Remarks by Bonita Schwan
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“Okay, thank you. And I was kicked off for a while. I couldn't get on, but then I did eventually, but I was not... I think I was off when the vote was taken about the...”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“look more accessible will be a great improvement. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I do have a question for our MIPD police report.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. So, but I can wait. I didn't mean to interrupt. No problem.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yes, so thank you for the MIPD from our chief that submitted that report. And it was good to see all the wonderful things they're doing for our community. And I did really appreciate the detailed information on the bicycle and e-bike stops that they reported in regards to the 107 stops, the 55 verbal warnings, and the 52 written warnings. And my question was, just as a data accumulation understanding, were there, like when we report in all our other various”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you for that information. And I appreciate all your support that you're doing with this, and I appreciate that all the additional safety information that you're providing with the warnings and the stops, too. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, I need to make a clarification here. Thank you, Chair Palumbo. So I actually have spoken with our city attorney, David, who's representing us in this meeting, because this is a quasi-judicial matter and that MY UNDERSTANDING FROM OUR CITY ATTORNEY, BECAUSE OF THAT, I'M NOT IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AND THEREFORE, I'M NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE OR VOTE ON THESE RESOLUTIONS. AND I'D ASK OUR CITY ATTORNEY, DAVID, TO CLARIFY THAT.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yes, Chairman Falumbo, I'd like to intervene here with Councilor Champagne. Okay. Wait, I'm sorry.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I have a follow-up. Please. Please, Councillor Swan. Thank you very much. My follow-up question is Marco Island used to have two representatives on the TDC board. Right now we're dropped down to one. Our chair, Darren, serves on it.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay. Well good because that's something that's very important that Marco Island does have representation.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, we certainly look forward to getting that vendor back there, too. Our residents really are supportive of that.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Chief Byrne, for the presentation. I'd just like to make a motion to approve the second reading of this amendment.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. I would like to bring up, and I concur with both of the councillors just said, but also I just think from a financial point at this time, our money can be better spent in another place and maybe possibly down the road work more with a federal lobbyist where I think we could be possibly getting a better bang for our buck on that. So thank you.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. I guess I'm going to reiterate, we are in such a financial crunch in our city with our revenues, and we have some really large impact votes coming up, and I just think we have to prepare the best we can for this, and I think I would prefer that we do terminate it now at the end of this fiscal year, see where we're at, and we can always reinitiate this contract at a later date. It's very possible, too. But we have not identified new revenue sources. And so what we have to be looking at is where can we save money. This is over $80,000. I think that's a significant amount. So…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. So as I said before, it's so important that we look for where we can save money. We have to save money. And I think this is a significant amount. So I'd like to make a motion to terminate the lobbying contract with Runbook effective at the end of this fiscal year.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you, Martin, if you could bring up the first image that I provided you. And what I'm going to be speaking about is the Sea Turtle Conservatory Retrofit Light Program that's available to beachfront properties. Actually, Martin, this is the second one, if you could just bring up the other one. And I apologize if that wasn't identified. Can you even put them next to each other, Martin? Okay, well, the purpose of this program, and Martin. Keep going back and forth. Yeah, Martin, thank you very much. You're always so helpful. So this is a program that was started back in 2019, and it…”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“i agree with what counselor gray just said because i think there will be opportunities people who don't live here full-time or part-time will be coming in and zooming in from all across the country but another point i want to make and this was initiated by you at our last council meeting that to ask for consensus you first have to do a white paper So are you doing a white paper on this before you ask us for a consensus?”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, I think you did say you were asking for a consensus when you started this. So I just want to make sure that following through on what you did and moved forth, it would not be an appropriate time to ask for a consensus.”
City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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City Council · Aug 17, 2026
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City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you. so i know that you have been promoting this on social media i would ask that you be honest when you make presentations at our city council forum you're a former counselor we have a high standard to meet so thank you and thank you council for your time thank you counselor next speaker our final registered speaker is miss chris dowell hi christine hey watch your phone”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“I was just concerned because we have rules, charter, things like that, that we cannot advocate a position.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026