Remarks by Larisa Svechin
341 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 14
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“No, let's wait to your item so that Commissioner Stewart can finish what she was saying.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. Because we don't normally have so many people in the audience, and I really appreciate that you all stayed, I just want to clarify and add to what the vice mayor was saying. When we approve the budget, we approve the budget wholly. And then those items are throughout the year brought back to us. So if anything changes, we can vote things down or up, or we've amended the budget, added things, taken things away. So it's not, like Commissioner Stevenson said, it's fluid. I want to be very cognizant of the time, so I want to give Commissioner Joseph some time if you have some comments.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Wait, wait, wait. I don't want to jump to the next item.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“No, if we finish, then we'll go to the next item, which is 4D.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. No? All right. Next item, 4D.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“All right. Either the deputy manager or the manager, if you can please clarify, just top line, how this scheme is set up. What portion do we get versus? the contractor?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So approximately, I know you don't have it in front of you, but off the top of your head, how much is the rental for a resident? So the room, it all depends. Well, the ballpark for the room.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And we got 70% of that, or we get 70% of the rental of the space?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. So the cost for the food, the third party gets 100%.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Right. And look, when I was first elected, I brought this up to you because I did not like this contract at all. very similar reasons as Commissioner Stevenson said, because I thought that we could probably do a better job. And it's sort of been something that I've also wanted to bring up. Again, ballpark. How much would it cost us if we have someone like that on staff?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. And do you know off the top of your head how much we make off of that space? Or have made? I do not. OK. All right, so I think we can get that information based on the request from Commissioner Stubison. Did you want to add something, Commissioner Joseph?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“confused yeah right and some of those expenses again for the purpose of the public is the there's a requirement to clean the the restroom so that's a salary there's a requirement to have uh off-duty police officers again those are not those are hard costs um that we would not necessarily or not necessarily we would definitely not make any money off of okay uh vice mayor did you wanna all right uh mr city manager”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'm not opposed to bidding it out. It's always a good idea. And it could end up being them again. But everyone else, what is your opinion?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I know that the complaints that I've heard were generally people felt that they should get it for free. They felt like, well, why do we even have to pay for the space? And that has been the biggest complaint. Because to Commissioner Lama's point, the food, those things are not profit. And I don't think we're in a position to allow anyone to use it for free. Because even at the heavily discounted resident cost, so any damage, meaning like the carpet or wear and tear, I mean, that's included in that cost, correct?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“But the cost is not just we like to charge people. No, no, no, no.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“All right. I need to know, because everyone's kind of saying different things. Are we at status quo? Are we looking at bidding it out?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Can we get clarification on that number, please? Yes.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Exactly. We might not. Okay. But I'm actually, from this discussion, I'm leaning very much towards keeping a third party because you're right. It's definitely, we're not making any profit. It's revenue to go towards paying for the light and and the landscaping, everything else. So do we have consensus to bid this out?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“All right. All right. So city manager, if you have consensus to bid it out.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I know that there is an event being planned in November. because someone contacted me regarding that. And they're already in conversations with the third party.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“What I'm saying is that whatever events they're already in the process of planning,”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Are we OK to keep going? We're at 30 minutes?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026