Brent Cagle
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
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I think like many things, the difficulty here is recognizing that many of these vendors are small businesses whose presence enhances their location.
And so we want them, we want to encourage them and enable them.
But on the other hand, some are genuinely bad actors.
They set up in a place that impairs a business or they create a nuisance or obstruction, they create a hazard in some cases.
So the question is how do we draw that bright line?
And that's the hard part.
I can hear both sides of the argument there.
I do think that from what CMPD has said that their ability to deal with the bad actors is improved if they have this criminal sanction possibility in their pocket.
Because otherwise people get fines and it's a business expense and they just stand there and basically stick their tongue out.
And I do think our officers
need to be able to perform their public safety function supported by
a genuine remedy if they are defied openly or if people just keep paying fines.
It's like some people park wherever they want and they don't care.
They keep getting tickets and they keep paying the tickets and it's just a cost of parking.
So personally, I guess we could start down a road without the criminal things and see how effective other things that we are doing can be and see if we can accomplish it that way
My personal view is that we would be better off giving the police something that they could fall back on in the event that they're dealing with one of those bad actors.
So I think in response to the manager's question, this was considered and voted out of committee.
Everything we've just talked about was part of that conversation.
Therefore, the next step is that something goes on the agenda for council action, and we'd use that opportunity for the full council and not just the members of the committee to participate in the conversation.
I don't know what is going to be different if the committee sees it again, because everything we just talked about was part of the committee conversation the first time.
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