Remarks by Jerry Joseph
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 6
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“I'd like to clarify that. So when Chris Russo was the city manager, what position did Stan have?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So Stan had Susan's position. And what position did Susan have at that time?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So Stan was the deputy, and Susan was the assistant city manager. So the deputy city manager was below Susan at that time or not? No. I'm trying to understand the hierarchy.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. Chris, Stan, and Susan. OK. So good. OK. So we had issues in the city that, while Chris Russo was the city manager, that”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“No. Please be careful. No, I'm talking about my feelings when I became a commissioner. I thought at that time we should have brought in an outside person as city manager rather than staying from within the city because I wasn't happy during COVID with what I saw on the commission. I didn't have at that time even to even think to run for commissioner. But watching during COVID all of the Zoom issues that occurred, caused me to want to run in order to try to help and alleviate some of these issues. But being that I was only one vote, and Dana Goldman, in her poor judgment, OK. I brought Stan in…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“It's not that I'm not happy. This is not personal. No, no, but you're disappointed.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Not disappointed. Okay, can you give us some specifics? This is all budgetary. It's issues regarding the city that could have been moved forward, problems that could have been solved years ago. Now, several years ago, where... Things increase where we could have had Center Island flooding issues solved years ago, but they were not addressed by the city manager with no reason whatsoever. For a year, I fought him on the injection wells, and he knew it wouldn't work. And the previous city engineer said, I don't know what his reason was for leaving, but he absolutely knew that I was totally…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Would you like to ask me about anything else?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Because the city manager gives an indication that he's for it, and there are some commissioners that vote yes, basically, on the city manager's recommendation most of the time.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, I do my own research. But in a lot of events, like I said, to be fair, we don't have the time. We're not given the time to do the necessary research on high budget items.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I have many others. I wasn't interested in going into it tonight. Like I said, this was basically a courtesy. It could be that I have three votes tonight. Who knows? Today? I don't know. I can't speak to anyone regarding that, but it could be. Why? Are you asking now for a consensus? No, I'm not. I'm just having a conversation with you. It could be there are three votes on the commission tonight to remove the city manager. I don't know.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“We didn't have a discussion, but he knows there have been issues in the past that I've been absolutely against.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“It's not for me. It's the mayor, actually, is the one that speaks to the city manager regarding any change that you want to make. It's not for a commissioner.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“But it's not for me to remove a city manager. It's the mayor's position.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I think from what I've read and what the newspapers are writing, I don't know if it's absolutely true. Sometimes the newspapers put out things that are, yeah. So we have in the city a couple of buildings that are subsiding. We don't know this to be true. Yeah, we don't know if it's true. But they had mentioned a couple of names. I'm not going to mention them now. But they do require watching, like Alex said. And for the new structures, I just hope that, They're built on solid ground, and we don't have those issues. And that's all we can hope for.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, just to say one more thing, we haven't had... recently a Cat 5 that has come on from the ocean. So we don't know what the effect would be on these buildings we have now. That too, yeah.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So if we're looking to build a civic center, there are cities that have built civic centers. We should check around, or the committee or whoever it is that's looking to get bids from contractors should look around and see what good experiences cities have had and try to approach those contractors for a bid. I'm not saying that every time they put something... Well, you have to put it out to bid, Jerry, remember?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“But you can ask them to be a part of the bidding process.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So if you have six buildings that have been built that... went through without much of an issue. That got built. And other cities throughout the state are happy with them. I know it's difficult if you have a contractor from Orlando. They have their equipment there. They're not going to come here to do a construction. It's cost prohibitive. But if we have in the vicinity that it makes sense and other cities that have built a similar structure, why shouldn't we be able to get the names of those contractors and include them somehow into our bidding process?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So is that how we do it? We send out mailers?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yes. Sorry. Before we speak about this item, I have one question.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So there's another property on the street of Richelieu, correct?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So I believe this might not be the time to discuss this, because are there any discussions regarding the completion of the city purchasing that block or no?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So we had, you had previously brought to us the fact that the city was negotiating.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Small condominium on the block where Richelieu was, correct, to complete that street? Is that correct?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026