Remarks by Jay Chernoff
66 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Good evening, everybody. First of all, I'd like to commend the chief of police and the whole police department who swore in 10 new officers today. So congratulations to them. It was a beautiful ceremony and we understand there's more on the way. So thank you guys. We really do appreciate it. All right, Daniela, what a beautiful concert you put on. It was fun for everybody who was there. Everybody got very dressed up, which was really nice. And everybody I spoke to had a great time. So thank you. all right the splash pad in highland village what a success all right for those of you who weren't…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Rent a dog, you know, adopt a dog. Adopt a dog. But bring your dogs, okay? And everybody will have a great time. to the Jewish community, Lashana Tova, wishing you a happy, healthy, and an easy fast. Thank you.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Move to introduce resolution number R2026-117, Prestige Motors.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Originally, there were two contracts signed. What happened to the other group?”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Right, but we signed another contract that we're not utilizing.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Motion to introduce. Second. Second, all right.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“If my staff is recommending that this happen, I don't know why I'm questioning it when we're doing a benefit to our employees who fall under the city manager. so i i don't see you know i want to give our employees a more benefit if i can and i'd rather give them a lot more benefits if we can”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“It's a valiant try and I commend you for bringing it forward and I would love it to pass and be in play. But we've had rules in the past that were strict, you were only allowed five signs. You know, it restricted the signs, it restricted where you put them, it did all these things that you're trying to do. And we were told by city attorney back then, no, you can't, you know, actually a commissioner violated it and blatantly violated, put 25 signs out and violated our sign code. And we said to the attorney, can't they get, no. It's against their First Amendment rights.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Second. Resolution number R2026-121. Second. Second.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“When I asked that, that was in regards to the public works building, the roof.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's correct. It's already calculated in our comp space, so we can't remove it without putting it somewhere else because we have to have that.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I wanna give a shout out to the HR department that when I did the hiring of my aide, I had never been through HR to do the hiring, and the way that they set it up with the pamphlets and everything and had it all set, it was beautiful, and they did a great job.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Why is this not under IT and not under building department?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I understand that, but it says it's here. Is it housed here and then HR and the building department gets it from here?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Like you say, okay, building department and permits. If the permits are automatic and on an electronic system now, is that in HR or that's in IT?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“That doesn't make sense. If you go to compensation of 801, and you go down from eight with 801, and then you go from six to 789, 37,000, wait, that's not where I was. The difference between it is only 25,000. Correct. And it goes down.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. I understand they're doing a great job. Yes. And I think they're doing a great job. But if you compare us to the county, which I don't ever want to compare us to the county, but if we're compared to the county, I want to be better than the county.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. And I get... conversations with contractors and homeowners who say that they have more trouble with ours than they do with the county. And the county is so much, they can order inspections, they can order everything from online, and we don't have that. And I know when I first came back in 2022, we started getting that up. Are we still working on that? Are we not where we're supposed to be?”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, well, we hear from the residential ones. We don't hear from the commercial ones usually, unless there's really a problem. Yes.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“The Beautification Committee had a study done last year on our tree canopy. We all think we have a huge canopy. We don't, because palm trees don't count. Correct. Correct. So that's why the Beautification Committee, the last two years, has been giving Florida native trees that create canopies. And we want people to plant them and put them, because we get credit for having a good canopy.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Oh, sorry. In increasing the two, I have no problem with that. But can we start implementing the philosophy that the code enforcement, code compliant division, that we start being proactive instead of reactive. Okay, so it takes a little more on their part, but have relationships with all the owners of the zone that they're in and let them know when something's wrong and how to get, you know, before they have to cite them. And then it becomes a better, more people comply and it's a better, they're not looked at as a bad thing when the code enforcement person comes down the street.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“But there is an agreement where we agreed. We solicited the county to be able to take care of that because they weren't doing it.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Greg, you're doing a great job. You have all these employees from all the other departments. The best of the best. Would you please task someone to figure out how we can improve our communications. And I mean from answering the phone, to people getting a good experience, to all of us getting the same emails and having the same calendar and all those kinds of things.”
City Commission · Aug 25, 2026