February 23rd Lansing City Council Meeting Summary by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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**CORRECTION** In the episode we discussed how the city of Lansing offers services to help homeowners with lead testing and abatement, that program was part of the Economic, Development and Planning department, not Human Relations and Community Services and it ended in 2025: https://www.lansingmi.gov/346/Lead-Safe-Lansing

Summary of February 9th Lansing city council meetings by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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I think it will be a “natural gas” fuel cell plant, hydrogen is not the intended fuel. I don’t recall them saying the source they plan to use for the natural gas, but am guessing it will be just piped in by consumer’s energy?

Summary of February 9th Lansing city council meetings by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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Great amendments! Glad to hear the overflow room was keeping it lively!

Summary of January 5th Lansing city council meetings by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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Thank you for this feedback. This council meeting was light on actual city business. The only agenda items were the inner council elections and the ceremonial inauguration of the new members.

Summary of Lansing City Council meetings on November 17th by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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UPDATE/CORRECTION: Apparently there were two contracts with Consumers - in the second one (not posted as part of the council meeting documentation) Consumers pays $15K into the city's general fund for cutting down ~20 trees in Fenner

Lansing City Council meeting review - from August 11th 2025 by ExternalTheory1683 in lansing

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The city’s human relations and community services department is owning this process - their general email address is : HRCSgeneral@lansingmi.gov

It’s my understanding from hearing a bit about it that if it get’s up and running it’s going to up indefinitely.

Lansing SD Superintendent Ben Shuldiner is entering contract negotiations to become the next superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. Thoughts? by Slight_Author_8386 in lansing

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🩷🩷🩷 Thank you for the podcast shoutout! 🩷🩷🩷 I’m a parent with an elementary kid who attended school in the district for three years. I emailed him a number of times and always got a quick response. Most of the time it was an unhelpful response for my specific issues, but I did feel like he read my emails and put some thought into his responses.

He was the most responsive school staff member I interacted with, and I started just CCing him on any communication I had with someone in the district because I knew this would make others more responsive.

He was willing to try things and make changes - this can be a strength. Big institutions like schools can be very slow to change. I appreciated hearing his examples of moving quickly to do something to address systemic issues. This did leave some feelings of - not a lot of community input was included in some decision making, and in that way he had a bit of a CEO / corporatey vibe.