Remarks by Dr. Glen Spiritis
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, I would just make sure that the shared parking, that the church has a certain percentage during the week for their staff and for the programs that they're holding. So I would get a percentage of that taken out and reserved for the church itself.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“A certain percentage of shared parking should not be shared. It should be 100% for the church.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes. So, basically, what I'm saying is that they're, they're permitting you to use that same spot for the housing. And for the church. And I'm just saying that a certain percentage should just be available for the church during the week, not used by the housing, so they can have their activities seven days a week.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“For their parking, so I'm saying that we have to take out with a carve out a certain percentage. So the church will still have parking 7 days a week.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So what I'm saying is you have to take that 10% because you're letting them use what's overbuilt. It could be 50 spaces are required for the church, and they're meeting their requirements, and then they have 50 spaces for the housing. Let's say it's senior housing, and it's only one space required per unit for senior housing, but we know that everybody usually has two cars, not one. So we have to be realistic. We can't just put our heads in the sand. We know what's really happening.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, you're also going to look into the 501c3 being able, the church being able to set that up, a private 501c3 and still be considered the owner.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So when the local government makes the designation of a brownfield, what are the requirements that we have to follow? Do we have to do a phase one and phase two environmental... Can we just sit here and say we decided that's a brownfield, or do we have to do actual studies to determine that a site is a brownfield site?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'm talking about the local municipality designation, not the state or the federal government. That's what I'm responding to.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But I still don't see how scientifically we as a council can determine that a site is a brownfield site. I mean, we could look at, I mean, How do we know whether or not there's carbohydrate product in the dirt enough to determine that we should do something different than we would do with a regular normal site?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“But council, designated by who? A designated site, designated by the city council?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“What I'm trying to get clear in my head is that it's really not a brownfield. You're just saying if it needs economic development, we're calling it a brownfield. I'm not saying that, no. Well, that's what I'm asking. Do we have to do an environmental study? Does an environmental analysis have to be done prior to this, to us moving on this? Or can we just make a designation? Or can someone just come in here and say, you know, I need economic development and I want you to stick this under the brownfield designation?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Chair, I make a motion that we extend the meeting till the business is completed.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So my question, by the way, Mayor, thank you for asking that question. That was where I was going before when I was trying to figure out you know, what is the actual designation of a brownfield and how do we determine that? More research. Yeah, but at this particular point, who also determines when the site is clean? Does the state do that or does the city do that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Because, you know, you can use bioremediation, for example, on a carbohydrate product and certain other chemicals. But if you're talking about a cleaner's, You're going to have to use a strip because it could take years and years and years to clean the site. So this is really a very complicated task in determining whether a site is clean, clean enough to be developed.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Waterline and a force one. Okay, it's the water.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So now I'm like kind of caught on this one in between. You know, the utility district is going to have a lot of projects that happen that we don't even expect. And it's nice to have a pool there so you can grab somebody right away and say, OK, you're going to be in charge of this project. You know, we know right now, for example, we're adding water lines on North Ocean, probably from Pine Point all the way to the water glades. That's a project no one's even, you know, we're working on it, but you're going to need an owner's rep on that project. But at the same time, you have the Intracoastal…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“What is the exact date if we follow through with the process that we're doing now that we'll actually be interviewing or we'll have candidates sent to us.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, Chair, so I think that we should follow through with this process. I don't see the emergency right now. Let's follow through with this process. Let's get some candidates here in December, January, and make a decision at that time. I think that we should look at other firms. I wasn't really... more than thrilled with the firm that we used last time. So I think we should open it up and look at other firms as well, because this is going to be a pretty major decision we're going to have to make.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'd like to wish all our Jewish residents a Shana Tova, Happy New Year, and hopefully after the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, you were all written well in the book of God. That's all. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can we add on to the agenda for discussion purposes, owner's rep? CITY'S OWNERS REP?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“NO, FOR ALL OWNERS REP ENGINEERING, MOSTLY ENGINEERS, THE OWNERS REP ON OUR PROJECTS.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we are under Item 9A, Ordinance is Offer Free. My motion to adopt the agenda was as amended.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026