How
much roster prior to or during the meeting?
When called?
Approach the microphone and state your name, home address and city of residence.
The speaker may address the council for three minutes.
Speaker shall refrain from entering into a
dialogue of council members or city staff and
making comments regarding the good name and character of any individual.
First is Austin Jones
on me,
-- the -- Jones
-- and address is a -- machine
between either that of army and the democratic socialists of America,
not without
them,
you
know, uh
County
mo
a
socialist.
Anyway,
I
saw
a quote from Benjamin and Mare
which she said regarding the attack on the United States on September 11th.
And I quote,
it's very good.
It's very good that thousands of Americans are.
It's very good that tens of thousands of Athans
are. It's very good that thousands of Pakistanis
are.
It's very good that millions of Iraqis
are.
And I'm sure as the sun does shine
that he
thinks is very good that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have had.
No, I'm asleep,
murder this word.
And now by Netanyahu's own logic, it is very good that
Ashur Ai
and America
was murdered by the Israeli occupation force.
She is
out of the foolish
American murdered by the Israeli government
but
fire another American eye as a
hostage, which said God
who could have gotten released from captivity.
But he prefers the Hannibal directed
when they
were hostages.
You will sacrifice them all because it's very good,
just like the dozens of other Americans do under Netanyahu's regime.
Ask yourself, is it very good?
Good that our words here tonight are unilaterally censored?
Is it very good that you all pass a resolution that supports genocide?
You find comfort in an allyship with a regime that attacked the US S liberty in 1967
where all the documented cases are spying on Americans and the theft
of national secrets which puts still today our national security at risk.
What is good love
is Lady Liberty. Good.
Is the constitution good.
Is the first amendment good.
We the people, all the ones alive
that live here and all the ones that lay and rest at places like Arlington
demand that you read, say, show the public comments to the public
in line with the first amendment
and pass a resolution
in support of the Palestinian people
-- or is it very good that you sit on the constitution -- by you, Mr
John Americans.
Next is Rachel
Palak,
Mr President. If I might, would you be more comfortable sitting
-- miss on line? Would -- you be more comfortable
sitting?
-- I think we'll be ok for -- three minutes
if you know
Rachel,
I'm
in
Madison
City.
Um
sorry,
it
took me
a while
here.
I
need
your
address.
So you if it's not on the list, we'll just be prepared to give it
Mr President.
If those are not gonna give their address,
did they at least give their city of residence?
Yeah, I mean and
we just on speaker
-- again. Sorry, I -- usually do have a cord draw
but since
I'm
-- not -- just
for
ok,
so
yeah, hole
in here,
I had a really cool story about what happened to
him and
it says
um
stay with my friends.
Not that bad. Um has
a
great
um
story, you know, like
lung
in front of a train, see the to
-- that was wandering through, -- you know, the like
-- three track or so. I -- don't know,
I have to totally know how
people like that, but
now I just,
I
wanted
it so
whatever, you know,
but, you know,
people always do
all
things, you know, like you're free and stuff
and help
your book
is
a
so
I, I,
and
sometimes there's certain censorship going on. Um
I just want to make sure that
kids don't have access to tutorials that they shouldn't access to
and that's just
age
requirements and stuff
for other museum movies, things like that.
Um So, you know,
locally
and stuff. So
I'm hoping you guys aren't gonna lie.
Um I
down to everything in the library.
Um right now. No,
compliance
with, uh, the model
that
we, uh,
set
into, um,
our
start
in July.
Uh, we have several,
several
and
for
you
that those at the library and the board has done that,
but there's still plenty that happens.
Why, why are you going to explain to the taxpayers that because of the non
-- compliance, it's gonna -- cost us over half of a million dollars each year.
-- $527,000 that we're -- gonna lose the state funding because we're non compliance.
We have done this all to get into compliance. So those
we were talking about like 20 books here
like 20
that just give
you
10
mothers like
so not asking for them to be removed from the library for asking them to be moved to
the A
section.
Um So
explain
to taxpayers
because
we make it make sense.
20 bucks
to Disney moves.
-- It's gonna cost us a half a million -- dollars a year.
Oh,
make any sense. It doesn't.
And it's not fair
to,
to have to pay for something
that is a simple solution that
we have safe policy that requires it.
So I'm trying to please,
if you're told you talk with your five library order numbers
and tell them please. This is
it
the
line,
not
all,
let's not lose our state
money.
Let's just get this, this going. Ok. This is, this is not long enough
it time.
So
please
make sure that you talk to them
and let's live this,
this fight that been going on? Ok,
thank
you.
Home
work.
Uh, next is
I think that the, the,
the knee is stopping.
I'm consulting. Can I address on the sheet? Is that ok?
-- Um, I'm -- gonna talk about sex
one year, limited section of the public libraries as well.
Um I thought
about the statement if you turn more into the
library board about a book called Sex Education.
I got it to life which is currently shelved in the adult section
where any child 12 and over can check it out without their parents knowing
I was in
a library board that I took careful consideration.
They decided to keep this book in the kids
-- section and I reached my three statements per -- year
-- limit -- and they won't be accepting any more statements for me.
This looks very crude,
but just like the last time I'm gonna do my best to be
critic because I know that there are rules against obscenities in these meetings.
And just like the last time I'm gonna point out the irony
of my having to do that considering what I'm here to discuss.
What are your objections to this library material?
It not only exposes,
it teaches Children to engage in behaviors that most parents
would be appalled by if they knew about it.
Here's a middle aged woman in this book, getting pointers for high school.
It's perfectly normal for a younger man to be sexually attracted to a mature woman.
In fact,
when you stigmatize his choice and you feed into an
unhealthy area on mass you living in middle age,
people
can see are dirty pots and great.
-- Send you all the time with yourself the material and -- that's not much,
but
-- there are hundreds of sexual -- fetishes,
including ones you've never even considered and
you are
to name them.
She did some set tips for teens like
-- sit quality -- time with yourself
in the tower and it started burning them
-- these days. You can -- bet your eyes on origin sex is a much more reliable
tone in a matter of seconds. Welcome to a live world with blood
in the digital age.
You
broadly in your hands like a volcano after
work.
And
here's the quote from the kids.
-- We've been -- holding
hands for 45 minutes. I know how to hold hands.
I'm here to learn a case
to be clear.
I don't want to have sex with you specifically just to be in the name of a penis.
-- I don't know if I can say -- this word.
We
don't have
to
worry
about
it.
I'll go
-- ahead and give you -- that.
OK.
Um I didn't
sit
with
myself all
night and I think my cli d might,
none of
it says happy a
like
a
also
on text,
whatever
detail this material
cause
I
uh
I
act
on this
kind of material you to an impressionable developing mind.
I'm
not
stigmatizing and for
older women was disturbing. How much more
can you get than that?
It is very glorified on this material. The
book interesting
and it said that all women that are describing,
explained in detail in this very book are against the law or
anybody under 18,
which is the books hard audience. So that's how
he,
I hope you enjoy having to cc
of these things and I know you guys don't enjoy hearing it.
But if our kids are getting exposed to it,
-- then the adults who are supposed to be protecting them have to -- talk
-- about -- it
and maybe
give this material.
-- Um If it feels -- good, do it, we'll teach you all kinds of ways of doing everything.
Go on your own.
Thank you.
-- Thank you. -- Miss the whole
thing.
-- Next is Sarah -- Coletti.
My name is Eric
Mardy.
I live
in
Morgan County. However,
Lawrenceville
is a part of me. I went to all of
high
school.
So
I
have an address. I live in Unincorporated
Morgan
County.
I
don't have
no
ma'am.
You don't have the
street
address
pretty much. We need your address and
was happening.
So if you're telling me because
I
know how
an address,
I know how to write of
diseases
in house.
I
need an address.
I'm sorry. Unless we wanna
change the
our rules paid, each speaker shall state their name home address and city address.
Can I see
the resident
is unincorporated M
county
where I live there is no visible address.
I
take
Laurens Road. It has
like,
you know,
that'd be perfect. It's in the record now. So the floor
here,
what
about how inaccessible
the city is,
how successful it is that our accessibility greed has someone
on it who doesn't know that ad A requires all city
functions to be available in their entirety to the public.
It's disgusting and embarrassing
and the people responsible to be ashamed of themselves.
Um I'd also like to say that
we could take our over a lot of issues and we would just build more apartments,
Naza
problems.
Uh We also have plenty of roads. We don't really need to be paying for more roads.
We need to be paying for public transit
and maximizing the effectiveness of the roads are already had.
And I wanna thank you Mr MEREDITH for the ways that you sold out
in favor of
Bruise.
And the first man
I do, I hate you, but I have to correct you.
You said that
when it was your meeting,
you didn't want people to tell you how to run it and you won't tell this little
iron business.
The fact is
these are not
little meetings.
Then whenever you read,
they are people meetings,
these meetings are for the poet
or the city concept,
the city, a lot of
what
happened
to
things
in their empire,
lets say, in order of use one,
but we can honor our
musicians
by getting justice for Jerry Parker and Jane.
So
since city leadership said that Jerry Parker was murdered according to the policy,
uh I was recently contacted by a man
who was brutalized by HPD versus we were born in H pe brutalizing somebody else.
Now,
real
cases on their record, which I don't care about.
The sort of I was raised to believe
the constitution is for everybody. It's not just for ransom people.
The constitution is to protect everybody
and
they and aware of the constitution exposed the tactic.
This hand will be beaten when he doesn't really know him.
So another man has to record it
and believe me, him,
they charged him for Franchising on public property
and for obstructing other operations, even though he followed all of the
officers instructions,
he followed all their lawful orders. He was still arrested
simply for using his source of memory rights.
And what would we need?
The city made it incredibly clear how little it found this person.
-- Thank you, -- Miss Clinton.
Next is Alex Pignon.
My name
and my address is on record. I reside in district three.
-- Um -- First, I do
want to thank Councilman MEREDITH.
Um I listened to the budget work session
that y'all had and I wanted to thank you in particular
for speaking up to the little guy mentioning the little,
the
little nonprofits and community orders that
um are really just grad a
lot basically by our pockets to try and
help the city, um where things otherwise get cut up in bureaucracy.
Um
I just wanted
the support for the food bank that you mentioned.
Um As far as the works, I could really use the support when we talk about
what the city needs um along with reliable
transportation and affordable housing. I mean, food
and security shouldn't happen.
It's certainly not in the largest, most prosperous city in the state.
Um
So I just wanted to thank you for that.
Um And I also want to mention to uh just put in there,
we budget. I know y'all are not starting that process but currently
all over the transit
affordable housing
if
you can't,
-- I it was -- mentioned that um house
doesn't need the federal threshold provider
to get a
grant money.
You can't put people on buses if they don't have jobs
to get to or homes to live in or you know,
a way to get to, you know, money for groceries or that sort of thing.
-- So I -- just,
there are few
issues
outside
-- the -- train,
trains that we so
are probably
super market housing and the
art people.
Um
I do also wanna echo the comments about uh the second roster, public comments.
Um
We have been told of course, we can record ourselves. So I am doing that. But
um
again, I really can't emphasize enough just how
really it reflects on our government if we don't want to be
transparent with the people for whom these meetings are supposed to be
for.
Um the whole point of the Sunshine Act Open Meetings Act is so
the public can engage and that should include this portion of the meeting.
Um And finally,
uh since it came up,
if you want to uh decide
analysis and um invite you to the library board meeting,
if there are concerns about how the library is operating,
what's going on with these reconciliation forms and the policies,
you can watch the board meetings online, they are reported.
But
um the next one is September 24th at four o'clock at the North
Hospital library.
Um and I'm sure, you know,
the board members would love to see you all there to um engage
with what's been happening since it's clearly coming up over and over again.
Um And as a library professional, but not here on the laborer's behalf.
Um It is important to me that our officials understand
exactly what the public library is meant to do,
how we serve the public,
the whole public. Um
And um the slippery slope that these conversations about moving,
removing and rec categorizing books can take us if we aren't here for.
Yes,
-- Mike. Thank -- you.
And we are
done.
Oh, that was the last one. Ok.
Let me go ahead and finish.
Uh Yeah, we'll go ahead and finish.