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

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51:41

Let's discuss, let's have Mr. Giorgio discuss this flag raising ordinance, some of the issues with it as far as 3 weeks when you have to have permits in, different stuff like that that was sent out today.

7:55

Thank you. Um, so I don't know about all you guys. Well, I do know that some of you's got a lot of calls about dangerous trees that aren't on city property. They keep telling me over and over that Rome has an ordinance, why can't we do it? So I had Marcus print me Rome's ordinance. He talked to the Codes Department out in Rome. I talked to Councilperson, Commissioner Sokolowski about it. And what I want to do in this discussion is to touch on aspects why we can do this, if why we can't do it. Um, I, I also invited Parks Commissioner Short because he is our arborist, but it doesn't look like he's coming. I didn't hear back from him. So, um, I'll just open it up to, um, Marques, if you want to start. We worked on this, so you know more Sure. The positives, and then I'll let legal go in and discuss it and what Mark's done. What I could just tell you about this right off the bat, there's a couple good things that they do right off the bat. Obviously our tree department, I think, what do we have, 2 or 4 guys?

10:00

And then they also have a professional arborist, right, that can go and say if it's dangerous or not. This legislation, a lot of it opens up— their legislation, I don't know how they do it, but to me it opens up a lot of cans of worms for lawsuits for the city. But I just wanted to discuss all of it before I wrote a piece of legislation and it couldn't go anywhere. So I'll open it up to you, and then, Steph, you jump in. You guys all jump in.

47:32

July 1st, 5:00 to discuss these.

48:45

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

52:01

Are you familiar with what I'm talking about? Yeah. Would you like to discuss that?

1:03:01

Hold on, hold on, because I do want to say this. We're creeping, hold on, we're creeping into the 6 o'clock hour for our pre-meeting. Is there anything? Well, it does matter because we have legislation we have to discuss that's going to be either passed or not passed tonight. So it does matter. Councilman LoMedico, that is your— Councilman LoMedico, that is your 6 PM meeting. If you want to adjourn this one, we could pick up the 6 PM, go through our legislation that's on for tonight, and then if there's any time left, maybe we could pick this up. But we, we should stay on track.

1:05:11

Hold on, everyone, please. It's after 6 o'clock. We're getting deeper and deeper into the pre-meeting legislation that we have to discuss tonight. If we have time at the end of the 6 PM, I'll bring up the Councilwoman Betrus. Motion to adjourn, second?