Remarks by Ed Dodd
141 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“This is kind of like a speed limit out there on Route 60. It says 45 miles an hour. Sure. And there is an individual in the form of a traffic officer. who can make a determination as to whether they pull you over based on circumstances more than just 45 miles an hour. What I'm hearing said here is there is no circumstance. You make the tee time, you don't show, I'm going to charge you. But the circumstances is called. Just call and cancel.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, that's what I was trying to get to.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“How often does this happen? It honestly doesn't happen a lot. Well, a lot means it doesn't happen 10 times a week, 5 times a week, 20 times a week. I would be closer to say five times a week. Five times a week. And that's during peak season. Are the people who do that perpetual offenders typically, or is it a one-time thing?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Excuse me for confusing this. I'm just not that hardcore of a person, I guess. I'm like Fred. I may be overly nice on some of this stuff, but this is hardcore. This is too hardcore for me.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I just want to, if I may, I understand what you're saying, but I also understand that the council is a strategic body. And I think that it's really the city manager runs the city and has a responsibility to implement the policies that we lay out in an appropriate manner. So I'm not sure that I am needing to see how he's going to do this. I'm just from a council perspective that we either agree or disagree that we want to charge. We want to charge if people don't show up and we have to, uh, And I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying, but I don't want the council to start the…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Do we do a separate contract with the charter school? Yes. Okay, so they're not in due? Yes, sir. Okay. I move approval, Mr. President, of wherever it is, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yes, sir. In the executive summary, it talks about $95,000 to evaluate the feasibility of converting the canal system seawall support channels to earthen embankment systems.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, I'm not questioning the grant. There was a 2015 study that was done that was extremely thorough. It talked about the Elkhorn Canal system and what has to be done to that. I think it was 2015. And the consensus of that study, which was done by a qualified engineering firm, was that the impact of going to an earthen embankment was not necessarily a feasible opportunity because of the requirement to deepen the canals. You've got to make it. It's a water flow issue. You can only put so much water in an 8-inch pipe. And so if you want to take part of that 8-inch pipe and cover it with dirt,…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Before we go on, can I ask a follow-up question on what Council Member Nunn said? Uh, in the, the shoreline stabilization for the bench and swinging bench park, we're looking at $136,000 in this expenditure. There's 311,000 remaining on that. Are we saying that we anticipate not spending into that $311,000 on that stabilization effort?”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“That's what I want. So this $311,000, the difference between 136 and 311 would give us funds to complete the park development? Yes, sir. Okay. And on the dock development... We're looking at remaining 487 and 150, so we're looking at about $300,000 that may be chewed up in change orders once they determine what the damage is to the dock.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Okay. The first item was more important to me, just to make sure that there's still funds in there for the park development once the shoreline, the park area is stabilized then. So we're okay with that. Okay, good. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Yeah, I... I keep seeing this in the national news and everywhere, and I think it might be appropriate for us to ask the city manager to reach out to the county and state partners. I don't know that we need to unilaterally do anything at this point in time, but I think it would be appropriate to ask if he can coordinate with the county and our state partners and try to determine whether there's some action being taken by them or whether it warrants something that we do. I know what he said was that the education campaign doesn't require council approval, but it does if we're going to spend…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“and and also i think the people are always complain about how much work we're going on the ditches right now and how they don't look good to be very happy apparently in uh... january february march when the water runs off instead of flying the street so right uh... yes service so uh... i mean city manager myself week weekend”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I mean, I don't know if it's inappropriate to do an extension to the fertilizer ban, but it also does require work with the state to do that. They may be in the process of looking at that. I don't know the answer to that. I know El Nino has been getting a lot of public dissemination about the severity of it and all the heat waves, and they're talking about the impact it's going to have on fires and on floods. So it would surprise me if there's not somebody in Tallahassee that works for the state that's also thinking about this, and maybe we can find out what they may be thinking and…”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“I think the signal on education would be the Natural Resources Board, that the city can support doing the educational work. They don't have to do it on their own. That would be kind of the signal. I watched the meeting in which they discussed this, and I think some of them felt like, well, if this doesn't get through the council, they need to do education. In reality, the city needs to do education on this, I think. So I think that's kind of a message for them, maybe something that can be taken back at their next meeting and talk about what type of education and how we can flow through that.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, I know the applicant's asking for a convenience store. That's because they want to open a convenience store. But I'm saying from the city's perspective, when we put the language together, are we potentially creating a down-the-line bottleneck by using that terminology? That's my question, and that's something that you can...”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“We might have an opportunity between first and second reading to clean that up if it's something that could potentially create a problem down the line with that. I just don't understand why item B under 1 is their freestanding bar. I don't think I've been in a restaurant in a while that doesn't have a bar that's usually people sit at the bar and eat, so it's more like for the tables for the restaurant, so I don't know whether that fits. And then also the convenience store issue. Those are my two points.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Well, the sale of beer or wine in item two would limit someone who is opening a package store that sells bottled spirits and beer and wine from this condition applying to them. But bottled spirits would not. We're specifically saying sale of beer or wine in this. So Joe Blow, who wants to sell vodka and gin and scotch, is not going to be able to do that. Only beer and wine. This is just for beer and wine.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Now I'll make a motion that we approve the first reading for, I've got to find it on here. OK. Ordinance 02620 with the following modifications. Item number 10-1-2, to be modified to read the sale of beer or wine for off-premises consumption by a store with the appropriate state license. And then, I don't know, item 10.1-B, consider striking that from the ordinance.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Oh, okay, with a second reading on, is it February? September 9th. September 9th? Yes. Yes. He amended his motion. Amended. Amended.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“You caught me daydreaming down here. This is going to...”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“Just to be clear. Shakespeare is going to terminate at its current bend where it joins the parallel street that it runs into. And then the gate is going to be just beyond that point. And so Shakespeare south from that is going to be, River Oaks is going to finish Shakespeare from 510 north, basically to your second exit. And are you saying that you're going to stabilize as part of this project Shakespeare from that point to the to the gate? Just kind of be clear on Shakespeare and how that's going to fit in there.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“When we approved Phase 2 of this subdivision, we killed that. The line up with Lighthouse. And they stabilized an emergency exit onto Powerline as their emergency exit. And we killed that whole concept of them dropping from Phase 2, or the original one, In the Shakespeare line with Lighthouse. I don't remember us killing the emergency exit. That was killed as part of that. The emergency exit was. I don't remember killing the emergency exit. In phase two, the emergency exit was shifted to power line. The exit on the power line.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026
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“No, they were still proposing. And when they came with phase two, they were still proposing an emergency exit.”
City Council · Aug 19, 2026