Remarks by Darrin Palumbo
628 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 26
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“I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT THROUGH. WE KIND OF LEFT THIS AS A GUIDELINE.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“SO WE'LL GET YOU ON THAT NEXT ONE. VERY GOOD. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD TO COUNCIL COMMUNICATION?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, it's an option, not that it's a guarantee.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I don't know off the top of my head. I mean, do you have any other choices that you would like to present or what other choices?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“For me it was, personally, but you guys might have other opinions.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Before I turn over to Councillor Henry, I will just say I did reply back, and I appreciate Councillor Schwan and Councillor Gray where you're going with this. Somebody asked about port fees, and I said, boy, I'd love to charge that. I don't know if we have the right because Rosemarina owns the property. I'm not sure. It's not a governmental port, but I'll certainly look into it. I'm happy you're looking into it already, so I appreciate you doing the legwork on that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“That would be spectacular. Councillor Henry.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Let's hope we could, and we'll see where it goes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“The CAC, for those watching who have no idea what that means.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think it's a brilliant idea. And actually, I've been trying to nail everybody down on TDC money. And based on that, I should probably take the same path and say, let's make it more formal. Let's get it on an agenda. I've been saying to you, what do you want to do? But I think it's probably my job to tee it up for everybody so we can have the conversation.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Joan, how many people are signed up for public comment?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“OK, and I need about three minutes. So can we just get to extend to 1025?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay, 1030. Motion to extend to 1030? So moved. All right, got a motion, got a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? All right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. I have no objections from the council. That is fine.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“On that word, you're going to get called out. OK, my turn. Where do I start? Let's start with I pulled up our goals from 2026, and I was going to use this in the Hilton discussion. And, Councillor Gray, this was your goals, and it was as a compliment not to pit us against each other. Councillor Gray's goals, number four, improve local economy and tourism. When I read that, I thought that's spectacular. And then when he goes on to list them all in great detail, support year-round business growth, increase local economy activity by 10%. I respected it. I understood it. It makes me feel like…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Good evening, everybody. Thursday, September 10th, 530. This is our rescheduled, regularly scheduled city council meeting. A couple things to go over before we get started. If you're in the back of the room, if you're up for proclamations or presentations, that's fine. If you're going to be just attending the meeting, we do ask you to do the codes and fire marshal codes to take a seat in the spillover room in the back. There's an audio video. You'll be able to see us, hear us. We do have rules of decorum in effect, folks. And I know there's some very passionate items on the agenda. But if we…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Councilor Schwan's going to be calling in on a Zoom call. We're going to get to her in a moment.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Here. All right, so six councilors accounted for in person. Guys, we do need a motion to allow Councilor Schwan, and I just saw her there. Benita, can you hear us?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Excellent. Happy to have you join on Zoom. We do need a motion to allow her to present. I move to allow her to present. second motion by Councillor Dome second by Councillor Gray can you call a roll on this please Councillor Dome yes Councillor Gray yes Councillor Kohler yes Councillor Henry yes Vice Chair Champaign yes Chair Palumbo yes Benita you're official you're with us yes thank you and I would like to thank the residents of Marco Island for the kind”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, we stand with you. I wasn't going to mention it, but thoughts and prayers for you, Counselor. All right. Item three, the invocation. Reverend Thomas McCauley of the New Life Community Church is going to do that. And after that, it remains standing. If you're able to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, I'll leave that.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Before we get to the approval of the agenda, Reverend McCauley, beautiful words. And you have a long history on the island. So well said. Let's hope they hit their mark. Guys, I need the approval of the agenda. I'll entertain a motion for that. So moved. Second. Motion by Vice Chair Champaign, second by Councilor Dome. All those in favor, say aye.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“All right. For the record, 14B is ID 265772, correct?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“All right. We did just approve the agenda. It might have been a little pertinent just before that, but I appreciate you bringing it up. David, you know I'm going to look over to you for some guidance and advice on this.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Councilor Gray, you're going to get to talk about it. We certainly won't diminish your voice. Do you find a big difference in changing our agenda or taking it up when we get to that?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“It's a long agenda. Remind me when I'm there in case I will make sure your voice is heard. Thank you. Now, folks, if you hear proclamations, presentations, public comment, they're going to come before item six, which is require the millage rate discussion by law to come at the beginning of the agenda in case anybody's wondering. But while you're here, if you have public comment for items not on the agenda, you want to sign up for public comment with our city clerk, Joan Taylor, over here to my left, and you can sign up for any item on the agenda. All right, with that, we're moving on to item…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026