Remarks by Joshua Rydell
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
- Play at 43:22
“very much appreciate that daryl i'm going to speak to three things very i'll speak to three things very briefly uh it was a short what's going on are you turning me off i'm doing everybody a favor Jamie's at back to school much. She's not listening. Are we good? Are we done? Are we done with your childish games, Mr. Mayor? Yeah, we're done. All right. And this is serious. You can cut me off at the next one. I want to give a word of caution to our city manager. While I appreciate the fact that you want to go to associations and educate, I give you a very, very significant... heed warning that…”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 46:02
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City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 46:53
“In my mind, viewing the contract legally, it doesn't speak to that. It's not like a Republic contract where we have one five-year extension.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 47:08
“I don't either. As we sit here, I know what's been conceptualized and discussed, but that's why I'm trying to give us all the ability in the next two weeks to meet with Terrell. and then sheila can meet with tarrell i'm kind of asking for consensus to put tarrell as the principal body to then bring us some bring us an item whether we approve it or not at our next meeting if everyone's okay with consensus to that i'm definitely open to discussion of extension meeting with tarrell but just to be clear time frame time frame wise on her contract There's 180 timeframe. I don't know if we meet that…”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 48:02
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City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 48:38
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City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 49:16
“No, I'm asking for consensus as a commission. Because I can meet with her whenever I want. Jeff, I'm not suggesting that. What I'm suggesting is in previous years, members of the commission or other people have been the negotiating body for the city manager. I'm asking for consensus to make Terrell the point of contact for a negotiation, and we all meet with her with our positions, and then she could then negotiate.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 49:40
“She's our employee. She needs a direction to do that.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 49:42
“yeah no problem consensus turning my mic off you just want to be angry at me it's okay um the only other thing i'll say is sam may's contract was extended on the solid waste authority um pending the rfp process to educate you it's a quick meeting so i don't want to belabor anything and i will just say dustin from filthy organics won the county bid today on an unsolicited bid that was no one thought he was going to get it but he got it for a much smaller amount so it's actually very good for composting no further comments”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 55:15
“On a relevant note, Sheila, what Jackie just said, is there school board property in Coconut Creek that we could buy? Just as a point of thought, let's look at that.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 55:35
“No, I know, but some of these other cities have weird vacant parcels that are owned.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 55:47
“That I'm with, but I'm just curious, at the next meeting, maybe you can update us if there's any unused school board property that maybe the city could, you know, that's all.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:01:48
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City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:04:30
“i'd like to hear what you guys have to think about it yeah i think this evening is probably a flawed venue to do that and i think if you want to have a discussion on flock cameras i think it'd be appropriate that you should direct and get consensus to the city manager to ask our police chief to do a presentation on the item where we could ask appropriate questions not during commission comments that would be my position mr mayor i i agree sounds good to me yes all right um thank you”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:05:32
“No, I didn't say that. I said if you're going to have a discussion, the appropriate venue would be to ask the commission for consensus and then have an item for the purposes of presentation. That was my exact verbatim words. There was not a request for consensus.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:05:50
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City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:08:01
“All right. Then we can regroup. Mr. Mayor, if you choose, because you have the authority as the mayor, you can put this on as a discussion item at the next commission meeting, and we can do the same thing we're doing with the city manager's contract.”
City Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 43:31
“Thank you, Mayor. We have a lot of ladies here in blue that I think this entire day supports and I think are selfless in what they do every day in the classroom. I guess the question I have is a little more unique. This is obviously something I support, but I guess the question is you're going into it, and I'm asking a strategic question because the card's on the table, right? You're putting a ballot referendum on where we have a property tax reform item on where there's going to be a general climate of saying no. saying no to this, saying no to, I guess, saying yes to property tax reform.…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 47:36
“So I think something extraordinarily important is, listen, we have some crown jewels of Broward County on Coconut Creek Parkway in terms of some of our vocational schools as well as some of our other schools. And I think our city and this commission has invested in our schools more so than other cities have in terms of things that we invest in, partnerships that we have under more current administrations than it has in the past. And I think that's something this commission, I speak for myself, will always continue to do. But I say it from a point of advice you need to figure out a really…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 53:18
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City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 1:05:51
“Thank you, Mayor. And, you know, I just I remember last year at City Hall where I came in. I'm surprised you're not reading the proclamation. I remember last year where you had that car full of diapers and you were driving down to the Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank. So I want to commend you for that personal donation. And if you want, I'll let you read it. But I was just I remember I was surprised because the amount I know you have a young kid, a lot of diapers. So I commend you for your diaper donation. Whereas diaper need, the condition of not being able to afford a sufficient supply of clean…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 1:13:02
“Greg, thank you for coming. Just kind of a criticism. I don't like getting something on the dais that I haven't had before. So, like, not so cool, candidly, but, you know. No, I wouldn't acknowledge that. I'd like whoever wants to address it, I want you to address it. the subsections and the categories on page three and four in terms of your headers. So what you've just handed me, I just want you to address how you're subcategorizing out your top bar. I would have had this information before, but again, you kind of just gave it to me. So I'm going to ask you to just work through your... Your…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 1:14:55
“All right, so I'm just going to take your numbers, because I'm not a math guy. I'm a lawyer. But you got 436 working violations. Police queued 16. You dismissed 16. You issued 404. You had 153 paid. I'm doing ballpark math that you have about over 200 outstanding. And then you UTC 86. So mathematically speaking, I need to understand it. And again, I didn't have a lot of questions until you handed me this. You got 200 missing. Mm-hmm. So explain that to me.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“That, to me, is a little troubling, and I'll tell you why. Because if we're looking and doing our due diligence as a municipality, I want numbers to add up, right? Like, we just got out of budget. If the budget doesn't balance, we're not doing our jobs on the city commission. So your numbers don't add up here. That's a red flag to me in general. And now you just said, well, we don't show that. So... And again, I'm looking at this. I'd love for you to come back for a presentation, Greg. I appreciate what you've done in the city. And I appreciate the concept of it. I know our police department…”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026
- Play at 1:17:23
“But if that's the answer, then I'm OK with that because I'm good with that. But the lack of information is just something.”
City Commission · Aug 27, 2026