Remarks by Andy Thomson
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“So there's good news there is that they still get the election. They'll get the election in March. We have to decide whether it's worth having eight meetings worth of potential deadlock votes in the meantime. And that's a perfectly fair point that you're making. I too have said in the past, and I'm sure there's somebody up here who remembers me saying it, I don't tend to like to put my finger on the scale in terms of the election when it comes to an appointed position. That was my view. I stated that years ago. And so I do have a I'm a believer in letting the people decide on the election…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. So the night of November 9th, we'd interview the candidates. Then November 10th, we would, assuming we're in favor of an appointment, appointing a council member for the period until the election, well, until the swearing in of the candidates that win in the election. So to answer your question, will they be eligible to run? I think that my answer on that, and it's going to be up to each one of us, is maybe. some people may think that that's not the kind of person we would want to have in the interim position of the council members some like you've said may say that you want that…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“well on on that front i will i will agree with council members grau and simple that before we undertake the process let's at least have consensus for sure that an appointment is something we want to do until we hear from that until we hear that at our next workshop there's no point in opening up an application window at all in my view okay does staff have uh okay mr drucker”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“The last thing I have, it's very quick. We have the slide for, we have a mayor's MVP this month. We started this a few weeks ago where a lot of the work that a city does in modern society kind of goes unnoticed or unrecognized. and the least we can do is give a shout out to the folks who work at our city that do a fantastic job every day in a different whole series of walks of life this one has to do with workplace safety and John Shipley has worked for the city of Boca Raton for over 20 years predominantly focused on making sure that every day our employees get up and go to work in a place…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“the first page that's correct yeah and members what we've historically done is where there naturally will be some variation between what one or more of the members have allocated towards a particular non-profit but what we've just done it's worked out for us pretty well in the past is we've identified the common denominator and gone with that so for example i think when respect to the first category the first uh organization here avda that would i believe so long as we can all go along with it the common denominator meaning the consensus would be 27 500 and we would do that down the line not…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Great. So then are we all on the same page then as it relates to those three organizations, the first bucket? If so, I'll entertain a motion in a second to adopt those appropriations as outlined. $27,500 to AVDA, $20,000 to Mae Volan, $1,000 to Vets Helping Heroes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Very good. So then let's move to there are three organizations that did not have any consensus as to an allocation amount. The first one is community greening. It's on the second page of the legal size printout. Page number 95 on the left hand column is the indicator community greening. We had some for a thousand one for twenty three hundred and one for two thousand five hundred fifty two dollars. although i do note that uh deputy mayor grau didn't allocate any funding to this organization so members what is your pleasure on this this one is one that got allocated a thousand dollars last year…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“okay so that i think with mr perlman we can move this into a consensus column at fifteen hundred dollars that being for community greeting we have a couple more that do not have consensus and for these i note that these are first-time applicants and historically again we tend to only allocate a thousand dollars to first-time applicants this is one so the next one is item 132 friends of foster children of palm beach county They did not get funding in the past. I had suggested a thousand council member Drucker had suggested a thousand and we have offers of 2500 and 2000. What would you all like…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I mean I would just for the next two I will reiterate it the last time I'll say it is that they're both first-time applicants friends of foster children and homeless coalition of Palm Beach County historically we've always started folks off at a thousand I would propose that we offer we give them a thousand here they can come in and ask for more next year and trust me they will not getting a real warm and fuzzy response to that I'm checking my notes fine with that okay so if we allocate $1,000 to friends of foster children of Palm Beach County and to homeless coalition of Palm Beach County…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“while still giving out a significant number of dollars to our nonprofit partners.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“okay great so i move that we adopt the non-profit appropriations in the amount as we just would discussed in the amount of five hundred two thousand eight hundred dollars is there a second second all those in favor of that allocation please say aye aye aye OK, so then you guys can staff can then incorporate that into our budget, which we will then vote on in a short period of time, right?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. Members, do we have any questions for staff?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“does that conclude our presentation on the ordinances that we'll be addressing in just a moment it does okay so I think in that case miss Siddons could you please read the title of whatever the first ordinance we're dealing with four five seven nine eight actually if you don't mind could you read them both five seven nine eight and five seven nine nine”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026