Remarks by Joseph A. Scuotto
179 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 8
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“I just wanted to be on the record clear that we're not upping it to 200 from the start. It's only if it passes, they'll get the 106. If it doesn't pass, then it'll go back to the full amount.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 12:55
“That's what I'm saying. I just want to bring it up because I wasn't at the meeting, and when you said the 220, I just want to make sure that's clarified.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay, then I have two more questions. One, I guess the mayor wanted to separate two organizations from all the charitable organizations. One being the CHESS, correct? And one being the chamber.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. So now this is my question. I have nothing against either one of them. The gentleman who runs the chess came into my restaurant not once but twice. Once, one of his employees, who was a student of this program with two of his other brothers, they were triplets, and we all know them. They've started off as little kids and worked their way up, and now one works for the organization. We started this a long time ago when the mayor first got in, and it's been successful. The problem is, years ago, we had 11 schools, and it was in every single school. And now over this time, it is now only in…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Right, but that's just a luncheon. But it's every month, though. Right, that's every month.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 20:07
“But that is at a separate entity where they rent and they collect money for it.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 20:14
“The city only gets a portion of it. But it only gets a portion of it.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“But for the taste of sunrise, it's not a wash. It's all of our employees. All I'm saying is...”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I hear you. But when November 3rd comes in, if it does pass, that may be something that now they're on their own. I'm just saying.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Right. All I'm saying is, look, when you're riding high and you got money flowing, it's great to give it out. And we're great at that. We're a great provider, this city. We help kids, seniors, families, everyone. But I'm just saying, November 3rd could be a rude awakening. Otherwise, you wouldn't have came here tonight for the last meeting and said, we're only giving $106,000. You didn't come here tonight and say, you know what? Regardless of what happens in November, we're giving the $250,000. We can't, you know what I'm saying? So I'm just saying this because, you know, now that I heard…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I didn't say that. That's what I'm saying. No, no, no. Yeah, that was discussed.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I just wanted to voice my concerns because I wasn't at the last meeting.”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right, so I'm glad that you brought up guidance that these would be contracts, which would be good to do a contract with CHESS. My whole issue was to tell you, and what I brought out is, we had it in 11 schools plus All Saints plus Franklin. That's 13 schools. They had a staff. You mentioned all these famous people. And we know, we've seen them. But if guiding and management came to us two years ago and said, hey, we have to redo our fees and we have to redo our membership because we have more people from outside coming to our course than residents. And the residents can't play because…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“I just, I had some, those were just the first two things that I had for the budget. So now I just want to go into one other thing. So, you know, Amendment 3 is something that everyone in the state of Florida is going to have an opportunity to vote for. So, you know, The legislators and senators and governor had an opportunity over years to reign in another side, which would be insurance. So all of us are talking about property and property tax, property is property, everybody's with the property. So I'm just saying, for a normal resident, that has a home valued at whatever, $400,000, but…”
City Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Let me just make sure I got that one right.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Presentation D, presentation of the Firefighter of the Month Award for September 2026 to Battalion Chief Daniel Gamote, Captain Christopher Botello, Captain Alexander Compain, and Rescue Lieutenant Michael Mikey Rowland. His mother is a famous photographer in this city. And John McNamara, Fire Chief. Sorry I had to embarrass you.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Congratulations. It's very important. I'm Italian, so we're still in that same type of region. But I just want to say, being up here on the commission for a long period of time, it was a gentleman who worked for all service at the time, Republic Industries, who and it was Pepe Lopez who started the Latin Chamber of Commerce. Some of you who may know him from many years ago, he was the original starter with the Latin, and then worked for BSO, and then BSO let him go out and branch this out throughout the county. So to the people who really started this back then, and to see now you guys are…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Presentation of the Outstanding Performance Award for September 2026 to Soraya Thomas, Public Service Aid, Daniel J. Ransone, Chief of Police.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, that's fine. If you want to appoint the Piper High School student, that's... You want to make a motion?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just want to touch that. It would have been nice if John Pierre was still here from Republic. Yeah. Because they had the electrical garbage truck outside that they just rolled out into Coconut Creek. And I had asked them if they would be willing to bring the truck here so that the city commission could see it here in Sunrise. And I asked the city manager if it would be okay to allow them to bring the truck here. But that would be a perfect where... You have one of your meetings at the school that maybe Republic could bring someone or a truck and talk to you guys about what it is that they…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Oh, good. So I'm just going to tell you. find out from the principal, I'm growing like 500 palm trees and I got all kinds of other trees that I'm given to also to West Pine. So I would love to give them to you because they said they want you guys to plant and I could load up your school. We would love that. Thank you so much. I got a way to get rid of some of my plants. My wife would be so happy.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thanks, staff, for bringing this forward. At one of our previous meetings a couple of months ago, something tragic happened at one of the banquet halls. And because of that, as a city commissioner, I wanted to make sure that People that have businesses that want to operate after 12, 1, 2, 3, 4 in the morning have to go for the extended license and come before us and go through a whole process. The people who have banquet halls, and I'm just saying, this is just a normal.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“You could rent Nob Hill Hall. You could rent Flamingo Hall. You could rent SAC Hall and have parties for your family or whatever. But normally, you don't stay till 4 o'clock in the morning. You're not serving alcohol till 4 o'clock in the morning at one of your city banquet halls. The banquet hall that this happened at was one of the busiest banquet halls that Sunrise had 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago. It was one of the only banquet halls that we had in the city. It was two-story, set up on top of the second story, and it was called Justin's at the time. served food,…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It took a murder to figure out that there was something missing. I just wanted to say to one other thing is you mentioned about the brick and mortar or whatever, but it's kind of like an Airbnb if you think of it like that. If you rent your home or you rent your apartment or you rent your condo to someone for one year, you would feel that that person that's renting it for the year is going to be consistent. But when you rent an Airbnb, it's for three days. And usually the people that are renting it are going from zero to 60 for the three days. I mean, we've had this problem where I've never…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we can pull any liquor license if they came for a special exception?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026