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

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

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3:15:41
Yes, I'd like to say my condolences to Melissa also. You know, the last couple council meetings, and we had a lot of speakers here on the FLOCK and the spot shooter and a couple council people, and people are pointing everything that they think is bad about it, okay? There's a lot of good things to it. There's a lot of agencies and towns that aren't going away with it. And it's a very, very good tool tool for victims. If you go on spotsafety.com, you'll see a girl that was kidnapped that was saved 3 blocks later that might have never came back to her family. I do see your concerns about the privacy, but each time these tools are used, they have item numbers put to them. People that use them have clearance to to use them. If they use them improperly, they are punished. Is it possible they use them improperly? Yes. But they will be punished. If you take these tools away from our police with the shortage of police we have, stores are going to be closing down. I already had one close in my area, Walgreens. I heard one of the landlords say that Dunkin' Donuts was closed because of crime. Our police need these tools for the criminals, for the victims. I don't hear anybody get up on that podium and say anything that was about the victims of these crimes, just of, oh, they might be misused. Well, that's why we put case numbers on every time it's used. So hopefully it's not misused. Let's weigh what it does to save people. And let's get on to do a little more homework on it than just how bad it is. We need it.
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?