Remarks by Allison Wright
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Yeah, he does, but I just wanted to know how many, because I know he had the minimum, but he might have more, being as how he is.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I just wanted to share that when I had Bailey Street in my district, I had a lot of comments from the residents at that dead end. They were concerned about things happening back there because of the dead end, the safety of it. They were concerned about the coming and goings.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“And so I would like to know in the follow-up, not right now, but in the follow-up email if there's any feedback from the fire department or the police department because it seems to me that the dead end of that point is the opening that up and having it to where emergency vehicles can come from two directions would be helpful because an emergent ambulance wouldn't make it in if there was a situation. And also just to remind everybody that the university came forward with this idea as a solution because our bridge was down and had to be repaired to get out to College Station and so then they…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“We hear her. She can't hear us. Commissioner Myers.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Another prospect is the Jefferson River Road multi-use right-of-way.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Can we suspend the rules and vote on that tonight, 28?”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I just wanted to point out some safety issues with that. If you guys remember, we had a car fatality that went through the light where Barnett Shoals does a 90-degree turn in Gainesville, and often a person sleeps at that corner, and it's very fortunate that that person was not there when this car lost control. When that woman lost her life, it could have been a double tragedy.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, we have two commissioners not here.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Y'all just made me forget what I was going to make. I started off just piggybacking on what Obita had said, and I do appreciate it. the fresh way that we have been. And I really believe that we've been learning together, possibly just the same way the county manager is learning from being here and assessing things and staff supporting that and teaching us things and us learning what's going on and it being methodically You started really early, the Mayor Pro Tem did, in asking us what we're thinking and to speak, and he circled around several times to make sure comments were coming forward,…”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I look forward to our rollout of communicating this. It is complicated, but it makes sense, and I think it's a good fit for our community, but again, it'll be for the voters in our community to decide, but I hope that we can educate them between now and then.”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah, and in that process too, that's other opportunities for public input, studying, learning it along those timelines. So it's also recorded to look back on similar to our work sessions when we have those. As soon as we do them, we can, direct folks back to those recordings for additional incidents.”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I think some of that too, Melissa, might have happened before, some of the reproportionate apart, some of that stuff with the improvements for College Square. Wasn't that done, Mike, with the parking? So there's not as much from another time where it was.”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“Yeah, it's been committed. And for me, I'm not gonna pick apart the increase that has happened, but for the community events program, but it started with 250,000 and now it's up to 300,000. We have neighborhood leaders here wanting their funding restored and I think that a long-term improvement for our community events programs in the current way that it's done it can only be downtown special events and we have a whole community that deserves the attention that special event funding and locations can be. For me, a long-term approach that this little pie chart could help with is the Visit…”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“So the five enterprise funds are listed on E4 and it's just the budget, the recommendation, the change amount and then you would look up each one of those and get their page.”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“Well, I think that we need to commit to talking to the school district in earnest. I agree. I think that we've talked about that several times in several cycles, and I think the new teamwork, the new team that we have here with the new manager and the new operations, that that would need to be a commitment to get the school district to join in.”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“And we already have a partnership with the youth development and after-school programs, too, so we can start talking about these together.”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“But if it's in here listed like you just did as a one-time allocation, because this is from sales tax revenue”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“And it also speaks to the fact that this funding in this listing is funding that came up when the budget was handed over to the commission, too. So it also speaks to how it wasn't available in your process or the mayor's, but in our process.”
Commission · Jun 4, 2026
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“No, I appreciate the hard work that was done.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“I jumped ahead there. I'm not supportive of this option, but I can tell the majority is as this conversation is moving forward. And my main goal was to... move as swiftly as possible, and I felt that the guardrails for the choice that were presented in the work session were good and are good for what's in the packet, which would be allowing us to access the multiple times and ways that funding has made it into the affordable housing fund. which we have yet to be able to move out of there we've been putting in with different parameters and details so I'm more for the expeditious use of those…”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Ready to vote. Oh, thank you for all the hard work. How about that, too? It was a long process, and I've been through several cycles of this, and I really appreciate and understand how much work is involved. Thank you.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“I want to say the visuals that have come out from this is really, you know, I love the visual. Well done on the map. I had missed the part that it was going to have a 12-foot multi-use trail with the road. Another bonus there. And so I look forward to this when we see it again.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Move to approve. Wait a minute. District 4. I'm just kidding.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Commissioner Wright. I want to just make sure it's option A, B, C, and District 4 is happy to accept this artwork in our two new parks and public gathering. What do we call them? Third spaces? Fourth spaces? Anyway, good space and a great draw. I'm sure there's going to be lots of people taking lots of pictures with them, as they should.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“And District 4, where this is happening, gets the lowly second on this as well. Option 1.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026