Remarks by Audrey Fesik
186 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 8
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City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. I just wanted to reiterate, I know that we had the loss in funds for the Bowery County, all of our paving projects, et cetera. And so I think, just want to refresh memory, that was about $1.4 million.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. And so I've been talking with some staff members, and we've been trying to find ways where we can rob Peter to pay Paul. And, of course, for the sake of working through this, do you find there may be an opportunity for an amendment to put money back into our paving projects to ensure that we're sort of back on track with our paving projects?”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. So I just want to make sure I put it on record so that my fellow commissioners can understand what I've been contemplating as well. And I would welcome it as an amendment, but I just wanted to make sure so we can all kind of work towards the same goal. It came to my attention that our Our paving contract expires in April of 2027, and we have a pretty good rate with our pavers at the moment. And, of course, you know that the cost of asphalt is petroleum, and the cost of petroleum has gone a lot higher. And so I was asking staff if there's any way that we could try to possibly, even…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I think it's a lot of people. Yeah. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 35:58
“Thank you. I just wanted to reiterate, I know that we had the loss in funds for the Bowery County, all of our paving projects, et cetera. And so I think, just want to refresh memory, that was about $1.4 million.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 36:35
“Okay, and so I've been talking with some staff members and we've been trying to find ways where we can rob Peter to pay Paul. And of course, for the sake of working through this, do you find there may be an opportunity for an amendment to put money back into our paving projects to ensure that we're sort of back on track with our paving projects?”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. So I just want to make sure I put it on record so that my fellow commissioners can understand what I've been contemplating as well. And I would welcome it as an amendment, but I just wanted to make sure so we can all kind of work towards the same goal. It came to my attention that our our paving contract expires in April of 2027. And we have a pretty good rate with our pavers at the moment. And of course, you know that the cost, asphalt is petroleum, and the cost of petroleum has gone a lot higher. And so I was asking staff if there's any way that we could try to possibly, even…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“so everybody's clear we talked about this last time and it's mr waters and uh just want to say thank you for everything you're doing and we're glad to have you full time thank you very good for the commission discussion seeing none let's call the roll commissioner peasant yes mr perkins yes commissioner sigerson eaton yes commissioner smith yes vice mayor poignant yes yes this meeting is adjourned we will go ahead and”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I think July was great for a lot of people. Yeah. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“First of all, I just wanted to say thank you so much for all of your work and for what you brought to us. This has been a concern of some residents for quite some time. in the air park and and everything and so i want to make sure that very specifically i say thank you to the entire community uh you mentioned a pizzeria peter's pizzeria thank you for also hosting us um as a group but this has been a long-term project and it's i would welcome a lot more interaction between UF and education as a whole moving forward. But this is a prime example of what happens when neighbors come together and…”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“okay for some of those properties that were maybe closer well i'm i'm grateful let's start there i'm grateful that there's not a five alarm fire here with you know with with our with the findings obviously that's a good thing for us as a city um is there a is there some recommendations that you know if perhaps people will have concerns about how to try to mitigate some of lead in these maybe higher concentrated areas what they might be able to do”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“And I guess one other question. Is there, we got an email earlier today, is there a recommended, you mentioned testing so you can have a baseline and potentially make sure that it's not increasing. What type of, I guess what type of recommendation would you have as a city for us to just make sure we stay on top of things? Would you recommend any sort of testing on a?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I didn't want to interrupt you. And I appreciate you again. Thank you for coming to this. I Is there, since you mentioned that you centered things around the air park and then everything else and immediate like very screaming need. Is there something there that we should be looking into as we grow our airpark or as we grow our, as we grow as a city that we should potentially look into or maybe find another, I mean, organization to monitor this?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. I just wanted to make sure we were covering all our bases.”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. And I have one final question related to that. It was shared on a public outlet that not only was the information received back in February, but that at some point it was disclosed to not only family members, pastor, attorney, but also to the city. If that was disclosed to the city prior to qualifying period, would the city have had an obligation to ensure that that was noted somewhere?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Would an employee of the city, if notified, and I'm not sure who, Would that person be obligated to make sure that that was made aware to the city clerk there?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. I also was looking at the back up, and I just wanted to ask with the numbers for the administrative expenses that are going up from basically 0.6% to 0.8%, and then the quarterly charge from 0.15% to 0.2%. Is that in line with other municipalities? Basically, are we somewhere in the middle? Are we right on line? Is it states? Sponsored, what's the deal with that number?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. And our drop program for this particular is different than our general employee's drop program, correct?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. And then one last question. Do we have, I know we have a cap, I believe we have a cap on our general employees drop, you know, banked hours, things like that. Do we also have a cap here for that? Banked hours. Thanks for either vacation or sick hours. Do we have a cap on banked hours in general?”
City Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 22, 2026