Remarks by James Carter
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 6
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“Mr. Mayor, to be clear, if we're not careful, we're going to start having the workshop right now. Sure. Let me throw out a suggestion. So this Thursday is a day, that's the earliest day we could meet?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I'm fine with doing a 5 o'clock before that. That's generally all.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Monday the 5th. We already have a regular scheduled meeting. It sounds like we'll probably have a CRA meeting. Based on what I know we're going to be talking about with a CRA meeting, it shouldn't be.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Monday the 5th at 5 p.m.? Yes, 5 p.m. Let's go.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, why don't you just tell us this National Night Out that night.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I tell you, you could make a proclamation that day for a birthday. Okay. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“He's putting his head on the block. We might as well let him.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“I would just like to say, very excited. I want to give a little bit of attention to the event we're going to have downtown on October 10th. Going to have some strong men out here doing some impressive feats, pulling trucks and boats and all kind of stuff. Please check out the city's website and the Facebook page to learn more about it, but it's going to be a really cool event. It's very unique, and I hope we have a terrific turnout. so that maybe we can do it again next year. Everybody take a look.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Well, I've told them several times to find something heavy for me to toss around, and I will certainly try. So I'm going to try to eke out some participation some way or another.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. Sorry about that. Mr. Mayor, I move to accept the results.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, move to approve City Council Resolution 2026-095. Second.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, move to approve city council resolution 2026-097.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, move to approve City Council Ordinance 2026-2366.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, move to approve Council Resolution 2026-102. Second.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“thank you mr martin um we don't have anybody signed up to speak to this from the public and i don't see anybody uh motioning to do so so we'll move to council questions comments mr mayor move to approve resolution 2026-104 and i thank miss douglas for serving on that board”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“So we set aside some funds in conjunction with this committee at our previous meeting. I think that the basic function of the committee will be to review applications for those funds and offer suggestions to us, the board, on how we should spend those funds. someone applies for the funds, they go before the board, if it matches certain qualifications, which we will obviously determine. And I do think that we may need to have a workshop on this to really get into some... That's why I suggested before, because we're going to have to talk about what we want the funds for, how we want them…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, I would say definitely not a... Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. May I be recognized?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Real quick, so where we got to in the last meeting, how we got to being a more amorphous sort of thing instead of a specific, specific thing was just for such an occasion as if, for instance, the Lifestyle Enrichment Center wanted to ask us for funding for a certain program for seniors or or something like that. The idea being that it became a general community fund that could help anyone in Lake City, not just specifically those two areas. So obviously, as we discussed before, when it comes to most of these things, those two areas tend to do the great majority of the things. So obviously, at…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think it makes plenty of sense to make the term of the seat two years. That's pretty common. I think that's like our P&Z board and stuff like that, for instance. Is that four? Are those four? Whichever your choice, if we make the seat two years, three years, four years, I mean, we're still able, it's not like they're hidden away somewhere in a closet. I'm expecting us to get fairly regular reports from the committee, so we'll be able to maintain, and of course, we ought to also make sure that when we're putting together the verbiage here, we have the power to remove someone if they're not…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay, there you go. Well, either way, so to be clear, I don't think anyone in the city is under the mistaken assumption that we don't also have full-time jobs, children, lives, grandchildren, what have you. Yeah. So, no, I mean, that's not anyone who would criticize you for saying I don't have time to serve on that would not be being fair to you. But I think that someone from the board should do it. I mean, I'm happy to volunteer for the first time. I think that someone on our board should be a part of those meetings. And if you guys don't think they should be the chair of the meeting, again,…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“be clear i just think uh i think this should not be a five o'clock before a six o'clock meeting workshop it should be a separate day okay we should be i mean we should be prepared to dig in it could take more than an hour to figure all this out it shouldn't take we've just spent about an hour well that's the point if we just spent 30 minutes talking about it we've gotten not very far we may need a couple of hours at least to do this mr rosenthal you've indicated that you'd like to say something”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026