Remarks by Audrey Fesik
186 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 8
- Play at 5:28:39
“I'm trying here. I'm trying to find a way to work.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:28:45
“Okay, so, and that 2.5 in reserve, nothing can be done with it until it's brought forward to us, correct? No spending out of that?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:28:58
“Doesn't really address the whole main problem, but I would like to make, I think I'd like to think on this for just a little bit. I'll let somebody else go. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:53:34
“No thoughts. I am where I am. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:00:38
“It sure sounded like it was about the project. Yeah, right. It's OK.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
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“It's the money. It's the bond money. It's the bond. It's the bond money. It's the plan, right? It's all of everything. It had to end with the bond, yeah. I still believe, yes, we should sunset the ECRA. I think we should definitely do something with that park. Everybody wants that park activated. But I think that we, again, could have a scaled back version of what was pitched and proposed, and maybe it doesn't have to be to the, again, I actually agree with Vice Mayor, it doesn't have to be exactly what it was, and we don't need to, but we have to have that conversation, and today's not the…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:06:46
“I have been very clear from day one that—and I remember the meeting— That's probably one of the reasons why I ended up sitting and running for office the first time because I was so absolutely frustrated that- Because of the bond? No, the whole project and the borrowing money and the extension of the CRA, I felt that that was not what residents were screaming about. I'm in this exact same place I've been for the past few plus years. I do not feel comfortable putting taxpayers on the hook for all this money. And I understand that tonight's not the vote, but if you remember last year and-…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:24:30
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City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:25:54
“So I'm just curious that that was a pre-prepared long list of how we're going to, one of us who feels a certain way about certain things should abandon all, abandon ship about how you feel you're supposed to represent and with all of the things that are basically held where we are now the bad guys essentially for holding our ground because we do not believe in the way that the budget has been presented and we do not believe that that is the right thing for the city and we have been blocked at every attempt to try to maneuver around that and try to be cooperative and try to be working…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:36:34
“I've been very clear about how I feel about things and I, that's it, thanks.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:36:50
“It's for the budget. I don't support this version of this budget in its current iteration and for a multitude of reasons. And so, but I do not want to feel coerced to change my vote and go against what I believe and who I was elected to represent.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:37:07
“I asked for a secondary opinion. I asked for other outlets. And you had a memo prepared that you anticipated this. And so from my view at this point, it makes it feel like, to me, that staff was actively prepared for what may happen if somebody didn't agree. So the 11th hour trying to resolve something to me, I would love to work it out. I offered multiple solutions, all of which were told no and voted against as well. And for months and years, actually, at this point. So I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to go against what I believe to be the right thing. And I understand what…”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:42:05
“I will still second it because I think, yes. It was the 22nd at noon. Second.”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 6:45:30
“Okay. No. If I remember correctly, it was a time constraint, but 2.30 work for everybody?”
City Commission · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 26:17
“Thank you. Thanks for this. I appreciate it. I had a couple questions about the biggest one I think for me was the reduction in our surtax, given that we have our roads in pretty much deplorable condition. in a lot of areas, and I know how important that is to residents in all districts. Is this something, is there anywhere else we can pull some of this money from? Is there anywhere else we can pull some of this money from?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 29:37
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City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 31:24
“And then you mentioned contractual as part of operating expenses. Do we have a breakdown of what that looks like from contracts and how they're spent in terms of service agreements are one thing, right? So we have a service agreement for Maybe there's the breakdown of that I think would be a little bit more helpful to understand. Because if there's anywhere we could trim something in there and try to push it into services we may need as a city overall, maybe it's time to look at some of those contracts we have and see if we're actually using them or if we can tighten the belt there.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 32:05
“One other question. Have you done any—so I noticed that we've gone down, you know, our millage rate has gone down, and we've had that consistent decline, which I'm sure is very thrilling for a lot of people. But does it help that we have—it's because we haven't borrowed additional money yet that we don't have the top level? For example, a bond the following year.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 32:37
“usually the first year you're paying mostly interest. Do we anticipate, have we looked at what future years might look like if we have, if this tax thing passes and if we're playing with the numbers and then we also have a bond on top of that or we have additional debt service?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 33:15
“there's a menu of options that's going to be available to the commission and it just depends on what men what what choices you make from that menu and how that impacts either services debt or even the military okay yeah i think that that would be really interesting to me just to see kind of a worst case scenario i'm not saying that it's worst case scenario but just saying just what we might be facing so that when we're looking at this even if we just kind of move forward with the suggested We at least can anticipate where, throughout the course of the year, we might need to make changes or…”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 34:31
“And I agree with you. There is time, but if we're paying X amount per month out that we might not need to be doing, then we can put that money back into the general fund, and maybe we can offset any potential shift in funding that we might miss out on by planning ahead. I think that's it for now. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. So one of the other things when I was going through, and I guess this is more related to don't know if we get into it later at the budget side but the air park there was an i noticed that there was i guess is the first is it the first ever i guess general fund subsidy to the air park or is because i didn't see it before but there's a transfer fund from i guess a hundred thousand dollars to three hundred and ten thousand dollars i looked back several years to see when that was done i it's the”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 44:37
“Okay, and was there, so, there I mean I feel like the city needs the money you know for public works and for paving our roads so maybe let's let's work this problem backwards mr. McCann do you know if that that money that we were missing from Broward surtax is that the amount that we would have needed or can we run it a little bit trimmer what's the actual cost to get the roads done on schedule and even if we were to I don't know, step it back if we have to a little bit, but what's the number we need to hit?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 45:58
“Right, so I think that was the next in line for our plan. That's correct. So what's our number, how many miles do we have that we need to multiply that number by to get that done?”
City Commission · Sep 14, 2026