Remarks by Christopher McVoy
60 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“There we go. I guess it would be an addition unless it well, I guess it's an addition. I was informed at my one on one yesterday that there were, you know, there was planning and it was sort of a courtesy. Let us know on the commission. of planning for creating a route to take the historic building at 17 South M and move it through the city on fancy wheels of some sort to the site of the proposed garage. And to do that, they needed to trim some trees and cut down some trees. And I said, well, I think that's something that the community is probably going to want to weigh in on, or at least be…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Fair enough. As long as we're clear, we're giving... We're giving directions.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, we also, you know, are asking our staff to be here, but we don't pay them extra for it. We do pay Chen Moore extra, but it's fine if you want to move it up.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Although I got to re-letter every single one.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“You have to mention that you had to practically chase us out.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“So what my request to my colleagues, and maybe we should do it again when we're all five here at some point, is that we, every once in a while, get an update of how we think we're going to get to the second goal. Just a little bit of an update of where we are on the first goal, but how we're going to get to the second, because...”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah. These are real problems that all of low-lying South Florida, which is pretty much most of it, is only going to be facing in increasing ways. And it is part of why people in our community have advocated, because we have our own utility, that we should be moving as fast as possible and as fully as possible away from carbon-based electric generation. That's not going to fix sea level rise worldwide, but we should be doing our part, particularly as a community that's on the front lines of this. And Certainly not now, but at some point, we ought to have some community discussions of what…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, so let's keep it on our horizon, and at some point we will have to, and to Commissioner Segrich's comment, thinking about holistically, you can put a dike or a wall in front of your city, but if the next city up and the next city down don't, the water just comes around the corner. And so you have challenges there.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“i'll just reiterate i have no problem with them being on it but i will reiterate my concern that um some of the things i heard at the from the my colleagues on the commission whenever we last talked about it of trying to be in a hurry to do this and i just want to be on record that i do not think that's a wise idea I DON'T THINK TRYING TO RUSH IT THROUGH, WE'RE GETTING PRETTY CLOSE TO HOLIDAYS. I THINK WE ALREADY HAVE GAINED SOMEWHAT OF A REPUTATION IN THE WORLD OF CITY MANAGERS AND I WOULDN'T BE IN A RUSH TO MAKE MORE MISTAKES. I HAVE TWO SENTENCES.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“with that caution, hopefully borne in mind.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Could somebody review for us real quickly which projects they would be owner representing us on?”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, I just did. Thank you for coming. I have perhaps some overlap on concern about owner's rep, maybe from a little bit different angle. I would assume that we are paying more out of taxpayer funds with the idea that we are asking you to look out for the benefit of the taxpayers and the community as best as possible. It concerns me that, and I don't know if you were here for some of that discussion of possibly cutting down some trees downtown or possibly trimming some trees to make a pathway for moving a building. um when i asked about why that had to happen this week which is why i did…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Do we have a maximum guaranteed price for the parking garage at this point?”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, I hear you. I had my one-on-one yesterday. I didn't hear anything about it, one way or the other, which is a concern. As far as I'm going to reiterate what I said about owner's rep, and please understand that this is not personally directed to you. It's directed to the concept of owner's rep and Shenmore in general, who we're paying to do this. I have a real difficulty in terms of governing philosophy of what happens in one-on-ones that the public has no way of knowing about versus what happens in public meetings. So I do appreciate you telling us, the public and the Commission, at this…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“And I hear you, and I don't want to put you personally in a difficult position. However, I think there is a very real case to be made that the client is the taxpayers of the community. And as a rep for that client, part of your responsibilities can reasonably be expected to be to look out for the broadest interests of the whole part. Yes, you are going to interact with staff and they will have certain views and things, and that's your primary interaction. But really in the big picture, Your job spending taxpayer money is to look out for the best possible interests of those. And as a planner,…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“I'm fine with that. I could imagine that if we make it as broad other things that as directed, we might want to come back and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“I'm going to do that one too because the badger is Wisconsin. Motion to approve.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, I have some general comments. I had one specific question. If somebody got back-to-back three of these fines, doesn't that sound a little bit like a repeat offender?”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“Or can they not put it out on the correct, the landscaper can put it out on the correct day?”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“My landscaper lives on site and he never shows up.”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“And I hear very much what Commissioner Segert said about the need to communicate. I also heard the comment from Chip Guthrie, who I guess is not here at this point. I don't know if city manager Perry was working on his poker face, but I'm guessing that he must have said, wow, I wonder if McVoy and Chip spoke with each other. We didn't. But what Chip said was almost exactly what I said yesterday, that it looks like a money grab, and I don't think that's a good relation between our residents and the city. I did encourage city manager that we should point out and maybe we can point it out. What…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“We had a discussion, and I've been having this discussion for probably, I can remember the first time the mayor and I happened to both overlap at a Tropical Ridge neighborhood meeting yesterday. I don't know, five years ago, four years ago, and we both talked about that there was a need for some sort of beautiful city, city beautification. And what I've said repeatedly doesn't make it right, but I think maybe this indicates it might be useful. That should be a very structured, organized, and visible program that we say, who are all the stakeholders who are going to participate in making the…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“PBSO may be minor on some enforcement issues, might be a partial player. Clearly, homeowners are a stakeholder in this. Landlords might be a stakeholder. various other departments of the code. And that as we roll out a program, that we do do a real rollout of it, that we tell the public, however we're going to do the communication part, what each stakeholder, what we sort of expect and all agree to at least somewhat do, maybe not all homeowners will be on board, but that the community gets a sense that whatever we're doing, whether it's a fee or whether it's an increased code enforcement or…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026
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“I think the information is good, but the actual what is the project? Who are the stakeholders? What is each one going to do? Then the communicating it up is a separate thing. But I don't think sort of what what Commissioner Segers was suggesting that, hey, we need a bit of a plan for our facilities where we put employees and things. I think we need a bit of a plan for this. And then once we have it kind of pulled together, then we roll it out by communicating it. That's my thought on that. I don't know if it's right or not, but that's my two cents. Thank you. I do agree that... You know, it…”
City Commission · Sep 29, 2026