Remarks by Daniel Dietch
240 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
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“There's going to be a quiz at the end of this.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“And the minutes or the meeting agenda that was sent to us,”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“Hello. Daniel Dodge. And... I've previously served on this committee and I'm very excited to continue some of the work that we've started. By way of background, I work as a solid waste planner. So I work for an environmental consulting firm and I work with municipalities and governments and the private sector of this country. I have a career all over the world. very much focused on the environment, involved with non-profit organizations, focused on the environment, the Cleveland Institute, the American Foot Coalition, the Coastal Corridor, that is a case district for energy records, and so…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, and then can I have someone second the nomination?”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“We're equals. Other than the administrative elements, all the chair does is orchestrate the meetings.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“Makes sense. But the chair can pass the ballot. Right. Make a motion.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“The issue they run into is the other committees will want to do it.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yes. I'm just sharing my insight with politics that there may be some resistance to changing the status quo. But if you could try the soft channel. going directly to the clerk or the acting town manager. If that is unsuccessful, then we can bring a discussion item forward and make it a formal request. And then sometimes it's helpful if the representative or representatives show up at a commission meeting to make the case. This doesn't particularly occur at the end of the meeting or the beginning of the meeting, so it is a commitment to go with the representative. So let's try the soft channel…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'm going to take the gavel back if we have a few seconds.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“No, no, just so we can have a general discussion.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“to help bring everybody up to speed on where we left off with the last committee, I will bring a discussion item forward for next month that identifies the priorities of the last committee. One of the other things that we have influence over, or at least we have a voice, are the town's legislative priorities. So we'll also put an item on the agenda that deals with legislative priorities. Not that everything that we advocate for will become, because there's only so much that junior Tallahassee is seeking, But we certainly can offer our thoughts, and it's better to do it now before the…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“So it may be coming your way. And that is the town received a grant from Beverage Association to have a sticker affixed to every recycling cart, which is nice. But if it is not balanced by a concerted education and outreach program, and again, we're a fund-sized community. So to my thinking, that's a knock on the door, introducing folks introducing themselves to our resident. We're going to put a sticker on your card. This is why we're putting the sticker on the card. And then an ongoing monitoring program to keep non-recycled materials out of the recycling cart. And so that work has begun,…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“It took us the better part of a year to get the grant accepted by the commission.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“It's something I'm going to touch on in a moment, but any ideas that you have, bring them forward. One of the challenges that we run into is when there's a new commission, we have a new commission every two years, there's a lot of change. So we run into a capacity issue from the town manager's office. We're in that same transition period now. We have an acting town manager, and it's going to take some time before we have a permanent town manager. So I want to be sensitive, too. what we're asking of the administration, but we should keep the ideas flowing, and I'd rather have a backlog of…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“coordinate with the clerk to get out the list of priorities, which doesn't mean that has to be the priorities for the committee. Just to share with you where we're at. Let's try to do that this week.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“So here's my ask of all of you. That if, that I'm encouraging you, please bring discussion items forward. And generally the order is, of operation is bring a discussion item forward, and then we can figure out how it fits into our plan. There is a template for a discussion item that I found to be very helpful so that if you look at a commission agenda, sometimes in the discussion items, it's just a title. I mean, who knows what the intention is, let alone where the discussion may go. So it's very simple. The form has a title that goes in the agenda, the objective, what do you as the person…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“The discussion items, all the discussion items. And for all you Seinfeld fans, it's like the coffee table book about coffee tables. Yeah. there were the legislative priorities and then was it fiscal year priorities as well for the so I don't know if it was a one page or two page that had all of our initiatives and then prioritized by time frame? Yes.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“So whatever the most recent one is, maybe the legislative priorities from last year?”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“So I'm not sure how much influence the town has. It may just be permitting that comes through. But If there's something that you want to discuss on it or you want the town to provide information, just put together the discussion item on it and then work.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“As far as I know, I'm not sensitive to whatever electricity it's sending out.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“But some people are sensitive. That's why I raised the issue.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“through the chair so everybody in their thing you could also bring a discussion item on that for next month if you if you would like to discuss it further yeah so we don't necessarily need to do the research you can bring a discussion item that says we would like the administration to provide an update on who is responsible for the towers and what's the so we And then we can see if there's anything that we can do about it as a committee. One of the challenges is we do better on matters that are within the purview of the town. And even then, it's a process. Just for the benefit of this…”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“Some things will just deal with a voice, and sometimes if it's more substantial, we'll ask each person.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“And I feel like we've accomplished a whole lot.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026
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“So one thing that I thought was productive is we had a joint meeting with the Youth Council so that we could identify synergies. So there was legislation of working on the domain, but the town is now part of a consortium. We helped identify metrics to document our progress towards it. But that may be something. I'm not sure what their schedule is and whether it makes sense. Once we get organized a little bit better, then maybe we'll have a joint meeting with them and see where the work is going to begin.”
Sustainability and Resiliency Committee · Aug 20, 2026