Remarks by Dexter Fisher
27 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Commissioner Thornton took some of my thunder, and that's always my question. who would these ADUs really benefit? Are they benefiting people that's unhoused? Are they benefiting single moms who got children? And the answer to me is no, it wouldn't. To Commissioner Thornton's point, people not running, you know, and it was interesting, not many people that looked like me stood up and talked about ADUs, and that's interesting to me. Folks don't come up, and maybe they don't want to speak for themselves, but to Commissioner Thornton's point, we get calls personally from people in our community…”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Commissioner Fischer. Yeah, I was gonna mention that we need to be real specific about adding, looking at doing traffic calming in that area, and also to keep 18-wheelers out of there, about putting up a structure saying 18-wheelers can't come through. So I think that would be one of the items that we also should be a part of this process.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. It's a long day, long night, 11.49 right now. I'm going to try to get out of here quickly. And I agree with my colleague, Commissioner Hamby. We have invested a lot of money in our homeless population. And let me say, and I was on the committee on this right-of-way, and we had a service provider on that committee with us. when we was talking about this, so this is not a surprise. We knew it was coming down the pipe. A lot of our service providers that deal with our homeless population, they do a good job, but everybody got to step up big game. We got to really bring these…”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“It's a complex situation what we're dealing with when we deal with our homeless situation. And we're not the only community that we're dealing with. I was with the incoming mayor of Gainesville, Georgia. They have a heck of a time in Gainesville dealing with the same thing that we're dealing with. So this is a regional thing, and we've got to do better. But we've... I'm going to ask our service providers, I'm going to put this out there, that you work with all the service providers that help our homeless population from a mental health perspective, from a social abuse perspective, so we can…”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“I just want the public to know that the Clark County School District is paying the full freight for this particular program, and our police department is part of that program, so I just wanted to make that public.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I appreciate the fact that we're going to be getting more housing stock in that particular area. Also, the improvements there, because we have had probably about four fatalities there in that particular area, and it's a dangerous intersection. So I appreciate the builders and developers taking care of that from that perspective. It is going to add a little bit more traffic because right up from Capwood is another subdivision going in about 100 plus homes. So it is going to add a little bit more traffic coming down Capwood into Newton Bridge Road. So I'm hoping, again I'm not sure what type of…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Bob, I want to respond to your comment. And I most definitely don't want to throw the planning commission or the planning department under the bus. But we had all this discussion tonight from my colleagues. So what bothers me then is we send something over to the planning commission, and they really didn't send us nothing really back that had any teeth. So I think that's a frustration for my colleagues. What I'm hearing is, yeah, OK. It might have been vague, but that's the experience. Let's really take a look at this, see what the impact is gonna be on this community and how we can come up…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“The consent is fine with me. Quick question. In order for us to name, he had to have signatures, right?”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Since I was on that task force, let me comment. I think the intent was, to Commissioner Taylor's point, is not to arrest a homeless population if there's a violation. I think we did have our public safety officials in there with us, and we had a solicitor in there. We want to be empathetic. We want to make sure that we use compassion when we ask the folks to move on, but it's not the intent to arrest people, send people to jail. Now, to your point, I think it's a very good point. As a matter of fact, I talked, had a conversation today with some housing advocate about the Whatever happens…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“And again, thank you, Bob, for doing that again. I think one of the things we just really wanted to... the community know and our residents know about we do have these enterprise funds and what they're used for and I'm looking forward to when in the fall we get a little bit deeper into and the residents understand how we use those dollars and that you know these things are available to help as we move forward and look into how we do those type of things in the future especially when it comes to water and our sewer replacing stuff and I hope we would you know because we don't know but I'm…”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 25:15
“Commissioner Fischer. Yeah, thank you. And I apologize, Commissioner Rice. That's okay. So just a little bit of a comment on the flock cameras. And I've been constantly talking with the chief about our flock cameras. First, I think the public needs to know we only have 300 cameras that we have with the government. The rest of the 1,800 or so cameras are tied to either businesses, homes, or other neighborhoods. A community needs to know that. Secondly, we scrub, according to the chief, every 30 days, we're scrubbing stuff that's coming off that we have videotaped and things like that. Our…”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah, and that's sort of my point, too, Mayor. If I can be so bold, and I do this respectfully, I really wish before, if we got some time, I really wish we could really just do a little bit of a work session on this and really start that conversation about the flaws and what it means and what it's going to impact on. It is, you know, and again, I say that I was genocided last week. It is a regressive tax, and I think we need to figure out what the impact is going to be, not on our community, but the people we're trying to help, you know, on homeowners, how much money we're trying to raise.…”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yes, sir. First of all, I just want to thank you. the building and contractor for reaching out to me and asking a few of the questions that I had, and they answered those. And I'm glad it's gonna be for senior housing, which much needed in this community. So I'd like to put a motion on the floor to approve this item.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Again, we appreciate it. Let me preface this. I think we do need a new courthouse, and it probably should well overdue for the years that that courthouse has been there in this community and something new and when we approved it back in 2018. So, of course, and I talked about this at our agenda setting, the price tag. We talked about $200 million and how we gonna fund that and I think that's gotta be a big consideration moving forward when we talk about that. And one of the things, was on my mind when we first started to design and we had a team come in and did a great job.…”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah. Also, wasn't there, if I remember, wasn't there a CDO attached to the money that's going to be going to the housing trust fund, though? Was that part of the $7.9 million, Mayor?”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“So I just wanted to keep that in mind because, you know, I think people might have forgot about that. Well, the CDO, Commissioner Hammond, has attached to that to make sure that those dollars do get spent in that census tract. So I just want to make sure that we did not lose fact of those funds for that particular project and the money that's going to be coming forward. So I think if and when we do the RFP, that piece needs to be in there somewhere.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“I'll... Aren't we having a meeting on Friday?”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Okay, all right, okay. Yes. I didn't know. I didn't want to coincide with what Commissioner Hammerhead put on the floor. Okay.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Of course, you know, you all, that was one of the things we talked about as we was leading this budget process, that we would go through the budget, get all our questions up front, make sure it was transparent to the public, everything, all the questions that we might have had as a commission, any feedback that we got back from the public. And then on Thursday, we'll go ahead and lead that process, talk about it, and to Manager Cowell's point, do an amendment instead of doing a CDO. So that was the thought process on the beginning when we first started looking at the…”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Hearing none. Mayor, just quick, and just reminding, Thursday night, Thursday at 6. Okay. So yeah, here in the city hall.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
- Play at 2:04:56
“Yeah, so we do need a quorum, but I wouldn't count it as a quorum because the mayor's not going to be present.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Commissioner Fisher. Yeah, and, you know, and... I'm sort of on the fence on this one. And the only reason being, you know, we're raising the sale tax to 9%. I have a couple of things, and I appreciate Commissioner Hammond sort of educating me a little bit on it, but how it might affect, I'm sorry, Commissioner Myers.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026