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MINUTES OF THE <br /> ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> JANUARY 23,2023 <br /> 6:00 o'clock p.m. <br /> have a problem with mask mandates. What I have a problem with is when people like you and he start <br /> comparing them to the Holocaust. Okay,are we clear on this?Are we clear on this yet?This is one of the <br /> protests he was at. He wants to sit up here and throw me under the bus and call me a clown. Let's see <br /> here. Oh, shit. Little Red Riding Hood.Look there. There's your boy. That's him at the Capitol steps. <br /> Look how close his feet are to the steps, shit they are right there. Is that why they call him Capitol Steps <br /> Crosby?Where was he on January 6,I wonder, 2021? <br /> Walsh stated you can speak to the council. Speak to the council sir.Public comments are for the council. <br /> Mr.Erickson(turning to someone in the audience)asked are you Mr. Williams by the way?Is that you? <br /> You look like him. I understand you guys don't think it was a big deal,this January 6 bullshit.But it is a <br /> big deal. And he was there.And I know he was there. He knows he was there. When is he gonna start <br /> talking about it?Him and his tactical gear,bullshit weapons on his hip and shit. There he is some more. <br /> What's this Proud Boys shit? Some new Proud Boys shit now. Donate to their GoFundMe page.Mr. <br /> Crosby, look,he's standing right here taking pictures. Crowd funding for the Proud Boys.Right here in <br /> our city. What's this down here? Sorry, Connie, I had to link on Parler. Oh shit. Those sound like names <br /> that I'm familiar with. Aren't we all by now?He likes them on Parler. Look.He looks like a founding <br /> member. This is the new stuff--46 following the Minnesota Proud Boys. He's one of them. Crosby, <br /> Richard, Orono. Go figure,we are the Minnesota chapter of the greatest group in the US. Is that where <br /> we're at here at Orono?Are you part of this shit,Mr. Walsh?Because I think you are.I think you all <br /> know exactly what the hell's going on up here. There's so much I got some pictures on my phone that the <br /> FBI will be looking at. Okay. He was out there taking selfies on the steps of the Capitol in DC. <br /> Walsh said your three minutes are up.Your circus is over.You can sit down, sir. <br /> Mr. Erickson said this is the damn circus and you brought it here.Right here.I'll leave that for you. <br /> Follow your leader. Comparing our governor to Adolf Hitler,Fidel Castro, Mussolini,Pol Pot,Idi Ahmin, <br /> Hussein. What the hell's going on? <br /> Walsh said your circus is over. Sit down. He asked if there was anyone else for public comments.Hearing <br /> none,I'll bring it back to the council. <br /> MAYOR/COUNCIL REPORT <br /> Benson said she wanted to address something that happened at the January 9 meeting,my first meeting as <br /> a city council member here in Orono. Our city attorney Mr. Mattick touched on it early in the meeting-- <br /> abstention.I just want to talk about that a little bit. Because it matters how I vote, it matters what the <br /> perception is about my votes.And it matters how the record reflects my votes as a council member.And <br /> that's true for everybody sitting up here. The issue at hand at that meeting was the $192,000 refurbishing <br /> of a used ladder truck that Orono had purchased in December of last year.And it was my intention to <br /> abstain from that vote authorizing that purchase,because it was not an insignificant amount of money. <br /> and I did not feel at the time that I had enough information,being that it was my first meeting,being that I <br /> had not been a part of those negotiations, and being that there were and are a lot of questions around the <br /> expenditures of this fire department from the public. I did not feel that I had enough time at that meeting <br /> Page 8 of 12 <br />