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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 10,2023 6:00 o'clock p.m. PUBLIC COMMENTS Jay Nygard, 1386 Rest Point Road Orono,Minnesota,I think you guys are a bunch of frickin hypocrites. You're talking Earth Day,when you took away all penalties for trees being cut down in the zero to 75 with your ordinances.How about reinstating the ordinance to protect the lake instead of having little Earth Day conversations and pretending that you're doing something important?Nygard said Edwards had lied repeatedly on Nygard's You Tube stream that morning. Mr.Edwards made three different lies today.First lie,he stated that the City of Orono is not representing Dennis Walsh.But I have,right here, a notice of appearance from a lawyer. He said the notice certifies that an attorney will appear for Dennis Walsh,resident.A second lawyer also notified the court that he would appear for Dennis Walsh,resident, according to Nygard.You said I should get a lawyer because I don't know what I'm talking about.Here's the paperwork. These are two of them.Here's number three.The defendants City of Orono and Dennis Walsh, Orono Mayor in his individual and official capacity. So right here the City of Orono answered for Walsh.The same for Dennis Walsh's private business dealings. This is your tax money these guys are happily shoveling out the door to protect Walsh. This is your money and my money.I'm paying taxes for him to defend himself against me. And the last lie you said today,Mr.Edwards,was that I had never won against the City of Orono.He said in a lawsuit he had specifically won the right for everybody who lives in Orono to harvest the wind. Orono did not appeal that.Yes,I won.The unfortunate part is it appears that you haven't read this at all and I like how you're smirking and smiling,I really do,because it goes to show your character. Brad Erickson,2485 Independence Road. It's unfortunate.Mr. Crosby is not here again tonight.Really, really weird.If he's not fit for the office,then maybe he should just bow out. I want to bring everybody's attention back to what started over a year ago or about a year ago now.I've been coming up here.I've been telling you what's going on. He said he did an FOIA(Freedom of Information Act)request and found that Walsh had been informed about Crosby's association with the Proud Boys by early 2021.He said he just saw a pic posted on Twitter going after an Orono City Council member.Before this blows up, get ahead of it. They are young punk keyboard terrorists. I don't know your City Council Member that they are targeting,but I'm pretty certain he's neither a racist or a white supremacist. You know what?I'm pretty certain he is.You can sit there and smirk all you want and act like you guys are complicit.You know it.There's a lawsuit coming in,it names the City again,because of this clown in the middle. Okay, he wants to go after me. Here's what I would suggest.If you're going to throw shade at somebody,you probably shouldn't use the words of a slave master and child rapist.Does that make any sense to anybody up here?I don't think so. These are your heroes.These are the people you want to emulate. Mr. Crosby comes back from J6. There's an email that goes out from Ron(Olson)here that says you may be contacted by an outside group asking questions about Council Member Crosby.Please do not comment or answer questions. That's what was going on after the J6 stuff.Nobody thinks it's a big deal. Dave Williams, 2055 Webber Hills Road.I got dragged into the sewer when I was here last month,so I apologize for that. But I do want to say that about 10 years ago I was thinking about moving to Minneapolis because I had grown up near there and going to the U and my child had graduated from Orono and I figured it was time maybe to move on.But I'm so glad I did not move to Minneapolis, because I don't think that place is ever coming back.And I'm very glad to be in Orono because of people Page 6 of 8