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Common Council Meeting January 2nd, 2026

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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.

5:17

Tonight's meeting is to discuss the organizational meeting.

16:30

And that's why I think you guys are going discuss all your concerns, you know, if you don't vote on it tonight.

17:35

I'm definitely in favor of like setting up a budget committee of 3 or 4 people to go to these department heads and get more information, then bringing us— bringing it to the rest of us. There's definitely 3 or 4 of us are very more knowledgeable about the budget than the rest of us. And I'm very in favor of them knowing them, bringing it back to us, and discussing with us, instead of bringing all these department heads in, and everybody just throwing questions at them. Let our 3 or 4 best budget people go there, and bring it back to us, and then we can discuss it.

19:03

Yeah, well, we obviously need to pass rules of order tonight. When I look at resolution number 5, that one is standing committees, and that would go back to a full committee structure. And that's one that I'd rather— either we could propose to go back to the rules of order of what they were originally. I don't see that one proposed here. I would like that, just to put everything in committee for us to fully discuss if we want subcommittees or what that looks like.