Remarks by Alison Fournier
93 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
- Play at 1:34:44
“Okay. So the $25,000 is gone, and it's just a purchase price reduction to $500,000?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“What happens during, so if someone does want to participate in the rent-to-own program, which I agree with Commissioner Smith, it's more like an education and we'll help you out along the way, but less of a traditional rent-to-own program. They will pay market rent. So you can pay your mortgage and you will work with them during that two-year period to get their financial condition in shape to save in order to purchase the property within that two-year period.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“And if they can't after two years, do they have to leave?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Or they lost their job or had some other financial setback or a health issue, whatever it is. Just trying to, like I said, understand what the living conditions here will be versus what we thought it was when this was approved. So you could really have people living there for two years their situation changes, they have to move, and then you could have someone else renting.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:36:11
“I'll give you a chance at the end, but I'm just trying. There's a lot in here, and I just want to make sure that I'm covering all of it. So people would have to move if they weren't able to close on the property after two years. And then why did this expire? What happened there? Did we just not get it on an agenda? Was it, what happened?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“They are. So they are ready, okay. So really the rent to own program is really just giving people more runway to get their financial situation in order though, that they can purchase it. Yes, I mean, go ahead.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:39:06
“Right. But if they don't end up making it through the program, they just have to leave. So can you and can you give us a little bit more background on how we got to this five year covenant? Because obviously this board decided this at some point. So unwinding this, I think we'd have to have a different intent here if we do that.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“That is helpful. And you had mentioned that this would provide an opportunity for Pompano residents. Is there some restriction on this program to Pompano residents?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“But I just want to be clear, this is not just for Pompano residents either.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“So I hear you and I share your priorities and with homeownership opportunities and your concerns about affordability and getting people there. But in some ways, it's like a... We're trusting in you, right? And the partnerships that you have and you build. Do you have restrictions on what you can do with it if you sell some of these and then lease or start your rent-to-own program? Could you somehow sell this?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I understand what you're saying. I'm not talking about individual units. I'm saying, let's say you sell four of them and you rent the rest, and then in a year, you're like, this is, you know. This is a lot of work. Can they sell? There's no restriction on that.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I have complete confidence that that is what you are doing, and that is your intention. And I hear the pitch, and I buy it. I'm just trying to think about what could happen here. And so part of it is you're asking us to trust you and that this is how this is going to work, because there's no I mean, there's no real program written down here on this rent to own, and it does change the properties intended in one way with this restriction, and now it does change it. So I believe it is a bit of where you're asking us to trust you. You're going to do all the work up front on these people to…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“If that effectively passes and allows them to record it, close their sales, but.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“The motion needs- I'd like to make a motion to modify the Fourth Amendment and reinstatement agreement to delete provision 4.6.2, Roman numeral four. Yes.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:17:36
“It's clarification. You said 4.2. 6.2 from Rule 4, which reads the developers and or its successors or assigns rights to implement a bona fide rent-to-own program approved by the CRA. But it still includes the, it goes down to the two-year owner occupancy requirement from 5, and it reinstates their rights.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Which I think we're all interested in, but we need more information on.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Modify the motion to also amend the First Amendment to the Declaration to... Elite provision C, A, restricted use of properties, subsection C, developer rent-to-own program.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:36:18
“So we've been back and forth on this for years with pay as you go. It's been six years since we moved the house. I get the same questions. When is it happening? I do not believe that we're going to blink and have this done in a year anyway. So I actually think that $30 million over the next two and a half, three years is... It seems like a pretty good chunk of this coming from TIFF. And that is, you know, We also don't, as I've always said, need what I call this grandiose plan. It is beautiful. I love the renderings, too. It's absolutely amazing. But it is going to be expensive to maintain.…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I just want to address a couple things Nguyen said, too, and I can feel your loss. When you talk about it, it feels personal. You're like, oh, but all this money is coming in from the W, and we're going to lose it. The CRA would, but we sit on both boards and wear both hats and answer to everyone in this city. And we're not losing it. I view it as a gain, actually, because the W is still coming. All the economic development around that will still exist. Again, you succeeded. It's great. All that economic activity is coming. It's just the tax revenue from that will go to the city when we lose…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“if i said a you'll say b if i said c you'll say d i'm done i i don't i don't need to debate okay that's fine um anything further on on this issue vice mayor sure go ahead i'll be brief but i hear what you're saying commissioner perkins and i i feel it also like just watching the shenanigans that go on around here and i blame it on the city manager also the culture that he instills like we hear what goes on like don't think that we don't hear what goes on on the fourth florida city hall or other places we we hear it um we see it here you are correct commissioner McMahon has been sitting there…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:18:11
“It didn't have to be a four to two. Just to be clear, it didn't have to be a four to two. It was put back out to bid, and we were presented with a renewal of the FPI contract, and we did spend quite a bit of time debating it as a board because They only cover certain areas, like Commissioner Perkins pointed out, so it's very targeted to Old Town, not in the whole northwest CRA. And a lot of us have seen more of the FBI folks in their cars just sitting there than actually getting out and doing the type of work that we expected or wanted them to do. And my recollection, which I'll look up in a…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026