Remarks by Bruce Rector
329 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 13 of 14
“Opposed? Unanimous. Move to the consent agenda. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda tonight? No, sir. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented?”
“Opposed? Unanimous. Move to item 7.1 on the agenda.”
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“Okay. Any other discussion? If not, stir a motion.”
“Opposed? Unanimous. Thank you. Agenda item 7.2.”
“Does anyone have from the public tonight to the desires to speak to agenda item 7.2? We're seeing none. Any council discussion? If not, it's our motion.”
“Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor?”
“Opposed? Unanimous. Before we move to agenda item 7.3, at the work session on Monday, I identified a voting conflict that I have. It was identified months ago, and so I've stayed out of all discussion of things leading up to this agenda item. And so I will not be voting on that tonight, and I'll not be participating. on this agenda item. In fact, I'm going to follow the history we have with two prior mayors, both my predecessors, Mayor Hemmert and Mayor Ongst, when they had a voting conflict, they left the room during the discussion. So tonight I'll be exiting the room and I'll be handing a…”
“Chair Greg Musil So with that, we will recess briefly, and then the Vice Mayor will reconvene the meeting for the consideration of Agenda Item 7.3. We will now call back to order the meeting.”
“I'll call the meeting back to order and move to agenda item 7.4.”
“That's for sure. Maybe we go ahead and have a reading.”
“Do you want to hear from the public that I desire to be heard on this agenda? Hearing none, any council discussion? If not, let's throw a motion.”
“Go ahead and have a reading on this one as well.”
“Is there anyone here from the public that might desire to speak to this agenda item?”
“Any other speakers? OK, with that, do we have any council discussion? I would just like to make one comment. There are no secrets here. I don't have a card.”
“Thank you. Any other speakers? Well, I was going to say there are no secrets here. I don't know in the two years that this current council has been together. I don't know if there's ever been an issue as publicly debated as this one was. And we heard from a lot of folks who supported us saying what to do. And we heard a lot from – we did hear from Clearwater citizens who – were in favor of us taking it over. But there's been vigorous debate on it. But it's not, it was never, and our consultants, which we hired, never described this as a dunk, easy. If it was easy or inexpensive, somebody…”
“Oh, excuse me. Motion. Is there a motion?”
“Opposed? Announce. Okay. With that, we will move to agenda item 9. That's citizens can be ordered in topics that are not recognized in the agenda.”
“them to meet every four months thank you for serving your service and have a wonderful weekend thank you miss lanza any other speakers okay uh move to item 10 city management reports”
“You have two opportunities to act. Item 11, city attorney reports.”
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“Absolutely. And I've heard somebody from the community just express their admiration for Bill Horn and the legacy left here. I'm looking at what was shared with all of us a couple days ago. And I would say, for me, either the William B Horn, the second lobby, which would be the lobby of City Hall, um i would be okay with either william b horn second plaza or park which is the walking pass in green space so either one of those i think would be appropriate for me customer robert so i'll just repeat what i said monday i was leaning more toward the william b horn memorial lobby because i know the…”
“OK. We don't need a motion on that. We just need direction.”
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“Anyone else? Okay, now, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Unanimous.”