Remarks by Dr. Glen Spiritis
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“Thank you. so uh my question was going to be about the risk manager so thank you for bringing it up uh i see it advertised all the time in our vacancy list it's been well over a year now maybe two years my question is can we privatize that can we hire a private company to act as our risk manager”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER, FOLLOW-UP. I'm not quite sure your reasons why we can't have a private company. Clearly, we hire private engineering firms to act as the owner's rep on $50, $60 million projects. And those have safety involved in it and pretty much everything that you brought up, the follow through and everything else. I think we ought to consider it, maybe look into it and see if any other municipalities have done that. BECAUSE CLEARLY WE'VE GONE NOWHERE FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“TWO PEOPLE HAVE LEFT. SO THAT'S LIKE HAVING NOBODY THERE, REALLY. I just think that you should look into it and see if any other municipalities have done it and if they have, are they happy with it or not happy with it?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I hear what you're saying. I respectfully disagree. I don't see why that can't be privatized and get the same service, maybe even a better service because you might have more people backing them up and a larger organization backing them up. But that's okay. You're entitled to your opinion. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. THAT'S IMPORTANT INFORMATION. NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER YOU'RE WELCOME.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY BEFORE THAT YOU WERE LOOKING INTO PASSWORDS AND WERE YOU STATING THAT YOU WANTED TO SEE THE EMPLOYEES USE THEIR PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS AND WITH A PASSWORD?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Chair? Yes. Are we able to extend the meeting until Wednesday when the utility district meets and start at 5.30 and see how much we can get done?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I appreciate that. Okay, staff. Chair. So Thursday is definitely out. No, it will be that out. But is Thursday still on?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, Director Ammons, my question is from a procurement, I guess, are we considering this design build, even it's an ITN, I understand that, but is this, how is this being considered? A design build project?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“SO BASICALLY WE DID DESIGN BUILD OBVIOUSLY FOR MOST OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE. I GUESS THREE FIREHOUSES, TWO ARE COMPLETE, ONE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW. WE'RE DOING THE POLICE STATION DESIGN BUILD. Most communities know when that project went out to bid for the design-build purposes, it went out saying design-build finance. So people thought that were bidding on this project, that were putting in proposals, thought that they were going to have to finance the project. But they did not have to finance the project because we ended up bonding the project. So the people that were…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Are you going to be speaking about the piece, the vacant land on Broadway as well in this presentation?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, go ahead Vice Chair. So I believe that the problem Tri-Rail has been having in the MPO is getting access to the tracks. They've been negotiating now for, geez, at least three years that I know of. I'm sure it's been a lot longer, but every meeting that I've been to the MPO on, this seems to come up and they're still negotiating and this has been going on for a real long time. But I think that eventually they will, in the original studies that I saw, they did choose Riviera Beach over Lake Park. in the studies. One study had them both in there, but clearly it doesn't make sense to have…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Just one quick moment. I just want to disclose that approximately five years ago, I submitted the P3 application to Lake Park for a train station project. where they're planning their train station. We've never gotten any feedback from that, but I just want to disclose for the record that the development group that I'm working with did put in a P3 application for a train station. So noted.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Can you tell me what the heights are of the buildings, the highest building?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Bob, I see you saying six, but I can count close to eight or nine on some of these buildings. So how many stories are there?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So I'm asking what's the highest height?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'd like to remind the council, too, that we are rewriting the former MIOP, PLAN RIGHT NOW AND DEPENDING ON HOW IT'S WRITTEN, SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEOP OR WHATEVER OUR NEW TERM IS GOING TO BE FOR THAT PROGRAM.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I SHOULD ALSO ADD THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO WHEN WE DO THE AGREEMENT ITSELF, WE CAN MAKE IT ELASTIC SO IT COULD BE SUBJECT TO or changes by the city council based on community input. So that way we can go meet with the community after we have something actually executed.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Do you have a site plan so you can show us where on Broadway, because not everyone is familiar where on Broadway this is going?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“um yes uh it was vice chair spiritus and then councilwoman miller-anderson so i have one question for each of you uh director uh sherman if we commit if we if we have a loan now that we have to pay back from the sonnenblatt group let's say it's 100 million dollars uh we sign an agreement we are now on the hook to pay back that loan that's not going to impact on bonding”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“That's for the city hall. That's correct. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, so I just... CAUTION THE CITY AND I HOPE THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THE STAFF TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION. WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN THE SAME POSITION WE WERE IN WITH THE WATER PLANT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE AN OFF RAMP HERE, AN EXIT RAMP IN CASE WE DON'T AGREE WITH THE GMP NUMBERS. THERE HAS TO BE AN ABILITY FOR US TO MOVE ON AT THAT POINT.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026