Remarks by Dr. Glen Spiritis
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
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“Okay, next item. Yes. Chair, I'd just like to disclose that I do know the owner of one of the properties, the senior citizen property that's on the agenda tonight. He does own property in Lake Park next door to property that I'm involved with.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“It shows the shade being given off by the building at different times of the year and different hours during the year. So you see what the impact would be on the buildings adjacent or close by. You see what the shadows. If you had a swimming pool in the backyard, you'd know whether or not you're still going to have sun in your backyard or whether you're going to have darkness in your backyard.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, this is a little difficult the way you did this. I mean, normally we have a cassette shadow and we show morning, afternoon,”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Are those the townhouses or the single family houses? The single family. So two of the single family houses will have impact? Just the two of them, correct. For how many months of the year?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And how many hours a day are they going to be impacted the whole day or just?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair? Yes, thanks, Chair Spiro. So my concern with this is that this is basically a county project. This is not a city project. We can't say that the only residents that are coming in here are going to be City of Riviera Beach residents. These are people that will be coming from all over the county in here who will be providing the services. You know that facilities like this, and by the way, just for the record, I support this type of housing. I even support transitional housing. Very few communities would accept this in their backyard. You'd be hard pressed to find communities to take…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, those are fees, right. So we will be sending police officers there on a pretty regular basis with our fire department. as well on cases like this. And I'm just saying it's only fair that the municipality that you're going into, and this is maybe not your issue, it's the county's issue, before they provide funding for projects like this, they should be working out payment in lieu of tax deals with the local municipalities to make sure the local municipalities are getting the appropriate funds that they need to provide services to facilities like this. And there should even be a little…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, I just, the only reason I'm bringing this up is because there may be many other projects like this, and I wanna send the message to other developers that are coming in here to do similar projects that when they do their budgets they better make sure that they have a payment in lieu of taxes in their proposal before they come to us because we can't afford to do this over and over and over again uh these these properties especially large properties like two acres uh would be better off being on the tax rolls rather than off the tax rolls So that's my concern. I'm just looking down the…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. First, I just want to refer, it's my understanding that we cannot give preference to Riviera Beach residents. I wish we could, but it's my understanding under the law that we cannot do that. But secondly, Councilwoman, you misunderstood what I was saying. It was based on the age of the people in this facility. It had nothing to do with the income of the people in this facility. This is a senior citizen facility. And very often I have it just where I live, as a matter of fact, which is mostly senior citizens. You'll see a lot of fire aided calls. and usually very often will bring a…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, will that require, if we add the condition, will that require an amendment to the motion?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So, Chair, I amend my motion to include these conditions that you requested.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“locks them into 30% to 80% AMI on this project. They even list the specific numbers of units for each of the income levels at the 30%, 40%, all the way up to the 80% level. Okay, so what?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I can amend my motion to include the income, the AMI, as per the county and their requirements.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“One more point before we have these gentlemen standing there. One of the questions that I did ask was about the parking because it did come up. And we even suggested possibly that open space that you had leading to Blue Heron might be available or usable for parking. Have you looked at that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, Chair. I have no problem with this process. I've seen this before. It works well.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, I would recommend that we look at the former MIA program and maybe do an ordinance change and give a percentage of those funds towards this program.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so my question is, do we have the ability to do a short-term bond and pay it off with the MEOP program?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I would suggest you call J.P. Morgan. They did about $600 million worth of bonds for us. Maybe they can do us a little bit of a favor and give us a deal on a small bridge loan.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, the total with the overtime you're saying is 30 hours per week?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Right, but I think we did agree to go back a couple of the administrative assistants. We agreed to give them the retroactive pay. When we gave the other employees pay, they didn't receive it, and we agreed to do that. At the meeting when we discussed the budget at that time and the salaries, are we going to be able to take care of that and get these people paid the additional money? You're talking about the COLA? Well, we gave a 15% raise to employees, I believe, that these administrative assistants didn't get. It might have been a COLA as well. I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“and what we're trying to develop here. And I think that very often in municipalities, the planning and development department handles housing as well, usually has that in most municipalities. They have under their development portion in their planning department, they will put a housing person or a housing group together within there. And I think that would be very appropriate to come under neighborhood services since you have all of those staff people available.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026