Remarks by Jon Maldonado
51 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Mr. Mayor, I'd like to add city donations to discussion. Others?”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“I'd like to make the motion to adopt ordinance 2026-20 on second and final reading adopting fiscal year 2027 budget as amended.”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yes, and thank you, Commissioner Robinson. So, yeah, so, you know, one of the things that I did is I combed through, you know, not only the current but the proposed budget is I went line by line, as many of you did, and actually – looked at several things, and I brought this up previously in just passing discussion when I asked the city manager certain things. But there's an item under the city commission's general fund under operating expenses that talks about donations. And the first time that I've actually seen this executed was this year with the CABA, the art dolphin that went to Corey…”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Now, the sum is up to the commission. If you guys agree that this is something that we want to pursue, I will tell you we have $7,500 in that budget that we have not used this year. I was thinking $1,000 for organization, and we'll go from there.”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Correct. In order to qualify, and the city attorney can guide us here as we go through this, is that they would have to be nonprofit organizations. I mean right now we really don't have anything and had it not been for the contribution to the art piece, I think that maybe this is something that we have not leveraged at least strategically, you know, maybe ad hoc in the past. I don't know when it started. I didn't go back beyond this year, but it's there, and it's certainly something that I think that as we close out this fiscal year, we should execute, we should obligate it, but at the same…”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Absolutely not, thank you. It's just one of the opportunities to publicly present this and let folks know in transparency that we do have a couple of these line items dedicated to training and things like that and again I thought that it's important to bring it up tonight. I will say that this year, I don't know if anyone have taken advantage of the training and things, so there is some scrubbing to be done here when it comes to moving forward. I would advocate and ask each of the commissioners to look at these things, think hard, and as you did tonight, thank you. The point was to bring it…”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Yes, just a public service announcement. The Avina Del Mar Island Association will be hosting a safety meeting tomorrow at the Warren Webster building at 5 o'clock, and this is in conjunction with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. So thank you so much for that. And then our next community district meeting will be on the 28th due to a conflict with tonight, so we'll see you on the 28th. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 21, 2026
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“Mister mayor I just want to point out that the action request on items for. A and B state motion to adopt ordinances on the first reading I believe that's incorrect. Motion to approve.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Director Mills, if I can get you to come up. And I hope to not put you on the spot, but I do have just a point of clarification and I do want to be transparent on certain things. So let me echo the words of expression from my fellow commissioners about the hard work that went into this. It's not perfect. Certainly there are areas where we can improve and I have given the city manager some feedback on how we can do things better. I am very happy we did not spend money and hire consultant to do that because right now we can't afford it. I'm being very transparent with that. So to Commissioner…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Excellent, and I apologize for putting you on the spot, but my point there is that there is a process and a system that can be improved upon and we have an ROI within two years, if I heard you correctly.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“So this is just one of many examples that, you know, as I sit there and look at things, and I know that because we approved the contract for the potholes, and I haven't seen it being very effective. We need to be more proactive on that stuff, and that's why I say not doing more with less. You know, when people say that, it's just ingenuous. We only have a certain amount of bandwidth, but we need to be scrutinizing things, and now's the time. So thank you, sir. So then the other thing is that I received a trim notice and it's a sticker shock and I'm sure that several people have started to see…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“So this question is actually, thank you, Mr. Mayor, for the city manager. Do we have any projected or expected retirements from full-time employees in the coming year?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“No one's come forward and said there are? No.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. And thank you for being candid on that. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Devin, as well as Director Mills, for just clarifying those points. Let me start by saying that I agree with the mayor and with Commissioner Marriott that we have to look at this very strategically, not tactically, not operationally. The stuff that... Director Mills was talking about the workflow, the purchase orders and things like that. That can be addressed through proper task management tools and things like that, which we can grow into. And that's part of a force multiplier, but that's a citywide thing. I think that we just need to work on those…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah. I think the motion to approve the first reading of Ordinance 2026-15. Is there a second?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd make the motion to continue to 21 September 2026 the second reading of ordinance 2 0 2 6 1 6 I second”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“media motion to approve the second reading of ordinance to 0 to 6 dash one 7.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Motion to adopt resolution 2026-26. Second. City Clerk, please.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Station and I do however have a disclosure for station for I have met with all of this the owner of the a passive room arena, I'm familiar with the area toward the site and I also reviewed the the attached documents.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. So I will ride Commissioner Kazi's wave a little bit here and talk about just aesthetics. My idea would be more of a mural possibly, keep the cost down. You know, white vinyl fencing can be painted over fairly cheaply. and thank you uh planner barry and yourself for meeting with you know the abiding neighbor seeking input i think that's critical whenever we start to make uh footprint changes and things like that it's important to get buy-in from the uh the stakeholders in this case mr bulbous who's also expressed concerns with aesthetics and things like that anytime you're talking about…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I would echo what Commissioner Robinson said earlier about it's worthy to invest in this and be prepared, as well as Commissioner Marriott. I would not want to be in a situation where we looked at this and said, I wish we could have. That said, to the city manager's point, I don't think it's appropriate to pivot away from being prepared and investing in resiliency and continuing the path that we've started. In the particular instances that we're talking about, I just don't think we're there yet. I think that listening to some of the comments, some creative ideas were put out there, not…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Commissioner Maldonado. Yeah, now I am ready to make a motion when you're ready, sir.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, and just in the context, I think final parting thought. I hear the city manager, and it's a valid concern, but I do think that I heard an idea that would make it palatable to Val Vista, even though they're opposed to it. It's part of the daisy chain. It's going to be necessary. Otherwise, the entirety of the system is going to be impacted. So it's like medicine. Sometimes we don't want it. try to make it taste better. Okay. City Attorney, can I motion all three resolutions? One at a time. We'll do quick votes. Okay. Sir, you ready? Mr. Mayor, anything else? No, sir. Please. I make the…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I'd like to make the motion to continue to November 2026, Resolution 2026-28 for Conditioning Use Permit No. 26070. I believe that's for Corey Avenue.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026