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The Milford City Council convened on March 2, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The meeting covered authorization of a downtown public restroom, multiple change orders for the Milford Corporate Center, appointments to city boards, and the introduction of a new ordinance. The council also recognized city employees for storm response and training.
Uh as with every council meeting, uh we have a 15 minute, three minute per person public comment period. We will go ahead and begin that now. Mike, do I have anybody on the list there? Nobody on the list. Is there anybody online that wants to speak? And we do have one person with their hand raised. Okay. I can't see it, so who is it? Oh, sorry, I was um unmuting. Uh Julie, go ahead. Hello, Julie Morris. 21142 Cedar Beach Urg. Um first. Good evening. Um the downtown public restroom that is on the agenda to be discussed about. Um there's a choice between two options. I just would like some clearer explanation regarding the operating plan, who's gonna clean it, who's gonna maintain it, how often. Um what are the annual operating costs for the utilities, repairs, upkeep? Um I'd like to hear any security plan, lighting, cameras, locking, how quickly the city's gonna respond if it's damaged or out of service. I'm very curious about this floodplain risk. Um it is in zone AE. So I'd like a clarification, and if I need to put in a FOIA, I can. Whether the restroom footprint is inside zone AE or outside of it and the distance, what's the base flood elevation of the structure, along with any required flood plan permitting documentations, um and any elevation certificate requirements? Um because if it's just gonna flood, why are we putting it here? Um I think that in talking to a lot of people in the community, most people don't understand why we're putting a bathroom here. Um the expenses don't seem to make sense um for it. I understand that there's been lots of grant money for it, but those grants could be allocated somewhere else. Um and then that's all for that. Um the other thing is the corporate center. The change orders, you know. I know this has come up before, and I know there's unexpected costs and things like that with big projects, but what are we doing to prevent these continued unexpected costs and where are we cutting elsewhere in the city, like the park on Rehoboth Boulevard? Like, why don't we back that up and take the money allocated from that budget and put it towards these things that are unexpected costs instead of continuing to spend on things we don't need right now, like this bathroom, whereas we can't stop the corporate center right now, but we've got we're bleeding everywhere else. Um I'm just not sure why we're just spending on these on these things we don't need really, honestly. Um the paving work how are we not confirming that that's not a duplicate thing that Dell Dot's doing for the other change order? Um my question about Julie, Julie. That three you used your three minutes. My three minutes are up. Well, I'll go ahead and email you the rest of my questions. Thank you. Anyone else online? Uh we have one more. Um, go ahead.