Remarks by George Sarantou
49 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, we have a marketing and communications department that we spend about a million dollars on each year. And there is no reason why MarCom cannot design something to put in the water bills regarding what you can do for recycling and what you cannot do. What is permissible, what is not permissible. So I call upon the MarCom department who is generously funded by this council to use that mechanism in the water bills because everybody looks at their water bill. If there's an insert in there, they'll see it, or if there's a paragraph about that. We just really need to…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“OK. So this company has done these audits before? They have done these audits before. So are we going to be doing this every year?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, let's see what the results are and then make a determination whether we need to do it every year or maybe every other year but we we've got to communicate better with the citizenry you know and we have we have new people that come into town we have people that forget what the regulations are we just need to really have it out there in print i agree with councilwoman morris they're not going to go to the website we need to make this consumer friendly easy for people to understand thank you mr chair”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I also think those that do receive the actual DPU bill, if something could be printed at the bottom of the bill, again, that gets their attention. I know handouts mean that somebody's, they have to be inserted into the bill. I know that's going to take a little more time. But I would state for the record, according to our directory of city departments, there are listed seven people in marcoms. I know of at least five that are in there. So again, we've upped the staff, and again, I think that it is doable, that we just need to work together, your department with Maricoms, and get…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Chair well tomorrow we do have that meeting with chairman Driscoll on Lake Erie West and we should ask that question and Find out so we we may have answers before the end of the week on that my my other question Perhaps you said this and I missed it. But have we ever done a survey of this type with the trees in the past and”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, because in the last two years, we embarked on a tree planting program throughout the city. So I'm just wondering if you have that data in terms of how many trees so far have been planted and the results.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“agreed it's almost shocking when you run into those things out there but um yep good catch councilman srantu thank you mr chair so commissioner what percent of those that apply for a permit to cut down a tree on city property are approved i would i would say they're all approved but the percent of people applying to remove remove those and get a permit is very low it's not something you know”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Trees in the public land. Okay, the tree lawn. What kind of a fee are you thinking of? Have you thought about a figure for the permit?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Right. Okay. And then one final situation I want to run by you. If you go down Lasky Road between Douglas and Secor, there is a medical office on the right-hand side if you're heading west on Lasky. They have a tree on their private property, but it's a huge limb hanging over Lasky Road. So I guess my question is, Do we have the ability to notify owners of private property where trees look very dangerous? We had that tragedy on Secor near Lasky Road. I don't know if that branch was actually hanging over Secor, but certainly somebody got killed and somebody got severely injured. So I just want…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Councilwoman Morris.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mr. Chair. So We're we're bids entertained and bids go out to”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And how many responses did you get?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Two? Okay. And are you at liberty to tell us who you're recommending?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Now, have they done this kind of work for us before? No.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, and when does this go to the Board of Awards? This Friday?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, all right. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Cramer.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilman Sorrento. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I brought this up over the last few years, but we have a lot of hydrants in town that really need painting. They are ugly, and people take care of their properties, then you drive by and you see a hydrant that really needs painting. How often are we inspecting hydrants and how often are we painting hydrants?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Does one person go to the hydrant to pain or a couple?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, I'll just bring it up because again, I get comments from residents and I know we only have so many people, we have so many dollars to work with, so I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you, Councilwoman McPherson.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Just a quick question. Do we know of other cities that have done this and what the results have been?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'd be interested in getting that packet. Oh, sure. You know, it's... frankly it's disgusting what's happened for example executive towers yeah uh you know and i mean we really we really need to curtail this type of uh environment for people to live in where pretty much it's just a non-response to the best of my knowledge as one example right the landlord is not cleaning up the matter so um”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And you know what's funny is those two buildings were tremendous facilities at one time. They just were unbelievably luxurious and people really took a lot of pride in living there.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, this weekend is the annual Greek American Festival and opens up Friday at 11 a.m. And from 11 to 3 p.m., it's totally free admission. And there'll be plenty of Greek foods to choose from. And there'll be plenty of pastries and plenty of cultural activities. And Imagination Station is going to be there on Saturday and Sunday with a special scientific experiment booth for our young folks. So it should be a great weekend. So everybody try to come out to the Greek Festival. Enjoy the food and the dancing and the music and everything else that goes along with it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026