Public forum speaker urges council to restart mayor's disability council and hold district town halls

At the public forum, Vivian Scheip urged the city council to take interim action while a promised mayor's council on disability issues remains delayed. Scheip said the mayor had told disabled community members the council would resume by July but the timeline slipped to 2027; she proposed that each council member hold a district town hall with disabled constituents, gather names of those willing to serve, and forward them to the mayor to expedite the council's reconstitution.

"Each of you on this council is our quasi mayor," Scheip told members, urging councilmembers to listen to district-level concerns, compile monthly reports on unresolved issues, and share them with the body to identify trends. Scheip asked council to treat constituent engagement as an immediate tool while waiting for the mayoral process to move forward.