You open the public hearing, but there's been no comment yet from the public.
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OK, Yeah.
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Does anyone want to speak to this development agreement?
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Yeah, I moved to close.
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I thought we had to close it.
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Go ahead.
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It's OK, I'll deal with him later.
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Thank you, Kim Cornelius Villas.
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This has been a perpetual project. We've been in town almost five years now and.
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For the better part of those five years, all we've heard is the board is going to be the forge is going to be developed, going to
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be developed.
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Major portion of that was parking and I can tell by those that are in attendance tonight, the parking is a big deal in Vineyard.
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Can we get some kind of really quick synopsis of what this whole project including IC and?
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And the developer of the forge.
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Because they were talking about a parking garage. That sounded pretty good.
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Helped mitigate some things we'd just like to know going in.
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As they need that changed.
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Could you give us a summary of it?
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Awesome. Good question.
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Another public comments.
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OK. Who would you be able to answer that?
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Cash or one of the.
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I mean, this development agreement makes no changes, no increase or decrease to their parking requirements. It would take me a
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minute to pull up the actual parking code. I imagine with Intermountain Health they're actually going to have a surplus of
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parking. Of what?
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The forge would have built.
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That's one of the design guidelines that they're asking to be changed, just not be helped to the.
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The lower count that the forge would.
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For Intermountain.
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It's my understanding that these are all rentals too, right? So I believe they can build. I want to say it's 1075.
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1075 units.
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As rentals and if they want to go to the 1100 they could do 25.
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4 shell units.
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OK.
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Yeah, please come on up.
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Jason had 6 bridge partners.
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With the multi family 1 and Buzzy.
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Get built. We will build.
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Parking structures with that building permit that.
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Accommodate adequate parking for those users and then same with the retail I mean we'll we'll.
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Provide enough.
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Parking per code and.
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Maybe then some depending upon what the use ends up being.
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OK. And real quick about that parking.
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Last time we, last time we spoke about this in the meeting, you, you were saying that.
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Representative, listen you, I'm not sure what.
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OK, was saying that they would, the parking garage would be there, it would be controlled parking.
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Every control gate and only a residence be able to park in the garage.
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So forth.
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That's correct. And so roughly how many?
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You and the Do you remember how many spaces per?
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Unit you were thinking?
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I don't know off the top of my head.
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OK, the code is 1.5 stalls per residential dwelling unit.
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For every two for every two units you get 3 salts.
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Yeah, yeah. It's just part of our calculation. So basically.
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You know, one follow you gave us one follow you to fight for the second one.
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This one amounts to it.
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Yeah.
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Public knowledge that's already grandfathered and there's nothing we can do about that. That was the previous council from five
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years ago.
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If we could find it, we would just say, you know.
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But legally, we if.
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It's agreed upon already in the contract.
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OK. OK. Any other questions?
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OK. Oh.
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Come on down.
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My name is Tyler Harrelton.
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I don't know if this is a zoning or development agreement issue.
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But I would love to see.
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With this development that.
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You don't have driveways going straight on the 800 N.
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I think that would create a lot of conflict. I don't know if that's already part of it.
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As an exit as all.
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Yeah, it dumped into. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, just so.
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OK, awesome.
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Any other comments?
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OK, alrighty.
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I will entertain an emotion.
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Now.
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I'll do it. I move to close the public hearing.
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Awesome. Umm.
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At exactly 638.
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Perfect.
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Do I have a second?
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2nd but I think it's 632.
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Oh, sorry.
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Yeah.
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Thank you for that clarification. All righty, all in favor.
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Aye. Motion passes at 632. OK.
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All right, let's umm.
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I'll do it. We'll do a motion now on the.
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Development agreements.
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Can I get a motion on those?
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I think we should separate them out, so I moved to approve and amend the development agreement of.
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The Internet. Eminem Mountain Health at 7.2 as.
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Presented.
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OK, can I get a second for that?
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2nd.
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All in favor.
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Aye, aye.
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OK, motion passes, so IHC is through.
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And now for 7.1.
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I move to approve.
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The forged development agreement as presented.
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Try to 2nd on that.
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I'll second.
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All in favor.
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Aye.
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Any opposed?
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All right, Jacob Wood comes down to you, brother. Where you at?
[42:40]
No, he came back, just he came back just to the boat.
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All right. Would it be helpful?
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Yes.
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I know we're kind of in the middle of actually when we.
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Take a box first.
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Aye.
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Motion.
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Passes OK.
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Awesome. Umm.
[43:01]
All righty, let's jump to the consent items.
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Is there anything on these consent items that?
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We need to pull off and put in the business items.
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Mayor Jacob Wood.
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Sure. Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to 8 points.
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Takes a place to under business item as 10.4.
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OK, so Jacob's word.
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Has a motion to 8.6 down to.
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Take it off.
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OK. Anything else?
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Public safety impact.
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Resolutions are made.
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That one's a good one.
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Yeah, I think I'm good with the.
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I'm Yep, I'm good with all of them too.
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Alrighty, can I get a motion?
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I move that we approve consent items 8.
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Got one through 8.5.
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Has listed.
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OK, do I have a second?
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Second, OK.
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Remembering that some of those are resolutions the Bible.
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OK, so let's do.
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Let's just do 8.1 so which ones are not the resolution so we can do 8.1 and 8.2.
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They put one they want to.
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Yeah, there's a resolution. So let's let's.
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Let's do April. Let's hold on 8.18.2.
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All in favor.
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Aye aye. Any opposed?
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OK. All right.
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Let's do 8.3 by roll call. Start with Ezra.
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Aye, David, aye.
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Jacob Wood.
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Aye, Jake Holdaway, Aye.
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Parker, hi.
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Resolution passes.
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OK, let's jump onto 8.4 by roll call. Let's start here. My say what it is just so that they know sure.
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So 8.3 the one we just passed was the municipal Wastewater Planning program survey that we presented last week.
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8.4 is the.
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Redevelopment Agency audit agreement to extend the RDA or the audit.
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Of the idea.
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Which was discussed last week as well.
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Already so 8.3 passes some to 8.4. Roll call Parker.
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Hi, Jake. Hi.
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Jacob Wood.
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David Lurie, Aye.
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And Ezra?
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Aye, OK.
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That resolution.
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Passes 8 point.
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4 now.
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We're struggling with number 8.5 safety impact.
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The last couple meetings about implementing a public safety impact fee so that we could collect funds for our law enforcement and
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fire department with new development.
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OK, roll call. We'll start with Ezra at this time.
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Aye, David, aye.
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Jake Judge.
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Jacob Wood.
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Jake Holdaway, hi.
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And Parker, hi.
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All right, passes.
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OK, let's get to the.
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We're going to jump down to the Planning Commission.
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Let's do the main event.
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Can we do the main event? Are we ready to go? OK, we will move the Planning Commission.
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To the end.
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And let's jump right into.
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Public comments.
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And I'm sure everyone wants to talk about our travel policy.
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We're looking at.
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.6 is that.
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To be discussed, yes.
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We're going to do that down.
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The lower comments, yeah.
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So let's jump to public comments.
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I have.
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Do we have more people? I have the public comments right here.
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The list.
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Let's do this. I will just write down the list and if you.
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If you wanted to give a public comment and you're not on the list, this is something we should start doing this year.
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Did everyone who wants to?
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Publicly comment. I guess that's how you say it.
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Did you sign the list?
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I'll just go through it and if you're you want to say something you're not here, just raise your hand.
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OK, so.
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Tim Blackburn.
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Fire away.
[47:05]
Yes, let's do what's What's a good time limit? How many you have on the?
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12345.
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15-2 minutes? What are two minutes?
[47:18]
Well, and if you're going to allow public comment during the.
[47:22]
Tim Blackburn, Sleepy Ridge.
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If you're going to allow public comment at all during the time we talk about Arch, I can reserve my time until then.
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Let's hear it now.
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Here now OK.
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I just want to say thank you to the members of the City Council.
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For what we have felt to be an increase.
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Of support and understanding.
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About the importance of trying to.
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Preserve and protect the heritage of Vineyard.
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I have felt immensely.
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Pleased with what I have seen.
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In terms of.
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A refreshing.
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Of support.
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From the council and the mayor.
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Also from the city staff.
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And we look forward to their report here shortly.
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About possible funding.
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For Heritage.
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Foundation in the future over this next year.
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But.
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It's been a it's been a struggle for us to try to be visible.
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And to try to make an impact in our community.
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The Heritage Foundation.
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And I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who asked questions.
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And who gives a?
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Support and who say.
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No, let's move forward with these kinds of ideas. And I've seen that from.
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The staff most recently as well. So thank you.
[48:44]
Thank you, did I use my 2 minutes?
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You we are good way to go, Tim.
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Transferable nonsense. Verbal 2 minutes.
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OK, All right. Emily Larson with.
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Bridgeport, come on down.
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Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. Can you say north-south central Bridgeport? I don't even know what I am on 410 E, You're not
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Christopher Columbus.
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I know, I don't know. I know my address mountainside.
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Don't start my 2 minutes yet. I need all my 2 minutes. Just kidding. Saint George St.
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So my name is Emily Larson. I'm from Bridgeport. You've seen me before. Parking.
[49:26]
I had two other friends here from my neighborhood that they had to leave because of babysitters so.
[49:31]
There's them and then I'm going to actually.
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For part of my time read this from.
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Another neighbor that couldn't be here tonight so I'm reading her e-mail.
[49:39]
Good evening Mayor Stratton and council members. My name is Brittany Hanson and I am part of the Bridgeport neighborhood. Thank
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you for your time and your continued efforts to listen to.
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And represent our community. I'm speaking in support of the proposed parking permit plan for my neighborhood, not as a completely
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comprehensive solution.
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But as an important and necessary step.
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Towards safer, more functional streets.
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Right now, many of our roads are simply not safe.
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Cars are parked bumper to bumper, making it difficult to see children, dangerous to drive through and in some cases so congested
[50:07]
that emergency vehicles would struggle to get access.
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That alone should give us pause.
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There are also everyday impacts that add up quickly. Garbage and recycling being skipped because trucks can't reach the cans.
[50:20]
And residents being blocked in or delayed just trying to leave their own driveways. We understand that this connects to a broader
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over occupancy challenges.
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But this proposal is a practical step that directly involves involves safely and and.
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In their liable livability right now.
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At the February 7th council meeting, Councilman Holdaway stated that home evictions quote could be seen as kindness. End Quote.
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I'd suggest that in some circumstances, towing, when used thoughtfully and sparingly, could reflect the same principle when it
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helps resource safety, access and order.
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And order for the broader community. That said, no one is asking for unchecked or aggressive enforcement. The goal is balanced.
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This plan does that by protecting homeowners and lawful renters while still creating structure and accountability. At the end of
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the day, this is about safety, accessibility and preserving a sense of community.
[51:12]
I appreciate the consideration you're giving this issue and encourage you to move this plan forward. Thank you.
[51:18]
I agree with everything that she said and I want to keep our community great.
[51:23]
Look at that. Thank you. Let's go.
[51:27]
You know.
[51:29]
The funny thing is where to go when you stood up. I started it and I totally forgot that Councilman Holder went.
[51:35]
Well.
[51:38]
You're awesome. Love it. OK, we.
[51:41]
Donna Blake with Bridgeport.
[51:43]
Come on down.
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North southeast of US.
[51:47]
West, Hi, I am Dana Blake. Oh, sorry, Dana.
[51:52]
All good. I'm in the northeast corner of Bridgeport.
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So we.
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We have a big issue with over occupancy in our neighborhood as well as Lechevenon there's.
[52:06]
So many cars parked on the road that it is becoming unsafe. Our children cannot ride their bikes because they might not be able to
[52:10]
cross the street safely.
[52:14]
There's umm.
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It's really getting to the point where if you're driving at the same time as someone coming the opposite direction, there's
[52:20]
nowhere for you to pull around each other.
[52:25]
It's just becoming unsafe all around and unfortunately some of the.
[52:29]
Owners of the.
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Over occupied units have even.
[52:34]
Taking steps to try and bully families out.
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For requesting things like not parking in front of their driveways or respecting quiet hours.
[52:44]
And we don't appreciate that as families.
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And.
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You know, we don't want to push.
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This issue onto the renters who came in good faith.
[52:55]
But we really need to restore safety to our neighborhoods. It has become.
[52:59]
A point, like they said, where it's affecting every aspect, it's affecting trash, it's affecting our children, it's affecting
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safety, it's affecting driving.
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And we so appreciate you, Mayor, and especially Ezra, who's worked a lot with our neighborhood.
[53:13]
And all of you for being willing to hear us on this and I know that there.
[53:17]
Are people who had to leave because.
[53:20]
Because public comment was pushed back, but we appreciate you hearing us.
[53:24]
I also wanted to bring forward one thing.
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That I've been seeing which is.
[53:30]
Concerning to me, which is just a tendency to.
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Of a few of the council members.
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To.
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Speak in an inflammatory way on social media and.
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We as citizens.
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Would really appreciate a more unified approach of speaking respectfully to and about.
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Your fellow council members?
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And, umm.
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Yes, we would really appreciate.
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By hearing us on our issues and.
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Being respectful of each other even though you all have different.
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Agendas. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Awesome. Can I?
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Can I ask a general question?
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As people come up.
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Sure.
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A couple weeks ago I mentioned in a council meeting I had drove through Bridgeport Lemonade and I had.
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Seen and documented a lot of the.
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Issues. I counted 5 stop signs that were parked.
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With cars parked right up to the line.
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Fire hydrants that were blocked. Red curbs with cars on them.
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I had reached out to Chief Deputy Holden.
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With our local Sheriff's Department.
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And he had.
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Recent essentially his patrol cars out there and he said that they had wrote 12 tickets I think.
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That day or that night?
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Have you? When you come up, would you just let me know? Have you seen any?
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Improvements with.
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That, uh.
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OK, OK.
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Alrighty, we've got.
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John Kidd.
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Do you want us all just raise our hands? We appreciate that, they're saying yeah.
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So I can go first too. I can read my.
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Yeah.
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My name is John Kidd and I live in the Maples.
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So parking.
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Is a tricky topic to address.
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We appreciate the freedom that we are blessed with, even down to the freedom of movement.
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That granted by our cars.
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And we would like to be able to park those cars where we wish particularly.
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In our own neighborhoods.
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But what happens when one individual's exercise of that?
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Freedom begins to impose a cost on others. A large number of vehicles that are parked on a street can impose direct and indirect
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costs for neighbors.
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I for one appreciate a scenario where these costs are internalized by those causing the imposition.
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Of these costs.
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If you are able to fit all of your vehicles in your driveway.
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That's fantastic.
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But when your plethora of vehicles make it so that I am unable to have guests park within 500 feet.
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Of my home when I am unable to back my moving truck into my own driveway when I moved in four years ago.
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Or when I worry about my children being hit due to a lack of visibility.
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Then you have imposed a cost on someone other.
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Than yourself.
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I've heard some say that we need to be good neighbors and I fully agree.
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But in some cases, individual efforts are not enough to resolve the issue.
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Being a good neighbor should not require accepting the ongoing negative impacts.
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Finally, I encourage the Council to consider this issue.
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Promptly. Any change in policy will likely take time to implement.
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Rather than simply shutting this down without full information, let's get this information out so that we can address the problems
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we see in a timely manner.
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The newest portion of the Maples has welcomed many new families and for those that are moving in now or maybe in the near future,
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I wish them to know the policy as soon as possible.
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Rather than finding out.
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And not wanting to live there in six months.
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Additionally, addressing this before the influx of college students that the salt the fall semester would bring would help prevent
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further strain on neighborhood parking.
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I want to be a good neighbor.
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And I feel part of that is helping my neighbors be comfortable with policies in their neighborhood.
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I appreciate the work that has been done with the parking permit policy and I would like to see this.
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Considered for the Naples area as well.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, John.
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And you're nailing it.
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OK, let me find out person.
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There's a support or against The Who lives in Maples besides John.
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Maples OK.
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And there was a lot of help with do we like John's idea? Do we support John?
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Way to go, John.
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Yeah, John, OK.
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All righty. So that wasn't.
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That was a good point too about you guys are getting a bunch of homes coming in.
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And we need to.
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Something to.
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With with all basin apartments.
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OK. All right.
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OK. All right. Next up, we've got Stephanie.
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So Stephanie had to leave, but she gave me her comment she was going to read.
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Round 2. Come on up, John.
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She maples again. She maples as well. I would I would talk in a higher voice, but that feels offensive.
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Are you in favor of or against the parking permit post?
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Are you in favor of the favor?
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So sorry.
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Good evening. My name is Stephanie.
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And I live in the Maples neighborhood.
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I'm here to ask the council to consider a parking pass program. As our neighborhood continues to grow and new homes are built, we
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are seeing more and more street parking, often with multiple adults living in one home, which leads to several cars parked along
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the road.
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While we understand that housing needs are changing, the amount of street parking is making our roads feel crowded and less safe.
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When cars line both sides of the streets, it becomes hard to see around corners.
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And that makes it dangerous for children who are walking.
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Riding bikes or using scooters?
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It also makes the neighborhood look overcrowded and less cared for.
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A parking pass program would help keep our streets safer and more orderly as the Naples continues to expand.
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Thank you for your time and consideration.
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Awesome. Thank you.
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All righty, we got Dave Height.
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All right. Thank you all.
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Appreciate it.
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Mayor, Council people.
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Feel kind of like this is a spelling bee here.
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Which is where you live here. Bad memories for me so.
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Days from the Naples from the Naples, Dave Height.
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I'm going to come at this just a tad different.
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But yeah, I'm here on behalf of many of our residents.
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Not all of them.
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But a lot of them.
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Especially as we're feeling the added pressure of the 75 plus units all with Adus.
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I want to go on record supporting the Parking Pass initiative because it makes our streets safer. Safety is the only reason that
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matters.
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And I'll leave it at that.
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I would like to veer a little and discuss more why it is important to implement now versus continuing to hash it out.
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Again.
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Respect what you guys do.
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Especially when you add emotions and human.
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Aspect to it.
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Super hard.
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That being said.
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I've been part of high level collegiate programs that have consistently completed for national championships as a player and as a
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coach for nearly 20 years.
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I share that because I know what it takes for coaches and teams to work together.
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And toward a common.
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Goal Two things I've learned that apply directly to tonight. First, what we accept is what we can't expect.
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We haven't enforced consistently for five years. If nothing changes, nothing changes.
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After a tough loss, the worst feeling was walking back into the same problems.
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The best feeling was getting back in the gym, putting the plan into action and seeing results.
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I'm ready for that.
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We're past the point of talking. Let's implement.
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Then refined.
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2nd be proactive, not reactive.
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Some neighborhoods are already in the crisis mode but can become better.
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Others, like the Maple, still have a window.
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Proactive action saves money, saves time and spares real heartache.
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And heartache that come.
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That can't come in many forms. It brings me back to safety.
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Waiting always comes at a cost more in dollars and resources.
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And a community team trust.
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We love the city.
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Let's move forward.
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With action. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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David, can I ask, have you heard of Operation Neighborhood Shield?
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No. OK. Thank you.
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Awesome.
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All righty.
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From Bridgeport.
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OK.
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Sure.
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Now I feel bad I moved the public comments later.
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Bridgeport I actually live across the street from Allie and she is the one who brought this all attention to my.
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My I'm Aubrey.
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Just really quickly we've been.
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Bridgeport since 2019. Homes across the street from us weren't even built when we moved in.
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And since then, our kids have grown. We have two grown children. They have.
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Their own cars on my son has two cars.
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We have put an extra.
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You know, cement.
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Aunt by our driveway.
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So we have 5 cars at our home.
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But we use our driveway.
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And we do over spill onto the street one to.
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To cars depending on if we have visitors at our house.
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However.
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Of the 10.
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Homes that are 9 surrounding my home, five of those.
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Our rentals non.
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Owner occupied multiple.
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People. Umm.
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So, you know, anywhere between 4:00 to 8:00, people renting the home.
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We literally cannot get into our driveway most of the times.
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We cannot have family members over.
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They have to park blocks away from us.
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Every time a home goes up for sale in Bridgeport.
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It ends up being a rental property.
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I don't remember the last home that went up for Selvik was sold to a single family.
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And I have been consistently reporting on the home just to the north of us for five years, not only to the city, but to the age.
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Away.
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Not anything has been done. I understand it was understaffed.
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I understand code enforcement was not happening as it should be.
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But at this point we are five years in. Last year we had a home or a car coming around a corner.
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The flipped upside down.
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Coming around a.
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Blind driveway in a single family neighborhood at 2:30 in the afternoon.
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I don't know the circumstances of that wreck.
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But the fact that it happened in Bridgeport is terrifying to me.
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Especially when children were on their way home from school.
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It.
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Consistently being taken care of.
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To answer your previous question, Operation Shield, whatever, I have seen the proposal for that.
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I think it's amazing.
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But I do think it's going to take a while to implement and get going and at this point.
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Bridgeport is past the point of waiting another.
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Six months to a year to have something done, it's already.
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Five years past having something done.
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That's all I have to.
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Thank you. Question for you, Can you what's your address?
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207 N. 590 E.
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590 E.
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Yeah, the House of the North of us has been rented up and downstairs for the past five years to individuals.
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I have reported it multiple times. They don't use their driveway.
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I at first was reaching out to the owner of that home because we knew him.
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We knew him for the six months that he was there before he moved out.
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And between the yard.
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Never being kept up, you know.
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The weeds multiple feet high and then every single person not even parking in the driveway or the garage.
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They're all over the neighborhood.
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Thank you.
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Bailey, Bailey, I'm feeling really bad, man.
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Movies back, Geez.
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OK, is it Hamlet?
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Oh hey, man.
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Hello. We're good friends now, right? Yeah, you're a buddy. Thanks so much for having.
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Taking the time to address this.
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Should we give him a pin? He's been here like.
[1:05:04]
Give this man a pin. I'm trying to wrap the test for the 79.
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Ordeal 48 N Roberta.
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I'm getting used to saying the right thing for the beginning.
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Yeah, I just wanted to come up here and again represent Lechemenant. I know it's difficult for a lot of.
[1:05:23]
Our neighbors to come up. I wanted to give some updates.
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As I've.
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Talk to them. I know that there's a lot of.
[1:05:30]
People enthusiastic about it also some hesitation or some questions.
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Obviously, I want the Council members to keep that in mind.
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Because I want the whole neighborhood to be.
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Informed.
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Have been bought in with it.
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That being said also.
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Is balancing.
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Making something happen also.
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Balancing with the time to educate the neighborhood.
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So I encourage, obviously the Council members to keep that into consideration.
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But like has been said with Bridgeport, I know it's very.
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Frustrating because we've seen similar situations where we.
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See houses get sold and it goes right to renters.
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I dread anytime we see a family move out of our neighborhood because I know renters are going to come in.
[1:06:10]
That being said, of course there's been times where families do report things and they get bullied by.
[1:06:15]
Neighbors. We saw one at the Bates. They left because they're.
[1:06:18]
Getting bullied by.
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The Bros at this house beside them, even to the point where he would turn on his diesel truck and let the fumes go into the house.
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She told him.
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To please not do that affected their air quality.
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You'd keep doing it.
[1:06:32]
Now at the house we have a boat that sits there. This is on the corner of.
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Root of Math and Ruth Hugo.
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And it the tire is.
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Outside of the red.
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But the rest of the boat, which is about 25% of that unit.
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Sticks out into the red property.
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US and a couple of the neighbors have reported it two weeks ago.
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No action.
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Nothing done so.
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Please keep that in mind.
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One last thing.
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Yeah, keep in mind the comments that are said online.
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I know that we all may have different.
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Viewpoints but.
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Sometimes if we put neighbors against neighbors.
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We don't want to do that, so please keep that in mind as well as council members.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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OK.
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Let's do Gary Moore.
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Signed in the wrong spot.
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All good, brother.
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OK. Anybody else?
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Yeah, come on down.
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Alternate.
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My name is Taylor Timothy Lechemena, Rue de Paris.
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I'm also known as the speed limit guy. Got the speed.
[1:07:39]
Yay. But now obviously the problem we're dealing with is over occupancy. You've already heard all the spills.
[1:07:45]
One of the things, though that has not been mentioned that's happening as well, is we have a lot of people.
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Parking from the apartments.
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And they're parking on the cheminah.
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Having their homie pick them up and then they're driving back to the apartments and then they're leaving.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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So that is something.
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Yes. Umm.
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All right, I was at the park the other day.
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Kid jumped the fence, ran across the train tracks, jumped the fence and.
[1:08:10]
Went to his car. This part in the Seminole education.
[1:08:12]
It is dedication.
[1:08:14]
But that's just some other.
[1:08:15]
Things they take into consideration with this, I support it.
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At the parking situation.
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Thank you.
[1:08:21]
All right, got some more.
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Let's go. Yes, Sir, right here.
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Come on down and then.
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We'll go here, and then here, and then here.
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Kind of deal you here.
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Great. Thank you. Aye.
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Ryan Francis from the Garden No S.
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I spoke to you guys two weeks ago at the last meeting, but.
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I just wanted to give you kind of an update.
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I went around my neighborhood and handed out March Madness brackets, something I do because I love my community and we do it. It's
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a fun thing.
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But I also got signatures from about 45 families, but I don't.
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That really matters, but.
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I didn't want it to be my decision, but I just want to give you some of the feedback from people that I talked to and what the
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things that they said. But it really kind of echoes that everybody else said, just that there's so many.
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Homes that are being illegally rented.
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And.
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I really appreciate Jacob Wood.
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Bring you about all this light like our neighbors had the most infractions I think was 17 in the garden of.
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At least reported infractions.
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So if that makes us like Karen's or something, that's fine. But you know.
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But I.
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Sorry if your name Karen, I apologize them.
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But I.
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But I just wanted to say.
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You know, you know.
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I appreciate that as being brought up because we've been reporting things and having problems for, you know.
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Five years we lived here for 10.
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And literally we report things, they're breaking the rules. And what's been happening is they say, well, we're not actually
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breaking the rules. And then they come back to us and say, well, they said they're not doing it. So there's not really any teeth
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in it.
[1:09:49]
So I appreciate what Ezra is doing to this.
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Parking program I think will give it some teeth.
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Some kind of something that will actually.
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Give us a tool to try to deter these people from breaking the rules on renting.
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But some of the other concerns people mentioned we.
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And there's a little mailbox area and it is packed.
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I know, Greg Mortenson said. He sent you a picture of it.
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It that people stated they don't think a fire truck could get through there, and I think they're right.
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We have a disabled girl in a neighborhood who frequently tries to get onto her school bus.
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And they can't get to the house because there's so much cars parked and the bus.
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Has to like wait and they have to go wheel her down.
[1:10:26]
Things like this shouldn't happen.
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We just want a place to live and I appreciate all the work that you're doing to do that. So thank you very much and I.
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Hope that we.
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Go forward. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thanks, Ryan.
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Hi Mark Osteobolechemy not.
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Great looking flannel by the way.
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Yeah. Thank you.
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Appreciate that umm uh.
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So maybe a different approach. I agree with what everybody said in the air. It seems like there's a couple of concerns.
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About enforcing parking.
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And I wanted to just maybe reiterate.
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Maybe appease some of the doubts, one of which.
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I remember hearing somebody saying like.
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You know, if I forget my past.
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And I get some tow truck over here at night and I'm gone and my morning is is shot.
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You know, it seems like the solution to that is some kind of app.
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Base thing where you're.
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License plate is registered.
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And I which I think is a great idea. So just just to maybe appease some of the concerns about this and get more people on board
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with it.
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It seems like.
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There are some great ideas out there and I would just reiterate to make that super clear.
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Super simple.
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And enforce it.
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Absolutely Velvet Hammer style.
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Right. And then the other question I had on this whole thing is what does the?
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Fire department. Has the fire department said anything about this? Do they have any input?
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That's my question.
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Did he leave?
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Sanderson Lee. He was. He was here.
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Just barely left.
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But yes, he is concerned about.
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The.
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The ability to drive a fire truck into one of these neighborhoods.
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And garbage trucks.
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He said that on his way.
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Charlie, do you want to go again?
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Come on down, man.
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Who's next? Or yeah?
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Let's umm yes please.
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No.
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It's fine mixing it up a little bit.
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It's been so, it's been so positive, so here.
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My name is Christine Jeffs and I am here representing both the Library Board and the Friends of the Library Board.
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I received an e-mail yesterday with a.
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Recommendations for the grant distribution.
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And I noticed that the library had two numbers listed.
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And I'd like to encourage the Council to consider giving the library the higher of the two amounts.
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That were in that e-mail.
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We will put that money to such good use and we are a public service that services the entire community.
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Thank you.
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Over the Friends of the Library thing.
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No, I think it's.
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In fights with the Symphony.
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If I'm reading the e-mail correctly.
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Because after libraries had two amounts, then after Symphony it had two announcements and I believe the difference. Brian, will
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you clarify?
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I got this e-mail yesterday so I don't know if there have been updates.
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Yes, no, you're you're correct. So the Vineyard library.
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That's the one that would potentially have a decrease. Yeah, the.
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The friends didn't change, but it was the library that could potentially have a decrease.
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Happy to explain more of that.
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At that time, unless you want me to do it now. Sounds good, thanks. Thank you.
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Round 2.
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My name is Tyler Harrelson. I must have put my.
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Name on the wrong list.
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Briefly, I wasn't here to comment on the parking situation.
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It's not a solution that will help them now.
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But I do think this is the chickens coming home to roost when?
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This development doesn't have any mixed-use, so no one can walk.
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To work or anything useful other than other houses?
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Doesn't have any.
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Useful transit and has pretty minimal.
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Biking like the lady before had said they have.
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Five cars, I don't know how many in their household that I live in Utah City, I.
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Was helping some neighbors, moved in some college kids.
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I had five kids and I was like.
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Now I'm interested in this stuff. How many cars do you have? And they said 2.
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Three of them take.
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Front runner to school and.
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The other two have jobs.
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They need to take a car and and can't take the front runner so.
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I think that when you're.
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Considering new developments, having more.
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Abilities for transportation is a way to solve your parking problem by.
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Not making everybody **** car.
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I my own comments.
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I talked to you last time about 400 S in the safety proposal there.
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I started a petition that as of this morning has 115.
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Signatures. Umm.
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Basically I wanted to clarify you guys all got an e-mail from Jake summarizing some things that we had talked about some ideas
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for.
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Great suggestions for for a.
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Both the future development and the current that I wanted to clarify that my proposal, my petition is about.
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More about the process than.
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Necessarily any specific?
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Like configuration of of anything like that.
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Something that really frustrates me is.
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And this is how Orem tends to do things. They take a long time to do a bunch of studies and have a bunch of arguments about these
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different things.
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Our proposal is essentially that.
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Yeah, your staff come up with something that would be reasonable to.
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To set up some cones and bollards and that sort of thing right now, implement it and then see how it works.
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Right. Staff needs to review it so it's safe enough that it's not going to get anyone hurt in the interim, but.
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Having that iterative process, I think would be better than.
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Than having a long deliberation and then going.
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Sure. Thank you.
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Can you say it's?
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Really frustrating to get some say.
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We want you to change something, but we don't tell. Don't tell us how.
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Don't say what you want.
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And then we lay something out. It's a new. Those are new.
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Clients out there and you're upset with those, but you won't tell us what's wrong with.
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So, umm.
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People more specific about your complaint and I think you'll get a better.
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Response. Sure, and I'm happy to talk with.
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Talk with you if you'd like, and talk with anybody that.
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That would be useful.
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Thank you. Awesome. Thank you, Sir.
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OK. Anybody else?
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All right, back to the positive conversation.
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Hi, my name is Brandon Peterson. I also live in the gardens.
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Thank you for this opportunity to speak.
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I've been a Vineyard resident for 10 years. I'm actively involved in the community in multiple aspects.
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And I have many great neighbors that are.
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As well.
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We live right next to the princesses.
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But we are actively discussing leaving Vineyard.
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Right, we bought single family homes for a reason.
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And we pay property tax.
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Very high property tax.
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For single family homes.
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And right now the problem that I feel is precedent.
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Right.
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How?
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Really enforce.
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Was if we pick and choose what laws we're enforcing.
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It's creating tremendous safety dangers we've talked about.
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Started in multiple.
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Children in Vineyard have died.
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Being hit by cars.
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And many more that could happen.
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And so.
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As good families are fed up and leaving Vineyard.
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I would just extremely caution this group.
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Because it will happen more.
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And uh.
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We know that the pattern will be that they will be replaced with rentals.
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There's already.
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High amount of high occupancy.
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High occupancy housing options in Vineyard.
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And I think that that needs to be the encouraged drought for people that need that for economic reasons. But.
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It's quite unfair to the citizens to.
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Continue this pattern of what's been happening in spite of us reporting things and it's.
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It's extremely frustrating.
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And discouraging, honestly and so.
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I'm definitely not.
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My with 10 and I know my neighbors are as well and I hope that we can find a.
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Swift and.
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Realistic.
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Resolution to these problems because they're only going to get worse.
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So thank you.
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Thank you.
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OK, all righty.
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Anybody else?
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Taryn Cornelius. Come on down, Karen.
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Karen Cornelius.
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And first of all.
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I feel for everyone of you.
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That are struggling with parking.
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Especially those of you that have young children that.
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Are in danger.
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When they're trying to play.
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And they're called the sacker in their neighborhood.
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I on the other hand, I live in paradise in the villas.
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Because, uh.
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We don't have any parking problems.
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But one thing that I have not heard addressed.
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Is what is this over occupancy?
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Problem we're going to do to our property values.
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That is frightening.
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Our taxes are higher than anybody elses and I think we're going to watch our property taxes.
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Think so rather than a parking permit or anything that's going to put a Band-Aid on. If you want to do that for a minute, that's
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OK.
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But we have got to address.
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The root of the problem.
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And the root of the problem is over occupancy.
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And somehow we have got to put some legal minds together.
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And figure out what we can do.
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So that those of us that have invested.
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Here, to live here and to enjoy being here.
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Are not sold out.
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To all of these investors.
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Thanks. Awesome.
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Are you ******* yeah. ****** me off.
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Thank you, Karen.
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All right. Do we have one more? All right.
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Come on down.
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Yeah, and we got some more.
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All right. Just one more. OK.
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Nicole Haslington, LA Shamanite.
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I echo everything. I think everything's been said really well, but.
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Last night we were talking to some neighbors and there was a lot of discussion.
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Around just like a lot of.
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Extreme like sensationalized comments going around.
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From.
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Some neighbors who don't fully understand.
[1:20:10]
The proposal and there's a group chat, there's a Facebook group and and those that have read on it after being informed about it
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all came back and said.
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This seems really fair and I agree.
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With what this is and so I just want to caution that I think the people.
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Those that that are hearing about it through the Grapevine like there was a comment about.
[1:20:31]
Sneaky meetings going on with the neighborhood.
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And my husband is actively out. I almost can't go on a walk with him at night because there's no stopping him from.
[1:20:42]
Talking to every neighbor, he sees a knocking on doors to notify them.
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About this and I I just want there to be those, you know, those extreme comments that are against it to not be taken.
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In a way that.
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It's just because they don't know. I feel like they're not informed about what is being discussed.
[1:21:00]
And I think those.
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There's a reason that sensationalized news comments.
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Make the headlines right because it gets people to buy in because it's scary.
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And we do want our neighborhood to be a community like.
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Everything that's been said, we bought a single family home because we want to live there and we are surrounded by.
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Neighbors. One of our neighbors.
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Around the house, that is.
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Filled with.
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Renters so that it's basically like we're living next to a slumlord because there is no.
[1:21:30]
Taking care of the property, the trash cans are never taken out, the yard isn't cared for and it's just it's it's a slumlord home
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and that's what not what we wanted to live in Vineyard for.
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Thank you. Awesome.
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Come on down.
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Hi, I'm twin at Norton, sorry I'm late to the party, just got back from the kids game.
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I was the first new build in Vineyard.
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I built in 2013.
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Literally the only house.
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Out here.
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I came over from the last neighborhood in Orem.
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For the truck.
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Or the trailer to get posted because I was excited for new development and growth and.
[1:22:16]
I can confidently say in the last past five years, it's been chaos and.
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Just with.
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The housing crisis and.
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Where we're at economically like.
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The way that.
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I came to understand how Vineyard was designed was for single family homes.
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Which is great.
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But with.
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How things are changing. The design no longer.
[1:22:41]
Holds its purpose.
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It's exceeded its.
[1:22:45]
Broken. It doesn't serve for.
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A single rental community.
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And.
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I'm not out.
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I I will.
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Put my name out there. I started the Vineyard neighborhood group.
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And I haven't been great in keeping it.
[1:23:01]
Posted or trying to keep people involved and so I I started.
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Just the other night like just trying to understand perspectives of.
[1:23:09]
Different issues.
[1:23:10]
People on Rue de Borda, their issues are heavier than mine on Rudy Math.
[1:23:14]
But yes, we all have a traffic problem, and we all.
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Even the groups that I've been.
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Recently added to.
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We all.
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Have the same goal and the same concerns, but they're just.
[1:23:24]
At different levels and so.
[1:23:29]
My thoughts.
[1:23:31]
About it is, it's not a one.
[1:23:34]
Size fits all like.
[1:23:36]
Enforce towing and some of the other.
[1:23:38]
Neighborhoods is definitely needed. I've mowed lawns throughout Vineyard with my sons and I've made great relationships with.
[1:23:45]
Even singles that.
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Have hired us and just getting to know them and where they're at in life.
[1:23:50]
And I think.
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We suffer as a family community in connection with our neighbors. We don't.
[1:23:58]
Go out of our way to get to know our neighbors. We definitely don't serve our neighbors.
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I was raised.
[1:24:04]
Serve neighbors, elderlies, take out their trash, move their lawns. Like that's what I'm teaching my kids. And that was my hope
[1:24:08]
when I moved into this neighborhood that we would have.
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Good. Solid.
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Values and what we want to teach.
[1:24:17]
Our kids because we want a family community.
[1:24:20]
But.
[1:24:22]
As I've kind of.
[1:24:24]
Talk to neighbors.
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In our neighborhood to understand again the frustration.
[1:24:29]
Parking is an outcome.
[1:24:31]
To overpopulation of renters, it's an outcome.
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If we can.
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Have the same.
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Or have different.
[1:24:39]
Restrictions.
[1:24:40]
As far as like.
[1:24:41]
You want to rent your house? Great. Rent it to a family.
[1:24:45]
And I want to know the homeowners and.
[1:24:47]
Information like I would rather go.
[1:24:50]
To the homeowner and address issues that I have as a neighbor then have to waste government time and money.
[1:24:55]
Over just.
[1:24:57]
Bickering.
[1:24:58]
And so.
[1:25:01]
I don't know what the answer is for that, but like short term.
[1:25:05]
As simple as it sounds.
[1:25:08]
A lot of people are visual.
[1:25:12]
Um, if we even just paint.
[1:25:14]
Parking stalls on the Stinking St.
[1:25:16]
Two cars fit here.
[1:25:17]
Sorry, squares don't fit in round holes. Like you don't fit. You don't fit. But it's also not our problem. We're not equipped to
[1:25:22]
park a bus, an RV, a semi, whatever it is like.
[1:25:27]
That was never the design, so there.
[1:25:31]
I guess my hope for the Holy seminar.
[1:25:34]
Neighborhood.
[1:25:36]
Is 1 to fill in the gaps of lack of communication.
[1:25:40]
There are so many apps and platforms where all of these conversations are happening, but there's no source of truth, so it's
[1:25:44]
always he said, she said.
[1:25:48]
There's there's gaps, it's broken. I get it.
[1:25:51]
But it's not, I think.
[1:25:56]
I don't. I know my intent is not to attack or pin any neighbor against another.
[1:26:03]
I was raised that when you have issues, you come to the table with solutions.
[1:26:07]
I've heard a lot of complaints for several years.
[1:26:10]
But no one wants to come to the table with solutions or they expect.
[1:26:14]
Somebody able to make the decision for the majority?
[1:26:18]
I don't think it's all the questions you have. Neighborhoods have their own council where it's like.
[1:26:23]
Now let's have some designated.
[1:26:26]
Representation on each St.
[1:26:28]
You guys talk about who is being rented. You guys approve if they're gonna.
[1:26:32]
Be part of this neighborhood.
[1:26:35]
And then bring it to vineyards attention like hey.
[1:26:37]
This family wants the rent. Great.
[1:26:39]
Do them registered like.
[1:26:41]
I want to see more accountability for these homeowners that are outside of the state too.
[1:26:47]
Yeah, one guy on my.
[1:26:50]
He lives in California. He owns four different.
[1:26:53]
Houses on our street like.
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But I don't have a contact for him.
[1:26:57]
That's not fair. But anyway sorry I went overtime for sure but.
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I just.
[1:27:03]
I support Vineyard and I want to help them grow but also.
[1:27:07]
I feel like there needs to be a lot more conversation before anything's just.
[1:27:11]
To Boston says it's done so.
[1:27:14]
Thank you for that.
[1:27:15]
Appreciate it. Thank you.
[1:27:16]
OK, all righty, we are going to close public comments.
[1:27:21]
Does everyone go? They wanted to go.
[1:27:23]
One more.
[1:27:25]
All right.
[1:27:30]
Travis Thompson at the garden.
[1:27:32]
No's.
[1:27:36]
I just want to show my support for the the parking initiative. I further support just enforcing Adus. It's ridiculous that we
[1:27:39]
don't I.
[1:27:44]
Lived in basement apartments in Orem that the first thing my landlord told me was you have to park off the street.
[1:27:49]
It is enforced. We care.
[1:27:51]
And it was great.
[1:27:52]
A wonderful experience. I think we can.
[1:27:54]
Force our our.
[1:27:55]
Owners to do the same thing and there's.
[1:27:57]
Usually plenty of driveway space that goes unused. It's kind of insane.
[1:28:01]
But uh.
[1:28:02]
I just want to say that this is.
[1:28:03]
The only thing that has ever gotten me to a City Council meeting.
[1:28:10]
Just for the record, like not a political person registered independent.
[1:28:14]
Like I vote and that's about it.
[1:28:17]
This matters because I have kids.
[1:28:20]
And because they run around all the time.
[1:28:23]
And luckily I live in the center of the neighborhood.
[1:28:25]
And I didn't have to deal with this until maybe.
[1:28:28]
Two years ago.
[1:28:29]
And now I can barely get my boat.
[1:28:31]
In and out of my.
[1:28:33]
RV pad that I paid.
[1:28:35]
A stupid amount of money to put in.
[1:28:37]
So that I didn't have to park it on the street.
[1:28:39]
Because that's the responsibility.
[1:28:41]
That I bear, and we should hold everyone accountable to that kind of stuff.
[1:28:44]
And at that.
[1:28:45]
Politics, yeah.
[1:28:48]
Awesome. Thanks.
[1:28:49]
OK, for.
[1:28:51]
One more.
[1:28:55]
Jeremy.
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Jeremy is Bridgeport. Yeah, I know.
[1:28:57]
You guys like one more?
[1:29:00]
I just wanted to share a quick story real quick.
[1:29:03]
With the families regard.
[1:29:04]
To them feeling safe.
[1:29:07]
When I come through my neighborhood in Bridgeport, I make it a point.
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To drive.
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1015 miles an hour, no faster.
[1:29:13]
The other day I was coming around the corner and due to the amount of cars parked on the street, I almost took a child's life.
[1:29:20]
And I can't even imagine what that would be like.
[1:29:24]
Had the parent not been there.
[1:29:27]
That child would have been dead.
[1:29:29]
I came around the corner. There was absolutely no way in our.
[1:29:32]
To see the child.
[1:29:34]
They darted out from in between two cars.
[1:29:36]
There was a mom there that thankfully grabbed the arm and the kid, otherwise I would have killed the child.
[1:29:41]
So with that I would just really.
[1:29:45]
I'd like to say just do what you can.
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I mean, I know.
[1:29:50]
I know everybody has an opinion.
[1:29:52]
Everybody's working hard on this situation. This was handed to you guys by another administration.
[1:29:58]
Not a lot you can do about it.
[1:29:59]
But in the meantime.
[1:30:01]
I really don't wanna.
[1:30:02]
Good. Yeah, so.
[1:30:05]
If there's anything you can do, parking passes I think would be great right at first, but.
[1:30:10]
You know, whatever you guys feel like. Thank you Sir. Thank you for sharing.
[1:30:13]
That was awesome.
[1:30:15]
I'll think of another one of those. Anyone else?
[1:30:18]
Great. OK, we're going to close public comments.
[1:30:21]
Good, good. OK, awesome.
[1:30:24]
All righty, so let's.
[1:30:25]
Talk Council, let's discuss the 8.6 this consent item. 8.6 Neighborhood parking permit program resolution.
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26-19.
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Any comments from Council?
[1:30:42]
Sure.
[1:30:44]
Comments.
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I'm just.
[1:30:51]
I'm very empathetic.
[1:30:53]
Towards.
[1:30:54]
The community, like I said, I.
[1:30:56]
Gone and drove through those neighborhoods a couple times and I see the issues.
[1:30:59]
And I think it's appalling and I would be scared if I lived in that community too.
[1:31:08]
I appreciate the way that you guys.
[1:31:10]
Have shown up.
[1:31:11]
To come to the City Council meeting and.
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Speak very politely.
[1:31:15]
And and honestly and with your your hearts.
[1:31:20]
I was very frustrated.
[1:31:24]
By some of the.
[1:31:25]
Events that I have learned had transpired.
[1:31:28]
Between our last.
[1:31:30]
Discussion on this.
[1:31:32]
And now?
[1:31:34]
And to maybe not.
[1:31:38]
Do a disservice. I I was very prepared with.
[1:31:43]
Maybe borderline hostile statements?
[1:31:48]
But I.
[1:31:49]
I'm frustrated with how this is transpiring overall and I'm frustrated on behalf of the the residents and I'm frustrated.
[1:31:56]
As a council member.
[1:31:58]
In a previous City Council meeting, we gave direction when we addressed this last and it was done unanimously.
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By the way.
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That we needed to.
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Hold community meetings.
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And we needed to collect more information, we needed to talk to the residents and try to build as much consensus as possible.
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To make sure that what we were going to implement worked.
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And in the last 24 hours, I learned.
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That many residents were told not to meet with.
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Councilmember Wood or Councilmember Holdaway.
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Who were assigned that responsibility to facilitate those community meetings?
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And I think that's done a great disservice to you all.
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Because if those meetings had transpired and we would have collected that data and that information.
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We could have more informed.
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Decisions on how to actually implement this process.
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In an effective manner for the community at large.
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So I'm frustrated that that.
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Was essentially subverting the will of the Council and again it was a unanimous decision so that.
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That was frustrating to learn about.
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I think.
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That.
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One, we need to pull the levers that are going to be most immediate to help the residents.
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And to me, that most immediate lever we have available is enforcement.
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So I would like to with the.
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You know, approval and agreement of the Council.
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Let's encourage the Sheriff's Department to hit that area hard because if people get ticketed on that street every single day.
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If it.
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Every single day these people will start parking there because they'll start.
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Going to court.
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Hey, Alexa, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
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Please come to the come to Mark.
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Name.
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Again, Aubrey Nanhart from Bridgeport, and I apologize. I I hear you.
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I understand.
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But you know what, there has been for a couple of months now a group of citizens really working together to try to see each
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other's point of view. I initially was against.
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Towing.
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Because I have to park on the street.
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From our own home.
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But I am.
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For it at this point and This is why.
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We've called the sheriff.
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They have increased their.
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Done their their patrols in our neighborhood in Bridgeport. I have had people park 3 feet into my driveway.
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They've been ticketed.
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Guess what?
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It happens again the next week.
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It happens over and over again. I I just.
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Feel like that?
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Avenue has been taken.
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By the residents because the city has not done anything over the past five years.
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That Ave. has been addressed multiple times.
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And there has been a lot of work.
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Put out with a lot of the residents who are honestly concerned about this. I'm not saying that.
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That neighborhood councils.
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Don't have value because they do, I think.
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Enforcing the code.
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That has been needed to be done forever and you guys are behind the game on that and that is not your fault.
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But I think that the conjunction of it needs to happen.
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It needs to happen in tandem.
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And you know what? If these renters are getting in trouble.
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They're going to put the force on their landlords because right now.
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The tenants in these neighborhoods have been trying to do it for years.
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And nothing has succeeded in that if these tenants are the ones getting towed and paying and having to go back to their landlords
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and saying you need to do something about this because this isn't right. And now the city is making me pay.
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Those landlords are going to fill a lot more pressure. Those landlords are not going to be able to keep trying to get people to
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sign leases as families to get past the law.
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So according to.
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Code enforcement needs to happen. Neighborhood captains is great, but there's a lot of people who got off of work and came here
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early, who have spent multiple emails, who have been involved in text talking to neighborhoods.
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All before this.
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Thank you. You guys know.
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So when we tried to schedule a meeting 3 weeks ago, do you guys know why it was denied?
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Well, there was, I know that there was a meeting that I got up.
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Like why didn't you guys take the meeting to this? We wouldn't be voting on the decision tonight. I'm just trying to figure out
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like why the delay in the meeting is actually what's preventing? Why didn't you guys just.
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Like we reached out and said, could we hold a meeting and you guys?
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The response was.
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We don't want to meet.
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So do we know why?
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I don't know of any about how many Me either.
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Gardens that we would have to have a king.
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So like you guys, you guys would be, you guys would be implementing the decision now and we're like.
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So when we reach out and we're like.
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When you said reach out, how did you reach out? Yeah, I didn't know. There's there's a little part with me, so I know that yes,
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we're looking to get some people together from.
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He said in the meeting in front of all So.
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What I spoke about with you guys is we had originally talked about doing a meeting before this.
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Nicole and I forgot that we had a major event coming up.
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With a lot.
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With just friends and everything.
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That kept us so I.
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Told you guys that.
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Primarily Jacob.
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That we had something come up, so we did not have the time to get that, but I did let the group know.
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So it wasn't that we didn't want to do. We could get this done.
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We could get this done in 48 hours.
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So let's just walk through the plan.
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We want you guys to make your own decision.
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We were. We asked you.
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To schedule a meeting of your neighborhood.
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That we could put a.
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Poster out and just say.
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We want everyone to come.
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In that meeting we would sit down and say what is the consensus around the group so that it would be your decision.
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Not ours.
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Leaving that meeting, we would then just say.
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We're going to go door to door and tell everyone that that's the consensus and we could do it 24 hours later after that.
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And nobody took us up on it.
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So we were like.
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And then and then in that meeting and let me walk you through what that meeting would be because there's a lot of decisions.
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OK, and let's take 10 minutes because you guys are really passionate.
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We can even have our first meeting right now.
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OK. The first, the first decision of that meeting is there's a lot of different types of parking.
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So we've already done this in two communities.
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There's the.
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Judge, jury and executioner.
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Meaning that.
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We lose our sovereignty as a city, which is it can be done.
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You guys want to do that?
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And there are locations I've done that.
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Both communities that did it.
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Walked away from it.
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But if it's your decision that wanted to do it.
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You could, but we just wanted to make sure that it was.
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Your decision to do it and to clarify what that you mean that that you allow the towing company and decide you would be told when
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does what that does is it changes it into a into kind of a.
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HOA type relationship meaning.
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Code enforcement.
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Does not do it.
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The sheriff does not do it.
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We are deputizing the tow truck company that's compensated by.
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475 a toe.
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And they just go around and they are the judge.
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Meaning that our city, our Sarah.
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The and that's OK.
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And then #2.
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Do you want to do a digital path?
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Or a paper path. There's pros and cons to both and we and in that meeting we would sit you down through.
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OK. And then there's also, do you want to do?
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Or do you want to do 1?
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Then there's decisions on.
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You have families that have.
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For like, there's families of kids.
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How do we?
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How do we overcome that?
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And then there's problems of.
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How can we expand parking? So there's about.
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12 different decisions that we have to sit down.
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Because you guys live amongst yourselves.
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It's your decision.
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And at the end of the meeting, we wanted to sit down and go.
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Who is the person that.
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That is in charge of.
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And communicating what that decision.
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Is and then that decision.
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Would be your neighborhoods. You wouldn't be coming here for a vote.
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And it would be and and.
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What is that leadership look like?
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Is that 2 people? Is it one person? Who's the block captain that's in charge of that?
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Because you guys are gonna have to.
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You guys gonna have to look each other in the eye.
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Because what happened on the two other communities, they did a digital parking pass like you guys were talking about.
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The HOA people were so ****** ***.
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That they did it. They even got told themselves.
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And then they came back and it was like, we're so.
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And it was like, great, but you own the decision. It's not us.
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And then?
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Even the neighborhood being very flexible saying that could happen.
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You guys.
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Without government in place, could.
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Group together real quick in your group chat.
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And have better conversations and say.
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Let's adjust. We wanna go to two passes. We wanna go to 1 pass. This isn't working. Let's do paper.
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But it is a.
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Individual neighborhood experience.
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And one of the other reasons why we wanted to do that is, is there differentiation between Bridgeport?
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Endless seminat.
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Or the gardens, right, So that it's individ?
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And the Maple and cottonwoods, so that what that is and that you guys are coming at this as an educated decision. The other reason
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why we need to do this, we're not throwing.
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These aren't bad people.
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But in taking.
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Into this problem.
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We've never had anybody evicted in vineyards.
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For years we were told that your.
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Responses were being heard and that they were being investigated.
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Part of that problem is staff.
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Part of it is.
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OK, this is the type of evidence.
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That needs to be taken.
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Does your can we educate you on this? How can we fulfill with that to be able to do that right?
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And so these are different decisions between 4 different communities on what they want.
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And we're only coming into the meeting to go.
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What is the consensus? Because what happened here is.
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We're going to do digital parking passes.
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We're going to force it down.
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If we're going to use our lose our sovereignty and that's and that's OK.
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But are all four of you that same?
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And then who is and that when if it doesn't work?
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Are you guys all going to come back and scream to us and we're going, no, that shouldn't happen that way.
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There should be 1 neighborhood person.
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That owns it.
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And the other reason why is is that one person or that leadership can help us in a monthly meeting to go.
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Is our enforcement employee doing it the right way? Do you have problems with the evidence? Because we found out.
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That there were excuses that were did not have merit.
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We've gone and met with Provo, we've gone and met with Orem and.
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I don't want this to be an attack on any employee or any past policy.
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But dammit, Oral and Provo do this.
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And so if they can do it, we can do it.
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And so learning those.
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Problems and I don't want to deputize this leader.
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But.
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That and I love our our previous council.
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But I sat on here for two years saying that we are doing enforcement.
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And we weren't.
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And so for two years later to get into it, it's like very frustrating. So we've got to be able to have.
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And then when you talk about enforcement.
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You're talking about very different enforcement.
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And so we've learned through this.
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But then the other thing is, is we've learned is there's bad actors.
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When you give over your sovereignty.
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On the roads.
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And I do agree that it could be good.
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Especially right at the beginning.
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But it's going to **** people off because you're going to make a mistake because you're going to.
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Heart 12 inches.
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You're going to think you didn't. Part 12 and says off.
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And he's compensated by 475.
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You know a toe.
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And so it's like, OK, but you guys?
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You know what I mean? And so it's like you're not coming back to us on if that is.
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But then there's.
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Don't lose our sovereignty toe.
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Which is.
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That we can deputize the leader of your neighborhood to say.
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OK, we don't want him policing.
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We just want them when there is a problem. We want them moving immediately, quickly.
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Right.
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And then that one has to notify that. So someone has to notify real quick.
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So it still goes to.
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The sheriff or or our staff, right?
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And that person is I'm sending a text message to Shoto.
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And we, you know, setting up the automatic tow.
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They can come in 15 minutes and.
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That's what we're learning is better.
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But to be honest with you, this is a learning game and we wanted skin.
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Like you guys are all passionate and I feel the love in the community.
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And the desire to serve.
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But it was like we didn't get that. And we're like, we have to educate on that.
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Because you guys have to stare each other in the eye and so.
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That's what I'm hearing today and if you guys are.
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Willing to do that, You guys are coming.
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Blanketly, umm.
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We'll do this from me, on my standpoint, I'm like.
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I don't mind blanketly doing that.
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But I want a meeting.
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Thursday like.
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Two days from now.
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That you will sit down, that you all show up the same.
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We will go through all of those different problems.
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That we will sit down and find a leadership group.
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So the 9 or 10 people that.
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Send angry emails.
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About I don't want to do it and that's because they research with the other two.
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That they were failed and so we didn't even get a present. OK.
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This is the predatory tub that we're.
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There were.
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Faced with right?
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And so it's you're more educated about.
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And then the last thing I would say is.
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You're more educated about.
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Your decision.
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Because this doesn't work. You guys coming and screaming for two minutes.
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I've been here for two years.
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And coming to the microphone and going north or South side.
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And then hearing from staff saying, oh, it is being done and then it's not. It's like.
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It wasn't being done and I hate to say this, but you were lied to.
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It wasn't. That's a big rant, but those are that's what we're.
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That's why I like the neighborhood thing. It's so come up to the mic now.
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I don't know, can we also share?
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On this real quick.
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One of the big efforts with Operation Neighborhood Shield that was briefed last week is the increased code enforcement, because I
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think everyone here is in agreeance.
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The parking is a problem because of the over occupancy and I know as a statistic you know last year there were over 300.
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Code enforcement violation reports made.
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And I think only two fines were issued.
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So the enforcement piece is where we've historically struggled the most.
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We're moving to add.
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Employees to do that full time as well as shift work morning and evening.
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And bolster how they can collect evidence.
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To actually enforce these codes, you know, you're also real quick, just so you know.
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We're also being gained by investors where the 30 people that are coming in, I know we can't share private information.
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But we know information enough to be able to know how we're being gained and buying multiple houses and you guys have information.
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That can help.
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Better.
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So the decision is being made.
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We also have people that.
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Own the investment properties that also live in Vineyard and go to social media.
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And are scared that we're going to be enforcing this, but there's only 20 to 30 of them so.
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I'm sorry but.
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You bought a home with only four with with four people, not 8.
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And so we have the backbone to be able to do it, but.
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The knowledge that you have in your neighborhoods.
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You know your specific problem and so having a block captain person No, no, we know this person, but also.
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Collectively working together.
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But also there's been some violations that have come in where you guys have been ratted out as to.
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Our employee violating sensitive information like you're turning them in.
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And that and then it stopped your ability to.
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Anonymously go through and do that. So we have to be the bad guys in the.
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And our block, and I hate to say this, but our employees work for us.
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And that type of culture.
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Enforcement that backbone.
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Does not mean it's it's it's love, you know and so.
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That's what we need.
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That's what we're asking from you guys.
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And we're going to be a willing partner.
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Is that one thing, Mayor, please go on to? Can we ask the deputy Sergeant if perhaps?
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He might have some stats for us about about the last week to do more patrolling, right, they did.
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For enforcement, what? What happened there? What?
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Do you have any death and sponsor him?
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The number that we gave that was.
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On there but I mean we've hit it hard up and I mean let's Gemini just for.
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Just for.
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I mean your sake. I mean I've got.
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Excellent pictures of that.
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Tiny ambulance that.
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That they have down here now.
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Where it is right in between the road and I've actually got it within like this distance on both sides.
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So even the small one is having problems in there. It's not like it's unknown for us.
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But even with me and a full size Tahoe going down there.
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It's an issue and can I ask this?
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I mean, while we're on the subject.
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Is there not already the mechanism that if there's.
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And unsafe.
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Parked car like in front of a fire hydrant, in front of a stop sign, on a red curb.
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Can those not just be towed immediately and do we have a agreement in place to allow us to do that?
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Yeah, we can. We can do that.
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Based on the public safety side, so.
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With for instance with your.
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You're right.
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But it's the medical part doesn't necessarily alleviate all of the concern, but that alleviates.
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Some of the safety issue.
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Especially going around corners.
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Right, but it.
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By putting in a party I mean I agree with the permit, it's just the style and then especially when you see people parking from
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the.
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The trail railroads like hey, this person just came over, let's grab them.
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Like that knowledge is key because we could act on it quickly, but that's why I'm saying on a partnership is like.
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We are.
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Screaming. We've messaged to a lot of people like.
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When can we hold this meeting?
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And they can be very quick and especially with.
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The overwhelming desire, and I agree there is misinformation about on both sides, like in terms of like.
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And you're going to learn through this process.
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Really. I mean, as a small business owner, iteration fails great.
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And we're going to do this.
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Contract, we're going to try it for 30 days.
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Great. We're going to switch over and.
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There's kind of like a Swiss army knife of tools of.
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What? Uh.
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What do you want to do?
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And as a civil neighborhood, having those conversations quickly and giving feedback to the leaders what you need.
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So Ron Francis Gordon I.
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First of all.
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I I would like.
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I mean, I think it's pretty unanimous. We want the solution and I don't think.
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From at least our garden.
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Yeah, uh.
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I didn't know.
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The only thing I saw was in this group meet that.
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Has been going on, it's having on most of the information and I came to the meeting 2 weeks ago.
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But I didn't know that.
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You guys were attending to meet with us because I mean I will meet with you any day of the week honestly, you mean and I know I
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can get people in the neighborhood.
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Willing to meet with you? I don't think that.
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You know, I don't think that that's.
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Like I, I don't think there's any kind of political like.
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So you deputize Jacob Smith?
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Or Jacob Wood to hold a meeting with every neighborhood and to start immediately.
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And so this is the first time hearing of that.
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So I was here, Yeah, let many of you know.
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And many of them said sorry, we were told to wait.
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And come to a meeting and vote and we're like, we don't even know what.
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Voting on like.
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I mean, there's a lot of stuff on that chat. It's like trying to read like and that's, you know, in the past.
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Yeah, I just, I just want to say like we are absolutely willing to work with anyone here to try to get a solution so and I'd love
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to hear more about the.
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Neighborhood shield thing because.
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Ultimately, occupancy is the biggest issue. So I mean, sounds like you've already had a consensus. It sounds like most of four
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groups have it.
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And so it's like.
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Yeah, the person that's the leader. Please tell us how to do it, how to proceed. That's my.
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There does need I still want to advocate for the the formal community meetings.
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I I wanna bring up this point and.
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I'm not doubting you all at all.
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In the last 24 hours or so.
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I've gotten a dozen emails.
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From people that are angry we're even talking about this tonight.
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Serious.
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Correct, and that's what I'm I'm asking for help with.
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I suspect.
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That these emails.
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May be people who are already in violation.
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And subsequently they don't want the.
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The parking to be enforced or subsequent.
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Investor owned.
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So we don't know who they are.
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Many of these emails.
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And I actually.
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Maybe Jesse, that would be a point I need to ask about is I don't know if I can disclose their information.
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Many of these emails are citing things.
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Like.
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We're not being included in those discussions. They know that I'm against it, so they won't let me talk.
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Everybody knows this town.
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No, they're not correct. They're talking about your group chats, your community chats, those kind of things.
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Right, but.
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But it but it's what I'm really asking for is I just want to make sure that.
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When we have this meeting, can we make sure the invite goes out to the neighborhood, use the ward text roster or any of those kind
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of things? My question is what meeting was try was attempted to be arranged with Bridgeport?
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That people deny.
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So because Hamlet does not live in fridge.
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So for Bridgeport specifically, I'm curious who was reached out to.
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When that meeting was.
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Who denied it?
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It looks like it looks like there's just what support is still needed.
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So.
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Correct. Yeah, so.
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People are frustrated and saying that they won't even listen to all of these members who have been trying.
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We have been working with Ezra for right, but Ezra, so the vote that night was.
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Why have to start over?
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We don't need to. We don't need to. We can meet Thursday.
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Confusing point right there and where because.
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Because if we were to do that, we would.
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We would put a poster on every single door that day.
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We would like you got to go through a public process. I don't know what GroupMe and it wasn't a public GroupMe and it wasn't
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identified. You guys have to realize.
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By deputizing you guys, we have to do things various, so a neighborhood you have to would.
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It's no, no. What do you need us to do? We have to designate a neighborhood captain is.
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Tonight it sounds like there's four neighborhoods that want to go through and do this.
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We could do this Thursday. I mean, we could do it Thursday and, and many things we could start as a group right here in this
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meeting.
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We can start at 6:00.
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If that works for Friday or Saturday, we're very flexible on what it is.
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But to get every person in four neighborhoods together at one time, we could start doing educational thing all at once.
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Through each one of the different things, the different options that are available.
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This is my question.
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And then break off into four groups to vote and to make decisions to come up. But who are you to say what conversations have and
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have not already happened within the Bridgeport neighborhood?
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Because we already have, and that's what we're coming to say, is that we need this to happen as a government agency a little.
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GroupMe, Facebook, that happened with, that's not where all the conversations have happened. That's what I'm saying. Like you
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don't even know what has happened in Bridgeport over the past couple months for a meeting to bring it all out, to do it in the
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public.
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To who?
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That's what I'm asking. City Council meeting and voted to put Jacob Wooden. I was in that meeting.
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And there was number communication to me after the fact that anybody wanted to meet with me.
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Jacob, are you listening to this? Can you chime in? But we voted in the public meeting and said.
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Because I was under the impression that Jacob reached out to people and I was there not to meet with people until after this and
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my name was on the record and it said Ali Reed from Bridgeport, and I never heard a single thing after the fact.
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So I don't love that there's more hoops that we're trying to jump through.
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Like, we still need to do this. Let's do this, let's do this, let's do this.
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Let's take a 5 minute recess.
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Let's take a 5 minute recess.
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Let's do that. Let's recess. We're doing good, though.
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Well.
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I want to make. I just want to make sure everyone's getting hurt, right?
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So do you guys want to take a research or you want to keep going?
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Keep going whatever you want man.
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Ezra, did you want to say something? You've been wanting to say something.
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Go ahead.
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I would love to.
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Thank you.
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I don't.
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I don't have any issues with.
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Neighborhood.
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At the work session I expressed my support for it.
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I want to be very clear that.
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This parking program that's being proposed is not going to solve.
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All problems.
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But it will absolutely address the low hanging fruit of when.
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You have more than.
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Six cars.
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Out on the street for one household.
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You've got.
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One or 2% of the neighborhood causing.
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15 to 20% of an issue.
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And.
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I think all this other stuff is great, like we're going to work on code enforcement. Sheriff's already been hitting it hard, but
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we need to do more.
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And part of this.
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Will this help?
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Each home. Each home has.
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Sufficient amount of parking.
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For their own needs, their own cars and encourage people to use.
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Their driveways as well.
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And so I just want to read the resolution that's being proposed real quick.
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It's very short.
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I, I I.
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Gave the framework and.
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2 council meetings ago and then talked about.
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Or two weeks ago in council meeting.
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And there have been a couple changes that.
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I've made based on.
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Community input and feedback that that I've received.
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And I don't.
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Like me meeting or talking with neighborhoods?
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People that live in my neighborhood, people that.
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Know me and just want to express their opinions.
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As a member of the Council, I don't.
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I don't feel like I have been trying to.
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Circumvent anything that Jacob Wood's doing or Jake Hold away or anyone else on the council is doing it.
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Why don't you add us into group chat?
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Why don't we know about it So two weeks ago?
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I framework Did you imagine how frustrated we are though guys like.
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It's well, right, I know, but like.
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Ezra.
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Don't keep going.
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Thank you, Sir.
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So anyway.
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Have a.
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Some conversations with folks through many, many meetings. People reach out to me on Facebook Messenger.
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It will reach out for your text.
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Not everybody is going to be supportive of this. No, no policy is going to get 100% support ever.
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In the history of the world.
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I've had some great discussions with with people who.
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Say I.
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Move specifically to an area that's not an HOA because I don't want any regulation.
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I don't want to deal with any of this mess.
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And I I've taken.
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Thoughts into consideration in this proposal?
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And my hope is that we can have something that's very low barrier to entry.
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But will address.
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Some of the biggest issues that we have, which is.
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More than.
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Two or three cars in a home, parking on the street, taking up space for everyone else.
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Which causes.
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Like the after effects of people parking illegally because they still want to park close to their homes.
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And so if you.
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Reduce the amount of parking that's available overall.
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Then that should.
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Naturally help without a bunch of resources from the city doing code enforcement. So here here's here's a proposal that I had.
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So there's six points here.
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Number one permits are required for parking vehicles.
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Overnight between hours of 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM on public streets.
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And the permit program neighborhoods which?
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I would include the seminar Bridgeport.
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The Garden.
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And included a blank that sounds like a Maple is super on board. I would love to include them as well.
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To be proactive in that effort.
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Each household in the permit.
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Program Neighborhoods is eligible for.
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See if a free parking permit if requested.
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And here I haven't included whether they're.
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Paper or digital?
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But I think.
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Great points were made about the digital passes. I would love to see that so people don't have to constantly remember.
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To move those and they just register their cars and then they're done.
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Each household may receive a second free permit for household if they are either.
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And owner occupied non rental unit.
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Or an owner occupied rental that has.
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Complied with all applicable city codes and maintains an active.
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Applicable business or rental license, including provisions to provide enough parking spaces on the property.
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So we then encourage people to work with the city if they're having these rental units as well.
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Non rental units may be eligible for a third free permit.
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If they can demonstrate to city staff that there's insufficient parking for their household.
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Based on the number of drivers and their family.
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That's something that I brought up two weeks ago and asked for.
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Council input on.
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Heard a lot of.
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Feedback from the residents that.
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Hey, if we if we allow this, this is going to.
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Get more broad support.
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Be a lot easier to implement for people and.
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And provide that balance between people who don't want any action.
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And people who do want.
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Some enforcement decisions.
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And then I added.
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All decisions by city staff regarding ineligibility based on that belt criteria.
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May be reviewed by the City Council for final determination.
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So that we take.
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The opportunity to weigh in on any of those decisions if people are denied.
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Enough parking passes.
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Additionally, the temporary permits that may be requested for up to two weeks at a time.
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And that the program will be noticed to the permit program neighborhoods through door hangers, social media.
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And any other method that staff use necessary to inform the public.
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And that enforcement would begin May 28, 2026, which is?
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The Thursday after Memorial Day, so going into Memorial Day weekend.
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That's plenty of time to let the public know.
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Let people know that this is happening.
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In those neighborhoods.
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I do feel like this would just be a great first step.
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To help.
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Give code enforcement something to enforce, like in the Gemini.
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There's no rules about how many cars you can park on the street. You could park 1015 cars on the street if you wanted to.
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As long as you move every 48 hours.
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And so if you have code enforcement for something.
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That isn't a law.
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Or isn't a rule.
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Then it wouldn't solve anything on.
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On the amount of parking that's happening on the streets and causing the.
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The safety issues that people have talked about and the other issues as well.
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I do recognize that.
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People aren't all going to be supportive of this.
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But I do think.
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A lot of the community have.
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Exercise their right to organize as a community.
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To reach out to.
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Their council members. Their their neighbors.
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And a lot of people know.
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I don't think we should be putting guardrails on how people.
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Interact with their government.
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And I fully encourage doing all of the above like.
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Have the meetings with with Jake. I've never.
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Tell anybody not to meet.
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With a council member.
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On something that's going to happen in their neighborhood and I haven't done that. And so I just want to be.
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Clear that that.
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That is the case if there is any doubt that.
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One of the issues, though, is that people speak to you, they they assume they've spoken to the city.
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So that everyone got the message they gave to you.
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I think.
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So wait.
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You guys thought you spoke with the city when?
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So I know, but it's just so odd that we're finding out about this in 24 hour like.
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I thought about this.
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Two weeks ago I brought this up because we, and that's the thing that actually made me the most mad. And now that James brought it
[2:02:42]
up, I'm just going to open it up. This was a political trap and I'm just going to call it what it is.
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This was ********.
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And I'm not mad at you guys about it. I'm not about how this was handled specifically.
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Recognize this?
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If Ezra brings this up with less than 24 hours notice, which we as a whole Council have agreed.
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That we were going to try to get the agendas out a week prior.
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And we've done a good job of extending that right. We've been doing it on Fridays.
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But this was brought up with less than 20 or 24 hours notice. Now if we don't agree to put this on the agenda immediately.
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This is then weaponized to say that the mayor is blocking a City Council member and that's not the reality of the situation. We
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want to have the discussions. We want to hear you guys out on this stuff.
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OK, so then we put it on the agenda.
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And it comes to the City Council.
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And if we vote no on it?
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We are the immediately the bad guys even though.
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Our direction was subverted.
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When we said let's have a community meeting.
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Then if we vote yes on it.
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You get a quick political win.
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The reality is.
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It totally acted in bad faith and that's not a reflection on the residents.
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That's a reflection on how.
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The City Council is currently operating and I think that that's bad. We need to have these conversations before and it shouldn't
[2:03:56]
be political gamesmanship because it does them a disservice. We just real quick, we just would have advised to post this for.
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Seven days.
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We would have advised to have the group.
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In a like, let's identify a Facebook group where the conversation is happening.
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So we can read all the comments. None of us are in any of these comments, OK? So we have no idea on the back and forth of what's
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going on.
[2:04:18]
And Jacob would are 100% in the dark on this.
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Would you please?
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I would like to offer a solution I feel like.
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Almost all of us here.
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Feel like we're missing important pieces of information?
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And so.
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Would like to offer.
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That I can.
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I can be a liaison for Bridgeport this week.
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I would love to.
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What if we were?
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Please let me finish. I'm sorry.
[2:04:51]
I would love.
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To talk with any and all of you really quick.
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About what information and what stipulations you need from our neighborhoods.
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And I would love.
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To get you guys involved in whatever conversations we are having on paper.
[2:05:07]
And I would love to.
[2:05:08]
To take some time, I know you want to move fast, We also want to move fast, but the reality is that.
[2:05:14]
We are people with children, with evening activities, and we can't always get our whole neighborhood together. What about them?
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And so.
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We would like.
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To, you know, even just have a day and 1/2.
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The If Thursday is the day, what if we want?
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Zoom six and eight. Yeah, I'm just trying to find a solution here.
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I am trying to offer one. Thank you.
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I'm willing to be a liaison to.
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Gather the correct information.
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And share that correct information.
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In as many avenues as possible with my neighborhood.
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So that we can have a meeting.
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That is approved and recognized by the City Council.
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And that our neighborhood knows about so that we can address this. I'm sorry that it didn't happen in the past the way that you
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guys wish it had.
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I'm trying to move forward now.
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Yeah, so.
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I'm offering that as a solution. Is that acceptable to you?
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I think that's great. I think that, yeah, I think that's awesome.
[2:06:10]
And let me just back up a little bit.
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The best part about?
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Being the mayor and this new form of governments don't have a vote so much for whatever you guys want to do. I'm cool with it.
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I know you guys meet the rules. I enforce the rules, right? And you know.
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To Parkers point, we are actively recruiting code enforcement. If anyone knows Dog the Bounty Hunter like I will hire him tomorrow
[2:06:27]
we put it.
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We posted it.
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And I think that.
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I ought to speak from my seat.
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The emails I've gotten.
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Have been.
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Much more against this.
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What then for it?
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That's just my lived experience over the last 48 hours. And I think that probably, Jake, these gentlemen have it figured out that
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they're probably people that are.
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Out of.
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The loop out of the not out of the loop. Or maybe they're they're thinking like they're not following the law right now anyways.
[2:07:02]
But that's for reality. Like.
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If I go through my it's it's.
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It's a lot more against and for it and I.
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And so that's, I think they've received quite some of them as well.
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One of the decisions, I mean.
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We can do it over that night.
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OK, you have.
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When this dropped, none of us knew that was going to be on the agenda.
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So we got bombarded.
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Like 12 to 15 emails going.
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How come I didn't know about the referendum language? Why couldn't I look 'cause we we ran on?
[2:07:29]
Working sessions seven days in advance, throwing it out, having everyone know.
[2:07:34]
And then the other thing is is what is the?
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Approved communication channel? Is that a Facebook group?
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Is it a GroupMe?
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And which is it to be able to hear?
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And then?
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The city staff in monitoring those comments.
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Because not everything.
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You're told is true, so you'll have like a neighbor that is an investor person.
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That is the problem that is telling us something.
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And so you're like.
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OK, we don't live there. Is this person real or not? Is it real? Does that make sense? That's why that meeting is so critical of
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like.
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We've got to hold that meeting so and that's why we, that's why we as a council just came together and said.
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Jacob Wood.
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Like, make sure that there's a referee.
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And there's going to be winners and losers, but in that meeting that we can hold.
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And then?
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This is the general plan of this neighborhood.
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As a government entity.
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You've got to give ample time to say this is the plan.
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And you've got to go through public notice of so if we were to meet Thursday.
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It might be hard to turn around a plan to say well.
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Will knock doors.
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And I don't know if.
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You could say turn around to vote on it on a Tuesday.
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Because we're seven days away, but we are voting next Tuesday. Yeah, we have to. So we could easily vote on that and get those
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other, you know.
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This is a general solution and have four different plans that say this is what we're what we're going to be doing and I could grab
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the leaders.
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Tonight we'll stay up till in the morning.
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Educating you on These are the decisions, and these are the.
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Pros and cons, and this is some of the things that we've learned.
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Right, because I.
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I don't know if my neighborhood wants me as a representative, but I am. Well, that's what you're here.
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No, to be honest with you, that's what that's what the choosing.
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In that meeting we will be doing that. So whoever shows up, yeah, just so you know, in that first meeting where to go.
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Hey.
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Tell me about your neighborhood.
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And if you can submit some names before.
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You know, talk trash privately, but he'd be like, hey, I don't want this person. Like help us understand.
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Have a quick vote.
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But then also.
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How does this neighborhood communicate?
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Does it communicate on GroupMe?
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Does it communicate on Facebook? What are the best ways?
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And is that public?
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So that everyone is involved in that.
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Group, because we cannot deny public comment. David Kyle, you know.
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Could you do that? Could you?
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Facilitate using like the cities e-mail list to e-mail all of the houses in those neighborhoods to notify them when the.
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You can't do that.
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I think we can post it. We can post it and push it on the social media. Yeah, we can post on social media. We also just to answer
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your question if you want a more immediate.
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So we have an option to.
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There were two Ezra sent in resolution.
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But then.
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The mayor's office has a resolution as well.
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Filled with parking.
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And it's.
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Design more to work with up.
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With the Neighborhood Shield.
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It gives.
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The administration more flexibility.
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In terms of.
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The timing of the enforcement.
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So in theory, you could actually have enforcement instead of waiting until.
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May and May we could be enforcing the middle of April, if not sooner.
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Again, citizens haven't seen that one. Well, what? Yeah, No, no, it's online. It's online. It is online from you posted in the so
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it.
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When there was a miscommunication yesterday and it didn't go online until earlier today, but it's there.
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Go ahead, Tony.
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I have just.
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A direct question.
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For Vineyard government.
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Point blank, what is your source of truth platform? How?
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Do you want to communicate with?
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Your neighborhood.
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What is going to happen because I have no problem following a GroupMe.
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A Facebook, but I do get app fatigue where I'm tired of getting notifications from the.
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So I would like to see Vineyard.
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Government.
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Establish what the source of truth is. If I need to go check the government website because I want to be involved, I'll go there.
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But to have all of these?
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Right, good citizens are have good intentions and where everything has to be officiated anyway.
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What is going to be the source of truth moving forward, even for a meeting on Thursday?
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Where is that going to be public?
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Or published, so we are aware of it. Yes, that's true.
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So that's what we're going to say something.
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Yeah, I just wanted to respond to a comment so.
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I sent this resolution in on Friday.
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Talk to the mayor.
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Said yeah, there was.
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Miscommunication.
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We definitely need to do something.
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We talked about it at the.
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Saint Patrick's Day race which is great as well.
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So I never.
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It was never my intention to have you guys see this 24 hours in advance like those minor changes that.
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I made from 2 weeks ago and.
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Told you guys hey, there's a bunch of residents that.
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Have talked about doing a solution like this.
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That was never my intention, so I apologize if you did feel blindsided by that.
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But I just want to thank the mayor for.
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Including and revising the agenda and allowing.
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Us to take action if we did choose to do so.
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Today or.
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Whenever we would like.
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Yeah, let's do this.
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Sorry.
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So I just did. I just wanted to 1st like.
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When Jacob said, hey, we're all trying to be on the same page and be willing to do something.
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You have me.
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Because that's exactly where we're wrong. Where do we just want something?
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Yeah, for sure action and we wanted something that.
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That's different than what we have said the last five years.
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Yeah, OK.
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I do have a little problem.
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With believing.
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That you guys got headed up 24 hours ago.
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At least it's just hard.
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And as a as a resident of this.
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And as somebody that comes from.
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To work like it is a little concerning.
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To see how you.
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Are interacting.
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And and.
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I just hope, and I'm going to give you all the benefit of doubt.
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That you don't use these emotions to make decisions because that's the worst thing.
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And you know.
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So that being said.
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Coming from the Naples, we did meet.
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With the City Council member.
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We did not have. We had about 10 or 15 people we talked about.
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This permit plan.
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So is that not official?
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I mean, is that kind of?
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And what what what makes it official? Did you put the plan? I mean, did you put the plan on every door like the agreed upon plan?
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So that's that's is that's what makes it official is.
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Well, I mean so.
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We're going to be adjusting the right.
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I mean, yeah.
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We're going to be adjusting the ranks of.
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Homeowners, right? Yeah. So public disclosure of this is happening.
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Was it notified that?
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The your first original meeting because.
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Public, the public decision that we made.
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Was.
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Jacob, what is authorized to do this not as Renaissance? OK, so we didn't even know it was occurring.
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Like I didn't know about your meeting.
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And so and then so and I'm very.
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There were angry calls last night.
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To our city.
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Manager and our attorney and I was like, how in the hell did this happen? Yeah. And why didn't I know?
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And so I was like, we're going to have a bunch of people angry.
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Who is their leader?
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What is the document?
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What decisions did they make?
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What messaging?
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System did you use?
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Did we verify that?
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Because we're going to be infringing upon people's rights to the public. Rd.
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Like.
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You know, putting in an HOA type.
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Towing Enforcement.
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Where we're deputizing them and not having us.
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Is a massive change because none of these people moved into an HOA.
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But we're going to be doing that, which if the group is deciding to do.
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We're so aggressive in wanting to do.
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Like legally, we did none of that.
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And so like we want to move on doing and say, OK, we've got to this is the.
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Communication system.
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This is the notice.
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So we can back it up and say we hit every single door.
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We fired it. We did a second meeting.
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And then we.
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Put it on the City Council meeting for seven days.
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And we came back and said, guys, we deputized this. And so none of those public actions.
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What threshold threshold are you?
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So like.
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Historically in the city, the rule was 75% and we recognized that that was not realistic, especially in the seminar in the
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Bridgeport areas where there's so many renters.
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So we came back and we said, look, even if you're.
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Close to 50%. We just want to make sure that there's an actual consensus because.
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Both weeks that we've had this on the agenda.
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We get blown up the night prior with angry emails that wonders is on the agenda and two people that don't support it. And I
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recognize that it's unpopular to say, but we are also responsible for representing the renters in Vineyard.
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Yeah. And look, we want to do what's best for the community at large and the homeowners and we want to make sure that this is a
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safe place especially. That's why my focus is more on the safety aspect of it.
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But it's.
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We just have to make sure that.
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Everyone is being notified and everyone's brought into the loop and that the information is being disseminated in a way that.
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Everyone can participate and give public comment.
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Yeah, and.
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I was here 2 weeks ago you City Council meeting.
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And this is your agenda from Vineyard website?
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This is all it says. Council member would lead a brief discussion regarding proposed changes of towing enforcement.
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There was discussion among council and residents.
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Presented how to implement changes.
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As well as how to counsel with HOA's, the council decided to continue the item and hold the.
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Longer discussion at a later date, correct? That's a different. That's the. This is the tenant.
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What's that correct? That that discussion was about lakefront? You're thinking the one that you want to know. This is predatory
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touring 24 hour.
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Correct. That's OK. But even 1 from 2 weeks prior, it would have been a month ago and even OK. So two weeks prior though we did
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have a discussion about it again.
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We talked about towing and we talked about enforcement.
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Yeah, but but even very.
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I think it's it's.
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But even then.
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But what I'm saying is you guys are.
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Accusing us of political entrapment, which I think is a little bit extreme if I'm being, if I'm being honest, we have no idea and
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like we're trying to like.
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Ambush or something. This has been a problem we've been talking to you about for a long time, and the last I heard two weeks ago
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we came.
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With concerns and.
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None of us got invited to a meeting or not. None of us. Maybe one of you, one of us did.
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And so.
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We want it to work, but I just don't want.
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The political.
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Politics to get in the way of like what's what well, it is right now it's getting in the way of it right now because you're
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accusing us of trying to trap you into a vote I don't even think anybody in here has suggested has suggested that we.
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Demanding a vote. We're just here to support. Like, that's why I'm here and that's why we come up here.
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Is to support but.
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To have you sit here and accuse us of.
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Trying to go behind your back or something. It's just poor communication is what it ultimately is. You know what I mean? So.
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We just, we just want a solution. I don't.
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I'll work with anyone to get a solution, but.
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All this talk about like we're trying to.
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Trap you in to make a decision I think is just unproductive. So let's just have a let's just have a discussion about.
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Or make a plan because the last meeting that I came to.
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The thing was like we just talked about at a later date and then it got second and then it was off the table, you know what I
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mean? So that's.
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Let's just have some action that's that's still on, you know, let's do a motion. Let's do it.
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I make a motion that.
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A1 representative from each.
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Neighborhood Can you stand up?
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Not the leader that's selected, but just.
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Get the message out, leader.
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So we have.
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There we go.
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So you guys seminar.
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Gardens.
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Maples.
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Hey.
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Are you listening to?
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OK, but it's just to get the message.
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It's just to get the message out so that on social media.
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We can help you and we can find all your Facebook groups.
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So between here and then.
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Are you guys able to act?
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Thursday or Friday?
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We have the interfaith thing Wednesday.
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Tell me pregnant more people than negative.
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OK, now.
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We are we able to get printing out?
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The doors on that meeting on all four neighborhoods, or could we get the printing off?
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To get to these leaders that they could hit it on every door so we've.
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Public notice. So we've fulfilled with public notice requirements.
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That's a lot. I know. That's what I'm saying. So we've got to fulfill with that, right? We can't.
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We don't want to get sued for not fulfilling the public, not like.
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So.
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It's like so we are thinking that it's similar.
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But if we did it at the exact same day and time.
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To find out in the meeting that you can separate it, let's just do this. What's your motion?
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My motion is that.
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We motion that these 4 individuals are.
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Helping us.
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And scheduling a meeting Thursday night.
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And that that meeting will be convened to put together with.
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All of their neighborhoods and we will go over the rules and regulations and options at the beginning of that meeting. We think we
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can get that done in.
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15 to 20, maybe 30 minutes.
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And that those 4 neighborhoods or three depending on if they break up in the group when they talk.
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Then break up and organize their decisions to come back.
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And then we could go and.
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Finalize that and.
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Paper document.
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And digitally as well.
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So that the following Tuesday we can vote upon the plan of what those neighborhoods.
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OK, awesome. Do I have a second on that tentatively, tentatively based upon the decisions of the, I mean obviously of?
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The groups.
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I think we have pretty much consensus.
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Right. I think we there's a broad range of.
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We're going to be doing something.
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There's many different options of what that is, and it's individual.
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Like on what it is.
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But I would also ask that tomorrow I'm available.
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So if we could meet the leaders to go through and educate about what those options are. So they're pre.
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We could do an educational thing.
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We could even do this straight like on a Facebook Live, so that it's a little bit easier for those to attend, like at 10:00 at
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night.
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Like we are more than willing to wait to go through.
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And educate, but there's some tough decisions that you guys are going to make. That's a neighborhood.
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Let's drive a second to that motion. That's a long motion, Kate.
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Can I ask some clarifying questions? Yes.
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So we'll notice it is a.
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Public City Council meetings so that everybody can attend.
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Yeah, that I know. That's a struggle too with just.
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With the corn, do you want a corn?
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I would like to attend.
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The Jason boy will be there, so the three of us will be here. I don't have a vote, so you guys just tell me what to do.
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So there's.
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This is going to be.
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And I'll just highlight like that, that's one of the struggles of.
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You know, we have all these rules and regulations on.
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Public meetings and we.
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We noticed them on the Public Notes website.
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So that we can all have. We can't meet five of us without going through all those steps.
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And so that's why this this process and official council meetings are so important in my opinion.
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I'm happy to call a special meeting if we would like to do that, just so everybody can attend.
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But I don't.
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I don't feel like limiting the discussion to just.
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One or two council members is.
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Better when we can just have it with all of us have it out. Yeah. Can we just bring the neighborhoods in?
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Like 1 after another hour by hour block or something and just do it in here.
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I think the semantics we can. So the motion is, the motion is we are going to.
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Is that OK? Are you getting this, Tony? All right, so let's. I'm just glad, OK. All right.
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This is the motion.
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The motion is we are going to have a meeting.
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On what is the motion, Jake?
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Yeah, you said they're going to be meeting.
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I make a motion that the four captains selected this evening from the four different neighborhoods.
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Are going to be helping get out the word throughout their various.
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Messaging apps the best that they can, all the different ones that are.
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Available.
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For a meeting on Thursday night.
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We will allow for a different time flexibility.
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That we hopefully at the end of this night we can find out.
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And then?
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In that meeting.
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We will discuss the various options and we will pick leadership.
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To be able to do it and hopefully present.
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Basics of a plan.
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That then can be sent out to the neighborhoods to be ratified.
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Or voted on at the next City Council meeting on Tuesday.
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March 31st.
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31st.
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OK, do I have a?
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If they so need more help.
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Or time you know there's.
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Just there's.
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Angry emails say I wasn't included.
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But if if it's like, hey, but The thing is, is this this.
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All right. That's my motion. That's your motion.
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Do I have a second?
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2nd.
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Parker seconded.
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All in favor, aye?
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I, I what time is?
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Tuesday's council.
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Next 6:00 PM. Is that work for you? Yeah.
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OK, we'll bring the 6:08 PM.
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And and if if Jacob Wood says I so it doesn't.
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I don't think I have anything else, can I?
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Can I excuse myself to go meet with them throughout the rest of the meeting?
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Just the leader, yes, let's do that. Because if we're going to do that next Tuesday, I've got to get through some other stuff
[2:25:14]
regarding the other things. So should we do like a?
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Do you want to?
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OK.
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All right, we'll keep going.
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All righty.
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Motion passes.
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OK. You guys want to recess?
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The bathroom. Can you give me like 3 minutes? Give me like 3 minutes.
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Yes, if you would like to reach this, we can hit the gavel. It doesn't count.
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4 minute reset.
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Good job, Mayor.
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16.
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You are live. OK, We are going to come out of recess now.
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Get back after it.
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Um.
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So we need to do let's motion to move 8.6 to next week.
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We need to officially do that right?
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Move 8.6 next week. OK so can I get a motion?
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I move, we continue 8.6 to next week. Tuesday's meeting.
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You have a second, all right? All in favor. Aye, aye.
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OK, motion passes.
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All right, let's jump down to. We're going to go to the.
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Arch Commission.
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Portion 10.2 Let's go arch.
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Teddy.
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OK, discussion, right? I'm just gonna do it from over here.
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You're all by yourself. Where did 1 go?
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There we go.
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All right, go ahead, Brian.
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OK.
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Apologize for the wait.
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But yeah, so essentially.
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Have some final thoughts for you?
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When we met with the Arts Commission.
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Last Thursday.
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We didn't have enough to do a formal vote, but I got.
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Basically their thoughts to bring before you.
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We'll move forward with that.
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Why is this not only had two commissioners there? Is that right?
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We had three, but one of them had recused themselves of a vote.
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And so we couldn't officially vote.
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Something in particular.
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Let's see.
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Why is this showing up with two screens?
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Oh, because we have.
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So OK.
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Legal counsel.
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OK, well if you can't see this, I'll just go through this.
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Briefly and I'll answer any questions that you have.
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Vineyard Library had.
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The highest?
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Overall score from the Arts Commission.
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3630 is the Max that they could get.
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What was mentioned earlier by a resident is that.
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There's potential they could get $130.00 less so it's between awarding full to Vineyard library.
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Or Utah Valley Symphony down below. I'll go over that here in a second.
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Friends of the Vineyard Library.
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They requested 2000 they had the second highest vote from the Arts Commission.
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They'd like all of them to.
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They'd like them to get the full budget.
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That specifically would.
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Go towards a second weekly story time.
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Paying for staff to do that, it would pay.
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Also $800 worth.
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To go towards adult.
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Books.
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For the library as currently we do not have any.
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Adult.
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Books.
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For children.
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$0.00 recommended for Carry On which is the skate park group.
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Just put the skate park coming in.
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Vineyard Heritage Foundation.
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Reached out and said that.
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Instead of their original request of 15,750.
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That they could.
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Make do and carry out the project.
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For 11,000.
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So it was talked about that we give them the full budget that they requested with that.
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Utah Valley Symphony.
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Is umm.
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Again, either of those numbers.
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And then Utah Lake Foundation would be 1500.
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This is for a paddle with care event that starts in Vineyard.
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And is about drowning prevention.
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That holds the 20,000. Happy to go into more detail if you have more questions on specifically what all those would be allocated,
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clarify earlier.
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Right. It's where you have the oars on the top of the library and then for is that the Symphony?
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Yes. Umm.
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You did clarify that.
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The difference is between those 2 exactly.
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The Arts Commission, they were fine with either option, they said let the City Council decide how they want to.
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Do that.
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As far as Council discussion goes, if I can just jump into that, I would prefer that the funding goes to the library.
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OK. Any other adjustments to this?
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I would love to.
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Do both kind of.
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If we could give the one.
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30 instead of taking me out of the Vineyard library, which is the government.
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Operation umm.
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The Friends of the Vineyard Library.
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Takes donations.
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And so if we could.
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Take the 1:30 out of that and give it to the Symphony.
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I'll backfill the rest.
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If we want to do that.
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Can I ask and?
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Brian, chime in please, but also Ezra, share your thoughts.
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What is the net?
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Benefit of us giving to the Symphony.
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Did they come and put on a show and then do they still charge us tickets and admission?
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No, they'll put on a free show for Vineyard Days.
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But the the main portion of this.
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Budget is specifically to do a fanfare, so it'd be a recording.
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That basically be a theme song for Vineyard for Vineyard events.
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My personal thoughts and I've I've shared this.
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Publicly before.
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Was that?
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I think that there's a lot of opportunity.
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For the library to grow and what I.
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Have.
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Advocated for this money to be used for is to cede the.
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Fundraising efforts.
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And help with the.
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I don't want to say revenue generating programs because the goal of the library isn't to generate, you know, a profit or anything
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like that.
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But to help implement the programs as necessary to cover the operating costs.
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Right, for example.
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One of the things that they're working on right now is implementing.
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Payment essentially an annual fee for non residents.
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To use our library card system.
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With that, there will be expenses, things like payment processing fees.
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So I'm I'm.
[2:38:35]
Interested in?
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The allocation to support those type of efforts and then also support.
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The Friends of Vineyard Library in their fundraising process.
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You know I I have a question about.
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About the library being funded at all.
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Yeah, when we were.
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When the previous mayor sold us on the library concept, it was going to be something that never cost the city a cent.
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It was all we all we donated efforts.
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And they?
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They will use the old city, the old City Hall and torn down.
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Use a room over there.
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And it would be a children's library.
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Children's books and so on and so forth.
[2:39:16]
OK, but we already have.
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Four other children's libraries.
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In the city.
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Each of which has expressed.
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Speaking to the.
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Librarians and principles of the schools involved.
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Have expressed that the.
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I'm more than happy to to help the citizen.
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A vineyard.
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Whatever their library needs are.
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And so it seems redundant.
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To spend.
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Not worthwhile for the city to spend money.
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On a library system.
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That's already built.
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And already structured.
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Already in place.
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And this weren't happy to.
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To work with us, I mean, if we have to spend some monies to.
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To help the.
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You know, library or libraries of choice.
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Be able to handle.
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You know, accepting.
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Library cards from the, you know, from the public in general I could see that risk, but.
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Well, why are we trying to recreate the wheel? We've already got four wheels.
[2:40:12]
So I think one of the.
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I think let's.
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Glad to ask Parker.
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Something that I've been.
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Looking at I've shared this with staff, I talked to the library board about it.
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There was a lot of, I think, missed opportunity from the previous administration.
[2:40:29]
In recouping operating costs for the library.
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And I don't want to say that it was.
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You know.
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Not to paint anyone in a negative light.
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But action just wasn't ever taken to.
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Make that as efficient as it could be.
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And I see a lot of opportunity for the library to actually become truly self-sustaining.
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And to envision that, I've met with the library board. I've met with the Friends of Vineyard Library.
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And I think we have a pretty good.
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Plan in place that would.
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Essentially.
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If implemented appropriately.
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Significantly raised their operating budget. They just need the help to get to the point to actually be able to do that.
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At this point.
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Awesome.
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Any other comments?
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About 10.2.
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OK, seeing none, I will take a motion.
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Oh, hi, Jacob.
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I'll motion to.
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Approve the.
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Recommendations with with.
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The noted adjustment to move.
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$130.00 from the Friends of Vineyard library to.
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The Utah Valley Symphony.
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And I want to include it in the motion because it'll just be a personal donation, so.
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OK. All right.
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Do I have a second?
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OK. Sorry, hold on.
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You said you were going to make a personal donation to.
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Recoup the.
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Money that.
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Advocating to pull out. Why wouldn't you just donate it to the Symphony then?
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I don't know how to donate to the Symphony but OK.
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So.
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That wasn't part of the motion.
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So the motion is.
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Holy smokes, tonight is a.
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All right, one more time is there.
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Somebody.
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Yes, fund the recommendations as is with.
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Moving 130 from the Friends of the Vineyard Library.
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The nonprofit that'll have the donation like that, I've got.
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To the Utah.
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Awesome, do I have a second?
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2nd.
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All right. All in favor, aye.
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Aye, aye. Motion passes.
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OK guys, we're getting stuff done tonight. Two things. One, now that is in motion.
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Thank you, Short and sweet 2. It's a resolution. This is a resolution that is right. So let's do a roll call. Council member
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Mccumber votes aye.
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Councilman of Wood votes aye.
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This is the same thing. Same vote. Yeah. Same vote. Yeah. It's a it's a resolution. The race is yes.
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OK, Councilman Renair.
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Yes, yes.
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Great. Yeah.
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All righty 10.3.
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Creation of an event committee and off.
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Authorization.
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For the committee to establish a nonprofit.
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DK do you want to? David Child, do you want to?
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Explain this real quick the thought behind.
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This yes so.
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This.
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What what this will do?
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Is this full?
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Create a nonprofit where?
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Volunteers from our city.
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Can raise funds for Vineyard events.
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And.
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Vineyard.
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Projects that will benefit the community.
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And it will also establish a committee under the direction of the City Council.
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To administrate.
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Awesome.
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Any questions for David Kyle?
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OK, sorry I didn't say.
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Is there a backup document on this or is that just the broad direction would be?
[2:44:01]
Did they not get the back of that?
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OK.
[2:44:07]
It should be on there.
[2:44:10]
I got some of those angry emails about parking in here.
[2:44:19]
There's even more.
[2:44:24]
If we get an e-mail, we put it in your packet.
[2:44:26]
Thank you for that.
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OK.
[2:44:31]
I don't see.
[2:44:32]
Is it in my resolution funding? No, it's not electronic.
[2:44:37]
I'd like to get that. Would you like to put it on the screens?
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How long is it?
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Oh, go ahead. Oh, it's not online to you.
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That's the.
[2:44:52]
I don't know why the creation of this Commission.
[2:44:56]
What's that?
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Are you tying any funding to the creation of this Commission? No.
[2:45:03]
Is it a?
[2:45:05]
Continual Commission in the sense that it will operate 365 days a year, or is it?
[2:45:10]
Exclusive maybe springtime through Vineyard days each year. It will help facilitate all Vineyard events. OK.
[2:45:18]
So all year.
[2:45:22]
I'm supportive of the concept. Could we maybe just continue this to the next week meeting so we can?
[2:45:26]
Have the backup.
[2:45:27]
So that.
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He's gonna pull it up.
[2:45:29]
Yeah, that's what he's trying to do right now.
[2:45:33]
OK. Can we take public comment on it?
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Yes, well, it's here we go. I guess it's right here.
[2:45:41]
We've had plenty of problems.
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You can't say that you're the mayor.
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I'm inclusive in all decisions.
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Not made it.
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I'm sorry. OK, let me.
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Ninja.
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Please.
[2:46:28]
He's gone again.
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I don't read that fast.
[2:46:39]
Staggered terms for two or four years.
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Chair.
[2:46:45]
OK, so this is like an official.
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What's the advisory? Is it advisory?
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Can I get a week on this?
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Is there?
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Is there code?
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Associated with the creation of this that's.
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Is it in this packet? We just haven't got to it yet.
[2:46:59]
This I mean this resolution creates the.
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Commission, OK.
[2:47:06]
We already have. We already have code for. I think it would be.
[2:47:11]
I think it would be.
[2:47:12]
You know, being that we're going to have a merge, a special session next Tuesday, it would work to.
[2:47:19]
Move this Tuesday.
[2:47:21]
That is special in the sense that it's outside the regular, it's outside of the regular schedule. I already planned my vacation.
[2:47:29]
Yeah, if.
[2:47:31]
If there's not an immediate urgency for this there, there is an emergency.
[2:47:35]
Because we'd like to use it for.
[2:47:37]
For Vineyard days coming up, however, we could, do you know, another week for work Tuesday? Yes, Yes, exactly. Yes, fine.
[2:47:44]
We don't. We don't need it tonight, but we don't need it in a month.
[2:47:47]
Understood. OK.
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Did you have?
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I would like public comment.
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To ask if it could be.
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Yeah, I agree with that. I agree to move it.
[2:47:59]
I think it would be a great idea, David. So could you make a motion, Ezra? I will move to continue this one week second.
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All in favor.
[2:48:06]
Aye.
[2:48:08]
Awesome.
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Jump to the.
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That's it, Don.
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No, hey, we got the travel policy.
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Oh, we went out of order.
[2:48:17]
Yes, we did.
[2:48:18]
OK oh, travel policy. I'm so glad I got a pen out of this meeting.
[2:48:27]
So on the travel policy, I know.
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I know we had a lot of comments in the work session.
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Did all those get on there because.
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One was.
[2:48:38]
35 miles on the 50. I thought we wanted to try to standardize that, but.
[2:48:42]
I think all the other comments got on there.
[2:48:46]
Yeah, I think we still need to adjust the.
[2:48:51]
Was it the language and the resolution or the language in the just the actual policy itself I think was the issue. Is it just
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standardization of like the the miles?
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Just making sure reconciling I believe it was.
[2:49:03]
It was 50 miles.
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Like we had the, we talked about it last week, but you've got.
[2:49:09]
You know, approval for anything beyond 50 miles. But then we have like.
[2:49:14]
You could get.
[2:49:15]
Nighttime or what was the 35 miles to the local travel or?
[2:49:20]
The other one.
[2:49:21]
Yeah, we just want to make sure that the wording was right, yeah.
[2:49:24]
OK, I didn't like read through and make sure all the red lines got adopted, but I just saw that one in there and that was like,
[2:49:28]
oh.
[2:49:31]
Yeah, sorry. I might have been working with the order draft of that.
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Packet so.
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Our goal is to get.
[2:49:41]
Is to try and get at least a few of these each month. A few of these.
[2:49:45]
Policies in place so we can picking them off 1 by 1, taking them off one at a time so we can pass our next audit.
[2:49:52]
OK.
[2:49:57]
We're super close on this. I mean, I feel like a work session. We all kind of.
[2:50:01]
We're on the same page.
[2:50:02]
Can we just get?
[2:50:04]
Any public comment if the public has any comments and then approve it on consent on.
[2:50:08]
Next Tuesday if we need to do that.
[2:50:10]
Just to make sure all the edits got an error.
[2:50:12]
If we can go through that, it's now and make sure yeah, I just I just read it and I think this looks.
[2:50:17]
Fine, I didn't see anything. That's a red flag to me now.
[2:50:20]
You want to. We can read it together.
[2:50:22]
But I'm happy to continue it. If you want to continue it and take more public comment on it, you know what, let's just approve it
[2:50:25]
and then just.
[2:50:28]
Clean it up so like take the brackets out since we already decided that.
[2:50:31]
Put it all in.
[2:50:32]
The standard language and you guys can make those.
[2:50:35]
Sounds good technical, and it's something Lizzie kind of like approved with the edits made during the last. There we go.
[2:50:41]
Awesome.
[2:50:42]
Can I get a motion?
[2:50:44]
I move to approve Resolution number 202618, a resolution adopting travel and expense reimbursement policy for personnel and
[2:50:49]
authorized representatives with.
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The edits and clarifications that we made in the previous City Council meeting.
[2:51:00]
Awesome. Thank you. Awesome.
[2:51:02]
All in favor.
[2:51:04]
Aye, OK.
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That's a resolution, so we'll call.
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Councilmember.
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Parker Mccumber votes aye.
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Would votes aye?
[2:51:15]
Aye.
[2:51:16]
Awesome.
[2:51:17]
Aye, resolution passes.
[2:51:19]
OK. So the last is going to be department appointment of?
[2:51:23]
The Planning Commission appointment.
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We have a empty seat in our Planning Commission.
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And uh.
[2:51:29]
I AM.
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Asking.
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That we appoint Daria.
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Evans to fulfill that vacancy.
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So moved.
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2nd.
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All in favor.
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Aye, aye.
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Wait, hold on, is this a? This is a consent of the.
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This one does not need a.
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Awesome.
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Congratulations, welcome. Thank you for your willingness to serve.
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Sure. Appreciate it.
[2:52:02]
OK. All right. That's all we have. I think that's all we have for tonight.
[2:52:06]
And.
[2:52:10]
Yeah, that's right. Where are you in tonight? Please talk to us about how you're going to.
[2:52:17]
No.
[2:52:21]
So yes, let me make sure I have the wording right, because as many times as I do it, I'll forget it once.
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While you're pulling that up, if I could just have a.
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Point of.
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Privilege.
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Thank you all for the discussion tonight.
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I know things.
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He did it and I'm bummed that everybody left before they got to see us.
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Cordially getting business done as well.
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But I I've.
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I've got no.
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Personal animus towards anyone.
[2:52:49]
I respect all of our our council members and.
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I know there's mutual respect there and.
[2:52:55]
Just grateful to to serve on this on this board and what these great people and residents that are.
[2:53:00]
Engaged, involved and.
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So thank you so much for.
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Being here and.
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Participating.
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Thank you.
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All right, we have the.
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Come on up here, let's get a picture of are you guys.
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Yeah.
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Please right hand for me.
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OK.
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OK, let's get in the background.
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This is so awesome. Make sure you get the wording right here.
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Yeah, no pressure, right?
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All right, let's go ahead and repeat after me. I state your name.
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Aria Evans.
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Hi, Maria Evans.
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Having been appointed.
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Having been appointed to the Planning Commission to the Planning Commission.
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Do solemnly swear.
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To.
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Support, obey, and defend.
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Support, obey, and defend.
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The Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Utah.
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And the constitution of the State of Utah, and then I will discharge the duties.
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And then I will just start discharge the duties of my office.
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With Fidelity.
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Outstanding.
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The pressure on you.
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Thanks so much.
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Thank you. Thank.
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Thank you, Jacob. Thank you.
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Whenever I get to that song.