Remarks by Fortuna Smukler
248 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 10
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“No, it's her item. So I make a motion to approve and also to include Commissioner Smith's amendments And OK, so we have to approve the amendments first.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Excuse me. Excuse me. Yeah, actually, I never voted on either one of these. So my vote for both of them is a no. Yeah, my vote is what I'm sorry.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“And ESOL classes are also online at the library?”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Actually, we have a teacher, I'm sorry. We have a teacher for ESOL at the library.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay. You could host it at the library where there's a program.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“So personally, I prefer that this money goes to the library where there is already an existing program. I personally would give the money to the library instead.”
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I would like to take this opportunity to ask all the participants to rise because they did do a lot of work and I want to thank them. I believe we all want to thank them. So if people, if you can all rise so we can acknowledge who you are. Absolutely, there's a...”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And I'm game to hearing a presentation if the other commissioners are as well.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, I would like to vote on it after each item so that we don't kind of forget.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And why does it say the mayor shall annually present a State of the City message? Like, why are we forcing that? Why are we requiring that, yeah.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“right well i do have a question through the mayor if i may oh sorry um so i just want to know where it says the mayor shall annual pres annually present a state of the city message so what happens if they don't nothing so what's the point of even having it that's correct you're correct commissioner”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“We're just going to vote. There's 10 to 14. We're going to vote 10 to 14 individually. Then when we finish 16 to 19, we'll vote on those individually. And when we finish 21 to 23, we'll vote on those individually.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Mayor. On the last paragraph where it talks about insurance benefits, the second sentence that says after their term of service, commissioners may be offered the opportunity to remain, shouldn't it be shall be offered?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Shall. All right, so do I have to make a motion for that?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, we're both in agreement, and it doesn't say that here. And if we don't see it, then can you please tell us where you see it?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“i would like to say something if i may mr mayor um you know we had seven pairs of eyes doing this now we'll have 14 pairs of eyes doing this and you know we like this silly little comment that i made of changing a word from made a shell like little things like that that we can catch as well and make it better um i i you know we we've tried so hard to get this meeting done in the first place that i'm not going to now Sam going home? Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“civil service mr mayor and i think we'll be pretty much there just continue this and um let's we have to go back and vote on this now as for the motion women yeah you can but you don't have to if you want to hear the rest mr get it done on the table oh yeah there's a motion commissioner smith some of the big items are coming up that we have to discuss do we want a change”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'm just going to tell you one thing. Just because they did all the hard work and they did great work. There's one item that I don't agree with them. And if you want to do blindly pass this, then my vote is going to be no, because there's one item that I don't want to approve.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, I want to continue this. And we just wasted like five minutes discussing this. So can we just.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 2:18:51
“Yeah, why did we come in the first place?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Can we just do as we said we were gonna do, now let's vote on this and continue?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Opposed. Opposed. That's a word. Okay. So now can we vote individually on the first chapter?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, we made that motion and now we have to go individually. 1 by 1 and say yes or no to each item on pages 10 through 14. like we said, we were going to do.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026