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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting June 17th, 2026

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3:39:08

That's why I made it like that. I knew this room was split and divided on flag raisings. This is just to honor Juneteenth and Utica's place in it. Of course, I don't— I wouldn't vote for that amendment because you can't cancel like City expression for one of these. That's why it doesn't make sense to me. Um, it's, it's, it is already— I think the judge already touched on this— this is already a federal holiday. The city already recognizes, uh, federal, uh, federal expression and, uh, federal flags at that. So it just, it wouldn't— you can try and say this one legislation doesn't have any effect, but it's just about the proclamation. It's not that deep. Councilman?

46:50

Yeah, it's Councilwoman Betrus speaking. Thank you. Uh, so yeah, I don't feel comfortable. I've said this before, I want the actual fees of what everything already is, and then the council can establish those officially. I don't want to say replace those fees with current rates established by the Parks and Recreation Department because that is giving up our powers from the council to the executive branch, and that's not what we're here to do. So otherwise, I'm I think we're going to be agreeing on a lot of these. So if we can just maintain—

54:28

So having an application process as is, which is what we already had before this moment, which is We had the application. It's not an application process, it's confirming, it's just submitting the request.

Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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39:24

Okay, so we, we already don't.

Common Council Meeting January 21st, 2026

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1:49:25

And, um, Mr. President, would we, uh, call for a committee meeting meeting for February 4th at 5 PM. Oh, you already did?