Remarks by Brian Scott
56 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don't really like not moving forward with business. I don't like holding up business. I don't like delaying business. If we've got a recommendation from staff and we properly scored it and we feel we're on solid ground, I mean, if we award this and we get a protest, what happens? I mean, I...”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“I mean, I am, Mr. Chairman. I mean, if somebody wants to make an anonymous complaint to Commissioner LaValle's point, they can do that or protest. But if you're going to protest something, you're not going to remain anonymous forever. So if you got a real protest, I think you should put your name on it. Rather, to me, it just seems like a tactic to try to delay us. I just, you know, this has been, our director is comfortable with it. I'm comfortable with it. Commissioner Peters.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I agree with everything Commissioner Peters just said. I'm really glad to see this moving off of general fund into opioid abatement funding. You know, I've expressed concerns with the underutilization of the program. But do we have any benchmarks built in contingent upon funding? Do they have to meet any particular benchmarks or anything like that to continue to get funding?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Commissioner Scott. Yeah, just the final thing. I mean, we're spending a million dollars in advertising, so I would definitely like to see some performance metrics. and regular updates on this program to see if we are getting, you know, to your point, we want to make sure we're making the connections and helping people that need to get help for sure. But we have to make sure we're hitting that mark.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“I gathered. All right. So since our last meeting, I've had meetings with Historic Preservation, the Golf Consortium, and PSDA. And I want to thank my colleagues, Commissioner Scheer, Commissioner Wicke, and Commissioner Peters. We did a full rollback at PSDA last night. Amazing, right? god these are the days right so uh yeah so that was great great milestone there and uh with a with a complete bus system redesign this year so um yeah good stuff good stuff uh community events i have attended um with many of my colleagues here the 25th anniversary of 9 11 at occ roadhouse attended two events…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah, and I agree with everything that you just said there, but there was a caps item on this and a consumer protection case regarding the contractor hired to restore water access. I was just wondering if there was any resolution, if we knew if there was any resolution to that or not. Oh, so here comes all three.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Scott, I apologize. So the initial funding agreement, I'll add in some dates for progress reports. Have we got them? Has any work been completed at this point? Should have had her stay up. Get your steps in.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Scott. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I had some questions about this at our work session on this item and the next item. And I had a conversation this morning meeting with Karen and Matt. Very good meeting with them, and I appreciate all of their time on this. I'm gonna be supportive of both of these items. Both of these have non-funding agreements for future years should we decide not to fund them. But I'm just gonna throw this out for a request for a future work session that we really kind of talk about this space and define our mission in it. Because these programs were put…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“And just be realistic about the problems we can solve and what we can't solve.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“So, yes. Mr. Chairman, I just want to say good job. Thank you. I agree with, you know, with the proposal. And if we need a motion, I'm happy to make one. Yeah, that'd be great. I'll make a motion.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let's see, yesterday we had a very long for Pinellas Day. We had a work session followed by a regular meeting and the work session really focused on the uh what the founding documents for regional mpo might look like so we had a very robust discussion about all that gave wit a lot of a lot of good feedback so stay tuned more more to come on that but should it should it happen the new time frame would be july of 2028 to have a regional mpo informed and functioning. And then we went from there straight to PSTA for our first budget meeting there, budget hearing. And we…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Ripped the old house down and built a brand new one in 30 days. I know, amazing. It was amazing, right? Also had the honor of presiding over County Road 1 Honorary Designation Ceremony in memory of recognition of Sergeant Nicholas A. Flowers, native son of Pinellas County. Went to Palm Harbor University High School. An Army intelligence specialist who served our country in Iraq, Korea, and Germany, and he was a patriot. May all who travel on that section of County Road 1 remember his contribution to our community and beyond. Enjoyed Representative Ana Polina Luna's remarks at the Baylor…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, just briefly. Yeah, I definitely want to hear from the sheriff. I want to give him the courtesy and respect as an independently elected constitutional officer before we just pass a resolution or something like that. So I definitely want to wait and talk with the sheriff. Agreed. And I don't need a big list of stuff. He's got a lot of stuff. We know it. Right.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“yes thank you mister i agree with uh... with uh... commissioner peter's uh... i've been you know giving a lot of thought about that third millage rate there and and kind of going back and forth in my mind how i feel about that but uh... i am really concerned i think we should wait before we get rid of that until we get some certainty on aloft. I really think that that's important. But going back to her comments about core function of government, which I totally completely agree with, what is not a core function of government is social action funding. It's completely discretionary. I just do…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Just one other thing I forgot. So there may be another potential $100,000 savings as well. When I mentioned at one of our previous meetings about the $1.7 million of discretionary funds that we provide to the Public Defender's Office, 111 uh 130 000 of that is for 10 dedicated apartments at the redwood apartment complex through the panels housing authority that that lease expires on december 31st and um in conversations with the public defender that they may not be needed going forward or would be okay with those with that going away”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Did you refinish? Commissioner Scott? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is that because of the ballot language that we used last time for penny specifically or?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, so it's not. So we couldn't, like if we wanted to change the ballot language going forward, that wouldn't change that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah. So I've had quite a bit of discussion with members of our legislative delegation about that. And I feel like they've got a real appreciation for the challenges that we're in, particularly with what happens or doesn't happen with Amendment 3. But I've explained to them several times the $45 million that we're taking from general from property tax revenue. that would be available to return to the taxpayers if we had another dial we could turn or leave that we could pull. So I'm feeling hopeful that there will be some options for us in this next legislative session for that. And as you're…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“I mean, $45 million is four and a half rollbacks.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“This year. I mean, it is. It's a lot of money. I mean, it's significant. It's significant dollars.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Anything on the yellow and gold. My questions were related to social action funding as well and also some things on our agenda for next week. So I'll hold that until Barry's done.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, Commissioner Scott. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with Commissioner Latvala on the funding, social action funding. I just don't really think this is a business that we should be in. But further than that, beyond that, I also have some questions for our agenda review later, item 18 and 19, which assumes that fiscal year 2027 funding. But item 18 is agreement with 211 Tampa Bay Cares for administration of the adult emergency financial assistance program for five years, worked out to a little over $1.4 million annually. And then the second one is with Vincent DePaul Cares and 211…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“So, I mean, Karen, would you be able to just kind of speak to these two programs? And is there any room for improvement at all as we look for next year's budget?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Do we know that people don't double dip? That maybe they get assistance from... the public defender's pot of money and then get assistance from this pot of money and then get assistance from a not-for-profit somewhere else. I mean, do we...”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay. Is the nonprofit world that deals with homelessness, if this program went away, I mean, would the not-for-profit world pick it up and run with it, or would these just be 50 families that would be out on the street?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 3, 2026