Remarks by Ed Dodd
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
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“Yeah, I think, well, the previous vice mayor, McPartland, resigned to run when he was running for county commission. And I would move that we reappoint Bob McPartland to fill the remainder of the term that he was resigned for.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yes. Motion carries. Mayor Jones. Yes, sir. We have one other item that steps onto this. We're without a vice mayor, and I... The attorney might want to address this,”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“So the first order of business after he's sworn in would be to do the vice mayor election?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Then let's swear him in. Swear him in. Out there.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay, now I officially nominate Bobby McPartland for vice mayor.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Come on, Dan. You can do it. You can do it.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I've just got one. Hold on a minute. Turned my monster off. Brian, the 2526 money for the sewer conversion program, that $228,000, that hasn't been expended, has it?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I just didn't, I mean, some of these projects, basically they're all still hanging around is what it amounts to. 25, 26 projects are all still hanging around to go into 26, 27.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“One of the issues that comes up, I was the one that talked to Brian and the group management director, Alex, about this. 512 is our minimum. I mean, we don't allow anything below 512 within that area. And in reality, if we, and I understand the reason for doing this, you want to get more height in the floors in the buildings, basically. So you want to be able to go with a 10-foot floor as opposed to an 8-foot floor or something so you can do more stuff within the buildings. And it's a perfectly logical thing to do. But even at 812, if we go 512, 612, then we're within, you know, the 25-foot…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“And I don't know, is there anything in the code that specifies the width the minimum or maximum width of the building, the construction?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“But that's a property limitation. That's not a code limitation. Yes. And as we all know, like, for example, that piece of property at the end of Davis Street is very small. Many people come in and want to build on that, and they can't put something together that actually meets our code to be able to build on that piece of property. whether the code stipulates, you know, something. We can't, and I know this is east of Indian River Drive, and I know there's not a lot of stuff down there right now, but there's certainly a lot of stuff that could be torn down. And then we have to have the code…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“The pitch, I mean, if we say the roof pitch, 8 to 12, 5 to 12, 6 to 12. 8 to 12. I think right now in the code, 5 to 12 is the minimum. It's 32, I think. I mean, if we say that, I don't know architecturally what we're doing. What we really should be concentrating on, in my opinion, is what's the foot? Is it 30 feet? Is that the maximum ridge line we want, 30 feet? Is the maximum range line 32 feet or 35 feet? Right now it's, you know, if we look at the one example, it's like 32 feet or something like that, or 28 feet under this one example or something. So what is that maximum elevation we…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I would propose that we add as clause to the end of this statement, the change in the document that basically says, with the maximum ridge line of 30 feet.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“And that would stop anybody who wants to come in and build something crazy with a 10-12 pitch on this thing and running up to 42 feet or 43 feet or something like that.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, and by just adding a 30-foot statement, we're not impacting pitch. Correct. They can do whatever they want as long as they stay within that.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. Anything else? Do I need to make a motion to that? Yes. All right, I move that we approve. Is this a first reading?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Well, we don't have to move. We don't have to do it. No, no, we don't have to. Is there a consensus to add that clause to the change? Because we don't do a motion and vote on first reading, right? Not on the first reading. We currently do. Yes, currently do. Oh, currently? Okay. Well, we'll do it then. So we don't. You need to make a motion. I need to make a motion? Yes. All right. I move that we adopt the ordinance O2622 with the addition of a clause at the end where the last word ridge is a comma with a maximum ridge height of 30 feet.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I UNDERSTAND NOW. SO I NEED TO MODIFY MY MOTION THEN. JUST TO CHECK. THANK YOU. So my motion is to approve the ordinance with the modification being at the end of the word ridge place comma and that the ridge line east of Indian River Drive would be limited to 30 feet. I understand that because it doesn't do that.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I was waiting for Fred to throw something at me and tell me it's my turn to vote.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“That's for sure. Yeah, I think so I think that's what does this change as it's presented in our agenda packet actually modify that because the only change is to item number nine under the procedural operations and it basically says there's there's The council deliberation in action is exempt for first readings where no motion or vote is necessary But all the other areas, it doesn't mean that the council can't ask questions or deliberate during the staff's presentation, during the applicant's presentation, or after public input, which all are still there.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I saw one of those agendas this week because I was looking this stuff up and I saw an agenda for a council meeting south of here. They had like nine first readings. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it was like a consent agenda. Right. They approved it like a consent agenda.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move approval of Ordinance O2625 and set the second reading date for October 14th, 26. Second.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I was just interested in what the timing would be on the transition plan.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“And have that done at the October 14th meeting?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“There's nothing anywhere that says that we can't ask for a speaker oath card for both quasi-judicial and legislative, right? No. So maybe what we should do is just say if you're going to address any of these items, you have to have an oath card. And that way it's kind of immaterial as to whether they're talking about legislative or not. I understand the issue where someone might want to talk about a legislative item and they're presenting hearsay or whatever and we shouldn't be considering that in a quasi-judicial hearing. Any substantive information that's being provided should be correct…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026