Remarks by Kathleen Peters
83 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
- Play at 1:43:15
“Well, I can tell you they're riding him on the street. Yeah, yeah. And I saw one. It looked like he was 10 or 11. No plate. He cut me off on the road and then took up down the street. And so, I mean, and he was like 10 or 11. I couldn't believe a parent would buy that for their kid and let him drive it in the street. But he was on Gulf Boulevard even. Gulf Boulevard. No plate, no tag. And he was going way over 30, 35 miles an hour. So... Don, do you by chance know, I remember when there were a bunch of wave runner and jet ski accidents and fatalities in the county. And I believe the county, I…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:55:14
“Right. So if we focus on there's four things that we're allowed to do. Right. So jet skis by state law, you can't ride those unless you're 14. State law, have to be 14. Thanks for sending that, Don. So I think you could do a speed limit. Even though there isn't a speedometer, it's hard to do it. If they do what St. Petersburg's classification is, I think you can do that. We definitely can restrict where they can go, right? But we don't have that many, I mean, like Fort DeSoto, are we having a lot of problems with e-bikes in Fort DeSoto? Because on the beaches, we don't have a lot of beaches.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 2:06:16
“So, I mean, you could do hourly, and this is what we do at Clearwater Beach and stuff like that. They do hourly or you have a choice for the day. So it's $30 for the day or so much an hour, like $3.50 an hour or $35. I think they're at $35 or $40 for the day now. And I'm not saying I want to be the same as Clearwater Beach, but I think you're right, eight hours. $3.50 is about $30 a day. So it kind of comes out to the same thing. But if you give them an option where if you stay all day, it's cheaper, right? So if it's $20 for the day, it could be $3.50 an hour or $20 for the day. Then the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 2:38:47
“So yeah, I'm just going to reiterate. I think we do it for one year. It gives us time to talk to the legislature. And then it's up for discussion again next year, depending on how Amendment 3 goes. And regardless, however, Amendment 3 goes, if it passes, then we know what we have to deal with. If it doesn't pass, something else is coming. So I think it's a serious conversation that we have to have with our delegation about what the state owns and what the state's willing to fund. So I agreed to fund this for a year. and then have the conversation with the legislature and see if they would.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 3:36:01
“So the other impact is the legislature passed a law that said if a homeless person sleeps in a business's doorway, that business can sue the local government. So if you get rid of a safe harbor and those people are sleeping in a business, now we've just set our set up for her to be liable for a lawsuit because a homeless person fell asleep in a doorway.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 3:37:12
“So it may be worth talking to the sheriff about a study on transport and just other things where there could be efficiencies. Maybe have someone come in and do an analysis and look for efficiencies. I know he doesn't like to spend money that way, but I don't think he does. I shouldn't speak for him, I apologize. It could be that there's things we haven't thought of or he hasn't thought of that there could be efficiencies, whether it's transport, whether it's, you know, I don't really know. That is not my expertise, so I just don't know. But there could be a way that he could do some kind of…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 3:41:21
“Can I throw something out there before we go on to agenda review? Go right ahead. So, you know, we talk about affordability and... You know, I publicly stated I think a lot of the affordability problems is because corporations have bought up our housing inventory. So I learned of a new business model, and I don't know if you've heard about this, but now instead of buying up inventory of housing, The new business model is you buy up leases in apartments and condos that are for rent, and then you Airbnb those apartments and those condos. So therefore, the business is not buying the inventory,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 3:50:09
“So the first question, why is it the boat races for Clearwater taken out of this one? You have one on the regular agenda for the boat races, which is typically an elite funding. And so why isn't it in this one? Just out of curiosity.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026