Remarks by Ken Gilbert
167 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah. So that is how we... Again, I don't have that answer. I just...”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I got one more. My wife goes to beauty salon to get cut and color. Next thing you know, it's cut and color and she gets her eyebrows done. I just, I don't, I'm sorry.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Chief, and thank you for all you do. This is something that I was proponent of as soon as I got on council because I have a nephew that runs charter schools. there was a fatality at one of the schools before the cameras came out and since the cameras, and these are volunteer teachers that sometimes do this versus crossing guards in person. And one of the volunteer teachers was walking someone across and they got hit and killed. And then next thing you know, while we put the cameras and they would go in place. So we got them working. And then I think the tail started wagging a dog…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Because I mentioned your name, he goes, and Micah is putting together a bill for this specific thing, but it has to go through legislators, so that's not going to be that way. So I asked the... I asked the board if we could set up a commission with Osceola County, Seminole County, and Orange County to get together with all the law enforcement agencies. And Mayor Demings and a bunch of mayors and council said, yes, we want the sheriff's office, we want the Florida Highway Patrol, and we want all the police officers there. Because what's happening now is these folks travel through this internet…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“And I know there's costs to do with that, but I think that, again, you and I had agreed upon, we don't want to... get one penny. We just want it to be safe. We don't want to have to revisit this after a kid gets hit or, God forget it, school crossing guard or multiple people. But I don't know, and I'm asking you because I think you're the best chief in Florida, probably in the United States, but I don't know that. But is this possible that we get these cameras back on and let the people, Vero Mobility, whoever, handled any of the legal issues, which I think they're doing. But I don't know the…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“It just takes long. So I don't know. Can you give me advice? Would it be possible to turn these back on and do that? Or do we need to wait?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“And if I may comment on that, and thank you. You all right over there? I did ask for that meeting with Viral Mobility and the law enforcement agencies that we work with here and I took it a step further and did that with Metro Plan with all the counties that are involved and all the agencies because there are the county, there are the sheriff's departments, there are the police forces that are all kind of combined and everyone's looking at, and I truly believe it's another the tails wagging the dog, but I also believe in our police chief of his knowledge of law and what it takes, so I like…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Correct me if the definition is wrong. A UTC is when an officer pulls somebody over, then they know who's driving. With the cameras, they cannot put it on the driver because they can't identify the person operating that vehicle. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. I need counsel's, any input counsel has, I'd really like to have it, and I really, our chief, is on top of this as well, and those are the folks I met with, Chief, and I know we didn't get a chance to speak, and I don't know I didn't get a chance to speak to counsel on this, but this is big. This is something we need to do.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I requested the meeting, Council Member, if I can, Mayor. I requested the meeting with the folks, with the chief involved, and I've also been part of the subcommittee with Metro Plan to address that through all three counties. So I volunteered on both bases to be involved with it because I believe time is of the essence, and the reason why is because if one person gets injured or one fatality, That's too many.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, thank you. I haven't got a chance to ask Chief to be a part of these meetings also. Commissioner Krabbe was designated by the governor, and Mayor Demings, of course, is the next police officer. So we're trying to get the right people in line to take care of these issues.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay, good. He just got appointed, I guess, did District 1 in Orange County or something like that?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I think Uribe's 2, so he should be 1, but... 1. Thank you, Councilmember Irvin. Don't have the answer. I don't get to talk to you all about this, but... These are one of, you know, we all have certain things we go after. These are one of the big things that I think is important to the city of St. Cloud and also all of Osceola County and all of Florida.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“With Mike, the legislation, I'm sorry to interrupt you, Mayor, I respect you very much, but with the registration, it's going to be until next session. and we're trying to do a stopgap.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I'm looking at the chief's experience and expertise in the law. And that's where he's coming from. I just wanted to bring it to you as a counsel what research and what I've been working at. I'm not going to answer any questions here about what we should or shouldn't do.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“that's the meeting to have and that's what they did mayor demings uh wants to turn him back on the just mr crabby he was was he with florida i'll see orange county sheriff's office yes so they do but they don't have those answers yet so i i might be premature but i'm reporting to council of what the conversations are because i don't get to talk to you guys on a daily basis So they all are for getting it done. The process ease to get it done, Mayor, I don't have those yet. I, like you, would like to rely on our police chief to make those decisions for us as a leader of our community here. and…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Again, I don't have those answers. I'm just reporting back to council. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“With Micah, he's putting them together. We're working together. I don't have a stopgap for you, but that is something that is for legislation, but that's against the next legislation's areas.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“The only thing I'm confident is they said they're safe enough that they would spend any financial liability in that. But again, I agree with you 1,000%, Mayor. I'm going to rely on our police chief and his knowledge and his knowledge of the law and his connections. to advise us as council of what actions to take next. I just wanted to bring up to council what I've been doing on the separate entity of the Metro Plan, which is mostly safety zones with e-bikes and different things like that. So I just had to bring that up, too, of what I did. in the meeting so so there's frustrated agencies out…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Let the city manager tell you how much they paid. Take me a minute. I got it.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I apologize, but this is another thing I've been working on. The agreement was in 1996 when the original agreement became an agreement with 2020 Media. In 1997, there's an addendum to that agreement, and I don't have it with me, but I'm sure the city manager and council can get it to you. And with that, they're supposed to put shelters on the bus benches, and they're supposed to be starting shelters that actually... We're working with LINCS right now and Metro Plan. We have two designated grants for shelters on 192 that they're gonna be building with their agreement with LINCS. No part of…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Just one more comment. I did call the owner of the business, or he called me to ask for a meeting. We had set up a meeting, and he no-showed.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“It wasn't good for me. It just took the shortest meeting I ever had. All right.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“But we really have to do it. I'm sorry. I'd like to see what you'd ask for is a specific... evaluation of in and out while we need access to the facility also which i did not know that we are denied access right so we've been sitting for three and a half weeks and nothing and we're under if you go and tie a piece of property under contract and they don't grant your access you're going to get pretty mad it usually takes me about you know 14 days to get the inspectors, to get the contractors, to get the real numbers before I buy a property. Not saying that's the magic number because sometimes…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026