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[4:23]
We ready to go, Tony?
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OK, we ready.
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All righty guys.
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Welcome, welcome. It is 8.
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30 umm.
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Say 30 on the dot according my watch.
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So I am Mayor Zach Stratton. We're going to go ahead and get started.
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Usually I'm pretty good at getting someone to say the opening prayer and pledge, but you have a volunteer is anyone?
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Please come.
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All right, come on down.
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Love it.
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So prayer first.
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And then we'll do Pledge of Allegiance and then.
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Guess what?
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You get a pen.
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I don't need it. I have one. All right. You already got one. OK, Sounds good.
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Just so everyone's aware, like.
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I don't believe it, but like.
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Nomination. So you're, you're good.
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Father.
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First and foremost.
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I give you the glory.
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Tonight. Tonight.
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1st thank you for answering my prayers.
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I've prayed for.
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Fingers for somebody.
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Years and I'm so grateful tonight.
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For the Flyers that made it into the hearts of our neighbors.
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Our friends and our community who truly want change.
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Father. I asked.
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Forgive this for not stepping up.
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I pray that.
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Those who speak tonight.
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We'll speak from her heart.
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And what April is true?
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Father I'm grateful for.
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My brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Who truly want change for the better for our families.
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So that we can remember the easy things that you've taught us to serve our neighbors.
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To love her neighbors.
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Do you even love our enemies?
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And while we're not sure.
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Pray. So I pray that tonight.
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Even if it's just one person.
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Brings you closer for guidance.
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He can praise.
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In the name of.
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Joey.
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My teacher.
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Friend and neighbor and everything that I need, I pray in this mighty and sacred name.
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Amen. Amen. Thank you.
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OK, let's do the Pledge of Allegiance.
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You actually I pledge allegiance to the flag.
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And to the Republic for which it stands.
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One nation under God. God.
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Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
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OK.
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It is standing room only tonight. I love it.
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OK. Couple of things is.
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I wanted to.
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Just kind of lay some.
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First off.
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Thank you so much for that prayer.
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I think it really captured the spirit.
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And I hope that.
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As I speak for the next couple of minutes, you guys will understand my heart.
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We're all dealing with the situation.
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That by and large, we didn't inherit.
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But we want to fix it.
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And as we go throughout this meeting and we go throughout this work session and the Council deliberates.
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I ask.
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That we seek to understand and to be understood.
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I think that's really, really important in this situation.
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As the mayor, the good thing?
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In this new form of government, one of the.
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One of the best parts about it is I don't have a vote.
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But I can put things on the agenda.
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And so my commitment to the community.
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Is as long as.
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The community feels that we need to put this on the agenda, to keep discussing it and tweaking it and whatever the outcome is.
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That's my commitment, that we will keep working at this.
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I ran a campaign on two things.
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Really two things. First was the lower property taxes and second really was to fix this parking issue.
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And this issue didn't.
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It didn't happen overnight.
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But we are going to do everything we can, and we're going to.
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What I'm trying to say is it's going to take a.
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Probably gonna take a minute to fix it, but we are.
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Gonna My commitment is we're gonna keep working at it.
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So a couple things.
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There will be time for public comment.
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But I.
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I've thought about this and we're gonna.
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I want to. I think it'd be in.
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Important in the spirit of seeking to understand and be understood.
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To have some deliberation with counsel first.
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And so people can kind of see the process that we're thinking.
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And then?
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Comment afterwards. We haven't had really a good opportunity I feel like.
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Especially with this many people here to kind of talk.
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As a council, the council to talk and.
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The process through it.
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I'm gonna be. I'm really gonna have to, probably.
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I'm a my type of leadership and how I run meetings. I'm pretty free flowing, but I think tonight we might have to run it a little
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tighter than I do in the past.
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And so how it works is if there's a comment.
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I ask you to direct it to the chair of the meeting, which is the mayor.
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So directed towards me.
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I'm gonna ask. They're gonna hold their comments till the end.
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And we're going to kind of work through this, but I promise that.
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This will not be the first time we discuss this problem.
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I again.
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I want to fix two things.
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I want to fix the property taxes here. I am so mad about those OK personally.
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I feel that a lot of.
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I'm not going to get into it.
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That's a whole and everyone. It's the.
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We're all ticked off.
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OK, I'll stop there.
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The second thing is we've got to get this parking right we've.
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Gotta get our city back. We've got to make this place livable.
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So, and there's going to be a process and again this.
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This didn't happen overnight.
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And I.
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Ask for your patience and work with us and.
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As we go through this process.
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Is working good faith.
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So I have the sheriff's here. We got two of them.
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Hold on. Thank you for coming back from Saint George last night to be here.
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Holden is awesome.
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Love them, they're awesome, they take great care of us.
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I've seen you guys around a lot today. You've been dealing with a lot of stuff.
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OK, it's been.
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It's springtime.
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Oh, there we go.
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OK, there we go. So.
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All right with that.
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As we as we go with Council, a couple things I ask. Let's stick on the topic.
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Let's keep our comments brief and to the point.
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And it is 8:30. I'm sure a lot of us have babysitters and we got.
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Work to get to in the morning.
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So, uh.
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But this is important to have this discussion, so I'm going to start with Councilman, Councilman Mccumber.
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To my left.
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Parker is going to chat about.
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Some things that.
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We need, we need to get going right away. So go ahead, Parker.
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First and foremost, I'm.
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I would like to express my gratitude that so many of you have shown up tonight.
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One of the things that.
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He told me I need to be louder.
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I'm pretty loud, David.
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OK.
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One of the things that I've.
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Habitually commented on.
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Was that we need as much public participation as possible.
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So that we can make the most informed decisions and capture the most perspectives that's necessary for informed decision making to
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happen.
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I am excited.
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To let you guys know.
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Well over the last 48 hours or so since our Tuesday evening meeting.
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I want you guys to know.
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I haven't slept. We have worked literally around the clock to build consensus as a council.
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I want to give a special thank you to Ezra Nair for working with me over the course of the last couple days.
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To get.
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Immediate solution in place to help you right off the bat and I want to present that to you real quick.
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We have.
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A resolution that we.
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I'm just going to let you guys know what it is now in the work session that can be discussed briefly.
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But it will.
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Pass on Tuesday.
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And in short, the resolution is the Council directing the immediate towing.
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Of vehicles that are parked illegally.
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So if you're parked within 30 feet of a stop sign, if you're parked on a red curb or you're parked in front of a.
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Fire hydrant.
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You will get an immediate tow order.
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The intent behind that is to create an immediate solution that bolsters the safety in your neighborhoods.
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I hear your.
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Concerns and complaints loud and clear when you come and you tell us about the low visibility and I drive those streets and I see
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what you guys are experiencing and I'm.
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I want that to be fixed because I want our kids to be safe.
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So on Tuesday.
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I expect that that will.
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Passed as a consent item with flying colors and that will immediately go into effect and I think that that will solve.
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A lot of the low hanging fruit when it comes to safety.
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I know that this is really a root cause.
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Stemming from.
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Over occupancy.
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We are still planning to move forward with Operation Neighborhood Shield and developing the city's code enforcement protocol to
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actually help get that in check.
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Long term, but this is something we can do immediately.
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To make the streets safer.
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I did also want to comment.
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On some of the emotion in the conversations that I've observed and participated in in the last.
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48 hours.
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And I want to make sure that.
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You guys understand?
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That we're trying to.
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Not make decisions in a vacuum.
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And that no one on this Council.
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Is here to be your enemy or prevent.
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Representing you.
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I recognize that there are some heated opinions when it comes to.
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Those perceptions.
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And there's a large group of people that support.
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Increased parking.
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I don't know what the.
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Parking policy.
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And those parking passes?
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That actively campaigned against many of us up here now.
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And are frustrated at our involvement and so I want to comment on this that I.
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100% recognized.
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You guys have been.
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Working with Ezra not just over the last two months when it came to.
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Parking policy.
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But many of you were.
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With him during the campaign.
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And you support him, and you trust him, and you know him.
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And I want you to know that this was not.
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There was number intentional slight to him or to you.
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When we appointed Jacob Wood to be over this.
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The reason that we appointed that and I hope that you guys can.
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Maybe look at this understand.
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Was that Jacob was already very involved.
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With trying to figure out parking and towing situations when it came to the lakefront neighborhood and those HOA's.
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He was already very well versed with the contracts that were in place.
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And so it seems.
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To us as a natural extension.
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To put him in charge of that process.
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And at the time we were not aware, at least I wasn't, I don't think consciously aware that you guys had.
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Your group that was already meeting with Ezra and that had a consensus there.
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That wasn't information that I was.
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Privy to I don't believe.
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So.
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I want to get to know we are not trying to work against you.
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We genuinely want to make the streets safer. We want to help you out with this.
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Some concerns that I want to bring up that I hope as you guys.
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Share in your public comments and that as you break off into your.
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Neighborhood sessions in a few minutes.
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I would like you to consider these things.
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I ran on.
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Also tackling the taxes and balancing the city budget, making sure that we were operating from a fiscally responsible.
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Position.
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One of my concerns that we're really working through right now and.
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I apologize, Evans, not here.
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Maybe comments on this with me?
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Is that over the course of the next three years we have an 8 figure deficit when it comes to our transportation budget?
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To be very blunt, the city does not have a lot of excess funds to create programs.
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I would like you to consider.
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Your willingness to.
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Adopt A fee that would support your parking passes if you choose to proceed with that.
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2nd.
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Representation and real consensus and.
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My concern here.
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Is that?
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We as a Council.
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While we want to help you and we want to make the streets safer.
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We have an obligation to protect the rights of.
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Even minority groups.
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And people that you may not agree with.
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That kind of.
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Builds into my.
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Next thought if I were to tell you that I think taxation is theft.
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Most of you would say, but who would pay for the roads?
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And the conversation that we're having.
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Just to be very blunt.
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Is we're talking about limiting access?
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To something that these people's tax dollars are paying for.
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And I think that that needs to be very heavily scrutinized.
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So I would like to share this thought as I.
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Spoke.
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For many hours with our city's legal advisor over the course of the last two days.
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Something that he shared with me is a best practice in all governance. Is that a?
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Council does not.
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Act unless it has sufficient reason to do so.
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So I want to ask you all to please continue to engage your neighbors.
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And build as much community involvement in consensus in this as you can.
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Make it undeniable for us to help you.
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I think it's all my good point about it. That's good.
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Already we're going to jump now. We're just going to jump to the parking permit overview, if that's all right. Yep.
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OK, let's jump jump to it and.
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Yeah, so no.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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We need to go and educate you guys on what you're going to be experiencing tonight.
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And understand the code that is currently written in our city code.
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Currently when this was put in place.
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2-3 years ago.
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There was only one.
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Way of telling.
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The entities that put that in are the neighborhoods that put that in.
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Went down that road.
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And repealed it and didn't want it.
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And so when that and you'll hear from them tonight about that and there are many different options.
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In towing and you're going to be learning about those about and and all of your neighborhoods are very different.
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But as as the code currently states, it states that there is.
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By required by city code.
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There needs to be a vote of the citizens of the neighborhood and it currently says it's 75% that a survey would go out.
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So it's because that code is a little bit different and outdated.
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We need to talk to the council as to what's going to happen so tonight.
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After we're done educating you on.
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A lot of various options. You guys are going to be broken up into four groups.
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The code also states that a group of citizens.
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Could put together that plan. Well, there isn't a plan yet in the four of your neighborhoods, so you guys need to put together a
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plan.
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In order to do that.
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We need to have a leader of that.
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Plan right And so.
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So tonight you guys are going to be selecting a leader.
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But also going through and we want you to know the different options so when you talk to that leader.
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You're going through and saying.
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Well, what, what options are you planning on if you're going to be my leader?
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Even at the end of today, that leader isn't going to just be saying, hey, I'm the leader and we're doing this and we leave today
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on the planet.
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Because it has to come back to.
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The code.
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Between here.
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And next Tuesday, because we have to follow sunshine laws and transparency laws.
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We will be working with David Kyle.
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And our legal counsel to make sure that we have a fair and equitable due process of how to vote.
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Should we see?
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Stay at the survey like we're handing out a QR code.
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It says the residents.
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What does that mean? Is that one per household?
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Does that mean we're giving out QR codes? Does that mean they can come to the office and vote?
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It's not a great code that's written through that.
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So because this is spraying on us and we were challenged on a Tuesday to meet on a Thursday.
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We will be going through and working through that vote and that.
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Process. Umm.
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So when you guys come back to that?
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Now, having said that tonight.
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Your leaders after learning everything.
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Might need more than two or three days to put together your plan.
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In fact, we stress that because there are so many moving parts, right? So that does not mean you have to. Now there are some
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people in this group.
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That might say, look, we're ready to go.
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Where, you know, one neighborhood in particular says, hey.
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We know what we want, we know all of the options, and we're ready to go.
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But make sure you know as a group.
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Does that mean that as you go and grow that consensus that you would be able to go and get that?
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That percentage to vote to do.
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To actually implement your plan. Does that make sense?
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OK. And I also and so tonight, so that's the process a Tuesday we would vote on how we would collect that neighborhood vote.
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So tonight.
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Moving towards the agenda Jacob would is going to spend the time going through.
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All the different things.
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And auctions in towing.
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Thank you.
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All right, Jacob one.
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Go through this. Yeah. Was everybody able to get a packet? There should be packets in the packet. We run out of packets.
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One second, we have some more. OK.
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So on the package, there's three options for the type of.
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Parking permits you want you want digital?
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Et cetera. So I'll go through that.
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So first of all, this is not going to be a decision made by counsel.
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This needs to be decided by you and your neighbors. This needs to get buy in from your neighbors as well.
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Because this is going to be a significant change.
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So I want you to take the time to really think through these.
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Go through these permit plans in detail.
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And I'm going to try to be as detailed as I can.
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So I put all this in a packet.
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I'll just wait hard, but I can.
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Get access to a package. Did you get one man?
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Some of the options.
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And then you guys can select.
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Which would be best for your neighborhood that you?
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Want to go through this so at the end of this.
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We're going to hear from a few people who have.
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Have had experience of parking enforcement.
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Including HOA experience.
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And residents who currently live in neighborhoods with parking permits as well.
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Share their experience with it SO.
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The first slide, can you all hear me?
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OK. Thank you.
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So you're gonna have to decide the permit type.
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So there's two different permit types. You have a digital.
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Parking permit.
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Usually that's linked to your license plate.
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I mean it's managed online or by app.
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Or you have a physical parking permit.
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And that's physically displayed on your car.
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And then usually they have a unique.
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Barcode attached to that permit.
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So you need to decide you want a physical parking permit or do you want a digital?
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Parking permit.
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When it comes to enforcement options, there's many options. So this company does ticketing.
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Basically, uh.
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Instead of towing or booting, just taking your car, you have to pay between 75 to $100.
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And we have booting.
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I'm Utah State, Max rebooting is $75.
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The oranges have towing.
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And use that ranges between 300 to $400.
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So you can choose ticketing, you can choose booting, you can choose towing, or you can choose a combination of both.
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Booting and towing.
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Or you can choose a progressive style of enforcement.
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First offensive ticketing, second offense is booting, and the third offensive towing.
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So there's a company that offers that.
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Version of enforcement as well.
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So other things you guys need to decide is the enforcement style.
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So there's two different types of enforcement. There's on call. Basically a person would call to a.
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The toe on a car that's violating the parking permit rules.
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Or there's patrol enforcement. You need a tow truck with patrol.
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The road. And they would.
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Total card.
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On their own.
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So you need to decide anymore on card you want patrol.
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So.
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Let's let's.
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When we get through this, I was gonna ask the same thing. What's the cost is the cost is the.
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So that can be decided via contract. I don't have a specific cost, I know that.
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Couple neighborhoods that have a parking permit.
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And might cause to speak to this letter.
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Usually the annual fee for that parking permit is above 60 to $60.00 plus.
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OK, thanks. Keep on.
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So when it comes to booting, there's two different types of booting.
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So you have smarter company offers smart booting basically.
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It's self release, you pay for it and then you can.
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Detach it and then you have to go and drop it off.
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Yourself.
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And then you have standard building basically towing company would come.
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The Buddha, and then you have to call them to come.
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Take it off if that makes sense.
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And then you have visitor parking as well.
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Would you want to allow overnight visitor parking passes for a neighborhood?
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Or not.
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And then household permits so.
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Would you guys want?
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How many permits do you want per?
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House you want one on street parking spot 2? Or do you want it to be tied to the number of drivers in that house?
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What are the costs, Jacob, for the permits? Are they?
[27:18]
$20 a permit or what do they cost? That's the thing. So the president vary based off of what what you get so.
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Depending on some of the options and.
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We would strongly recommend that the neighborhood captains.
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Do their research of which style.
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And then research the price.
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And as a council, this is one thing that we said was.
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Should we demand that they know the price during the vote?
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Or like on Tuesday when they put forth the plan that they.
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That it sets the citizens know the price in the vote or is that these are the options we're doing?
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And then after they vote, they find out what the permit fee is.
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And I felt that as a transparency policy that.
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Whatever option they choose.
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And the leaders go through, they investigate that between here and Tuesday.
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And we can help them do the best research they can so citizens know when they're voting.
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The annual cost is $75 annually or.
[28:14]
We can you guys can talk about.
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Something.
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Phone calls.
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Hold on one second. Let's let's umm.
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Yeah, let's not do pressure.
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Yeah, we're gonna.
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Oh, yeah, please. What was the price? You made some phone calls on it. Yeah, so I made some phone calls. Just real quick. You can
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talk to theirs.
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But it's very similar. It's about $10.
[28:34]
But then they make their money up by telling and.
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Thank you. As far as Lone Star goes.
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They are also.
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$10 or they are no price at all. They make up their fee by telling and ticketing.
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And then with easy part it is $5.
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Permit per month.
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But can be negotiated into the contract if you find other ways that they can.
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David, when you, David, when you said $10, are you saying monthly or annually?
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It's $10 a ticket for annual.
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That's what that's with UPA.
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So he can talk.
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If if they want to, they can talk further on that question.
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Thank you.
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Yeah. So yeah, like **** **** said, when you guys select.
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What options do you want? You have to.
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Find a vendor, calculate the price, and I'll tell you the price.
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You guys have to.
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There's also two distinctions in towing that is very important to understand.
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There are, there is.
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HOA we're giving sovereignty over to the towing company to patrol.
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Where they're going to be the judge, jury and executioner of like that decision?
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And then there's like.
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On call that we would run through the city.
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Where it would be reported.
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And it would go to a.
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Code Enforcement officer.
[29:50]
Meaning somebody from the city.
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And they would look at it and say does this.
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Reach the level of.
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Of code.
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And at which when that decision is made.
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Then it would dispatch a.
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A tow truck company. So it's really important you understand that because if your neighborhood chooses and this happened in two
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instances.
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Where they chose the just drive by.
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And we are going to be removing the city on when they do the patrolling.
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They remove us from.
[30:21]
The process, the code enforcement. Now there is an appeal thing.
[30:25]
After the fact.
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But we are not the first adjudicating person that goes through that process. And so it's really important that you understand that
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because people will call in and they're like, I don't, I didn't agree with the toe. I was only a couple feet off.
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And we are giving that.
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Sovereignty to that private company to do that in those two separate scenarios, OK, basically if you choose that, people need to
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understand that option.
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OK. The next one is duration. How long do you want this parking from in your neighborhood? Do you want it to be?
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A temporary six months.
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One year or do you want it to be until?
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Basically.
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We've got it.
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OK, awesome. Then I have one last slide. So I invited a couple members of the community here.
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On a couple enjoy representatives and.
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An individual who lives in a area of parking permit.
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To better explain.
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What it's like doing parking enforcement.
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What worked? What didn't work?
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If I can invite them to the MM Hox and then.
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Mike, you want to come up first?
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OK, awesome.
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So I'm Julie Cox.
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We moved to Vineyard in June of 2019, so we've been here almost seven years.
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We the majority of the time we've been here, we've had a multi generational household. My mom had lived with us.
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For nine years before she passed away.
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My son, daughter-in-law and their.
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Almost 2 year old child lives with us as well we have.
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Five vehicles.
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Because we've had five drivers.
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When Providence, I live in the Providence neighborhood.
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When Providence instituted parking permits.
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We were not given these choices.
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So this is amazing and.
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You should be grateful they're asking for your.
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Opinion.
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We were given one choice and that was to have one parking permit for the street.
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Per households.
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At a fee. I think at the time it was $30.
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A year.
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And it was a physical permit.
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And like I say, we had five cars.
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And five drivers.
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And so that was not a good solution for us at all.
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I felt like we were disproportionately impacted by the parking issues. The parking issues in my neighborhood are caused by a lack
[32:38]
of parking in the locks.
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Probably due to over occupancy.
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So when we were given these choices, I felt like we were disproportionately impacted due to the location of our home, because we
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are.
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Right inside our neighborhood, directly across the street from the locks.
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However, because we are only given one choice.
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And I felt like it was not the right choice.
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I did not vote for it. I refused to vote.
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To take away the right to park in front of my own home.
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Directly in front of my own home.
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And because of that.
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I have been towed once.
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And booted twice.
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I've paid $450.
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In extra fees.
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To park in front of my own home.
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So like I say, I.
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I hope that.
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You know you guys find the right solution for your neighborhood. What I can tell you is.
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I feel like this is still not the right solution for my neighborhood even though.
[33:45]
It has loosened a little bit and now we have.
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3 parking permits available to each home, so I do want to give credit where credit is due. They've solved.
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My problem.
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Because now I can park.
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Two cars in my garage or driveway and three on the street.
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So my issue has been solved.
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But I still get booted.
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If I don't have the right car.
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Permit in the window or digital permit?
[34:10]
All right. Thanks.
[34:15]
So I'm Mike Cox.
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And I just want to say a couple things that haven't mentioned yet.
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On if there's someone in your.
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In your household that has a handicap permit.
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That is gold.
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That is the as good as any parking permit because no towing company can touch you.
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OK, you park on the street.
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Anytime you want.
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They have to leave you alone by law.
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It was our saving grace when we had five cars because my mother had grandma, so that was that.
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That's a good thing.
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And then I just really feel strongly that.
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The problems that we have in Vineyard.
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Are because of.
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High density.
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Developments.
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Where the developers went into the city.
[35:03]
And begged them to lower the parking requirements. And the city did.
[35:08]
So the problems.
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Were caused by the city.
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So.
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We are the city.
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And now we're trying to fix the problems.
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I have a really hard time.
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When the city.
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They started out being $30 in our.
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In our neighborhood and their next year they went to 60.
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So I don't think the city of Vineyard should be in.
[35:33]
The parking business, I don't think it is a neat idea.
[35:37]
To sell.
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Parking passes.
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The city gets enough money.
[35:43]
Yeah, yeah, the city doesn't need to be looking for more ways.
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To get more money.
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OK, so.
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Thank you SO.
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You need to. You need to make it to. The passes are free.
[35:56]
That's that's that would be the.
[35:58]
Best solution?
[35:59]
Thank you. Who else we got here if you have Chris Fox. So Chris, come on up, Chris.
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Is in Edgewater.
[36:05]
I wanted to basically explain what's like.
[36:08]
Parking enforcement if you guys have any questions for him.
[36:12]
Yeah, great. I've got.
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Cash modesty with me as well. He's on our Edgeway board as well. Umm.
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So I've been on the board in Edgewater Townhomes.
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About four years now.
[36:22]
And when I moved in, we were using EPA. We had a separate kind of system for getting visitor passes overnight.
[36:29]
And eventually we kind of switched to UPA.
[36:32]
For those visitor passes as well.
[36:36]
The the towing.
[36:38]
The communication wasn't very well. It didn't go very well with UPA, so a lot of things we didn't want them to do or did want them
[36:41]
to do.
[36:44]
They just weren't, we weren't on the same page and so we decided to switch two different company, but.
[36:50]
What has helped us is switching to Lone Star.
[36:54]
They've been very communicative with us.
[36:57]
We have some very specific situations where we're like, hey, please don't tell me these situations.
[37:02]
With UPA we had.
[37:04]
Probably.
[37:04]
Two or three times a month.
[37:06]
Where someone was complaining to us they got towed when they left their car somewhere for like 1 minute.
[37:11]
Right, they were just constantly patrolling.
[37:14]
It's yeah, it's been like 8 months now and we've we've had one complaint. So it's been a significant difference.
[37:22]
The other thing with EPA was that, you know, we would ask them not to do something and then.
[37:27]
It was like 2 weeks later.
[37:28]
That after we had sent the e-mail.
[37:30]
I see a guy like patrolling, we'd ask them specifically not to patrol during that time, so.
[37:34]
I think that there's definitely some difference in.
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Communication ability and quality control of that and.
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And and.
[37:43]
The other thing is Edgewater's.
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I think we also deal a lot with this over occupancy problem.
[37:48]
And and I hope that the solution that people are thinking of isn't.
[37:52]
Oh, if we like start towing all these people with these extra cars.
[37:56]
That will fix the overpopulation right? Or the over occupancy?
[38:00]
That's not a good way to do it. Most of these people getting towed are college students, right? Like they don't have.
[38:05]
So we just barely saw a receipt, $438.
[38:09]
To get there for a 20 minute, that right, it went to the tow yard, it was in there for 20 minutes and then they took it out.
[38:15]
$438.
[38:16]
That's that's pretty crazy for a college student, so.
[38:20]
I hope that that's.
[38:21]
You know not.
[38:22]
The strategy.
[38:24]
For some of these places, but.
[38:26]
Yeah, for us, towing has been really, really good with Lone Star, but I'm sure there's other options.
[38:31]
Awesome, yeah.
[38:33]
Can you talk more about the physical? Explain to the audience the physical parking pass how that would work?
[38:40]
You some have an app, some are web-based.
[38:42]
If they were to select a digital parking pass for the neighborhood, can you explain?
[38:46]
What that would probably look like.
[38:49]
So at Edgewater, the way we've done it is we have.
[38:52]
These I guess.
[38:54]
Signs around the community where it's a visitor spot or maybe event parking.
[38:58]
And there's a barcode on there and you can just scan the barcode allows you.
[39:01]
To go to a portal and then there you can actually get a.
[39:04]
Digital parking pass where you can put the make and model of your car. How long you need to pass for.
[39:08]
And then lastly the actual.
[39:10]
License plate.
[39:11]
And we've seen that it's.
[39:13]
That with UPA is pretty difficult.
[39:15]
With loan, so it's been pretty easy to set up and do it.
[39:18]
The one thing we've seen on the Lone Star side though is it can get abused and so they do have parameters in place to where you
[39:21]
can.
[39:25]
Lock it up so it can be a certain amount.
[39:27]
But it from what we've seen, our experience with Lone Star has been.
[39:31]
A lot more like.
[39:31]
Chris has said communicative, for instance. I mean, I'm here to state facts, not feelings or anything like that, so.
[39:37]
Initially when I.
[39:38]
Became a part of the board.
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My first thought was how do we help the members of the community?
[39:44]
Understand where to go, where to park without having to spend 3, four, $500.
[39:49]
We brought this up with UPA.
[39:52]
And what they said to what we asked, hey, do you guys boot? And they said no, they clearly said no.
[39:57]
And so we look for different solutions. We found a company that was willing to boot while UPA towed. And then they said, oh,
[40:00]
actually we do boot.
[40:04]
And then from there.
[40:05]
They tried to. We asked them for some kind of a deal for our community.
[40:09]
And they said, OK, well.
[40:10]
Pitch something out. They told us the original pricing was. They came back and still gave us the original pricing.
[40:15]
And so after a few things that just.
[40:18]
Seen inherently dishonest, we decided to move to a different.
[40:21]
Partner and Lone Star has been phenomenal. They do exactly what we need. They partner with us.
[40:25]
And for them, it's more about the relationship than it is about.
[40:30]
Earning a buck.
[40:30]
I mean, obviously revenue matters.
[40:32]
But they care about the relationship with our community.
[40:35]
And it's made it so that.
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I mean I.
[40:37]
There are people that complain about parking enforcement. That's always going to be the case, but at the end of the day, they care
[40:40]
about making sure that we have what we need.
[40:43]
Awesome. Thank you.
[40:45]
What's real? Quick question, how important is it that everyone understands the differences between app and evaluate the app before
[40:49]
making your decisions? Would you?
[40:53]
Wish you would have taken more time though.
[40:55]
Know the differences and stuff.
[40:57]
Yeah. So I from what I remember, I think UPS was like Reliance or something that was built in house is very.
[41:02]
Cumbersome and hard to use and so I think it's whatever you guys decide. If you decide to go UPA, that's fine.
[41:07]
Make sure you do some kind of pilot.
[41:09]
Take your time, understand it, just set up awesome.
[41:13]
Yeah.
[41:16]
When we switched so when we switched to the app.
[41:19]
Constant, like people were enraged signing up for UPA. I don't know why they had such a hard time. We kind of had them walk the
[41:25]
board through it and maybe that's why it felt so easy.
[41:30]
But.
[41:31]
I kid you not.
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Multiple times a week, my neighbor who's always been very.
[41:35]
A very chill guy.
[41:37]
Was uh.
[41:37]
Just rage texting me when I he's like I've it's taken me two hours and why is this not working?
[41:43]
I said, why don't you just call him?
[41:44]
Whatever anyone called it seemed to be fine, but when people were trying to do it on their own?
[41:48]
They were getting so upset and so.
[41:50]
There's obviously some benefits, pros and cons to doing physical versus digital permits.
[41:55]
But.
[41:56]
You know, the physical ones can be abused. People can start, you know, trying to create copies and whatever, but the digital ones
[42:00]
also.
[42:03]
It's important to remember every time a towing company is asking you for.
[42:06]
Any information beyond your license plate?
[42:08]
It's just so that they can have a reason to tell you if you did it wrong.
[42:11]
If you type the wrongs, whatever right so.
[42:13]
Anyways, yeah, thank you.
[42:15]
The one thing that I want to make sure.
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So if you guys decide to do this and you vote.
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And it's not a good experience. It's the leader and the group that made the decision.
[42:25]
To do that, and that's why I'm speaking this to the leader.
[42:28]
Please make sure you educate. You learn the app, you say and you back it. And then when you're all educated.
[42:34]
Then deploy right like.
[42:36]
Like yeah. So anyway.
[42:38]
We got Fred. Fred here, right? Yeah. Come on up.
[42:41]
So Fred isn't like front. I wanted to speak more about physical.
[42:44]
Parking passes how that works some of the.
[42:46]
Cons there as well.
[42:48]
With.
[42:51]
Hi. Thanks Sir.
[42:52]
Appreciate the opportunity to talk.
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I've been on the board of the lakefront community.
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Since 2022.
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And we've been dealing with parking ever since.
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We implemented a physical parking permit. It's just a.
[43:12]
Plastic placard.
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We provided all of the residents of the lakefront community.
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With one parking permit per household.
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And the ability to buy an additional permit if they needed more than one.
[43:28]
The placards are very affordable.
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And so, speaking for my HOA, we were able to absorb the cost.
[43:36]
Of producing the placard and distributing them to the.
[43:39]
To the community without any additional cost to them.
[43:43]
The downside that we have come to realize?
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Over the last.
[43:49]
Over the course of the last four years.
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Is the reality of.
[43:53]
Forged permits.
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You can go on any website and order.
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A dozen or more.
[44:01]
Of these placards for about $1.50 per.
[44:06]
Per cart in in essence.
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And so.
[44:09]
We know for a fact not only that they're easy to reproduce and duplicate.
[44:14]
But we have had landlords.
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In our community who have contacted.
[44:20]
Our management company and turned in.
[44:23]
Dozens.
[44:24]
Of duplicated permits.
[44:26]
From.
[44:28]
That were given to them by by previous renters, so the duplication is a concern.
[44:35]
And and it has created some headaches in our community.
[44:38]
We.
[44:39]
At the beginning of the year, just.
[44:40]
One final note.
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We decided to move to a digital permit.
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It was administered by UPA.
[44:48]
That permit was.
[44:51]
Very different from our from our.
[44:53]
Our physical parking permit where we.
[44:56]
We mandated a boot.
[44:59]
A warning? A boot.
[45:01]
And then a toe. So it was a progressive.
[45:04]
Sister Michael Jacob was talking about earlier.
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The digital permit is a straight.
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When we asked.
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And I think that the members of the of the other communities here.
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Keep this in mind if you if you talk to UPA about this, you will.
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Likely find the same thing that we did.
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They did not charge us.
[45:29]
For the digital permit.
[45:31]
But when we asked for more flexibility, a.
[45:34]
A progressive system.
[45:36]
They wanted to charge the HOA.
[45:39]
A prohibitive fee.
[45:41]
In order to enable.
[45:43]
Other options?
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We've turned that down flat. We're considering other.
[45:49]
Other companies like Easy Park and.
[45:52]
Lone Star because I refuse to.
[45:54]
Tax the members of our community for the privilege.
[45:58]
Of.
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OK. Thank you, Fred. Appreciate that.
[46:02]
Jacob, anything else you want to go over this presentation, jump into the basically what threats in terms of physical parking
[46:05]
passes you may run into a?
[46:09]
People forging those passes and.
[46:12]
Stuff like that. So just nothing to keep in mind if you choose.
[46:15]
Difference between physical and digital? There might be downsides to both. So it's just a.
[46:19]
Keep in mind, but.
[46:20]
That is all I have. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you so much.
[46:23]
OK, we're going to jump now to we're going to do.
[46:26]
A quick so so this was this was a conversation about the the pros and cons and.
[46:32]
There's the different types of passes and so forth, so.
[46:37]
I'm going to jump now to David Kyle. Ask him to do a quick overview of.
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This operation Neighborhood Shield.
[46:43]
As spoken before.
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We feel that.
[46:48]
The root cause of this is.
[46:51]
Is over occupancy.
[46:53]
So this is.
[46:54]
We're looking to launch this to address that, so DK if you could.
[46:59]
Just kind of go over this real quick.
[47:02]
Tony.
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No. Can you put it on?
[47:11]
I can work on it, sure.
[47:12]
OK, while he works on it.
[47:16]
While he's doing that, we can break up, we can kind of start to plan.
[47:19]
After he well.
[47:21]
Let's just have him go and then we'll.
[47:23]
You know, go ahead, David.
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OK, so the.
[47:27]
With the reverse.
[47:29]
Over the last.
[47:31]
Three months since the mayor and and council members have taken office.
[47:35]
We've had a number of complaints regarding overall occupied rental homes, particularly in.
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The neighborhood's mostly.
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Your neighborhoods, those that you've shown up.
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Lemon, Bridgeport. The Garden of Maples.
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And just excessive reports of vehicles, illegal street parking.
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Of course, blocked emergency vehicles strain on neighborhood structure and.
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Reduced quality of life.
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Especially safety for kids.
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And so the mayor and staff have been working on a.
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Program called Operation Neighborhood Shield.
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What it starts?
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What what we're doing is we're reviewing.
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All of.
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Vineyard City Code with our city Attorney and with Deputy Holden.
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To determine updates and clarifications.
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Regarding maximum residential occupancy limits.
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Illegal rental.
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Definitions. Uh.
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Parking enforcement authority and evidence.
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Requirements for code enforcement One of the.
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Issues that we have with enforcement is we don't have evidence we need to have.
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2 forms of evidence to do any kind of action in regards to over occupancy.
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OK, we're almost there.
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OK.
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We have it on half the screens.
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Just not on the main screen. So I think we're good to move forward.
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OK, so.
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We are currently in the process of making recommendations to city code.
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That is we actually that's what phase one is our ordinance review which started March 16th and we'll end it.
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On March 31st we're.
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Trying to fast track this program.
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Because of the.
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Seriousness of the safety issues and neighborhoods, I'm just looking to jump to those.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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OK. All right.
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OK, so we are.
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We're looking at an awareness campaign with Phase 2.
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Starting in late March, so.
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Pretty much next week going into April.
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We are going to be distributing door hangers and information Flyers.
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We're going to be increasing patrols.
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An increasing visibility and citations for illegal parking.
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Public messaging will.
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Be placed on all the door hangers and the informational Flyers and on Facebook and through e-mail informing residents that
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enforcement will.
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Will escalate beginning on May 1st.
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Residents will also be encouraged to to report concerns through the city's See Something, Say Something reporting initiative that
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will be part of that.
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In the past, we have not been. The city has not been very direct. We are.
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Going to be encouraging residents to be very direct.
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If we're going to be asking, being very direct in our ask, you see something, you see over occupancy, you see illegal parking,
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take a picture, report it to staff and we are going to be following up.
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And we're actually.
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Employing new.
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Employees to make this happen.
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So, and that's where.
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Phase 3 is investigation and evidence collection will happen all throughout the month of April.
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That's during the notice period.
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The city will aggressively pursue documenting potential violations and will continue to.
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Pursue enforcement action.
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And staff.
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Will be gathering evidence such as public rental listings, online rental advertisements, listing.
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Offering rooms for rent. Neighbor complaints. Verified complaints submits to the city.
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Property visits by officers and recorded statements.
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Additional supporting evidence may include parking violations, code enforcement observations.
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This phase will allow property owners an opportunity to help, correct.
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Violations voluntarily and for students to find other housing options prior to enforcement. One of the reasons why we're moving so
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quickly is because we know that graduation is going to be occurring.
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At the end of this month.
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We want to make sure that.
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Students don't sign their contracts for the summer or for another year.
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So we're giving kind of a heads up. We're going to be enforcing parking.
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We're going to be enforcing over occupancy.
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You know, and we're also working with Utah City.
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To find them other places within Vineyard to live.
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So thank you. With that, we've got phase four and that's when enforcement will begin on May 1st.
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And of course, enforcement, administrative citations, parking citations, code enforcement actions.
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And as mentioned before.
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We are going to be increasing our enforcement staffing here at the city. If you go to the cities website, you'll see that we have
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listings for a full time and two-part time.
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Enforcement officers, if you know anybody that would like to submit their resume, we would be happy to consider them for
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employment.
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And the mayor's looking for Dog the Bounty Hunter to come and help.
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Yeah, that's what we're looking for.
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OK. Thank you, David, Kyle, I.
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I want to talk to the.
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This community is a group because I have.
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How should I say this?
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I know there's fatigue.
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And reporting over occupancy. I live next door to a situation.
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Similar and I personally have reported to the city for years on it.
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If you haven't.
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Heard the last 90 days we've had a lot of tone over and staff.
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And a lot of it.
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What I have discovered is that.
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How can I say this?
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It has been really we have some amazing people that work here.
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But there there was a need.
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For course correction.
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And the staff that we have now and coming into the city.
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Are amazing people.
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That want to serve.
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The taxpayer.
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And.
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Want to do good?
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We have.
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We got.
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We have 10 new spots open. We're looking for 10 new code enforcers.
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3.
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This is this is we. We're really getting.
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I keep asking myself.
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If we don't.
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If we have laws and codes and don't enforce and, why didn't have them?
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But the key in order to do that is having a.
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Team of staff members that are willing to do the hard thing.
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And and get after it.
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And I really feel.
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I again, I understand there's fatigue. I've talked to so many of you that you.
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I we finally found the report like.
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10 days ago of.
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All the complaints.
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Over occupancy for the last three years and I was blown away.
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I saw my name on there.
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But we're.
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I was like, geez.
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I'm right there, right?
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And So what I'm saying is there is a.
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Complete culture shift that's happening with our staff.
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And our desire.
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Is the the mayor and the administrative officers of the city is to serve?
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The residents, the people that pay.
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Our salaries there, so I should say ours.
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Their salaries, so that is.
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It's really super positive so.
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Again.
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There's been some mishaps in the past.
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Will have mishaps in the future but but.
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Arc, my commitment is to just run a much.
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Cleaner, tighter ship.
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That listens and.
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And it's nimble and can activities.
[55:31]
So we're going to get ready to to do the breakout.
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So let me just let me just go through a couple of things so.
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Park Mcbert.
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Talked about in the very first thing.
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We are there is going to.
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We're going to pass the resolution I'm going to on the on the agenda is going to be a resolution.
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The state of Utah has laws.
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Right now.
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That you can't park in front of a.
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Fire hydrant against law.
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There's laws right now.
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You can't park in front of a stop sign.
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Right now, so we don't need to do that.
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But the resolution is going to be to act to to instruct.
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The sheriff's to start towing.
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And to me.
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Where I sit.
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That is a direct safety issue.
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We've got to be able to get.
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Ambulances.
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Fire trucks. Indoor neighborhoods.
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Get that taken care of so.
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That is going to be happening on Tuesday. The reason why you can't vote on it tonight again is because of the sunshine.
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We have to notice it with our attorney.
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That's that's we're gonna do.
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The next thing is we're going to start this Operation Shield.
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OK, this neighborhood shield.
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Because again, I truly feel the root cause of this.
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Has something to do with over occupancy, so we're going to be working on that.
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And in these breakout sessions.
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As you discuss as a neighborhood.
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Take it with that.
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Understanding, and that's the commitment.
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Are we going to be perfect? Are the staff be heard?
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But we are working.
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To say that we're doing nothing, that's just this is like.
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We are moving.
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Fast as I legally can.
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To enforce.
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And hold the codes that already exist.
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And uphold it so.
[57:08]
All right, so with that.
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We are going to do breakouts. So you want my Thunderman?
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You want? Let's do this. Can I write?
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I we have a lot more people here.
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Then then we then I thought, can I get a raise Van who here is from?
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Bridgeport, can you raise your hand?
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OK, so let me do this.
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Can I get a hand raising hands here? Who's here from the gardens?
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OK, so there's a bunch of gardens. Bridgeport, the gardens, who's here from the Maples?
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Maples is kind of small.
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OK.
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Come to the hall and then we'll.
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Is a small group. OK, let's do this.
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OK, alright.
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So this is what we're going to do.
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OK, please be quiet. Listen up.
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Jake, walk us through what these breakout sessions are going to be doing.
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OK, let's make sure you get and we gotta have a time limit because again, it's 9:30.
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So each a council member will follow each group to their location to help guide through the meeting.
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And help go through the decision and hold the conversation.
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We recommend that you kind of discuss the various options before.
[58:14]
And then come to a level. Now there's nothing in code about how many leaders.
[58:18]
Being one, being 2, being three people selected.
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Because it's not in code and we're moving quickly.
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We're going to allow that to be the council member in that meeting kind of help.
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Understand what is that?
[58:30]
Now realizing that you need to put together that plan.
[58:34]
You guys all have this. These are the decisions that you guys need to be making.
[58:38]
In order to bring this back to the Council.
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To say we have enough information.
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That is ready to go that we can put your plan on.
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That we would vote and authorize a vote and we can do that as soon as next Tuesday.
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But we have to give 24 hour notice so.
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Monday at 6:00 we have to have. You have to give it to as well before.
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But we have to put it into the state statute of.
[59:03]
Public notification to get that in and then a vote can happen.
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We one of the.
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My tone. Yeah, sorry, I'll pull it closer.
[59:12]
Zach, you started to steal my Thunder, but I need to.
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Get this in.
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Before you say that.
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The benefit of having this resolution on Tuesday?
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Where we are going to immediately start towing.
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Anything that is a safety hazard that's already in violation of state law.
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Is that?
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It is an immediate.
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Stopgap.
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To make the roads safer.
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And it gives you, I think, a little bit more.
[59:37]
Breathing room.
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To make sure that we get this right.
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Because the decisions that we're making that are going to.
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You're going to bring back to the Council.
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That's what we would use to draft a code or resolution or an ordinance that would.
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Implement this for you.
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With this.
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Recognize if you need more time, you can have more time.
[1:00:00]
This is going to be largely neighborhood LED because your neighborhood is unique and your solution is going to be different than
[1:00:04]
other people. We're not waiting for the neighborhoods to decide.
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To start telling.
[1:00:10]
Fire hydrants.
[1:00:12]
Stop sign stuff. That's already Utah State law that is happening.
[1:00:17]
So what's going to happen? Work with you regardless of whatever you guys come up with?
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I would just want to ask.
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For your patients.
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And your willingness to acknowledge the different perspectives that are going to be in your communities.
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And make sure that.
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You understand?
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While it may be unpopular to say, the Council has an obligation to balance.
[1:00:36]
Representing you and also the rights of people that maybe are not comfortable speaking up to. And so we want to find the best way
[1:00:41]
to build consensus and community.
[1:00:46]
To work through these issues.
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Yeah, and the secret ballot, a lot of people worried about that in e-mail. Like I have to speak up for my system. No one has to
[1:00:52]
disclose how you vote.
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Whatever, uh.
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By law.
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We have a lot of laws that we have to follow right in the voting of that.
[1:01:03]
So the attorney and are making sure that we follow through about that so.
[1:01:07]
So let's do this.
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So, Ezra.
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Let's do Bridgeport.
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Let's do.
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You want to let the UPA guy share on? Let's do question and answer after.
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What's the question? We have a lot of vendors here.
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And I am able to share some.
[1:01:24]
Well, what's what the vendors doing the.
[1:01:26]
Question and answer period.
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Speak to the chair. Please speak to the chair. Thank you.
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We're going to do question and answer. We do that after.
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Right now we're going to have, we're going to do the breakout session, Ezra.
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Bridgeport.
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You guys want to meet? Let's do this one in here.
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OK.
[1:01:43]
With Chaminade, With Jacob Wood. Let's go or.
[1:01:46]
Let's go up to the library you want upstairs the library.
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OK, Maples, let's have Parker to the Maples.
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Let's have them.
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Yeah, you guys can have the foyer.
[1:01:58]
And then Holden, are you cool if we use the sheriff's?
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Room. Is that OK?
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Do we have any stuff?
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Is that can we go in there? Any drugs in there you gotta need?
[1:02:07]
Marijuana that you confiscated from.
[1:02:09]
Teenagers at the moment it will smell like marijuana, yes.
[1:02:14]
OK, so it smells like marijuana, so, but we're going to go into the we're going to go into.
[1:02:19]
To the sheriff's room, and that'll be the.
[1:02:21]
Gardens so OK.
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Bridgeport here.
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Lechemon there.
[1:02:26]
OK, one last thing.
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One last thing.
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Let's let's do it.
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We.
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It's 9:30.
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We can't be here forever. We got jobs and stuff to do in the morning.
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How long you think?
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1520 minutes.
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Now you'll need more than that.
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1/2 hour.
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This is hey, what were the leaders, the group leaders from Tuesday? What do they think they need? Hey, group leaders from Tuesday.
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OK, 15th must be 20 minutes. It's late.
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OK again.
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The commitment for me is the mayor.
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I can control the agenda.
[1:03:04]
We will keep this on and work until it's.
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Better, even if it takes a minute.
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Thank you. Yeah, 20 minutes. So we'll be back in there at 9:50. We'll do a recess on 950.
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I.
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Garden.
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The mayor is your mayor.
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OK, awesome.
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It's just us.
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For the people in the foyer right now, we're going to.
[1:27:19]
Do public comments in a moment. If you guys would like to come in and participate in that, We'll have questions and answers.
[1:27:25]
If they're too loud and she beat that gavel, yeah, they'll.
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My council chambers, Yeah, right.
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It is dented, isn't it?
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Do we want to?
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Yeah, that was you.
[1:28:04]
You want to call Jacob Wood to see you upstairs.
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Is like the alligator food to be back up and comfortable.
[1:29:19]
Alrighty guys, let's go ahead and move into public comment if you want to come in here.
[1:29:23]
If not, maybe we just shut the.
[1:29:25]
Looks like there's some conversations happening on the floor, which is totally fine.
[1:29:29]
Just want to.
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Shut the door.
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OK, awesome.
[1:29:37]
All righty, so we're going to jump into public comment We're it's.
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955 So we're gonna really be we're gonna do one minute.
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OK, one minute.
[1:29:46]
Public comment.
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When you come up here, I ask you to address the chair, which is my cell.
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Everyone that talked to me, Council, if you have questions.
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Go through me and then we'll. That way we can have some good or order decorum here.
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But let's uh, uh.
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I have my. Where's that?
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Did we do the sign in list for?
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Let me grab that.
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All righty.
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What?
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And if anyone.
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If I call your name and you don't want to.
[1:30:27]
Comment. Just let me know. Totally fine. Again, it's 10:00.
[1:30:31]
OK, so Gabriel Judkins from Bridgeport.
[1:30:35]
OK, not here. OK.
[1:30:39]
Are we cool if I just cross off the list? OK, I'll just go like that.
[1:30:43]
Isaac Freckleton.
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From the Maples.
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He left. Awesome.
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Can't.
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Tamien.
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I think it's.
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I'm sorry I went to Orem High, I can't read good.
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Camp Tamion.
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Tamion.
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Tammy's not here, all right.
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Damian know what the T that is AT.
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Ryan.
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It's S.
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Chapter Noise.
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Yeah, from the garden. He's from the garden.
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He lives next to my sister.
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He's my sister's neighbor.
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Ryan. Ryan, do you want to comment?
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OK, alright.
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Yes, if you. Yeah, let's do that.
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Come on down.
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Yes.
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Sorry I haven't.
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No worries at all.
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So please say your name and your.
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Spoke with you.
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A little bit. So my issue name and neighborhood. Jessica Rasmussen Jessica Rasmussen Yes, I live in the gardens on Zen Rd.
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OK, sorry.
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So my daughter has special needs.
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And she rides a bus to and from school.
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And it's a specialized bus that has oxygen tanks and.
[1:32:09]
Special medical devices, things like that that.
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She needs she has multiple seizures a day and has them on the bus regularly.
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She is the first one to be.
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Pick or the last one.
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To be picked up in the morning.
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The first one to be dropped off in the evening because they don't want to have to use the oxygen and stuff with it on the bus,
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right?
[1:32:27]
So there has been a few times when the bus cannot drop the kids off after school and since she's the first one being dropped off,
[1:32:32]
there's like.
[1:32:37]
Half a dozen special needs children.
[1:32:39]
That also can't be dropped off.
[1:32:42]
That have been there crying on the bus needed to be offloaded.
[1:32:45]
From the bus.
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And having no adult there.
[1:32:49]
We had to make a bunch of phone calls. We had neighbors knocking on doors.
[1:32:53]
The problem is the bus cannot make it from.
[1:32:55]
Center St. going east on Water Lane.
[1:32:58]
And then it can't go north onto Eden.
[1:33:01]
Because there's too many cars parked.
[1:33:03]
And I understand that it sounds like.
[1:33:05]
The cars that are parked by the stop signs will be removed.
[1:33:09]
But it's also going around the corner. So basically the bus has to go from Center St. and make a hard right and then a hard left
[1:33:13]
in order to get around.
[1:33:17]
So that's happened to.
[1:33:18]
A couple of times, but what most concerning is the transportation system called me this morning.
[1:33:24]
And they said we need to know whether or not your daughter will.
[1:33:27]
We'll be riding the bus within 1/2 hour of picking her up or 20 minutes of picking her up because we cannot navigate your
[1:33:31]
neighborhood and we will stop services if we don't hear from you.
[1:33:37]
The problem is.
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My daughter's sleep is really messed up. I was up with her from 3:00 to 4:30 in the morning. I wasn't sure if she was going to
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make it to bus.
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For the bus at 7:35.
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Yesterday and so.
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She couldn't use the bus because I couldn't tell them in time.
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Yesterday she had a seizure.
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10 minutes before the bus came.
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And we have a system where we just put.
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The no bus symbol up in our window.
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And they said that that wouldn't work anymore because it takes so much time for them to come through and try to figure out how to
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get around the neighborhood.
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And they can't go the other way, I guess because it's illegal for them to have the.
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Child walk across the street.
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Yeah, so anyway.
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They can't back up, correct? Yes.
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And so.
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And we got you, you, you 2 are going to get in contact. OK, we're going to get.
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So anyway, I just wanted, yes, I know we're on it.
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And I just wanted to put in my.
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Little bits that like it affects more than just.
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You know, annoying college students that aren't supposed to be parking there or someone backing up around the corner too far,
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things like that, someone's boat or all this stuff. Right? Yeah. So all of it just adds together, but.
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Thanks for letting me be heard, you're awesome.
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Appreciate all you do, your amazing mother.
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OK, we got Brandon Peterson from the garden.
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All right. One minute, Brandon, you're awesome.
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Thanks. I'll be quick. Brandon Peterson.
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I'm really excited about SHIELD. I think that this will help address a lot of the problems. I think that.
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We have codes for a reason. I run a small business on the side.
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And I could have.
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Illegally run it from my home.
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But I wanted to abide by the code.
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In the city.
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But that means that my break even point is $60,000.
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For I see a single dollar in my bank account, I have to earn $60,000 to pay for a 1000 square foot shop.
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And so I'm very.
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I have very little.
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Sympathy when people are complaining about $450 for towing.
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Times that by a lot.
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And that's what I'm paying to uphold the code.
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And even still, I know in the future all teenage drivers.
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Five quarter driveway extra wide to be able to accommodate that.
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There's plenty of ways that we can solve this.
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I do think that.
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Putting the onus on the members of the neighborhood.
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It's kind of pitting ourselves against each other.
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So I don't love that.
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And that's why I think that it is.
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Critical that we figure out how to do this code enforcement and make it happen.
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Thank you, Sir.
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Awesome. Umm.
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Let's jump to Ross Pegado.
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From Bridgeport.
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Ross is gone. Dakota Green from the garden.
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Sorry, can someone take?
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Sure.
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Mark on.
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I My name is Dana Blake and I'm from Bridgeport.
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I was just wondering if we at some point could.
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Have.
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Some documentation on what you need from.
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The neighborhood leadership and what you need from.
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Are you planning on moving forward on Tuesday?
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What's the plan was that packet?
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You're talking long term. OK, awesome. Just like an onboarding packet or whatever, you don't need it tonight.
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Yeah, yes, we're gathering them.
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Thank you. Do not leave if you're a leader without giving a good template of what that looks like. OK?
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Yeah, speak to the chair, Jay, Sorry.
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Do not leave if you are a leader and have not given a statement, Mr. Mayor.
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Mr. Mayor, can I have the microphone? Yeah, go ahead.
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Please do not leave. Please do not leave until you're gonna have to teach me that. Hey, I thought Julie for two years.
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Please give your contact information to If you were a leader. Let's get with DK David Kyle over here.
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OK, Julie Cox already went.
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Kristin Tanner from.
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She is not here.
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OK, he says he was.
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When the when the.
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A Stella.
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Yeah, alright. He's good. Sorry, guys. He's good, Whitney. Good.
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OK guys, I'm sorry I can't read.
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Corey Anderson.
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From the Maples.
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You sign that paper. OK, All right. No. Hey.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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Yeah, you want to take his thought? Come on down.
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Let's do that, yeah.
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Well, the handwriting.
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Now I Emily McLean from the Maples.
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I appreciate that you guys are having these discussions with us and giving us the opportunity to.
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Do research within our neighborhoods and come back although.
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I am. I'm going to agree with the other person whose name I already forgot.
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That, uh.
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Putting the onus fully.
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On us as a neighborhood where we don't understand all the like.
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Laws and repercussions and things.
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And it does make it feel.
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A little tense when?
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I don't know if there's a way to have like.
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A council member mediator that helps with all of these meetings or.
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Or something that can just make it a little more official than.
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Then kind of wild discussions and help maybe correct us if we're off course as we're having these discussions within our
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neighborhood or?
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Make sure we're giving the.
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Proper due process and.
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I don't know. I love that. I would love a little more guidance because I do want the safety of our.
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Our families and our children and.
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And to follow proper code.
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I just think that's a lot to put on on us as neighbors. Thank you.
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Especially we have staff that are, I mean.
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Holden, did you ever think you'd be a parking expert when you want to be a sheriff? But here you are, so liaison between staff and
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and so forth.
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To answer the questions with the our staff that are subject.
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Matter actually talking.
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OK, Emily Larson.
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She left, left OK.
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Corey Kirkland.
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Marcus, you're up, dude.
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You want to say anything?
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Yeah, go Cougars.
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Well, I just wanted to.
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Ask. I just want to ask the impetus of like, starting this conversation.
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One of our council members got elected.
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To office based on the.
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Fiasco to happen in the.
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And the parking stuff of the lake.
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Seems that.
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That same fiasco is now making its way.
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Don't potentially the guardians where I live.
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I I think we should, I think we should tell boats and all that, those trailers and everything like this.
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But there.
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But there is various times where you have family visit or something like that. I don't want them to be fined between the hours of
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one and five because they're parked there at night.
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I think that's, I think that's an overburden.
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Also too.
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The Gardens is one of the few places that does not have an HOA. I think it's maybe the only.
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Mabel, do they neither.
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I don't want to start something that's gonna lead down to it to slip yourself. We have an HOA set up in the gardens because now we
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have this citizen, citizen LED group that now.
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Thinks we should get into other things.
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That is going to happen and I'm hopefully that's not going to happen the cars because I do not want an HOA. Thank you.
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For the record, Marcus is anti HOA.
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We get that down, OK.
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Second, all right, so.
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All right, Stephanie.
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From the garden.
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You're good.
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Catherine from the gardens.
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Wrong paper? No worries.
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Mellie from Maples.
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Fred already went.
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Jessica Rasmussen already went.
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Marianne Height.
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You got we all good, OK.
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Yes, please.
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Yes.
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Sorry, wrong, she left to say my name.
[1:41:28]
Can you just quickly tell us the process of changing some of the wording in the code?
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That could maybe help out our neighborhoods so that we great question.
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You want to walk through that?
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I don't.
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Ask a clarifying question about.
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Specifically in regard to what?
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But I mean a code revision.
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Very Simply put.
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We draft that.
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We take it to our legal counsel, We make sure that we're not doing anything that would violate the Constitution of the state of
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Utah or the federal Constitution.
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It comes back to the Council and then we vote on an implementation.
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So if there's something specific that you would like to see change, that's just something that we need to have made recommended to
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us.
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So you could recommend it to any council? I would like to recommend changing the word.
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Member of the neighborhood.
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To be more specific on who can actually vote.
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Right in the entire.
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Every other city, it says.
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By the owner.
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But we say a member of the neighborhood, which can be very hard to.
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Ambiguous. Ambiguous.
[1:42:30]
Mr. Mayor, could I share a clarifying point I got from?
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Mr. earlier today.
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I approached our legal counsel about.
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Who could vote? Who couldn't vote? Because I know that that was conversations being had in multiple neighborhoods.
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And his advice was since this is a citizen LED.
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Endeavor that we shouldn't dictate how you structure that, but that we have to ensure.
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It is a fair and accurate representation of the residency. So, he said. If you want to do 1 vote per household, that needs to be
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the homeowner. If you want to open it up to all voters or everyone who's voting age in that neighborhood.
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That's a decision that your neighborhood can make as well.
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As far as the code specifically referencing our 75%.
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That's something that I think the Council as a whole has agreed that we're willing to consider as long as we can get.
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Even close to a majority consensus.
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Because I know it's not necessarily.
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Possible to get that 75% threshold like you have?
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In Legeminat in Bridgeport.
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So something that we've.
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Considered as well as a council was.
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Can we pass a resolution that gives an exception for this process so that you don't have to hit that threshold?
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And we kind of just need to.
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Talk with the neighborhoods and figure out.
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What is actually realistic?
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What's going to demonstrate that there is broad support for this?
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And give the Council, like I said earlier.
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That, uh.
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Sufficient reason to act.
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So the Council is actually authorized to.
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Implement a parking program.
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Regardless of uh.
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How many votes? How many?
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Like if we choose that, it's in the best interest to do that.
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We're allowed to do that under the code.
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So the parking permit.
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Like that whole program was something that.
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The prior council instituted to say hey.
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If neighborhoods come to us.
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Like we will do this.
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But the council still reserves the right to to have a plan.
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Regardless of that. So I'd say let the neighborhood select their own rules on how they want to.
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Elect their captains, who are going to bring us a plan.
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And if we're all good with saying.
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As long as you guys feel comfortable about how you've.
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Like selected your representative.
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Like I'm willing to support.
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You know, whatever program you guys come up with as long as.
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I feel like it's in the best interest of the city.
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And uh.
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The residents as well.
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Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. May I point out that we have tried?
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A top down approach in the past where you forced.
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The city forced.
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Certain requirements on neighborhoods across the city and it was an abysmal failure.
[1:45:05]
Yeah, Top.
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It's been definitely tough so.
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OK with that.
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We are going to adjourn the meeting tonight. We appreciate it.
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You got the yeah guys.
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Yes, sorry.
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Oh, you're fine.
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You're fine.
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Appreciate it. One minute, yeah.
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Just going to take a quick second. I I don't understand why.
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The truth is so hard to get out here, but I really want to just get some information that I think would have been vital to making
[1:45:32]
decisions before.
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3/4 of the people were gone.
[1:45:38]
My name is Mike Lamont. I'm the CEO of Utah Parking Authority. There was a parade of misinformation that has been.
[1:45:45]
Pass through here.
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As far we we've done parking enforcement for Vineyard City since 2023.
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There have only been two communities that have adopted.
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Parking permits on their public streets that go through their.
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Their private communities.
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Providence in the Springs.
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And both of those communities.
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Are still enforcing parking as of tonight.
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And are active and so I don't understand what the.
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What is being said here?
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That 2 communities have adopted it and both have.
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Gotten rid of it, so that's not true.
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Providence in.
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Here are the numbers.
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In 2023.
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Providence can I?
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Can I finish 30 seconds? Yep. Providence booted. We booted 118 cars.
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And towed 3 cars in 2024 it went down to 87 booths, one tow.
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In 2025 went from 40.
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Down to 41 boots and one toe.
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The Springs.
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IN2023115 boots, in 202433 boots and in 2025.
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24 boots and two toes.
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That's.
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65% and 72%.
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Decrease. Umm.
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From having active.
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Parking permits on their on their property. Our role is simple.
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The city gives us the guidelines and we enforce those.
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At any point can the city change their mind or the community change their mind and say we want to do something differently?
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But uh.
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Up until this point.
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I've made myself available to the City Council.
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None of them.
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Except one has taken me up on that.
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So I would appreciate it if.
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Before you go.
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To the media or.
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To these communities and have a parade of people giving.
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Incorrect information in front of the entire.
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Community, Yeah.
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That you would.
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At least.
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Ask from the from the company that you've contracted.
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What the actual stats are. Thank you, Sir. Can you get those steps to our David Kyle that that'd be super helpful. So thank you.
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Appreciate that.
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Alrighty guys. With that, we're going to turn the meeting tonight. Thank you so much for being involved in this process if you are
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were elected.
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As they.
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Neighborhood representative, I guess you would say. Can you please get with David Kyle?
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Over here get your will get your information will be in contact.
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And, umm.