Remarks by Ed Dodd
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“So you're saying there's people on any river drive who have the availability of county water but have chosen not to connect to it. Correct. Yes, sir. And the county will not connect them to a sanitary system if they haven't connected to water. Correct.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Just be gone. But they can put a meter on your well. They could. And charge you for sewer. They're not going to do that, though. And it's a legal thing to do. All I'm saying is that our objective here, and once again, I'll argue this, although our objective here has always been to get rid of those septic tanks. And if there's anybody who, because of their own personal decisions, have made that difficult, then they still fall outside the legal requirement. They've got a year they must connect. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean they have the availability of water, and we're telling them the…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean you're saying the same thing I am. It's not acceptable for you to not have your septic tank remediated and removed because you've chosen not to connect to water. That's not an acceptable excuse.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, sir. And we're still going to go through the code process in that.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. All right. I'm fine with that. I just go back to what has been done like in Roseland and other places where the county has gone through and, you know, 40% of the people said no, so they just, it just died because of that. Even though they had the same legal requirement to do it, it just died. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“10F. 10F. All right. Now, do you want to continue that to a date certain or continue it to an unknown date? No, date certain, September 23rd at 6 p.m. Okay. I move that we continue item 10F to September 23rd. Second.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I wish we lost our audience. It's like a wedding where nobody likes the room.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Let's exercise before the real business. This is the best part of it. Best part of it.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Well, Mr. Mayor, the request in the agenda packet didn't include this third page. I have a hard time thinking about this. It says on this third page that I don't think the people in the audience and the public could be able to see, but it says fundraiser dinner, tech at $25. My feeling is that That's saying we're going to have a fundraiser dinner, and if you want to participate in it, it's $25 for the dinner. It's not saying they're charging $25 for you to walk in the door. It's not saying that. Right. And I'm not sure I really understood what the attorney said. I don't know whether – are we…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I'm sorry, I had a hard time hearing what you were saying.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I mean, I personally have an issue. I'm not going to be here. I'm not running for re-election. So after the November election, I'm going to be gone. So I don't have a dog in this fight, as they say in Arkansas where I used to live. So I have a hard time thinking that we're going to deny a candidate to use one of those facilities to hold a campaign event that smacks of us trying to kind of push the election one way or the other by doing that. So I personally would not support denying this. Neither would I.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“You've already made a motion? I've made a recommendation to deny. Is that not considered? I didn't hear a second on that.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Right. Okay. All right. But do you have to open this up to the public?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So I move. If someone seconded the customer or nun's motion, that's fine. I will remove a motion. But I didn't hear a second on that. No. No?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yes, I just pulled this because there's going to be street closings on Main Street and surface for the 5K that's going to be run, and the touch and tour starts at 10 o'clock, and that kind of gives city mayors an opportunity to address the closing times, opening times, and when people should try to, get themselves into here so they can get the touch and tour.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. And with that, I move approval of item 8G, 8F, I'm sorry.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I'm having a hard time hearing down here this evening. Sorry. We'll get closer. Yeah, throw something at me.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I don't know how much interest there is, but at the MPO meeting this morning, it was announced that the FDOT has allocated almost another $2 million to the purchase of right-of-way for the 82nd Avenue project, which is kind of important to Sebastian if that be done. So they're moving forward with the right-of-way on that, and it's important for us that that move forward, and they've allocated more funds to that.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Come forward Fred that lady back there had her hand up Thank You mr. Mayor Damien Gilliams You know”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, can I have a question? Yes. Okay, there was a comment made by someone, and I'm sorry, I didn't write down who made the comment, about covering culverts.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Is there an intention to... If there is going to be some culvert work where you cover culverts, where is that located and how are you going to handle that?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So as part of your work on 77th and 73rd, as you finalize those roads, there are some ditches along those roads that you will, will you encase those in pipe, or what will you do with that? Now you're getting way into the weed. I've got to get somebody else for sure.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“And the culvert's going to channel water from where to where?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Along 73rd and 77th? Correct. And will it connect to the drainage system at 66th, for example? Correct. So you will drain water into the overall drainage system that's now been enhanced along 66th Avenue?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, and that... Overflow for that, will that be, that will be in the stormwater conveyance system along 66th? Yes. I'm trying to, one of the big topics was flooding. Right. And so when you take a ditch that's along a road like current 77th and you do something with that road, if you don't properly channel the flow of that water into some conveyance system that carries it to another pond or another storage area, then you're not going to improve flooding, you're going to create problem flooding. So I'm trying to understand and hopefully the residents will understand how you intend to do that.…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026