Remarks by Josh Street
159 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 7
- Play at 25:03
“Okay, good. Yeah, no concerns, correct, yeah.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 33:53
“Yeah, a couple questions. One was what you just answered on the I'm sorry, guys. I just completely forgot what my question was. We do it all the time, sir. We do it all the time. I cannot remember what it was.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 34:17
“That'll refresh my memory. Oh, that's Velvel. Yeah, keep going. Or maybe it's forward a slide.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 34:31
“Oh, yeah. Yeah. OK, here it was. This was my question. So Sheila sent us all an email talking about NSP funds being eligible for CBDG or community block development grant purposes. Me personally, I would love to see those program dollars as well as the the community block development grant dollars. Program similar how we did before program together in synergy sidewalks is eligible use for Community block development funds. And so it seems to me that it would just make sense for us to plan this stuff together.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 35:55
“um what that impact would be on the cras yeah i would i would just like to see those dollars included in our budgetary process i've never in this entire time that i've been on the commission gotten to to you know program community block development grant funding it's always been reactionary you guys bring us something i'd like to be proactive”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 36:38
“At least that's what made me think of that. That's it. As far as we talked about moats, I know that's part of the bonding issue. I'd like to have a further conversation on that before we commit to any kind of physical improvements to that area. And then Sweet Bay, that one got pushed forward because CPAR wants to adopt that park. And so we need to engage with CPAR and see how much they're willing to contribute towards that project. Projects that people are willing to contribute to, hey, push them forward. But if we've got to do it all on our own, I don't know that that's the number one…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 41:31
“Let me ask this question. Are you guys, what is the debt carry on that loan? That's not a massive loan for the CRA. It's basically twice revenue a year.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 41:50
“So out of a million dollars, we'd lose $200,000.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 41:56
“Well, there's no way the property tax is going to affect that much. But I like what Alan brought up where it's like, you should be doing 20 years. So what is it on 20 years? Is it half that?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 42:25
“How long does a boardwalk last? Let me ask that question.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 42:33
“Well, I mean, you can borrow against the useful life of it. So if it's 20 years, that makes perfect sense. A 20-year loan on a playground piece of equipment, I'm a little iffy on that. But the boardwalk... pavilion, things like that that are physical assets, for sure.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 42:57
“But in favor, I'm in favor of the bonding. I do agree maybe being a little prudent, but if you guys can get the loan payment down enough and reduce the risk, you know, you'll have more program money to go do other things with.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 55:20
“Yeah, so maybe I misunderstood the idea when Keith presented it. Is he just trying to move the tennis courts into a CRA so we have funding to build them?”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 56:26
“Yeah, yeah. But when I asked Keith – I said, what's the cheapest option to get tennis courts back in our city that are good? The Oakland Terrace Tennis Court was. They're already stormwatered. They have lighting. They have fencing. Even though the base is bad, it's still not as expensive as going and engineering and creating something brand new. I don't want us to get caught in what we term it as... pie in the sky thinking and forget about the the wind that's like right in front of us if that makes sense”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 57:14
“I'm not fighting to keep tennis courts at Oakland Terrace. I'm just saying, like, if expense is an issue, I think that's why it hasn't gotten it done. I don't know how making the budget bigger is going to is going to help us get across the finish line.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 57:34
“look i watch john's videos too and they're really funny i'm sorry alan but but i mean to his point like we we said for like three years in a row we bought those temporarily that was 350 000 it was only supposed to be there for two years max and now we're sitting here at like year four and so um I don't know what the fix is, but I did have one of the tennis guys say we could get grant funding if we remove the pickleball courts. So maybe we need to go find a different place for pickleball so we can get funding for tennis. That's also an idea that we could do. Yeah.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 58:31
“Yeah. So, I mean, as long as there's options, but it is true. Pickleballers and tennis players hate those grid things, especially when it's humid in the morning, you slip and get hurt. So anyway, so if there's a way for us to compete for some funding or something like that, that would be great, even if it changes the design. And if we can compete funding elsewhere and we can go and build it from scratch, that's fine, too. I don't care. But I do think we're going to continue to hear from John until we actually fix it.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:05:39
“Go ahead, Commissioner Street. Yeah, I mean, to what Alan was saying, I mean, on the breezeway thing, if they don't close, I'm sure there's a bunch of people that would take the property for free. So I don't know. I don't know that I'm super concerned about us having to carry that very long. The question is whether they'll do what we wanted them to do and building it out. Yeah. The one thing I would say to what Alan's point was, it's really on prioritization of how we get to where we're going. If we did 50 more slips, well, that's 50 more slips of revenue. And, you know, by investing any…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:06:37
“So that's just the thought that I had, what you guys were talking.”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:12:03
“Yeah, I think that's a great point. I mean, and I think the collaboration piece is a really important part of that equation because a lot of times we can look at facilities and just say, we just need to program more stuff, more stuff, more stuff. No, we just need to make our environments as friendly as they possibly can because there are a lot of people in our community that want to do stuff. And so I agree. Nothing makes me more irritated than vacant facilities. It drives me insane. And so I would just say, yeah, anything we can do to be more collaborative, how we can do it, reduce the cost,…”
Public · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 28:46
“So, Sean, that's one question that I had was, you know recently we had a question that came up is like why do we have so many different kinds of vehicles like we've got nissan trucks we've got these kind of things is like there is there a standard format or is everybody just doing their own procurement on what kind of vehicle that they want to drive or do we have a standard issue you know city vehicle procurement method. When I say fleet, I'm not talking about equipment. I'm talking about specifically vehicles.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 30:05
“to Sean's what Sean just pointed out is the exact reason why is these guys have got tire sets they've got things like that that they keep in standard equipment maintenance well if you have you know 15 different types of vehicles well that means they have to keep 15 different types apart so what I would like to say just so we communicate based upon what you've said so far what I can hear is maybe there's a way to combine IT services between the two as well as a standardized fleet approach would be something that I would be interested in seeing.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 34:22
“Okay. So how you would handle this in just typical corporate world, you have vehicles, you have some that sit for a long period of time. Rather than charging an entire vehicle department, go on a mileage basis. There's other ways to handle that other than having to sign an entire vehicle to a department that sits four days out of five days a week. um what what i'm seeing and this is just me from multiple years i'm seeing our leasing continue to increase as we've replaced our fleet and it's be and while you can drive by city hall at any point in time you can see a ton of vehicles just sitting…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 36:42
“So your next probably biggest, if I put the city in categories of expenses, personnel's obviously number one, you spend more on people than you do anything else, which people are your most valuable resource. So I don't have an issue with that. Second may be buildings. And third is probably vehicles. Like that is, if we talk about the big numbers of what you're spending money on, that is probably millions of dollars every year and standardizing it, consolidating it into one purchasing spot and, and tracking it, assigning it out based upon usage rather than just department, we should see that…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 39:59
“I think what all you're hearing, Sean, is implementing the same type of system that exists in private and private market. The way that it's currently operating is not a normal way of, in private work, to implement a vehicle policy. And I think... I think what you're hearing today is I think you're hearing a majority support for creating some type of consolidated vehicle purchasing thing that reflects more along the lines of standardizing vehicles, putting it into some type of purchasing piece. You'll have a much easier time asking your commission for replacing vehicles when we can look and we…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026