Remarks by John Taylor
230 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 10
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“You have a director, the secretary, economic development, city planner, and a zoning official.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“My favorite one is next. Housing and social services.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“So the grants that we're rolling out this year will be the same. So it's the The residence assistance and the HOPE fund. Yes, sir. Those are the only two. Correct. And what about the business facade that's coming up on the island?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Oh, it funded these two grants. Correct. But what about the business community? We don't have something for them.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“I would say not right now for that because like you said, we don't know where this is going. So I guess we can revisit that later.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“um residents and business owners through other entities and we can we can definitely look at that too which is good because we're doing other professional services so contracting with another agency to help um you know with that process the chamber the small business you know the people the bank that we the credit union yeah yeah he has been working with those other entities yes okay that's I'm happy. You happy?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“I love that. She said don't touch her budget.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. Favorite department, the police department. Yeah, that's a good one. Chief looking like, don't come over here.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Keep it here because you said it's $150 over the next five years. $150,000, yeah. Yeah, so I'm just saying keep it here, but just...”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“It's not here, unless I'm missing it, but I don't see it.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“So I guess my next question, are we fully staffed with the police department?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Because the purpose of that piece was to fill, to help fill the vacancy.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We wasn't getting people to work.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Got it. All right. All right. So we just want one short. All right.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. The last one is the forfeitures and seizures. I've been asking about that for forever, too, because it bothers me that the county comes in, assists us with a bus. We'll go with a bus. And then what we collect, they take. But it happened in Opa-locka.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Wait, one second. She asked first. Yeah, yeah, no problem. So go ahead. I just have to go.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right, moving on, close, moving on to the next department, which is in recreation. Oh, it's called Comply.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. So body cams and and coder and radios. Yes.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Anything else you want to highlight or any other major changes?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Got it. Okay. So then I guess my last question for Cole, you said the positions are staying the same. Are we fully, we're fully? Just fully staffed.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026