The Common Council is meeting 08/03/2022 at 7PM.
Mayor Woodford will be presenting a couple proclamations. Other than that, there is no Business Presented by the Mayor which will be a change from the last Common Council meeting, much of which was taken up with the mayor’s business.
One never knows exactly what agenda items will be separated out for individual votes, but a few potential candidates spring to mind.
The first is, of course, Resolution 8-R-22 requesting to put an advisory referendum regarding marijuana legalization on the November ballot. This already has 7 co-sponsors and 2 non-cosponsors voted for it at the Safety and Licensing Committee meeting, so it’s essentially guaranteed to pass, but I would expect the alderpersons would like to talk about it some more, and Alderperson Sheri Hartzheim (District 13) will probably want to vote against it as she did at the Safety and Licensing Committee meeting.
Another possible item is the recommendation from the Parks and Recreation Committee to allow city staff and the Trout Museum of Art to hold discussions about the possibility of the Trout building a new museum on the grounds of the Ellen Kort Peace Park. This approval would only be to begin discussing it and it seems that there are multiple logistical issues that would have to be overcome were a museum to be built on the park, so approving discussion would not inherently mean that a museum would end up being constructed at that location.
The College Avenue North Plan was recommended for approval by the Community and Economic Development Committee. I wouldn’t expect it to garner a lot of discussion, but it’s possible some alderpersons might want to draw attention to it.
During the Finance Committee meeting, Alderperson Chad Doran (District 15) had suggested using American Recovery Plan Act funds to cover the purchase of a law enforcement mobile command center. That recommendation was not taken up, and I do not have the impression there is much support for such a move by the full Common Council; however, the item did receive a negative vote from one Finance Committee member and so might be separated out for further discussion.
Finally, the owner of a commercial property on South Oneida Street requested the waiver of the snow removal assessment he had received from the property. In the meeting it seemed that he was being assessed a fee for snow removal from his sidewalk even though the city was not actually removing the snow it purportedly was removing. The Municipal Services Committee voted to uphold the assessment, but the vote was not unanimous. If the property owner shows up to the Common Council meeting to plead his case again, it would be separated out.
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