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Common Council Meeting January 2nd, 2026

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15:09

I've had some discussions with my colleagues here on this. We all seen what we did during the budget season. We all agree that I think, you know, if there's a— I've been in favor of the committee system from the beginning, and we never had the votes to pass it. I think that when we've seen how it worked, I think everybody kind of agrees that you should have some sort of a committee system. That's just my opinion. And the other thing is I know there was talk that— I don't know if it was amended before in these rules. I would like to make sure that we don't have where there has to be a piece of legislation before we could call a meeting, because, I mean, I— not that I got burned, but a couple of times I just wanted to have a meeting and I took, you know, something from Herkimer on the homeless and different stuff, and it comes out that I you know, was all in favor of that when I just wanted to have a meeting to see what we could do, um, to try to fix it. So is, is that in these rules? Because that's one thing I would like amended about— we can have a meeting at any time that doesn't have to have— it doesn't— you don't have to have legislation and committee to call a meeting.

16:39

Okay, well, I mean, we can— we have a meeting on Wednesday. Let's call a 5 o'clock meeting on Wednesday. Or, I mean, we could— I don't know, we can kind of discuss it tonight too, I mean, I guess. But whatever you guys want, I'm good with. But there's a couple important things. You shouldn't have to have legislation in committee to call a meeting to to discuss a topic.

34:39

yeah, well, this is in committee to go over this.

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

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48:42

Yeah, but aren't you at the committee meeting?

48:45

Yes. Right, but at the committee meeting, aren't you also going to discuss ordinance 2 from 2/9/26, ski rates?

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

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3:08:19

Mr. President, I'd like to pull proposed ordinance number 7 out of committee.

3:13:31

Why don't we do it on the week that we don't— the week that the original council meeting was going to be. We can have a committee.

Common Council Meeting January 21st, 2026

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38:27

Yes. Um, so this is kind of the same type, um, esthetics. Thank you. Just a different type deal. So same type. Uh, I know Councilman Betar has same problem. We've talked about it. This is basically for people who just fill their front yards with— I don't want to say garbage or debris. I'll give you an example. People have garage sale and they have a ton of stuff, and the stuff doesn't go away, and they just move it to their front yard. And it's, you know, I don't want to use the word garbage or trash, but it's just a nuisance to the neighbors who keep their properties in good order. And when we send codes there, I mean, I could send you— if we, uh, you know, if we do have to have a committee meeting, I will bring you pictures in. But, um, it's just, it's just something that it's very uncomfortable to the people who live around that, that have to see that. All the time. And again, I'll let Marques speak on that. And listen, the reason of these two pieces of ordinance, the reason I have them is when I call codes and they agree with me 100% when they go and see the issues, but they tell me there's nothing in the law that they can do to help out. So that's why I've got with Marques and, um, came up with something.