Remarks by Javier Fernández
827 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 34
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“You see Marcus handing out flooding information at the Chickers Read event at Halloween. It's all to help us improve our rating. Also, it translates into premium reductions for residents.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“to include there You recognize what's 124 LPR camera system at lot B license plate reader, so you can basically passively collect It's way to passively collect Fees for the use of the parking parking lot Passively yes, they read your license plate you want to give her a quick description I”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And why not do this in the garage itself?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“So there's no but there's no specific capital project For that expenditure Laz's parking car contract that was approved by this commission included.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay, colleagues, I think that's, I think left in the parking lot, Dante, and what we want to do with the $3.8 million, which now includes another $500,000 from the state. I don't know if we, we never landed the plane on, do we want to provide for the other access and advance the current design at the current location? We've kind of pointed out this issue for... A long time. We've got an $11.5 million need on City Hall and possibly no prospects for GOV. which we were planning on funding part of it out that way. So if we took that $3.8 million, that leaves us about $7.7 million still to fill.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“You know, it seems to be the two obvious things that get sacrificed, sadly, are this project. The irony is the septic disorder will get done, but not this, which was the impetus for the modification. And then we had planned to use the public benefit money to fund a lot of the streetscape enhancements under the Plusserbia plan. It's the money we collect for the bonuses people pay for building the TSD. And I would include in that basket the TDR revenue, also, where we get a portion of the TDR payments that are made to property owners. So that's, as I mentioned, about $6 million of funding that…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“That's my number one project so for me, it's it's streetscape So the only the only reason I would encourage us to reconsider is the reason I asked question counsel before is All right, so we're gonna have money. We're gonna have money in that trust fund and 25% per the draft interlocal that we all looked at it's got to be spent on infrastructure which includes streets and sidewalks and that's probably enough money to do that. So if we're going to have money trapped in the trust fund, we should spend it on projects that would otherwise be eligible. Those projects I don't think are listed here…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“What is the estimated design cost at this point for?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“OK. Further thoughts? So let's just walk through the math. $15 million to do two blocks. If the only two blocks are a block and a half, because the only two blocks are not going to get rebuilt by third parties. Well, I wouldn't go. I mean, if you're doing City Hall, you're going to assume that the south side of 62nd, sorry, 72nd is going to get done by that project.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yes. It's going to be built into the civil number for the project, just like it's going to be built into the civil number for Sunset Place.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“There's those segments that we have to solve for. What what is not going to get him and I'm just going from what to where we're not going to see other people's money potentially be the solution to fund it is likely going to be on such a drive because We're keeping that street that that envelope the same right with the exception of such a place so I Don't want to prioritize dollars like this on segments where other people's money can be leveraged, right? Avalon Bay should build Look for the new project the segment to join their project. If the works do a project on their project, that should…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“I don't know if that's right, because we don't ask anyone to do projects that don't touch center line opposite. So again, I don't want to say they're right. I understand, but it's not. They're doing it to our standard, right? They're doing it to our standard. So again, it's not a matter of bringing it right or wrong. It's just, again, because I want people that are listening to understand we do not ask that of anybody. The rule is center line to your property, right? Again, I just want to make sure that we are being consistent. If they want to do it, they want to offer it. If we can't afford…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“That would be the segment. There's a change of the profile of the street in every segment.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Okay, so $12 million is what's the working number for Sunset Drive? And that's...”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“You're in agreement, but that's OK. So we have the revenue. That revenue may not materialize otherwise. OK. OK. If the the conversation is about taking the six million dollars then best case if we Defund Dante and decided we want to explore some sort of a management agreement to procure the facilities We've got three point eight million dollars. We could throw at the City Hall gap We still got seven point seven million dollars to get us all for so I would say that project is effectively dead Which is the one thing?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“SO YOU WANT SOME UNDERSTANDING, SHE'S ASKING FOR A CASH FLOW ESTIMATE BY YEAR FOR THAT TAXING for that trust fund line item. And I guess us as a taxing authority, we've got to make some assumptions about what's coming online for fiscal year 27, 28, 29, 30, and maybe 31. And do some takeoffs with that. I mean, some of that's already in the study, but we've got to probably recalibrate it just to run a scenario where there's 10% Commercial property tax base growth versus the cap potentially now being at 5%. So both scenarios. So we can, yeah. Yeah, because it's going to impact the CRA. Well,…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yes. ATTENDANT AVAILABLE REVENUES BY SOURCE THAT YOU'RE SAYING TO FUND WHATEVER THE OUT-YEAR COSTS ARE. SO YOU WANT TO SEE YOU MATCH UP POTENTIAL REVENUE SOURCES WITH THE COST OF THE CAPITAL PLAN.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“THEY WANT TO DELIVER IT, YEAH. SO THAT WILL PROBABLY BRING SOME MONEY. JUST TO CLOSE THIS CONVERSATION, I KNOW WE HAVE TO GET READY FOR OUR NEXT MEETING. Shared this out with the manager, and I'll share it publicly with you guys. We obviously went to the voters in 24 to ask them for authorization to spend money to advance some of these projects. Speaking for myself, running the calculator that the governor put together, I'll save $4,000, a little bit less than $4,000 a year in property tax remittances. I don't necessarily want to get out and oppose this thing, but I'm wondering whether it…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“And just to clarify, since it was not clear. As the tax base grows, it goes at 3% or 4% or 5% based on whatever the caps are. And that number is fixed. So if we said $40 million of debt, but the tax base grows over time, that millage rate automatically has to be reduced. So let's say that we went to market tomorrow and said, theoretically, people said yes, and we went to market for $40 million. And today, just to pick it up, I don't know if this is even close to what it requires, but let's say we have to levy 0.5 additional mils of debt service. As the tax base grows, that would reduce to…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“My preliminary math with Alfredo is that with just standard cost escalation, a lot of that capacity gets eaten up. So we're not going to see, it's going to be compounded beyond the 1.6.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Well, it's going to grow, period, because the valuations will grow. But the impact will be roughly that. probably be higher by the time it actually happens. Those values will likely increase slightly. Yes, sir?”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Correct, yeah. I think it would be something that we can work on, some language just basically, if this passes and you save money, would you be open to the city increasing or passing a debt service village? Would increase the total levy but still result in? Savings so I'm not saying that I would not get as aggressive as asking in my case for a full $4,000 back, but do we want to ask for? See we can get 50% of it back so we can actually advance some projects I mean for me marginally and the money's important, but it's not I would frankly prefer to see Living community has a very nice town…”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“an actual referendum, then poll it, because certainly there's all these skepticism about polling these days. And if we have an opportunity to ask voters what they think and be guided by that, I mean, we may choose never to exercise that discretion, but at least we know after that snapshot in time, people prioritize this enough that they want it, would give us the authority, or at least would be comfortable with us doing it. We stand adjourned.”
City Commission · Jun 9, 2026