The committee met on April 15, 2026, to address routine approvals, public comments, and a lengthy set of unfinished budget memos. Members moved most items to future meetings after discussing the process for posting responses and receiving administrative updates.
Present. Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Councilmember Mary Waters. Mr. Chair, you have a quorum present. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And that'll move us on to approval of the minutes. Members of the committee should have received the minutes. With that, is there a motion to approve? Motion. There's been a motion to approve. Seeing no objections, the minister stand approved. That will move us to chair remarks. So if you have not uh filed your taxes, um, please do so. Uh and also if you need to follow the extension, that is also uh tool available. So um, but please do get those taxes in. And with that, uh we'll move on to public comment. Well, open public comment requests for public comment will close at 10. Um, please limit your remarks to two minutes, and we'll start with those in the room. Seeing no one in the room for public comment at the moment, we'll move on to Zoom. Um, if you are joining us virtually, please use the raise hand function, and you will be called in order. And with that, who do we have with us joining us virtually? Yep, good afternoon, Mr. Chair. We have as of right now, four hands raised. Our first caller is William M. Davis. Commissioner Davis, good afternoon. You have two minutes. Uh good afternoon. Could have been heard. Yes, you may. Well, this probably doesn't really have a whole lot to do with your committee, but I'm over here in District 7. I just uh came back in so for your meeting, and there are a lot of streets over here flooded. Um the streets didn't used to flood as much before the bankruptcy. Yeah, I think y'all uh should have a closer look at what's going on and how they are operating the system because if the system was running efficiently, we wouldn't have so many streets flooding. But of course, also that depends on the catch basins, uh also depends on whether or not people are cleaning up in front of their uh house. You know, like I say the street, I sweep the area in front of my house. Uh we need to encourage more people to do that. Uh we should not be having so many streets flooding every time it rains, even though we did get a lot of rain. And I know I got woke up early this morning with that tornado alert, which was ooh, a little scary. But hopefully, I have a nice day, and hopefully y'all could have to generate more money and help to improve what's going on in the city and help to keep more of our dollars, more of our dollars in our city, because far too many of our dollars leave our city, and our surrounding communities don't have their dollars coming to us, so we should reduce the amount of dollars that's going on. I know sometimes you can't help it, but I think more could be done, and I think more jobs could be permanent jobs in the city instead of her and contractors so much. Thank you thank you, Commissioner Davis. And um, I'll I'll touch on the flooding in just a bit. So hang on the live for us for the end of public comment. Thank you. Um next speaker, Mr. Chair, next speaker is Renard Monchunski. Uh Renard, good afternoon.