Remarks by David Lowery
340 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 14
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“Thank you. Sam, I heard you try to come online, sir.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. And Commissioner Pernaut also mentioned we had some very heavy rains here recently. And I received several, as I'm sure other commissioners did, several videos from folks, text, pictures. Hey, I'm having this drainage overflow. This canal is completely over flooded. These are heavy rains and you guys need to come back out and clean this for me, this culvert. Our 12 stormwater workers do a whole lot of yeoman's grunt work, but they do very important yeoman's grunt work, digging ditches and cleaning culverts and all that stuff to give our water a place to go. We're here…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Correct me, I misspoke. I was talking about their disposables. Their disposables, about $200,000, right?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's what I was referring to, not the multimillion dollars of actual infrastructure assets. But I appreciate the clarification there. There's no intent to use a wrong term there. So thank you for that. All right, any other discussion among the commission on this one? Hearing none.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. And I'd actually like to go back to Commissioner Warwick's proposal from last December, roll the tape back, blow it off, update it as needed, and let's, as a commission, take another hard look at that.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“to go with an as-is versus a 3% increase?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sorry, I misunderstood. I understand what you're saying now. Basically, go back to scratch, ground zero. Potentially, what other options do we have with this commission award pitch?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“City Manager, City Attorney, can you all speak to that?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sir, you've had your three minutes plus some. I gave you some extra. Your three minutes is up. Thank you, sir. Respectfully. have to treat you just like everybody else. You're my senior and I'd give you six minutes if I could, but I can't. It's three minutes.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Any other public commentary on item 13? Hearing none, city manager, would you call the roll?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Mayor, can I say something? Yes. I'm sorry. Commissioner Peebles, go ahead.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, no, no. We're still in the initial phase where the five of us need to determine what our game plan is going to be here. So my thoughts are, and as I've said all along, y'all have heard me say this many times, if we hire internal, if we promote from within, We really have a couple of different contenders, right? If we go administrative or if we go financial for the core clerk, okay? If we take an existing full-time resource and promote it, we're not costing a whole new salary, right? You're taking a small amount of a fully funded salary line. And so we will be able to save, depending on…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you for that. Commissioner Pernaut, what's your thoughts, sir?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And if it's a clerk, an administrative clerk, Tiki could not have the title director of finance, but she could be a treasurer or a comptroller and report to that clerk. So yes, either way, either way we set it up with an administrative.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“The one on the left. On the left, yes. Okay. And then the center is your treasurer, basically, your financial manager, and then financial?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. So just to clarify though, city manager, we talked about this a little bit in the last meeting too. So is there a requirement if it's a clerk treasurer, right? That's the money person, that is a standalone report to the commission. But you just said, if I understood you right, that if the clerk is an administrative, that the finance person, the director of finance would need to stay under you as the city manager. That's correct. And my question is, what drives that? Is that city charter, is that state law, or what is that?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“tracking my only Clarification question because I'm just not understanding. I want to make sure I understand what you're saying If the city commission was to assign say talking about we're talking about the two options, right? So we have an administrative clerk or we have a financial clerk treasurer right the bean counter slash clerk if you have an administrative clerk or What is there if the city commission reassigns the head bean counter, for lack of a better term, the treasurer person, under the supervision of the administrative clerk? How is that?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So what I hear you saying is they're a treasurer first and then a clerk.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's what I was missing. So thank you for that.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026