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The Milford City Council met on December 8, 2025, at 6:00 PM to conduct its regular business. The agenda included public comments, departmental reports, a major subdivision vote, and approvals for a fiber optic network, a comprehensive plan update, and a land donation.
For December 8th, 2025 at 6 p.m. We will begin with the 15 minute public comment period. I'll let the uh solicitor uh briefly read the rules for that. Good evening, Mayor. Uh, there's there is a public comment period before the council meeting meeting in the city of Milford. The city is set aside 15 minutes for public comment. We allow three minutes per person if the mayor feels it is appropriate, he can extend that time. Anyone who has wished to speak should have signed up on the comment pad. We also check with anyone online. When your name is called, please come to the podium, give your name, address, and the topic which you wish to speak. It appears we have a couple of people signed up. Uh the first is uh Jennifer Feint. Good evening. Uh my name is Jennifer Feint. I live at 4330 Big Stone Beach Road. Um, I just have a general comment to both the citizens and the council. Um, so I've been to several city meetings, most of which have been over the past few months. Uh, I believe we have a true privilege to be present at these meetings and to be able to voice our opinions on the matters that are being um considered at hand. And as each person does so, we also have an obligation to conduct ourselves appropriately and give the speaker our respectful attention. At the last council meeting on November 24th, I was actually embarrassed to be a Milfordian due to the way that some of our fellow townspeople conducted themselves. As many of us sat quietly and listened, all I could hear was the glaringly immature behavior from a certain group of individuals sitting near the near near the rear of the room. Some were giving their play by play commentary of who is who, who they like, who they don't like, pumping up the next person who is going to go speak to the cause, cheering and jeering, just as the city solicitor had explicitly said not to. People making untruthful statements here at this podium, somebody complaining he got 40 extra seconds. I should get 40 extra seconds, things like that. On more than one occasion, someone's cell phone notification went off audibly. At one point, someone who was teeing up their little new cat newscaster video to play during their time at the podium, played that out loud while the meeting was going on. At one point, one gentleman even answered his cell phone to tell the caller more than once, sorry, I'm gonna have to call you back later. It felt more like sitting in the back of a middle school math class with the immature behavior on display than a professional business meeting. Lastly, and probably most concerning to me was the woman on Zoom who interrupted the councilwoman as she was leading the room in a moment of prayer to interject her criticism of the work that the council is trying to do. I was dumbfounded at the shameful and flippant behavior I witnessed and the blatant lack of respect and professionalism. And it was quite ironic considering that some of these folks were present to talk about um complaining that our some of our appointed or elected officials can't properly conduct a business meeting when they can't even properly behave during one. These are life-changing and community-shaping decisions being made at these meetings, and I encourage everyone to give these meetings the respect that they deserve. And unlike some, I'm not going to bring forth a criticism or concern without also bringing forth a solution. You know, if we have a potentially controversial or a large crowd draw type of topic, do we need to maybe ask the chief to bring forth a uniformed officer to sit in the public area of the chambers? Just as a reminder for people to conduct themselves appropriately. Lastly, I would also suggest a large countdown timer. You can put one right up on the screen. And as soon as somebody starts speaking at the podium, as soon as they open their mouth, start the timer so there's no more accusations of he got X number of seconds more than me and those types of things. Um I just really believe that we as a town and as a citizens can do better. Thank you. Thank you. Uh the next uh name on the list is Matt Feint. Good evening.