Remarks by Alison Fournier
93 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
- Play at 4:19:09
“Guilty. And we kept the funding. So to be clear, we set the funding and said, we need to figure out something, right? But we weren't. I think some of us, we all have different reasons. I'm not going to speak for anyone else. But some of us were dissatisfied with the scope and where FPI services were being provided and what services were being provided and what we're looking for maybe different alternatives.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I hear your position and what you read. I actually think I would be guilty of everything you described if I voted for this, and I never have because I don't agree with the plan. I don't agree with the bond. The McNab House project, as I've always said, it's fine. Let's slim it down, pay as we go, and do the right thing for your city. And so I represent... My constituents, I represent We vote on things citywide here, obviously, and now we have our CRA hats on. But I would think I was neglectful of my duty if I voted to take on this amount of debt and extend the East CRA.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:01:09
“Exactly. It's already appropriate, but I've never voted to do that. I understand. So if we could modify the plan to pay for the McNabb House differently, go for it. But you're saying you give us no pathway to get anywhere besides 100,000, I mean, besides throwing Commissioner Perkins like the smallest little bone I've ever heard. I mean, it's almost pathetic how you describe. WHAT WE CAN DO.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“for right now because you have appropriated they stay with what they're appropriated for and then we all know this conversation is is effectively pointless when you say when you get your colleagues to do this when no one no one here can get that so and so it is a structural problem with this board that creates the this issue we all know this this is but here we are so i”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“The commission has to do that before the 23rd.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:22:51
“So taking a trip down memory road, Lane, somewhere, I believe the way we resolved this last year was to take the $2 million of TIF and not allocate it, right?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:23:12
“Right, new TIF. Did we ever allocate that? I'm sure you did over the course of the year. I don't remember that ever coming.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:23:20
“It's still sitting in contingency. So we still have another $2 million that's unallocated. Correct. So there is more in this that's unencumbered here. So that's what we did last year.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:23:57
“But we never did go back and allocate them.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:57:31
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:59:01
“Do not put words in my mouth. I have been very clear for three years about, I didn't say the project should change. How we pay for it should change. because we have other obligations in this city that I'm more worried about than this risky development project that you're asking us to take on debt for and extend the CRA for. I've been saying this for years. Do not put words in my mouth.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:59:31
“It's about the budget. I asked if we could take the bond out of this and pay as we go. I actually like the project. You actually haven't listened to a damn word I've said, it sounds like, because I've been saying all along, let's pay as we go and do the project. Maybe slim it down a little, but let's do the project. But what I don't like is issuing all this debt that's scheduled out till 2060 or 2061 the debt is not well okay the cra is that it's correct it's not yeah but it is debt is only going to be 15 or 20 depending on the issuance either way that the concept of the the cra being…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:27:42
“Right, we had to reconvene last year, so it seems like there's diminishing returns here. So can we reconvene this year like we did last year?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:28:12
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:28:29
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:28:51
“So wasn't there a proposal to reconvene at noon or something on the 22nd? I'd like to make a motion to reconvene at noon on the 22nd. Second.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:30:20
“At noon, 1 o'clock. Which is it? Make your motion clear. My motion is to adjourn this meeting and reconvene at noon on September 22nd. Okay.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:32:12
“Tomorrow. One o'clock on September 18th. 23 is out. I'm sorry, what? I think the proposal right now is one o'clock on September 18th. I can do that. No, I cannot do the 18th at all.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:37:51
“We didn't get here just today, we all know that, right? So there were motions to do workshops, there's been motions for all kinds of things related to this project that you can blame us we can we blame you because no one no one no the other three will never compromise either during the rest of the year to have a workshop on the topic miss mckenna so you can read that memo that was i also agree feels very orchestrated that commissioner eaton asked you to read the memo that you already have um she she didn't know about the memo she at she was asking me to read the statute again i chose to read…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:40:11
“I want to say I won't be scolded by you or the mayor or anyone about this because I feel like I spent the last year, like Commissioner Fessick did, trying to talk about these projects, have a workshop on it, get my thoughts through to the CRA director on what I – what I believe we should do with this. And none of it was heard. And the other three just kicked the can down the road. Same thing that they did the year before, not taking the concerns seriously. So if you know you've got an even commission like this, Where is the leadership? Where is the compromise going into this? If I was sitting…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:42:01
“There is a pending motion. Yes, there is. Reconvene on the 21st, right?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:42:08
“It was at noon. It was at noon. At noon? It was at noon. I can't do that. He can't do two either. Can't do any of them.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:42:28
“Have we convened? Who can't convene on the 21st?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026