Statements by David L. Anderson
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Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
You have a
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You are. You have a Okay. You have a
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wonderful day, and we thank you so much for your time.
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Bye.
Play from 1:07:13Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
All right. Now, we will since we have somebody offline, we will go around the table and just uh get the first level of thoughts that people have. And uh start with Councilman Rocha.
Play from 1:07:15Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Which they developed over time.
Play from 1:07:43Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Absolutely.
Play from 1:08:26Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Absolutely. Thank you, Councilman. Ms. Maucher?
Play from 1:08:37Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
It's okay.
Play from 1:08:43Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
That's good. And thank you for being here.
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Councilman Lewis.
Play from 1:08:54Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
All right. The uh uh Mr. Harbeck?
Play from 1:10:01Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
That's fine. And that's and that's our part of uh what we're looking for is to understand what why to give people a show how it works,
Play from 1:10:14Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
what it is, how it works, then we can talk about what it can be uh for us, how it could be funded, things like that, and and then we we would talk about
Play from 1:10:25Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
what type of jurisdiction is needed. And then once we were to settle on that, we would put that in the charter change resolution to the General Assembly. Um, a lot of it would obviously mirror Newark, but we would
Play from 1:10:39Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
There are things that we may want to see that that's not an issue over there, and things that, you know, and we we would adjust. And then after we uh then after we The big part that I would see is setting up the the jurisdiction and what we would want.
Play from 1:10:56Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
And then after that, it would uh go to the General Assembly, they would approve the authority. Then we would have to come back after the authority is approved, and we would uh uh well, not necessarily this committee, but I'm saying, but
Play from 1:11:11Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
uh budgets. I mean, we we may, like council said, we may start out like in a city hall uh situation, and but we'd have to but we'd have to set something up. We may have to uh
Play from 1:11:43Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
we may have to look into a a bond issue to rehabilitate uh for a building. We may just rent a place uh which would come out of the revenues of the court. You know, in other words, it what we would have to look at all of the
Play from 1:11:58Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
different options, set that up, and then we would we we would all would have to get our judges uh approved, our our aldermen, you know, they would we they would be nominated like uh by the city, but then the
Play from 1:12:14Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
governor ultimately would have to approve those choices, and nominate them, and then that nomination would have to be approved by the state Senate. And so, depending upon the cycle, um
Play from 1:12:28Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
you know, it you know, like if like if they approved it in, let's say, May, and we didn't get it set up till October, we couldn't probably couldn't get an alderman approved till at least January.
Play from 1:12:45Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
I'm just giving a scenario.
Play from 1:13:01Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Yeah, a year and a Right, a year and a half probably. It could. It could.
Play from 1:13:06Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
I've seen that. I've seen that. Yeah. If they're going to have somebody else, they may add that. Because I've seen them do other judges like in weird times, like in November.
Play from 1:13:23Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Absolutely, we can. And uh now, it's going to be up to them how much they want to give us of their time, of course.
Play from 1:14:03Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
But uh but I think uh doing a second uh or a third even. Yeah. I don't know that we need to do all six, but
Play from 1:14:12Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
But but that's the But the the committee will Yeah, I mean, obviously for the first uh meeting or two, I had to set the agenda, of course, but but the But this is a committee, and not a this isn't uh the chairman's show.
Play from 1:14:24Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
This is the committee, and the committee's going to determine what type of direction, what type of information it needs, and the committee And that that's why we're going around the table, because I want to hear what you think you're thinking, you're needing, and that's going to determine where we start going the next meeting.
Play from 1:14:37Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
And the and so on, because you're going to drive this. I mean, somebody had to start it, of course. But but once we But now that we're getting going, you're going to drive this and uh as a committee uh to help determine what type of information you need so that you can uh
Play from 1:14:51Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
pull together the the valuable information. Um, oh, Council President, then Dr. Halpern.
Play from 1:15:06Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
He said she had a concern, not you.
Play from 1:15:51Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
And that would, of course, uh, help politically as well. Um, and if we, uh, I think that's talking with, uh, the JP court, maybe something on a future agenda to get their perspective. Um, I think that's a very, very good point, gentlemen. Thank you. Uh, thank you very much.
Play from 1:38:53Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Now, let's have public uh, uh, comment. If we only have one member of the public, the floor is yours, sir.
Play from 1:39:14Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Yes, yes. And um, it's Mr. Faust, yeah, for the record.
Play from 1:40:05Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Well, thank you. Um, now next we have somebody online. Uh, Dawn, uh, did you have anything you wanted to add?
Play from 1:47:12Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Thank you. Didn't want to ignore you because you're over on online and I hope you enjoy your vacation. Thanks for thanks for taking time out of your vacation to join us.
Play from 1:47:30Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
I don't disagree. Uh, I don't disagree with that at all. I mean, obviously, if we don't start today, 2 years from now we're going to be saying, man, I wish we did something 2 years ago, we could have been rolling. So we we need to start today. Um, I'd like to have started a year ago, but we we're not there, we have to start today. But but you're right. You're 100% right. And um, and uh you're a person who's offered solutions, and we're going to keep talking. Uh, is there no other business? Uh, we have a public com uh Representative?
Play from 1:49:01Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Play from 1:52:36Jul 21, 2026, Alderman's Court Ad Hoc Meeting
Well, and the answer is
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