Remarks by Kelli Marks
131 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
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“Okay, so this is next year if we get hit this year Would what's our plan for if we don't have tiger dams and things like that? The county they said yes Okay At the top of the list or they said yes?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, the top of the list could be number five and we never get chosen and then our city's flooded.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So now we're talking it could go three years, but I mean, at least we're getting started, right?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I hope you're right. Me too. I just said that. Okay. Any other questions, council, or comments? No? Anybody on the phone?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, so we are looking for a motion for resolution number 458-26. I'd like to make a motion to adopt. Madam Mayor?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We have a motion, we have a second. Any public comment on this?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I think you already said what it was gonna do. We don't need to go through it again. You just went through that whole process that it's actually gonna help Mill Lake, it's gonna help Industrial Park, it's gonna help that whole east side of 1792 to move water for the first phase of trying to mitigate this problem, right? So I think that's already been answered. Is there any other public comment on this? Anybody? Okay, we're gonna bring it back for the question then.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. And resolution number 458-26 passes. There's a delayed reaction on the phone if everybody didn't notice already. Okay, moving on to 8C, discussion and direction regarding the proposed fire protection special assessment program. Devlin Moore, finance director.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Can I ask you a question real quick? So didn't she already do this presentation at the workshop? she did and wasn't that for public to watch or no they had to come unfortunately the public workshop from what i understand was not recorded so they had to come but it was but it was noticed where people could come correct okay yes thank you”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I have a question, and I'm not sure if this is for you or Sandy, but you were saying that there's certain properties that would have to pay this fire assessment that are not paying now their taxes. Can you answer that for me? Who are we talking about?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But you have to be a homeowner to pay? So you could be a renter and have to pay?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Anybody on the phone have any comments on this?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Are you talking about there was a challenge? Sandy's asking you a question, Councilwoman T. Ompson, about is it a challenge for the Cooper City? Yeah. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Council anybody? Okay I think that we should do the February 9th thing like we originally said we went around and around but I got a timeline here May 11th June 9th June 23rd July 23rd July 28th and now tonight Like I said, beating a dead horse. We're not saying no, we're just saying let's just wait, see what happens. And I like the way that you presented it, Devlin, was we'll have more answers then, and it's safe to do that. So I think that that's our best route, and I'm just looking for a motion to support that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Second. We have a motion. We have a second. We have some public comment here. Karen Stuckey.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other public comment? Okay, I just want to make a comment that you know, we do have workshops and they are public, it would be nice if everybody would participate. So that we didn't have to keep saying the same thing here. And, and we can move on to other business, but I'm glad that y'all had the opportunity to see it again. And we'll move on from that. Excuse me. Okay, city manager reports?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Oh, sorry. Okay, we have a motion, we have a second. Public comment's over. Let's bring it back for the question.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Any questions, council? I had a couple questions and comments. I noticed that you're working remote from home, and I was wondering, usually that's something that you let the council know when you're working remotely, city manager. That doesn't sound right.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“we do have some times that you were not there so i'm not sure what you're speaking of it just means i may have been off okay well the question the question is do you let us know when you do that or you do ask permission for us to do that because i know in the past the past city manager would always say is it okay if i take off today or if i work remotely and so so we know where you're at”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then the other thing I wanted to thank you for the organizational charts that you sent to us. We started getting them on Mondays. I don't know if you all have been checking them out. And I went back and referred back to May is when you sent your first one to us until the one we just recently got. And I noticed a big turnover in employees. And I know that way back when I got a lot of flack from people saying that I caused people to quit and things like that but when I look at these charts and I'll be happy to pass them around but it looks like we lost a lot of employees lately in the last…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm just looking at the organizational chart, and that was one of the positions.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“so it seems like things have been shuffled from may and that's why i'm asking the questions to see because we don't as a council we don't know who's coming and going that's not our job that's the city manager's job to hire fire but what i see is a big turnover and i'm starting to question why i also noticed that john peters engineer services has moved to administrative offices and i was wondering why that happened if he's over with public works he works under my myself in either area and he's working under me at this point okay well we didn't know that so that's what i'm saying like we don't…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I don't want you to think that I was pointing the finger at you was why they left I was asking why did they leave because it just seems like the departments were falling apart and I know that you're in charge of all the departments but just trying to figure out what's happening and then I like I said, I had a reliable advisement that it may it may not be what we think here and and so I just I have to have to say something because that's our job to make sure that our city is running and”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I was just gonna say, I like AI, but it's not reliable yet. It's still new, and I feel like what the clerk said is you still have to go back and spend the same amount of time to make sure it's right, because these minutes have to be word for word of what, they have to be correct. So if AI makes a mistake, then that's in our public record, and that's not going to look good on public records requests. She's already got enough. She don't need more, right? Right. So go ahead.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“You can bring that back under new business if you want to talk about that as a discussion right now We're just we're on just maybe find out who's using it. That's it's working So bring that back when we get to new business and we can ask the council do that. Sorry to interrupt you. I Had a question for the clerk I had We had Way back when we had a problem with a conversation between me and Councilwoman Thompson with some words and I had went into the clerk's office to ask her if she had a public record for that. because it was brought to the council meeting as a discussion about, it was…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026