get started.

Uh hello everyone.

Thank you for everybody attending both in person online.

So at this time I'm going to call to order this meeting of the legislative and rules committee of the board of representatives at 7 o'clock p.m February 24th, 2026.

I make note that representatives Camp Rally, Blank, Boudreau, Lepine, Weinberg, and myself are in attendance.

If there are any other voting members of the committee that I haven't recognized, please definitely speak up.

Looking and seeing there we go.

And Representative Hyatt, see you there.

You should Ms.

Montalvo, if you can help me move representative Hyatt as a panelist, that'll be very helpful.

All right.

Thank you very much.

All righty.

So seeing that we have eight members of the committee in attendance.

I find that we have a quorum.

So we'll proceed with the meeting.

And I don't see any explanation.

Oh geez.

How do you pronounce your last name?

Alicia.

Politia.

Alicia Politia.

So we also have Representative Police in attendance as well.

All right.

So with that being said, uh let's move on to the first item of the agenda that's going to be LR 32.004 an amendment to excuse me an ordinance amending section 214-32 of the code of ordinances to allow the city to accept a private road by only requiring a petition signed by no less than two thirds of its owner submitted by representative Weinberg I understand that a public hearing was approved for this and scheduled for this meeting.

So at this time we're going to recognize our first speaker who was signed up first to speak it's going to be uh missing a little nervous all right I am a resident of a private road in North Stanford and appreciate the opportunity to speak in favor of LR32.004 an amendment to section 214-32 of the code of ordinances to reduce the signature requirement to two thirds of property owners in about October of 22 the Stanford legal department reviewed this ordinance on the required signature threshold for city's petition process for private road acceptance and determined that 100% of property owner signatures would be required.

Previously the standard was a simple majority of 50% and as far as I could tell this has been the standard since about the early 1960s.

In March of 2025 my neighbors and I submitted a petition requesting acceptance of a private road over 86% of the residents endorsed this petition while the remaining voters abstained due to concerns about potential costs of upgrading the road to meet requirements.

Without an accepted petition we are unable to initiate a meaningful dialogue with city engineering to establish the assessment yeah the sound came up okay I have somebody who says they can't get in where'd my meeting go I just had it.

Ms Montalvo if you could please mute sorry okay um without an accept wait where did I leave on guys okay um without an accepted petition we are unable to initiate a meaningful dialogue with city engineering to establish the essential baseline of requirements and standards needed to proceed with contracting the work.

By approving this reduction in the ordinance signature requirements to two thirds you will enable the majority of supportive property owners to take decisive action confidently shape the future of the road drive meaningful process progress and a lasting positive change.

We respectfully request permission to move forward with identifying the necessary steps to ensure full compliance with the city of Stanford's regulations.

Thank you so much for this opportunity and we appreciate your consideration.

Thank you Miss Hay and next up we've got a Mr Adam Mann sure if you're on the call but if you are please indicate yourself by raising your hand I see you man I think I've enabled you to speak yes there we go.

So I don't want to go over all the numbers again because I can't remember them off the top of my head, but the petition for the two-thirds vote of acceptance of a private road to get the as Kathy had mentioned to get the accurate costs and updates and everything needed.

I think that would be great.

Um not only dishonest, it's tough to get in touch with some people, and response is not always 100%.

At least we can get an idea of what the city would require of us to upgrade the street to their standards for acceptance.

I just wanted to speak in favor of it.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Mann.

Appreciate your comments.

Of course.

And next up we have an apologies.

I didn't ask you.

Christine Johnson.

Christine Johnson.

Yeah, you've got four.

I'm gonna just kind of toss something out to all of you.

As a small group, when you vote on something, do you need a majority or just a certain quorum, right?

So we're a small group on our road.

And we can't always get everybody to agree 100%.

Kind of like, you know, what you all go through when you have something that you want to vote on.

And all we're asking is for you all to think of us, you know, kind of with the same standards that you hold for yourselves when you're having a meeting when something is tabled and voted on.

We can't all agree, but the betterment of our road is important to all of us.

And it's I've been a resident of Stanford for 15 years.

Love living in North Stanford, love living on Pembroke Drive, and we want to move forward and make it beautiful.

And some people are just as Adam said, they abstain, they don't come to the meetings, we can't get them to sign.

And like any small group we just it would be great if we didn't have to have a hundred percent.

That would be the betterment of all of us.