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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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Unidentified speaker 52:08
So, I mean, we've said before that we had some issues with the ordinance that the Council passed, just as it relates to kind of that last portion of the application process. I mean, if you want me to go through the entire memo, I will. But with respect to the actual application process as it exists now. There has not been a new process that's been changed in accordance with the ordinance that the Council just passed. So as you can see, we just recently got several requests for a flag raising. You can see based on the applications that we haven't gotten them 3 or 4 weeks in advance. And there's a number of questions of whether or not proclamations, you know, the process as far as— [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Chicken and the egg, the, you know, all of these things need to come before, and then you're kind of basically having an application process for really just the date and time of the flag raising. Because my read of the ordinance as proposed and as adopted, there's only 3 ways that an ordinance— or excuse me, that a flag can be raised. So having this application process is a little bit redundant. And again, it creates—
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.
1:29:09
Again, the only issue that I'm asking is that if this ties to the flag raising in regards to this, how could the city fulfill it and what obligation do we have as a city once this proclamation is passed as far as the application goes through, if there's anything else that the council needs to do? Do, because again, this just came before us today, and I, I just, again, like the last proclamation that we passed, I want to make sure that we're consistent on what we do, um, as far as that goes.
3:38:16
The only thing I would offer— I would like to offer an amendment to the proclamation stating that it doesn't relate to the flag ordinance that we passed, and I think that that would make me feel more comfortable voting on the proclamation, that it doesn't tie it to the ordinance, and I would be okay with the proclamation. I mean, that's, that's all it comes down to. If the council doesn't feel okay to offer that motion, but I just don't want it tied to any flag that City Hall is not even open on Friday. And just if you can make a motion to say that it state that the proclamation has no correlation to the ordinance that the council passed, I would be okay with that. So I'd like to offer that motion.