Remarks by Chris Robertson
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“So that's where the... And you can't treat it like the building permit fees where you just vote to reduce it like we do. If they were collecting too much money, we can't just start collecting less?”
“I'm glad this council started having that discussion months ago. At least we've got a path forward.”
“You're still up council member Fletcher.”
“Oh, it's not like right by the Florida Mall with all that traffic.”
“That sidewalk's going to cut all the way down to Okeechobee? It's going to come through. What I'll do is once the- I remember you talking about connectivity, but I didn't realize it's- Yeah.”
“All right. Well, hopefully we'll have four more years of you on that board. I think you love that thing. You're making progress, I'll tell you. Yeah, also, I was at the firefighter soaring in ceremony. Thank you, Chief Miller. Amazing job, as always. Yeah, you got to hold the baby. I know the city manager was jealous of that. A little jelly. I want the baby. No, that was so cool, especially with the firefighter had his two sons up there, and when the families are a part of it, that's a special moment for those folks.”
“Oh, I saw even more family members. The dad was explaining, you know, that's my daughter over there, that's my son. You hear that, Chief? Well, the other side, you're not green. I mean, green, green, green, green.”
“Let's get it on. Um, no. What a great experience. Always. Uh, I wasn't able to make the last one. The deputy mayor was the last one. And I know you had a bunch of them coming in and, uh, we're pretty much there at the 48. Are we pretty close? Sorry, I didn't mean it. I know you're playing Bejeweled or something over there. Something else other than that.”
“Fireboat's coming online. Can you show me some video of that?”
“What do we get? We, we got three 50 from the state for that.”
“Yeah, and if you just go back to like the past five years, and you know, that's probably when you ordered the ladder truck, and now you get the fire boat, and we got three new fire stations, and so we're gonna break ground on the public safety complex. I mean, we are really putting the money where our mouths are. We're really taking it serious when it comes to public safety.”
“Yeah, and as our city grows, obviously, you know, you can't stop the growth. We all know that. And we all say, well, we can manage the growth. This is part of managing the growth, is keeping up with the public safety. And I don't think the public really sees that. That's a huge part of managing the growth. It's keeping the crime down. Chief, did you want to add to it? Oh, you're walking up. That's right. I am now. Would you agree? That's a major component of managing the growth in our community. It's not just voting on this development or that development, annexing this one, that one.…”
“First advocate with the drones. Orlando had to copy us, right?”
“Absolutely. Used our footage. Yes. St. Cloud's footage. That is correct.”
“And these are long-term investments, especially the fire headquarters we're about to open, right? I believe the week of October.”
“Yeah. And Dan knows this. It's cyclical. The development of these projects... You remember when you did city hall here and you essentially in those five years you did lakefront city hall, the PD, there were a number of projects that became the turnpike. I mean a lot of capital improvement projects and fast forward 20, 25 years later, now we're at it again with, you know, we've got the public safety complex, we've got the new fire headquarters, we've got how many, how many fire stations in the past five years?”
“We've got the first ladder truck. I mean, it's just an amazing time to sit on council here.”
“And RoboDog's coming, too, right? Sorry? RoboDog?”
“Look at all these amazing things we've got. And it's just so cool to be a part of that. Because five years from now, I think it's just going to be kind of flatlined again. And then another 10 years after that, it's going to go right into another round of these type of projects.”
“Yeah, because there's many phases of that. Okay. I just want to thank you guys.”
“Yeah, the age of cameras, it's interesting, isn't it?”
“Appreciate you. Um, I just want to point out the, um, obviously y'all know the past month in August, we had some issues with St. Cloud mobile home park, uh, OUC city of St. Cloud stepped up, um, made sure that the power, everything was operating correctly and everything the city has done. I know the city manager and staff have done everything they can up to this point. Um, along with the city, uh, at the city attorneys, uh, with his advice, Council Member Paul, myself, we've been out there. City Manager brought some food out there. We went out there a number of times. Even I think the second…”
“Yeah. And when I, you say staff, the chiefs, both of them assisted with everything. I know you were out there, chief Miller, Bob Detheridge was out there as Pete chief filling a bunch.”
“And I just played my role. We all have different roles here and we all come together. And when we have situations like this, I, I wouldn't say we weren't prepared for this. I think that we just all kind of had to come together and figure it out and to help our folks out. But I think maybe we need to discuss. if this happens again in the future. We obviously know we've got the fire chief, and he knows his roles. I'm glad that we have Richard over at Osceola Response Team now as a tool in our chest, that something like this happens, we can pick up the phone, we know he'll be there. That's…”
“With that being said, we have an information section here for everybody. I know everybody loves to hear this stuff. Friday, September 11, 2026, Veterans Council meeting. Wait a minute. September 12th, right? No, September 11th.”