Remarks by Ken Gilbert
167 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 7
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“If a beer's $4.50, I'll sell them a slice for $4 or $4.50, whatever you want to do, Mayor.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, thank you, man. I would just like to ask that to be a four to six month extension because then we can really do due diligence, uh, 90, 180 days. I blinked my eye and half a year's gone. Uh, you know, so something that's, um, feasible for both the crabbies and both us.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“But at least give them the common courtesy of extending three months at 180. Something where they're confident that we're serious and we're confident that That timeframe is just too tight for me.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“That was my biggest thing I put in bold. We don't want to freak people out.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“In that service industry, it's an industry that you have to paycheck to paycheck people. No disrespect, but a lot of them, you don't want to. They've got a plan, too. Certainly. And we care about them.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Deputy Mayor, why don't we just continue with the agreement we have? If that's an annual increase, let's do business as is and do it that way. And the increase will be just formidable to what their annual increase is. And then we go from there. We're asking them to hang in. and we should honor our agreement with them for the rent increase. Uh, I yield back to you mayor. I'm sorry.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“A pleasure to counsel. It's fair to both parties.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“The MDU with Osceola County was the assessment of these fees, and I met with some people during our break with the chief of police, and I told them we were just shifting those funds over to the city council funds to do that, and they just wanted an explanation. They were here, and they left. I met them outside with the chief of police. They just wanted an explanation, but this is just an MDU changing over to us to do that, and I'm not looking forward to, but this is something we're going to be addressing as we continue to annex and continue these systems. I agree with us passing this because…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“If I may ask a question. Yes, sir. This is another thing we talked about doing, but I would ask the City Council to put an expedition on cleaning the frontals of their properties because they've been in a quandary in some of the... lawns and maintenance has not been taken care of because we're, they're waiting for us to take this, take this over. So I would just ask the council, I don't know how to ask, but if we can put a priority on this, clean this thing up, show them what we do as a city, be proud of our city and, um, get this work done, uh, as soon as possible to start our, our, our…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Anytime you adopt a baby, you give them a new blanket and food. and we're doing that, we need to take care of our residents. We really do.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I just love your analogies. Well, no, yeah. You just have to. You got to feed them? No, they're good people. These are great people. They love City St. Cloud. We love them. We just have to show that we love them, I would say.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Mayor, may I ask you a question? Go ahead. Yes, sir. This isn't a net gain, this is a cost.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, yeah, and I do thank you, Mayor. I'm on a few boards, as you are and all the other members are, and for the first two and a half years, I just didn't... ask for reimbursement. Now, we fill out forms and we get reimbursed, which is great, but these policies are great because we, I live less than two miles away from here. If it's not city business, I'm not doing it. And when I do go on city business, I think these policies are great policies. I think it's a win-win for the city and also for us that we don't have to track, oh, I went to this ribbon cutting, I went to this. How many…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“I thought you don't like acronyms. I don't. It's a terminology that we do with Metro Plan is that if you travel, you get 69 cents a mile.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Now, I will say this, and that's what I was going to say in my last statement. These funds will be taxed. Yes. So you know, as counsel.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“If we elect the allowance, you can take 33% off and be a taxable deduction, but that will be on us. I just don't like writing down everything. I don't mean to sound bad, but I could spend two days writing this down or two days working on getting us a new pool or getting streets and roads. I think this is fair to council. What they say, our exorbitant pay at $18,500 a year. You're going to get a raise. You've earned a raise. I yield back to you, Mayor.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“On the record, we had a meeting last month, and I talked about the pool of cars, and sometimes I talk without knowledge, and then when I investigate it, there's only three cars for pool. So I want to go on record saying I was mistaken. I've seen city cars in the lot. And I assumed that they were carpool, but there's only three. So I want to go on a record that I did make a mistake and did say that. So I, I didn't have to, well, no, I, I have to, because, uh, the truth will set you free that I heard that before, but, uh, I made a mistake and there's three carpool, uh, things. So I want to go…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Um, you know, the staff goes in and out on that.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“When Council Member Paul said Tony Campbell, I go, soup. There it is. Sorry. It's getting late. My wife is going to get it. I'm in trouble again. Sorry. Sorry, honey. She's watching. I'm in trouble. But Brian and Amy have done a great job on the council. They're both reputable folks here in the city of St. Cloud, and they're great to the council. I did talk to Stacy about the reapplications, and I want to make it simpler for these people that donate their time and efforts to be reappointed to not have to go through the system again. So I'd ask council to try to find another way to say, yeah,…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Deputy Mayor. Well, I've purchased properties, both commercial and residential properties, any time to go through an inspection, and there's numerous costs. When I've been the seller of the property, I had to cure it. And when I've been the buyer of the property, I had to get it cured. Right now, we either have to tell them to cure these things because I've read the report, or there has to be enough of depreciation value of the property that we can cure it with those dollar volumes. Let's just say we buy something for $10 and then we find out it's going to be $3 to fix it. We have the right…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“But I 100% agree. I don't want to get into the remodeling business.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“It's general fund money. It's not part of the records. I understand that.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm just going to give you my opinion and that's totally at the council. The pleasure of the council decides what they are. When I walk into a building, either buying or selling a building, I always have to cure that building through the inspection process before I sell it or discount the cure the amount that it costs and and mayor and council i don't know what that cost is but i know that it's there's some cost there and this is it's a tough thing i i i bought a building it was built in 1926 and i went to sell it and i had to spend 175 000 to just to fix it before the buyer…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“Again, I'm not here to persuade in any way. I just know that Spending the citizens' money, I would like to spend it like I would my money for any purchases that we do. And any sales that we do also, I'd like to make sure that we sell it on an appropriate basis if we sell any of our properties and a buyer comes in. I yield back to you. This is a tough thing. Done it. Been there. You've got to buy with your head, not your heart. uh i i i don't know what else to tell you but i thank you mayor and i thank you council i i'm not going to vote either way but i'm just telling you that these things…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
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“So what I heard was if the seller will agree to cure”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026