Remarks by Dave Eggers
526 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 19 of 22
“or getting from the parents about their $1,800 purchase that they maybe thought had certain rights that they don't have. So we locally have the right to implement certain, I think sounds like we're already have things in place. What additional things can we consider?”
“So you're saying we can't do that first one with those bikes?”
“What does state law require about identification on the bike? Anything?”
“So the kids that, like Commissioner Peters was talking about, probably 10 or 11 years old. Totally illegal. Yeah, totally illegal to have that bike.”
“Right, well, we have a relationship with our partners. Right.”
“Yes. Well, that's not the problem. The problem is in the other purchases. What's that?”
“Oh, okay. I thought that most of the problems were from the other ones, but go ahead, Commissioner Scott.”
“Commissioner, that's a good point. We can start sending a message that we're talking about mostly the class three, as you said, but that this is something that we're continuing to look at and that goes beyond the e-bikes. We're starting to look at them as the attorney said, we're starting to look at them as road vehicles,”
“Yeah. But the ones that you were talking about, they're not class three. They're beyond class three. They're beyond class three, right. Yeah.”
“And they're not really legal anywhere. I mean, legal to be driven without a license on the streets.”
“So where can you drive them legally? Nowhere. If you don't have a license, if you're not 16 or 15 or. And if you don't have a license plate on it.”
“Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think this is a, I'm not saying simple. This is an area that we can focus on. But again, I think really the kids being able to ride to school, I don't think that's something that we're overly concerned with. And yet they're using the sidewalks and that's not legal. I mean, so are we promoting illegal activity, letting them... I mean, do the parents know that they can get them a bicycle and go on the sidewalk to school, but you can't use an e-bike or the one you bought on Amazon that can go 50 miles an hour, even though they're only going 15, to school. That's not legal…”
“I think that's a good idea. OK. Also, great idea. Thank you, Brian. All right. So I guess we'll leave item two. So we'll go from buildings to e-bikes to now we're gonna talk about budgets. Do we wanna take a 10 minute break and continue or just keep going? Keep going, all right.”
“But Barry, just for clarification, the budget that you presented to us still needs $10 million more for a full global rollback. That's correct. Okay. Just want to make sure I'm clear on that.”
“And Paul, as you answered the question, do we have a breakout like where we're getting our revenues from? Like, is it mostly the the top line or are people mostly in the annual passes? How does that kind of break out?”
“So on the rate issues, and again, you can't probably break out tourism versus resident income, but is there a way to structure these passes so that if you're a resident, they're a little bit cheaper to get than, I don't know, tourists that come here a lot, is there a way to give our residents a little bit of a break? Again, you go to the CVB stuff, you know, It's all about our visitors paying for a lot of the things that we're enjoying here locally.”
“Okay, so my last question then on rates is, I'm a resident, I'm sitting here going, an annual pass makes the most sense. Can I pay it incrementally? Or now you're talking, well, no, that's too complicated. Now it becomes a six-month pass. There's somebody... let's see the senior pass, $55, it goes to 70. They can look at $15 a quarter easily. Is there a way to, no, you can't commit to it. And I think what you're doing is you're probably hurting the other, the passes.”
“Yep. That was my question too. Yeah. Yeah. Commissioner flowers.”
“Yeah. And if we're trying to drive the annual passes, maybe we don't look as big of an increase at the annual passes as we do the daily. If you really try to drive them there, go from 110 to 125 or something.”
“So boat ramp access for the county, and I don't mean just us, but have others experienced the same issues? Are we having a massive problem with access to the waters? Because it's not just ours, but others as well?”
“Oh, Clearwater Beach. Okay. And how's the purchase for Tarpon Springs looking? You know, the extra land up there for a new boat ramp.”
“Again, I think the concept behind this was that cities all over the county have opportunities for people. And we have none or had none. And this was a way to help our... 501c3s or government groups, special districts or whatever, to ask for the funding. What we didn't control maybe was how often they can ask for it. Now they can ask for it every year. In the early goings, it seemed like the FICSA groups were the only ones, the four groups up there were the only ones taking advantage of it, and we built up a pretty good reserve over, because, and then others started to understand the…”
“of an MSU district to have the options but maybe once every three years and not every year or not even every other year and maybe I still like the I have to the 220,000 I don't think we have a lot of reserves now do we now we spent those down with the lighting district”
“Maybe we drop it to somewhere in between the two, 175.”
“How are the improvements with the group that currently has the responsibility of doing it? I know there were several issues that were there.”