Remarks by Edward V. Ciampi
216 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“Thank you. I'll play on to some of what Commissioner Hetherington just said, but I'll bump the number up. Uptime is up for me as well. Many people would like to have access to that button. 3,000 people attended, not 500. Last year, they had 1,500. This year, we had nearly 3,000. And I'd like to thank PAL of Martin County. What they've done is they printed a photograph of each of the victims of 9-11, all of them, and put them on cards. And the folks that walked carried one.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“I had Sean Lynch, and I went home and I looked him up. He was from New Jersey. He was 36 years old. He was a father. He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald's. And so what I liked when we remember, because I hear a lot of people saying, oh, we were celebrating September 11th. No, we weren't. We were not celebrating September 11th. We were remembering. PAL did a remarkable job, so did our fire rescue and our sheriff's office, the school district, as Commissioner Hetherington mentioned. What was heartwarming was how many children were there, because I would say, obviously, 99 percent of those young…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“We have his contact information. We can bring him. Let's do it. Let's do it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“I would do Samantha for the one that ends in 2029. And then the other one for the other person.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'll take the one where the folks are here from Hobson.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Somehow I ended up with the gavel. Because our chair has seconded Commissioner Capp's motion. Commissioner Hetherington and I have not had an opportunity to opine, which I would like. Commissioner Hetherington.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“It's interesting how agenda items can just, you know, when I'm reviewing the agenda a week out, a couple days out, you think, okay, this is going to be a pretty easy agenda. This item is not so concerning. This particular one, I even wrote it down well before the applicant had offered it, and I was thinking general industrial to limited industrial because those were the matters that we were supposed to be thinking about. I was actually going to compliment every once in a while there is an agenda item that works its way exactly the way, at least from my perspective, it should. We had a…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“But if it was going to be a data center, they'd have to have told you that, correct?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes. Can you bring it down a little bit further? Okay, so that's cut there. Yeah, that's what I want. So that purple, you see the beige LI, there's two LIs in there, the beige ones. The property wrapped around it in fuchsia, whatever color you want to call it, does this applicant own that property as well? Yes, sir. That's my understanding. Okay. And on GI, could he put a data center there?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And so he already owns that property. It's already GI right next to this property. How many acres is that? Do we have any idea? It looks pretty big if we compare it to the MI 104 acres. 14.7. Okay. 19.7. Oh, 20 acres. But then there's the other piece, too, or it's just those, that's the whole thing?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, go back to the one with the purple, please. This big section where it says, like where you can see the word that says resolution, is that his also? Both sides of that beige?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“So you don't break them down. You don't show the individual lot lines there on who owns what. Here is the lot line for that. That's somebody else's. Correct. Yes. Okay. I'm just wondering if they have GI and you're talking about building I think, as Commissioner Hetherington said, we're really fixating, and I get it's a very important topic, but I feel like we're fixating on the concept of data centers and not to scare the residents that live nearby. But if you look at the list of what could happen on any of these properties, including M1, there's a lot of things that people would not want to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, we're going to have Commissioner Vargas.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“See, I didn't. Which motion are we taking up? One second. I just want to be clear on my position. The applicant came in looking for GI, General Industrial, and the staff had agreed with them, and that was their recommendation to the Commission. The community organized, rallied, intervened, and came forward with their goal was to stop that from happening. And their actual, they would have counted it as a win, which is what we heard in most of the public comment. And even the intervener actually had to, like, scrap his whole strategy because he was pleased with the ally. They would have left,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“That motion fails 3-2 with Commissioners Vargas, Hetherington and Campy dissenting.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“She was second. Commissioner Hetherington was the second for that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. This is not an item that we will take any action on, but I represent the board as our representative with the Trico, and I wanted to compliment our Carolyn Breda, has handled it for quite a long time in Heather's department. We review every single thing. By the time it even comes to me, it's been very well vetted. We never agree to just whatever it is. We really try to be as fair as possible for both the person that is bringing the case, as well as our taxpayers. So when it does come to us, it has been very well vetted, and that number is as legit as it's going to be. We are very…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Sure. Can I ask a question to your point, Madam Chair? What's our alternative?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“Primarily west of St. Lucie River and east of 95?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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“And those old people drove around without a tarp on it. So by the time they showed up where they were, the trailer was empty.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 15, 2026