Remarks by Aimee Kelley
62 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“No, we're going to do the proclamation. Sorry.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. I saw Allison in the audience. So I'll read the proclamation and then we'll come up. Whereas since 1981, Feeding South Florida has worked to end hunger in the city of Boynton Beach by providing our community in need with immediate access to nutritious food. And whereas hunger does not discriminate, it knows no race, religion, or age. In South Florida, approximately one million individuals face hunger. Food should not be an impossible choice for the community of the City of Boynton Beach. And whereas Feeding South Florida leads hunger and poverty advocacy efforts in our…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Commissioner Kelly? No, Mayor, I do not have any information.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Real quick, I don't know if you can answer this question or if the, I have, so my concerns of course go to where we're talking about hiring freezes. especially in public safety, where that has been one of our, as a commission, our focus has been on public safety and making sure that our community is safe. We have boots on the ground doing the work. And so I have concerns when we're talking about hiring freezes for not only this budget year, but moving into next budget year, Right now, we're sitting at... My understanding, we're sitting at six officers down from where we were. This…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, and then, I mean, are we, I know, are there positions that we're anticipating through this, the year that we will be down further where we're talking about having to make some shifts and some changes? I understand, I believe there's some people retiring. So do you have those numbers?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“No other comments? No. Thank you, Chief.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, just somebody who wants to speak later at a different item.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have a question on that end. So I'm looking at this and it doesn't indicate a separate fee for resident and non-resident when it comes to rentals of our properties. Is that because we don't typically rent to non-residents unless it's a commercial rental? Because this says resident rates, non-profit, private, commercial. do we only rent our facilities to residents, but there's different categories based on if it's a resident who owns a commercial or a resident that's coming for themselves or a resident who is renting it for a not-for-profit. So I guess because there isn't a resident rate…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I guess we can talk offline. In our schedule of fees, it doesn't break it down that there's a resident versus a non-resident. In this chart that we have, it just says resident rates. And so coming into this conversation, it doesn't look like there, which I'm sure is kind of how that came about, you know,”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, that's very confusing, so maybe we can think of a better way to do this so that it makes more sense. For a 64-page attachment, it would be helpful if it was... A little bit easier.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm not opposed to having the discussion about maybe doing a one-time. I think it encourages people to maybe use our facilities as opposed to going to their, or thinking outside of the box. So, you know, as a one time, like if they've never rented before, if they've never used our facilities as a one time, like, you know, giving a little bit more of a discount to kind of encourage usage of our facilities, I wouldn't be opposed to that, having that conversation. Okay.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, thank you guys. I know this is, I feel like for the last couple of years since we really started focusing on prioritizing the health of our water plants, we have had this conversation every year and I know the room is a little bit fuller tonight than it normally is when we have these conversations. I'm kind of glad that it is because I feel like these are important conversations to be having in front of a room full of residents. um our aging facilities have been neglected for years and years and years and when you're talking about not increasing the rates that's because all of…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Chief, can you briefly explain, because we do have, this is one of the benefits of this assessment and doing it as an assessment as opposed to a tax, is that there is also a hardship application that our residents can apply for if they truly have a hardship and it's anywhere from disabled veterans to meeting certain income qualifications. And so can you briefly, because I don't know that all of the residents really know that, and we have a good group of residents that can share this information with neighbors and other residents that they know. If you could just briefly go over the hardship…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right, so, and that's, it's on our website. Yep. And if you don't have access to the internet, call the city and we'll provide that. But it, I mean, there's a rate. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight different categories that you can potentially qualify for this benefit. So if you do truly have a need, and it's not just that you don't want to pay this assessment, I don't want to pay assessments, but I know that the reason why we have this assessment is for our fire services, which is important. Everyone talks about public safety and how they want the firefighters to…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, Mayor, there is a David Karasik online, and if he would unmute his computer and state his name for the record, he can begin. I'll let you know when you have 10 seconds remaining.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Mayor, there is nobody online for public comment.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Andrew, what was the day that you were, wasn't there a proposed?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Motion to move the November 3rd City Commission meeting to November the 5th. Second.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I just, I mean, second for discussion, I just, I mean, I understand tabling it once or twice, and we're, I guess, maybe hoping that applications will come in, but I just wonder, you know, we've been talking about these... I know, but we've been talking about needing people to, you know, serve on our advisory boards, and we encourage it, and it's been pushed out on social media, and I just, you know, there's people that are applying, and we're not appointing them, so I just... It's discouraging, I'm sure, when people apply that then they're not being appointed and it's being not…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Real quick, John, so we're changing our laws and ordinances because the state is now requiring us to permit manufactured homes in flood zones and so we are this is a cleanup we're cleaning up so that now we're complying with the state law because now the state law is telling us that we have to allow manufactured homes in flood zones even though it's probably not the smartest thing to do that is uh per house bill 803 And it has to meet all of our building codes, so you haven't preempted any of our local building codes and all of that, correct?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Super quick. And this is one of the suggestions I have is also looking at how we can modify or change something that's already in use and changing it into an art piece. like for instance, you were talking about the city hall and putting an art piece there for sitting. We have some nondescript kind of boring round bike racks, but there are some amazing art pieces that are bike racks. And so really looking at how we can maybe not necessarily add to what is there, although adding is great when there's not anything there, but what we can do to modify what's there to bring in are to make it just…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I have two pages worth of comments. Far more than... You brought it up on Thursday, so I came prepared to talk about it. No, and I think, you know... We, you know, you start going down this road and you start talking about, and there are amazing pros to this program. We've seen it. We've seen us solve crimes in days that took, you know, doing normal everyday police work or back in the day police work would have taken our officers months. if they even solve them, that we're putting people, getting people off the streets. We're also helping people. I think that's…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I think that's key that it's you have been in control of that data. And I think that's where the public and our concern is, is that once that data goes out to someone who is not our police department, then that's what raises that concern. And I think across the country, that's what's raised the concern is now Flock has access to... insane amounts of data. And so I know that we've had systems in place for many years and they've worked. It's rare if not very on probably one hand where you've had any instance or an even question about it, the security of that data. But it's that bridging…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Commissioner Kelly. Thank you, Mayor. Can I go last? Of course. Please. Thank you.”
Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I just, I wanted to kind of hijack this informational item to, first I'm going to ask if Chief Bruder would come up, because I think that we got some exciting news for our city, and I think that to give Chief Bruder an opportunity to kind of explain what this rating means to the city, what it means to our residents, and what it means to our fire department and the men and women who serve our city. So Chief, I'm excited to hear the news. So if you can explain to the members of the public and to the commission what this ISO rating means to us and the residents, I'd appreciate it.”
Commission · Aug 25, 2026