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

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1:32:30

Can you ask Mr. Giorgio for clarification since the staff won't let me ask that question? Thank you. Mr. Giorgio, can you please, since we were cut off at the last pre-meeting, explain your position on how this proclamation correlates to the flag ordinance that was passed?

Unidentified speaker 17:46

Yeah, but if we're on private property, it's nothing like you or I taking down our own trees. The whole city is going to ask us to take their trees down.

Unidentified speaker 19:05

Hold on, hold on. Joe, you guys are talking about two different things. If we go and abate the tree, there's a specific, whatever the costs, whatever the abatement costs that we put in, we ask for as far as a court procedure, and then it gets put on the taxes. Or if you're talking about just a code violation, whatever the figure is for a violation, if you're violating a code, So if the code says you can't ride the scooter on the street and it's a $250 fine if you do it and you're found, um, guilty of that, then that's what that is. So if that's what you're talking about with respect to the trees, those are two totally different—

20:40

Can I ask a quick question Let me clarify some things. Did we not hire somebody to do a tree inventory on all the city-owned trees? Yeah, we've got—

43:25

All right, we can ask her to come in again. The next piece is an ordinance amending the fees. This is something that we've got to talk about from the beginning of the year. So again, if anybody has any recommendations that's other than free and they want to adjust this, I have no problem, but I still haven't gotten anything from any Councilperson.

44:00

In regards to what fees should be established and how many in the city meeting last year and voting that on roll call stuff. So maybe we can ask Mayor Galime I think we need to give some, a rundown on what the cost was and expected to see what we need to do with those costs. The next one is an ordinance amending Section 2-29-7 of the zoning code, and furthering battery energy storage systems. Do we have any update on that?

49:30

Yeah, but— and plus I want to ask Stephanie about the proclamation.

Unidentified speaker 54:55

So the mayor had a written policy that you could file an application for specific specific things for a flag-raising policy. The issue— and then that process, so they'd have the application, they'd ask for the date, there'd be a number of other things included as far as the flag-raising that would get approved by the mayor or not. As soon as you—