The committee met on October 1, 2025, but lacked a quorum. As a result, no formal business was conducted. The meeting proceeded directly to public comment, where eight individuals spoke (including one in-person and seven virtually). After all comments, the committee recessed to await a quorum.
Thank you, Madam Clerk. And seeing no quorum, we will go into public comment. Each member of the public will have two minutes for public comment. We ask you to state your name for the record and proceed. We have one individual joining us here in the committee of the whole for my understanding. Okay. We'll go directly to virtual public comment. Good afternoon, Mr. Payne. How many callers do we have? Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. We have 10 public commenters today. Okay, we are getting ready to close public comment off. Public comment going once. Public comment going twice. Public comment going three times. Public comment is now closed. And uh we'll go back to Mr. Smith, who is here in public joining us here in the committee of the whole. Sorry, you have two minutes for public comment. I ask that you state your name for the record and then proceed. Good afternoon. My name is Jadante Smith. Um I'm sorry I did not get a chance to read uh the agenda before I begin to make my comment. Um I do see a couple line items in here about LPD and resolutions for not resolutions, but uh I'm sorry, for the status of different things LPD is addressing, but I want to address something that's maybe a little bit unrelated. I want to address uh district three and specifically the I'm maybe off topic for this specific subcommittee, I understand that, but district three and the amount of fugitive dust that we have um around the Cronos Conquer facility. I submitted a uh a very descriptive video to the fugitive dust email, and I got Chromos Conquer facility located 3405 Gaylord a ticket for this uh fugitive dust. There was a man standing at a bus stop on Conit and uh McNichols, which is six mile, in the middle of a dust storm, and testified was sent a sentence sworn statement, got got the statement uh notarized, and the date of the the uh the the day of the court date for the the ticket, the ticket was dismissed due to a consent agreement, which I feel like the city is helping this this company who is somewhat grandfathered in and their property who is destroying the community through dust. People are breathing in this fugitive dust. People are having to live with this dust coating your homes, coating their vehicles, coating their lungs, and they breathe it in. And I feel like uh council member Scott Benson has been of no help, he's been of no assistance. I reached out to his office, he refuses to meet with his constituent who he calls his bosses. He's personally attacked me. He is sending his staff to businesses in the area to tell them not to work with me or the coalition, which is very, very uh disheartening. That uh elected official that people put their public trust in to represent them is not fulfilling his duty as a public official and representing the best issues, the best interest of his his uh constituents. Um that means he's not on this subcommittee, he's not a part of this. I just want to make sure I got I got to be able to do that because I wasn't able to come to the committee of the whole yesterday. I was on the call, I got to the call too late and I was not able to speak, but I wanted to say that about Scott Benson. Meet with your constituents if you call him your bosses. Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Smith. Okay, Mr. Payne. Back to you. Uh 10 callers uh joining us virtually. Who was our first caller? Correction, Mr. Chairs, eight callers. Eight callers.