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Residents urge council to restore transparency and change vegetation‑management spending
Summary
Public commenters pressed the council to revisit recent lobbyist‑ordinance amendments, improve budget backup for consulting contracts, and restrain vegetation‑management contracts and creek stabilization projects that they say damage habitat.
Several residents told the council on April 9 that recent agenda decisions have eroded public trust and that the city should improve transparency and oversight in contract and environmental work.
"Taxpayers deserve representation and our government exists to serve us first and foremost," said Jen Robicheaux, who urged council to revisit amendments to the lobbyist ordinance and to publish community‑engagement tracking so residents…
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