Remarks by Joseph A. Scuotto
179 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 8
- Play at 1:11:07
“So let me ask a question. So when we did the first study, or Blue Line did the first study, and you said, not you personally, I'm saying the... Data showed that in three days there was 15,000, you know, so, but you said that we did 9,000, but that was 15,000 in three days. This is 9,000 in roughly a six month period. So drastic, obviously drop. And now. Hopefully, I mean, we're not doing it to make money. We're doing it to make the people understand. Don't drive by a school because you're going to get a ticket. Just like when you're driving your car and you hear your car go bleep, bleep,…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I was driving the other day and like Allison's noise is different in a car. So she's like, don't you know what that is? That's the red light. I said, yeah, I know. But I'm saying, I mean, I think. These tools are really helping us. In the beginning, a lot of the residents were very standoff and very against a lot of the different things. But as I could see being up here for a long period of time, it's these things that are helping us and freeing us up. No difference in the regular business, where Try to go to Home Depot and there would be 10 cashiers. Now there's literally two cashiers and…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“It gives you, right. It gives you backup to be somewhere else. And if we see, like you said, that one zone or that one school, still they don't want to listen on hiatus road and they're still doing 50 through the 20. Then, you know, Sparky's going to be out there and Copas and Revis and we, I mean, then they'll know, hey, they want to see the police presence. They don't believe in, you know, they're still going to speed. So, I mean, look, we got to make tough decisions up here. cost cutting and whatever. But if these little things could help us in any way, I think it's in the best for us. So…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“To the red light cameras. Is there one intersection that stands out above all for the red light cameras? Is there one that has just so many?”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:17:59
“Okay, now as far as the amount, the numbers of tickets, is there any one that stands out? over all of them. Or is there two?”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:18:19
“I just say, because the one by the arena at 136th and Flamingo, I'm just wondering if that one stands out because that one is the one where when there's a hockey game or a concert, there's just so many people that are one lane, two lane, then the people in the right lane are turning, the people from the middle lane, people go from the left lane. So I just was wondering if like that corner is like enormous where I don't know how, you know, we, you know, look, we're not trying to bang people out for the money, but you went from 10,000 issued to 5,000 that went to the citation. So now they go to…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:19:28
“Okay, so that's what I say. A lot of people say, I'm not paying the 158. I'm going to wait until I get the ticket because I want to be able to go to court for the ticket and try to get it thrown out. I'm just saying how people, their scenarios.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:19:49
“But everybody has their own scenario, how they think they're gonna beat the system or whatever.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:21:35
“I would continue to waive that. But we could fire him, and then he doesn't even get a raise. Oh, sorry.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:24:19
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City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:25:54
“My city so right now I'm saying is there I would want to be able to control that property exactly I don't want them now to go sell it to a commercial developer who wants to build a shopping center there and Then in the middle of right when we feel as a city, you know, each of us would feel that we'd rather see residential or you know Like where Banyan is, where we'd want to see a commercial site there, or do we want to see residential? Where Bear Middle is, you don't want to stick commercial because it's right in the middle of a neighborhood. So, I mean, is there something with Shannon, if we…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:27:08
“And then the other thing I want to touch on what Commissioner Guzman said about the data centers, So right now, there was one place that was in the city that was a data center, which was HBO Latin America. Their second building had a huge amount of data storage, and they have huge generators at that site, which can have a data center. Or if they open back up now, they could. But it's a small-time data center. The only other place that could really be a major data center would be the Amazon property. So again, to staff, I mean, I know years ago we talked about before Amazon bought, whether we…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:30:11
“Like I said, if somebody owns a piece of property, what is it can we do now? I don't know if it's any different when all the CVSs and Walgreens start to close, started to close, and staff came to us and said, we don't want all of one particular store to start popping up in all these spots. We don't think it's a good idea. Let's do something. So whatever the something is, I'm not – I just – I know you're probably looking into this. I'm not trying to read your mind. I'm not – Just, you know, since Commissioner Guzman brought this up, I want to make sure we're all looking at the right way to do…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:31:43
“Somebody's riding that dirt bike in the south. It's an e-bike.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I just want to thank Rodrigo and his staff. Spoke to the city manager's office, reached out to him in front of Wellaby Park. to all the runoff from all the rain not just this year but they went back and backfilled and put grass i think that's going to help hold back from where the sidewalk was to kevin and his staff you know thank you and then also i had the chance to go out to see um the site of lenar um I'm glad to see that a lot of us went out there. I had asked the staff that I wanted to go out there and see what was going on. And then they opened it up to each of us that we could…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“And then my next question was when I asked Lenar about on this side of the bridge, There's a sidewalk, and then there's a – it's not a large medium that runs in front of the apartment complex that runs along the canal. It's just bare, and then you have to look at the sportsplex. Is there anything that we could – is there anything that you have in the ground that we can't put anything in that swale, or can we put some type of light tree or light something –”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay, and then I want to thank you, your department, and also Lenar. That is going to replace or whatever the whole entire sidewalk. from one side to the other because of the washout and everything. So I'm glad I had to get ahold of Sean and you guys because when I went out there for that site visit before, I wanted the site visit for Lennar. I noticed all of the sidewalks were alike. But I would still want to see part of it to be blocked off on the property of the people with the apartments to that sidewalk, because it's like a two-foot drop. So I don't know how we notify them. I know that I…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:38:24
“I'm saying, Shannon, here's the building for the people with the apartment that we had to do the slow take from. They have a sidewalk from their property that goes to that sidewalk, and it's like two foot down. So they just sprayed it. They didn't close it off. Somebody... from the sidewalk has to jump up to get on the sidewalk, or the person that's walking could fall two feet.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:38:54
“From the property to the sidewalk. Let them close it off on the property side. So at least they're covered and we're covered. Because anybody, you know, all you see is Mayor Ryan get sued for every single person who falls on a sidewalk.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:39:13
“I'm saying it's not our property. It's their property. But their sidewalk is two foot down, and I don't want to see someone fall, so they should rope it off or close that part off. That's all I'm saying.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. And then the last one is the development that's going next to the old Fox movie theater, the affordable living. People in the beginning were worried about what it's going to look like, but they have done an unbelievable job. The site is always clean, and they're moving. They really are moving. They're already scratch-coating the outside. They've got the windows in. So I can't wait until that really gets open to really – make that look like a really nice building with a lake in the front and to give true affordable that doesn't even going to look like it. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 1:42:03
“I want to say also, very well attended last night. I went to therapy with Caitlin and on the way home, I said, if it's not raining, I'm going to stop by. We did stop by. Caitlin actually loved it. She laughed the whole, she loved the clapping, the different claps that they do, the saluting. And then thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. And then Caitlin was crying when I was speaking, so I'm like, what are you crying for? It was a solemn thing. It was nice. But beautiful event, very professional. Whatever help you need as far as from the city to help you get to that new mark, if…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 11:09
“Colleagues? So I wasn't at the first reading.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 11:16
“So the charitable organizations in the beginning of the meeting, it was going to be slashed in half. And now you're raising it?”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026