Remarks by Darrin Palumbo
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“And a motion by Councilor Gray, second by Councilor Goler. Since we're on this topic, I see no other light signs. Jeff, I'll just say real quick, I love Apple. I love American Express because they have great customer service. The mark of a good company is something will go wrong. It's how you deal with what went wrong. You acknowledged it. We spoke about it today. It's been fixed. Every penny is accounted for. Appreciate that. Appreciate the honest acknowledgement and making sure the client's taken care of going forward.”
“No registered speakers. Call the roll, please.”
“Yes. Motion passes 7-0, which brings us to councilor communication and future agenda items. Councilors, light signs if there's something you would like to speak about or share with your co-councillors. Councilor Henry?”
“I'm going to talk about you have every right to ask for consensus I'm actually going to address that in my council communication that we are shooting to consensus with four people agreeing before getting white papers I will let you return to that but if you want to if I could speak first to because I think it starts with maybe a white paper and a lot of information before we just put four hands up and say go do a race okay but that's my thought but but if you want to I will not stifle your voice you have a right to ask”
“I'd ask the city manager maybe to start with, not to put on the... Yeah, flood cameras.”
“Alan, I had a follow-up on that, and you know where I'm going with it. We had some legal problems with those bridge cameras?”
“Thank you. Counsel, anything else to add? No, I'm done. All right. And I'll come back to you when I get done with mine if you need to be revisited. Counselor Gray, you're up next.”
“Let me try to remember. A few statements first. I was a MICA member. Not only because I forgot to renew, because I don't go to the beach, but I will be renewing just so you know. I've been a member for years. When you say 20,000 MICA members approve this, I think that's a little misleading. MICA, their board, unlike this council, does not have a meeting where 20,000 of their members show up and vote on this or vote an opinion. They are 20,000 strong, but they do follow the lead of their board of directors. That they do vote on. It sounds to me, and I believe that the county commissioners, if…”
“That would be the time to come and state that. I don't know if I fully answered all your questions, but that's about where we're at.”
“You have three counselors, although the counselor from EVERGLADE CITY IS ACTUALLY, I THINK HE'S A LAY PERSON, BUT HE ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO BE A COUNSELOR, TOO. SO REALLY IT'S MYSELF. AS A COUNSELOR, IT'S NAPLE CITY COUNSELOR COACH KRAMER, BILL COACH KRAMER, WHO SIT ON IT, SO THE TWO OF US. I FORGET THE MAKEUP, FORGIVE ME, AND I SIT ON IT. THREE, TWO LAY PEOPLE, ONE CHAIRMAN OF THE, IT'S CHAIRED BY ONE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AND THEN THREE PEOPLE FROM THE INDUSTRY. OURS IS MICHAEL LAMME FROM THE MARRIOTT. And we have two from hotels in Naples. Is that going to change now? That'll still be…”
“At least I'm led to believe that's still the same.”
“Thank you. Appreciate it. Counselor Schwan, you've been waiting patiently. You're up.”
“No. The TDC money, yes, comes from tourist taxation.”
“No. I mean, it's a unique beast, tourist taxation, right? I tread lightly here, sitting here. It works its way back into the community. I view it as showing the citizens, hey, tourism is benefiting your community. We're kind of all in this together to a degree. You're making the community beautiful. We're using some tourist tax to do it. We connect a lot of things to the tourist tax. But in return, people still continue to come because it's a beautiful community, and we ask them a little bit. So I said the term symbiotic once at a TDC meeting, and somebody said they liked it. It's an…”
“Eight years worth. You had Irwin. Rich Blahn, a voter for the last year. Graffoni, Joe Roll, I think a jarrant move. Joe Roll, I believe, is still here. Rich is still here. Becky Irwin is still here. Greg Folley is still here. Vice Chair Bracknett's passed away, unfortunately. I'm trying to think back. I don't know if you ever voted for it, but he passed. I can't tell you the beginning of 2006. I can't remember exactly. Charlotte? I'm here still. That was kind of a given. That was, I thought, understood. I'm sitting here. Yes, I'm still here in case you didn't notice.”
“Two moved away, maybe, if I remember. Jarrett was one, and I want to say, was it Sam? What was Sam's, the captain? Young. I think he moved. He had to resign and he moved.”
“No comment. You'll learn that in our business. No comment.”
“Thank you. Vice Chair Champagne, you are up.”
“I was just writing that I see no other light science. I guess I'll make me last a couple things I Just I'll read this without the name first The $1.8 trillion economy is now the world's 14th largest after surpassing Australia and Mexico. Can anybody guess what that 14th largest economy in the world is? Florida. Florida's economy moves up to number 14 globally. This is, I think it's from a Florida Association of Realtors update, but the company is Florida Chamber Foundation. Again, this is one study that might not, but the foundation said Florida's economy grew 6.3% over the past year, moving…”
“I remember that meeting I agree with you, but when I see any recreation any zoning It's broad or I only interpret this as a workaround for a pickleball consensus then that's the only way you could look at it if it said do you want to direct planning board to look at pickleball noise. That might have been a different story. But we've lumped the entire, every recreation and every zoning area. And I believe, I didn't give consensus, but I respectfully didn't. And I believe, was it you, Councilor Henry, if I remember? And was it you, Vice Chair? So the three of us were the ones that, I remember…”
“I asked for these five. Those are the ones that I asked for.”
“AND IN ALLEN'S DEFENSE, THESE ARE THE ONES THAT JUST POPPED UP IN MY HEAD, THE ONES I COULD RECENTLY THINK OF. ALLEN, I'M GOING TO TREAD VERY LIGHTLY AND MAKE IT QUICK. SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOISE, AND STEPHEN, I APPRECIATE YOUR STANDPOINT. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE COUNTERED ME AT GET RID OF PLAINLY AUDIBLE WHEN YOU HAD ME AT THE REST, BECAUSE IT WAS BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAD. Councillor Gray's noise ordinance, could you sign off on it as legally sufficient?”
“MR. So, Stephen, quick question. If his last version was legally sufficient, why didn't you motion for it?”
“Well, if the original ordinance wasn't legally sufficient or enforceable, then how were we going to pass it?”
“I know we didn't open this up for this, but I appreciate the conversation. I appreciate where you stand and appreciate talking about it. Councillor Gohl, are your light signs on?”