Remarks by Al Causey
84 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“OK. Now. Yeah. OK. That makes sense to me now. OK. Have you all ever, could you tell us the numbers that you guys calculate on cost per ride for the Sunrunner and the Suncoast trolley?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“they're part of that service. And so I guess your $7 number takes into account that's your cost to run the service. Is that right? So our cost would be how much we pay and then how many riders come or leave our city. And so we would divide out what we pay into like what we think our ridership is that actually goes to the county park or to the stop for the Suncoast trolley.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So to separate out cost for a ride, we're really just talking about the Suncoast trolley. We're talking about the trolley and the access. And the access. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. All right. I just want to do some more math here.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So since the now the Sunrunner coming here doesn't give us the beach the access services it's the Suncoast trolley contract that allows us to have those services is that the way I'm understanding that.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, yeah, I'll go ahead because I wanted to, that was well put, Commissioner Marriott. So as far as the PSTA service goes, I'm wondering, since we're trying to look for cuts in our budget right now, what if we gave them a limit of a half of that, or say 100,000, and asked for what level of service could be provided to us at 100,000? Instead of the two hundred and forty two thousand and that way we would perhaps decrease or maybe we wouldn't decrease our ridership and Then we would also retain the access service. So we would basically be saying what can you? What service can we get for half…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, okay. Well, I think my recommendation then would be to see what level of service we could get for $100,000 from the PSTA. And that would also include the access that we have now. I don't think we've talked about microtransit enough, really, to make a statement on that. I know I get letters from people that say they use it all the time and they want to keep it, but I also have letters from people who think that we should cut it from our budget. And I think Commissioner Marriott's points about alternatives that don't cost anything, it's hard to see how we would subsidize something that…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes sir, go ahead please. A quick question. While we have Brad here, I had mentioned the possibility of working to try to have only one bus at a time in the county park. And so if we end up with the service, then I understood you were gonna look into that. So I think that would be great. And as I've said, I've seen the bus two in this lot very often. And a third one on the street sometimes waiting to get into the lot. And then what I wanted to reemphasize is that I've also seen the drivers stop northbound at the coffee shops. And so that blocks one of the two lanes on Gulf Boulevard. So…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thanks, sir. Thank you, sir. I'm gonna tell you about my chiropractor.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Motion to approve the consent items or accept them as presented minus B, C, and J items.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I almost feel like we should have some continuity when you go from the bottom of the city to the north end of the city on that road. I would almost try to make it all look the same.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“But the 75,000 number is, how did we come up with that number?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So we told them what we wanted and they said this is how much it'll cost?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“So now Garland. is doesn't really require lights, I presume.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“And I wonder if business licenses would fit into that concept.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I do have a few items I wanted to discuss. I have received reports of three damaged seawalls in District 3, but I don't really have a way to see these things. Is there a process in place, I'm wondering, where the city can check on the status of the seawall? And also, I would say that a couple of them were severe enough to where the soil is disappearing into the canal. And so I think this is a notice for the people who have these seawalls, but also for the city to possibly look into these. And I'll move on to publics.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Private seawalls. Thank you. Yeah, that's a good clarification. Private seawalls. So if I, for example, were to use C-Click Fix, I don't really know that there's, I can't tell from the street whether this is the case or not. So it seems like there would be a process for this. So Publix, I keep getting questions about Publix and what I feel like is this is one of the biggest problems that we have in our city, a perceived pain point. And I don't feel like we are keeping everyone up to date enough on, I almost feel like we need to have a Publix report every single commission meeting. So I'm sure…”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I have the question of if you could provide me an example of what is one of the biggest percentage of, say, offenders that we're talking about here, what would be an example of that? Is it a condominium owner, a single-family homeowner? Are we talking about a one-day, two-day, three-day, one-month?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“is there one area of town where most the complaints come from or is it everywhere equal yeah you know i'll tell you most of our code enforcement related complaints are pretty equally divided through our four districts but we do track everything by districts i can certainly give you that information okay yeah i just wanted to understand the scope of the problem that we're talking about and kind of understand it a little better timelines So if we did a registration of, if we implemented a registration, then how do you see that going into effect relative to these complaints that we have? So when…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, okay, I'm only trying to understand. If we implemented the registration process, what would be the difference then when you receive a complaint that comes in?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“So are you able to resolve these complaints? And do you keep having complaints over and over on the same property?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I just have one other question. I think I'm going to direct it to Commissioner Robinson, because she has had these complaints coming in to her. So I think I would like to just ask specifically that last question I was asking.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“OK. Well I want to follow up then with a comment on that. What you just said. I feel like. It might have some benefit, but I would not see how to fit it into the budget just right off the bat, but unless perhaps we could dedicate the fees or increase our fines for the current offenders that we're getting out of the process, Use that to support an efficient system such as AI search The whole thing is supported by you can only do it has to be supported by that The fees themselves move into it would be funded through the fine that we take in and then it would just solely be let's see what AI can…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“yep I just think a great takeaway for the whole thing commissioner Robinson is that we could have the staff look into a low-cost AI tool for enforcement see what the other cities are using and see if we can start using that and see if that would get our fines going up and maybe as a first step in the process and in district 3 going house to house I really didn't have any complaints about short-term rentals and that's just district three in fact in the mayor's neighborhood i had two people who wanted to do short-term rentals that weren't allowed to they were like yeah we can rent our house for…”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, it might even save us money and time. Continue to enforce what we're enforcing.”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Could any of this be staggered? Like if there were a thousand page part that could be sent along earlier? Is that possible or does it have to all be in one packet?”
City Commission · Aug 19, 2026