Remarks by Kristen M. Dreyer
39 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I'm just going to say – I'm a big believer in when you have complaints, and I'm talking about us, I like to go directly to the person that my complaint is with and discuss it with them, right? And so anything that I think I should have had to hash out with you, I didn't need to write it down in my report, in my evaluation, because I've already talked to you about this. There's nothing that would have been a surprise, and a lot of it's been addressed. Now, it's really simple, and I think a lot of us do this in personal relationships that we have. And our relationship is a personal…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I do just want to add that Jeff Shrum is doing a great job over growth services, so please do not take that the wrong way wherever you are. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Council President, can I just say quickly that one of the local online news outlets was reporting that we were raising millage, and I just want to go on record as saying this is not a raise to the millage rate. This is the same rate we've had now for 11 or 12 years. Twelve years.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So I just brought this up like privately between me, you, Will, and Aubrey, so maybe we just give a back story for everybody.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think it makes the most sense. I don't know why we wouldn't want to do that. We've had the golf carts long enough now. We know that it's not like of disaster all the time, right? So I think I would say yes. I was honestly, I was surprised that we did not include the parking garage to begin with until somebody brought it up to me the other day. I'm like, what are you talking about? And then lo and behold, it was not in the map. So I know that I have heard feedback from some of the people in my district that they want to park in the parking garage. So I don't know why we would not have that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I would not do that. Then you take away, look, if I'm going downtown and I can't bring my golf cart, I'm going to bring my car. What's the difference, right? Like I'm parking a car in the car spot. Let me take up a whole entire parking spot for a golf cart. I think that's fine. But when you start having golf cart specific spots, you've literally taken away spots from cars. I don't know.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think it's just paint, right? Like we can just restripe things as we go. So at this point, I think it's an observation of what the needs are. And if it winds up being what you're saying, then we just adapt to it.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“You have just made some enemies with that comment.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, and I know some of the neighbors over there have tried to overcome that by getting street legal golf carts, right? So they cross anyway because they can. But I think we've talked about that in the past, but I think we talked about incorporating West Ocala into that as well.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, especially with the Forge open now. I mean, it's a pretty busy place. It is. During the weekends and at night.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm going to end on a high note. We have a business here in the Ocala Professional Park by the airport who is owned by two young ladies named Becca Dahlman and Jenna Butler. It's called Fun Delivered, and it's basically like blind bags of returned FedEx and UPS packages. So you order a box from them. You do not know what you're getting, and that's what makes it fun. Oh, my gosh. But they will be on Shark Tank on September 30th at 9 p.m. So I just wanted to give them a shout out because I think that's super cool for Ocala to make the map like that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'll make a comment quickly, if you don't mind. When you first rolled this out, I think you may have come before us one other time, right? I actually had a meeting with somebody whose child was self-harming, and she didn't know who to contact. So I was able to send her the link, and she contacted somebody through the behavioral health options that you provided. So I'm super thankful that you at least have made it easier for us to connect people and definitely our citizens just by themselves. Yeah. Thank you for doing that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council President, I move that Ordinance No. 2026-28 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, except that adoption by sections on second reading be waived.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council President, I move that Ordinance Number 2026-34 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, except that the adoption by sections on second reading be waived.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, you have to count these out loud now.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“But they're doing – if I may – I mean, they're doing it with the information that's provided. So if you – I mean, we're talking about $400 million. And I agree with you. We're not – there's no accusation of impropriety. But sometimes, as we know, we'll go down a road with an audit, with a theory, right? You asked a question. And sometimes the audit will – travel different directions and it will reveal several other things. I mean, it's actually very common. And so I think that we err on the side of caution here and go before the pension board and I think that that should be our request to…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I do think while we're talking about our new auditor, congratulations, I think that we should give him the blessing that things that he is capable of doing, like when you go down roads that lead you in different directions, just keep going. I know that this is beyond the scope of what your office can do, but anything that your office can do, I think we should just give the blanket blessing to just do it. Just let us know at the end, but just keep going until you've exhausted all efforts.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, Mayor. Just make it fast. Go ahead, Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Thank you. Really quick. The mayor and I were having a conversation about a business that's coming into town. It's an indoor batting cage business that's right down the street, and the county was charging them $100,000 in transportation impact fees. So it brought us back to the conversation of 2025 when we talked about the adoption of their EMS impact fee and the adoption of their transportation impact fees and how we had wanted to implement more of a mobility fee type methodology within the city of Ocala and the surrounding area that positively impacts the city of Ocala. So with…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. I mean, council was in full agreement, all of us and the mayor, that we should have control over that. This is money that's coming out of our city, going to them, that they can then use anywhere within the county that they please. We have needs in the city. 20th is one of those needs on top of a long list of others. So if they desire to continue with this interlocal agreement, they have to get on board.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council President, I move that ordinance number 2026-24 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, except that the adoption by sections on second reading be waived.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Can I ask a question, Council President of Jeff? So when you say that the fees are going to be waived, are you waiving a $250 a day fine minus all of the hard costs?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So you can have the closing as scheduled and then deal with the other situations separately?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And how did the – I'm just sorry. What started this, taking down trees?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, you and I have spoken about code enforcement. I think we've all spoken together as a board about this, how really it should be less of a punitive experience, right? I mean, there are some times when it needs to be. I will tell you, you can drive around our city and see a bunch of semi trucks parked in people's yards. Go after stuff like that. Not when people are trying to beautify their properties. It's insane. Meanwhile, you can drive around and see numerous commercial properties who've let their landscaping go into decline. So his customer and numerous other commercial customers have…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026