Remarks by Audrey Fesik
186 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 8
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“I understand that. And so, okay, so I'm just making sure that the private organization that has connections to our planning and zoning board who voted on the site plan and is now the director on Slater of that project, of that independent organization, does that have any sort of, Do we have any disclosures that need to be filed for that if in case they decide to bid on this or be a part of this project?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I made it very clear that they had an interest in operating during the site planning.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Not the restaurant, the botanical garden.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I'm just saying I'd like this is we're looking at the whole plan and we're saying go, go, go and spend, you know, and take out, potentially take out a bond and approve this project or approve this plan that has this project in it. And there's a lot of open, there's a lot of questions for me aside from the financials. We've just had earlier today, we had a, DISCLOSURE OBVIOUSLY ON THE RECORD THAT THAT AGAIN OUR CONSULTANTS HAVE HAD INTEREST IN OLD TOWN PROPERTY AND I DO KNOW THAT AGAIN IT'S BEEN ON THE RECORD BEFORE THAT THEY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE THAT…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right. I didn't say it was. I just want to make sure that it was clear so that when... Some of these decisions, again, some of these decisions and the working together, it might not be illegal, it might not be unethical, it's just something that we should be aware of. And I don't think there was at any point in time, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know if there was a disclosure when that first happened either.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right, that's for the property purchase or after the purchase, but not for the property. Not for the family member being on the project?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I did not say that. In fact, I said the opposite. I said I'm not insinuating that it could be either or. I did not say that. So what I am questioning is, in that situation, is it appropriate for people whose families have interests to sit on advisory boards related to decisions made on those projects and on that property?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I appreciate it. We don't have to go and make this a long thing. I'll end there for now. I do have a question related to, I'll get off of the, well, I'm gonna start with this before I finish. I'll finish with the McNabb on this one. If we take this, if we say yes to this plan, and we move forward with selecting a vendor to build this out, and we then have the bond decision come to us, what I'm concerned about is how many times What parameters, at which point will certain things come to us, or at which point will things just happen? And then we're going to hear, it's because you approved this…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayor, thank you. Which one specifically? Only the bond and only the contract once it comes back to us with the approval for the vendor, correct?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. This particular plan has that project in it.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“And you are asking us to approve a budget and continue with the same plan?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. So basically, by approving this budget, we're essentially we're essentially, as it's written, we're essentially putting into motion the ability for the CRA to go out and shop a bond.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“neither here nor there at the moment. So I understand that we have a statutory duty to adopt a budget, but it doesn't require this board to adopt this budget. So there's some, the reason why I say this is because there's some pretty big things that we've discussed over the past almost two years at this point that have not been addressed. And that is, again, that comes down to our leadership that has actively decided to not listen to many commissioners and their concerns about people in the district and what's happening and the costs. This is, I mean, I'll probably repeat myself again for the…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“So we can yell and scream until the cows come home, but there's, you know, and I would actually say that I would challenge somebody to actually just open it up so we can have a conversation about the plan, but that's going to be neither here nor there, but. Secondly, so the McNabb is only one portion of this. I have a question about, and maybe you can help me, like the money that we have coming in specifically related to the fishing village. Do you have a, for our budget, you know, there's money that comes in and there's money that how we're spending money. Do we have agreement with the…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Because I know that it's a CRA project or that was a CRA project, so I wasn't sure where that was allocated.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Do we have a, is the CRA, does the CRA, as Palm Beach CRA and their social media program, Do they have an agreement or a partnership with either the city or with the fishing village to require or to have a certain number of marketing opportunities or posts that they make or whatever for the fishing village as a whole? Is there something structured there or is this just at discretion of the CRA office?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. We do promote businesses and entities within the fishing village.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. One thing I would like to make sure that is just also noted that I would like to see in the year moving forward that there is a concerted effort to a little bit more equal in some of the posts. There's quite a few posts related to, if you look at it as a whole, it's a little bit unbalanced at the moment. And so I would just offer that as a suggestion. There are several businesses that are within the ECRA district that feel, and business owners have said to me, that they feel like they're essentially being ignored or passed over and they've noticed the differences between certain…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I would also like to, I'm just going to do it anyway. So the last thing I'm going to do is just make a motion to amend the East CRA plan and have a real conversation about it. And so I'm going to make a motion, too, that we should look at amending the East CRA plan.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I want us to be able to talk about it. So this is a very simple question.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, so I'd like to amend my motion to re-align, to amend the CRA plan to sunset the CRA in 2031 as originally planned.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, it is on the motion because this is important. That's what we're discussing is the motion. And McNabb, this project itself is a big portion of that plan. And the reason why I made the motion is because this project makes us, issuing that bond, we will not be able to sunset the ECRA until that bond is paid off. So basically what we're doing is we're essentially handcuffing us and future commissions to having this ECRA be in its existence by borrowing money we don't have. I still think this should be a scaled back version as well. We've moved the house. It cost more than we thought. We…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:42:50
“As long as it's paid for, right. So I think that the other portion of this that's important is that money, whatever the tax roll looks like, whether we have it or we don't, that money, it's a 95-5 split within the ECRA zone. So all of this, and the majority of these projects, if I'm hearing you correctly, are apartments and not necessarily condos or hotels, not necessarily somebody who would be taking advantage of that homeowner's I'm sorry, homesteading advantage, right?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“I don't, so I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you. You just said that there's some money coming in, but that's fine. There's money coming in and pending coming in. What I'm looking at is not about northwest and east, because I know that's where your head is, but that's not where my head is. My head is citywide. And we have these vehicles and these mechanisms where we can direct and fund projects in both of those areas. We're specifically talking about the east right now. The victory lap is that we do see, instead of borrowing money against future tax funds, if we complete the project…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026