Remarks by Ed Dodd
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 6
- Play at 2:09:39
“It's simple and straightforward and everybody does it. They only matter if three weeks from now somebody wants to sue us or challenge what we've been done in that meeting and then our clerk needs to needs to come up with speaker oath cards and so forth. So as long as we have everybody do it, it's simple and they don't have to decide. Because a lot of the people addressing us on an item, I mean, we've covered a judicial and a quasi-judicial legislative about annexations or about modifications to the comp plan in order to do a site plan. And they don't understand the difference between those…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“I mean, it's these automatic things. Is that, you know, at some point in time, it's 3%. You know, three years from now, all of a sudden, we realize, well, our 3% has raised it by $105, but we needed to raise it by $505. I don't know whether the CPI means anything anymore, if I know the truth about it. True. So...”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:18:41
“Maybe what we should do is, right now it's discretionary. When the city manager decides he wants to evaluate the rates, they evaluate them and they bring it forward if they think they need to change. Maybe what you do is you put in here something along the lines of it says that the rates be re-evaluated every 36 months or every 48 months or something. That's a good idea. And you put an expectation level in there for a planning document that says, On this date, it's time to reevaluate the cemetery rates.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“of money sitting in a fund there anymore, so... Well, with the change in the allocation of funds, I mean, the fact that we're building that building down there means that it's possible to allocate a higher percentage of the dollars to the maintenance of the facility as opposed to capital improvements, because we should not be doing... We're probably going to need to build another columbarium, I'm thinking, so... But the 20%, I think, that's being allocated to capital improvements should cover that cost for three years from now or four years from now when it's time to build it. We're not going…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:25:22
“We don't want to table it, but we can continue it.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:28:18
“Okay. I just want to make sure it's clear. We're not approving $75,000 of our reserves to be spent. We're approving $36,171 of our reserves to be spent. I understand the bookkeeping game is played, but we're not going to reduce our reserves by $75,000. We're going to reduce our reserves by $37,000. You are correct.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:28:43
“Okay, I just don't want people out there to hear us say we're spending $75,000 of our reserves for a car. We're spending $37,000 of our reserves for a car, and we're being reimbursed. Hopefully we're setting up some type of a receivable on this to an insurance company. We're going to book the money back for the cash, and then we're going to play these games, but we're really only reducing our reserves by $37,000.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:29:14
“I mean, if we try to explain the accounting process, we would mess everybody's brain up. But just the reality of it is we're only spending 37,000 of our reserves. What? How much are we spending on reserves? Yes. Just kidding. All right. Anything else?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:32:23
“That's on the same day as our regular meeting, right, at 5? Yes, sir. That regular meeting is loaded up pretty heavy, isn't it?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:32:49
“You know, I mean, I've only got. One more meeting involved in this. You got two more. I'll keep reminding you. What's the other one?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:33:05
“You know what I would like to think about doing? This septic to sewer thing is blowing up so big. There was a meeting by the Sebastian River Friendly Group. at the library night before last in which they are proposing and actively pursuing getting grants for septic to sewer. There's a whole bunch of misconceptions about what this is. I mean, if you read the social media on septic to sewer, nobody out there in social media even thinks it's been talked about or thought about by the city of Sebastian. I would like to see us make that a special meeting that is just for Septic to Sewer and give…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:34:52
“Halloween. Well, I mean, here it is. If people don't want to show up to that meeting, then. Quit putting this garbage on Facebook and on Nextdoor. The conversation turns very septic very fast. I'm sorry. Once I'm no longer on the council, I'll drop down that rabbit hole and start addressing it directly on those platforms. Don't do it. I would like to see a separate meeting.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:36:09
“If you need a motion that says schedule a special meeting as you can, in order to get legality so you don't have to wait to have a meeting for us to schedule the meeting, then I think Chris made a notion a minute ago. He can modify that motion to say schedule a special meeting related to this topic when you can arrange it or something.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:36:42
“And now, would you personally invite, and I know you can find them, would you personally invite the people in leadership in the Audubon Society, any River County Taxpayer Association, any River County Property Owners Association, the Friends of the San Sebastian River, personally invite them?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:37:05
“irna sebastian what neighborhood association is there a sebastian there's no sebastian association oh no we don't want to invite property no no no no invite them all invite them all but i'm saying these four groups are the ones that are all they're all talking about it they're all having all these meetings and one of them is actually talking about going out and and and going out and god bless them for getting grant money i'm not issuing about that i'm just saying that This is a governmental program that needs to be handled through a centralized process or it won't ever work. We've had this…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:38:31
“Oh, I'll work on that. Send the leaders of these groups a special invitation. I'm sending this direct to you. Bam, bam, bam, bam. And they can choose not to show up if they want to.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:38:51
“I don't want to have people come back later and say I didn't know about it.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:41:47
“Yeah. I'm good with that. Who are the requests coming from?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:45:12
“What kind of response rate are you getting to your letters?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:45:30
“Okay. Is the assumption going to be that if they don't return the letter, that that's an opt-out?”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:45:42
“I'm trying to remember because when this whole thing first started, I thought the council passed maybe not a resolution, but the council indicated that it's required that they connect. They don't connect, it's a code violation and we will send code and we will begin to”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:46:36
“Because I know we've got grant money, but there's still going to be some cost to each individual who connects.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:46:42
“Because we couldn't get them to waive impact fees and change the structure, so our grant won't pay impact fees.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:46:59
“That's not a requirement of the county. My brother's got sewer and no water.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 2:47:08
“There's property on Indian River Drive that's connected to the sewer but not connected to water because they won't run water lines there.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026